nice little puzzle platformer, presentation is great, I think the smaller levels with smaller chunks at a time are best. Nice work!
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WHL-B0's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Presentation | #85 | 4.267 | 4.267 |
| Theme | #121 | 3.867 | 3.867 |
| Fun | #238 | 3.200 | 3.200 |
| Originality | #294 | 3.400 | 3.400 |
Ranked from 15 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
How does your game represent "Power"?
WHL-B0 relies on his power meter to do pretty much anything (moving, jumping, carrying, blasting, etc.)
Comments
As others have said, the longer puzzles are a bit rough, especially the one in that third room where there are so many ways to lock yourself. Other than that, the game looks and sounds amazing, and you have a really good foundations with these mechanics. All you really need is short, snappier puzzles. I hope you keep working on this!
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Arc BreakerSuper cool! Love the music and the lighting, makes it feel like I'm exploring a medieval castle. I didn't get too far, I think the third level. Took quite a while to get back where I was after running out of juice, I think it would be more fun with faster paced gameplay. Nice job!
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Climbin' Clifflove the atmosphere >:3 it's so somber and pensive, i'd love to see WHL-B0 drop some heavy shit on me. i think the energy mechanic is cool but sometimes feels like a bit of an artificial limitation. but i like the puzzles u got, would definitely play 20 or so levels of it!!!
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A Pyre HorizonInteresting concept.
Unfortunately I think it's more tedious than enjoyable. Once you figure out how staircasing works you have pretty much seen all the concepts. Also I don't think the power mechanic adds too much to it. It is more of an annoyance that punishes small mistakes in execution.
The further rooms made exhale slowly the moment I saw what the objective was but knew that executing the solution would take ages.
Art-wise this is great and I enjoyed the music and atmosphere very much.
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A Pyre Horizonreally fun and interesting puzzle game, don't think I've seen one like it before, the music and graphics are definitely up to par too
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Powered PlantsLove the music! The controls were a bit confusing at first, but after a while it does feel quite intuitive with the climbing and carrying. Also very chill and puzzly vibes, but I didn't get quite far unfortunately, at the 3 box stacking to be exact - I kinda got stuck there. The energy/timer mechanic also made it so I wasn't really able to think out the stacking in time, making it reset and I have to repeat it over again.
In any way, great work!
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WaterworksThank you! It was definitely a struggle to balance giving the player enough power to explore the "puzzle space" while still maintaining the importance of resource (power) management. I feel like there's either an interesting sweet-spot or some added mechanic that solves that issue, but I couldn't quite pin it down. Maybe something like a "visualize"-mode (w/ no energy drain) to try stuff out, and an "actualize"-mode (w/ energy drain) to actually solve it?
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