The zoom in was great! The gameplay self was really solid except for a single thing, the penguin would sometimes flip for no reason causing a unfair loss for the player. Other than that, nice work!
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Flap & Freeze's itch.io pageResults
Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
Fun | #1 | 4.323 | 4.323 |
Theme | #1 | 4.387 | 4.387 |
Overall | #3 | 3.916 | 3.916 |
Originality | #7 | 4.065 | 4.065 |
Audio | #17 | 3.387 | 3.387 |
Art | #29 | 3.419 | 3.419 |
Ranked from 31 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Did your team create most/all of the graphics yourselves?
Yes
Did your team create most of/all the audio yourselves?
No
How did you incorporate the theme "FREEZE"?
Freeze Mechanic. Penguin Vibes. Icy Wonderland
Comments
The screen when you crash is amazing. It's fun and a nice challenge. Although I ended up upside down a little more than I'd like!
It was a great idea to limit what the player can do to two things! I'm really impressed by how well the mechanics fit the theme and how well it still works as a mechanic.
The things you can do are very simple, yet the ways in which you can use them are super varied and creative. It involves thinking about what is possible, and it involves executing tricky combinations of the two inputs like freezing to turn at a corner. It seems like this game applies the design philosophies you hear about in video essays like those from Mark Brown's GMTK. Well done!
The music fits (although you didn't make it) and you put some real effort to also theme the whole game about ice and freezing, with the penguin and the snow effects and the backgrounds. I also like how the penguin freezes at the goal area and again recalls the theme. Talking about it, you did so well to make the player character so expressive, I love the flapping as well as the freezing, and love the sunglasses!
The only criticism I have is that sometimes you feel a bit tricked, like when you go on a platform and you don't move with it like in most platformers. The levels with red ice behind the goal area also kind of fall into this category, it's very hard for those to get the timing of freezing right. Though I did it after a while, it didn't feel as fun as the rest. I would also suggest adding some checkpoints so if you brave one difficult stretch, you can tackle the next one in peace. But this is maybe a bit beyond the scope of a short game jam, and it's just as great to have more levels, which you made a lot of! Totally worht spending the time on that.
Overall, a phenomenal game that integrates the theme at every step, is fun to play and offers lots of content for a jam game, especially for a solo dev.
Pretty fun! Getting the speed for the big jump was pretty cool.
At first I didnt understand how to proceed, but once I realized it, I had a lot of fun! Really fun!
Nice work! Very well put together with well thought out obstacles. Only issue I had was that I'd sometimes rotate in undesirable ways, but a minor inconvenience!
Awesome game!some levels were kinda hard but i still had alot of fun with it!
Very nice take on the theme. I love the transition screens, the music fits the game perfectly and it has a really cute art. Great job overall!
This game was so much fun! I can totally see it being an app in the app store!
It fit the theme perfectly
Had fun while playing this while waiting for voting solid game keep up the great work!
The use of freeze adds a fresh take to this genre which I haven't seen before. The gameplay is fun and well presented.
Reminds me a lot of classic flash games. Very on point with the theme.
Very creative concept. I enjoyed it. This sliding penguin could be an awesome friend to have in a mobile game.
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