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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Overall polish | #26 | 4.148 | 4.148 |
| Engagement | #70 | 3.864 | 3.864 |
| Overall | #73 | 3.774 | 3.774 |
| Creative use of art assets | #211 | 3.309 | 3.309 |
Ranked from 81 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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Solid game.
Even though this is a Getting Over It clone, it was really interesting to play! Didn't know it would consume me for 10 minutes :)
Simple sound effect, simple visuals and it looks really polished, cool, thank you for experience!
Also, I don't know if it is intended like that, but you can skyrocket up through long walls with enough click timing :)) But of course with speed increase comes the huge accuracy decrease :)
9m and 43 s overall
P.S. - yeah, I see other people said that, but you should extend left and right screen edges, to click on them is not hard, but frustrating right now, because you can just miss click on a browser
It is a really good rage game that isn't too hard. So in a way it is an easy Getting Over It. I really loved it and think you should make it bigger.
It was a fun experience! This is like Getting Over It for light hearted people like me! XD loved it
Awesome game and a really impressive level of polish for such a short jam! Great game feel!
2m 10s! Feels very juicy. Looks great with the color palette, use of assets and effects, big fan of the parallax scrolling in the background. Feels good to play, could totally see this as an endless climber on a phone. Great job!
You've gave me PTSD of jump king by playing this game
i love how you polished the mechanics you have real hard.It feels very good to swing the pickaxe^^
Nice work!
It's really hard for me but i can't stop playing! The control feels too good and the way he jumps looks satisfying too!
Hah this is great! Love the amount of polish it feels really good to jump around. Agree that a buffer on the side of the active mouse area would have helped but no other notes!
It would be nice to have some more space on the sides, and maybe a fullscreen button too.
Other than that, though, the polish is perfect, and the mechanic is excellent. I will be addicted to this for a while.
Thanks a lot for playing, and for the feedback! I tried adding itch.io's fullscreen button, and although it worked fine, I think people playing in the default size could end up misclicking this button while playing. Still, I'll look for a way to add a fullscreen without using onscreen buttons after the jam is over.
I'll also look into making the walls on the sides a little bigger. Thanks again for the feedback!
I found a game that doesn't use that for fullscreen. I thought you might want to see. https://simonknowsstuff.itch.io/the-sword
What a game with simple control and interesting moving mechanic!
There are so much potential of this being a hot game just by expanding the map a bit!
Also I think its fun to watch streamers playing and falling from the top til the bottom lol
Thanks a lot for the feedback! After the jam is over we are pretty sure of making an update to this game, since it is doing so well. I also think it will be great to see streamers falling hahaha making the map bigger will make this even better!
Wow such a cool game...ive raged a liitle but the core mechanics of the game are amazing
Thanks! It was kinda our intent to make the game rage the player a little bit hahaha sorry about that!
Nah its ok cause i made a rage game myself for this game jam XD
I can't, for the life of me, finish this game but that's because I am awful at it. How awful, you say? I tried to beat it for about 35 minutes and as time went on, I fell further and further down haha. My own skill aside, I can tell this is an awesome game unmatched in its polish. You guys really did a tremendous job. This is the type of game that could easily be scaled further and made into a full, paid, release. So job well done! I just wish I was better at it haha.
Damn, I'm really happy to see that you liked it so much, thanks a lot!! Know that you are not alone on not being great at this game. Myself and a friend of mine also are awful at it, but I tried to make it fun even if you start hitting walls and going further down, which happened quite often with me. Happily I could just reset the game at any position I wanted hahaha
Big thanks for the compliments on polish and on the possibility of a full game also. The idea itself is quite simple, so the polish was pretty necessary... and we are thinking about working on a mobile version too. Not sure how it will work out, but we will see! Thanks again!
Very cool game, I love that the character is glowing and the red trail effects looks amazing as well. Over all really amazing game with really nice fluent movement and juicy effects :D.
Thanks for the feedback, glad you liked it! We tried to polish the most we could in the 48 hours, so it's great to see that people notice it :)
it's fun and amusing game. it's just like Getting Over it but with a bit different mechanic of moving , so it's quite original.
Getting Over It was quite popular some time ago, and it still might be, I don't know hahaha, either way, it actually was one of our inspirations. We had the idea of making a platformer where you could vault with a spear some time ago, but never worked on it. For this jam I thought of remixing that idea with a Getting Over It style game, and adding the pickaxe. The idea is quite simple, but I think it worked nicely. Thanks for commenting and playing!
Reminds me of a more forgiving Getting Over It! Loving the glow and sparkles and game feel. Took me a litle bit to get used to how to move then was flying up the tower in no time.
(also - Tried to play in browser and whilst the music was working the screen was only pink - chrome v 84.0.4147.135
Worked when downloading)
Yeah, that game is quite brutal! We tried to make the game with a similar spirit, but just a biiiiit easier, so that people wouldn't rage quit so easily. Great to see you got hang of the controls quite fast, also!
I'll look into this problem with the browser version after the jam is over, thanks for pointing it out! Thanks for playing too!
Really cool!
Cool idea, very juicy
Dope game, lots of game juice. I did one run where I methodically planned my strikes, then one where I spam clicked like crazy. I was more successful and had more fun with the latter. Only criticism is that it can be hard to aim the pickaxe when you're on the edge of the screen but overall well done.
Edit: forgot to say but the music was way too loud and I had to mute it. No biggie tho
Thanks for playing! I noticed the player could end up spamming clicks, but in the end decided to keep it in, and add some walls here and there to make it harder for the player to just zoom through the game. It still seems the game can be beat pretty fast, despite that hahaha
I will try to add more space on the sides once the jam is over, and add some sound options as well, thanks for the feedback on these things!
Cool game. Nice graphics