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A jam submission

Ladders Are Built to be ScaledView game page

Will you scale the ladder or will it scale you?
Submitted by justking14 — 1 day, 10 hours before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Creativity#20963.4003.400
Overall#27353.1003.100
Style#27573.1503.150
Enjoyment#33492.7502.750

Ranked from 20 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?
My game is centered an climbing ladders, objects built to be scaled

Development Time

48 hours

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Comments

Submitted

Definitely some wackiness with the handhold acquisition, but it really captured that old QWOP charm. Good job!

Submitted

Ladders: built

Function: Scalable.

This checks out.

Submitted

This is a really creative and unqie game. I have never seen somthing like this before. 5/5

I like the thinking ; impressive technical implementation in a short time.  I had some trouble with locking in the target location.  Eventually I ended up balled up on the ladder, looking a bit like a sad sloth reaching out for a branch.

What a technically impressive game!

I like the climbing mechanic, though it felt a bit like moving through molasses with how slow the limbs followed the cursor. Might be a performance issue on my end. It also took me a humorous amount of time to figure out that the fifth point of contact isn't the climber biting the rungs of the ladder, but a safety harness.

Fullscreen being broken also made me click outside the game window a few too many times, but ultimately, really good idea, decently executed, and I could definitely see myself playing through a longer version with some of the kinks ironed out.

Submitted(+1)

This was cool! Would have loved to see a replay of the guy/creature in the end where it climbs the ladder in "real time".

Submitted(+1)

What abomination do we control!! Really interesting art style and quite the alien-esque climbing game!

(+1)

A pretty tongue in cheek concept. I enjoyed it. 

Developer

Thanks! I spent a good couple of hours trying a few different prototypes with a scaling grid system, but they just weren't any fun. Then I reread the prompt and realized...oh! yeah that could work

Submitted(+1)

I couldnt manage to keep my dude looking like a dude :(

Developer

Sorry to hear...though now I'm wondering if I should force the player to get their dude looking right to beat the level haha