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A jam submission

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Project for The BigMode Game Jam '25
Submitted by jtnoble — 1 hour, 53 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Theme#2493.3853.385
Presentation#2893.3463.346
Fun#3942.7312.731
Originality#5622.5002.500

Ranked from 26 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

How does your game represent "Power"?
You are powerless, as your powers have been taken from you and other powerful beings. You attempt to restore everyone's powers.

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Submitted(+1)

Very nice graphics on this game - good job!

Submitted(+1)

His was a lot of good stuff! It is a great base for something larger. 

Submitted(+1)

cool polished and well balanced platform. enough content for jam, and boss and exploration, and even credits. cool!

Submitted(+1)

Mhm definitely got that Hollow Knight energy, love that sort of thing. For quick jam like this I appreciate squeezing in some platforming, enemies, a boss fight, and an ability upgrade. Great work!

Submitted(+1)

From another person who made a game called POWERLESS with metroidvania elements, I approve! Haha.

I really like this. I appreciate that you showed us problems that we couldnt solve before we got the power to solve them. As soon as I saw that first long jump, I know I was in a metroidvania!

Nice job, very well put together!

Developer(+1)

No joke, the very first thing I did upon submitting was searching if anyone else had the same name lol. Your game was great too! Glad to see the other powerless guy also took a look at mine! Thanks for playing!

Submitted(+1)

Love the Hollow knight vibe! Really cool!

Submitted(+1)

really nice game 🔥 i hope you will rate my game 🧡🔥

Submitted(+1)

The character is cute, and the graphic atmosphere is great!

Submitted(+1)

The game is very smooth. Very cute animations. The dying animation is so sad haha

Submitted(+1)

Nice short game,  music is good and lightning effects with the lighting is also cool, would be nice for more levels with different powers, maybe mixing different ones together

Developer(+1)

I have so many ideas for a larger scale, definitely thinking about other powers! Thanks for playing!

Submitted(+1)

Nice Game, I thought the Text took a bit too long.
Also the Boss sometimes slided weirdly.

Other than that nice game

Developer(+1)

Yeah I could never fully figure out why the boss would slide weird (especially at the beginning). Seems like some weird Godot stuff where if you set variables from other nodes directly it behaves odd.

And yeah I should've honestly put a skip intro button. Good ol time crunch lol. 


Thanks for playing!

Submitted(+1)

mechanics feel good, great style and very nice level design. enjoyable platformer, great work!

Submitted(+1)

Nice mood and style. Well done! 

The edge detection (that moved the camera) felt a bit off sometimes, moving it only partially and sometimes not at all or too early.

Submitted(+1)

I'm not a very big metroidvania kinda guy, but this game was pretty solid, could do with some more polish but I think even without that it's a good entry. Good job!

Submitted(+1)

Huge fan of the visuals, very well done.

Submitted(+1)

I like the art style in it a lot

Submitted(+1)

Really loved the level design and art style in this, and the atmosphere is fantastic! 

Submitted(+1)

I'm not the biggest metroidvania guy, but your game has some really good atmosphere and level design! Great job!

Submitted(+1)

unlimited powaa!
It feels like the lightning is the wrong way around because the tip just cuts off.
I think this is a really cool story for a metroidvania and you've managed to fit a lot of content for a solo dev!

Developer(+1)

Honestly good point about the lightning. I think if I had just added a couple of tails to the front side it would've looked much better. The goal was to have the jolt be fatter near the player and skinny at the tip, but I think making it skinny on both ends would've helped a ton!

Thanks for playing! Juggling this and a full time job was tough!

Submitted(+1)

Lovely game!! I love the use of lightning and all of the art, make the game look stunning. A little difficult too. Although there was an audio toggle I couldn't get the audio to work on my end? Overall though the game Is great!! Keep up the good w

Developer

Interesting that the audio didn't work. Truthfully it's a bit quiet (my TV for example is plenty loud at 15/50, but the game requires me to make is 30/50 to hear it well), so maybe that played part? Or my spaghetti code, one of the two lol.

Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you!

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