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A jam submission

Cloud ControlView game page

You lost your angel - let's go find her
Submitted by vurtual — 1 hour, 44 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Use of the Limitation#153.7223.722
Overall#303.0283.028
Concept#323.0563.056
Presentation#342.7782.778
Enjoyment#382.5562.556

Ranked from 18 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

Team members
Andrew Sharpe

Software used
Unity 3D

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Comments

Developer(+1)

thanks for checking out Cloud Control and for taking the time to comment. I’ve had a few similar comment, so I’m working on how to indicate the range. I use Unity’s CircleOverlapAll to check for demons to damage, but it doesn’t see to share the same units as say a sprite knob, so I’m a bit stumped. 

Submitted

Snappy and fun, although the collisions or range of the lightning could be better indicated. The character has a lot of charm! I love the way it blinks and moves its eyes. 

Submitted(+1)

enjoyed flying around as a cloud and like the art-style (esp. the eyes of the cloud are so cute!) of your game!

but once the cloud started to rotate after hitting a devil while having the red "shield" i had troubles controlling it. so i ended up just pressing space when devils were near. as i always had the red "shield" active they were no problem at all. maybe this is something you could tweak in the future :)

Developer

Yeah the rotation is a bug, I think I've fixed it now, and will be updating once I've crushed a couple of other bugs and added a couple of missing things (audio and an end sequence). Thank you so much for your feedback!

Heyo im doing video playthroughs / giving my thoughts, so here yee go

Developer(+1)

Wow, I genuinely cannot believe how long you spent with this game, thank you so much! A lot of the points you make are simply related to running out of time, eg no audio, bugs etc. Probably a stupid idea to do my first ever jam over the Xmas period XD. 

I actually  learned a lot through watching. 

  • First wave of static demons don't seem to work when the tutorial is off - Weird! The whole thing with the tutorials is interesting. There are booleans knocking around the tutorials so that you don't need a new one before the previous one is finished, and I guess I've  put stuff within the true conditions that shouldn't there.
  • The rotation  is unintended, so I have already fixed that in dev
  • I have never tried particles or dying effects. Since submitting I've realised I need to do something about kill radius, so I'm adding that. I've added an animation for demons getting damage, but the kill time is so short that you can't see it, so I'm going to try a "post death" animation. Thanks for the tip
  • You mentioned that the demons are a bit out of place. Maybe a similar animation to the main cloud would be tie them in. I'm no graphic designer, so I just went to flaticon for them, and they had no better demons. I did some colour amendments in GIMP to make them stand out, but watching you play, they seem lifeless compared to the cloud, even when the second wave are converging on you.
  • Rain tutorials never seem to come up - basically it starts and stops randomly, and is a secondary way to die. It uses up your water. The parameters are such that you can't really die that way right now, so I need to tweak them
  • I like a game that isn't too difficult at the start, but I think  watching you play it's too easy. You lose water when you strike, and I adjusted it to be less. I think it's now not losing enough.
  • You said you thought it might be an infinite game. It's not intended to be, but again, time constraints meant I didn't get to it. It's going to be a kind of comedy ending where the angel just wandered off to go shopping or something.
  • It took you longer than I'd expected to spot the slider at the top. I didn't want it to intrude too much. The main reason I didn't is because the character indicates it. You mentioned that at the end, so I feel a bit  vindicated, but with the rain/death thing, you have no indication, so I'mma make it a bit bigger. 
  • Similar thing with the score, but also I put the label and actual score at corners as a quick fix (time constraints again) so they don't overlap. I suppose I could do it as a single string - "Score - " & score.Round().ToString()
  • So glad you enjoyed it, and found it relaxing. Relaxing was very much an aim for the game. The eye animation seemed key to that. Actually, as soon as I put the pupil animation in, I was in love with the little guy. By the time he was blinking and squishing, I was 100% sold.

Definitely needed more playtesting! I accepted a couple of bugs so I could make the game feel a bit more complete, and I think that was the right decision.

I have a couple of other games on games.4godsache.co.uk, including one I'd eventually like to sell when it's complete (Quad Pong - like pong but completely insane and not relaxing at all). If you ever get any time, I'd love to hear your comments on them.

(+1)

haha no problem, watching someone play your game will usually reveal alot more than a comment. Really good work for a first game jam! I am going to be doing videos on other jam entries before I do anything else, but I will absolutely keep your other games in mind!

Submitted(+1)

Simple and fun game. I love the design of the demons and the eye animations on the cloud are super cute. Good job!

I had a fun little bug where the small demons never spawned and the larger ones couldn't kill me so I was infinitely falling while being followed by hundreds of demons! It was really funny to watch my cloud tumble about while being surrounded.

Developer(+1)

yeah, I’m aware of a couple of bugs with the demons. Just working on the fix. Thanks for playing and your comments!

Submitted(+1)

Great game! I did have a minor bug where after hitting a demon I could control the rotation of my cloud and my score wouldn't increase yet I didn't die, but that's fine (I believe I got that because I swiped to turn off the tutorial and my arrow keys were still locked to that slider, but I don't know for sure). I also think that you could have some form of checkpoints/story elements to make the game a bit more interesting. Other than that, it was pretty enjoyable and a very creative use of the limitation! Nice job!

Developer(+1)

yeah, there’s that bug, didn’t get time to add music or do the ending. I’m fixing it all this week. Thanks for your comments

Submitted(+1)

Ah, I see you're a man of culture as well.

Submitted(+1)

I have never played as a cloud before so this was definitely a first. Very nice creative use of the limitation. Playing in the sky and blasting through demons hit the heaven theme as well. Very cute graphics especially the cloud with eyes.

Developer

thank you!

Submitted(+1)

I like the graphics! The game could use a little bit more to do in terms of goals, though.

Developer

Thanks - I agree that it needs a little more variety, but I struggled with ideas and time. First game jam, so I’m happy with the result.