| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Style | #3670 | 2.835 | 3.750 |
| Overall | #3952 | 2.740 | 3.625 |
| Creativity | #3965 | 2.835 | 3.750 |
| Enjoyment | #3989 | 2.551 | 3.375 |
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?
Players can step on shadows created by movable lights within our level. There are also scalable platforms the players can use. Press R to restart a level, and click on glowing blue spheres to move the light source. You can also move the light source closer or farther by scrolling the mouse wheel, which affects the shadows' scale. Left/Right click on outlined objects to make them larger or smaller.
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Click on lights to move them, scroll wheel to push and pull them. 'R' to reset to last checkpoint
Really special thanks for liking our game ！！！！ It really makes me happy that our work has become one of other people's favorite games ！！！！
Based on the feedback we've received, we did focus a bit too much on the implementation of the mechanics and levels, and neglected the other part of the user experience, the UI and some feedback issues. We should be fixing these annoying issues in the ongoing development we're likely to do.
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Thanks for the feedback! The bug on the fourth screen was actually a known issue that we were only able to fix after the deadline for the submission, unfortunately. The bug later on is probably caused by bad checkpoint hitbox placement, which I'll look into. Also, if we didn't run out of time, we definitely would've created in-game directions and controls.
I do see where you're coming from about the brightness, as I think we were hyper-fixated on the few light sources that some parts of our game may be left in the dark.
Again, thanks for playing and giving us your thoughts.
Thanks for the review of our game.
Indeed, there were some bugs that were not yet fixed when we submitted the game. And as you pointed out, we may have overlooked the importance of UI hints during production, thanks for the heads up.
When I started designing the game, I did think about how to make the shadows stand out more to enhance the theme, while also trying not to confuse the player as much as possible as to where exactly they are.
Probably due to our technical limitations, designing the levels for this game on paper looks like it would be easy, but the difficulty of getting the levels in the engine to run as smoothly as they do on paper did exceed my expectations. :(
After this poll is over, we'll do possible ongoing development and make the player's path look uninterrupted by walls and such.
All in all, thanks for enjoying our game! :)
Thanks for your advice! We have tried to make it clear which part of shadow players can stand on, but we can't think of a nice solution, and the only thing we could do is to make platforms that might confuse players to not casting any shadow.
For the second piece of advice, well, since many levels already have multiple light sources, I guess you're hoping to see multiple movable light sources —— this is possible, but we failed to design levels that are interesting and contain multiple light sources. Perhaps we'll figure out how to do that in the future.
By the way, pressing R allows you to restart a level, and you can click on the blue glowing spheres to move the light source. You can scroll your mouse wheel to make the light source closer/farther. You can Left/Right click on the outlined objects to make them larger/smaller. The controls are shown on the game page, but it seems that Itch is not showing the game page here.
So essentially from level 3 to 4 I tried this - questionable - jump and ended up in this loop. I did try to press R to restart the round but it didn't budge. This isn't me nitpicking, I understand I wasn't playing the game as intended but I thought you'd like to know this detail. Overall, great game and good use of the 'scale' theme!
Thanks for your comment, and we're sorry to hear that the resolution is not working properly.
Could you please try the following steps?
1. Set your display resolution to 1920x1080.
2. Open the game and then close it.
3. Set your display resolution back to your original setting.
4. Open the game again.
By the way, the designed resolution for this game is 2560* 1440, and it should work fine on normal 2K or 1080p monitors (since it works on my laptop, with a 2560*1600 monitor, and I've tried setting my screen resolution to 1920*1080, where the game works fine as well). I guess I might have misconfigured something so that the window failed to fit with your screen, but I can't change the uploaded project at this time since Itch is limiting it.
Again, we're very sorry to hear the problem, but unfortunately, the help we are able to provide is limited.
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