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A jam submission

This Side UpView game page

Keep the box from touching the ground!
Submitted by ChipChase — 12 hours, 40 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Creativity/game design#163.6003.600
Gameplay#283.1003.100
Overall experience#483.0003.000
Presentation#612.8502.850

Ranked from 20 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

Does your submission follow the required limitation?
Yes, it only uses 4 colors, also it follows the optional theme of "keep away"

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Comments

This game is great! If you added local multiplayer it would be even better and REALLY funny!

Submitted

A very interesting concept.  I enjoyed playing it.  And to me, the physics felt about right.   I liked being able to use the enemy drones to stabilize the box.  Maybe there's something to be done with the enemy drones hitting yours, since as it is they go right through you.

Good game.

Submitted

Hmmm...

Submitted

Fun game, but the physic's momentum conservation is kind of off. made it harder to do.

I also reckon the drone should always face up. 

Lots of potential for the game.

Developer(+1)

I tried the game with the drone always facing up but it didn't really work well and made it really easy. I wanted to add a system to make the drone's position reset after not moving for a little bit.....but i didn't have the time.

(1 edit)

Very fun game to play. With friends, it’s even more fun because you want to beat their high score and it turns into a competition. I have one question about it though: is the drone supposed to be crooked when the game starts? I have an issue, though. It is very serious because the box’s arrow is OFF-CENTERED and I hate off centered things pls fix for later update

Submitted

The game is nice, a good idea nicely implemented. I only would like to point two things:

  • I'd love if you improved the physics of the box, it feels unsatisfying that i cannot throw it updards or do tricks with it, and that feeling good would have made the game stand out A LOT .
  • I really didn't understand those enemy drones, i think it would have been better to have them crossing screen making you maneuver the box to stay away.

Those things appart, the game is fun, i got score 60 :)))

Submitted (1 edit)

The game is pretty fun, but it was weird how the drones just appeared to the sides off the screen, waited for a while, flew towards box and then just disappeared, I would have made the drones slowly come from the sides of the screen then do the wait, dash towards the box with some kind of easing and not just instantly get all the speed and when touching the box they could explode or something, because it's kinda weird that they just disappear. And then lastly, but certainly not leastly: DIFFERENTLY SIZED PIXELS, please just make sure that the pixels are the same size on everything, because now it looks very weird when the boxes pixels are bigger than the drone. And I would add some clouds to the background because now it's kinda bland.

Developer(+1)

I couldn't add clouds because I only had 4 colors

Submitted

new concept and good game

Developer

thanks

Submitted

cool idea for a game. the music is nice

Developer

thanks, the music was actually created by an AI called Mubert

Submitted

This is a really cool and creative mechanic idea!

The physics are a bit janky, but I know how painful and time consuming these things can be to fix sometimes. Also, I was a bit confused by having to click two times, every time I wanted to start over, but that's such a minor detail, that it shouldn't have an impact on any rating or the fun I had while playing it!

So overall like ScarfRavenStudios already said it could need a bit more time, but it's still a really fun game idea!

Developer

thanks for the feedback!

Submitted

Game's alright. Very barebones presentation, I do like the concept  of needing to keep the package balanced, but there's not a lot there. It feels very repetitive after a while.

The red drones being visible offscreen is probably a glitch but you should definitely make it an official mechanic, since it helps a lot.

Fairly decent, just needs a lot more polish and content.