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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Enjoyment | #2858 | 3.158 | 3.158 |
| Artwork | #3416 | 3.158 | 3.158 |
| Audio | #4282 | 2.684 | 2.684 |
| Creativity | #5190 | 2.947 | 2.947 |
| Narrative | #6766 | 1.789 | 1.789 |
Ranked from 19 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 advance through the levels by making a loop biting your tail.
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Monogram font by datagoblin
Audio clips by u_i15wxund59, Lesiakower and floraphonic
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Super cool re-imagining of snake! During the first level I was thinking "this just seems really easy, how are there going to be different levels?" then boom, did not expect the difficulty spike lol! Great work! :D
Great take on the ouroboros sub-theme!
Flipping the snake game on it’s head by having any self-collision be a win condition was really clever, and I liked the risk-reward aspect of having to decide when to “cash-out” and go to the next loop before it becomes too unmanageable.
The game is missing some music and could maybe use some particle effects, but the CTR-filer was a nice touch.
All in all, great work!
So NicolasGatien already pointed out what I think was done perfectly in that the game starts out with you eating your tail to show you "this is what you want to be doing". Great way to demonstrate to someone the goal given usually in Snake you DON'T want to hit your body. I also like the added challenge that if you don't hit the tip of your tail the score seems to be counted based on the segments after you hit your body.
I think maybe the rate of obstacles was a bit fast sometimes, it could be easy to have a fruit just spawn in the middle of obstacles and there was not much you could do about it. Not sure how you'd tweak this though I think it's just a given based on the challenge needed in a game of Snake where you want to hit yourself. Also dunno if it's intentional that you can clear obstacles before they spawn by running over the warning with the snake?
Nice work overall.
Very cool, the highest score I was able to get is 1200!
I’ve seen this idea a few times so far this jam, but it is a very good execution on it. I love that the game starts with the snake eating its tail, showing the player how it works. Though the counter should probably start at zero, so that after the demonstration, the level counter is at 1.
The screen effect was also really cool, but a little strong. It’s very stylistic but it obscures the game a little too much in my opinion. Perhaps a lighter version of the same effect would work better.
In any case, well done on this submission!
Aw man the game over jingle is so sad! I like that you can decide to go a little faster and get ahead of spawning obstacles by mashing.
Nice sound effects, would like to see how far people can get
Fun take on a snake game. It wasn't completely clear to me if it was my objective to eat my tail as fast as possible or get bigger first. Fun game.
yep same idea different execution,
I like your take on it
We had similar ideas :)