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A jam submission

Icy Hot AdventuresView game page

A Hot-Cold Adventure to help your Mom's sickness!
Submitted by Terra — 1 day, 50 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Community Spirit#343.8754.143
Fun#373.4743.714
Overall#413.7424.000
Use Of Theme#473.7424.000
Originality#473.8754.143

Ranked from 7 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

Team or Solo
Solo

Credit:
Made With Construct 3
Ending Music made with BeepBox
Sprites made with Asperite

Did you follow the theme?
Yes

Did you (you or your team) do the graphisms yourself?
Yes

Did you (you or your team) do the musics and sounds yourself?
Yes

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Comments

Submitted(+1)

This was so cute! Nice use of the theme, and I loved the story and the cutscene art. The level design was quite good as well. I figured out some pro strats by the end  so there's definitely potential for a higher skill ceiling and some harder levels in here. Everybody else has pretty much covered ground on things to touch up a bit already.

Developer(+1)

Thank you for playing my game. I hope you liked it and hopefully nothing brought down your experience. Thank you!

Submitted(+1)

This is such smart level design.  You have so many places where the level can be solved in more than one way.  The level with the "one-time-only" platforms is the best example, where it becomes "considerably harder" *but not impossible* to solve the level if you remove them all.  This is a very cool design.  One issue:  The collision detection for the platforms you generate by pushing a button didn't seem to work consistently.  Not sure what happened here.

Developer(+1)

I hope you liked the game. For some reason, the platforms lost collision if the button is pressed again during the countdown of the last press, it loses its hitbox. I'm trying to fix this and I hope it didn't bring down your experience 

Submitted(+1)

I liked the game a lot!

Developer(+1)

Thank you!

Submitted(+1)

I really like the concept and the controls feel smooth and allow for a good amount of precision which is always important for a platformer.

Some minor issues I had:

- Some of the levels felt a little slow-paced, especially sections that required frequent switching between the characters

- The collision on walls and the side of platforms was sometimes a little wonky, causing the characters to get stuck in midair to the side of a platform. I managed to abuse this a couple of times to glitch onto platforms I couldn't reach with the jump alone.

- In my opinion it would be better to have one switch button instead of two. I had some issues mixing them up, especially in platforming sections where you want to make a quick, well-timed switch.

- From a purely ergonomic perspective I/U + Arrow Keys is not a good choice of buttons. On most keyboards, they are too far apart to control with one hand but too close to comfortably control with two hands. It doesn't matter too much in a short game like this, but in a longer one, keeping the hands in position to press both at a time is likely to put strain on the player's hands and forearms. If you ever plan to make a longer game, that's something to keep in mind.

These are all just minor issues, though, and most are easily fixable. Good job!

Developer

Thank you for the advice, its really useful to me and I take it into consideration in my next games. I'll try to iron out the bugs or glitches you found, thank you for telling me. I hope you enjoyed the game, thank you for playing.

Submitted(+1)

great voice acting on telling the story. Enjoyed the puzzle elements of the game good times freezing hot brother and poor cold can't jump to high.

Developer

I'm glad you liked the game. The reason Heat can Double Jump is how cold sinks while heat rises.

Submitted(+1)

that does make sense either way it was a nice mechanic.

Submitted(+1)

Love the voice acting. That and the cute blue and red characters remind me of Kirby's Epic Yarn. Unique character switching mechanic with characters that have simple, yet distinct abilities. Good work!

Developer

Thank you! This is my first game jam, so I tried to give it my all. Thanks again for enjoying it.

Submitted(+1)

Great idea of character switching and great use of voice acting! I recommend giving some indication that sound should be turned on for the player, even in the description, as it is important for story elements. Also, this might just be an issue for me, but using the arrows in a windowed game will move the scroll bar on my internet browser, I think that's why WASD is traditionally used for these types of things.

Developer(+1)

Oh, thank you for telling me I'll update that on the page,  and whenever I can ill see if I can an option to change it from arrow keys to wasd. I hope you liked the game thank you for playing.

Submitted(+1)

I did like the game very much. I think there is an option to allow full-strength. If you allow that then you won't need to change the controls as the player can just fullscreen. Though it's worth keeping that arrow key issue in mind for your next project!

Submitted(+1)

I loved the idea of having two characters with different abilities! Being able to use them both to solve puzzles was great, especially when finally figuring out the solution. It's a minor thing, but the unique abilities made sense too - heat does freeze things, and hot things jumping twice just... makes sense! The levels did feel sort of long at times though, just moving one character to point B, then moving the other one - but it was nothing too bad. Some more obstacles to avoid would've been a nice addition too.


The graphics were nice, and it was clear which character was hot and which was cold, so good job on making it readable! I especially liked the cutscenes, and they added some nice context to what was going on in the game - it's always nice to have a bit of story. Some more visual flavour would've been nice, like a bit of background décor, or some shrubbery here and there, but it's still fine without it. Sound effects and music would've been a really good addition, though, since the game felt kind of empty without them.


I enjoyed this nice puzzle-platformer kind of game, and I think it has a great idea behind it - great work on making this game!

Developer(+1)

Thank you for playing my game, and for the feedback. Whenever I get the time I'll try to add your recommendations to the game, since they were really useful additions that I should have added into the game. I'm glad you enjoyed it and thank you for your critique, I will take them to heart.

Developer

Being on Level 2's buttons too long make the hitboxes disappear, I'm trying to fix it as of this moment

Developer

Try to press it once and wait a bit after each press. Sorry for the inconvenience