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A jam submission

Boxed DungeonView game page

Made for the GMTK game jam 2024
Submitted by MargaCampos — 2 hours, 14 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Creativity#4954.0004.000
Overall#11503.6083.608
Enjoyment#14643.3533.353
Style#19323.4713.471

Ranked from 17 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 are a box that found itself a heart. Thankfully you can expand! and fit more items to solve puzzles and get outside of this dungeon, hopefully. The main mechanic of the game is scaling the character for storage. You can change the direction you scale to by using the arrow keys while pressing Q (Scale down) or E (scale up). The smallest size of the character can only have one item and it must be a heart. To use objects like keys to solve puzzles and advance, you need to grow your character. To fit through the door and narrow places, you need to shrink. There are three sizes in the game: 1x1, 2x2 and 3x3. Full playthrough: https://youtu.be/Qrw7BQTzJr8?si=5XvYY1IDMM2DUJKI How to get the game running https://youtu.be/Qrw7BQTzJr8

Development Time

96 hours

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Comments

Submitted(+1)

The concept is awesome and unique! and the simple artstyle is so fitting. Well done!

Submitted(+1)

Not very intuitive how the player moves but I like the idea of needing to keep the character's heart in its body to live lol. Puzzles are fun too. Nice job!

(+1)

Mind blowing and entretaining! I love  the aesthetics and the game play, addictive ;)

Thank you for making it!

Submitted(+2)

This was really cute and fun! I just wish there was some color and sound to keep me hyped while thinking about the puzzles. Great job overall!

Submitted(+2)

This game is great! The art is really good and is very unique to other games in this jam : D

Developer(+1)

Thank you! 🖤

Submitted(+2)

Very unique game ! The art is also clean and visually satisfying :) Just found confusing about what kill you and what don't, like chest for example, we can walk on it, but the block with an heart in the level 3 just kill you x)

Developer(+2)

Thank you for playing it and for the feedback! It is true that it is a bit confusing... I need to give it some thought. I will take it into account once I work on it after the Jam has ended :)

(+2)

Hi! I loved the game! It's original, it's good, but you know what's it's missing? Some bangers. But overall, great game! Good job!

Developer(+1)

Thank you! 🖤

Submitted(+2)

yoo loved the game! really cool art and the unique concept is really well executed. love that u gave attention to small details like the faces in the main menu changing when the box goes over them. the difficulty is quite easy making the game quite pleasant to play. this game would be amazing if it had some background music or sound effects atleast. because it was quite awkward to play the game in complete silence. and also i wish i can control the direction i scale up in sometimes and the 3x3 scale never really comes into play its mostly just 2x2 and 1x1 but really loved the game, great job!

Developer (2 edits) (+1)

Thank you so much for playing! I'm glad you liked it. You can set the direction you scale to by keeping the Q or E keys pressed and moving the preview with the arrow keys. For the music, I must admit I ran out of time but I think some 8bit like sounds could fit it? I really appreciate the feedback and I will be taking it into account when I update the game after the Game Jam has ended, thank you!

Submitted (1 edit) (+2)

oh what u can do that? i saw the controls but i didnt realise that was possible. anyways it wasnt a big problem as all the puzzles were still solvable without knowing that, just a little bit more roundabout

Submitted(+2)

The graphics look nice but I couldn't find the .exe file to play the game. A build problem may be ?

Developer (2 edits)

Hi Marine, thank you for trying to play the game! There are a lot of files in the folder and it can be hard to find. I just tried playing it from another computer for the first time and it took me a few minutes to find it (and I made it!) so I'm sorry for that. The executable name should be "GMTK2024" and it should have the main character as the icon. I found that if you select to order the files in your file explorer by type, it will appear first at the top after the "Content" folder. Double clicking on it should open the game.

I hope you like it :)

Submitted(+2)

I figure out were was the .exe file thanks !

Really great game ! Love the puzzle and the art style. The puzzle idea is great and I find it interesting and fun to play. Great job !

Developer

Thank you! 🖤