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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Presentation | #50 | 3.938 | 3.938 |
| Concept | #50 | 3.938 | 3.938 |
| Overall | #84 | 3.542 | 3.542 |
| Use of the Limitation | #112 | 3.208 | 3.208 |
| Enjoyment | #162 | 3.083 | 3.083 |
Ranked from 48 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Team members
Raaaaaandy
Software used
Unity, Aseprite, VSCode
Use of the limitation
“You are your own worst enemy. If you can learn to stop expecting impossible perfection in yourself ... you may find the happiness that has always eluded you.” ― Lisa Kleypas
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Simple but fun - Until you get frustrated! You really are your own worst enemy in this game! Not a fan of the shake mechanic, but I get that it's a part of the whole frustration thing. Nice work!
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Cool use of limitation!
The only thing I really didn't like is when it starts shaking, the color placing becomes hard, even though I know where it is supposed to go, but I think that might be on purpose.
Anyways, very good job!
The meme is fun haha.
But the game is frustration, we just click anywhere and wait for what happend, must rethink a bit the gameplay and add more feedbacks
This was a cool use of the limitation!
now I don't think pixel arts are simple XD need to consider every single point lol
good game!
Now my finger hurts for clicking so much on this game... Still loved it!
Great game with a great sense of humor as well.
Even though I have a problem with clicking the small empty space but I like the overall game concept!
Great job!
The game is good, but I have a bit of trouble when pressing empty spaces especially when the place is small. I like the frustrating :)
Great game with very well done presentation! Definitely can feel frustrating though when there's just one pixel left that can't be painted in no matter how hard you try clicking on it.
The presentation was really good, but for some reason some untouched pixels made it impossible to proceed.
Thanks for playing! I assure you all pixels are clickable - you do have to find the exact spot though. The first time you see the tiny individual pixels it's to train you for the next canvas with MANY more individual pixels. Appreciate the feedback and maybe I could have some tips to fullscreen or something in the description!
This is a fun concept but the bugs got in the way of me actually playing it. On the second level, this happened: https://imgur.com/a/vJS4sS7.
Three pixels were left unfilled, and no amount of clicking on them with either bucket selected could do anything. Without a reset button, I couldn't progress
Thanks for playing! I assure you all pixels are clickable - you do have to find the exact spot though. The first time you see the tiny individual pixels it's to train you for the next canvas with MANY more individual pixels. Appreciate the feedback and maybe I could have some tips to fullscreen or something in the description!
Great sense of humor but for some reason the game is INCREDIBLY unresponsive (>1 second fill times) when coloring in areas which is infuriating and makes it borderline unplayable.
It definitely works better on some computers/browsers than others. It doesn't hang much on mine (just a little and I thought it was pretty funny so I didn't spend the time to optimize my shortcut solution that avoided angering Unity) but you're the second person to mention really long hangs. Thanks for the feedback!
This game is my exact sense of humor and I love it. It was a little annoying that the pixels didn't always color in when I felt like I was in the space I should be, but that might be more of a feature than a bug lol. Great job!
There were definitely some bugs earlier on that were hilarious enough to become features :) Thanks for playing!
super cool idea.
This is nice game I liked it, the only thing I find kinda bad about it is the implementation of the limitation which could have been executed better- Everything else is pretty nice tho!
I don't know why I played this all the way through.
Pretty funny idea, it honestly almost becomes a puzzle game, trying to deduce what colors would fit within the picture in spots according to the other colors, so being an artist helped. As well as just looking at what colors can't be there due to them bordering. (Except for the times that happened anyway, knowing this game, probably on purpose..)
Love the description of the game, which is just bait to get the player to complete all the levels by saying "The end is worth it trust me."
Honestly, I wouldn't have been surprised if the 8 pictures was a lie, and the game just had a huge catalog of pixel art to give you to fill in, and you would just endlessly paint, waiting for the ending.
Well done?
Very relaxing, I like that the stress goes down when you rest. The pictures were so cute, and very well chosen. I loved the palette choice too. Such a genuine pleasure to play.
One thing I wanted here was a slightly pointier cursor. Especially when filling in single pixel details, it wasn't always exactly clear which pixel was under my cursor. Maybe highlighting the exact pixel you're touching would do the trick here. (Didn't affect my rating, just a constructive note:) )
This is soooo cool! I really like the way you use the music to increase the tension. Fantastic!
I wasn't frustrated until this game tell me so and now im just angry and stressed. Good game
I came here expecting a chill coloring game and booooooy was I wrong haha!
I really like the use of the limitation on this one, breaking the 4th wall and all. Also, great job on the presentation. It's meant to be a frustrating game, but overall I had a lot of fun, and I can almost picture your evil smirk while developing this haha.
After 10 minutes of playing this my wife shouted from the room next to me: "aaaaaaaa what is this musiiiiiic". Great job!
My wife also came in to ask me what the music was but to be fair I'd been playing the game through for about 4 hours making small tuning adjustments :) Glad you had a good time!