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A jam submission

Volatile VentureView game page

The great volcano Maat Mons has errupted on Venus. Your job is to scout it out and find the source of the disturbance.
Submitted by ENDevour (@endevour97) — 2 hours, 44 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Game Design#413.8503.850
Fun#573.7003.700
Overall#1343.4173.417
Audio#1383.3503.350
Innovation#2802.9502.950
Graphics#2913.3003.300
Theme#3223.3503.350

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

How does your game fit the theme?
You have to keep going deeper to scout out the mountain

Did you write all the code and made all the assets from scratch?
All of the assets were made from scratch other than the fonts

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Comments

Submitted(+1)

Nice graphics and very impressive that you can also do an upgrade system with ui in such short time! Good job!

Submitted(+1)

i liked the pixel art and i liked the game mechanics more

Cool

Submitted(+1)

The pixel art as well as the games animations are really well done. The audio is sounds great and doesn't take you out of the game. My main feedback would be to place more of the crystals or signal that you should upgrade for a boss battle. Another suggestion would be to add some background textures or mossy tiles. The boss battle was very well done with varied attacks and animations. Overall very well done. :D

Submitted(+1)

The little touches really make this game work. On top of the graphical details like the character's footsteps and squishing when they hit the ground, and the animations of the tutorial sprites appearing and disappearing, I was so pleasantly surprised and delighted when I saw how the gun's recoil would affect my air movement. I hit a second moment of awe at the first text popup, and the idea that there was something more to explore compelled me to finish the game. I was amazed by the boss and had a third moment of awe when it turned out to have multiple phases! There's a lot of potential here if you wanted to expand on it, but as it is this was a really fun short adventure.

Submitted(+1)

This game is a ton of fun. The enemies feel varied and exciting to face. The movement and shooting feels responsive and the recoil mechanic adds a lot to the platforming segments. Love the upgrades too. I just want to play more honestly, nice job

Submitted(+1)

The game is definitely promising :) For this length, it's too monotone, but if you add more content and upgrade the graphics and audio to also be more interesting, then you'll have a very good game! Good job

Submitted(+1)

Very nice game with great atmosphere, controls, and graphics. Adding the gun's recoil into the mechanics makes for great ways to solve problems. First place you learn to use recoil to jump higher is pretty vague though.

Submitted(+1)

I love the amount of movement options I was given from the get-go itself. The extra jump height when I shot the plasma rifle at the right angle was so satisfying. I really enjoyed playing this game! I also loved the enemy variety and their attack patterns too!

Submitted(+1)

A lot of great things in the game: controls feel smooth (nice touch with the recoil!), it's atmospheric and pretty. But I've reached the part where the tutorial suggestion to use LMB appeared - and there is nothing to use it on, while the character is facing too high of a cliff to jump on. So I just couldn't make it past there, therefore not much content was revealed. But the core looks promising.

Developer

I wanted it be a bit of a puzzle. You're supposed to boost yourself with the gun to get on top. Still, thanks for the feedback!

Submitted(+1)

Cool atmosphere in the game and dynamic music. I like it

Submitted(+1)

Really fun game! I love the movement! especially how you can shoot down to give yourself some height off of the recoil! it's also really fun bunny hopping around and shooting behind yourself, you can get some crazy speed with that. The levels are also very well designed, i can see that a lot of thought was put into their structure, as they add a sense of progression to the game. The final boss was also really fun to fight! I also love the little squish animation the player does when he lands

Submitted(+1)

That was an experience, the music really added to the mysteriousness to the whole situation. It all felt alot like metroid.

The movement felt snappy and the sounds added to that feeling.. I loved shooting the gun to boost myself.

The final boss was hard as expected, but the overall difficulty of the game was really well balanced.

Nice game, really enjoyed it.

Submitted(+1)

Oh that was really great! I can see a lot of care went into it, there were great situations with the level design, the mechanics were taught in a great way and I enjoyed the animations on the different enemies and ores

Congrats!

Submitted(+1)

i almost beat game with only feet but losy at very end ): am sad.

Submitted(+1)

Great game <3

Submitted(+1)

This game was an absolute blast. The platforming and mining and shooting were all exceptional. I especially loved using the gun to modify my jumps. I'm not sure if it was just due to the upgrades I picked, but I struggled a lot with the final boss and was unable to beat him. Nonetheless, top notch game for a jam.