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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Playability | #258 | 4.000 | 4.000 |
| Theme | #1330 | 2.000 | 2.000 |
| Cleverness | #1471 | 2.000 | 2.000 |
| Artistic Style | #1697 | 2.000 | 2.000 |
Ranked from 1 rating. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Judge feedback
Judge feedback is anonymous.
- The game was fun to play through, but i felt it was lacking in terms of the theme. I would love to see this game with more alchemy and shadow referrences. Constructive Critiscm: Add a tutorial for how to play the game with prompts in game Add a health bar Add interactions with the characters in game
Did you include your Game Design Document as a Google Drive link?
Yes
Seriously... did you include your Game Design Document?
Yes
Is your game set to Public so we can see it?
Yes
Tell us about your game!
Mechanics are kept simple.
The story: You have been kidnapped by an evil alchemist, he has performed experiments on you and left you as a fully functional head, you must find out what else he has done to you and escape his basement.
Extra Notes
Although the title screen has buttons to play, and look at controls, it's up to you to decide if you want to get familiar with the controls before playing, or figure it out as you go and jump straight into the gameplay.
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Fun little platformer, I like it! It’s nice how every level has a different style, and I didn’t expect I could transform into a ferret - very cool, more transformations in the future please! The difficulty felt quite balanced for me. Didn’t get stuck for too long in one place, and also never felt it was too easy or getting boring.
For the one level with the moving platform right in the beginning it would have been nice if the platform position also resets when I die, so I always have the same (preferably short) waiting time until the platform is at my position again.
Overall fun platformer, well done! 👏
Nice little platformer here. I am having fun here. I also found the mechanics where you transform into a ferret interesting, but it just feels like it's not that well used and didn't distinguish itself with the normal character. There are one jump that is a bit too tight in level 2, but other than that the levels are solid. Need to utilise the tiles sets a bit more though, get a bit more personalities or even tell a story with them. Also some visual cues for the wall that the ferret can pass through will be nice.
Anyway, keep on the good work!
I was very surprised. Haven't cracked the second level yet. Super hard for me. I suck at platform games, but it is fun and can recommend playing it! Would like some checkpoints, especially on the longer stretches. At least for a noob like me lol.
So when I started this I thought "Oh man this is just some stupid meme game!". Which it is, don't get me wrong but it's actually a really competent platformer too!
The transformation mechanic is interesting, I feel like with some more time in the oven and more transformations that you have a solid little game here.
The art is pretty good and quite varied between the levels. I feel like something to indicate what walls you can go through as a ferret might be good in the future too to give the player more indication rather than straight up reminding them to use the ferret form.
But yeah fun little platformer, would love to see it developed more especially if there were more transformations.
Wait someone's at my door, they said something about escaping from a basement? I'm sure it's nothi....