A nice take on the concept with some really fun, interesting mechanics! The threat of melting is a great driver to get you through the level! I also really like the aesthetic of the game :) Controlling the character could be a little frustrating at times but it ties in well with the theme and it wasnt so much that I found it to be significantly so! Overall a great jam entry, well done :)
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MeltDown's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Fun | #735 | 3.398 | 3.398 |
| Overall | #904 | 3.398 | 3.398 |
| Presentation | #1081 | 3.524 | 3.524 |
| Originality | #1459 | 3.340 | 3.340 |
Ranked from 103 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 character is out of control, with it's slippery and bouncy mechanics
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
Comments
Good game! The graphics are cute, especially the main character. I think the overall mechanic of the game is quite complex and can lead to some very in-depth gameplay. But this can also be a crutch if not introduced correctly to the player.
If you plan on developing the game further, it would be good to introduce the mechanics to the player in easy to digest levels. The signs that give you hints should also be compulsory to look at. Currently they're easy to dismiss.
UI to indicated how many fountains are left is also definitely needed.
Overall great work! I noticed that the player character sits down when idle for 10+ seconds. I like small touches like this.
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Shooty BallzI like the overall idea! I think it's really hard to find the perfect balance when it comes to anything in games. That said though, I did find it pretty difficult to control the player sprite. It certainly felt "Out of Control" lol, but it was maybe a hair too difficult.
Either way, I thought the art was pretty good, and the music felt very Megaman-esque, and fit the concept nicely in my mind.
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Cosmic S.N.A.F.U.Please continue this work, I feel like this could easily become the birth of the new speedy eggbert games. Icy... ice pun name lol
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Bruises and Battles*cool* game.
i loved the story behind the game. its really fun.
here are more thoughts about it:
1. dont require knowing WASD and jump in order to get to the tutorial for WASD (that was the funniest bad tutorial ive ever seen). Put the controls on screen before the player ever has to touch a button.
2. there really needs to be an indication as to how many fountains need cooled before the door opens. Some UI (like 1/3 Fountains), an icon on the player, or even an indication on the door itself would have beenn ice.
3. The door should be automatic. The player should go through the door (when its open) by just going into it. They shouldn't have to press E to go through the door to the next level.
4. When Im standing still next to a wall and then jump, I should jump straight up and NOT be bounced away from the wall. This little wall bop mechanic was very frustrating. Honestly tho, it was fun to hop up a single wall, but there were several cases where the character should not wall jump against a wall.
5. Messing with things like speed up time and slow down speed is a very slippery slope. Its very easy to make a game thats unplayable because the very physics governing the character are constantly changing, making it near impossible for a player to complete a level. Luckily, this game was pretty safe in that no levels were too hard or required extremely concise inputs. So Id say you get away with messing with things you shouldnt... for now at least (please keep this in mind when making the post-jam version).
also, what is the ice cube's name?
music 8/10: great, but not Ori levels of great (8/10 is the highest im willing to give to a jam game)
art is mostly good. it could use more variation in the tile textures, but the animations were solid. The gate felt a little out of place style-wise, even when closed.
overall a pretty good jam entry.
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Gary GooseI didn't like the over the top movement speed at first but then later when I figured out it depended on how melted you where and got more feel for it, I warmed up to the idea (pun intended). The wall bounce can be a bit annoying though.
Felt a little bit like a sonic game :)
Good work!
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MetroVisionIt looks and sounds lovely. Fantastic job! The automatic wall bounce ended up making it a bit annoying to fall down the narrow sections of each map. I didn't know ice bounced!
However it's a very fun mechanic and one that has a lot of potential if ever expanded out.
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The Pit And The Double PendulumI really loved many of the mechanics, the fact that my character is melting most of all. The tutorial signs just don't work with the speed potential of the character. It's possible I missed it but the fountains usage didn't seem to ever be explicitly called out and it's just long enough that you may not stand near it long enough to trigger, you could also just make the fountain on the tutorial level much shorter and that might trigger it. I would also make sure to explain the effect that melting has on his friction, it took me far longer than I would like to admit to learn that, but once I did things were much easier, and I can definitely using the inverse of that later in levels (where you have to have a certain level of melt to complete a section).
Awesome game, really enjoyed.
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CottonwoodThe sign explaining the fountains was accidentally covered by another sign, so that one is on us. We're planning on making the sign hitboxes larger and make you press a button to read them so they don't take up screenspace without permission, but we just didn't have the time to make it in the jam build and didn't want them to feel like they covered the content too much
Had fun playing and finishing this game and even found an Easter Egg sign so feeling pretty cool right now. Got softlocked twice but got better w controlling as I played so it was less and less of a setback.
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MatchupMixupI saw it on a stream and I thought It's so hard play and wouldn't be fun. But when I played, it wasn't that hard and I actually had a good time playing it. Well done :)
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Mission: UncontrollableThis is a nice, well made platformer that provides a sense of urgency with the threat of melting! I hope you keep working on it and make more levels!
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Buoy TroubleHey nice little game! I had a lot of trouble figuring how to move the character, maybe it needs to be a tad less slippery :) I the first fountain in the first level is really weel hidden, there needs to be some indication that something is up :) I thought the platform was there just for the bouncing on. Music is really cool also :)
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Trim the sheeps !"Sonic has left the chat."
Jokes aside, I like how wall jumps feel and the general idea of being a melting ice which needs to cool down.
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Time Flies... and other BugsI honestly really like the craziness of the controls, it feels like ur constantly wrestling with them. The signs were a bit hard to read though due to the speed at which ur character goes, maybe make those more forgiving to make those easier to read. Other then that I really enjoyed ur game :P
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