A very nice game graphics wise, was really surprised by the realistic graphics. I have to second the comments on reducing the camera shake/movement as I also got nauseus trying to climb pillars. I think the gameplay is pretty fun but the stone towers need to be larger to allow for easier access. I either missed one completely or fell off trying to back up and jump to another pillar. Really cool game though and looking forward to it being updated in the future.
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Project Utgardr's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Visuals | #11 | 4.313 | 4.313 |
| Theme | #59 | 3.313 | 3.313 |
| Audio | #81 | 2.750 | 2.750 |
| Overall | #86 | 2.875 | 2.875 |
| Fun | #93 | 2.750 | 2.750 |
| Juice | #110 | 2.375 | 2.375 |
Ranked from 16 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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Hey Robakh, thanks for playing with it ^^ Ok, the camera shaking thing seems to be pretty popular now ahah
Speaking about pillars, the thing is that if press W to go ahead the character does not stop immediately. So this means that you need to work with A S D on pillars or get Crouched with CTRL. And stop pressing W when you Climb them.
Anyway this is only mine explanation, thanks for the feedbacks :)
2 years ago(+1)
Thanks Warp for playing and for the feedback. Ye, probably something could be delete to lower the file size.
I'm glad you liked it ^^
2 years ago(+1)
Thanks for the feedbacks. About motion sickness, idk what to say. I do not receive this effect, but it can be investigated. Yes, probably some jumps could be some hard to do. For the file size, i've tried to compress as much as i could, but the quality of the models are quite high and so expensive in size.
By the way thanks again for trying it ^^
Thanks for trying and for the feedbacks. Mmm ok, i have to check out the camera. Maybe i played too much and im not disoriented like you ^^
I know about the file size... i tried to compress but i wanted to use quite high quality models, so this happened and i focused mostly on level design/scripting/vfx :)
Hey, mmmm have you tried with the Low Settings? When the game stars press Esc and go to Settings. Then you can select the Low button and probably it will work then. As i already wrote in other comments, i focused mostly to create a cool ambient using so high quality models even if i tried compressing them after.
If you want to try this procedure to lower the gpu/cpu usage, let me know if it is useful ^^
Hello and thanks for trying it svenar ^^ As i already wrote in other comments, i focused mostly to create a cool ambient using high quality models even if i tried compressing them after.
About the Linux version, this is nice to know. Maybe i can upload the Linux32 version that should work even on x86. Thanks for saying this.
About the windows version, probably the dark ambient is caused by your pc that does not support the Quality Settings. Have you tried to lower them to Low? Inside the game press Esc and the go to Settings if you want to try it out.
Anyway thanks again for playing with and for all the info you gave :)
Hello Adrienntindall and really thanks for yours deep feedbacks.
I think i got what rock are you talking about...
Anyway i tried to compress as much as i could the game size, but the 3d models and textures are pretty of high quality and i did not want to lower it. Even the level design part ended really near the jam deadline.
You mean for buggy climbing mechanic when you climb the entire wall at the end? Or just when you climb the rocks?
By the way is the Shift key that toggles the Sprint ^^ Absolutely i would focus on movements mechanics on the next period :)
Don't worry about how high quality the 3d models and textures are, often times there is definitely room to cut down on the sizes without it looking bad. For reference, something like Mario Odyssey has extremely high quality models and textures, but the game is only 5-6 gigs in size despite being many many hours longer than what you made. A lot of that you have to learn about still, of course, but do try to be mindful of how much strain you're putting on a player's computer.
The camera would jitter while climbing and it wouldn't always put me on the rock I was climbing on, so I would fall down after the animation played (that's exactly how I got stuck in a rock, actually)
Ah! That makes sense, I was pressing it but it didn't feel like it was making me sprint for whatever reason. Might just be a gamefeel thing rather than a mechanical thing at that point.
That was something I was meaning to write - perhaps some contextual colors would have helped like, for how instance the new Doom does it - either there’s a green lamp, a torch with a green flame or either way - something green to point the player to the right direction. For instance, one time I went to, what I thought, was the right direction, but I climbed up to the map edge.
Or maybe my mechanics sucked in the way that I perhaps couldn’t jump gaps which I was supposed to jump 😅
But, either way, committingto a 1st person parkour game is admirable on it’s own, that’s not an easy thing to do, I’d say!
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