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A jam submission

Above and BeyondView game page

Submitted by BridgeOnAStick — 7 hours, 42 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Audio#304.0004.000
Overall#1113.7523.752
Game Design#1153.8463.846
Fun#1523.7183.718
Innovation#1603.6923.692
Theme#1793.9233.923
Graphics#5833.3333.333

Ranked from 39 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

In what way does your game fit the theme?
Work together to overcome obstacles you never would be able to overcome on your own.

Did you write all the code yourself and made all the assets from scratch?
Yes. All assets, including music, art and scripts were all made from scratch.

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Submitted(+1)

That is a lovely game you have there!

The comments below already pointed out the main points: Minimalist is good, gameplay smooth, great use of theme and music is work of art!

To try to give you something more:

-I feel like some clues for traps during the last flying level are appearing late on screen, making the time to react close to hard reflex games... I just found myself crying to my mom saying "I swear there was nothing here before" :'(

-Also someone said it already but the middle of each level is wandering around without info, sometimes with multiple ways to get to the same point, I see the purpose but it feels useless... Maybe add a little reward for taking the hard route would make it useful? (like strawberries in Celeste)

-It is while writing this comment that I understand the story, especially the triangles treachery when you fly first. I did not understood why the left me falling haha. Maybe make the blocks in white with red dots. It links to the next levels and make the whole world more logical imo.


Last but not least: How did you make that camera so smooth???? Please teach me!


Anyway, great job !

Developer (1 edit) (+1)

Thanks for the amazing feedback, I'm glad you liked it!

The camera is achieved via a helpful tool called cinemachine! It is a very simple camera system in unity and is downloadable for free.

Submitted

I did not know of that, thanks a lot!

Submitted(+1)

I absolutely loved the camera movement, made the gameplay so smooth, and the music was enjoyable!

Submitted(+1)

Wow that was amazing! Everything is so simple and minimalist, there's a real atmosphere going on. The levels are really well made, using the mechanics to their full potential. It felt incredible when you could actually fly, especially with the music. The only little issue I have is the sprite of the character that you control being pixelated and a bit too detailed compared to the rest of the minimalistic style, but that's really just being nit-picky. Great Job!

Developer

Thank you very much! Don't worry about being nit-picky, it's completely valid criticism and I genuinely did not think about that while making the game, so thank you!

Submitted

Wow that was amazing! Everything is so simple and minimalist, there's a real atmosphere going on. The levels are really well made, using the mechanics to their full potential. It felt incredible when you could actually fly, especially with the music. The only little issue I have is the sprite of the character that you control being pixelated and a bit too detailed compared to the rest of the minimalistic style, but that's really just being nit-picky. Great Job!

Submitted (1 edit) (+1)

Nice game. I love the feel of this game.

The player can get stuck if he moves against a side of a platform. (For this you can maybe disable friction.)

Good work

Submitted(+1)

That is great presentation and camera work, I especially like the part where your 8 "firefly" (?) buddies help you to fly straight up in that cut scene, and the music/sounds are well integrated with the gameplay, great work!

There seems to be a slight bug with the 2D collider/PhysicsBody, I can cling on to surfaces with the circular body.

I actually clung on for dear life when the fireflies failed to bring me up, lol.

Developer

Thanks for letting me know about the colliders! Thanks for playing!

Submitted(+1)

It's incredible how much you got done in only one week! The artstyle is simple but pleasing, the concept is great, and the music is sooo awesome. One of the best games of this jam I've played so far!

Developer

I'm glad you enjoyed it!

Submitted(+1)

the game is so simple and the music is very relaxing!

Developer(+1)

Thank you!

Submitted(+1)

wow! hidden surprise and an overall good combination of things you've implemented

becoming stronger and I can feel it and it would...

Submitted(+1)

I am gonna be honest, at first I doubted the game would be any good at first glance, but then after I played it, man I was really wrong. Really good game, reminds me heavily of journey because of its atmosphere. It was a great play and I recommend people to try it!

Developer(+1)

Thank you very much! Really flattered that it reminded you of Journey, I loved that game and wanted to do something similar, but with the theme of the jam in mind. I really appreciate it!

Submitted(+1)

Awesome feel and music! I loved the jump mechanic, it's so well done. Fits the theme well, great work! 

Developer

Thank you very much!

Submitted(+1)

very nice game, congrats

Submitted(+1)

Definitely worked very well with the theme, I felt very strongly that I was becoming stronger and more capable the more of those tiny triangle things followed me, and though that it lent itself well to some sense of progression, particularly in those 2 flying sections. That said, I felt that the game's main level design made for some very slapdash, underwhelming levels to explore that felt closer to mindless wandering rather than trying to find something. Almost all the aspects of this game come back to the fact that the 2 climactic sections are very impressively made across the board and served to greatly elevate many aspects of it, even if I definitely didn't enjoy myself as much with the fairly generic nature of the rest of the gameplay.

Developer

Thanks for the amazing feedback! The in-betweens are not polished enough, I agree. Time limitations took it's toll.

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