That was indeed a very nice and polished game to play.
Nice build up in level difficulty.
Graphics were cute and simply but still effective and 1 coherent style throughout the game.
Relaxing background audio fits also and some nice jump sfx.
Controls were smooth but still it had sometimes difficulty to jump from the point I wanted with the squish.. But that also added a nice difficulty challenge.
Level selection screen and menu's look nice and polished also and fit into the general visual style.
The theme for this jam would have slightly touched ;)
But overall a very smooth entertaining experience. You can see you put a lot of effort into this game! Nice job!
Play cute game
SQUAREISH's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Gameplay/UX | #4 | 2.842 | 2.842 |
| Audio/Sound Design | #4 | 2.789 | 2.789 |
| Art Style/Visuals | #5 | 2.895 | 2.895 |
| Overall | #9 | 2.547 | 2.547 |
| WOW-Factor | #10 | 2.368 | 2.368 |
| Theme | #27 | 1.842 | 1.842 |
Ranked from 19 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Game Engine / Tools
Unity (main game creation), FL Studio (sounds and music), Adobe Illustrator (visual assets, art, artworks, etc...)
How does your game fit the theme?
You play as a square that doesn't have proper physics implemented: in fact, if you try to jump, you actually only squish down. It's squishing back up that makes the cube jump, first lesson they give you in physics class right?
Also, there are some physics bending mechanics later in the game (gravity switch, portals that teleport you, etc...).
Finally, the game is full of bugs caused by the Unity physics engine mixed with my own
custom physics system... Does this also count?
Devlog link
https://oddeyes.itch.io/squareish/devlog/612169/6-years-to-complete-a-bad-game-squareish
Self-made stuff
Graphics / Art (e.g. models or textures)
Audio (e.g. music or sound effects)
Assets (e.g. free or owned)
Comments
Thank you!
Geometry Dash was not really an inspiration, but I did play it for a long time until a few years ago (I was actually a fairly known creator, with various featured levels and a couple of epic ratings too, also had a couple of levels with 1.5, 2.5 and 3.5 million downloads).
But again, thank you for playing and reviewing :D
215 days ago(+1)
Oh, thank you for all the suggestions and resources!
I did know about some of them, but the majority were new for me, so thank you, I'll look them up as soon as I can :D
217 days ago(+1)
Thank you for this!
I watched through the whole video, for other games in it too, and I believe you provided great feedback for everyone. Also, seeing someone else play your game is very insightful.
For my game in particular, I would like to clarify some things:
- The difficulty curve is indeed pretty steep, I made sure you could play other levels if you get stuck on a particular one, but still, I think that needs a little bit of tuning, but at the same time I loved the fact that the game actually made you think for longer about a good solution for some levels, which is what I aimed for (obviously, its a puzzle game);
- For the "tutorial" sugestion, I tried to make the game teach you things without having the need to follow a tutorial, so that the game is easy to pick up and play, every level introduces a new concept and then explores that concept further (even for mechanics you didn't get to try, such as pressure plates, small pushable blocks, activation doors, secret flowers, gravity changes, ecc...);
- The lever/switch mechanic is meant to let you jump without activating it back again, its not actually a bug (happens at around 00:53:30 in your playthrough), you can complete those levels without using that technique, but kudos to you for finding that out (you can use this "exploit" for various secrets in the game, but shhhh);
- You already gave gameplay, audio and visuals a 5/5, that's just amazing for me. I'm glad you liked the game and thank you very much for your kind rating! Hopefully now that Goedware clarified that I specifically asked not to take part in the main jam competition, this doesn't worry anyone;
- The "WOW" factor in your rating is fair, I did make only about 1/3 of the game for the jam, so the game can't be compared to other devs' games, which somehow often managed to make nearly the same content I could put in my game, which is impressive;
- For the "theme" rating, I made the game itself fit the theme more introducing teleports and gravity switches, but you indeed can't find them till later on in the game, therefore I think the portion of the game you played actually doesn't fit the theme as much as other jam games you played in the same playthrough, so that's fair too;
Thank you again for your useful playthrough :D
217 days ago (+1)
Thank you for your feedback (although the game is out there to play, it is still not perfect and have had no playtesting for me to find out about bugs, hence I'm trying to get people to try it out, for free and without downloads of course, and provide feedback if they can to see wether they like it as it is or if I have to change some aspects or even fix some bugs, I'm alone working on it, there sure are bugs).
For the "Press R to restart" text, it actually only appears in 2 levels in the game (level 10 and 11) and is meant to teach players that they can quickly restart a level by pressing R.
If you got the text to spawn but you actually didn't need to restart in level 10, please tell me more about it. You don't need to play the game again to get a screenshot if you don't want to, you can just describe what happened, and also here's a screenshot of the level layout so you don't even need to open up the game's page again
Again, even though you have mixed frelings about asking for feedback, I still want to do my best to improve both the game itself and myself as well, and feedback helps immensely for that :)
Didn't mind opening it back up just to double check. And then I forgot to take a screenshot lol
so the red line is the path I took from start - push the lower block left, jump up through the middle, push the upper block right until both it and I fall off, then jump back up. From there solving the puzzle is simple.
I think it's the falling on the block after pushing it off that triggers it.
217 days ago(+1)
Oh, that's not supposed to happen... I'll investigste further about it later, thank you again for the reports and feedback :)
Thanks, for rating, if you don't feel the game should be rated, just dont give it a rating, again I don't want my game to be considered as part of the jam competition and won't accept eventual prizes or placing in leaderboards and similar. I stated it as clearly as I could.
I would like to clarify that I did make 100% of the game myself, and that for this jam I simply dusted off the old game project and made the final adjustments, polishing, and level design in the 10 (actually only 8 or 9) days of the jam, and I believe this could technically count as using assets (even if made by me) for the game, like music and visual assets. But still, since most of the game was made outside of the jam period, I decided to opt out of the main competition.
Also I still haven't played your game (I only played browser/HTML games today), I am looking forward to play it tomorrow :D
Intenté traducir tu mensaje ya que no hablo muy bien español (usé el traductor de Google para escribir esto). Gracias por tus amables palabras :D
In english:
I tried to translate your message since I don't speak spanish very well (hope you will do the same with this message). Thank you for your kind words :D
You can avoid rating it, I'm not looking forward to win the jam or get ratings from players, I am just providing feedback and rating other games while hoping they will end up giving my game some feedback too (it is still my first released game, and I'd like to release more in the future, with no feedback I can't improve).
So, again, don't rate it if you are not sure what to rate the game, the feedback you provided is enough for me, and if you have suggestions, encountered problems or bugs while playing, please let me know too :D
Also if you want to keep playing the game but can't afford to pay the price for the downloadable version I can give you a free key as I explained in the game's main page :)
I played your game too and rated it, left some feedback in your game's main page
217 days ago(+1)
I played your game, left feedback as a comment and gave it a rating. Very good job on it, your game is pretty fun :D
We really appreciate your honesty. I was so flabbergasted by the game. The game is awesome and I was a bit confused cuz I saw the fact that you posted the game in two game jams. The game is really cool doe. Love it. Also hate it at the same time. I die like an idiot on some easy moves. Idk if I like it or not. Or if I am just dumb. Nice game doe. gj
Very happy you liked it, but also sad you die a lot... the game was not supposed to be challenging in the platforming side of the game but rather in the puzzle solving aspect. Also, i submitted to the other jam too because it has no theme nor a fixed time frame in which you should work on your game (just a time period for people to submit their game), and has no prizes nor winners, so it is just a fun jam with a cool concept that I liked, in which you can submit whatever you want.
Thank you for the feedback on the game btw :D
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