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Thanks for playing! As for how I made it, I indeed have an answer for you 😁

https://youtu.be/ORDViLUxH9I

Managed to just live with a 43K score, fun twist by having a carried through survival health mechanic (I guess that’s kind of similar to the original in a way, but worked very well here). Pseudo 3D aesthetic was very nice - my only nit is that the platforming aspect and timing was a bit tough to judge, found myself always triggering a little early which, especially for the last event, would make it rather stressful since I’d have to go through them all again just to get back and try that one again. I guess that’s by design though, Crunkle is not forgiving! Nice work.

Minor other edit: having in-game controls always helped a lot, though I was able to mostly correctly guess the intended control to use.

You’ve nicely carried through the aesthetic through all the rounds and continues to hold together, I just love the way the character idles and runs and everything. My main gripe if anything is more to do with my gripe with the original game around button mashing - most awkward in hurdles where you need to button smash but also risk losing velocity as you pause to try and use the jump command. Though maybe arrow keys. But I won’t fault for that, nice work replicating the original’s UI work.

As others said, nice idea to have a no menu, straight to the action experience (though I do agree, at least some transition effect to help you mentally switch could help a bit more)

Glad you enjoyed it, and thanks for playing!

Thanks for playing! The third is definitely the least polished, and unlike the others, you inherently just have to fail a few times before you get it right.

Given your score of 814, what actually happened for you is you discovered the little easter egg: turning the wheel all the way lets you make a U-turn instead of just a left turn. And though the U-turn is in a way harder to get without fouling, it ends up giving far fewer points because you’re closer to the correct lane (which is in part how the score is calculated). In hindsight, I could have added some visual text or indicator that helped clarify that you found something hidden.

Glad you enjoyed the style and handdrawn approach! It’s definitely my crutch for making it by these past few rounds 😅

Thanks for playing and providing the feedback! Glad you appreciated the quick restarting and option for keyboard only navigation, agreed it helps a lot to not get stuck in menus :)

It’s interesting you mention the camera position. I had a tough time deciding on the right balance there. I wanted to make sure that the light turned red only once you arrived at the intersection so that no matter how faster you got there, you would still need to come to a complete stop. That means there’s two area triggers, one for getting “near” the intersection, and another for actually entering the intersection. I didn’t want players to see they were coming up to red and basically slow to a stop too soon before they reached the first trigger. But I also get what you’re saying around giving a little more room to the right, could help.

Glad you enjoyed it, and thanks for playing! As it came down to the wire, indeed opted for more UI / event polish over sounds

Very nice implementation while keeping true to the original, I really liked the motif of walking to the events as a sort of menu. Your itch page is, as always, on point so well done there. Also clever way to make us as the player feel good for your not having time to finish an event, giving a gold was a nice touch - as was rewarding the player for completing all events, I should have thought to do something even basic like you had! Nice work

Fun idea to twist things around. The controls felt a little funny, like shift to leave a game was a bit unexpected. I also feel a little more UI leading at the end of a round could help a lot, it was a bit jarring to just suddenly be popped to the end (and for those that you restart if you lose, that it’s an instant restart with no setup first). Still, nice work getting a variety of events in place.

Nice implementation of the theme, definitely hit that arcade-y feel. Many of the events felt a little samey since it was just trying to quickly see which button to press, but the disc toss and archery added some nice variety. The Javelin throw was a fun idea too with the balloon popping. Swimming is a easy gold, seems like there should have some different tuning. I do however appreciate that this wasn’t a button mashing game, my wrists can only take so much! Also a fun idea to have circuits unlocked as you go.

Edit: one nit though was that it felt a bit out of the experience that only some of the menu navigation worked through key presses, had to do some mouse clicks. Especially between each round, just being able to press enter would have helped it feel snappy to get to the next round within one game.

Thanks! Building on prior work has helped a ton for sure. Pretty everything for this round was made the final weekend of, I actually thought I wouldn’t have much to submit. But having many reusable parts actually meant things kind of fell together nicely. I do try to orient myself to the judging criteria, but after this round (if I somehow make it) all bets are off :D

Thanks for playing! I knew I wasn’t going to outshine many others for the variety of events category, so I ended up shooting for high marks on the bug free one… which, of course as we all know, the only bug free code is no code at all. The next best thing was thus a small number of events ;)

Definitely a fun and totally different take on the source material! I’ll admit it feels a bit of a particularly loose interpretation, I get more “endless runner re-envisioned” vibes than track and field, but I appreciate the description going into how each event was imagined.

