A wonderful game and a very beautiful serve.
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Wickborne's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Overall | #1 | 4.167 | 4.167 |
| Fun Factor | #2 | 4.167 | 4.167 |
| Graphics | #3 | 4.444 | 4.444 |
| Audio | #4 | 3.833 | 3.833 |
| Gameplay | #4 | 4.167 | 4.167 |
| Special Feature Implementation | #4 | 4.556 | 4.556 |
| Theme Implementation | #7 | 3.833 | 3.833 |
Ranked from 18 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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Wickborne takes place on a far away wax planet inhabited by candle people and shadow fiends.
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Outstanding, this was a really excellent experience for something made on such a tight schedule. I really appreciate the art style and music, and the core gameplay mechanics were very solid. This game could go far with some small control adjustments and polishing. Definitely download the game, its a bit rough in the browser.
OVERALL: 10/10 :)
Wow, this game surprised me haha
As others have said, the intro is really cool. The take on the theme and special object was really smart too, a solid 5/5 IMO. I found the controls a bit too floaty, which made the platforming a bit too difficult for me. But maybe that was what you guys were aiming for!
Also, bummer that the music resets here and there too. It was quite good and catchy, but listening to the beginning on almost repeat was slightly annoying. The boss music is an absolute banger by the way.
But another thing that surprised me was that you guys made a metroidvania, is roughly 4 days... that's incredible!
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Shifting ShadowsWow, what a wonderful intro. Great use of the theme and special item. There is so much solid work in this. It is a fantastic game, great work everyone!
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Candle in the WoodsMan there's a lot to love here. It's really cool that you actually came up with some solid world building for a short jam. Also it shows that you're an artist. The only caveat is that the audio restarts when you die - and this is a game where you die a lot, so I never got to hear the full soundtrack :D
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Pico LandsThank you so much, you're really sweet to say all that! :) <3 And actually it's crazy you mention the soundtrack, our musician just uploaded the whole OST to his soundcloud if you'd like to check it out ^^ https://soundcloud.com/kibblez-788609330/sets/wickborne-ost?si=0ccff240381840ada...
And yeah, the audio restart is quite annoying, we had that on our agenda in those last 30 minutes where everything was on fire and we were rushing to finish the build.... needless to say we did not end up setting it up in time xP
Its just great is all i have to say, i love the theme implementation, i like the idea of the story, i like the mechanics, its all amazing.
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Candle KnightThis is actually great, still a bit of jank, sometimes i would get flung when jumping onto stuff, and there is a bit of background bleed through the tiles but other than that this is probably one of the best games from the jam. really good art style btw.
my biggest gripe were the controls, felt a bit too floaty but were pretty good otherwise
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The Other WorldThis game needs to go big! Would love to see this grow into a popular game.
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A Lost FireflyGreat style. Great art. Super fun concept. I loved levelling up and getting new powers. Reminded me of Metroid. Getting a power and thinking "what does this do", and then "ooooh... double jump". Full of discovery and exploration. Nice work.
My main feedback would be that the controls were finicky, and it wouldn't have made too much of a difference, but the amount of spikes coupled with finicky controls was very frustrating. I think I died about 135 times in about 5 minutes. And the music would restart every time...
If there weren't so many spikes/deaths, I'd say this is a near perfect game. The controls just need a tweaking.
Great work. Especially for a game jam. I hope you eventually make this a full game.
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Saved by the CatSolid platformer here, pretty hard from the start. I was getting close to the end but I would get to certain checkpoints and it would take away my dash powerup so I couldn't complete it very cool though
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Guiding LightPretty nice! I'd say the controls feel a bit slippery at times and even though the platforming is supposed to be challenging it felt like some tightening of the controls would help a lot, but overall very solid and surprising that this much was able to be done in the time given :)
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