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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Creativity | #208 | 4.211 | 4.211 |
| Overall | #221 | 4.070 | 4.070 |
| Enjoyment | #254 | 3.947 | 3.947 |
| Style | #664 | 4.053 | 4.053 |
Ranked from 38 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?
A gravity bending puzzle platformer where you must mine planets and change their size to get to the goal
Development Time
96 hours
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Comments
Liked how you are using gravity as your base mechanic! had fun
Very unique and fun way to interpret the theme! I played it all the way to the end. The presentation was also very good and the robot cute.
Really polished little game, very impressive. The design of the mechanics is exceptional, I just wish I had a little more info to guide me on deciding when to jump.
Really nice game! I love how the gravity of other planets effect the robot and rocks whilst they're on a planet. You made the levels interesting by adding those barriers, nice job!
I love it! Easy to grasp, the puzzles all had a intuitive solution. Perfect jam game! Although I beat Level 10 in a way that wasn't intended :) Congrats, well done!
Haha, watching a couple people play I found there were alot of ways to beat levels that weren't the 'intended' way. Love that people have room to get creative with it!
A unique idea executed very well. Level 10 was especially good, having to figure out you need to throw rocks back to the original planet. Very nice
I like your idea! We’re working on something similar with an orbit theme. Check out my game :D
Cool concept, clean and well executed! Particularly liked the music!
Absolutely superb! The style, idea, and gameplay were all executed brilliantly. I had a lot of fun with these puzzles.
Very fun! It would be nice if there was a speedup time button since some of my more ill-placed jumps could take a full minute before I return to ground. Good job otherwise though!
A really nice mix of mechanics!
It's nothing new on their own but mixed in such a tasty coctail is just a :chefkiss:!
Art and music is pleasing as well.
One of my favorite games of the jam so far! Super interesting puzzles! In a future iteration, I'd love to see some better character movement on the planet. I felt so slippery. It'd also be fun to explore the obstacles in a more thematic way. Passing the laser is a cool obstacle, but it'd be cool if it were something that floats in space. Maybe a solar flare or something like that. Either way, you've got a high rating from me. Great work :)
Really appreciate the feedback! Spent alot of time tweaking the movement but at the end of the day agree that it can be a bit less responsive on smaller planets. Love the idea for some more space themed obstacles - will be making some updates after voting has closed :) Thanks for playing!
Propably one of the best space theme game from the jam. Really creative puzzles. Fun to play. Great work!!!
Very cool game that you can play with the gravity!! I love the idea. Its fun!
Delightful game!
Using gravitational fields to solve puzzles isn't anything new, but mining planets to shrink their size? And then tossing that mass at another planet to make it grow? What a wild concept haha!
And it's used very well here. Fun and very satisfying puzzle game, taking a unique spin on planetary gravity-based physics puzzles.
Thank you, I'm so glad you liked it! It was my first time writing any custom physics and its definitely a bit wonky at times so I'm happy you had fun with it :)
Very cool concept! And the puzzles at each level were challenging without being crazy.
Very cool concept! And the puzzles at each level were challenging without being crazy.
This was super cool and fun and super well done. It's very clean and the music and art fit so well with the game
Great idea and execution! The pixel art is very nice and the game fits the theme well. I found some levels took a few too many throws into the void before I actually hit what I was aiming at (it's interesting how hitting your target gets progressively easier as its size increases!), but the fun of the game kept me around to complete the full thing. The moments where my little robot would careen through space as I crossed my fingers that he'd land where I intended made for a satisfying payoff. Nice work!
Thank you so much! Yea definitely noticed some of the later levels get a bit tedious towards the end - even after you’ve already figured out the puzzle part of it. Didn’t have time to balance because the gravity meant changing one thing slightly changed how the whole level worked, but good to think about for next time. High praise that you still found it engaging enough to play to the end, it means a lot :)