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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Audio | #2 | 4.410 | 4.714 |
| Theme | #2 | 4.677 | 5.000 |
| Originality | #2 | 4.410 | 4.714 |
| Fun | #3 | 3.875 | 4.143 |
| Visuals | #4 | 4.276 | 4.571 |
| Digital Games | #7 | 4.677 | 5.000 |
| Analog Games | #8 | 0.935 | 1.000 |
Ranked from 7 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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You play as a train which is driving on rails.
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This game seems fun - the mechanics are interesting, the controls are good, and I love the aestehetic - but it's the only game in this jam that my laptop struggled to run. I'll have to give it another shot once I set up my desktop again.
Oof, one other comment stated as well that the performance was bad on their laptop. I certainly didn't optimize much and didn't care much about performance, because I thought that it shouldn't really matter for this kind of simple game. 😅
Out of curiosity: may I ask what specs your laptop has? Is it like super old/bad or just recent low/mid-tier and normally should be able to run such kind of game? 😬 (EDIT: Okay, nevermind the question. Just checked again and the game brings my GPU to 50%, it's a 1070TI. That certainly shouldn't happen and is totally on me, fully ignoring optimization, sorry for that.) EDIT2: Brought it down to like 7.5% in 15min with some changes that don't affect the visual look at all. Well, I definitely should have looked into this at least for a second. 🤦♂️
Thanks for your nice words, of course!
Very cool game ! The gameplay works wonders, even tho the controls could be refined some more. Great leveraging of free assets too ^^
This is fantastic, so polished and coherent, and I was delighted when I found out I'd be able to defend my train.
I will say that Level 1 was instantly too hard for me with the number and density of enemy trucks, but that just feels like a balance issue (or maybe a skill issue on my part) in a fully realised game. Very nice work.
Really great! I love the idea that that making your train better also makes it worse! The menus are great, as are the sound effects and visuals. I definitely had some issues leading my shots well. It’s likely a skill issue, but having some visual cues in the snow to know how fast and the trucks are going would be helpful. Great submission!
I really love this. Great idea, visuals, sounds and music. A bit too difficult, I'm on a pretty slow laptop right now though, so maybe it's not that difficult with good fps.
Really cool, great idea! Quite challenging, but I love the additional Christmas theme 🌲
You seemed to have succeed in keeping it simple to have time for polish, well done!
A small detail: I suggest to remove shadows for fired arrows, because I find the screen a little hard to read with multiple crosshair wagons firing at the same time.
Hey, thanks for the comment. Removing the shadows of the arrows is really a great idea, that increases the readability a lot. I didn't notice it before, but looking at it again, with shadows it really looks like all arrows are there twice.😄