I need to come back and try again to get to the end. I just can’t tell what I’m doing wrong at the window. Without getting enough feedback to know what’s off (I hear the window breaking, so am I going too high? too low? too fast maybe?? Or am I running into something after?!), makes it a bit extra frustrating that I have to keep going through the 20-some seconds of all the other stops to just try and fail again 😬 I appreciate the little mid-game helper graphics, just in that one case it’s not quite enough for me at least!

Not to defend on behalf of the author, but just felt like chiming in that actually I really liked how some challenges actually are impossible.. until you the the right stack of rings. Forces you to think about that and not just the events in isolation.

In my case I never had too much trouble with the mountain, but I ran into sprint once when it was impossible to keep up, and then quickly it was the high jump that had me out to dry. One ring (walk on walks) suddenly changed all that, which also gave it that spark of actually discovering something.

Absolutely top marks.

tbh I was considering not actually entering this round, because I didn’t have any history with the game and I’m not the biggest fan of button mashing arcades (I was sweating just thinking about developing my own game let alone playing everyone else’s game).

Well, with no rub against anyone else’s entry (my own no different), I’m kind of expecting your entry the be the only one that I actually really had fun playing. Early rounds were unsuspecting, but as I started to see those rings to unlock and how the stacks multiply each other, I was having a blast given how ridiculous the modifiers got. Let me tell you, once I got “run on walks” paired with “5x run but no jump” along with the not being slowed down by obstacles, everything was a breeze but in the “I earned this and really gratifying” sort of way.

Verrrry minor UX thing, it took me a bit of UI hunting to finally see where my coin balance was, there’s a lot of things competing for equal attention in the shop page. But, quickly learned.

Sorry to see you didn’t get a chance to do more, definitely loving the aesthetic and would have been curious to see where this was going.

Very solid entry for sure! Polished all around, with a good credits, settings section, and nice little widget interactions in the menu selection.

Only nits from me are that the UI felt a bit slow to navigate, slightly worsened by forcing me to go back to the main menu each time instead of the event selection or even a “quick retry” button. I also feel it’s slightly polluting that we’re asked to enter our top score every time and it doesn’t remove old top scores, that list is going to get very long very quick heh :D

Though it just has the one event, it has its charm! And no bugs that I can find, playing it safe I see by not risking creating other events, I almost attempted that strat myself hah.

Thanks for playing! Left turns are indeed tough, even when light-protected ;) Yup sound was a nice to have that was an early victim of my 48h chopping block.

Thanks for playing! Glad you enjoyed the aesthetic. Pretty much the whole game was made in the last 48h and the left turn one was very last, so definitely not as refined. I also realize now I meant to drop the “qualifying” score from 200 to 175 whoops so yeah, it’s not the easiest for sure.

Re: sound, I totally agree - I decided to bet on a higher score via adding in that last left turn event.

Glad you enjoyed it! I have faith in you getting your license, may this game be a reference of what not to do though ha

Wow really well done, well polished, and tbh brilliant idea to basically force us to do an entire “run” all together. You also had really nicely implemented tutorials, not just slapped into an intro panel like some devs (*coughs at self). And I definitely lost some points when hurdles turned into flappy bird cuz I just started laughing ha, in fact all of these had very fun clever twists on the baseline events.

You also get a bonus star from me because “foul” counts as a pun. Though you could have written “fowl” too ;)

Very minor nit that on my 2x density monitor, the corners get slightly clipped (I assume anyhow) both in static and full screen, not so much that it gets in the way. it’s honestly the only thing to comment on as the rest is totally set!

Though it feels a bit more like a puzzle platformer with a timer than a track and field-remake, I can appreciate the direction you took building on your core telekinesis mechanic. I’ll admit I did find them a bit hard, tried each level but did not manage to pass all of them. Also, a little more in-game text instructions for what to do in each round would help as I had to experiment a bit. Having the overworld map was a fun idea!

Though it may not stand for long, I’m happily a holder of the current world record at 5.21! The leaderboard is always a nice and ambitious thing, though seemed like it wasn’t always populating (e.g. it wasn’t showing the set record after restarting).

