Definitely better jumping puzzle than mine :) Really loved the art
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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Style | #501 | 4.158 | 4.158 |
| Overall | #774 | 3.744 | 3.744 |
| Creativity | #1311 | 3.663 | 3.663 |
| Enjoyment | #1332 | 3.411 | 3.411 |
Ranked from 95 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?
As per Mark Brown's suggestion - a scaly fish, scales a mountain, with scale changing powerup, and scales in the background music (screenshot) imgur.com/a/nXAwZlj
Development Time
48 hours
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The music is the biggest thing that sticks out to me. I'm not sure what I'd prefer but it doesn't feel quite right. The sound effects for the fish could be a little fishier too, I think. It'd be easy to ask for more control or just a little bit easier obstacles but it's a delicate balance to mess with. Maybe if you could flop a bit while mid-air? Not enough to constitute actual air-controls but just something to give the player one more bit of agency or way to add chaos into the system.
I think one of the (many) cool things about a game like Getting Over It is that some sections require a pretty specific , usually hard to accomplish, approach, but some sections are also pretty open and let you do them in at least a couple of different ways. That's going to be harder to accomplish when you only have 1 button's worth of input compared to GOI's mouse controls, but I think the way the level is designed has a big impact, irrespective of the character controls. Those first few obstacles have such a prescribed, rigid solution, so much so that they're drawn on the screen, which then takes away the fun of getting to figure out *how* to do them and only leaves the (not insignificant or unfun) challenge of *doing* them. In fairness though, I haven't finished the game as it really is very hard.
Oh, I also greatly dislike that you respawn at chip points with velocity. I would prefer to just spawn on top of the point with 0 velocity.
Really though as an idea it's perfect. And the art is all spot on too.
Thank you so much for the feedback, I agree completely that the music doesn't really fit - I was just trying to follow Mark's suggestion and there wasn't really much choice available to meet that criteria: imgur.com/a/nXAwZlj
What sort of sounds would make it sound fishier? It's already like a wet slappy sound.
A bit of air control could be interesting, I agree. Perhaps some sort of double jump mechanic?
The first few obstacles actually have many solutions! But it's really hard to figure them out so I put a hint for 1 because otherwise people just won't play the game.
I'm really glad you liked the art style :)
Hmm…
The background was a little busy with the ocean foam widening and shrinking as fast as it did. You could slow that down or change how it looks in another way.
Predators. I thought the birds on the beach we’re going to eat me! Maybe if you land on them they push you backwards a bit. Or there’s a seagull that dive bombs you periodically. That you be frustrating :).
A scale up powerup where you have to fit through a tight space could be cool. Perhaps you visit an apartment building next and have to climb through its vents! (Cat for predator in this level?)
I get the play on words, but I think the theme "Built to Scale" as he described it in the video, is about size. Anyway yours was the first game I reviewed this year so I was a little harsh in retrospect. I'll update my review since you took the time to reply. Your game is really good, I'd love to hear your thoughts on mine! 🐟
139 days ago (+1)
Thank you very much for playing, so glad you liked the art.
If I made it so you could swap the fish direction without jumping, that would defeat the purpose of the game lol (but if you enable cheats, you can do exactly that, using WASD!). Did you have any other suggestions?
I'll have to check out "Getting over it"
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