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A jam submission

Watch Your LimbsView game page

WYL
Submitted by Mahaleo — 5 hours, 55 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Sound Design#4020.9621.667
Innovation#4210.9621.667
Art#4230.9621.667
Fun Factor#4270.9621.667
Gameplay#4280.9621.667
Theme Integration#4310.9621.667
Overall#4350.9621.667

Ranked from 3 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

How does your game bring our theme, The Error is the Feature, to life?
My game embraces the theme "The Error is the Feature" by turning mistakes and damage into the core of the experience. When the player is hit by traps or projectiles, instead of a simple "Game Over" the character loses health and body parts is deactivated in ways that directly affect gameplay. Losing a leg means weaker jumps, losing both removes jumping entirely, and a headshot inverts the movement controls while disabling abilities. Even when health drops to zero, the player doesn't just fail, he enters a ragdoll state, still able to move around using only the capsule component to collect healing items.

As the player advances, they unlock new abilities such as a forward dash or the power to stop time on a selected object. But these too are tied to the chaos: abilities become disabled if the corresponding body parts are lost, forcing the player to rethink their strategy on the fly.

This chaos is not just punishment, it's opportunity: errors reshape the way you play, forcing you to adapt to broken movement, inverted controls, and missing abilities. The challenge and the fun comes from mastering this instability, finding creative ways to recover, and racing to the goal despite the game constantly "breaking" your character.

Did you include a fake publisher splash screen at the start of your game?

Yes

Did you use the Audius API in your game?

No

If AI was used in your game, let us know how you used it.
I didn't use AI, however I took all icons and sounds from free sites like pixabay.com and game-icons.net

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Comments

Submitted

I couldn’t play it because I got an unexpected error: Error 0x80004005.
I tried several things to see if I could make it work, but nothing helped. What should I do?

Developer (2 edits)

Thank you for your post, can you try to create a shortcut of the exe and put "-dx11" like in the image below or run the game as administrator, if that can solve the issue.


Submitted (1 edit) (+1)

The mechanics are incredible, very innovative, congratulations, please rate my game too if you can, thanks.