Play Gobba
Gobba Ladder's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Style | #224 | 4.356 | 4.356 |
| Overall | #632 | 3.815 | 3.815 |
| Enjoyment | #900 | 3.584 | 3.584 |
| Creativity | #1745 | 3.505 | 3.505 |
Ranked from 101 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 main mechanic of the game is scaling a ladder to reach across different platforms. You are a construction goblin that can scale your ladder to scale the construction tower while a dragon (which has scales) is chasing you for disturbing his sleep.
Development Time
96 hours
(Optional) Please credit all assets you've used
All assets are made during the game jam
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This could definitely be released as a mobile game with not much extra work. Great and simple mechanic, very satisfying to use. Not sure about being stunned by falling a short distance, maybe only stun for higher falls? But I would give it a few more days work and release it, really enjoyable game. Good work!
I agree! Thanks for the constructive feedback! Will definitely take note of this for the future!
Really clean art and I love the portable ladder mechanic, there's really helpful telegraphing for debris falling and it adds tension. Really well done. With our games having similar themes I can't help but feel like we could have collaborated on something ;)
Played your game and it definitely something we could have collaborated on! Thanks for your feedback!
So polished! Really enjoyed the mechanics too. Great work!
Thank you so much! Played your game as well!!
Congrulations! I can say that it is a mobile game that is really close to being finished. Good job!
Thankyou! :D
Wow, it looks like a finised mobile game, nice job! really great art style.
Thankyou for playing. We'll try to port it on mobile someday. :D
This game is polished enough to be published on mobile stores right now. The scope and execution are impressive—truly well done. For constructive feedback, I’d suggest reducing the amount of debris and shortening the tutorial slightly. Other than that, you're on the right track. This easily makes it into my Top 10 of the jam so far.
Thankyou so much for the feedback, this will help us improve the game. We'll take note of this <3
Loved the animations and art!
Thank you so much!
Simple and polish game!
Tutorial could be much smaller because mechanics are simple and easy to grasp!
I definitely agree! We'll improve the tutorial! Thank you!!!!
Thank you for the submission! It was fun to play!
Stop by and check our game when you'll have time! We're hungry for feedback 🍴
would definitely play your game! unfortunately I'm using a mac so I can't really install the game :(
But thanks for trying! It means a lot!
Clean artstyle, simple game mechanic. Very well polished! Would be nice with some powerups :D
Thank you!
Art is great - tutorial was a little long but good - would like to see the monster more and have some bonus pick ups or something (faster ladders etc) to help influence my route.
Liked the Gobba talking and character.
Nice entry - could be a decent mobile game!
Thank you for playing! Will take note of your very constructive feedback in future versions of the game <3
This game is too good to be made in the jam this must feature in the GMTK video
thankyou for the feedback. Love your pixel art and animation <3.
You can publish this game on the playstore and I will never believe this game is only done in a game jam; that's how polished this game is. GG, RaisinsGang!!
Thank you so much!!! GG!
Really creative take on the challenge, meshed with good art too. The ladder mechanic is very simple and fun to use, could easily see this being a great mobile game. My high score was 216! Great work!
Thank you for playing!
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Amazing job on the visuals of the game! I feel like this game is very polished with everything that's in it. The tutorial is nicely paced so that the player learns the game slowly instead of being thrown a bunch of information at once. The arcade feel is definitely there and it's a solid game.
Great job! My high score was 256
Nice! I'm so glad you enjoyed the game! Will take note of the tutorial in the future! Thank you!!!
of course! oh i was saying that the tutorial is already really nice paced as it is and that I really liked it! sorry if my message was a bit confusing
I LOVE GOBBAS!!!!!!! Looks really good!! I hope that the gobba can go home to its family one day.
Gobba will get home eventually!
Much like has already been said, great job on the visuals and polish!
I get pretty far pretty easily — to the point that I'm questioning the difficulty curve. The page description mentions it, but it just wasn't really noticeable after the first area change, which mostly just acts as a head start. That could mean the dragon's faster, the platforms are farther and fewer between, and maybe debris falls more often or with less warning (though I'd be careful with those since they're more frustrating). But I'd just make it become challenging faster.
I think my favorite part other than the presentation was naturally learning how far Gobba could fall before being stunned. I think you could lean into this more and try to design challenging sections where you have to intentionally fall a bit.
A nice touch would be to make the dragon's chomping volume change based on how close it is, or some other indication of how safe you are.
Great job and I love your take on the theme, an extending ladder, very clever! 💙
Oh wooow! Thank you so much for the very constructive feedback! Will be noting this for future iterations of the game!
Gobba, Gobba, Gobba!
Gobba, Gobba, Gobbaaaaa!
Wow! This might be one of the most polished game jam games I've seen so far. Even the game page is incredibly well done. The gameplay loop itself is a bit simple. It would have been really cool to to have some power ups or something similar.
Thank you so much for your feedback! Will keep the powerups ni mind for the future versions of the game ❤️
Immediately super fun, between the sounds, tangible ladder placement, and big splashy animations. I could definitely play this on my phone for a few hours, haha. One piece of feedback - because your animations, characters , and UI are already so expressive, I feel like I didn't need the tutorial at all-- wonder if you could have just had me press space to deploy my first ladder after the dragon showed up, then let me figure out the rest. Very fun regardless!
Wow thank you so much for your feedback! As for the tutorial, there is a skip tutorial button on the upper right corner of the game so you could explore it without much help! Thank you again!! Love your feedback