Probably my favourite game from this jam, the music actually changing as you collect bards is really neat! Unfortunately it crashed when collecting the microphone, but still, awesome!
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Avant Barde's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Style | #29 | 4.667 | 4.667 |
| Overall | #232 | 4.063 | 4.063 |
| Enjoyment | #493 | 3.792 | 3.792 |
| Creativity | #1139 | 3.730 | 3.730 |
Ranked from 159 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 character resizes during gameplay. This is the core mechanic, and managing your size to pass obstacles is the main challenge of the game.
Development Time
96 hours
Comments
This was the furthest I could get, and since y'all said the end was bugged, I'm assuming this was the end.
Phenomenal presentation overall. The visuals are adorably stylish, readable and always fun to look at. The music goes HARD. I'm guessing it's procedural but either way, oof. Really great stuff. Reminded me of how Ape Out worked.
The game's got some good game feel as well with the animations of the player character, though I kinda wish the red buttons had some sort of audio feedback or something more to indicate that you pushed them. Mostly because I could never tell if I actually pressed them or not.
Also, this might be nitpicky, but I feel like the actual integration with the theme doesn't really affect the game too much ?
i.e I get that you basically need to scale yourself down to actually fit between the pillars, but with the amount of times you need to YEET bards to reach the space between pillars, you're pretty much always going to be small enough by then anyway.
( Also the game said hurl instead of YEET in the tutorial. Since this can be interpreted as barfing bards, I shall give y'all extra points for that )
That said, I loved the pacing of the game. New puzzles and obstacles were being thrown your way just at the right time to the point that I never felt like the game dragged or got monotonous
Overall I'd say that this is a damn good game. Props to the entire team
18 days ago(+1)
Thank you so much for your in-depth review! Yes, you made it to the end. The game was a lot more involved with needing to change sizes to fit through different towers, but it was super difficult for most players. And over time/playtests, we just kept making it easier and easier until it ended up where it is in the version you played.
18 days ago(+2)
That was very much on our "nice to have" list but we weren't quite able to squeeze it in! Definitely something I'd like to do in a new build!
20 days ago(+1)
Hey! I did all the art & animation, and I drew sketches in Procreate, then made the actual art assets in Photoshop with the pen tool, then animated in Spine.
All the jiggling in the rigs was thanks to Spine's new Physics Constraint feature, which is just one of the most enjoyable things to play with, ever. I had such a fun time making the characters bounce around to my music - must've lost at least an hour or two in the jam thanks to that :')
Thanks you so much for your kind words! <3
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