Art looks really nice, music's not too bad and I like the idea, but i think the time should move a little faster or maybe have some more things to do a little sooner. I stopped after the first 3 cause it felt like nothing was happening anymore and i was just waiting. Really nice entry though well done. Might give this another chance when i got some more time to spare
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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Technical Implementation | #13 | 3.875 | 3.875 |
| Graphics/Animation | #28 | 4.219 | 4.219 |
| Fun/Design | #42 | 3.750 | 3.750 |
| Overall | #46 | 3.631 | 3.631 |
| Music/Sound | #97 | 3.281 | 3.281 |
| Theme/Limitation | #140 | 3.031 | 3.031 |
Ranked from 32 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
How does your game apply the limitation (and optionally, the theme)?
Entire game is one boss fight
Team Size
Solo (1)
What main engine/tool/language did you use to construct the game?
Unity/C#
Comments
2 years ago(+1)
Thanks for playing and leaving feedback!
(spoilers) Darn that's unfortunate :( I definitely went the lazy route trying to make the joke that the boss just dies of old age. The original plan was to have 2 enemies in the first hallway to teach you combat, and then that would make the actual gameplay even more of a slap in the face, then at the very end when you approach the boss and it's another minigame prompt, and you have to beat him in the minigame world. I dropped it because I figured nobody would care, haha, oops
Thanks for playing and leaving feedback! I definitely had trouble balancing the upgrades and scaling system. In the end I settled on this extremely quick curve because I figured I was already pushing the limit of what people will play in a jam, so it's helpful to get feedback on one of the open questions I had on release
During a game jam, I think most users are looking for quick hit experiences, because you want to play as many games as you can and share feedback with other jammers. I have to tell you, though, I spent more time on this game than any other in the jam so far by a wide margin, and I think I’ve played like 20+. I just had to see what the endgame was. You hooked me in with a really polished jam game. the art is all cohesive, adorable and a very quick read. I love the squash and stretch on the little knight character.
Love the extra touches in the dialogue. The apples for Os was cute. The portraits accompanying the text is nice. I think the box didn’t need to be as large, though.
The bottom wall appearing and disappearing .. so nice. And to think ahead about how people would play in browser, to add the spinning apple gif in the banner is genius.
For the mini games, I think a couple small touches could help. For the spiders, some type of multiple pickup, so say after the wave of two in a row, there would be an 2x booster on your items gained would make the moment-to-moment play in the mini games more interesting. Same thing for flappy knight. And maybe it was actually taking place behind the scenes in the code, but having a visual representation and sfx when you hit a multiplier would feel great.
I’ve played a few jam games that are mini-game compilations and this has to be the most clever take on it that I’ve seen. Really well done.
Not sure if I hit a bug though. I couldn’t interact with my bed at all, and my statue was stuck on 3. Without being able to interact.
I wanted to see the end so badly I even restarted, but ended up with the same issue. Even got all my supplies up over 200:
I know from the screenshots something happens with the crack in the wall where the water is, I just can't seem to trigger whatever should come next.
Great game. Great idea. I'd have loved to finish it. Please let me know if it's just me missing something obvious.
Hey thank you so so much for the really detailed breakdown and feedback. I really appreciate how thorough you were with your feedback and reasons for it, and it makes me happy to hear you had fun.
For the spiders, some type of multiple pickup, so say after the wave of two in a row, there would be an 2x booster on your items gained would make the moment-to-moment play in the mini games more interesting.
There is actually a bonus that gets applied after each 20-30 seconds for the spider and wood minigames, but there's no feedback for the player. That's a great idea to make it more juicy and actually show you what's happening behind the scenes, and also a good idea to make you have to collect it rather than applying it automatically
Not sure if I hit a bug though. I couldn’t interact with my bed at all, and my statue was stuck on 3. Without being able to interact.
I consider this a failure on my part in designing the UX. You can only sleep on the bed at night, and in these screenshots its daytime (as indicated in the top right). From feedback it seems that this has made the bed largely inferior to the chair even though it's faster when usable.
The statue is not an interactable but rather a 30 second buff that stacks with things like sitting in the chair or sleeping. After that 30 seconds you can do it again, endlessly.
SPOILER: At 4 or so? months in the wall breaks and there are more unlocks. The hurdle/puzzle is getting to that point though. It seems like the best way to do that is to sit on an upgraded chair with the statue buff active. Once there's flowing water you can gather power from the water wheel and do more things to make the remaining 9 years go by fast.
Again, thanks for playing and laying all this out. I need to think about how to make this more apparent in-game. Part of me wanted to troll people by making them think they actually had to wait 10 years but with how far you got there should be a lot less confusion
Hey I really appreciate the feedback, thanks for playing so long because this is all very valuable. Once you start using the electricity it's a sprint to the end so I don't blame you at all for not wanting to start over.
Re: the bug, I thought I fixed that but I guess not :( Maybe the fix was using escape to exit it when it gets in that state, but looking back that's not obvious at all. Will take the music and other points into consideration for sure, thanks again
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