This is great fun, it was very refreshing and innovative to see a game like this making use of my desktop. Very creative ! And the theme is pretty clearly implemented. It all felt natural and great. Thank you for making this, one of the top contenders in my rating !
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Window Crawler's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Innovation | #2 | 4.514 | 4.514 |
| Game Design | #29 | 3.973 | 3.973 |
| Overall | #38 | 3.770 | 3.770 |
| Fun | #64 | 3.703 | 3.703 |
| Audio | #94 | 3.568 | 3.568 |
| Graphics | #126 | 3.784 | 3.784 |
| Theme | #311 | 3.081 | 3.081 |
Ranked from 37 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?
We took the concept and used it as windows acting as doors into new rooms. The map is heavily obfuscated but the player can summon windows to show whats in the parts of the maps. You can travel between rooms to make new windows pop up and if one window closes you can go back to it and find new things appear if you make it pop up again
Did you write all the code and made all the assets from scratch?
Yes
Comments
73 days ago (+1)
charge needs you to charge it up by holding down the attack button. Yeah probably needs an explanation about it somewhere especially for people who usually like to rapid tap
Every time you pick up a weapon all future weapons you get are leveled up to encourage swapping between them a bit more instead of camping one. The non weapons upgrades that are permanent stack but dont get better (you just get more of it aka two orbital powerups = 2 orbitals)
Which x button did you click and in what phase of the game (main menu, in game, etc.). The one in the stat window? Or did you exit a different way
Mechanics: Very cool idea with the multiple windows and a timer on each one of them. Multiple weapons are a nice addition, though the "homing" gun seems to just spin around the enemy, unable to hit anything. The enemies are all different, which is a good thing. Unfortunately, due to the size of the rooms, fighting two of the shooting ones was almost a death sentence, and the "spinning star" enemies (not sure what they are) just flew to the bottom right corner and got stuck there. One thing I'd change is blocking the exits that lead outside the map boundary. I died once because of that. I also once just disappeared with the room I was in, and the game didn't end. I'm not sure how I did that.
Really cool concept, unfortunatly in pratice it have some issues, most of my deaths are from bugs.
The windows size are too small, you can easily click outside,and with the 3 secs unpaused everytimes it can be annoying, would be good if the game unpaused when you click on any window.
Sometimes you're getting blocked by invisible hitboxes when you try to go in a path, some path also can't be taken, would be good to remove path in this case.
There is a bug, when you are in a window and it desappeared the game still continue.
There is a bug, when you go outside a window to discover a new window, the new window don't appear so you can't play anymore.
Between two windows there is no collisions, you can go up and down behind the wall.
Enemies spawning on you really fast can be annoying.
Sometimes i get hit/hit animation, but i don't lose life even when i don't have the shield.
Some enemies have time to launch an attack before dying, when they're supposed to be dead.
I got a bug when dashing my character goes really fast ? desappear ? 1 times it diseappear while crossing a new path, 1 times it seems to crossed to the new windows and continue to the next path then disappear, and 1 time it do the same but my character crossed the up path at the egde of the map to appear at the bottom windows.
Overall very good potential.
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