Really cool puzzle platformer! Well-made puzzles with very original light mechanics. Fits the theme and the limitation perfectly. I like that it’s a singleplayer and a multiplayer game at the same time!
Congrats on the 1st place! :-)
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Burakku's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Overall | #1 | 4.159 | 4.159 |
| Concept | #2 | 4.273 | 4.273 |
| Use of the Limitation | #4 | 4.227 | 4.227 |
| Presentation | #6 | 4.182 | 4.182 |
| Enjoyment | #7 | 3.955 | 3.955 |
Ranked from 22 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Team members
2: KogasaTatara @ itch.io - music | me - everything else
Software used
Godot, Krita, Aseprite, LMMV, Audacity
Use of the limitation
One of the two characters harms the other one by being in a direct line of sight.
Cookies eaten
Zero. </3
Comments
wow! i am truly my own enemy on this game!
I had some difficulty with the audio too, but the game is perfect in all other aspects!
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Last Day of Serenity Orbital StationThanks for the feedback! Now that I think about it, I should set the SFX and music volume to 100% by default, not 50%. 50% is around -30 dB, which isn't exactly muted, but it's barely audible.
Yeah, I never leave myself enough time to polish the gameplay, unfortunately. I plan to do better next time.
Cool concept, could be fun to play with a friend. I am not sure about the health bar - it requires fast movement at some points but the game is more of a "where should one character move to allow other to pass" type of dilemma.
Good job with the visuals as well :)
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Little flameThanks! My original plan was to have (almost-)instant death but I changed my mind because I imagined it would be frustrating if the player died too easily, and the puzzles would be too shallow because they wouldn't have room for cases where the player has to wisely choose where to sacrifice some HP in order to progress.
Very nice puzzle game. I love the concept that purple light will burn other character, i always accidentally burn dark char (lol). Even though i manage to finish all level, yay!!
But i think the difficulty increase between level is quite spikey. Maybe you can insert another level between them.
Other note, the sounds not working on my browser.
5/5, keep up the good work.
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Avoid Your DarknessThanks for playing!
As a playtester, I burnt the vampire character countless times and it wasn't by accident.
Well, that was my plan - to make more levels. But I made the third level half an hour before the deadline (and the 4th level was there since the beginning) and had to give up on the rest of the levels, unfortunately. I'm not much of a puzzle player so I find designing those levels difficult, too...
You're the second person to mention the sound not working. Thanks for the feedback! I may or may not have managed to fix it now. Please, try it again. If it still doesn't work, then I'm out of ideas...
nice one! very similar idea like i had. though you did so much better!
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Smart Home NinjaAwesome use of raycasting! I'm a real sucker for multi-character puzzle games (a la The Lost Vikings), and this really scratches that itch. Making one character toxic to the other is an extra-clever twist!
Graphics look good. Unfortunately, I couldn't get sound to play in the browser version, even though I turned the in-game volume up (note: it was off by default, which is an odd choice).
Also, the game gets pretty hard pretty quickly. I couldn't figure out how to beat Level 4. :)
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But What Did I Do?Thanks! I spent a large portion of my time trying to get the raycasting to work well (except the bug where the game randomly crashes, which may or may not be caused by the code for it). I didn't know about The Lost Vikings; all I knew about was Fireboy and Watergirl, which must have been heavily inspired by it.
Strange that the sounds didn't work... I suspect it's due to my mistake of first saving the new settings and then changing the volume in the game, so if the saving throws an unexpected exception, it can't get to the part where it changes the volume. I didn't experience that issue myself while testing the browser version, but it may vary from browser to browser and machine to machine. Regardless of whether this is the issue, I'll swap those lines of code just in case.
The reason I have the sound off by default is so that I don't accidentally burst the player's eardrums. I think this should be a standard everywhere, not just in games but also in embedded videos, music/SFX websites, etc. However, I should definitely set the SFX and music volume to at least 50% by default while the master volume is at 0% so that the player doesn't have to adjust all 3 sliders.
I should have probably added some optional hints for level 10 4. It would have taken much less time than my original plan of making more levels.
very unique and clever concept! The 4th level though ramps up the difficulty too hard!
Overall, a very satisfying creative game!
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As the Light TranscendsA very clever concept that is well-explored with a handful of clever puzzles. Overall I had a lot of fun playing, good job!
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Mirror WarriorReally creative game with well designed puzzles. Was fun to play co-op!
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scare her, save herI liked this one a lot! It would make a great coop game (however this would not apply for the limitation). I liked the theme. The only thing I think could be improved is the difficulty level. It starts OK, and it is great to learn the mechanics, but suddenly, it spikes and it is so much harder!
Great game. One of my favourites so far.
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RebornThanks for commenting! If I do implement multiplayer, it will be long after the jam has ended anyway, so the limitation shouldn't be an issue.
And yeah, I don't think there's a single jam entry I've submitted that didn't have that difficulty spike issue. I keep underestimating how much time I'll need to make more levels.
Great concept, great art. The only gripes I have are the random difficulty spike (which someone has already commented on) and the controls. The controls issue may just be a me problem but sometimes I would move the wrong character and end up dying since my brain got the keys mixed up. I think this could be improved by adding a key to switch between the characters and control them individually rather than at the same time. I realise that this would make the puzzles where you move simultaneously unviable but I think it'd be a good trade for a better movement system. Just my opinion.
Loved it! Great game!
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NyctophiliaThanks for playing!
Yeah, the controls are quite a brain twister and as much as I'd like to say that it's on purpose, a feeling of frustration is not what I was going for with this game. You're right it would be a trade-off if you had to swap between control modes, but perhaps I could make it with 3 control modes - two where you control each character, and one where you control them simultaneously. Or maybe to make it more interesting, you control them with the same keys in the third mode (although making puzzles for that would be very tricky).
Yeah, or maybe simultaneous control is a mechanic added later in the game to bring another layer of difficulty. Similar to how Portal first allows you to fire 1 portal, then later allows you to control 2 when you're used to the mechanic.
I'm interested to see where this goes if you keep working on it! I'll keep my eye out. :)
The concept is cool. It should be especially fun to play with a friend. The art and music are good too.
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Flying Flameawesome game! I like the art and the controls are smooth and responsive, the gameplay is unique and gives a fun and challenging puzzle/action experience, overall I enjoyed playing! congratulations! keep it up!
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The Monster WithinI already implement coyote time by default in every platformer of mine (although honestly, I didn't know it had a name so I just called it "jump grace period"; the more you know~). I'm not sure what exactly you mean by helping players reach platforms that are a bit higher but I'm using capsule collision shapes instead of rectangle ones here, which should have helped. The fact that you thought these things weren't present tells me that I should probably increase their effect, though... Thanks for the feedback!
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