This was really awesome!! When I got the "special item", it was a great moment of "Ohhhh I see what you're doing here!" :) I enjoyed the boss fight as well! Great sprites and music too.
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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Gameplay Innovation | #14 | 3.609 | 3.609 |
| Uniqueness of Metaness | #14 | 3.870 | 3.870 |
| Metaness Quality | #14 | 4.043 | 4.043 |
| Fun | #27 | 3.435 | 3.435 |
| Overall | #33 | 3.478 | 3.478 |
| Audio | #41 | 2.957 | 2.957 |
| Aesthetics | #46 | 3.348 | 3.348 |
| Humour | #49 | 3.043 | 3.043 |
Ranked from 23 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Relevant Metaness Categories
Breaks the Fourth Wall
Game Mechanic Deconstruction
How is your game meta (within each relevant category)?
Explores a situation if the characters in a game are self-aware
Makes references to certain games, shows (let's see how geeky you are)
Please list any pre-made art/music/other assets that you used.
Just platformer code from previous jams
How many members in your team?
Team of 1
List your team's social media!
https://twitter.com/Randomphantom6
Anything you want to say to players before they play?
Spacebar, direction keys or WASD, mouse. (Hold Spacebar to fast forward dialog, press space to advance)
You'll know when its the end of the game...
Comments
6 years ago(+1)
Glad that you appreciated the dialogue, it was very hurriedly thrown together. Thanks for checking out the game!
Congratulations for your hard work.
I have to say that your game is much deeper than what I would expect from the first look of it...
And I did decided to give up while stuck at first scene, before I checked the comments....
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The game is quite complete in the sense of story and challenge. But those mechanics wait in the second scene, after you have to work out the "tree jump" trick by yourself. (Not really yourself, though as the second NPC would tell you.)
This is against the way we do game design usually.
But wait, it's a meta game, it feels like finding an Easter egg unlocks a whole new world!
You are supposed to miss them if played commonly. Maybe never notice them. From some perspective they are not really part of the game.
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From the second scene, there are quite solid level design around the simple mechanic of "close button" which quite fits the theme. Though they are really kind of a bit hard.
It really feels good to unlock cursor. (I guess this is not the only entry that thought of cursor as meta element).
PS: I couldn't beat the boss.
Thanks for your feedback :D That tree jump was quite obscuring the action, I agree. Not a great design choice!
Hope you at least checked out the updated version though, as I scaled down the difficulty quite a bit especially that boss (its probably quite impossible to complete it the way I intended tho)
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