| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Graphics | #22 | 4.213 | 4.213 |
| Audio | #62 | 3.508 | 3.508 |
| Overall | #72 | 3.443 | 3.443 |
| Innovation | #126 | 3.049 | 3.049 |
| Gameplay | #135 | 2.967 | 2.967 |
| Theme interpretation | #185 | 2.918 | 2.918 |
Ranked from 61 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
GitHub repository URL
https://github.com/AnicetNgrt/montgolfiere_godot
Theme interpretation
The game features a day/night cycle system. You start at dawn and once you reach midnight you are brought back to the start of the level. Still, the most interesting and rewarding part of the game, which is your balloon, is hard to reach in a full day. It pushes the player to plan and learn the level to get to the balloon and take off before it's too late to enjoy a long and peaceful flight.
Also, the short "story" of the game is centered around the survival of the space dream after civilization collapse.
Such a beautiful art and narrative!
I truly enjoyed the experience. The superb minimalist pixel art together with the classical music set a nice kind of dreamy atmosphere.
Just a minor thingy that I found, every time I talk with the farmer I get stuck and I need to restart.
Outstanding job!
Amazing work on the graphics, overall atmosphere and immersion! And the platforming mechanic is quite nice, though it does not feel as juicy as it could be yet as others pointed out.
The intro, main gameplay and final balloon steering all work quite well - of course we're left wanting for more as the actual gameplay experience is a bit short, and the balloon exploration opens a big universe just before closing it on us. But who knows, maybe this will be further developed in a fuller game? :)
I feel the day/night cycle mechanic was not so well conveyed so I was puzzled when I reached the balloon level section and I was told I have to reach it before night, but night feel within 5 sec as I had spent quite some time exploring the first level section.
I liked the nod at Godot with "free and open society" in the audio speech ✊
Congrats on publishing your game!
I really enjoyed the idea of day/night cycle system where I had to finish the game before it becomes night. That was brilliant.
The graphics were also nice, good job.
Possible improvements would be the ability to skip the intro or perhaps make it shorter as it felt like forever to start the actual game.
Another improvement is to have maybe obstacles along the way to make it harder to reach the balloon.
Overall, short but fun game. Good job!
The amount of time spent on the intro was a lot longer then the actual game..
in my opinion the intro was way too long, controls are also not that great.
graphics is very nice, although the layers are a bit confusing sometimes.
overall nice game, very innovative :)
The story and graphics are great! :-D
What I found difficult was to distinguish between foreground and background.
Accidentally I saw a video explaining all about it a few weeks ago:
I hope that it can help you making your game great! ;-)Great entry, great graphics.
Some improvements I can think of:
Overall, an enjoyable game. Good work!
Awesome entry. The worldbuilding, art, and atmosphere work together really well, along with the public domain assets you used (love me some Chopin nocturnes).
The game is obviously short and not "complete," but there's definitely the glimmer of a full game in there, and I would love to play an expanded and fleshed out version of this.
The pixel art is phenomenal. It does get a little jarring with the very low-resolution images in the introduction, but obviously there was only a month in the jam and you made an enormous number of assets.
Excellent work!
A lovely little experience. I got lost in the universe immediately. Great storytelling, although I wished it was told a bit more through the gameplay (speak to characters in game to reveal more of the lore/discover locations, notes, etc).
The artwork and music are awesome. It draws you into the world and sets the tone perfectly. The characters are very cute and full of personality. The platforming is a little unintuitive (some of the sprint jumps look impossible but the game snaps you to them) but you get used to it over time.
I wish there was a bit more to it. You can't get me hooked into this interesting story and just leave me there! >:( hahaha
Great job overall and a congrats on making such a good game. :)
Really nice platformer, the mechanics are simple yet they layer pretty well, I liked the cinematic style, glad to see more and more games in big jams made with Godot, will take a look at the code later ;) Good job!
Impressive intro, and nice use of public domain classical music. Everything fits in well together. I like how the levels have many layers, I think I saw one of your posts on reddit showing this off.
The art and setting were really cool! Was hoping to have more to explore though, but that only means I enjoyed playing it.
I liked it- the artwork and the conceit made it really compelling.
I did find that actual platforming a bit floaty/sensitive, but it wasn’t too hard to get the hang of it. If you ever come back to it, integrating the introduction sequence into the gameplay (maybe cutting back and forth) would, I think, make the game much more immediate.
Beautiful pixel art and good story premise. I just wished there was more to the gameplay when I got into the hot air balloon and flew off, such as another place to explore and find clues or some secret.
Great job!
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