Excellent game, would have been amazing to revisit previous level to unlock capabilities with the ones you get over time like in a metroidvania style, great game!
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Animal Scales's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Overall | #332 | 3.981 | 3.981 |
| Style | #358 | 4.250 | 4.250 |
| Enjoyment | #517 | 3.778 | 3.778 |
| Creativity | #675 | 3.917 | 3.917 |
Ranked from 36 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 must use animal scales, which grant powerful abilities such as dashing or changing size.
Development Time
96 hours
Comments
Very nice platformer! The art was so pretty and the atmosphere was perfect. It felt a bit weird when I tried switching snake/bee scales and would find myself having to walking back and forth to places that worked, should have only thrown the error when trying to change size scales. Other than that small problem, it was perfect!
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WIZZLE THE SUMMITMANCERThe thing is, the player only really has to change his power scales once in the game, and I thought making the message appear only once you fully committed into the UI would make it feel even more annoying, since you'd have to retry from the start everytime. I just find that preventing the UI from being opened at all when you can't switch makes people find it more responsive once they actually can change scales.
Like you said, it's just a small problem, but I thought I'd just share my thought process. ;)
What do you think?
Anyways, thanks for playing! :D
I liked this game, it's a chill little puzzle platformer with nice pixel art!
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Downscaledloved the vibes Ard ArtStyle !
nice little puzzles and mecanics on sizes !
aside the "bug" of interface (that is not a problem, its classic in jams ^^) nithinng goes in the way of ahving fun,
well done !
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EndlessScaleI couldn´t equip the bunny scales in the first puzzle :'(
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The adventures of Little Lighteri really liked the puzzles! it was fun to figure out how to combine the scales in order to progress (i really appreciate having the burrows into the next room as a way to "scout" the puzzle too). i think some of the UI could be better marked (the burrows confused me at first because they were very similarly colored to the normal dirt blocks) all in all, really cool game!
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Tweak and DestroyI really liked the vibe and the simple art style. It would be nice if the description mentioned the controls. Overall great work for a solo dev.
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Sunset SwingI love this style and music! Last challenge was a bit too challenging, but i figured it out at last. Game has potential to grow, i think!
Controls are not really comfortable, as pressing "A" + "Shift" is tricky. Luckily i could use arrows too, it saved the day.
Thank you for game! I would appreciate if you will try my game too :3
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Slime StoryAmazing game, I must say. I love puzzles, and the artstyle and music was fantastic. Controls are pretty intuitive as well.
One question, though... what on Earth does the bee scale do?
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Tank Attack!It's very cute, though I was confused by the controls and scales somewhat. I really love the art
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IntervallumIt was a very good game. The pixel art is beautiful. I enjoyed playing it, I was confused at times, but it was really cool, it kept me engaged for a while.
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EncapsulatedOne of the best games I've played during this jam.
My only issue is that it was not immediately obvious what each scale does and that they can be combined.
Great game anyway!
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Terra SurvivorsReally nice little game! Nice art style, simple controls, perfect length for a jam game.
As other said, I feel like there could be a better simpler way to switch scales, and the scale selection UI bugs on different resolutions, but other than that I really enjoyed it, nice job!
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Layoff TycoonLoved the visuals on this game, especially the little falling pixel-leaves! I wish you could change scales a little more fluidly than opening a menu each time, but it was still fun regardless. I noticed the scale menu had a bug where you could hover over nothing on the right side while in fullscreen, and both sides when out of fullscreen (I think the latter was just a visual bug as it would change scales as normal).
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Factory ResetThe pixel art is gorgeous, and the title screen music is very mysterious.
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TrashterpieceDeeply enjoyed it. Stunning ambiance and visuals. Maybe it was a bit too short, but given that it's for a game jam and some of the puzzles took me a decent while, it's definitely fine. Congrats on this piece of art!
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Sunset Swing
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