Wow, you submitted this almost two days before the deadline? that's mad, hat's off for that for sure. The game is visually really nice, nice soundtrack and effects and it has some basic story that makes it interesting. my only gripe woul be poor visibility/contrast of enemies with the background, that makes it pretty hard to dodge them, there is just way too much coins/enemies on the screen. I also feel like the game would be better suited for a vertical format.
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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Style | #230 | 4.352 | 4.352 |
| Overall | #1228 | 3.581 | 3.581 |
| Enjoyment | #1622 | 3.295 | 3.295 |
| Creativity | #3127 | 3.095 | 3.095 |
Ranked from 105 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 player moves down a well while the difficulty scales as the player descends
Development Time
96 hours
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see description for full credits
Comments
We love how you managed to create the feeling of abyss with such simple solution. The vibe is great
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Deep RootsThank you! We wanted to keep it simple but effective. Our main goal was to present a polished experience with great sound. The art team and music team delivered huge, and our programmers made the game feel smooth and pretty free of bugs. It was a team effort from start to finish. We really appreciate you playing our game!
The gameplay loop is really satisfying, though I'd definitely spend some time fine tuning the frequency of spawns.
I'd also love to see some variety in how the enemies attack maybe some swooping in or loosely circling you until you bat them away. I find the presentation amazing, aside from obstacles blending in quite a bit.
The Kobold is super endearing!
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Very WorkshopWow, the concept's great and I love the art, both the pixel art graphics and the music work great! Personally, I found the background a bit disorienting which made the game screen a bit hard to read. Some of the enemies would also blend in with it, making them quite difficult to spot, and I had some trouble to use the shrinking feature correctly, but I overall enjoyed the game!
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Very WorkshopBeautiful pixel art! And I loved the gameplay, collecting 4-5 coins with one swipe is so dang satisfying. The leaderboard is such a nice touch too! I wish 'scale' was implemented a bit more, but I like the scaling down to dodge enemies. Well done, I really liked this.
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Jelly JourneyI really like having a leaderboard at the end, i loved the pixel art and the character, the controller is quite cool but the difficulty was super low, even when there was a looot of ennemies on the screen. Overall it's a very good game, nicely polished !!
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Doom's DayThe art in this is so nice, I love the kobold. Also very fun to play, really enjoyed it. Nice work and thank you!
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Built To BlastThis game looks beautiful and gameplay feels great! One nitpick I have is that I found the enemies and rocks blending in with the background at times, making it harder to avoid them.
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Olympiture Golfi really love the art in this game, its very cute! the gameplay is really fun as well, grabbing coins and dodging obstacles feels super satisfying. the only problems i had were that the obstacles were a bit hard to read and that the controls were a bit too floaty, though the game was otherwise really enjoyable! nice work on this :)
If i had a coin for every game i played in this jam that features a kobold as the player character, i'd have two coins, which isn't much but it's weird that it happened twice
(here's the other kobold game in case anyone's curious https://itch.io/jam/gmtk-2024/rate/2911062)
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Sizeboardercute game art and game idea, love this game so much , wish for more content to play
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MovingCastleSimple but fun arcade-like experience, not hard to understand but a lot of room to 'git gud'
The only small nit-pick I have is that the rocks, especially the blue ones, can be a bit hard to see on the background. That combined with how quickly they fly can make avoiding them a bit annoying. But other than that I didn't have any real problems with the game.
Overall good job with the submission.
Also as someone who also uses Game Maker, the camera/parallax scrolling is really cleaver and makes it a lot more dynamic than it would otherwise be.
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StarbuiltThe graphics are cute but occasionally a little hard to read, I found it difficult to tell the difference between the background and the rocks in the moment. Scaling was nice but I'm not really sure how much it helped me to dodge. At first I thought the shrinking was actually perspective and I was moving back in the well. Although the parallax effect is nic, I think the shrinking would be more clear if the well wasn't so deep into the screen.
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Ruler of Everythingthis was a cool idea and great execution, very fun and chaotic flying around in the well!
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Scaled DownThis has got to be the best looking game I've played so far! It's very fun seeing how many coins you collect and a little frustrating to get hit by the creatures. I guess that's a skill issue on my part though :D
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Shrinkers WorkshopBeautiful art and fun game! I really enjoyed it. I wish I could kill the enemies instead of only knocking them back.
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Ripped to ClimbI immediately thought of Downwell when seeing this. Really nice pixel art and parallax is really nice, I would just slow the parallax when the player is moving up the screen to make it feel like your falling slower. Overall really well done!
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Spartan AscentReally great visuals! Gameplay reminded me of those old top down scrolling helicopter shooter games. Might be a skill issue on my part but would have liked for slightly less slippery movement.
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PaperCraft: 2d Scale Models
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