A lovely platformer! I enjoyed absolutely everything: the art, the soundtrack, the sound decor, the hard, unforgiving maze. Great job :)
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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Design | #536 | 3.593 | 3.593 |
| Overall | #1233 | 3.123 | 3.123 |
| Originality | #1337 | 3.000 | 3.000 |
| Adherence to the Theme | #1591 | 2.778 | 2.778 |
Ranked from 54 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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I couldn't pass the second level! But I had great fun playing this!
It's a cute game, I would love to see this developed more, I think it could go really far! Wouldn't it be cool if you can change characters and have all the different dwarfs from snow white!
Great job for making this game in 48 hours, from the screenshots, I can see you have lots of different levels which I couldn't get up to! So amazing job!
Check out our game if you haven't I would really appreciate it!
https://itch.io/jam/gmtk-2019/rate/461569
(-Amy)
4 years ago(+1)
As soon as the jam is over, I will update the game version to one woth more forgiving jump! :)
4 years ago(+1)
Hey, thank you so much! The jump is already improved so the whole game is slightly easier. I will update the game as soon as the jam is over.
4 years ago(+1)
Hey, thank you for the feedback. Please come back after the jam to see improved version with less annoying jump :).
Thank you so much for your feedback :). I tried to organize my time well. I set clear targets for each they (and I still managed to be delayed).
On friday I made a brain storming and started to create the art to get a bit more inspired. Next day morning I woke up with completely different idea and I decided to follow it. At end of Saturday I planned to have all main mechanics ready + all levels designed (I planned 15 + tutorials). In the evening I realized I am having only 7 levels and tutorials - so I had to reduce the plan.
Sunday also went a bit slower than expected - I decided to create nice menu art, which... looked terrible and landed in the bin :D. It took me around 1.5h to draw it. Then I had to redesign 2 levels (including the level 2 which turned out to be too hard now).
I was quite sad because I hoped to make the artstyle improvements - add some elements that break the color scheme of the game and make it more less boring, change the animations of the dwarfs etc.
I hope to do that all after the rating is over! :)
I know the feeling: what seemed like plenty of time was eaten up faster than planned, in my case, by just getting everything working correctly ^^;
(Though I certainly didn't manage my time that well)
Honestly I'd say you did a great job in the time
Though as a creator, it's always hard not to look at your own work and see all the things you wanted to add/improve huh
4 years ago(+1)
I am sorry about the level two! You will not believe but initially the level was too easy - I thought this will not present any challenge and people will get bored easily. It turned out being afraid of the game being 'too easy' I made it 'too hard'. I will definitely decrease the difficulty once the game jump is over. The game should not be about precision jumping and artificially rised difficulty level but rather about logic and cooperation!
No need to be sorry, your game is great and difficulty tuning is always hard (I never got it right). I think that rather than decrease the level difficulty. You can make the jump easier. For example, you can add some coyote time (small time window after falling to jump), and edge grasping if the character falls very near the edge of the platform. There are many other things that can keep the level layout hard but platforming easier. A developer for Dead Cells talked about it in GDC (starts at 12:33):
Thank you so much for your thorough input! This is actually very good point. Even though I will add the coyote time - there is still some redesign I still think some of the challanges are not designed properly (the elements that should be hard are often easy and the once that are supposed to be easy are just crazy hard) :) I will definitely have a look at the video.
Hey, I am very happy you like my game :). Regarding the questions - I used standard controller provided by my game engine and this was clearly a bad approach. It does not have any configuration option regarding jumping besides the strength of the jump and gravity.
I do plan to decrease the difficulty as soon as the jam is over - i am going to redesign the levels significantly :).
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