| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Engagement/Fun | #1 | 4.167 | 4.167 |
| Magical Girl Concept | #5 | 3.917 | 3.917 |
| Gameplay Polish | #5 | 3.500 | 3.500 |
| Overall | #8 | 3.500 | 3.500 |
| Audio | #10 | 3.333 | 3.333 |
| Originality/Creativity | #14 | 3.333 | 3.333 |
| Theme Interpretation | #16 | 3.167 | 3.167 |
| Aesthetics | #19 | 3.083 | 3.083 |
Ranked from 12 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
How does your game fit the Magical Girl Genre?
Akari is a magical girl, and by the end of the game, Tomoya will be as well.
Which theme(s) do you pick?
Push up
How does your game fit those theme(s)?
Tomoya must push upward through the stage.
If you follow any of the optional challenges, elaborate as you like.
N/A
Were the assets for your game made during the jam? Elaborate as you see fit.
All assets and code were created during the jam, with the exception of the font.
I like the story leading up to the game, and Akari’s transformation is very cute! The jumping game was fun, but I wasn’t able to get past Round 2 (the part that came after her transformation?). There was a higher platform and I couldn’t figure out how to get up there. 😓
I also enjoyed the background music very much and I think it goes very well with the jumping game.
Hello!
Press Escape to see a list of your abilities. You need to use the Wall Jump that you collect near there!
Thank you for playing!
You're absolutely right. We got to sfx ultra late, as you can see from our git history - the last 24 hours! We'll do better next time. https://github.com/PoqaTJ/MGGJ11/pull/114
Thank you for playing!
> That the character changes at the beginning of the jump and speed after the transformation is really cleverly done.
Thank you! I really wanted to include that detail.
> The level design is just right.
Our gameplay/level designer joined the jam when it was halfway over with no game dev experience and did a great job! He has plenty of design experience with non-video games and it translated perfectly.
Thank you for playing!
> The environment and characters don't match, which might have been a time-restraint issue, but even if you only use a similar color palette that can help with cohesiveness.
Our environment artist dropped out, and the artist we brought on as a replacement halfway through didn't have time to work on it, unfortunately. You're right, we could have done a better job with the 'programmer art' - we just didn't think it would be the final look, and there was too much to do the final days!
Thank you for playing!
> It seems there are multiple route you can take to clear the game, not sure if that was intended but it rewards creativity.
We wanted the second trip up to be much easier, where you could 'push up' through the barriers that had previously stopped you! Glad you liked that part!
> Personally, I prefer if the jump key is W or up arrow key instead of space.
I will keep that in mind for next time, thank you!
Thank you for playing!
> On a side note it took me embarrassingly long time to realize that the direction I was facing was the reason some of my wall jumps were failing despite hugging the wall.
We knew this was an issue but didn't have enough time to rework wall jumping. We put a reminder in the pause screen. But really we should have had some in-game dialog reminding you near the first difficult wall jumps!
> I did find that the hitboxes on some of the blocks were a bit wonky though, especially the ones placed on top of the floating walls near the end.
Those almost had a last-minute redesign into being non-damaging spikes that you couldn't land on, but the physics was funky so we changed them back to hazards at the last minute. We should have caught that!
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