UI and all feels nice, even if only a single event. Nicely implemented the structure of multiple rounds, something I didn’t even bother with :D

Also, thank you for adding the suggestion on how to pass the green arrow section in the game page, I too got stuck there. It felt a bit like you found a quirk in your implementation of the arrows and then build a puzzle around, rather than an intentionally designed puzzle section. I recall an old adage about making the impossible leap at least 2x outside the players jump radius. Not that there’s jumping in this case, but the point is to make sure that any solutions that won’t work aren’t attractive. In this case, I tried dipping in and out of the green area but just not at the top, as well as slipping by the narrow green section without moving the block first because it seemed like I was really close.

Really love how everything fit together, and the really crisp (vector delivered?) graphics. Almost seems crazy for me to say this, but in a way I wish it was a bit shorter as it was a little long to go through the whole thing multiple times to see the different endings - but I really appreciate there being different entries, so nice work on that front.

Also, I feel like lorem ipsum was a low-key rickroll, but I appreciate it haha

Yup, this was the only entry I’ve so-far give 5-stars all down the board (sorry for any spoilers on my ratings for anyone else XD).

Great “baba is you” riff and the right amount of puzzling and backtracking, plus it was just fun. Boss was a slight challenge, but not crazy or too frustrating. Honestly, just great all around. Well done.

Nice work tying in prior rounds into a story, fun intro. I didn’t realize I was traveling around in a bush at the start, I thought I was disguised as a boulder, a bush makes much more sense haha

I think it would have been fun to see more of those intro pins and lines come together as individual scenes, I’m sure you had something in mind. Fun progression of the character appearances at the end, well done bringing it to an actual conclusion!

Thanks for playing, and sorry to make you relive your morning routine a second time in one day :D

Stellar work! Really sold the style well, and as always your itch.io presentation is on point. Pretty awesome what you’re able to accomplish with straight html/css/javascript so kudos there.

Like others said (and, as I’d say about my own entry ha), would love to see more! In particular, I think it would be fun if you could play each “frame” of an actual comic book page, e.g. if there’s an action, space to make it happen, and maybe some puzzle solving that involves some meta going between pages to make cause some certain actions (maybe placing water on bottom left will put out a fire on the bottom right if you go to the previous page thus making the two come in contact, putting the fire out when you return back?)

Simple, but very fun entry. To be honest, it took me like 10 times playing before I realized the intro “tutorial” sequence it was annoyingly making me replay each time was actually a selection screen. Once I got that, I was able to strategize much easier to get the “perfect loadout”. That got me to 60pts so, I’ll take 3rd on the leaderboard for now hehe but I’m pretty deterred from playing more since I have to spend a couple minutes just trying to get my ideal loadout (ie the cheaty sort of setup of [spoiler?] only selecting animals which are non solid so that I don’t have to really look at the shape or listen to the sound)

Not really too much more to add, fun game, good reply mechanics, and nice design brings it all together!

Thanks for playing! Recently I’ve been driving a bit more than usual (thankfully I don’t have a daily car commute), so it felt appropriate somehow to me to lean in on the feeling hehe.

Thanks for sharing that! Yup Endmark’s playthrough was very similar to mine, even the mental points of aha’s of uncovering new animations and so forth. Though I was somehow less focussed on the cats disappearing or changing, maybe because the animation of the button and the laser firing was more prominent I didn’t notice.

Thanks for playing and the positive feedback! You didn’t miss anything, that’s just as far as I got with the jam. Let’s see if I make it to another to go further with it.

There was definitely a story of heart and key! Though I’m not sure what it was, I guess from context it’s a love of the different user interface elements? Was a little bit abstract and wouldn’t say the gameplay itself necessarily overly reinforced that, but still a cute idea and having the UI elements exhibit ranges of emotions over the course of the game was a nice touch. Fun variety of levels which broke the 4th wall in some good ways and a lot of mechanics introduced, nice!

The first level with the darkness and rotating light felt a bit cruel and unnecessary, as I spent ages just waiting for the light to come back around so I could make a single safe jump at a time out of fear of falling down. I later realized that on upping my screen brightness, I could at least jump the platforms on my own without waiting for the key and heart, so that made it easier. Everything after by comparison felt quite a bit easier while still introducing some challenges here and there.

Nice entry, I love how it really pulls the carpet under us. I was hiding in all the little containers and spaces you establish, when I should have been hiding from myself! The details of blood trails really helped throw me off and fret over what was going to be on the other side of each door.

A very touching tale! I also appreciate that you recognized those of us who maybe didn’t have the patience to get through all puzzles (definitely not me tho, ofc) by having the skip to next option, really helped to ensure I experienced the full extent of the story. Too bad about the bug, but having the gif there was a reasonable solution.