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A jam submission

DipolarView game page

Submitted by chownie — 1 minute, 41 seconds before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Originality#45452.0003.000
Overall#51841.5832.375
Presentation#51911.5002.250
Fun#54721.2501.875

Ranked from 8 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?
The two characters join magnetically, and have to use one another's polarity to escape each level

Did your team create the vast majority of the art during the 48 hours?

No

We used pre-existing art

Did your team create the vast majority of the music during the 48 hours?

No

We used pre-existing audio

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Comments

I feel like the game concept is good, but the execution not so much. It's really not bad for a first game jam, but as BlackSmite said it suffers severely from a lack of explanation. It's really, really hard to tell what to do and with a bit more time and effort I feel that it would've flourished.

Submitted

Interesting idea which suffers from a lack of explanation. Almost stopped playing because I couldn't pass the tutorial, but then I checked the itch page for the game and saw that the magnetize key was mislabeled (it's actually shift, not r). 

There's definitely something here, it felt great to be launched by the magnets in the second level though I'm not sure whether that was intended or just a bug. With some more work + the addition of some sounds and music, this could be a really fun game!

I couldn't pass the first obstacle, as I didn't understand what the magnetization does.

Developer

This is my first jam game in a few years and I couldn't keep the pace up, tutorial was made in 2 minutes right before submission :D


When the bots (or the cubes in levels) are activated they create a magnetic field. They attract their opposite (positive to negative, negative to positive) and repel their own (positive repel positive, negative repel negative). If I had more time I think I would've given all the magnetic objects a visual effect for their fields, they're invisible unfortunately.