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A jam submission

LuminarisView game page

Exploring game, in a world that has no light, living in shadows waiting for you to shine your way to the end.
Submitted by PaulAnds (@paulands1) — 9 hours, 22 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Cleverness#6723.6673.667
Playability#7993.3333.333
Artistic Style#9653.3333.333
Theme#12482.6672.667

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

Judge feedback

Judge feedback is anonymous and shown in a random order.

  • The game plays nicely. Everything works, I haven't found something that breaks, besides maybe, that you can lose cubes and therefore could lock ourself out of completing the game. The Theme is the weakest part of this game in my opinion. Just using black and white is a very cheap way of 1) making it easy on yourself and 2) not using opportunities you might have. Black and White could be used successfully by adopting alchemy concepts and use albedo for white an nigredo for black an use the purifying (albedo) and deconstruction (nigredo) and make them work for you in this gane, this would reinforce the alchemy theme as well. I like the simplistic musical undertone with voice lines where you want to explore, a bit like getting over it and similar games. Overall I can see this work, if some more iterations are made polishing the game and incorporating the theme better.
  • My feedback is; I would say alchemy is about transformation and transmutation. Not just making cubes bigger. Perhaps ya could look from another perspective and use the cubes to transformed into another shapes such as rectangle, sphere and etc. That would be transmutation! Shadows part makes sense in this game.
  • I liked the idea of it, and figuring out where to run with the cubes was fun! I enjoyed the puzzle aspect and having a nice soundtrack in the background was relaxing. I would love to see the respawning mechanic improved a little as I got stuck in a falling animation and needed to refresh the page. Other than that, great playthrough!

Did you include your Game Design Document as a Google Drive link?
Yes

Seriously... did you include your Game Design Document?
yes i did, at the top and bottom of the page :D

Is your game set to Public so we can see it?
yes

Tell us about your game!
The mechanics fall from the theme shadow, but its quite the opposite, you are in a world consumed by shadow, and the point is to light it up. As you walk around the player starts "painting" the level to uncover more parts needed to pass the said level.

Story
World consumed by shadows, there is our protagonist trying to bring light to the world full of cubes that he can transmutate them into something bigger and better to overcome difficult situations.

Controls
WASD - MOVE
SPACE - JUMP
LEFT CLICK - PICKUP
P- PAUSE

Extra Notes
I did the game by myself in my spare time while streaming, i really enjoy making games in Unreal Engine, so i used UE4 to make this game. Its my first time making a game with HTML5 support so it was fun!

Also, the mouse and inputs sometimes takes a little bit to load properly so reload or be patient please :)

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Comments

Submitted

Cool game, very unique concept! Nice job!

Developer

thank you! I was trying to use the theme as a mechanic ✨

Submitted

hehe very goofy looking game, didnt understand what was happening but very fun to run around and push stuff

Developer

hahaha thank you! there is suppose to be a narrator but i think the volume is to low sorry! youre just suppose to make it to the end

Submitted

Very interesting game concept, I would love to see this expanded on.
I did enjoy lighting up the floor, it is very mesmerizing!


Cheers, hope to see you next Game Jam.

Developer

thanks for the comment ✨