Very nice concept! Does the platforms on the upper dimension get harder more you shoot at the lower dimension? If that is the case it's a clever way to solve the spamming. Nice game!
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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Theme | #115 | 4.035 | 4.035 |
| Story | #129 | 3.158 | 3.158 |
| Fun | #163 | 3.596 | 3.596 |
| Mechanics | #214 | 3.351 | 3.351 |
| Sound | #307 | 2.877 | 2.877 |
| Music | #320 | 3.018 | 3.018 |
| Aesthetics | #466 | 2.947 | 2.947 |
Ranked from 57 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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Heavy Iron Hammer by laxattack1226 on opengameart (modified) Mixamo Animations ReadyPlayer.me Music from https://www.zapsplat.com
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Your game is so much fun to play! I like the concept and love the quick messages on the screen after dying! Great game!
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Ninja Frog AdventureSo, thought I'd leave a comment myself. A general theme is that you can just spam the space bar to fire and concentrate on jumping. You can, but it makes it harder for you. Each axe thrown/shot causes a hole in the sky/ground above. So you have much more jumping to do and you're more likely to come across difficult jumps (although it prevents all impossible ones). I left it in as a play style the player could choose but coded it out as effective by that relationship between the axes and the holes. It's just not visually clear that's what's happening (there are some technical reasons for that) and maybe the dialogue can point it out. Basically it needs communicating better. And that's a great point for me to learn and make improvements in it. I think I missed also that in the learning curve for the game spamming axes probably is easy for a while and then the player can get locked down in that idea - a kind of false local optima of their gameplay. If I progress it further I'll see what I can do about that and there have been some great suggestions. Anyway...my main reason for a comment of my own here is that as I've played it too much I wanted to drop a video of the two different styles of play in back to back sessions as I think it clarifies it:
33.2 seconds :) I liked the dialogue on the endings, they had different things on all the times I ended up dropping down.
Game itself works on the theme well and it was easy to play. Very simplistic though, but I liked that the map wasn't always the same on the top one, it had some variations at least (not sure if procedural or just different ones made).
Spamming space made it so that you could only focus on the upper one, maybe have some ammo that only the upper one could catch by jumping (obviously that would also need some kind of coding/making sure that enemies wouldn't be popping up when the player has only shot at enemies and got every ammo possible) :D
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The Struggles WithinNice concept, nice dialogue. I like games that doesn't try to force the jam theme, and I think your game pulled it off well. It does not necessarily have to be high-def vs. low res, there are other possibilities your game can expand on. Good job!
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Chilling Through LifeVery neat concept; having each version only able to do one thing is super interesting and allows each to shine.
I enjoyed the dual artwork as well.
Only minor complaint is you can just spam the fire button and then you don't have to worry about the bottom dimension at all. Great job!
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Dimensional ShiftNice job, real challenge to multi task. Never seen that before, cool.
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Dimensional MayhemGood arcade game. It's creative that you used player input to determine the generation of the level.
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Dobble Trobble[edit] I went back to check, am I in fact creating the holes when I throw the axes?! But you kindly prevented me from creating unpassable gaps??
93.9 is the best I could do! I don't know why a game with only two buttons is so difficult for my brain to handle, I did a lot of jumping when I meant to shoot and viceversa. I found it was easiest if I just kept shooting at all times and concentrated on the jumping. Speaking of the jumping, I found the bits where there's two tiles set up next to the other with the first lower than the second to be the toughest to navigate. It's also a little bit unintuitive to know which gaps can be safely run across, though I learned those fairly quickly for the most part.
The dialogue exchanges are a fun touch in the game over screens, I got to the point where they ran out of memory. :) Based on the story I think it would have been really neat if every destroyed enemy actually did open up a hole in the top half of the screen, making it so that the player really is responsible for creating the platforming section while also being forced to do so in order to defeat enemies. It would also prevent the player from simply mashing the attack button since there would be a bit of planning on where and when to create holes that could be traversed. It really does work that way! I just assumed wrong since there's always a jump which can be successfully made even if I'm spamming the attacks nonstop. Wow! :D
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2D PrincessThanks for the comments. 93.9 is a very good score. And yes - the holes are created when you throw the axes but it avoids situations that would make it impossible for the player to jump. So throwing axes makes jumping harder but never impossible - the player is always going to die but I wanted them to know it was timing that they could get better at than because this impossible situation came up.
That's fair! If I'd come upon a huge pit I couldn't possibly jump I'd probably have been confused and not realized it was my own fault. Maybe some sort of animation showing the axes fly upward into the dividing platform and breaking it? I know as it currently is they have to create the holes further along and out of sight, but it's an idea if you had interest in pursuing the game's concept further. :)
The writing and progression of dialogue really stood out. It was a pretty funny version of graphics wars. But what really shined for me was that even though it was a rather simple runner approach, it actually had some cool depth in that the actions in one dimension impacted the other. At first, I was only sparingly shooting when I needed to, but then on my 3rd try I started spamming the shoot button and realized how much that changed the jumping side.
It's really cool how that almost makes the player create their own level on the fly and creates an almost automated balancing of difficulty. So cool.
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Descent into Lost Dimensions: Part 1Cool game and good job on keeping the controls simple. It's hard enough paying attention to 2 dimensions at the same time! The dialogue every time one of them died was great. Good job on this one!
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From the Other SideThis is well made. It is hard to divide my attention with lightning reflexes and reaction for determining when to jump and when to throw an axe. This is most likely because I am old, I want to look at one spot not take in two screens, just call me old fart. It plays well and does exactly what it set out to do very well. Great Job!
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Spirit GuideVery nice. Dynamically generated. I liked the music as well.
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The Legend of the Phantom BladeIt’s a nice concept; I like the idea that you’re going with, the HD dimension and the Pixel dimension, but I think the execution could be better. One is the visuals; I think it would be nice when it’s like in a futuristic setting. Still, I liked the funny dialogue at the end and how the main game was endless. Good job!
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Flappy BirdThanks. Funny you should say that - I did originally intend a futuristic theme. There were two things that changed my mind. The one was that I wouldn't be able to prepare enough graphics in a game jam timeframe to do that twice. The other was that the emphasis is on there being an HD dimension and a pixel dimension. I felt the setting then needed to be very neutral to highlight that difference as as soon as you put a more themed setting on it detracts towards one or the other. Thus I left the primary focus on an HD character and a pixel character.
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