There's some real potential here in how the abilities and level design came together. I legit spent like 5 minutes just messing around with the last section to see all the different things I could do with them.
A delightful little platformer! Discovering the intricacies of the boost mechanic was pretty fun (like how you can boost while standing still). Great to have a boss fight when there are not many this year due to the rule change.
I legitimately got a little sad as all the weaving techniques I was getting good at slowly got taken away. Very impressive merging of gameplay and message.
Extremely impressive to make a fighting game in this timeframe, regardless of complexity. Even with just what's here there is some space to experiment and find different strategies.
And of course as everyone else has noted, the modelling and win animations are just fantastic.
Really loved the writing in this. All the little details of the characters and how the rumors warped as the spread were great. Went perfectly with Solveig as well. I truly felt like an evil mastermind when I had 3 rumors being spread around at once.
Loved all the messages from the different characters. The platforming collisions were a bit wonky, but the idea and level design were solid. Pretty fun!
So glad you had such a good time! Fine tuning the ship controls & parameters took a lot of time, but we eventually settled on what we thought was the easiest to grasp.
Thank you! We really wanted the story section to be as interconnected with the races as possible, to make it all feel cohesive. All credit to blanket Jebb goes to the artist: Handstandish.
Thanks! We worked hard on both sections. The racing has a decent amount of depth to it, so maybe practice in the Track Select a bit before trying again. I'm actually somewhat relieved to know there are players seeing the other endings/dialogue I wrote haha.
I thought the time rewind didn't do anything at first, but I eventually figured it out. Flying looked & felt really smooth, but it was actually pretty hard to position the ship where I wanted it. Overall quite fun though.
Looks good already! We are actually going through with our grand-prix style racing game idea. Ours is going to be a sort of momentum-based space racer. Interested to see how both ideas play out!
Very impressed by this game. I remember specifically scrapping the idea of making a card game for Mint because it seemed too difficult for the time frame, but y'all killed it.
I also really enjoyed the prompt. I especially appreciated that story and character investment were part of the ratings. I feel that story is often overlooked in jams, and it was super fun to explore the characters and see everyone's interpretations. I actually feel the opposite of Shweep, glad that I changed from my initial instinct to make a Mint game because she ended up being so popular (though I underestimated how popular Alexandria would be haha).
I think it's fair to allow small updates/bug fixes after the deadline, especially when it's issues of content not being able to be seen (like we had). It's also something we can't strictly control anyway, due to how itch handles the game pages. I trust the integrity of this community to not 'cheat' and add content after the deadline.
This was my first game jam done with a team, and I'd highly recommend it if you can find the right people. It helped so much having others to bounce ideas off of, especially with the story stuff. Our game wouldn't have been nearly as polished (or have such great character art) if I did it all alone.
It's truly a good thing you included those cheats. I would've given up very early without them. Even with max upgrades the game is still hard, but certainly more enjoyable!
I'm already stuck? All the caves are closed, the dog sailor says something about a key/seagull/palm tree. I've checked all the areas, hit all the palm trees, hooted a bunch, don't see any seagulls. How do I open the caves?
