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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Overall | #11 | 3.624 | 3.624 |
| Audio | #11 | 3.588 | 3.588 |
| Theme | #14 | 4.176 | 4.176 |
| Graphics | #19 | 3.882 | 3.882 |
| Innovation | #23 | 3.235 | 3.235 |
| Gameplay | #29 | 3.235 | 3.235 |
Ranked from 17 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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Retro / Post mortem
Wait, where did you get those images on the preview pictures?
Unicode / Emojis?
I haven’t the right font here, so the game resolved around comparing Unicode codepoints being shown as fallback glyph here …
A lil bummer, that the bar at the bottom was out of view so I only could estimate the time depending on the luminance …
it’s Unicode. What’s you OS and browser?
Sabayon Linux with Firefox.
Picture this:
Ooof. Looks like whatever the default font on your Linux box is doesn’t support hieroglyph utf characters. If I was smart I would have embedded a font face that does into the game 🤦🏻♂️ . I’ll have to see if I can do this tomorrow (unfortunately after voting ends).
After playing through all the games in the jam, I've made a post on some of my favorites and included your game! Check it out here.
(You already know this, but I'm leaving this comment on all games I play so...) Played this on stream. Check out the vod here for my thoughts. https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1003938134?t=01h19m51s
'nuff said!
Took me a few times to get through, but managed it in the end :)
Very impressive that this was all done in CSS, good job!
Damn! I didn’t even see a slight hint of CSS variable. Truly impressive 😲😮
Love to read the postmortem of this game.
I used Sass which compiles away the variables: https://github.com/starzonmyarmz/gamedevjs-jam-2021/tree/main/sass
Ah that’s make sense now. I see a bunch of animation properties inside @for and @if loop.
Thanks for sharing the code. New tricks I learn from scss+nunjucks combo.
The atmosphere really drags you into the game. And although it might not be that replayable, because locations are not randomized, I really really wanted to get to the end! Truly impressive, especially considering you did not use any JS?? Also not even onclick functions in html? 😮
Really cool! I felt like I did great but apparently someone here "beat the game" I guess I have to try harder
A simple but deceptively difficult game. Took me a few tries to beat it, but I did it!
I liked how music got progressively more anxiety-inducing, I was on my toes during the last levels. One issue: sometimes the 'Ding!' sound wouldn't play even if I picked the correct hieroglyph.