Pixel New Year Jam (WITH PRIZES)

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A jam submission

Connected CavesView game page

A simple 2D platformer for the Pixel New Year Jam 2024

Submitted by MrKarlsson — 1 day, 2 hours before the deadline

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Connected Caves's itch.io page

Results

Criteria	Rank	Score*	Raw Score
Gameplay	#9	3.118	3.118
Visuals	#13	2.824	2.824
Relevance to the theme	#15	2.706	2.706
Overall	#16	2.518	2.518
Audio	#18	1.647	1.647
Ingenuity	#20	2.294	2.294

Ranked from 17 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

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Nice first game! We hope that this submision will be a start of a beautiful hobby. For my small suggestion (as you mentioned it too at the game page) adding graphic to the platforms and background would go a long way in making this game more appealing.
I liked the character movement, the positioning of the platforms and the challenges with the skewers. I also found the connection between the scenes and the character animation interesting. As you already stated in the description of your game on Itch.io, you already know the points to be developed in your project. Congratulations on making this a father and son project and I hope to hear more from you both.
For the first game jam I think it's good, of course you still must learn many things, but I think you have tried your best! Good job!

How does your game relate to the Pixel New Year Jam theme?
The game level is made up of a number of all connected rooms ending in the first room.

Did you have fun at this game jam?
Yes, first jam I did together with my son, wish we had been able to do more but we might continue working on the game later.

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DarilJJam Judge334 days ago

I liked the character movement, the positioning of the platforms and the challenges with the skewers.

I also found the connection between the scenes and the character animation interesting.

As you already stated in the description of your game on Itch.io, you already know the points to be developed in your project.

Congratulations on making this a father and son project and I hope to hear more from you both.

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stiggzz22Submitted336 days ago

haha loved it! nice job on the coyote timer for jumping, made everything more forgiving. hope you guys keep making games!

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boomerang adventure

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BinjoviSubmitted337 days ago

Simple and sweet; I like it! I agree with queijoquente's comment about a checkpoint. I think it would benefit from a checkpoint on or right before a couple of the harder rooms would be perfect.

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Hello, Operator

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18th of FebuarySubmitted337 days ago(+1)

For a first gamejam a good result, gameplay is interesting, I would also add some interaction with the pickaxe. I also noticed that the character is blurry, I'm not sure if that's the problem, but I'll write about it. When you export sprites in unity, then in "Filter mode" you need to select "point", so that there was no blurring and I also "compression" set to "high quality"