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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Graphics | #47 | 4.100 | 4.100 |
| Game Design | #60 | 3.800 | 3.800 |
| Overall | #90 | 3.558 | 3.558 |
| Fun | #108 | 3.550 | 3.550 |
| Audio | #111 | 3.350 | 3.350 |
| Innovation | #181 | 3.200 | 3.200 |
| Theme | #216 | 3.350 | 3.350 |
Ranked from 20 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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Awesome game, I frickin love the animations on the character, I'd guess they took a good day or two. I love how their hat bobs up and down, and how the attack animation has variants for up and down. Speaking of the attack anim, I simply love how it looks, just the sharp and snappy slam into the ground, with the dust effect in the ground, it's just a really good effect. My main criticism towards the game is the varying pixel size, as the player character seems scaled up from everything else. In general, pixel art looks better when every pixel is the same size, and scaling up the player character looked a bit weird. I experienced the same bug as the guy below, as well as a bug that gave me infinite score; the carrots were all gone but the game kept going, allowing me to rack up as much score as I needed.
Overall, the game was tough, but I think that made it more fun, as runs were quick, and constant strategy was required. I quite like the premise, and wish I could play the other maps (which are bugged for me). Great job with your game, it's seriously underrated, but I'm proud to provide the 20th rating =)
Hi! Thank you so much for playing our game and we're glad you enjoyed it.
The character sprites did indeed take a little more than 2 days to complete and took away a lot of our time, so much so that I had regrets dedicating so much time to it, instead of focusing the effort on other aspects of the game. So I'm thankful for your comment. Neither of us is an artist, so to create the character sprite sheet I took a lot of inspiration (almost copying frame by frame) from this gif, which resulted in that "sharp and snappy" feeling you're talking about. Again it means a lot to us that you liked it.
The player character is definitely scaled up, because the rest of the art is not out own and it looked too small otherwise, definitely a lesson learned for the future.
Same with the bugs, a lack of planification and overconfidence made us neglect the testing fase and we found the bugs hours before submiting the game, when we were too tired to fix them. Taking notes for the next one.
Thank you so much for your feedback! We really appreciate it.
Really fun game! The art and animations are excellent and the music fits really well. Its incredibly hard but thats not a bad thing in my opinion just a game design choice. My highscore was 8250. I am running into an issue. After my first couple games I exited and went to a new map. Now whenever I hit the first rabbit the game freezes and the browser gives me an error. I can provide more details on it if you have need. Great work!
Thank you so much for playing and enjoying our game! And congratulations on your highscore. I was trying to flex on you by looking up my highscore, but is says 9807, so it's clearly not from the same version of the game.
We are aware that the other maps do not work and we know why it happens. But anyway, thank you for your offer and we're sorry you couldn't enjoy the other levels.
nice game! the graphics are good and it has a simple mechanic! although i feel like the game is unreasonably hard. overall a good game. good luck
Really cool game, I really like the animation when you hit a rabbit even tough it's cruel :(. Still over all really cool game well done.
Hahaha. First of all thank you for playing the game and we're glad you enjoyed it. At first we had moles in the game, but ended up using rabbits. The first thought that came to my mind when we did the change: "Wow! Killing rabbits is fucked up". So yeah you're totally right xD. We even tried to make it less cruel by having the points pop up in brightful colors.
I know that's why it's satisfying but it makes it even weirder XD
Amazing looking game. The artwork is absoloutely awesome. A little bit too difficult because the rabbits are spawning too fast in my opinion but overall pretty addictive game. Keep up the good work.
Great idea and great execution! This was a challenging game, but you made the movement feel smooth and fun!
Fun Game, poor rabbits tho :I
Really enjoyd the game. The graphics are nice and the audio is pretty cool. good Job. However Mr. Rabbit, our game main character got a little bit traumatized. xDDDDD
Those little rascals are fast!
Great mechanics! Smacking the rabbits feels incredibly satisfying.
Daaaaamn rabits taking my carrots >.< Really nice game! The controls are super snappy and satisfying, music and art are excellent.
Wow, why this game so underrated? Pretty good idea and design , really love that!
Very nice Game. Excellent graphics. good job
A very interesting game to say the least. However only the first level works. All the other levels are broken. It also gets very hard pretty easily.
Yeah we hope to fix those after the jam. We had several problems on our last hours and couldn't achieve what we wanted.
Thanks for playing it!
Is it github to blame? xD