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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Presentation | #144 | 4.283 | 4.283 |
| Overall | #157 | 3.950 | 3.950 |
| Fun | #190 | 3.850 | 3.850 |
| Originality | #217 | 4.050 | 4.050 |
Ranked from 60 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?
The goal of the game is to capture an out of control experiment, with ever-increasing chaos as it moves through the environment.
Did your team create the art for this game during the 48 hour time slot?
Yes
We created all art during the game jam
Did your team create the audio for this game during the 48 hour time slot?
No
We used pre-existing audio
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Catching that dang Blugger was quite a fun challenge. A big problem I faced though was that it seemed like my force push didn't really do anything to it, and it was super hard to grab. Also, I found myself wanting to try to sprint, but found that it really wasn't necessary.
Were you charging the force push/grab or just clicking? We've gotten a couple of comments along the lines of that, so I just want to make sure we direct attention to the proper place to address that criticism if it was the instruction that was unclear or the controls themselves. Also, I think the jump increases speed, but I've also caught myself holding the shift key on occasion. Thanks for your feedback and for playing our game!
This one's really wild. You guys did a great job!
Thank you so much! We're glad you enjoyed the game.
Very nice concept, and the visuals are also really well made. A very fun, chaotic experience. Well done!
Thank you for playing! I'm happy you enjoyed the art and chaos. :)
Man that game is impossible... :) Had a bit of fun though :)
Yeah, it can be pretty rough sometimes. All the same, we're glad you had fun! Thanks for playing.
Awesome game
looks and feels really polished
perfect fit for the theme
Only problem I noticed was, ist possible to barricade the king into a room, so he cant move anymore.
But it was still fun to do so.
great work
Thanks for playing and for the feedback! That's actually really cool that you got a barricade to work, we wanted to implement something like that but couldn't do so reliably enough to balance for it. Do you remember what room you were able to trap him in? I'd love to experiment with that a bit. We're glad you had fun!
It was more or less by accident :)
I noticed how a bed pushed him into a corner and started to push more stuff into that room so he could not move anymore.
it was the last one in the middle
I think those are bedrooms, cant really tell after everything flew everywhere
Yeah, those were bedrooms. That's funny it worked like that, I love it!
Great use of the theme. I love that you can just knock out the king.
Good job!
Thank you, and thanks for playing!
Very well done! Definitely challenging and I had a lot of fun with it. I would suggest using a different font, but otherwise I think this is an excellent submission!
Yeah, I'd agree that the font's a little hard to read, especially in that opening passage. Thanks for playing! We're glad you had fun.
Definitely chaotic, definitely follows the theme very well! Awesome game!
Thanks! We're glad you liked it.
I just rated your great game! Thank you very much for watching the stream!
Thank you for your rating and for the time on your stream! One of my teammates recommended your game to me a couple of days ago, it was a really creative way to handle movement, and it was a lot of fun. Thanks again for stopping by!
It was fun to chase the thing and then watch everything get thrown about! Great idea~ Congrats on submitting a unique game to the jam, please check out my game if you haven't :D
Thank you for playing our game! We're glad you enjoyed it, I'll be sure to check yours out sometime today. :)
The art here is great! Physics very well implemented. Good game!
Thank you for playing! I'm glad you enjoyed it.
I loved the absolute chaos that ensued from the very beginning of the game. The sheer amount of destruction the Blugger could reap was impressive, especially from a technical standpoint because the game didn't have any slowdown.
Fun and kinda frustrating gameplay, I can see massive potential in an expanded experience.
Thanks for playing! I'm happy you appreciated the chaos, it's always one of the highlights for me and it works pretty well with the low vertex count from the low-poly graphics. I'm glad you see potential in this game! That really means a lot. If we expanded it, hopefully we'd be able to dial back that frustration a little, at least starting off. :)
This is amazing but man it's super hard too, only caught the bugger once and accidentally released it.
Yeah, that happens a lot to me, too. It is definitely something that skill can improve, having played the game quite a bit the past few days, but it's really difficult out of the gate and I can understand not wanting to invest that sort of time for a jam game. Thanks for playing and for the feedback!
There is just an insane amount of objects in this for being created in 48 hours, love that. The feeling of that blugger was definitely an out of control experiment it was really well implemented. I really love everything about the environment, the shove and the king. It's the grab. It was really hard with the speed of the blugger to time the grab, also I think I caught it twice but wasn't aware quickly enough that it was caught and accidentally released it. I would recommend some feedback on the catch (maybe change the hand color). as well maybe the spectral hand starts at where the target hitbox is? gives a better idea on the range size of grab? Love it and can be a very fun time killer :)
Yeah, that whole catching and releasing of the Blugger got me a lot after we published, I'm usually so surprised that I actually got the darn thing that I immediately let it go again. It'd be good if there was a buffer once you caught it before you can intentionally release it, just to get rid of that accidental catch and release. If we keep working on it, I'm sure we could get that to feel a bit better, thanks for your feedback!
Very enjoyable and unique game, the presentation was very good aswell.
Thank you so much!
I love this game. Looks, feels, & sounds great!
If you do develop this more, I think the king ought to react more to things - maybe have him freak out about the mess, or go off on you for pushing him around? Would add a lot to the comedy =]
Thank you so much!
Thanks! Yea, that would be awesome to have some more comedic moments like that, we'll keep that in mind if we work on it further! I liked the idea of him having increasing threat levels for how much things are damaged or something like that, but we didn't get around to it. Thanks for playing our game :)
Man thats awesome. Really looking forward to the mac or web build after the jam.
We have a web build ready to go on Sunday!
I quite enjoyed this. Pushing the king out of the way was probably the best part. It definitely felt out of control. I do think it would have been nice to have a bit more range on the right click grab. I ended up trapping the blugger in a room and just spamming right click until I caught it.
Thanks for your feedback, I'm glad you liked it! I think the maximum hit box is pretty large on a full charge, but it's a pretty quick window where it actually works. We can definitely work on the feel of that moving forward.
Yeah, I think obviously you would want to avoid making it too easy. I wonder if maybe some visual representation of where the force grab would work would help with this. Something like a cone that expands as it charges or something? I don't know. I could see having multiple levels as well with guards coming from different directions. A lot of fun.
Yeah, I think there are ways I could've worked on an animation that was more clear. Instead we really just had two frames of the open hand and closed hand and quickly interpolated between that, I could totally envision a growing hand or something off to the side of the screen that swoops in to catch the Blugger or something so that the depth is a little more understandable without needing to play it a whole bunch to get to that point. Also, additional NPCs would be really neat, I already have a lot of ideas for that :) Thanks again!
Very fun and original, the art was very well made! I had fun yeeting the king as instructed, and eventually managed to chase down the totally-not-flubber
Yes, the legally distinct blugger that is 100% its own thing and not flubber. I'm glad you liked the art! Thanks for the kind words and for playing. :)
Great stuff! Love the graphics, what engine is this?
Unity!