good game but rolling cube mechanic is bad 'cause of u cant just roate it, u need to throw a lot of times
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Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
Overall | #76 | 4.196 | 4.196 |
Creativity | #97 | 4.217 | 4.217 |
Enjoyment | #120 | 4.007 | 4.007 |
Presentation | #150 | 4.362 | 4.362 |
Ranked from 138 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?
Roll the dice to complete puzzles
Did your team create the vast majority of the art during the 48 hours?
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?
We created the vast majority of the music during the game jam
Comments
Really cool game with a lot of polish! I unfortunately ran into some bugs and couldn't progress after being hit by some missiles and grabbing the cube.
Love your tutorial. I watched the youtube video of Mental Checkpoint and I think that in the rooms where you get the power up the chance to throw that power up should be increased so I can test it. In the level with the pit and the blue wall in the middle and the yellow thinks at the side. I went in the pit an threw the cube while it had teleport to the other side. Don't know if that is a intended solution just wanted you to know that. In every rocket room I just out ran the rocket and died in the new checkpoint. BTW huge fan of both of your channels
Sensational work for only having 48hrs to make this!
The only main problem I had with the game but respecting that you only had 48hrs to make is the overall communication to the player. Having some sort of demonstration of what each of the abilities do when upgrading the cube would be pretty cool so when approaching each puzzle would be a little more understanding.
- Corn
Fun game, have some feedback !
Didnt get the point of the rocket rooms, died a few times no big deal, walked right past em
Didnt get the point of slowing you down while holding the cube either, only slowed down time between rooms in my perspective
In the room right after the swapping places ability is unlocked, im pretty sure youre supposed to throw the cube through the gap but the throw isnt strong enough so instead i used the brain ability which served as a big jump and helped me "solve" the puzzle which leads me to my next point
I loved that in some rooms you can use more than 1 ability to solve it to not make some of them redundant so it isnt as annoying when the dice doesnt land where you want it too. For example, in the room where you have to use the magnet power and platform on the cube i fell down and couldnt get back up so i solved it by using the big jump from the brain power. Or when the button is on the ceiling you can either use the brain to use the jump, jump again and press it, or use the swapper throw it at the right time and press it. I do feel like this wasnt intentional and could be greatly expanded though so heres some suggestions:
-make the blast from the explosion power give you a rocket jump (a small one to not make the jump from the brain redundant, or bigger but harder to control, idk)
-make the jump from the brain power higher
-make it so you can stand on top of the cube when its moving with the magnet ability
-the jump from the brain power probably wasnt intended so maybe make that as the 6th power up idk
These already sound a hard to implement and also make the game a bit more platformey but they sound cool in my head so you do you
You nailed the ambiance!
I didn’t finish the game and I want to come back to it, but without checkpoints I’m going to have to redo everything again, maybe a level select for the next version?
Congratulations on such a good production!
Hmm after rating a few games where I had criticism of the aim or presentation. The fact this game built in a tutorial and had the deadpan humour of an apathetic tutorial made me enjoy it a bit more.
Presentation alone must have taken the 48h, although there are mechanics seen in other games there was some fresh twists that made it feel new.
Good job to the team of people who put this together
(Josh)
I love me some Portal-esque gameplay, and this game delivered that experience. The art and sound (despite some commentary in-game saying otherwise ;P) looked good for having 48 hours to do it.
I liked the idea of throwing a die in 1st-person and having the upward face be an ability; that said, the actual act of throwing the die and hoping it landed on the ability I needed to use was a bit frustrating at times, especially in cases involving the missile turret. Knowing what I needed to do to solve the puzzle and not being able to execute it because the die didn't roll the way I needed it to didn't feel great. Being able to rotate the die while holding it, so I could start my throw with the die positioned to my specification, might have made it easier to time the throw better to make it land the way I wanted it to.
Overall, great job!
Cool idea and awesome presentation! It felt really portal-esque and the voiceover was fun!
Sometimes it felt less like like a puzzle though, since not only is the dice random but some things you wanted to do where just hard to execute, like throwing the swap dice over the wall... For the dice I think it would be nice if you'd be able to slowly push it over, so you don't have to always reroll completely or use weird camera angles
It's a very fun game. I completed almost every level, but in one of the last levels I somehow teleported myself and the cube out of the map and fell into an infinite hole. After I played the game I watched the video and realized I was doing almost everything wrong, but still got through every level. When I played the game I didn't knew about charge throw, I didn't knew about cube sentience ability and I thought it only lifts it in the air. But I think that is what made this game soo good, that almost all puzzles had different solutions and I didn't have to do everything the intended way.
That's a cool game. I really love the protal-like game and the Value-way mechanism displaying. The operating could be better and the dice part caused some uncontrollable feelings.
Cool game, but I don't think I solved any of the puzzles the intended way lol. I jumped on walls, ran away from turrets while hoping to get the teleport ability, teleporting when you were supposed to use magnetism, and much more. I also felt like there was too much luck which made the gameplay quite frustrating. I would've loved to see these mechanics combined to create much more interesting puzzles but I understand that 48 hours is a very short time frame. Still, I enjoyed the game and some of the puzzles were pretty cool. Great job!
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