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A jam submission

This Tree Was Built To ScaleView game page

Endless runner platformer; climb to new heights! (mouse and keyboard required)
Submitted by RainbowChickenGames — 8 hours, 17 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Creativity#11073.7373.737
Overall#25263.1583.158
Style#31653.0003.000
Enjoyment#34312.7372.737

Ranked from 19 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?
You are scaling a tree while also changing the size of the branches.

Development Time

48 hours

(Optional) Please credit all assets you've used
“Autumn Day” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

“Carpe Diem” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Open Sans Font (Google Fonts)
Licensed under the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.
https://openfontlicense.org
Copy of license included with game files.

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Comments

Submitted(+1)

The rotating mechanic is pretty unique! Amazing take on the theme.

Developer

Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it!

(1 edit) (+1)

Yo! This game was great! When I rotated the tree for the first time I was like WAHHH!! It took me a bit to get the hang of it but after I did I found the game play enjoyable. Also bonus point for the team name lol. No notes. (max height 81)

Developer

Thank you so much for the kind words! ^_^

Submitted(+1)

this was wonderful, got to 166 and had to call it because i was getting frustrated. i was shocked to see the tree rotate like it did, that was really cool and unexpected! great work!

Developer

Thanks for playing! I think that's the highest score so far! Most we got to in development testing was like 49 or 58, or somewhere along those lines.

Submitted(+1)

Fun game, very well done core mechanic, I didn't encounter any bugs with rotating the tree. Unfortunately not every tree was built to scale, I found myself restarting a lot for better RNG. Great game overall, my best height was 27

Developer

Thanks for the feedback! We'll take a look at spawn rates and patterns if we do a post-game jam release. A trick we discovered in development was jumping and then rotating the tree to catch yourself, which might be helpful.

Submitted(+1)

What a surprising mechanic! Really love the feel of freely rotating the tree as you climb. Thanks for the game!

Developer

And thank you for the kind words! ^_^ Glad you enjoyed it!

(+1)

Chill and creative, love idea of controlling the entire "world" and use it to go further.

Developer(+1)

Thanks! We wanted a relaxed platformer, and we're quite happy how this turned out.

Submitted(+1)

The game is really freaking creative, I just wish the controls were more forgiving 

Developer(+1)

Thank you! We'll examine that for any post game jam release

(+1)

Platformer controls are not very responsive but the concept is very cool! reminds me of fez

Developer

Thanks for the feedback! Can definitely see the comparison ^_^