Cool project! As others have mentioned, this is really well scoped and polished for a first jam! The fact that you even had a tutorial in there was very impressive! Changing music to suit the mood and everything. Your level design could potentially be a bit more open to take advantage of the momentum mechanic. Also, for some reason both my Occulus app and SteamVR opened up when I launched the game. Not sure if that's something to do with Unreal's build settings? Something configured for VR?
Anyway, really well done!
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Staying Alive's itch.io pageNames and Email Addresses of Team Members
Zayd Carelse - zayd.carelse@gmail.com
Categories Your Team is Eligible for
Hobbyist, Diversity
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As your first game, well done and welcome! So happy to have people entering the game development space.
Your game proves that keeping things simple is a strength. On the last two levels I made it to the door on the last second and it was genuinely exciting.
Some minor notes:
There was a moment on level 3 where I had some lag, not sure why but it wasn't too bad.
When you die you restart the whole game. Usually I'd say this is pretty brutal but after seeing that there weren't too many levels I'd say it is fine. If you were to add more I'd advise a retry button or a lives system.
Great job! I hope you will continue to make games and good luck.
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NecromedicThank you so much for playing and offering your encouragement. It means a lot.
As for the restarting upon death: I really didn't want to punish the player that way but I hadn't figured out how to do that by the time I finished the game. I've since switched over to Unity and have found it a lot easier to create saved variables that will fix that problem. Live and learn, right?
I'm hoping to create a new one this weekend which will address all of the problems that it's predecessor had.
Well done on saving Zombie Brian!
Amazing for your first project! I think you did a superb job at keeping the scope minimal for a first jam entry which is something a lot of first-timers don't get right (myself included!).
Platformers are tricky because they require solid controls to feel fun, but luckily you didn't fall into this trap either.
Not much for me to critique on here, other than I think the levels could benefit with having more visible on the screen at one point.
You definitely have a skill for this, keep making more!
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Bodge DallAwesome platformer. The music and art fits the mood well.
Some feedback:
The background music cuts off in the tutorial, it does not loop and I died in the tutorial, because the time ran out before I could finish reading the text. Maybe only activate the timer when the player starts to move
Well done, it was fun! I want more levels :)
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[SAGJ 2020] Brink of ExtinctionFun visuals and music! Was quite a nice and tight platformer. Good job!
I would of pulled the screen back a bit more and added in a more realistic jump. i.e. Gravity x2 when dropping. Holding in jump gives you longer jumps :)
But great project! :)
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Oh My HeartThanks for playing and giving feedback.
I absolutely loved your game. To be completely honest, this is my first game so I didn't actually know how to do those things. 😂 I also felt like I had wasted too much time on other things so I didn't get quite around to figuring out how to do all those things.
It was a great learning experience though.
I found this quite charming.
Nice pick with the music for the timed levels, really ramped the intensity.
Agree with a lot of what @ReadyGo already said: I felt like the tutorial could have been part of the main levels. It would have been really satisfying to see my form change into human after entering that last door :)
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SummitThanks for playing and giving feedback.
I actually meant to have the music continue but didn't want to waste too much time on figuring that out. I kinda ran out of time at the end.
I also (wrongly) assumed that the player had a chance to die in the tutorial and didn't want them having to replay all of that just to get to the game. I will keep that in mind for my next project though.
Really cool stuff! I finished it after 2 tries. Really good maps, made only walking and only running both impossible, you had to figure out when to walk and when to run, nice!
Didn't enjoy that my life timer got reset between levels, would've enjoyed it more with a persistent clock. Made my super-awsm map finishes feel nullified.
Tutorial was really impressive but perhaps a little unnecesary, why not build the tutorial into the first few levels and then just teach the player by default as they get started with the game :]
Overall awsm stuff, sad that I didn't get to see the human form nicely at the end though!
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Alpha baseThanks for playing and giving such detailed feedback. I appreciate it.
This was actually my first game so I couldn't really figure out how to keep the timer as a consistent variable and took the short cut to finish it.
I also didn't have time to learn how to create cinematic sequences but having the Zombie transform was part of my initial design.
Glad you enjoyed it. Hope to be able to improve on those things for my next project.
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