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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Overall | #1 | 4.318 | 4.318 |
| Graphics | #1 | 4.882 | 4.882 |
| Audio | #1 | 4.765 | 4.765 |
| Theme interpretation | #4 | 4.118 | 4.118 |
| Innovation | #4 | 4.000 | 4.000 |
| Gameplay | #5 | 3.824 | 3.824 |
Ranked from 17 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Source code repository URL
https://github.com/tinne26/bindless
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The music, graphics and atmosphere are all excellent! I never thought I would see such great work in a game jam!!
Good graphics, good music, good theme interpretation. Level 3 is difficult even with two tutorial levels. Maybe you should add some intermediate levels before that. Well done!
Yep. Level 3 doesn't have a great design (it's more confusing than it should be, but it took me a while to learn to design these levels), and a better tutorial would definitely be in order!
Played the first version when it was available as a wasm embed but didn't finish it, I use macos so shame I can't finish it now. Everything about this game is so polished! I loved the music and the graphics, and the puzzles were solid. Only complaint is that I'd love to be able to jump through the dialog faster, the text loads a little slowly but the backstory is pretty engaging.
Hey, I've re-added the WASM version so you can play. If you still have problems, as a last resource you can always try with:
I tried to cross-compile for macOS, but sadly it didn't work out (cgo incompatibilities). I'll figure it out eventually. Edit: ok, I think I did, feel free to try out the macOS binary.
You have always been able to skip text by pressing ESC. Sadly, that collided with exiting fullscreen in most browsers (I didn't really plan for WASM or test it). I've since added TAB as an alternative to ESC in case that's helpful.
Thank you!
Great graphics and music! I cannot believe that this game was made in 2 weeks!
I'll be completely honest, I originally didn't intend to participate. I'm always very reluctant to join something, as when I do, I have to make something I'm satisfied with (which is really, really hard, and I always end up pushing myself too much). There are still many things in the game that are clearly not good enough (tutorial, some level designs, magnetic simulation being slightly broken... and then a dozen smaller things more). I did definitely push myself too much and went a bit crazy at times in order to get enough of what I wanted done. I also always feel really uncomfortable writing code avoiding obstacles in order to move fast instead of properly solving the issues. The world as a whole always tends to move too fast and without enough care for what they step on.
But I did learn quite a few things, and I truly believe we ended up making something great of this jam all together. Every submission has been an important one and has made this jam more unique and memorable. I'm content to have been part of this.
Actually, I have the same tendency to seek perfection. This is why the game I made for the game jam is hilarious. Because in order for me to make a cool game, I have to carefully finish my assets. But I didn't have enough time for that. A Hilarious game masks the messiness of the assets with atmosphere. I think its great you made up a cool game!
The music is absolutely amazing! Great game!
Thanks, I've been playing in bands and making music for quite a few years.
If you really like it, I added the OST as a downloadable zip in the main page, featuring uncompressed and slightly extended versions of the two songs. Or you can also get the game versions from github!
That's very nice! I've been reading through your source code while jamming to that incredible song, gotta say it is very insightful ;) Thanks!
Amazing graphics, music, and game! I love the retro pixel-perfect dot graphics and beautiful high resolution texts, and comfortable music. The levels are very challenging but very satisfying when I beated them. Great job!
P.S. I appreciate your help to debug Ebitengine :-)
Honestly, this astonishing..
The home-made audio creates a really nice atmosphere, and sets the tone for the hyper-polished text lore coming through nice animations.
The sound effects suit perfectly everywhere, pixel art mixed with high-res text worked like a charm.
So that's what I thought your game was about at first, efforts have been put into details but something else should be missing.. But no? This is an almost complete game!
Puzzles and new mechanics are very well introduced, it might take some time to realize that there is some real-time aspect to it in the first levels (but it shouldn't be made more obvious to me, because we figure it out).
The game is hard, but it's fine, balancing through levels is well done also (difficulty increasing correctly).
So, I finished it, and I want more..
Can't believe this is actually your first game jam ever, well done, I really hope you keep doing some!
(This was easy to rate)