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A jam submission

Banana for ScaleView game page

They call you the Banana Wizard. Your banana staff has the power to change your size to the one and only scale: Bananas
Submitted by Camaika, Felan, veldoodles (@veldoodles), Wember3 — 21 hours, 21 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Creativity#20143.4293.429
Overall#26633.1193.119
Style#29493.0713.071
Enjoyment#30142.8572.857

Ranked from 14 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?
This game takes place in the room of a messy kid that loves building blocks. The character is about the same size as the building blocks. But he can change his size using bananas for scale to slip through gaps or run away fast.

Development Time

96 hours

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Comments

Submitted(+1)

Nice game! Definitely pretty janky, but in a sort of fun way. Was also pleased that I was never softlocked or anything; seems there were measures to make sure the player doesn’t get stuck.

Searching for the last item was somewhat troublsome. It’d be nice if there was something to help the player locate the items. An idea I had whilst playing was that it could be neat if the ants tended to gravitate towards the items, which would help the player find them but have the tradeoff, of course, of the items then being guarded by ants.

The surprise after collecting all the items (I thought for sure I’d never find that boot, but eventually stumbled across it.) was nice also.

Overall good work! Love the funny idea the game is based on, as well. How funny it is to use bananas as scales, when everybody knows that the only real unit of measurement we’ll ever need is football fields.

Developer(+1)

Thank you for your extensive feedback! Those are some really good ideas, I like them a lot. If there ever will be a post-jam version, they will definitely be considered. 

Also, missed opportunity I guess. We should've set the game in a football field, dang it ;)

Submitted(+2)

I like the idea!

(+2)

I like the stickerbook aesthetic, but I kept encountering an issue where the game kept telling my my choice in bananas was boring. I'm not sure why, but even when I tried picking other sizes, it would keep scaling me up to the largest size, meaning I'd shrink and then immediately swell up. I like wizards, though. 

Developer(+1)

Thanks for playing the game! Yeah that is a bug that can sometimes happen when you are "too close" to a big banana (but can't see it because for some reason some of them have a big area of influence), so it will always select that one and not the one right in front of you like it should. We didn't really have time to fix it. But reloading the game usually helps!

(The "boring choice" message always occurs when you try to change into a size you already have)

Submitted(+2)

pretty fun concept, could use a bit of polish though, but regardless it was a great game (๑ᵔ⤙ᵔ๑)

(+3)

I thought it was quite fun! little hard to navigate at size 3~4 as there seemed to be something wrong with jumping on slopes at those sizes, but I had fun collecting all the items!

Submitted(+2)

The idea is realy awesome! The concept sounds fun but there are to many objects in the room that is difficult to select one. I think with less objects that would make a cool puzzle game with many possibilities :) Awesome work!

Submitted(+1)

Was confused for a moment, thinking that you were the developer commenting on his own game, before realizing that the game you submitted isn’t Banana for Scale but Banana for Sale!