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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Use of the Limitation | #6 | 4.050 | 4.050 |
| Overall | #10 | 3.888 | 3.888 |
| Presentation | #16 | 3.900 | 3.900 |
| Enjoyment | #16 | 3.750 | 3.750 |
| Concept | #24 | 3.850 | 3.850 |
Ranked from 20 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Team members
nickbdawg
Software used
Godot, Aseprite, and Pyxel Edit
Use of the limitation
The player's light radius is on a timer and when the light is gone they die.
Cookies eaten
none
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Comments
great platformer
Cool game, I like Bulby's design (cap that turns into parachute looks interesting)
It was a bit too hardcore (because there weren't many checkpoints), so I didn't finish the game though :c
Also at first I was puzzled by level transitions and thought it was some bug. And accidentally stepped to the right and teleported back to the old location ^^"
Music is so calming, and the parallax effect of the background looks nice
Thank you for the feedback! I'm working on a version with improved level transitions and better checkpointing for a post jam update :)
Very solid, love the art style and atmosphere.
I think there was a bug with checkpoints(?) though, as it was flash to the last one before I died, then restart me at the beginning.
Sorry the checkpointing is a little janky!! I wanted to make it way better but ran out of time. Do you mean it restarted you all the way to the beginning of the game? Or to the beginning of the level you died on?
I'll be sure to make a better checkpoint system for my next game thank you for the feedback!
No worries :)
It was only the level that would be restarted.
Ok cool, just wanted to make sure the problem wasn't worse than I thought it was lol.
Thanks for taking the time to play my game and leave feedback, I will check yours out later tonight!
Very cool game. I really like the design and animation, especially Bulby’s parachute and cap. I would recommend you add a small transition between levels and don't hesitate to add the music to the main menu, however, this is a very polished entry. Well done!
Thank you for the feedback!! I'm glad you liked Bulby's animations and I will make sure my next game has better level transitions!
Very good for just 3 days! It was pretty hard, wish charge pads acted as checkpoints, but the controls and animations were very smooth. Great character and background/level design, it all ties together very well!
Feedback regarding bugs and rough edges:
1. Transitions between levels were very jarring, and it sometimes wasn't clear that a transition would even occur, and you won't fall off a cliff instead
2. There was something off about music in the last level, and then I realized it gets quieter in the right ear when I get to the second charge pad, as if the music was playing from spawn point... If you used positional AudioStreamPlayer2D for it, that could be the reason, background music is usually done with position-less AudioStreamPlayer.
3. In the ending scene, you can click on the text and start editing it xD Static text in Godot is usually done via Label node, it allows multiple lines.
Thank you for the feedback! Better checkpointing and less jarring and confusing level transitions will definitely be a focus of my next game. Thank you for the tip on the AudioStreamPlayer stuff, I have barely messed with them so I had no idea it was using positional audio lol. Will definitely use labels next time, I realized you can edit the text boxes yesterday hahaha. Thanks for playing!
This game is great! Wall jumping, parachute and cool mechanic where you're trying to get your next fix. felt like a crackhead. :P
Nice cohesive visual design- cool color choices/palette , fun animation/parallax, and intuitive gameplay. A great interpretation of the theme and limitation!
Loveee the character design. Really like how he wall-jumps and parachutes ^_^
Unfortunately I was having some very strange checkpoint issues that got me really disoriented. I was getting teleported all around to different locations when I died or walked past a previous checkpoint, it made it quite confusing since I would immediately lose my frame of reference
ya originally it was supposed to be more of an adventure game and less linear so I made it so you can go back and forth between levels, but it didn't really make sense to do it that way since you'd never want to go backwards in this game.. and there's a bug that makes your checkpoint always be at the start of whatever level you died in, but I didn't have time to fix it, sorry it was disorienting!!
I really enjoyed this game, it's in between hard and easy so when you retry you usually beat the part you were just stuck at lol I did love the music track as well as Bulby's animation looks great. background blends well with everything, overall good game and I enjoyed playing it.
awesome so glad you enjoyed it!
Bulby’s animations are so cute, I love them all so much haha
The game itself is really cool! I wish I was better at platforming, because I unfortunately got stuck for a while at that section with the alternating pillars with spikes at the top (literally the exact spot in the last screenshot lol) - I’m taking a break and I’ll see if I can beat it later :P
Ya that part and the last level are quite challenging! Thanks for playing!