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Spare A Square - Wowie 3 Game Jam's itch.io pageResults
Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
Simplicity | #136 | 4.040 | 4.040 |
Topic | #202 | 3.680 | 3.680 |
WOWIE! | #302 | 3.200 | 3.200 |
Fun | #313 | 3.280 | 3.280 |
Visuals | #368 | 3.280 | 3.280 |
Creativity | #488 | 3.000 | 3.000 |
Sound | #524 | 2.720 | 2.720 |
Ranked from 25 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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A unique approach to the "die to make a corpse that you can jump on", really amazing how much you can do with some simple concepts, the only thing i would recommend is a restart button since i have to relaunch the game if i want to restart the level
The pixel art is simple and clean. Very cute sound effects and great level design. I love how the dead blocks slowly fade away instead of staying there forever. I would recommend some music but the UI and transitions were appealing and the mechanic was interesting. Great game!
Nice work. I like that you have a limited amount of blocks to work with and that there is a time limit. That makes the game a lot more challenging.
Good job! I liked the visuals and the controls felt smooth. Fun stuff :)
Well done, the controls felt right and the platforming was good. the graphics also looked good
This is a really nice game, the cube felt really good to control and its a nice touch to have the corpses fade away after a certain amount of deaths so that you can't litter all the spikes with your corpses.
Overall good job :)
The game feels great. It is a good thing that you've added more mechanics to the 'use your corpse as a platform' formula. As other people already noted, timer is too frustrating and you should add a reset button (but as I see you've already added these things in new version). Overall, I enjoyed playing your game, well done!
I couldn't spare it! I couldn't spare a square. Nice job!
Very fun game, I loved how previous bodies gradually disappeared
Good job!
Glad I happened to own 7zip. As people have said, though, a dangerous choice compared to using a general-public-friendly zip file!
Simple but pleasing graphics, and nice controls. :)
This was a really fun game. Very well executed.
And despise its extremely minimalistic graphics, they were very visually appealing.
I would add a restart button for the levels, because sometimes you already know you messed up, and there is no way to win the level, but there is a lot of time left for the counter to go down. So it's just a dull waiting.
Either way, the game is really entertaining and I liked that.
Good job!
PS: not everyone has 7-zip, so try uploading a simple zip file next time, which is a lot more common for everyone to have.
I've seen several games try the concept of using previous dead bodies as platforms, but I enjoyed that you added the different types of spikes to make it interesting. Like everyone else has said, a reset button would have helped a lot and your timers were all over the place. There was one level with like 80 seconds on the timer that I completed in like 10 seconds and another that I sped through with no mistakes and barely made it in time. I don't mind the timer, but having it more consistently match the difficulty of the level would be appreciated. Overall, nice game. Quite enjoyed it. Thanks for making it!
Fun Puzzle game, wish there was a way to reset to the level. overall very nice
Very good game, and definitely fun; I especially love the concept for the last stage.
BUT... for me at least there is one major issue that ruins the fun:
Is the timer really necessary considering there can only be three square corpses in a stage? In my opinion it isn't and should be removed; especially considering there is no reset button. There are definitely some unpleasant experiences in my playthrough where I know with the time left I couldn't finish it on time but because there is no reset button I could only wait.
the jumps of the square feel satisfiying. There could have been a music though. The title of the game is funny :)
i liked the concept and level design but the game is slow i suggest making the respawn points closer to the spicks so you don't have to waste 4 second just going back to were you was, overall really nice good job :)
ooh, i don't think I have anything to open 7z files... :(
i'm gonna give you a good rate anyway since you don't have a lot of ratings and I already played games with a similar concept
same...
this is quite creative I like the animation and sound effects... the only thing that bothers me is there is no exit button. I've to open my task manager to close the game
It's in full screen (in Windows; idk in MAC) so there is no "red exit button" to be pressed... I also had to press Alt + F4 (^_^;
pretty fun game
would you mind checking out mine too?