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Lv. 99 Game Jam 2023

Hosted by NoSanQ, Dan.Toh, CandiceP99, tabytabs · #lv99gamejam
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A jam submission

Dragon's Breath QuestView game page

dragio_breath
Submitted by lazy_tiger — 1 hour, 28 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Theme (how well does the game fit the challenge theme?)#582.9442.944
Creativity (how unique or innovative was this experience?)#642.7222.722
Overall#1202.4672.467
Gameplay (how good was the user experience, game design, narrative, etc?)#1372.2222.222
Implementation (rate the game's overall stability and functionality)#1432.4442.444
Presentation (rate its art, animations, sfx, music, and aesthetic appeal)#1982.0002.000

Ranked from 18 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

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lazy_tiger

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Lazy Tiger

How does your game fit the theme?
In this game your controller is your lungs - breathe into a microphone and see how the main character flies up or down :)

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MiikkaSubmitted1 year ago(+1)

8100 high-score. Interesting mechanics. I didn't get the mic working so played with keyboard, but tried doing the breathing to the movement. Fun experience. Good job!

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Bunny99
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lazy_tigerDeveloper1 year ago

Aaaww, very well done! Thank you for trying out our game :)

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PeregonSubmitted1 year ago

Got a dizziness during play, game can't hear my inhales

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[ENG] TICK: a deep breath
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lazy_tigerDeveloper1 year ago

Hey! Thanks for trying out our game! Some tips that could help to calibrate voice recognition better: 

  1. Shorter but strong exhales and inhales
  2. Inhale through nose and exhale through mouth

Please take breaks if you feel like you breathed too fast. We're aware that at the moment breathing control isn't ideal so you can also switch it off to play through the game simply with arrow keys :) 

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wolfeySubmitted1 year ago(+1)

    PROS:

- Art is cute

- Game has no bugs or unplayable design. (That I know)

- It is clear what is danger and what is reward

- Background parallax is done well

- Voice movement is janky, but it is funny, and made up for by allowing me to turn it off

- Mutiple level backgrounds was cool to switch and fly in.

- Sound fits the game and is unintrusive.

    Cons:

- Art could be more animated, We are under a time constraint yes, but if you had the time it would be nice to have animated fireballs and reward animations

    Future Additions and suggestions to think of for the future:

Not much variation in what the player is supposed to do, yes it is a simple game and you are under a time constraint, but it would be an interesting addition to have stuff that affects the gameplay like perhaps speedboosts to make it more difficult but give the player more rewards during the speedboost. Perhaps also adding a score based on speed and let the player hold a button to accelerate, the game is more difficult when you are going faster, but they could be rewarded with a better time perhaps.

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Torpedo-Rush
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lazy_tigerDeveloper1 year ago

Hey, thanks for giving our game some of your time and for such a detailed review, it's really nice to read a feedback like that! :D
We're planning on improving voice control and visuals in the future, and we have some cool ideas for dragon abilities in mind :)

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wolfeySubmitted1 year ago(+1)

I think it might be difficult to differentiate between breathing in and out.
One game I played https://itch.io/jam/lv-99-game-jam/rate/2031364?before=4#post-7686909
Did a pretty good job with the voice controls, and I think you could do the same by just...

bool wasAboveLastUpdate = false;

float threshold = "Assign this from player set value with a good default";

void FixedUpdate(){

          bool overThreshold = mic.volume > threshold;

          if(wasAboveLastUpdate != overThreshold ){

                    wasAboveLastUpdate = overThreshold;

                    SwitchLanes();

          }

}

This would let the player be able to just make any noise that causes the mic's input volume to go over a threshold to switch lanes, and would require the player to stop making noise / go under the threshold, and then make a noise again over the threshold to switch again.

So it would not keep switching over and over, instead it would just switch every time you make a noise over the threshold, after being quiet and it going under for at least one update.

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lazy_tigerDeveloper1 year ago

During early concept we wanted to implement a binary control and have stricter timing to make gameplay match a rhythm play style. We thought about making a simpler control with just sound/no sound, but we decided to move on from that idea, because it simplified the gameplay a bit too much, and used cross-correlational analysis of breath spectra to try to implement out initial idea of detecting breaths themselves, which isn't perfect at the moment but with some fine tuning can be marginally improved :)

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ZizouSubmitted1 year ago(+1)

So cute! I love the dragon's design and its silly expressions! And man, super cool idea for a control scheme, ahahaha!

There's a moment in the third level where a long fireball covers a couple of gems. Is it not possible to grab them without getting hit?

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SUDDEN BREATH
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lazy_tigerDeveloper1 year ago

Aw! Thanks for a nice review! :D 
As for a part of the game you're mentioning, you can try letting the long fireball pass beneath  you and then there's a short timeframe when you can quickly grab it :) 

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