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GMTK Game Jam 2020

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A jam submission

Adventures of HOCROLView game page

Submitted by Collettivo Marzen, tio, Marco Bianchi — 43 minutes, 3 seconds before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Presentation#5033.8973.897
Originality#7963.6553.655
Overall#9333.3793.379
Fun#14623.0343.034

Ranked from 29 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?
You have limited energy to control things. When you have no energy, the avatar that you control moves on its own (so it's out of your control) and you have to find the right balance and timing.

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

Vini CapiottiSubmitted4 years ago

Awesome! Charming artstyle and a creative mechanic. Good job contextualizing the game's characters, I think it adds a lot.

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Pub Brawlers
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Edson "Presto" CorreaSubmitted4 years ago

Nice idea, nice art!

The only thing it is not comfortable to keep Ctrl and Space pressed while moving. Maybe if you toggle on / off the button would be easier for the player.

But really good job!

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Puffy Madness
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BenjoGamesSubmitted4 years ago

Nice game, it would be interesting to be able to do something more when you control enemies (like making them take damage from spikes or even making them attack each other).  The art is neat, but I think the music does not fit the game

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Random Booms
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Lavodan4 years ago(+1)

I really liked this game a lot! A few of the levels were quite annoying (like lvl 3 I think it was) but overall it was very fun, however a lot of the times the mind control mechanic jst seemed like a way to torture my pinkie finger, not really adding that much to the gameplay as we basically just played the big man

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Lavodan4 years ago

Oh, and I almost forgot, I cant believe you made all the art in the 48hrs! Its phenomanl! 

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Jaden Goter (picross)Submitted4 years ago

Nice work! I liked the mind control mechanic, it reminded me of mario odyssey :) Sometimes the hitboxes were a little wonky, but the overall presentation was awesome. Good job!

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Whiz Blade
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nightworksSubmitted4 years ago

What a fun, novel mechanic! I did find myself controlling Hocrol most of the time as the enemies wouldn't respond to spikes and crawled back no matter how far I tried to push them, but I really liked the other obstacles such as the button and spikes. The game also had a very solid aesthetic.

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Rotato
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superflouzSubmitted4 years ago

Excellent idea and nice visual! Maybe the control are a bit clunky...

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Weapon Rampage
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Collettivo MarzenDeveloper4 years ago

Thanks a lot, really! :) Yes, we realized too late that the controls are very hard to use. We are probably going to fix it in a newer version of the prototype!

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MizukieeSubmitted4 years ago

I really liked the game! It was a nice challen

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Out of Control Lumberjack
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Collettivo MarzenDeveloper4 years ago

Thanks a lot, we really appreciate! :)

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dw3ntSubmitted4 years ago

I like the concept, and the art is great! 

My only real piece of feedback would be switching mind control and carry modes to toggles instead instead of having to hold the buttons. It's not a huge deal, but it felt a little awkward holding two buttons the whole time.

Great job!

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Shock Control
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Collettivo MarzenDeveloper4 years ago(+1)

Thank you! :) Yes, we realized only now how "uncomfortable" are the controls when you have to control + carry things. We thought that it gave a better idea of "double effort" (controlling + carrying) but at the end it was just bad :D We are definitely going to fix it for a next version of the prototype!

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VotronSubmitted4 years ago

Beautiful aesthetic, and cool concept, would like more openness in the levels though.

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Barbarian Bounce
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Collettivo MarzenDeveloper4 years ago

Thanks a lot! Yes, we are considering going on with the project and we would definitely experiment more with the level design!

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Chandru SureshSubmitted4 years ago

Love the title and theme, absolutely genius. But i couldnt play with WASD in the browser but could use the arrow keys. However when i did this, the ctrl bar didn't fill up.

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Back2Basik
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Collettivo MarzenDeveloper4 years ago

Thanks, we are really glad that you liked it! Unfortunately we realized about the browser-problem when it was too late,  thanks for telling us! We just added some technical notes where we recommend how to play it :)

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mickplouffe4 years ago

My biggest problem is that Using CTRL + WASD is not working well in  Browser. Could it be possible to have another Key than CTRL?

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Collettivo MarzenDeveloper4 years ago

Hi, thanks for telling us! Unfortunately we realized about this problem on the browser when it was too late. We added some technical notes where we recommend how to play. If you play from the browser and play with arrow keys (instead of WASD) you should be fine.

Sorry for the trouble and thanks again for letting us know!

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