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Pond Party's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Artwork | #20 | 4.795 | 4.795 |
| Audio | #95 | 4.205 | 4.205 |
| Enjoyment | #149 | 4.205 | 4.205 |
| Creativity | #634 | 4.136 | 4.136 |
| Narrative | #1856 | 2.864 | 2.864 |
Ranked from 44 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
How does your game fit the theme?
You move the player by setting a precise movement pattern loop.
(Optional) Please credit all assets you've used
All original assets except the following sound effects from Pixabay:
- Swamp ambience
- Frog ribbit
- Mouse click sound
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Your Average rank is #137 in GMTK 2025! Congrats!
Here is the link with all the rankings:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1pcYEGvaHF3y30mMEWwywmkRd2FCpo-u3_ZFpPFSo...
I felt bad that there is no average score, because some teams aimed for all categories, not just one. So I just scrapped the results page and made a table. I agree with Mark that "Overall" is questionable, but I still think "Average" is a valuable score, so I decided to share it.
Wow that's so cool, thank you!
Great aesthetic, great audio, great puzzle. 3 out of 3.
Good job! :)
Thank you so much, that is really kind! :D
Amazing aesthetic and well-made puzzles, good job!
Thank you for playing! Glad you enjoyed it.
Holy charming art style! I could see this filling a popular children's book series. Loved the musical components and the very clever movement combinations! Great work on the entry.
Thank you so much. I had a ton of fun with the art, glad it's so well-received!
Loved the art, very unique idea and I loved the music. Great job!
Thank you for playing and the kind words! <3
The artstyle is great, the idea is simple but well-executed, the sounds fit well and are very whimsical, and nothing feels unintuitive. I loved the puzzle design on this one! A lot of them were quite simple but still enjoyable, and the bonus levels were really engaging. I got completely stumped at bonus level 3 (or 2? whichever the one with the large rectangle map where you had a 5/4 signature and 4 loops is), and even though i kinda solved it through trial and error it has taught me some important ways of thinking about the puzzles. My only nitpick with the game is that the direction buttons are a little bit too similar and hard to tell apart from each other quickly and that the note for the "left" jump clashes with the notes for the "down" jump (or at least it felt like it).
Thank you so much for the detailed feedback! Glad you enjoyed it.
I'm glad you pointed those two things out, as they were actually things we were aware of and unsure about as well, haha!
We iterated many designs for the direction buttons and landed on this one as it had theleast visual clutter. But after implementing I kept saying that its too hard to tell them apart. But we didn't really have the time to change it anymore.
And the note sounds is also something we changed 2 or 3 times. I had the same feeling that some combinations felt too dissonant. We tested having the 4 notes be the same but in different octaves or have them be the single parts of a chord, but that also somehow didn't feel quite right either. I think it would have taken a bit more testing of different combinations.
So at least we didn't imagine it haha!
The art style on this is nothing short of fantastic, truly, well done! The game itself is also very cute and straightforward with fun mechanics. Amazing game! :)
Thank you so much! That is very nice to hear! :D
got to bonus level 3. such an adorable puzzle game! cool mechanics and really well polished!
Thank you so much! :D
Oh my gosshh this is the cutest game this year!! I adore frogs, but this style of art is so so cool! I love the watercolour aesthetic. The game mechanics were really fun as well and I enjoyed solving the puzzles
Thank you so much!! That's really kind of you, glad you liked it!
Cute puzzle game! Works as intended and has beautiful art :)
Thank you so much! :D
What an amazing game. Its intuitive and simple at the start but gets pretty challenging near the end. The art is wonderful and making beats never got boring from the first levels to the last. Fantastic game!
Thank you so much, that really means a lot! :D
What fun little puzzle game! It really got me to think in some of the later levels, especially thinking about how I had to move to catch the fruits or avoid the enemies that were moving as I moved. What else can I say, it's great!
Thank you so much, that is very kind!
THE ART - AMAZING, IT ATE AND LEFT NO CRUMBS ITS SO PEAK, the gameplay was pretty fun! I wish the beat you made didnt delete when you die though ! Otherwise PEAK
Thank you so much!!! And totally deserved criticism, we really didn't think that one through hahahaha
the art is beautiful! i love frogs , so ofcourse i had to play it! plays great. a little reset button to stop playing the level would be a great addition. pressed play a little too fast somethimes :)
Thank you so much for the feedback! And yeah, agreed, we realised too late how inconvenient that was hahahaha
Very cute, fun game! I wish I could also make like this one day. I am still a newbie :|
Thank you so much! And no need to stress about getting better, game jams are a really good place to start! You start to collect a lot of experience over time, especially once you did a few longer projects as well! Just keep going with it and you'll be able to do something like this in no time! :)
Thank you for your advice, I have submitted a game in this jam, please consider viewing, I would appreciate your advice on that one too! Thanks a lot, once again.
Oh nice, will definitely do so when I have some time on my hands! Good luck in the jam!
Probably the most fun game of the jam I played so far, especially the bonus levels. The genuinely gorgeous artwork takes it to the next level. Super impressed!!
This is so nice of you! Genuinely, thank you so much!
Really fun game, I played all of the bonus levels too! Regular levels are almost too easy but the bonus ones were a good challenge. I really love the artwork! Very polished!
Thank you so much! Yeah, we were worried about people getting frustrated too early on when trying out our game, and leaving before they saw everything, so the first levels are all a bit *too* easy hahahaha
This game was awesome and sooooo cute. Really creative concept and execution, a good number of levels plus bonus levels. I could realistically enjoy a full game version with how it felt challenging but not too challenging and rewarding to watch the frog jump around to the music and enjoy the fruit. Artwork was really polished with a nice, wholesome style. Really good stuff :) We would really appreciate if you checked out our game and gave it a rate, really wanna know what you think :)
Thank you so much! That is really helpful feedback! We were joking around about making a bigger version of the game, so it's cool to hear that there are some people out there who would play it! And I will totally check out your game when I have some time for it! :D
The levels felt well balanced, and I had a lot of fun! Great artwork and music too. Well done!
Thank you so much, that means a lot! :D
This one ticks all the boxes for me. Beautiful artstyle, cool sounds and the mechanic perfectly fits the theme and is engaging. Cute frogs are cherry on top. Great work guys!!!
Thank you so much! That means so much to us! :D