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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Fun | #549 | 3.561 | 3.561 |
| Overall | #1031 | 3.429 | 3.429 |
| Originality | #1095 | 3.530 | 3.530 |
| Presentation | #1638 | 3.197 | 3.197 |
Ranked from 66 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
How does your game fit the theme?
You play as two pillars joined by a chain, additionally your health and the length of the chain are also joined, reducing the length of your chain as you take damage.
Did your team create the vast majority of the art during the 48 hours?
Yes
We created the vast majority of the art during the game jam
Did your team create the vast majority of the music during the 48 hours?
No
We used pre-existing audio
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Great game, I like the fact that the more lifes you loose, the harder is the game.
This was fun to play with a friend.
Thanks for playing! Co-op was a sort of jokey suggestion that emerged from the controls, but it would be interesting to see how that would work.
I absolutely love this. Smooth controls, and I love the screen shake. I also like how when a wave is over you get to pick an upgrade. Cool game in general! I got to Wave 6.
Congratulation on wave 6! My current best is wave 14. Thanks for playing!
Great original concept with clever ideas, slightly lacking in presentation and fun I would say. Controlling the two pillars alone at the same time is very difficult and confusing, and seems built in mind for two players. It's probably a lot more fun that way.
It seems like an incredibly hard game to master (which, seemed to be your goal, good job) however the game doesn't give me an incentive to actually try to do it. I think it is way too hard at the start. I'm sure once you do master it, it's 10x more fun, but like I said, It's hard (for me at least) to actually get into the game.
Otherwise, great job!
The early learning curve proved difficult to balance. Some testers picker up the game and were getting to round 10 after a dozen attempts, while others seem to struggle a lot more. Either way thanks for your feedback, and thanks for playing!
I can see this being a lot more fun on mobile. Good job!
Thanks for playing!
One of the most original games about two characters connected by a rope! The concept that the lenght of the chain is the life of the player is very clever and different. Its a little difficult at first but you learn quickly. The only thing is that the sound of catching the enemy and the sound of damage is somewhat disconcerting
Thanks for your feedback, and for playing! If you are not a fan of the sound effects you could turn them down or off it the settings!
Sweet game, would love to see where this could go, with different enemy types etc. The two player concept is particularly interesting.
Thanks for playing! If we had time to increase the scope enemy variety would of been an option. The co-op was a happy accident but ended up being really fun. Thanks for the great feedback!
I know a decent amount of games went with a tether mechanic but this might be one of my favorites of the style. The attention to detail on the audio when the chain is stretching and reaches its limit is amazing! I ended up getting to wave 11 before I felt like I bought too much speed and ended up throwing myself on the enemies 😂
Definitely seems well-realized for a game jam game, good job! 👍
We knew the tether mechanic would be common, but we wanted to put our own spin on it and the polish it up as much as we could. Using the chain itself as the weapon was our solution to that. Thanks for playing!
This game is so fun when playing with 2 players. The game is simple but it really hard to be master. Great game!
Thanks for playing! We are glad you enjoyed it!
It was certainly rewarding when I was able to catch the arrows, but the controls were definitely tricky to work with.
Thanks for playing! We wanted to create a game where mastering the controls was important, i'm super glad you enjoyed!
I thought I finally got into the groove of it at one point, just to reach the second level and have everything ramp up on me again. It's a very interesting concept that is extremely difficult to master. I'm not sure if that's good or bad though.
Im not even sure it possible to master, which makes it a good concept for a one and done jam game! Thanks for playing!
I love this! Super fun to play by yourself and with someone else. Really cool idea. The only thing that would make it better is maybe more enemies or something else that happens while playing the game, so its not just the same thing over and over.
I love this! Super fun to play by yourself and with someone else. Really cool idea. The only thing that would make it better is maybe more enemies or something else that happens while playing the game, so its not just the same thing over and over.
Thanks for playing, and you're right, with more time it would of been the next stage. We wanted to focus on polishing this core idea up a lot more, and we hoped that showed!
This is really hard, to a point where i rarely bought anything other than restoring the chain. The controls are really bad, whenever the chain lenght is at its max you gotta move both chains to move insted of one of them dragging both. The game is cool and the shop system is cool but i got to rarely buy anthing that is not "Chain segmant"
Hi, thanks for playing our game. Im sorry you didn't like it. We set out to create a challenging game with unique movement you really need to master and difficulty is apart of that. When you first start playing needing to buy a lot of health is fine, as the player improves at the game the reward is being able to buy more powerups. I know this style of feedback loop isnt for everyone though. Thanks for your feedback!
I liked it, it was only tough :P
Its way too hard for myself. It is probably a nice local multiplayer game, but can't test that at the moment. The art and sound design is nice though.
We wanted mastering the controls through difficulty to be a core part of the experience, sorry it wasn't to your tastes. Thanks for playing!
Brilliant game with great art!
Thanks for playing! We are glad you enjoyed!
i really like how simple yet the character design is, also great sound design
Thanks for playing! We are super glad that you enjoyed our experience.
Looks good, sounds great, solid concept, and a surprising amount of QoL features. We've got a pair of test subjects that we'll force to play this tomorrow on stream. We are excited to see how the two player experience measures up to playing it solo.
We really wanted to polish a single smaller idea to a shine in this game, and sound design and QoL was a big part of that. We are glad that it seems to show! I'll try my best to catch your stream it will be great to see some others play!
Nice, the movement is neat and the music is awesome, a little tricky to control both pillars at the same but I liked it
Mastering the mind bending controls of the two pillars was something wanted the core gameplay loop to involve, hard to learn but super satisfying to master! Thanks for playing our game, we are super glad you liked it!
Hey, really solid game. Its really difficult, but its nice and juicy. Make sure you try out mine as well. https://itch.io/jam/gmtk-2021/rate/1081519
Thanks for playing! We are glad you like it! Ill be sure to check out your title when I sit down and play some jam games tommrow!
Mind-boggling controls, and challenging, but very rewarding game loop :) I liked it!
Thanks for playing!