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A jam submission

Lye's TowerView game page

A story about a father and his daughter, and his journey to get her back.
Submitted by Aidan MacMillan — 7 minutes, 12 seconds before the deadline

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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Presentation#5973.8243.824
Overall#16763.0593.059
Originality#29772.7352.735
Fun#33622.3242.324

Ranked from 34 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?
The game's paneled visuals are tied to the fact that you are watching a story instead of taking part in it, so the events are out of your control. Varying themes of the story are also related to "Out of Control"

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?

Yes

We created all audio during the game jam

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Comments

Submitted(+1)

I so love the atmosphere you've set up in your game. Great work.

Btw check out my game and tell me your views yeah? :)

https://itch.io/jam/gmtk-2020/rate/699263

Submitted(+1)

Lovely graphics and music. As has been said, it's a little to short and simple gameplay wise, but thats completely understandable in a jam. You have a good foundation to work with if you wanted to expand it.

Submitted(+1)

Very atmospheric, good job. :)

Submitted(+1)

Very short, very quick! I honestly didn't even understand it was over at the black screen at the end. Nice music and atmosphere, but the gameplay element was way too short and simple to me. The dialogue  scrolled by way too quickly too! I wish I could've controlled the dialogue speed myself. If this was expanded upon I think it could be a nice game, but as it stands it's way too short to be an experience.

Submitted(+1)

This was too short ! And too quick.
i've barely been able to read all of it, i felt like you just throw informations at me. It's not that i had trouble understanding the story but i didn't have time to think about it, because of the auto-dialog-skip, i can't pause myself and think about. The music and the gameplay pace is low but the narration is speedy and that's almost ruining the experience.
I'm telling you this because i think the story is great (and i liked the panel concept).
But i know it's not easy to do a story based game, because that's also what i like to do (and what i've done for this jam. Except my story is less cute)

Submitted(+1)

Good story and nice visuals, also loved the music. Great job!

Submitted(+1)

A very nice little story! The presentation and narrative were very interesting. I only wish it were longer to flesh the story out a bit more. Well done!

Submitted(+1)

Those ninja cutting onions… Great entry 💪

Submitted(+1)

If this game was any more atmospheric the player would need oxygen :)

Submitted(+1)

This game is amazing! i love the concept of "watching a story", please continue it after the jam, i need more of this!

Submitted(+1)

Very strong presentation, it's hard to turn off the game after the intro. This game has great potential!

Submitted(+1)

Maybe you could upload more screenshots, and more people will find your game through screenshots, beautiful art!

Submitted(+2)

Very lovely art and incredible music. Both of these combined really created a wonderful atmosphere. My only complaints are that for me the dialogue went a tad too fast; I ended up missing a couple of lines. I also wish the game was a little longer or more challenging aside from a few easy jumps to the top of the tower. But overall a very lovely game. Great job!

Developer

Thanks for playing! I slept in late on the last day and only had 2 hours left so I was scrambling to finish, lol... I definitely wish I could've fleshed out the story and gameplay, I still might continue development because I think it has good potential.

Submitted(+2)

Whoa first story based game I've found, really cool game, that hookshot thou hehe I heard the "get over here"  in my head, awesome game congrats.

Submitted(+1)

The story execution and atmosphere is very nice. Really loved this kind of story-driven game!

(+1)

Very nice music, minimalistic but nice graphics, the levels are very cool, great game, a bit too short maybe, but it's understandable.

Submitted(+1)

Really nice presentation, great music :)