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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Creativity | #785 | 3.864 | 3.864 |
| Overall | #1295 | 3.561 | 3.561 |
| Style | #1308 | 3.727 | 3.727 |
| Enjoyment | #2239 | 3.091 | 3.091 |
Ranked from 22 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?
With nesting dolls you grow in scale to jump higher and further. you can also jump out to shrink in scale to fit into smaller areas
Development Time
96 hours
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Comments
The jumping reminded me of jump king but the platforming was definitely not as frustrating. I did manage to softlock myself in I think the 4th stage by jumping out of the knight before using it to hit the switch.
Lovely music and art. Fantastic. The controls are really bringing this beautiful game down. What should be an easy jump puzzle at the start is real frustrating. But again, it looks incredible. Nice work!
I love the concept. It's just literally russian dolls (or more specifically matryoshka dolls). A lot of potential with the level design and the art is really good. The issue i had and i don't know if it's a design choice is the jump is not to my taste. But otherwise, great job
Cool hierarchy of dolls and a creative concept in general. Took me a minute to get used to the jumping but once I had that down it was very fun. Funny choice of name for the game as well.
I really enjoyed this one! I think it's a clever interpretation of the theme and has a lot of potential to expand on the idea. I do think the jump is quite finicky though, as you can never really tell how high you'll actually go, and you tend to bounce awkwardly off stuff. Overall fun :)
Very creative application of the theme! There is so much potential for level design with this idea
Love the Matryoshka doll idea! Your jump makes it less of a platformer and more puzzle, not sure I like that, but I got used to it. Sadly, I got stuck by getting I got my level 2 dude to a place where I couldn’t get my level 1 guy to after splitting. Pretty sure I wasn’t supposed to get to the ledge I was on. Cool Concept!
Great art and polished gameplay! Bouncing off the walls to ascend was a neat discovery and the puzzles were well constructed :) Nice work!
The doll mechanics are a great fit for the theme. I like it. Though I don't like the Jump King mechanics :P
Really nice art and sound. I love the concept of this game well done.
I did find the controls frustrating at times, it was often hard to judge how high or far you would jump and if you make a mistake you can end up losing a bunch of progress. However I like the physics and had fun struggling with it for a while.