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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Sound | #39 | 3.710 | 3.710 |
| Aesthetics | #39 | 4.290 | 4.290 |
| Story | #41 | 3.839 | 3.839 |
| Theme | #84 | 4.129 | 4.129 |
| Mechanics | #112 | 3.661 | 3.661 |
| Fun | #119 | 3.694 | 3.694 |
| Music | #212 | 3.371 | 3.371 |
Ranked from 62 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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Models, art, and textures were made for this game jam. Font , base floor texture + sound effects were modified from free resources online (links referenced on main page)
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Awesome game! I loled hard when that guy put himself into small hole and rotated to enable torch. And it's looking really good.
Great game, love the getting thin and turning the candle holder thingies. Everything fits just right. Well done.
You were alone and you did this, WOW! The mechanics of the game was so good, we enjoyed playing it so much! Congratulations to you, and we need of course a part 2 of the game soon! :D
Thanks, I had a blast (and very little sleep) making it! I'm fixing up a few last annoying bugs today and then I think I'll go back to working on the levels I had to cut that will be in pt2
Oooh, I love it! Nice visuals and cool puzzles, not too hard but still very fun. The only thing I didn't like is decoupling the rotation (arrow keys) from the movement direction. You end up pressing A to move forward in the shifted view which is confusing sometimes. The character gets stuck after the first move following death for me (neat respawn effect btw). But other than that, a nice and polished game!
Thanks for the feedback! Bad timing on when you played - I fixed the death movement issue about an hour after you played it.
I agree - The movement and turning was a conundrum for me. I was very tempted to have controls similar to how you were hoping they'd be, however in some of the more complex levels that I cut, it made sense to have the separation in move/rotate. I think I'll keep playing around with different movement options as I work on pt2
I'll give it another go. Looking forward to part 2!
I got a little stumped in the last room, but I finally figured it out. Nicely done, great game!
Thanks, glad you were able to figure it out. I was torn on how much I should give away about the puzzle. Maybe I'll make it a little more clear that you can fit in certain places
Very interesting concept. I really like the way the mechanics are implemented with the player, the only thing that was a bit confusing was shifting and then having the movement stay relative to the character and not the player. Other than that minor thing, this was a wonderful experience! Can't wait for part 2!
Thanks for the great feedback. Agreed on the move/rotation being a bit strange. Going to keep thinking through that piece.
Nice game and the atmosphere is really well made!
I would have liked to see "E" for interact but thats because I'm used to it. I don't know but I think the Golem/mummy bugged out on me - he was next to the spikes where you can enter his room and just twitching
Thanks, glad you enjoyed it. That mummy was the bane of my existence. I went through about 4 or 5 versions behaviour scripts - still drives me crazy! Good call on the interact being a little closer to the movement controls. I'm making some alternative controls and will take that into consideration.
Cool game! The graphics, music and sfx are really nice and go well together. I liked the mechanic where you can swap between being a 2D and 3D character. There were times where I could walk over spikes without dying if my character was flat, and other times I couldn’t. I think the game had a cool story and I like the indirectness of the hints. I found it hard to move in the second view before I reached the final room, because the movement didn’t match the key I was pressing. In the final room it matched. Overall a really nice game. I am looking forward to part 2.
Thanks! Glad you had a good time with it. And I appreciate the feedback, I've made some adjustments to the movement and the camera, but I think I'm going to put more consideration into how to make the movement feel even more natural.
This was really good, It gave me Diablo 1 vibes. the puzzles were well designed, overall it was a good submission!
the art is unique. The movement feel a bit weird, maybe its because of Im not used to this kind of movement. I think you need to put more clue for what the player need to do, I'm so lost in there. Anyway, good job for finishing the game!
I must say that the graphic has its own uniqueness, unfortunately, I'm not on your market. The atmosphere, which came along with nice ambience and SFX, was so great.
My main concern is when you switch perspectives. The second perspective didn't match the player's movement (atleast for me) and caused a little confusion.
Good luck for the next update!
Thanks for the feedback, glad you enjoyed the atmosphere of it. Agreed on the perspective stuff. I realize there was actually a glitch making it so that it wouldn't take people to the top view and would rather take you to the "death"camera sometimes, which made it super confusing. Finally figured that out this afternoon.
You've got to consider the Windows build because a player who has a low-mid end like me :') has a small number of fps when opening many tabs. It was just an insignificant consideration because it ran much smoother when I closed some tabs
Btw, from yours, I learned how a puzzle game somehow feels so intuitive. Nice!
Loved the aesthetic!
This was awesome. Really impressive work for 1 man.
Though, ive got stuck after checkpoint in the room with the 2sets of spikes with a note in the middle, rushing left after the checkpoint.
Thanks!
For that one you gotta head for the torches on the other side :)
nice game,
but sound get a little loud sometimes
Very nice! I really liked it! And it has a good progression. First very easy and the the room with the flames I found out that i could turn myself, haha! And as a win, I got thrown into a pit... I'm guessing there would start the second chapter :D
Please, if you have the time, play and rate mine too.
Thanks! Glad you made it to the end! I'm starting on the 2nd part after a couple fixes :)
I got stuck in the flame room where it said about lining the switches, nothing seemed to work, I got inside the thing but couldn't figure out :D Tells just more about my skills with puzzles than your actual game.
I liked the atmosphere that you were able to portrait though, good wat to work with the theme as well with different perspective and the changing of the character layer.
Thanks for getting that far! Yeah I didn't hint enough at the rotation controls of the game, which is what you need to solve that last puzzle. They're a little odd so I'm going to look at how I can adjust them.
Glad you enjoyed the atmosphere
Great game! Loved the graphics and the storyline
Great job!! Can't believe one person made all this in 10 days! Amazing!
Thanks, I was lucky enough not to be working this week, so that helped a lot :)
This was a really great game. I loved the Aesthetic. I cant quite put my finger on what it was but it just took me back to PC gaming in the 90's and Im all about that :D
Also the atmosphere was fantastic and the use of the theme for the puzzles was really satisfying.
Thanks! Yeah, once I started created the models and textures, I realized how much of a mid-90s feel it was starting to get, so I really leaned into it. Happy it worked out!
To be honest, I can only be biased when I rate a game like this; I am a huge fan of such atmospheric games. The sounds, the visuals, the story and mystery, they all spoke to me. I saved it in a collection so I can finish it later when I have the time.
Great game!
Thanks so much, means a lot that you enjoyed it so much.