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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Fun | #307 | 3.403 | 3.403 |
| Game Design | #319 | 3.417 | 3.417 |
| Innovation | #369 | 3.250 | 3.250 |
| Theme | #411 | 3.361 | 3.361 |
| Overall | #431 | 3.248 | 3.248 |
| Audio | #523 | 3.000 | 3.000 |
| Graphics | #725 | 3.056 | 3.056 |
Ranked from 72 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?
Fight in the Chaos Arena, where even the ground is unpredictable. (Pro tip: try playing with the "Retro" setting turned on in the options menu if you feel nostalgic)
Did you write all the code yourself and made all the assets from scratch?
The project uses some visual and audio assets from the Unity Asset Store.
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Very fun game I liked the sinking platform mechanic very unique! :D
This game was really fun to play! I wanted to keep going and getting upgrades haha. I think it wasn't super chaotic, but I still had a blast playing it.
I love the addition of the shop and the idea of jumping between platforms to keep going. Really well done.
Wow really well done. I love how the shop gives the game a lot of replayability and the controls were great!
We enjoyed this game!
The ball movement was nice, yet we were confused if the lava did damage or not until we realized the healthbar was going down.We felt that the Shopitems were quite balanced.
Nevertheless, quite a fun game!
Thank you for the review!
I tried to make sure the players know what damages them by adding some screenshake and audio effects when damage occurs.
Very fun and polished game! Well done!
Amazing! This game is so well made for the time frame, the music and sound is great, and it's just fun to play!
Thanks for playing it!
Loved everything about the game.
Would appreciate if you give mine a try: https://itch.io/jam/brackeys-6/rate/1176432
Cool one! Enjoyed the game :)
Really fun game! Don't have much else to add so, excellent work!
Really enjoyed this! The ball movement was really nice. I would have loved more of an opportunity to move around just with the normal movement. Felt like the meta was jump spamming, which is unfortunate given how nice the grounded movement is.
I also would have personally like the jumps to like set your upward velocity to some constant. It felt more like a force being applied. In other words, jump while falling = smaller jump. Given the cost of the jumps in the shop I would have liked more jump power so that jumps have more utility when you've been falling for a bit.
All in all though, quite a fun game! I was pretty surprised when I looked in the shop and realized what I could buy. I was a bit worried the extra jumps were going to be too cheap and abusable, but overall I think it was well balanced.
One last thought: I would have like to see more of a balance between the lava (or whatever) damage and the damage from enemies. Lava feels like a non-issue with 0 threat, whereas basic enemy shots feel super impactful and scary. That's probably what you were going for, and I guess the lava shouldn't be too strong with the player falling in it so often. I'm honestly not sure! But the lava just felt more annoying than it actually felt like a core mechanic of the game, in a way.
Thanks for the detailed review!
I was aware of most of the problems you mentioned, a lot of them exist because I ran out of time to make them better. I wanted to make lava more of a threat but I couldn't think of a good way to achieve that. I could punish the player somehow when they touched it, for example taking away the ability to jump for a few seconds but I thought that would be too annoying. Maybe with an easy tutorial level the player could learn the movement and get comfortable with the controls.
Your point about the jump implementation is absolutely right, it should set the upward velocity, not just add a force.
Balancing is also a thing I struggled with. I didn't have enough time to make it right so much of it was just guessing. I'm glad you think it was all right in the end.
So to sum it up, if I could change anything it would be to make the basic enemies damage less in the beginning and implement some mechanic that makes the lava more dangerous.
Out of curiosity, how many seconds did you survive? I was worried I made the beginning too slow so some players just give up before seeing all the enemy types. Also, how many powerups did you get? Their spawn rate could be a little higher I think.
It was challenging yet fun, made me play several times to try all the things available :D
I agree with the other comment that its super addictive. And the shop was a great way to keep us playing. You did a really good job. Great execution
This is really really addictive I love the upgrade shop.
Fun and engaging, shop system is amazing!
Really fun! the shop alone made me play 3 times!
Very nice little game. It really gets chaotic towards the end.
Had fun and the shop is very cool. chaotic indeed :)
The shop system was very cool. It felt a little slow at first but got more fun when more enemies spawned.