Very cool game and experience!
I love all the different sounds in particular, but also using repetition and even color for variation and such.
It's a very moody experience in a good way, and for some reason reminds me of Portal.
Very solid entry!
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Temptation of the Abyss's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Sensory | #33 | 3.024 | 3.429 |
| Enjoyment | #37 | 2.772 | 3.143 |
| Overall | #38 | 2.709 | 3.071 |
| Execution | #39 | 2.646 | 3.000 |
| Metroidvania | #46 | 2.394 | 2.714 |
Ranked from 7 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Engine
Clickteam Fusion Developer 2.5+
Team/Developer
Adam R. Manty (I also had some friends play it a time or two, but I'm not really sure that counts as a team for these purposes)
External assets
I used Clickteam Fusion 2.5's included stock sound effects and songs, so...
Comments
OK, so I played it.... I got to what felt like the end? Where I was running from a shadow or needle like sprite..... I was like 15 floors down, and I still had the robot icon? There were several of these things in later levels...like symbols or markings but also hard to decipher. The minimalism was good because it worked, I was intrigued to how this progressed the further I played. I used the fireballs only in one level and the robot I had like for 10 levels and never knew how to use it or where to use it.... either way.... Not a lot going on in general just a changing level that changed ever randomly with color or switches working or not working, or new enemies to avoid with some increasing difficulty. For what it is I am going with 3.5/5 Good job.
142 days ago(+1)
Yeah, I kinda noticed late in development that it was starting to get a bit repetitive. The game was actually intended to be longer, but the first few iterations weren't different enough to me and I couldn't come up with enough iterations that I felt would feel different enough, so I decided to just, make it a bit shorter than I originally planned and hoped that'd help make up for the game's lack of variety, by hoping it wouldn't overstay its welcome too much.
So, suffice to say, it's a problem I'm aware of and isn't something that likely would've remained in a game where I had more dev time to smooth out the issues. Sometimes when making a GameJam game one just runs out of ideas and doesn't have time to come up with more though, heh... ah well! Kinda knew it'd probably keep the game from being as good as it could've been, even if I'm still pretty happy with what I was able to make given how rusty I am with GameJams at the moment.
That being said, I'm planning to participate in Metroidvania Month in the future, maybe next time I'll try something less experimental- who am I kidding I can't help but try to experiment at least a little when it comes to GameJams lol. Mind you I probably won't try for an idea as odd as this one, but I guess we'll see what inspiration strikes me when I see the theme of the next one in a few months.
142 days ago(+1)
No worries! I probably sounded harsher on myself than I meant to with how I phrased things, I tend to be... not the best with using as few words for things as I could get away with if I thought about it more. As some context, in the past I literally won a jam that landed me a publishing deal before (things got complicated from there but eh, it was a learning experience), so it's like... and uh, I know I'm about to be wordy again, I had a hard time, not being wordy again, whoops...
I know I'm a little bit rusty, and that's probably part of how I made the mistakes I did that kept it from being a better game than I already managed... but I also know people have said my game is neat, and like. Based on that I knew I made something good. I mean, me being rusty is not the only reason it didn't turn out as well as it could've, but part of it. And I'm okay with that! I just need to learn from what I did right and what I, didn't. And I need to derust a bit maybe.
...well, I say that like this game didn't already help a bit with derusting a bit, heh...
...though admittedly, given the aftermath of that one GameJam where I won and ended up landing a publishing deal uh, well, let's just say the confirmation you thought the game was good overall is still appreciated because I do admittedly still have some lingering confidence issues leftover from that. Which uh, maybe was a bit overly apparent from my comment earlier already and the way I phrased it, admittedly.
Okay, so, what I will say is, the tentacle being slow and easy is on purpose, for reasons I'd rather not elaborate on too much in case you (and everyone else) haven't found certain secrets in the game, but will happily elaborate on some day in a devlog update thing (with appropriate spoiler warnings) if I ever see footage of somebody finding some specific secrets.
Anyway! I'm glad you enjoyed the game!
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