Play game
WELL DIVER's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Style | #230 | 4.352 | 4.352 |
| Overall | #1228 | 3.581 | 3.581 |
| Enjoyment | #1622 | 3.295 | 3.295 |
| Creativity | #3127 | 3.095 | 3.095 |
Ranked from 105 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 moves down a well while the difficulty scales as the player descends
Development Time
96 hours
(Optional) Please credit all assets you've used
see description for full credits
Leave a comment
Log in with itch.io to leave a comment.
Comments
A fun one - I really liked the parallax scrolling of the background and the visual effects combined nicely to give the impression of falling very convincingly.
I definitely did not make it onto the leaderboard as I found the scaling mechanic a little tough to use and it felt like there were a few too many enemies too quickly - the screen was overrun!
Anyway, the graphics are beautiful and I did enjoy the gameplay (despite not being good at it). Great work!
Thanks for checking out our game, we plan on improving the gameplay in the future, thanks sharing your experience!
That was interesting! The story and setting are charming, and the concept has potential. The difficulty is a bit imbalanced, but it's not frustrating.
The artwork is a bit busy. The tutorial level is okay-ish; the plainer background is easier to distinguish from game objects (although the stones look very similar to the walls). However, the main level's background is quite busy, and it blends many of the items together.
All-in-all, good work!
[EDIT: 8-21]: Oh! I almost forgot: the coin sounds can stack on top of each other quite quickly, causing a harsh audio peak.
Thank you for playing and thanks for such great feedback!
I like the art and story a lot but I the gameplay is pretty hard and not very satisfying
Thank you for playing, and for your valuable feedback!
Cool art work, nice quick game play loop and great tutorial nice job
we appreciate you!
Woah I loved the art direction of your game! I felt like the X key wasn’t the best choice for shrinking as I felt like it was hard to press when I was controlling the character.
The shrinking mechanic was added last minute. At the time, X seemed like a good key choice. Is there a better one that you would suggest? I also find it difficult to press. The game is also compatible with game controllers and feels great that way, if you wanted to give that a shot. Thank you for your kind words and creative feedback. We're going to work on the enemies a little more after the jam is over.
In my game I used Q to shrink and E to grow larger. I thought they were good options since its close to the WASD keys. Shift can be another good option
that would have been a good choice.
You can right click instead of press X people! :)
Visually looks pretty good and the gamplay feels unique! but there was a bit to much going on at times and i lost my charackter.
we appreciate your thoughts :)
The presence of a story adds so much color to the game! Well done :)
The art team worked really hard to make the story great. We appreciate your comment!
Unfortunately you can cheese the leaderboard by rushing to all the coins while taking damage as you only lose 1 coin each time. (see leaderboard haha) However, an easy fix for this could be a small stun delay where you can't smack when hit. Agree with the others here that the background foreground separation can be a little bit hard to see, but all in all I really like the game! The style is top notch, the music is chefs kiss!! (nice to see reaper being metioned :). I think with a small tweaks this could be a nice and addictive game. The story panels are great and I see you guys enjoyed this game jam.
Yup, your perspective on the game is quite complete. Thanks for playing 😼
The music, the art style, the gameplay- all fantastic!
Took me a good while to get into top three (Don't know how long till someone else steals my spot)
Only problem I has was sometimes I would lose the where the player is. Adding a white outline or something similar would aid him to stand out from the rest of the game.
Good work!
Thanks 😸. Yeah, we took that into account. Blending assets must be the most common feedback.
maybe we could give him a touch in his open hand, since he's collecting the coins with the bag. That would help him stand out.
AWESOME to hear you are on the leaderboard! nothing like some good competition! LFG
The music is fantastic, and the gameplay is enjoyable.
Thank you 😸
Thanks for playing our game! Glad that you enjoyed it!
i love the game play. I really love the music it gives me goosebumps it made me feel like i am a royal knight.
A royal kobold diver 👺
wow thats an awesome compliment
LOVE the story panels that set the stage for the game, and the leaderboard screen at the end! Great music too
Thank you. We appreciate your words 😇.
I loved the style on this game, and it was a lot of fun to play, but the screen sure gets chaotic with all the floating objects. I liked that you were able to get a leaderboard in there, some people have really acquired a lot of coins!
Nothing stretches the competitive ich like a leaderboard.
Love the pixel art! The controls feel immersive and I can tell a lot of time went into getting the movement to actually feel like the character was falling at a really high speed. I didn't get a lot of mileage out of the shrink mechanic and I think the enemies/level could have better interacted with that system rather than just feeling like random obstacles that I couldn't really do anything about. I would've also loved to see a way to spend coins for an upgrade system to better incentivize progression. Really nice job overall and I'm excited to see where this goes!
Thank you for the creative feedback! There is more that we want to implement in the game. We discussed adding a store to spend the gold, but we were restricted on time. Since our little kobold friend is taking the gold to his dragon, maybe we can add a way to improve him that way for a story mode in the future!
Awesome game! Super fun!
Thank you! We are looking forward to making this game even more awesome and implementing some quality changes to bring the game together!
Cool game! the art is really good
Thank you! We worked really hard on making the game look and feel great!
Oh my god!! This Artstyle was amazing!! The best looking game of this jam
Our art team is definitely amazing! I know they'll be happy to read your comment! They put in a lot of hours making sure everything was consistent. We're looking forward to improving some of the style once the jam is done. Keep an eye on the devlog for possible improvements moving forward!
Awesome artstyle, UI is cohesive and responsive to player position, parallax looks neat. This definitely has style. I loved it!
Thank you for your positive feedback! We're looking forward to updating and impending some positive changes to the game once the jam is complete!
I love this artstyle! The animations are so expressive and the game oozes of character.
We are glad you enjoyed the game! We were working around the clock on art to get the story completed.
Really good looking! I liked the art and the mechanic is something new, unfortunately I couldn't differentiate the enemies from the background sometimes and lost many coins
We tried to maintain a consistent art style on a limited color palette. So, some of the enemies share colors with the background, making them hard to find. With continued support, we will refine the art and gameplay. Thank you for playing!