I guess I wasn't the only one with a ghosts = Pac-man association. Not much a fan of not being able to turn around - its pretty frustrating to miss a turn by a tenth of a second and being locked into ten seconds of walking in the wrong direction - but I suppose its kind of necessary. Other than that its an impressive showing!
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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Graphics | #1 | 4.750 | 4.750 |
| Theme | #4 | 4.107 | 4.107 |
| Fun | #5 | 3.929 | 3.929 |
| Overall | #6 | 3.760 | 3.760 |
| Controls | #13 | 3.500 | 3.500 |
| Accessibilty | #14 | 3.000 | 3.000 |
| Originality | #20 | 3.679 | 3.679 |
| Audio | #23 | 3.357 | 3.357 |
Ranked from 28 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Godot Version
4.3
Wildcards Used
Its broken, Pursuer
Game Description
Short arcade game where you avoid ghosts
How does your game tie into the theme?
Ghosts are haunting the laboratory and it's up to you to stop them
Source(s)
N/A
Discord Username(s)
N/A
Participation Level (GWJ Only)
9
Comments
47 days ago(+1)
Thanks for playing! It's funny- one of my biggest pet peeves in games is when the audio is so incredibly loud that the first thing I do when I boot it up is go into the settings and turn the master volume down by like 80%. I think because of that I end up mixing the games I make to be quieter than maybe I should...
I'm glad to hear that you went back and got gold medals on all the levels, but yeah, I've seen more than one person comment that they got stuck on one or two of them. I think having a setting that let you loosen the time restriction on levels would have been an easy solution that would have let people see more of the content without struggling as much.
That being said- during these game jams I always wonder whether people would actually use any provided difficulty settings over just moving on to the next game. But if it's pretty low effort to implement I don't really think that matters much.
Thanks for playing! I'm glad to hear you went back and got the gold medals on all the stages! To be honest I had a lot of trouble balancing the last level. I wanted there to be some big enemy that sort of broke the rules and moved outside of the grid- but it was always either impossible to avoid or a complete non-factor. I think as it is right now, it's still kind of fucked and requires too much luck to get the gold lol.
Thanks for playing! Glad you enjoyed it. Yeah, everything was done by me- it was a long week lol. I saw "Haunted" and the "Pursuer" wildcard and some kind of version of pacman seemed to make a lot of sense.
I wish I had a bit more time to balance the levels a little better. I think since I was trying to stuff in all the mechanics I made into only a few levels, I ended up with a really weird difficulty curve. Thinking about it now, I wish I had put in a setting that let you loosen the time restraint so that people could see more of the levels if they wanted to.
Thanks for playing! Yeah, my original idea was "Pac man but you have a gun" and I went from there lol.
I definitely wasn't able to get the controls 100% to where I wanted them. There's a bit of input buffering so that if you try to turn just before an intersection you still turn- but I realize now that I didn't buffer inputs in the other direction. So, if someone is consistently a frame or two late on the turn input- they won't turn- which feels bad.
Music is definitely something I struggle with too. I think what I have right now works well enough for the intro/title screen- but for the actual gameplay leaves a lot to be desired.
Thanks for playing! Some of the levels feel a lot more unfair than others- I wish I had more time to balance them but that's how it goes. I also really should have just added a way to loosen the timer restrictions on certain levels if people wanted to- just so that players who were struggling could still see all the levels and the ending...
Regardless, I'm glad you enjoyed it!
Thanks for playing! I really need to start remembering to go in and clean up all the input mappings before finishing up my submission- especially now when Godot makes stuff like gamepad support so easy now. I'm surprised that all the ui navigation worked but the laser didn't- seeing as that was mapped to "ui_accept". Maybe some control still had focus and was eating the input or something.
Good call on the text too- didn't really think about that. Was just trying to get those cutscenes done as quick as possible Sunday morning lol. Not sure if there's a way to both keep the text centered and have it scroll char by char without the whole set of text moving. Maybe there's a way with RichTextLabels?
But again, thank you for playing! I'm glad you enjoyed it!
The few times I've revealed text, I had it left justified so didn't know either but after poking around, I found that Visible Characters Behavior = `Characters After Shaping` does the trick! And even though it kind seems like I'm really focused on this text, the real takeway is that I wanted to watch the cutscenes so definitely time well spent!
Oh man there's just a property for it lol - yeah that's exactly the behavior I was talking about. Thanks for taking the time to look that up!
To your point though stuff like this is definitely important. If the first thing someone sees when the boot up the game is text that they find physically difficult to read, well that doesn't leave a particularly good impression lol.
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