Beginners Circle Jam #4

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Entertain Your Overlords

Submitted by itsHoid — 3 days, 7 hours before the deadline

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Criteria	Rank	Score*	Raw Score
Audio / Sound	#5	3.864	3.864
Fun / Engagement	#6	3.909	3.909
Originality	#7	4.182	4.182
Art / Graphics	#11	4.000	4.000
Use of Theme	#31	3.591	3.591

Ranked from 22 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

Team or solo
solo

Originality Sound
The Summoning by Scott Buckley | https://soundcloud.com/scottbuckley Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

We Are Together by Electronic Senses | https://soundcloud.com/electronicsenses
Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en_US

Infected Vibes
Alejandro Magaña
Music:

Mixkit - To The Next Round www.youtube.com/embed/uvNTdRtBDF4

Credit
Godot
Aseprite
Audacity
Cakewalk

Comments

MelloBotSubmitted3 years ago(+1)

This was a lot of fun. I really enjoyed the audio.

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Beginners Circle Jam

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pikmingeneralSubmitted3 years ago

Really fun, all the minigames are fun... except the cows... It takes way longer than the other tasks which can be frustrating in a timed game and the way the space ship keeps sliding makes me keep dropping cows... The art, sound, and all the other games besides the cow one are great though!

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Game Show Designer

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NeotoonSubmitted3 years ago

That woke me up!!! in a good way, a really fast paced game really fun to play with. a well done game

Cheers!!!

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Bring me

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Remi SanSubmitted3 years ago(+1)

I love the cows abduction mini-game and I suck at it!

Love the “Do it now” and “Inacceptable” when they appear, it really adds something.

It’s fast paced and very nice to play.

Good job!

And alien game shows are the best, of course.

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Alien Wipeout

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LefolemiSubmitted3 years ago(+1)

The visual is feel polished, the gameplay is fun, and i love there's a voice acting in the game

Gameplay-wise, i think the platformer section is a little too fast, i have no problem for the rest minigame

Nice job overall!

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Technical Problems

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Joshua8542Submitted3 years ago

Firstly, the production quality of this game is amazing - everything feels really coherent and it all flows really nicely. For some reason I really got a kick out of a big red "UNACCEPTABLE" appearing when I made a mistake - nicely done. :)

The only thing I felt that was lacking was some audible feedback with movement - it felt like things were just "floating" without any sign of impact when hitting the floor, etc. Some footsteps or a jump/fall sound would have gone a long way :)

Anyway, don't mind me - I'm just going to go and entertain my overlords some more.

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itsHoidDeveloper3 years ago

The post jam updates will definitely have more sounds. Thank you for taking the time to play it!

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DomogoSubmitted3 years ago

I love how a lot of submissions are alien related, for some funny reason we associate aliens with game shows.

I love how you handled the theme, "entertain your overlords" cracked me up. The level are fun, but I feel the platformer ones, are a bit hard to control, as if the human is walking on ice or is on some alien drugs and is moving too fast. I'd enjoy it more if it was a bit more friction-y, but that's just my preference.

I felt a lack of sound, maybe a more lively, "aliens abducted you" type music, something like scooby doo?

All in all, you did an amazing job, keep it up! :)

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Catch the humans

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itsHoidDeveloper3 years ago (1 edit) (+1)

yep, platformer physics are tough to nail down. I will probably tweak them in the post-jam update; and add more sounds.

Thank you for playing and leaving feedback

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Daisy GamesSubmitted3 years ago

I really like the way you handled the theme! Getting abducted by aliens for their own entertainment is pretty funny, silly and also sounds somewhat real haha. The voices in the menu made me laugh, the first time, great idea!

I like how fast paced the game is and it controls well! Didn't even find any ways to break it. :)

As for the mini-game where you gotta press arrows, I wish the arrows you gotta press were bigger, not the background ones. It always take a while before I can orient myself and it feels counter-intuitive.

I also wish there were more sounds, however, I realize why that isn't the case in a game jam game.

In the maze where you gotta get the ball, it spawned in top left corner for me once and it was partially covered by the Timer UI.

Maybe make the human character you control less grey and more colorful? He blends a bit into the background on the first level with balls.

Good work!

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Bob's Body House

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itsHoidDeveloper3 years ago(+1)

That is excellent feedback, thank you!

I did run of time on some of that and I’ll be adding more sounds and fixes after the jam

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