Nice little game! I included it in my Music Game Jam compilation video series, if you’d like to take a look :)
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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Fun | #6 | 3.640 | 3.640 |
| Music | #11 | 3.640 | 3.640 |
| Visuals | #11 | 3.480 | 3.480 |
| Innovation | #13 | 3.440 | 3.440 |
| Overall | #13 | 3.520 | 3.520 |
Ranked from 25 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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There's a rather large key index on the start screen, although you're not the first to mention having overlooked it. Those are the official glyphs for pico-8, which supports 2 player controls. So each player has a o/x button and a different set of directional buttons if they're using the keyboard. We opted to stay true to pico, and compromised with the instruction display and a note on the game page. Might have to do some research and see how other pico-8 devs dealt with publishing to non-pico user markets I guess. Just for clarification, did you overlook the key index or just misinterpret it?
I missed it probably from playing on a 4k wide monitor and only looking at one side of the screen missing the ellipsis connecting the two. Since most of us are trained to read left to right, perhaps swapping their placement would help. It is there and very obvious once you mention it but some how it was easy for me to miss :/
Partymode!!! Really enjoyed this one haha. A bit of multitasking (because you also dodge meteors at the same time, not in a brutal manner). One thing that is lacking is more "party-going" feelings on Party Mode (not on a wasted level like clubs and bars do, since this one's safe for kids and teens). I can see that there's more fireworks exploding (just graphically which is fine) but some mild light flickering frames (or let's say a mild disco feel) and probably more intense things would occur, like... more graphic I'll just say, for now it's enough, but on a super distant run, it will get repetitive. I would commend how portable the game loads on our turtle internet. And here's a conclusion, out my enjoyment. Thanks for this game, that made me smile a lot starting at "Partymode!!!"!
Yeah I think we both would like to, at some point extend the game to have a few more 'areas' with different backgrounds, obstacles and maybe music, just didn't want to over extend for the jam. Pico-8 gets the credit for the portability, and I know the feeling, I'm on the same turtle-net you are I think. :) Anyway, thanks for the kind words
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It's not a limitation thing, it's just those are the official button glyphs for Pico-8. We were talking about it during dev if we should stay true to pico which might confuse people here, or just use the literal keys. Compromised with the giant instructions display on the start screen.
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