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A jam submission

Galactic SlapstickView game page

Navigate through a constantly changing space, in space!
Submitted by Devillia59 (@devillia59), Veguista, Oana — 8 minutes, 3 seconds before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Fun#10713.2003.200
Overall#20352.9202.920
Presentation#23702.8802.880
Originality#25912.8802.880

Ranked from 25 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

How does your game fit the theme?
Changing the controls and the screen perception of the player at random, mess with the normal controls of a platfrom

Did your team create the art for this game during the 48 hour time slot?

Yes

We created all art during the game jam

Did your team create the audio for this game during the 48 hour time slot?

No

We used pre-existing audio

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Comments

Submitted

Simple idea but fun to try and get a high score. I made it to 1:13!
I wish the keyboard indicator on the right hand side would change graphically to show you what your new keys were. I think when you only have 1 health point and there are so many obstacles, it's a bit much to not only adjust to the new control scheme, but also have to actually find out what the keys are by testing them.

I really liked the ship rotating, that was neat!

Developer (1 edit) (+1)

Ey Alex, quite a score you have there! My personal best has been 1:16, so you were really close to beat the designer hehe.
The keys do change graphically (left movement key always remains the same colour but changes position in UI) but I undestand there is little time to notice this, specially in tricky upside-down situations!
If you want to try again, a cool tip that i can give you is that the control scheme is not fully randomized (we had that early in development but it was too difficult). In fact, keys always follow a clockwise order ("jump" always is to the right of "left" and "right" is always to the right of "jump") , meaning that we are rather rotating the keys. It helps me to think of it as if AWSD were each a number in a round clock, and you were only rotating the clock. Actually, there are only 4 possible combinations!
Thank you for playing our game!

Submitted

ah cool, okay i get it. awesome! when i get home i'll take this newfound knowledge and see if i cant beat your score!

Submitted

Seemed cool, but being unable to rebind the keys made it a chore to play for azerty keyboards....not everyone has qwerty.

Developer(+1)

That is extremely great feedback, I didn't even imagine someone would play it on a non-qwerty keyboard!

Its a pity you couldn't play, though😢.

Submitted(+1)

Haha don't worry, this happens all the time ;) I tried and started to get a hang of it (although my finger position was funky), but then the controls changed and didn't have time to figure out....
I don't know why our game doesn't appear when most of my team comments, but here is the link to our submission:
https://itch.io/jam/gmtk-2020/rate/694155
(you must hold left click on the door to try to enter the club)

Submitted(+1)

Nice quirky little game. Lots of fun, and the astronaut sprite looks great. Nice work! 

Submitted(+1)

This is really fun! A bit of a mind bender but it's definitely refreshing!!!

Submitted(+1)

Nice art and funny graphics, the controls switching by color is unique and a nice challenge. Fun game!

Submitted(+1)

The style is super duper fun, and the changes are truly wacky to deal with!

Submitted(+1)

I like the screen flip.  Very cool.