Yeah the telekinesis was a challenge to do in such a limited amount, definitely something to improve on. Thank you so much for your review we appreciate it. :)
The flag for opening up the other levels (As well as opening the door when you enter the first level to exit the tutorial early) is set by the button at the very end of the tutorial. Did you manage to break out of the tutorial area early by any chance?
Also thank you so much for your review, we really appreciate it.
Ah sorry to hear. It's a cool idea, and it's cool that you managed to submit something anyway. If you do come back to this game, let me know and I'll check it out.
Super, super impressive stuff. I've done a tiny bit of OpenGL (As in, rendered some triangles on a screen, made a simple shader). I'd love to give a 3D framework a crack sometime.
And yeah, I imagine skeletal animation is extremely far from trivial to implement, so that does make things tricky. Keep up the good stuff, it's really nice to see people are still making games "The hard way", as I think it's a really, really good way to understand what actually goes on under the hood, and that knowledge is useful even if you do end up using an existing engine. Not to mention, great for improving your programming skills.
Whoops, ignore previous wrong, was wrong tab. Cool little game, I had fun with it. The jumping felt a bit off, but other than that, cool little game. :)
Hey thanks for the link, I really appreciate it! Will definitely check that out as it was one of the ideas we floated very early on, but I wasn't confident I could pull it off.
Let me guess, you ended up having to use quaternions? I know when we were looking at rotating the telekinetic objects in our game, it became very clear to me that trying to do it with euler rotations was going to be a pain.
This was a really cool game! Reminds me a lot of an old Lego game called Lego:Alpha Team.
Super unique, and really nice use of the theme. I really enjoyed trying to set all the arrows up, and then send the person off to see if I worked it out.
I did get stuck on level three though, but that's probably a skill issue on my part.
Great music and atmosphere! I wasn't able to get past the "Hold X" part. I tried holding X as well as the jump, but nothing happened. The custom gravity stuff was really neat though. Let me know if I missed something obvious and I'll try again.
Hey, thanks for reviewing the game! Glad you enjoyed it, SM64 was a huge inspiration. :)
The wind is meant to make you go up when you glide inside of it by holding down space bar after you jump. Something we probably could have explained better.
Just played and rated your game - Honestly, I would play the heck out of this if it was expanded into an incremental style game like Cookie Clicker. It's really satisfying to watch the barrel go around destroying the blocks.
Really cool game, very impressive for a solo dev and the given time frame that you made a fully functioning tactics game with multiple classes, enemies and upgrades!
Not sure if it was a bug or just the end of the content, but after floor three, I could no longer end my turn after defeating the enemies (Two of them still showed in the turn order so maybe something broke?). But I had an absolute blast playing this! I hope you get more reviews, you definitely deserve to. Would also love to see this expanded into a full release. :)
All of the assets in the game are ones we made for the game. There's really nothing to remove I'm afraid. The raw assets (Before they were brought into the engine) aren't packaged into the build.
Genuinely got goosebumps by the end. Am I understanding this is done on a custom made engine too? That's very impressive. I've done custom frameworks before, but never for 3D. Very, very impressive stuff. Only bug I encountered was sometimes the text cut off before the end of a sentence. Amazing atmosphere, really cool story, all around brilliant.
We used UE5, because it's what we know, but not being able to make a browser playable game definitely hurts your exposure. Next Jam I intend to use SFML3 and a custom framework, mostly because I miss making games from scratch. Here's our game: https://itch.io/jam/gamedevtv-jam-2025/rate/3588438
This is an awesome little game, and I love how you used the theme to have us played as a bee! The atmosphere is really nice. Great work! Would appreciate if you checked ours out too, but no pressure.
