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Serpent Scale Quest - Pico-8's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Gameplay | #173 | 3.070 | 3.070 |
| Theme interpretation | #179 | 3.163 | 3.163 |
| Overall | #201 | 3.093 | 3.093 |
| Audio | #205 | 2.930 | 2.930 |
| Graphics | #216 | 3.140 | 3.140 |
| Innovation | #263 | 2.651 | 2.651 |
Ranked from 43 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
GitHub repository URL
https://github.com/Sadodare/serpent_scale_quest
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So, I don't get the theme, and it's unfortunate because the game looks beautiful (I love that old school style)
Thank you for playing. I won't force my thinking on the theme "scale" for anyone so I appreciate your feedback that it didn't come through for you there.
I just realised snake / scale x)
lol my bad
Rate no. 11
The good stuff:
- The snake movement is fluid
- I liked the level select screen
The stuff to improve:
- The hitboxes of "enemies" are way too big
- The player is way too big and makes the game unnecessarily hard
- The game has nothing to do with the theme. Creating a snake clone and then replacing the apple with scales is just bad, you can do better than that.
- In the first level, sometimes the scales counted twice
- You can spawn and immediately die. You can easily fix that by not spawning any "enemies" for a few seconds on spawn.
There isn't much more to talk about, it's a really simple game with a couple of issues.
Appreciate the feedback. Thank you for trying it out. If you had tried earth it's got a balancing math game that's more themed. I tried to implement scale multiple ways but perhaps it didn't come through as hoped.
Damn, that was difficult! Maybe I'm wrong, but does the speed of the snake increase when it gets bigger? Anyway, I love the game. Well done!
Speed does increase, yes. I intend to have a difficulty trigger feature added after the jam but didn't have time before. Thank you for spending the time trying my game and the comments! Glad you enjoy.
The game turned out to be harder than I expected xD. I liked the chapter selection mechanic. Well done!
Thank you for playing and the comments!
pico-8 <3 very nice idea how to interpret scale in different forms. also shows how well thought your approach was since all the different levels have different characteristics. well done!
Thank you for the review! Glad you enjoyed it. I am only just learning games and Pico-8 just seemed like a nice playpen.
Thank you for spending the time trying my game and the comments!
Simple but fun game. Really difficult I'm surprised I was able to beat the fire level. Nice work
Thank you! Yeah the levels generating the way they do can be a bit challenging. The water level having different velocity and direction each reset is what usually keeps me occupied and I made it, lol.
Neat little puzzle game; really liked the weighted scale level.
Thank you! I enjoy that puzzle, too. Was interesting trying to come up with the right way to have the weights add to each side. Kept having the idea of pushing them into place in my mind but thought they'd get hard to move around and eventually landed on what's there.
I really like it! Overall neat and polished game, the concept is nice and on point. I also love the artstyle :)
Thank you for the review. Happy you enjoyed it!