Play Game Jam
Toss Them Bones's itch.io pageResults
Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
Graphics/Animation | #95 | 3.608 | 4.167 |
Theme/Limitation | #166 | 3.320 | 3.833 |
Music/Sound | #178 | 2.887 | 3.333 |
Overall | #189 | 3.002 | 3.467 |
Technical Implementation | #252 | 2.598 | 3.000 |
Fun/Design | #275 | 2.598 | 3.000 |
Ranked from 6 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
How does your game utilize the limitation and theme?
Collectables - The gameplay is themed around collecting your body parts, and you can also collect bones like coins along the way. There & Back again - You are outrunning the grim reaper to collect your bodyparts scattered around the map (the "there"), and when caught you end up back at the start ("and back"). As a twist, you keep all of your collected power ups, so you can cover greater distances for your next go! I didn't manage to implement as much gameplay as I wanted unfortunately, so it might only be good for a loop or two
What was your team size?
You worked alone
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I feel that the slide control needs some work. It wasn't too responsive for me and I found I was getting stuck more often than not. Perhaps a click and drag arrow that gives the same amount of power behind each movement.
Pretty fun game and I enjoy how the collectables theme was implemented with collecting your own body parts again. I also enjoyed the taunting you added when I kept getting stuck, bravo!
Overall a fun game, but found myself getting frustrated with it fairly frequently.
So, the slide to move control feels underwhelming when used. But you can up the time you can drag the skull. However getting it to a point which doesn't break the game but feels satisfying seems difficult. The concept is a good one but for some reason the window breaks on my machine and since I am unable to change the resolution and it keeps happening the game while playable is greatly diminished. The sfx for moving the skeleton are also rather annoying once you hear them 20 times in a row while you struggle to move. Music is really good along with the art.
I really wanted to love this game. I love the humour and the idea of collecting yourself with each body part bringing new abilities and mechanics has sooooo much potential... BUT - the controls... OH MY GOODNESS were so frustrating, I tried so many times but timing the drag was near impossible especially when trying to get through small areas.
The concept is really good! I think that it will be a great mobile game!
The only thing I would add is some instructions on how to play the game (in the start of the first level).
Thank you! That's awesome of you to say.
I did try to add a prompt for movement at the start, but I realised in hindsight that people will probably miss it as they go adjusting volume. Or did you mean more as in a few prompts of where to go and how to move? Hadn't considered that before, thank you
Good game so far, but it is kinda difficult to play it in Pc
Thanks for trying it! The control scheme is definitely a bit tricky.
I discovered Vimlark's video on game jam tips AFTER the game jam - he's got a section saying "make it easy to you" - which is darn good advice that I wish I'd had before I went into it :D