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Portal Panic's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Fun | #2 | 4.411 | 4.411 |
| Aesthetics | #6 | 4.589 | 4.589 |
| Sound | #7 | 4.143 | 4.143 |
| Mechanics | #12 | 4.257 | 4.257 |
| Music | #15 | 4.114 | 4.114 |
| Story | #199 | 2.840 | 2.840 |
| Theme | #214 | 3.663 | 3.663 |
Ranked from 175 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
How many people worked on this game total?
3
Did you use any existing assets? If so, list them below.
2 fonts (upheaval and pixels, listed in itch page description)
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Great pixel art! Very polished and fun but I wasnt very sure on how it worked. God job :)
Great casual game, done a great jobs in this shor time. HIgh polish aesthetic, music and sfx. The drag and shoot is also smooth.
This is a banger of a game. It is so casual but frantic. It literally lulls you into thinking it is easy then slams you into the harsh reality that the sky is pooping Aliens or Monsters and it has a bad case of IBS, The Aliens or Monsters from Monsters Inc are cool. It is so polished and smooth. Great Job, really enjoyed this one.
> sky is pooping Aliens or Monsters and it has a bad case of IBS
:O
i was clicking on "play" like a maniac until i figured out what to do. i like that you learn mechanics before you even really start the game. nice presentation, great art. really well done!
Hah! Hopefully too many people don't get stuck on the title screen XD
I loved this! 5/5
I have to portal the animals, it's a really cool mechanic I like the music, SFX and the level design
Great Job! The music and art are so good. I like the wallpaper on the game's itch.io page.
Absolutely loved playing this game (as you can tell from the leaderboards 😂)
couldn't fault the game except for the very rare bug of Aliens disappearing super late game, or falling through the floor if shooting too quickly. Would love to see more mechanics get added or even different versions of the game. Well done to all 3 of you, can't wait to see what comes next!
Suggestions that I mentioned on discord:
Aliens should only walk towards the humans and not in the opposite direction after a certain point in time, and maybe more portals should be weighted towards being above the humans as the game progresses
aliens squish what they land on, the shaking effect having an effect on the accuracy of the slingshot and making the aliens more likely to eat a human than an animal if there's a human relatively close
We are not worthy!
It took me a moment to figure out how this game works, but after that it was real fun! :)
Good to see Maya back at it! I enjoyed your game at last year's jam and this one looks great! Unfortunately I was having a strange issue, so I wasn't able to play much. From what I gather, when I move my cursor over an animal the hand should appear so that I can pick it up, however, it wasn't appearing and I wasn't able to grab them, however I did find that sometimes if I moved my cursor a few centimetres above the animal the hand would sometimes appear. Maybe it has to do with my laptop as I have an odd resolution.
oh no sorry to hear! Is that even if you play on full screen? I'd be curious to know more of your settings or if you also have the issue in the downloadable version if you fancy trying that.
I tried full screen as well as the downloadable version, still had the same issue. It looks like it really is related to my laptop's native resolution, which is a strange 2256 x 1504 (quite tall).
I changed my res to 1080p and it seems to be working perfectly now. I'll give it another go!
You put together a really great little gameplay loop with this. I love how frantic it gets as you're trying to balance getting extra lives and keeping the baddies from eating everyone. Also props to those on the leaderboard. That's a crazy amount of points! I could only get about 40-50k, but maybe I need a little more practice.
Oh good I'm so glad you at least got it up and running to try it!
What an outstanding combination of fun and responsive mechanics, cute little characters, and an absolute bop of a song. Fantastic work!
I love the art!!!! The bounciness is so cute!!
I love the fact that I can also fling the person up ahahahah
Wonderful game! From amazing art to polished mechanics, to sound design, everything is near-perfect! I even managed to get the second place (400k score) on my third try. I'll definitely come back to play it again later.
It looks amazing and it is very fun to play! I was all the time kicking out monsters through the portals because it was very difficult to aim correctly to place the animals in the houses, I always failed on that :(
Thank you! Sorry you had to deal with that difficulty. You can actually just drag the animal to the house, but we have gotten feedback that this mechanic isn't too clear. But thank you so much for playing and giving us your feedback :)
yeah maybe make it more obvious that there is two ways to pick the animals. I also think this kind of mechanics would work better on mobile with a touch screen. It is a great game, I see a lot of potential to be more than a game jam game :)
A well-polished and addictive game! Everything's just perfect, nothing else to say. It would work great as a mobile game too. Also, I love the leaderboard and I'm in 5th place... for now xD
I think it might too! We obviously didn't have time to tinker around with mobile settings during the jam. But I'd like to explore seeing how it feels on mobile. Would be fun to get it on the app store. :D
Great game! It took me a while to figure out that I need to shoot something at the portal to start the game. Once I did, I had a lot of fun!!
haha good to hear! I hope it's intuitive enough for most people to figure out how to get into the game! XD
This game is perfect. It's fun, addictive, and we don't want to stop playing it.
Very fun. I enjoy sending animals and monsters through portals.
It's fun,and i love the animation , the monster's eating is really interesting!
This was really fun. I got #4 :O
No easy feat! Well done!