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A jam submission

Dragon Cave: The Secret QuestView game page

For GMTK Game Jam 2021! Explore the cave and uncover its secrets to defeating the dragon...
Submitted by StailloGaming (@StailloGaming) — 10 hours, 56 minutes before the deadline

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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Presentation#31132.5002.500
Originality#33182.5832.583
Overall#34772.3752.375
Fun#39392.0422.042

Ranked from 24 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 pieces of broken vase join together at the end to defeat the dragon and escape the cave.

Did your team create the vast majority of the art during the 48 hours?

Yes

We created the vast majority of the art during the game jam

Did your team create the vast majority of the music during the 48 hours?

Yes

We created the vast majority of the music during the game jam

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Comments

Submitted(+1)

The pixel art was really nice and I liked the puzzle ideas! I would've liked to have a final mini game where you glue the vase together. The jumping felt odd, sometimes the character refused to jump high enough. He also tended to get stuck in colliders often. Also, could've used more feedback, like a sound and effect when you picked up an item, and some kind of effect on death instead of immediately teleporting to the beginning.

Developer(+1)

Ooh, great idea on the final being gluing the vase together! Thanks so much for playing and for your feedback! For my next jam, I can see music being a priority as well, lol.

Submitted(+1)

A lot of really cool ideas in this! Great job :D

Developer

Thanks so much! :D

Submitted (1 edit) (+1)

Its a great concept,  i think its quite creative. But i did have some problems with the game
Collisions seem to be really weird, it almost seems like player should be smaller in the world.
and i also had problems that Dracaemelos below had

Also i had problems identifying what is part of the background and what inst
You could play with the contrast or transparency to fix that

And i like the art of the game, its quite cute
This is a good game
Good job!

Developer

Thanks so much for playing, for your feedback, and tips! I agree with you that the character should be smaller than the world.

Submitted(+1)

I like the concept of this game, reminds me of escape rooms! I really struggled with the jumping though, and couldn't get past the lizard room, would love to see the physics improved slightly as I think this could be a really cool game.

Developer

Thanks so much for playing and for your feedback! I love escape rooms so I'm glad that's what it reminded you of!

Submitted(+1)

Interesting game, I don't often see adventure games' "pickup X and use it on Y" gameplay in a platformer like this. The first two rooms really leaned into that design, which I think made them work, but the jumps in the third one were a bit too high/tight, making some of the control challenges mentioned in the other comments stand out more.

Developer

Thanks so much for playing and your feedback! I'm going to implement better controls for when I make another game!

Submitted(+1)

Well, I feel like I finally mastered the art of jumping in this game... but I do have to agree with other commenters that the "sticking" aspect is quite annoying! XD  Not wanting to sound overly harsh, just to say that that combined with the long time that it takes to fall back down after most jumps makes it difficult to navigate. 
Howevet, what stopped me was that poor little lizard.  At first I thought well, it's a peaceful lizard and that's why when the rock hits it it's a reset because you're not supposed to hurt it.  But then my character came in contact with it and the room reset... so... my theories of friendly innocent lizard were shattered.  :D  But anyway due to the sticking I couldn't actually make the rock go down the path it was presumably supposed to go down, and thus my playthrough was at an early end.
This has a cute look going to it, kudos on the art.  I also really appreciated that the input was all-keyboard.  I'd love to see as another commenter was saying, the prompts be more along the lines of the "show, don't tell" encouraged by many game-makers, because it allows more of a sense of discovery that way.  But really, thanks for the game experience!  Cheers.

Developer(+1)

Thanks so much for playing and your feedback, I learned a lot from your comment!

(+1)

took me 10 minutes to find the shovel XD

Developer

Haha, sorry about that! xD

Submitted(+1)

Props on making everything yourself. I personally struggle with making 2D assets.

As far as critiques go, the controls are pretty unforgiving. There's a bug where you essentially stick to the walls if you're midair and open against is. It's a significant enough issue that I really couldn't play past the first few rooms. Only other critique is that the visuals and goals aren't intuitive. It's functional when you explain in text when you're over a shovel, but it's not desirable.

Developer

Thanks so much for your feedback, I appreciate it!

Submitted(+1)

Good game but you should change the player's physics material so that it doesn't have friction so it won't stick to walls when moving towards them in the air.

Developer

Thanks so much for playing and for your feedback, you got it!

Submitted

Good game but you should change the player's physics material so that it doesn't have friction so it won't stick to walls when moving towards them in the air.

Submitted

Good game but you should change the player's physics material so that it doesn't have friction so it won't stick to walls when moving towards them in the air

Submitted

Good game but you should change the player's physics material so that it doesn't have friction so it won't stick to walls when moving towards them in the air