Pretty cool! I liked how the crab was able to go underwater, added an interesting mechanic. It would be nice if the movement (mostly jumping) was a little bit more polished, Sometimes it felt a little unresponsive if you mistimed a jump. Other than that, very nice!
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Wow! very cool! I love the peaceful nature of it all. I would suggest maybe making the closing of the beak/mouth a bit snappier than the opening to give it that little bit extra oomph, but I really enjoyed it! looks and sounds great too :) I ended up getting 359 I think it was. I could see this concept as a more fully fledged simulation/game with all sorts of wildlife. Very cool!
Neat game! Well done :) I like the idea of constantly needing to gather basic survival needs, it fit the theme nicely. It could perhaps use a bit of balancing to make dying feel a bit more fair, as at times I wasn't sure what had happened. Overall though, it's really not bad! keep up the good work :D
Personally, I try to rate games that clearly have original graphics/audio a bit higher than those with premade assets (not that I'd rate those games lowly, but I'd cap it at 3/4 stars for art and audio if that makes sense). I know a lot of other people also give a bit of a boost to the original-asset-using games, so I doubt they'd win in those categories. If they do somehow end up "winning" in those categories then I guess fair play to them
Thanks for playing! You're definitely not the first one to struggle with the boss, I decided to add it in pretty late so I didn't quite get to put in everything I would've liked to so it wound up being pretty confusing. The power control would be a pretty cool addition, I think that could add a lot more control to the movement so thanks for the suggestion!
Pretty cool! I always enjoyed these kind of games growing up so I rather liked playing this :) I ended up getting to 17 points which I was pretty happy with. A bit of constructive criticism: I felt having both the cones and tires not being crashable was a bit pointless other than aesthetics, I think it would work a bit better if colliding with at least the tires was a game over. Maybe tweaking the exhaust particles to make them a bit more pixelated would be nice too. Other than those couple points, this was really fun to play, so good work!
I mean sure, you'll get ratings by spamming the link to your game everywhere, but it certainly doesn't help the quality of those ratings. Also, for a rate for rate post to work, you should at the very least play and leave feedback on their game, not just say "here's my game https://itch.io/jam/brackeys-9/rate/1931702#comments" and not even look at the other person's.
Plus spamming a link everywhere is obnoxious and it takes away from any interesting posts as the get buried by the one phrase copy and pasted into every community post under the sun.
Thanks for playing! I completely agree that the boss needs a bit of work. I had made it so the boss has three separate hitboxes, one for the treads/bottom, one for the body, and one for the head and I think three is just a bit too many as they overlap in a weird way so next time I'll try and keep it a bit more simple. Glad you enjoyed it, thanks again!
I've seen a number of people saying that this was one of their favorites of the jam, and I can certainly see why! The level design was clearly really well thought out and thoroughly tested, the evolving levels and mechanics was really cleverly done, and all together it was just a really fun idea. One gripe I have, is that upon respawning, the player isn't quite on the ground, so as I instinctively held a certain direction, I found myself immediately dying from sliding off the first platform. Other than that, really well done! A good dose of difficulty too.
Hey I'm not trying to be "that guy", but please don't just go to other people's comment sections and advertise your own game. If you really want someone to try your game, try leaving thoughtful and meaningful feedback on their game. Just saying, "cool game, try mine" doesn't show any level of comprehension of what their game is about, and to them it may even seem like you haven't played their game in the first place. The feedback doesn't even have to be super technical either, it could just be "I liked _____. I think you could work on ______." super simple.
Sound fair? Thanks for taking your time
Hey this game has a lot of potential! I could see this as one of those games where when you build enough points you can select an upgrade to build your character so there's more of a consequence to dying. One thing I quite liked is that the enemies wouldn't only target the player, it felt like you were dropped into an already existing ecosystem making the danger of the enemies feel all the more real. Obviously as you know it is missing sound and a few elements like an obvious health bar etc, so other than those things, really cool!
Thanks for doing this! I would quite like to see someone play through my game.
Just as a warning, the boss at the end isn't terribly clear on what to do, so don't feel pressured to finish it if you get stuck :)
https://itch.io/jam/brackeys-9/rate/1932960
lmao I didn’t even think of that, it’d still be the same problem. At the very least though, if someone did make an advertise for advertise post, then presumably it would be one post filled with the same link, so it wouldn’t really be worth doing if that makes sense. Good idea to require them to have played for a certain amount of time, it would fix the rating issue.
I dunno, I like where you're coming from but I could see that turning into people just rating games without playing them even more than already happens. I think if we instead were only allowed to advertise other people's games (maybe even a max of once or twice per game), we would have a bit more of a fair and honest way of people getting ratings/feedback maybe
One game that I quite liked was:
The Planting Dead - https://itch.io/jam/brackeys-9/rate/1924731?before=13#post-7374497
Everything from the sounds to the art and the levels are brilliantly done. In my opinion, this is a game that the dev should be really proud of and it deserves perhaps a bit more attention.
Ok I just played this as soon as I got home, and the levels I hadn't gotten to yet were just as good! With the knowledge of the little details like the footstep sounds etc, I really noticed it and it made the game feel more complete. I loved the snowy levels, and even though the background was basically just recolored, it was really nice to have the variety in scenery (plus the snowfall was quite nice as well). The platforming itself felt really polished and well tested, and even though there were some tight jumps, I never felt they were unfair. The only bug I noticed is in one of the snowy levels the robot body would fall through the button-activated moving platform. Other than that, this game is right up there with my favorites of the jam!
Well this game awakened something in me. Any time I see a leaderboard you'd best believe I'm gonna get on there one way or another lol. This game was simultaneously satisfying and infuriating. I loved the feeling after weaving through a dense area, but those little bug things are my new nightmare fuel. I understand and kind of like how when you die you respawn on a random bud, but It at times feels a bit unfair to be sent 50/100m back down after working so hard to get to that point, so I'd maybe suggest only respawing on a random point of the most recent 10/15 buds or so to make it a bit more encouraging to the player after a crash. I will probably come back to this later today because I barely broke the top 10. Thank you for such a fun entry!
Edit: I just broke into the top 5 so I am plenty happy with that lol
Just played and left some feedback on yours!
https://itch.io/jam/brackeys-9/rate/1932960#post-7368542
Have fun!
Pretty well done! I like the combat aspect as you go through the levels. I didn't really find myself using all the different types of weapons though, I always had enough ammo to use the bullets, so maybe you could have a bit less of each ammo available to force the player to switch things up. Good game, well done!