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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Creativity | #55 | 4.417 | 4.417 |
| Overall | #133 | 4.167 | 4.167 |
| Presentation | #310 | 4.278 | 4.278 |
| Enjoyment | #414 | 3.806 | 3.806 |
Ranked from 36 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 player uses their mouse to move the window, and the window is used to view portions of the desktop. The traditional roles of these features have been modified.
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?
No
We used pre-existing audio
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I like the creativity in this one. It reminded me of another game jam a few years ago, I remember loving that one... But I can't really bring it to mind. Either way, really well done, nice execution, the game feels very consistent ! Simple, but effective, thank you for making this :D
Just read in the comments... I was thinking about WindowFrame ! :)
Damn, when I started the game for the first time, it felt like I was witnessing black magic! Very impressive of you to play with the window, and the entire presentation was just fantastic!
Some of the things you had to find were absolutely evil, and I respect that. Had a good time with this one!
This is cool!!!!!!! i really liked it. cool concept and cool game play as well. I would really love to see and play this after the jam if you're planning to ever expand upon it
Really interesting game!
Wow, don't have anything negative to say, the art is amazing, and the gameplay is great. I really enjoyed this one, great work :)
interesting concept, and as it's a jam game the option to skip ahead was a great idea. I wish i had thought of that :p
such an incredibly cool game mechanic! it reminded me a bit of Windowframe, since that's pretty much the only game i've ever seen with anything comparable in terms of gameplay.
i hope you try expanding on this/use this idea in another project, because it's really mind blowing in the best possible way :)
Funny you mention Windowframe, that's how I was inspired to make something like this! Except the first time I saw Windowframe was about 3-4 years ago (about the time I first started working with Unity)... it basically took me that long to actually make a winodw-based project lol. But now that I have more experience with C++ and felt more comfortable working with it, I definitely wanted to give it a shot in a game jam. Thanks for playing!
Not really my favourite genre but even I can recognize the quality of this game. Very good jam entry!
I love this thing.
Only gripe I have with it is that that music would get on my nerves if this game would take too long.
For the short bit though, excellently chosen, does not overstay its welcome
Fricking well done, full ratings from me.
I love how the game works! It’s charming~
I’m also glad this is being considered for multi-monitor setups.
Lovely work! Like the mechanic and the atmposphere! This could be a nice game to chill out at the pc!!!
Really cool! Lovely music, it looks lie a custom engine which is always very impressive. I bet trying to fix that jitter was really annoying :p
I used SFML which isn't a game engine, it's just a basic library for handling graphics, audio, etc, and I did everything using just this. The jitter is just a result of updating the window and view super quickly, which is something I don't think I could fix 100% unfortunately. It did take a while to get the window mechanic working just right, it required a lot of math (and learning how SFML views work on the fly). Thanks for playing!
That's what I'm saying! C++ and a graphics library is definitely a jam on hard mode. If you revisit this (and you should!) I'd look into a gpu based solution like a stencil buffer. Either way, lovely game
Interesting. I am starting to learn raylib a bit now, I might see what they have to offer since they support transparent windows, which would make this a lot easier to implement. I'll definitely be looking more into your suggestion!
The mechanics on this are unlike anything I've ever seen! Absolutely loved this, and the art style is amazing as well.
Mind blowing, how you did this? Very innovative,
I used SFML which is a simple library for working with the system, graphics, audio, etc. I used the mouse position and subsequently the window position to decide what part of the game world I want to show, and rendered only that part in the window. It took a while to get right because my math was not great at first lol, and it would've definitely been easier to use something like raylib which supports transparent windows so that I could make a virtual fake window. I mostly just wanted to try not to use a game engine for a jam (and also do something cool with desktop windows). Thanks for playing!
How? How do you do that? It's truly amazing! The ideas, visuals, and creativity are all fantastic!
Super unique and super great artwork. This entry is wildly underrated
This is the most innovative game I have seen this year! It is so clever, but on top of that it's gorgeous, the backgrounds are really well made, everything works so smoothly, I am shocked and amazed! 12/10 best game
Amazing game. it was a fun puzzle game in the first playtrough and a fun speedrun game after that, (but i'm probably the only one that did that). and I managed to get a time of 2 seconds. and i'm pretty sure 1s is impossible. but the game is just really good, and its just really fun looking around on you desktop.
amazing game. keep it up♥
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2 seconds with perfect accuracy is actually insane, lol. Thanks for playing!
THIS IS SO CREATIVE!!! i love the art and the mechanics of the game, super good!! (:
Extremely unique gameplay by moving the mouse, I really enjoyed that ! having objects become slightly harder to find was also a nice touch :p. Overall, congratulation, it's a really cool game :D !