Kindred Community Jam

Swap Die Repeat! jam comments

2020-04-10T03:34:36Z

Fantastic job on your game! I love the whole aesthetic and the puzzles are very clever. There were a few times where I had to stop and think about how I needed to solve them. The music is very charming and the characters feel great to control, especially the fast green guy. You added the keypress pause on new levels which is nice, but to increase responsiveness you may want to make it so that new key presses end this timer. If the player presses a key and nothing happens, then that can lead to confusion. Your jumping is based on whether or not the player had jumping held down, which leads to a lot of awkwardness when you're trying to make that really long jump, so you hold jump the entire time and let off at the last second, but it's too late and your character jumps again. It's a big disconnect from what you wanted to happen and feels very awkward. There's no feedback when you collect black's keys. This is especially imprtant on the level where you have to jump into the spikes to collect it. My camera snapped back to the orange character before I could register whether or not I collected it, and thus didn't know until I walked all the way over there with the orange character to see that, thank goodness I had and didn't need to restart the level. Great job on this, it's impressive and a lot of fun to play.

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Swap Die Repeat!View game page

A 2D puzzle platoformer made with Godot, swap characters until you die! (but try to avoid that)

Submitted by ~/joelchrono — 5 hours, 15 minutes before the deadline

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Criteria	Rank	Score*	Raw Score
Gameplay	#11	3.564	3.564
Creativity	#17	3.538	3.538
Matched the theme	#24	3.436	3.436
Overall	#24	3.297	3.297
Art style	#37	3.308	3.308
Audio	#41	2.641	2.641

Ranked from 39 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

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aazusSubmitted4 years ago

This was one of my favorite games of the jam! Trying to figure out which order to use the characters was challenging, but fun. The color-coding made all the mechanics really intuitive. The music was fun, and the art style was great.

I think I would've liked an option to see the whole level before I start moving, either by panning around with the mouse or just pushing a button to get a wide view, so I could plan things ahead. But with restarting being so easy, it wasn't a big deal to just run forward with a character and die.

Overall, I really enjoyed this game. If you make more levels, I'll definitely keep playing.

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Arise

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Apostate GamesSubmitted4 years ago

Had fun with this one! Love the art style. Music is a bit loud but eh not a big deal. Controls took a while to get used to with each character but made it more challenging.

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Knight Life

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~/joelchronoDeveloper4 years ago

I am glad you got some fun out of my game, Some people like the music, some people dont, but I recognize that the volume was too high and could have been reduced. I still have to add a better explanation fo the controls in-game

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MikeEdwardsGamesSubmitted4 years ago

I had died alot in this game but overall had fun great art and music keep up the good work!

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Fiends & Mana

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~/joelchronoDeveloper4 years ago

Thanks! I will try to keep improving, this is just the beginning of my game developing journey :D

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JJMTSubmitted4 years ago

Well done for completing your first game jam!

These kind of puzzle mechanics with tend to offer a lot of content when investigated more, so i suggest sticking with this a see where it goes :D. I would also suggest keeping the levels within camera view so the Player can focus their time on thinking approaches to solve each puzzle.

The Music was Great, ive said this like 50 times now everybody appears to have made fantastic music in this jam so seriously well done!

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The Last Blossom

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~/joelchronoDeveloper4 years ago (1 edit) (+1)

Thank you so much! I liked the mechanics too and I am working on adding more levels in next updates.

I am glad that you liked the music, a few people were annoyed by it. But Ibguess that my previous physics also helped with that, since it was a lot more unfair previously

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AsueSubmitted4 years ago

Very interesting game. It would be nice if you add an instruction like "use TAB for switching characters" in the first level. The art style is simple but works well. I really appreciate playing this game. Good job =D

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Those who dig

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~/joelchronoDeveloper4 years ago(+1)

Yeah, I recently realized that a lot of people struggle to realized they can swap only at the beginning of the level, I moved the controls to the top of the itch page and still some people did not realized. I will add an in game instruction inside the first level

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