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A jam submission

Dr. ArchieView game page

A short rage platformer about an archaeologist traveling through the multiverse to find his wealth.
Submitted by GhostlyGates217, LittleRumble632, dqssq, Vikutlak — 4 hours, 8 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Playability#153.6673.667
Theme Implementation#352.7502.750
Artistic Style#432.7502.750

Ranked from 12 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

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The Additional Theme(s) where NOT used

Give a quick overview of your game, and how you worked the theme into it.
You play as an adventurer who travels from universe to universe, stealing artefacts and escaping before they are caught.

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Comments

Submitted(+1)

Fun Game, Nice Soundtrack, and Simple yet Good Art

Also maybe set the Jump to Space and Warp to Right Shift or something hehe

Submitted(+1)

Funny idea with those two dimensions. Gameplay is challenging and might be even more funny with some polish. Sometimes it's unclear in which dimension are the platforms. Also the controls are unecessarly confusing, when I was trying to use 'space' I keep mixing up the jump with dimension switch. Better to stick with the standard approach, it's just makes user experience less frustrating. Anyway, it's really interesting game and has a really good level design. Nicely done!

Developer

Thank you so much! I'll keep this in mind for next time :D

Submitted(+1)

Hi! Played your game through and here are some notes based on my experience:

  • Music was a great choice! Sounds good and feels like fitting the game well.
  • Game concept was simple and understandable. Not necessarily unique as I've seen similar ideas before, but a solid implementation of the concept nevertheless.
  • The game was fun to play and mostly had good level of difficulty but at point there was a part that was extremely difficult which I didn't quite enjoy (The problem was that I always ended up jumping on the orange things at the roof)
  • Graphics were mostly clear in their meaning, even thought the style was different for some elements. Overall I feel they were reasonable for a game jam scope. Only things that were unclear in art were 1) in one level there was some red teleporter that spawned me to another room. However it looked exactly like a normal red platform. 2) tho contrast between a red/blue platform being on or off could have been a lot clearer as now I wasn't always sure which were on and which off
  • I didn't understand how the game connects to the theme. Would you like to elaborate that?

Overall, the game was enjoyable experience even if not fully polished. The scope worked well in a jam game. If there is something spesific you would like to ask of a player, feel free to ask and I'll try to provide you my opinions. I would also like to welcome you to try my jam as well at some point if you feel like and would appreciate any feedback you might have about it.

Developer(+1)

Thanks so much! This is really good feedback, quite a lot of it is stuff we discussed but we just didn't end up resolving it before the release. I hope you enjoyed it though.

Submitted(+2)

Interesting platformer! I like it! Also a cool idea! It would be cool if different universes have different environments and designs

Developer(+1)

That would have been awesome to add! Glad you enjoyed it. :D

Submitted(+2)

Music was great, and solid platforming! Would have loved if you had time to put in some actual art for the blocks rather than just the square but thats the nature of a gamejam right? :)

Submitted (1 edit) (+3)

I like the platform switching but the controls were hard to get used to. Not using space bar for jump really threw me off.

Developer(+1)

I hadn't actually considered spacebar for jump, I'll have to look into adding that as an option.

Submitted(+1)

Nice

Developer

hello thanks for playing , I know spacebar is usually the jump button but we wanted to avoid keyboard ghosting. 

Cheap keyboards are made in a way some inputs combinations won't register . It often happens with the spacebar so we changed

Submitted(+3)

Really fun platforming and responsive, very clever use of purple blocks. Check points were forgiving but just right.

Developer

Thank you so much! Glad you enjoyed it!

Submitted(+3)

Nice game, but the theme is not really there I think. Also, the controls are not the best (jump on W and change dimensions on space could have been swap for me). Anyways, well done !

Developer(+1)

Thank you so much! We did have a panic moment last night when we realised we hadn't really made the story obvious enough and the theme layed mostly in the story.