Love the art and the theme. I struggled a little with the controls, but great job on doing some unique movement! Could be really great with some more polish.
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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Originality | #118 | 3.929 | 3.929 |
| Fun | #164 | 3.482 | 3.482 |
| Presentation | #216 | 3.659 | 3.659 |
| Theme | #274 | 3.318 | 3.318 |
Ranked from 87 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
How does your game represent "Power"?
The player character needs to get more powerful to overcome obstacles and climb high to reach the end of each level. There is a literal "Power" meter that fills when you collect protein shakes and the end goal is for Cliff to retrieve all his golden dumbbells - y'know, a thing that when used increases a person's power.
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Quack
The cutscene was sick, serious animation skills!
I just wonder how this game exectly fits the theme...
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Caesar: Thumbs of FateI believe this was made for the GMTK jam in 2024, and the theme doesn't fit very well, but aside from that... it's fun! Lots of levels and pretty unique gameplay.
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Aether Core IndustriesThanks for playing! Also I very much made this for Big Mode jam 2025, didn't start on it until Jan 25th this year. I did submit a game for GMTK 2024 but this wasn't it. I came up with the idea after the "power" theme was revealed and thought about something a physically powerful person might do, and came up with a bodybuilder looking for his gym equipment who can climb.
Very funny game. I'm not great at these kind of games so I couldn't get past
the level where you have to throw a rock on the switch haha.
loved the humour, art style and music.
I've played quite a bit of anton blast. I noticed the jawdrop in the intro, don't worry.
All I would say is polish the controls a bit. Good work!
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GeneratorThe art is so cool! And the climbing mechanics feel like something out of QWOP but in a very fun and fluid way! Maybe I'm just saying it because I suck at both LOL. Great job!
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Night SweepI was impressed by the staggering amount of work that went into this game, from intro and ending cutscenes to very fluid animations and well thought out levels, I had a big smile on my face playing this game! Unfortunately, I suck a bit too much and I couldn't make it past the fifth level in the caves, but I still had fun nonetheless and I also appreciate that all levels were available from the start so I could see what I was missing. Great work!
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_sheld[ON]Came for the cutscene, stayed for the GIRP-esque controls. Will our hero get all his golden dumbbells back? Not if I'm in control, although I felt myself improving the more I played, and it was easy to pick up and play despite the novel control scheme - great job!
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Live Wire: The Power StruggleSuper cool! Cutscenes? In this timeframe? Very well done, even if the audio was a bit de-synced on those cutscene. It's challenging for sure, and the smooth animations were funny as well in the context of the art. Well done!
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ElectromancerGreat work! The climbing was intuitive. One thing that bothered me was that I was having a hard time managing my air control while climging because air control and climing are the same buttons. This is great for simplicity but if you ever add to this, having advanced buttons that only do one or the other might make it more fluid for people who want to put the time in and do some speedruns or something. Cool game!!!
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Crowns Of PowerGreat work! The climbing mechanic is easy to understand but definitely has a high skill cap (reminds me of jump king jump for some reason). Adding the keys and throwables added a nice bump of complexity.
That intro was pure cinema.
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Only Power UpLiked the intro cutscene and loved the movement and the gameplay in general. Very rewarding to get better at the climbing. My favorite level was the dark one where you had to climb very high to become purple. A few levels after that there was the level where the blue ladder rises up and blocks you from getting to the goal which annoyed me, unless I misunderstood something. I restarted the level but then again I got stuck inside a green cage or something. I think the levels could have been designed in a way that the player never has to press the restart button but instead find clever ways to climb out of any situation. Very fun game though, I could see a game with movement like this being the next big rage platformer.
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Paper RootsYeah sorry about level 12, definitely my least favorite and needed a lot of tweaking. My "design concept" for the blue ladder is that you can stand on top of it and there's just enough time to do so before it rises up, bringing you right to end. If you don't reach power level 3, you can still beat the level but you have to do extra climbing. Looking back that wasn't obvious I'm afraid. Glad you liked it overall though, thanks for playing!
The climbing was very difficult but satisfying to master. You can schmove in this game
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Punch Nature HARD!
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