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A jam submission

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Join together pieces of your everyday life to build your very own Tower of Babel.
Submitted by Alice Bottino (@bottinogames), Roman Muradov — 59 minutes, 18 seconds before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Presentation#104.6794.679
Originality#704.2774.277
Overall#954.1004.100
Fun#9373.3453.345

Ranked from 249 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

How does your game fit the theme?
You join together everyday objects to build a tower, which joins together in other less obvious ways, and layers of music join together as your get higher

Did your team create the vast majority of the art during the 48 hours?

Yes

We created the vast majority of the art during the game jam

Did your team create the vast majority of the music during the 48 hours?

Yes

We created the vast majority of the music during the game jam

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Submitted

beautiful game, really impressed by this art style done in the 48 hours..

Way to go!

Submitted(+1)

Really interesting and nice artistic take on the theme!

Submitted(+1)

Stunning presentation and concept, absolutely love the visuals too, good stuff!

Submitted(+1)

This is by far the best game I've played on Game Jam so far!!  Very cool!

Submitted(+1)

A beautiful work visually and conceptually. I like how it inverts the "Getting Over It" formula, making the climb created rather than passed through while keeping the controls janky, and the narrator annoying (hence so much more tempting to defeat).

The narration, however, appears (to me, at least) to be the thing that falls short the most. The vague connection of ideas of towers, attachment to items, and their eventual life that surpasses the life of whoever piles them up are all great (especially when the sheer size of the tower becomes apparent as the player plummets down from it); I also appreciate the lack of closure at around 100 items, as the words just turn into gibberish. However, the actual text fails to hold up to these powerful elements, falling into pointless vagueness and tropes ("words coursing through veins" cracked me up enough to fall off a baguette).


That, nonetheless, is a critique of a specific - and very niche - element of the work, while I have little to attack in the rest of it. It was a thoroughly pleasant experience, and I am happy about the half an hour I've spent on it. Thank you.

Submitted(+1)

This is a really special thing! I love it. Curious at first, and then I was totally sucked in. Wonderful work! Congrats!

Submitted(+1)

wow, a real stunner! every element is gorgeous. i could build my tower for hours.

Submitted(+1)

Beautiful game!

Loved the idea, the art and music are amazing and all of it together felt like a poetic and moving experience. I really enjoyed stacking up my tower and grab things with those stretchy arms. Some of the objects are hard to jump on so it was hard to get far. 

Amazing work!

Submitted(+1)

I'm stuck. In a GOOD way!
Because I can't stop playing it.
It is so calm, and I can't stop building an air staircase made of baguettes... +)

Submitted(+2)

Pretty great concept, the writing was interesting (though I don't know if I've reached the end of all the actual dialogue or if there's more dialogue eventually after the gibberish)

Great art direction, reminded me of Obra Dinn, although it's a bit weird for the camera and movement to be 60fps but the animations to be 10, I would've also toned down the grain/noise effect at least on the ground, it kinda hurts to look at after a while.

Submitted(+1)

Beautiful and very interesting experience, love the 1 bit artstyle and I think there is a lot of beauty in the simplicity of the mechanics! Very profound music and poetry too, loving that.

The only issue I had was that plantpots continually ruined my tower as it was really hard to jump on them and there was not really any way to throw the object back into the void at all.

Excellent work!!

Submitted(+1)

A very interesting little work of art. Love the visuals and the long-reaching arms, as well as the music and dialogue going more skewed the higher you go. I guess there's no ending? Would've liked to see one, even if it was just a baguette pushing you back down.

Submitted(+1)

I love the style and idea. I felt a bit too slow or something maybe, but it was an interesting experience.

Submitted(+1)

Very stylish, very pointed game. I played in on stream, you can catch the VOD at http://bit.ly/bean-stream

Submitted

Never thought that building a giant tower out of baguettes could be so poetic...

Submitted

Wonderful artistic take on the theme!

Submitted

I found myself being excited when I could put more than two ladders together. My personal best consecutive ladders was 5!

I loved the art style

Submitted

Thought-provoking

Submitted

What a beautiful little game! Love how the music builds up and is currently getting a lil creepy haha. Does it have an end because I've been going up and up for a while now.. fridges and baguettes #1  

Submitted

If I ever get to the top I'm definitely filling out that complaint form

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