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Trijam #261: The 3 hour game jam

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A jam submission

UpwellView game page

Climb a rage-inducing well by planning your jump arcs.
Submitted by Dóczi Dominik (@dominik_doczi) — 18 minutes, 23 seconds before the deadline

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Upwell's itch.io page

Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Audio#122.5304.000
Visuals#162.5304.000
How well does the game fit the themes?#212.2143.500
How much do you enjoy the game overall?#221.5812.500
Gameplay#220.9491.500
Overall#221.9613.100

Ranked from 2 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

How long was your dev time?
12h (5 team members)

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Comments

PidibitSubmitted267 days ago

Graphics, sound and music is nice. I wish the gameplay would be more accessible, I wasn't able to progress more than one move. Maybe the force gets too strong quite quickly and with bounces the player could loose the energy to not be flying all over the level uncontrollably?

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Lava Explorer
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Dóczi DominikDeveloper267 days ago

Thank you very much for the kind words and feedback!

I agree the game is very much in need of some balancing, but we kinda ran out of time so we decided not to tweak the numbers just yet.

Thanks again for your feedback!!

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BowmanBericSubmitted267 days ago

Any chance of an HTML5 version? I don't want to run a random exe :/ 

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Pet the Belly
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Dóczi DominikDeveloper267 days ago (1 edit) (+1)

Hi, I deeply understand your concern but unfortunately we were not able to build a web version. :(

The game is built using Love2D, which does not run on web natively. We used the distribution method listed on the official documentation: https://love2d.org/wiki/Game_Distribution

If you want, I can upload a .love file, which you can run if you install Love2D yourself from the official site and then drag the .love file on top of the Love2D executable or shortcut.

Also, I’ve ran a VirusTotal scan for you if that makes a difference: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/0227895088a773f9f666dead84ebcec582cff53b740e6f6613ac313ffbc01446/summary

This project was an exercise for a university student group I organize, so I wanted to choose a game framwework that I was comfortable in and which was easy to learn and use for the others - finding one with a web build was less of a priority.

I hope you understand and decide to try our game. If you have any questions or need more proof, please let me know! :)

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BowmanBericSubmitted267 days ago(+1)

Okay, I gave it a shot! Definitely an impressive game for three hours. However, I feel like the enjoyability was really cut down by the fact that the controls made me feel like I had to hold the jump button down longer to get the trajectory I wanted, yet holding down the jump button for more than a moment moved the player so quickly that whether the player wins or loses essentially feels random, which is not the most fun experience. The core mechanic felt a bit like a "lose/lose" experience where I was punished for whatever I decided to do.

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Dóczi DominikDeveloper267 days ago

Thank you so much for trying it out! :D

I agree, as you can see in my reply to another comment we were a bit crunched for time so playtesting took a big hit.

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