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A jam submission

Echoes Vol. 1View game page

Submitted by Plume Pond (@PlumePond) — 10 minutes, 14 seconds before the deadline

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Criteria	Rank	Score*	Raw Score
Audio	#2	4.326	4.326
Theme	#7	4.395	4.395
Overall	#12	4.008	4.008
Innovation	#18	3.930	3.930
Graphics	#20	4.279	4.279
Game Design	#30	3.953	3.953
Fun	#234	3.163	3.163

Ranked from 43 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?
The player must dive deeper in order to save himself both physically and spiritually.

Did you write all the code and made all the assets from scratch?
Not all, but most

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Goxie198613Submitted1 year ago

Magnificien one! Voice acting is superb and story is great and it sounds and feels so profesional that blows me away. Gameplay is fine, but some directions in dark would be helpful. Congrats!

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Under After

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Ludus Pax StudioSubmitted1 year ago

Really great and ambitious project for a game jam . I like the story and game-play mechanics. Quite different and new. I didn't get too far but i really enjoyed the game.

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Forest of the Forgotten

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Thunder Fox StudiosSubmitted1 year ago

Very interesting concept and story.

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Byte Bound

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KevEatsCheeseSubmitted1 year ago

20th rating!! :)

This game is really neat. I liked the story and the game's aesthetic. I think it could've been a little spookier but nice job overall. It played really well.

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Molegan's Quest - Jam Edition

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DubsomniSubmitted1 year ago

The feel of the game was nice and easily understandable. had an interesting story i could easily get behind on an expanded. Loved the sonar mechanic.

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Downsizing

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SoyVixterDevSubmitted1 year ago

Amazing story, concept and audio design, the narrative was deep (pun definitely intended), and the visuals complemented everything else.

The gameplay got a little bit repetitive and frustrating because of all the possible wrong paths you can get stuck exploring but overall a cool experience.

I did find a pretty OP exploit though, if you spam Space just after getting to a beacon you can basically have infinite battery until you stop pressing space because it keeps regenerating.

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Divemensions

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K4lamariSubmitted1 year ago (1 edit) (+1)

The voice acting was fantastic and really gave life to the characters in this narrative. Not to mention the art direction, which I found pretty unique and fitting for this jam. Gameplay got a bit repetitive and tiresome after a while but the story kept me going.

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Kitchen Diver

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pryanksterSubmitted1 year ago(+1)

excellent! love the voice acting and unique gameplay. it took me a bit to figure out that using sonar ate power, so I was really pinging like crazy, when I got the first "look for a beacon" message I was very far away from it. Maybe a "disposable" beacon near the start just to keep idiots from giving up? :-) Amazing job for 1 week!

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evie and juno

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Plume PondDeveloper1 year ago

Thank you for the update. The "initial beacon" is a good idea. We'll discuss using it in a future update.

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Flo McQ.Submitted1 year ago(+1)

The voice acting and style was amazing - it's reminiscent of Firewatch by Campo Santo/Panic for me. The idea is also really cool, and I'm super impressed this was made in a one-week period. The narrative was gripping too, I really wanted to know the end result but unfortunately it was a little too difficult for me and my skills. My only recommendation would be to balance the gameplay by offering some guidance (either after a certain amount of time has passed without finding a beacon, or after a certain number of beacons are collected). After my 6th beacon I started feeling a little directionless and for me personally I would've required an in-game pointer. Overall, astounding!!

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Memoriam

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Plume PondDeveloper1 year ago(+1)

Excellent feedback. On our next update we're releasing a way to save your progress so that the next time you start the game you can start at the beacon you left off at. This was made by a father and son team and we had a blast!

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Flo McQ.Submitted1 year ago

That's very cool, you can definitely tell the vision is unified! Congrats :)

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kvvoyaSubmitted1 year ago

Good game! Voice acting and narrative is exceptionally good for a game jam game :)

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Abysmo

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JyotirmoySubmitted1 year ago

The game idea was really cool. It took me sometime to understand how to play the game. And the voice was really good.

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