| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Creativity | #1444 | 3.611 | 3.611 |
| Style | #1514 | 3.639 | 3.639 |
| Overall | #1604 | 3.454 | 3.454 |
| Enjoyment | #2198 | 3.111 | 3.111 |
Ranked from 36 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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You build structures to scale a mountain
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I barely know what a chord is, the credits for the music are in the game's description.
I definitely messed up the gravity on the player, that was pretty evident when this was played on stream, so the difficulty is more so my fault (which is unfortunate, since it would have been so easy to change, oh well).
In level 3, did you get stuck going up the cave to the left? Since you can essentially use the logs to build stairs and lean it against the wall.
Thanks for playing!
Haha I persisted for 10 minutes and finally managed to get up the slope. Then I saw a log cabin and loaded it all into my inventory then promptly jumped off the cliff assuming there must be more off to the left. Oops. Of course now I think that I should have gone back to the start and gone to the right but that's a risk as well and I don't really want to spend another 10 minutes doing the same challenge.
Never mind, I went back and did it properly. I got to level 4. But man, level 3 was hardwood hard core.
My problem was, I didn't read the list of controls to learn you can rotate the logs. After reading the controls list properly I was able to go much more efficiently.
Just curious, do you scale all of your physics by delta? If not, some things may be framerate dependent.
Thanks for playing!
Working with Godot's physics wasn't the easiest, this was probably a bit too ambitious for a 4 day jam as a solo dev. I put in a condition to break apart larger constructions if the velocity of each component is too high (it's a ridiculously high number, not something you'd get from just dragging it around), since the alternative is that all those parts become completely unusable. I've noticed that simple shapes and constructions work best and should be destroyed after their first use, but I agree it's not ideal since you should be able to build whatever you want. If I were to work on this outside of the jam I'd probably have to find some better way to work with Godot's physics or spend a good while writing custom physics.
Thanks for playing!
I definitely agree it needed some kind of tutorial. I meant to include tutorial elements in levels 1 and 3, but ran out of time. I did at least try to design those levels to be a bit more forgiving with open spaces to experiment with the mechanics, though I'm not sure how successful I was.
Also thanks for pointing out that I missed something in the controls in the game's page. That's since been fixed.
Thanks for playing!
The difference in jump height is because your upward velocity is set to zero when you let go of the space bar or W. For the full jump, just hold the jump button until you reach the apex height.
The objects move to a predetermined position relative to the player when you click on them, but you're free to move and combine them after that. This is something I wanted to change, but ran out of time for.
Thank you!
I think you're the first person who actually liked the speed of the character. It's based on the physics in the following tutorial in case you want to replicate it at some point.
And the secret to the level of polish is unhealthy amounts of caffeine and sleep deprivation.
Thanks for the feedback!
I could definitely speed up the objects, but I can't have them snap to the mouse position since that would probably make attaching objects together next to impossible.
Definitely agree that the character should have been slower, this is what happens when you don't have play testers.
Thanks for the feedback!
You can rotate objects with Q and E. It's easier to rotate individual objects rather than larger constructs due to issues with Godot's physics that I encountered, but it's still possible. The controls are on the game's page, and in both the pause and options menus, but I probably should have had a separate page for it in the game.
Also I can't believe you thought it was polished, two thirds of the levels were made in the last 12 hours of the jam while I was horribly sleep deprived. I'm counting that as a win!
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