I love the style of it, the controls really do make it hard to enjoy though. As backwardspy commented, I'd love to have a go at a version with the controls refined. Well done getting so much done in 9 days!
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The Clock Tower (pencil test)'s itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Is this just spam? | #8 | 4.714 | 4.714 |
| Does it implement the theme well? | #39 | 3.571 | 3.571 |
| Was this entry made during the jam duration? | #43 | 4.714 | 4.714 |
| Overall | #57 | 3.743 | 3.743 |
| How much effort went into this? (keep in mind newcomers) | #68 | 3.571 | 3.571 |
| Would you recommend this to others to try out? | #87 | 2.143 | 2.143 |
Ranked from 7 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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Thank you :)
fun fact : right now I am working on a 2d platformer physics engine and I am thinking to make a better version of this game with way better controls and better graphics.
if I do make a better version of this game, I have to improve the controls a lot, first thing that I will do is to p5.js because the processing doesn't allow multi key input, at first it doesn't feel that big of a problem but I realized that it is a big problem, and the other more important thing is to...teak the controls until it felt good. :)
and if I do make a it I will definitely improve the graphics because when I envisioned this game I had a long list a things to make like a lights coming from window effect in the background and 2d animated gears to make it more mechanical and way better character animation, I wanted it to look a like a pencil test of 2d cartoon.
Thanks :)
graphics and animation could be improved, i was planing to add a layer of hand animated gears(like those in the great mouse detective) but animation especially hand drawn animation takes a lot of time to create maybe with more time it could look much better, the side wall was actually going to have window with lights coming it, at the end i add a perspective effect which make it a bit 3d. and the character animation can be improved in many ways like with much better cropping.
i was actually learning box2d while making this game, also i didn't know the best way to make plat former controls. I'll try to make them better :)
I realized that for the developer its hard to fin-tune the controls because he had played it so many time that he get habitual to those controls so it's hard to know how bad controls really are.
I like where this was going with the aesthetics, but the wonky physics make the controls almost unusable. I did manage to muscle through to the top of the clocktower and aside from the wonky physics, this was a pretty neat little demo. Maybe try some basic tile based collisions instead of box2d next time.
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Generic Robot Adventure!i tried making my own engine at first but i was unable to make collision work correctly so i used box2d but i was quite new to box2d so i wasn't able to make controls better, I will try to make my own engine next time.
i think aesthetic could be better i didn't have time to make animation look better because of poor planning but it could be improved. :)
This seems like a cool concept, but why do you move so aggravatingly slow?
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1 Machine, 1 Shot
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