Really polished and good game. The idea is great and works really well. The controls did feel a bit floaty but with a bit of practice I got the hand of it. But otherwise, the style is great and it feels really polished and fun to play, Good work
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Only Down's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Theme | #65 | 4.000 | 4.000 |
| Graphics | #76 | 3.933 | 3.933 |
| Game Design | #104 | 3.567 | 3.567 |
| Overall | #115 | 3.456 | 3.456 |
| Fun | #121 | 3.467 | 3.467 |
| Innovation | #245 | 3.033 | 3.033 |
| Audio | #392 | 2.733 | 2.733 |
Ranked from 30 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?
Only Down follows the Diving Deeper theme through digging downwards, towards the core of the earth.
Did you write all the code and made all the assets from scratch?
Yes I wrote the code, and did most of the sprite work, while my sister helped with the sound FX and the TNT sprite work. Everything was from scratch. :)
Comments
The game is pretty fun, especially when you get really fast and break many different blocks without fails, but I ended up quitting at the inner core level, it was too hard.
But, the best strategy ends up being pretty much just, hold down, chance tool, tank 1 dynamite, and dodge others, especially because you need to be so fast and that minimizes movement, and that's not as fun as planning.
Then there's way too little sounds, you should add: getting damaged, dying, maybe speeding up down, going really fast down (like wind or something), tool chance, retry and menu button click. Maybe there are others too, but those I could hear were missing.
Then some of the sound that you do have, have a lot of noise, so you should fix that by using for example Audacitys noise suppression, or something else if want, that's just what I use.
Then you are missing a lot of feedback for when getting damaged, that sound effect, camera shake, and maybe like a red flash of the screen.
Then the art is really inconsistent, I can see you use assets, the ground and player have a very different style, also there's so many DIFFERENTLY SIZED PIXELS, please scale all pixel art the same size, it's gonna look 10x better, please just do it.
Also a trick that I tell everyone, please use post processing, bloom and vignette will make the game look so much better.
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The Breathless JourneyFun game. Great graphics. Only wish there was a key to toggle tools on the keyboard.
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Diving DeeperNice entry!, the player is too slippery and tool swap should have only been with the mouse
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Supernatural SkydiversThis game was good. I honestly wasn't a big fan of it. The item switching mechanic felt to clunky and could have been just one button press to switch instead of two different buttons. I also felt the player was a bit to slippery for this type of game, I feel it would have been better if the player just snapped to the different rows of the mine. I honestly really like the idea but just the way it is in this game just felt not that good.
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KidnappersINCPleasant simple graphics and simple gameplay though there is a lack of music
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