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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Style | #92 | 4.525 | 4.525 |
| Overall | #436 | 3.917 | 3.917 |
| Enjoyment | #825 | 3.625 | 3.625 |
| Creativity | #1464 | 3.600 | 3.600 |
Ranked from 40 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 need to build the map yourself, you need to build up momentum and the player can shrink to then jump higher afterwards.
Development Time
96 hours
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Would make a cool phone game
Nice concept, i like the art style and mechanics :)
What a great style! had a bit of a hard time figuring out controls but its a small speck in comparison to this joy of a game
Could have used more tutorialization, and dunno if there's RNG on the objects or not. Felt like I wasn't getting things I wanted/needed. Also those things weren't explained - what's a booster, jump orb, gravity orb do? Also the scaling mechanic kind of felt like it was just charging up your jump.
But it was really pretty and sounded great!
The objects are randomly chosen but they are the same for every player to make sure leaderboard competition is fair.
For jump orbs you can jump on them, when you jump on gravity orbs the gravity changes, and boosters boost you when you go through them.
I really liked the dual nature of the game with the focus on building yourself an optimal path with as few objects as possible and then racing through it. The leaderboard was a really nice touch. As far as feedback goes, I think the mechanics could be better explained, it took me a little while to fully understand the process.
As far as presentation goes, I mean the game just has so much style. I really loved the dynamic shadows from the boxes, and the light trails, but honestly it was all pretty.
Very cool, nice work.
You created a really nice mood - I'm definitely taking notes on the particle trail, lights/shadows, and the quantization shader in the background!
I like your game's concept but had too much difficulty with the controls, and the two-mode gameplay wasn't really explained. I have a lot of patience for game jam games, but unfortunately these things (+ the performance!) held me back from enjoying it completely.
Buuuut I saw you comment that you wanted to really polish the aesthetics a ton, and you very much succeeded on that front! I've been working on learning how to polish myself, and I think you have a more masterful grasp on it than I do. Take what you learned from implementing these effects into your future game jams!
The graphics and the soundscape are really cool
The movements feel a bit awkward, but the idea of the game is good
The leaderboard is a nice idea
Keep it on!
I LOVE THE GRAPHICS STYLE
Pretty fun game imo, great work!
Very creative game indeed. But I think you need to clearly some items in this game (especially the jump orb and the gravity item). Not everybody played the same game, and they may not know about how the item works.
Anyway, well done. The graphics looks very beautiful.
this was actually quite relaxing. great take on the concept!
The game has a very relaxing vibe. The leaderboard makes for great replayability. Some of the items are hard to understand but the overall game is really fun and well thought out!
I love the feels the level of polish gave me, I have kinda the same feedback as the other about the s to charge up feeling akward, but I got hooked anyways !
This game is super fun! The style and the atmosphere is amazing!
The map builder part feels extremely well polished and easy to control. I especially like the trail effects that help you see where to put stuff. The only slight issue I encountered was that the more I played, the more elements would start to wobble around when I drag them.
The platformer part was a little more stale for me, but still impressive. I think that the fact that there’s no explicit limitation on object count stops it from feeling like a challenge. Although the leaderboard helps with that.
Overall, remarkable entry!
The wobbliness is most likely a webgl thing. I have to use the single threaded export otherwise leaderboards wouldn't function.
Thanks for playing!
This is amazing! Putting leaderboards was so smart! And so gorgeous! I did sadly not realize it was online before choosing my name. I’m Penis :( Sorryyy
Visuals are really good! There only issues I encountered was just some sub-par performance (probably because I'm playing the web build). Game feels really polished, I remember your style from a previous game jam, it was also scale related funnily enough. I'm surprised you managed to make all this in a fairly short time period. GG!
Hey Red! Glad to see you in another jam!
You've still got that style in spades. The visuals and sound are all juicy as hell. And that helped convince me to give this game more time than I might have otherwise.
I read your description with "this game is super mid" but don't be down on yourself. Take that out and I'm sure people will have a much better time with it! Putting that in the game page sets players up to be underwhelmed or think it's not good. But every game we make, good or bad (or even mid) helps us learn and grow as developers. You get to explore design ideas that you might otherwise think are too small or shallow, or refine your workflow, or hone your sense for your own style.
I think the biggest part holding back this experience is the control scheme. Holding S/Down to charge separately from a jump feels awkward. I want jump to be a single button, either hold it down to charge, or just have a standard "hold to jump further" thing. The charge just didn't feel meaningful in the handful of levels I played, and was even unreliable at some points. It seemed I couldn't charge while standing on some surfaces, or only sometimes while moving.
Building your own route and then tracking times and number of objects is really good though. I spent a ton of time on the first level just trying to get it with one object, but no dice. Showing that info up front does so much work to push the player to challenge themselves instead of just building a plain bridge.
Congrats on finishing another jam! Keep making games!
I know the gameplay is super mediocre. It barely has anything special or unique. My goal this jam was to polish a lot to see how that affects jam scores and I think I did a pretty good job there.
I actually tried "holding space to charge up the jump" before settling on the current version. The only reason why I didn't go with that is that regular jumps felt incredibly awkward and delayed. The game is entirely beatable without this mechanic, it's just sort of an extra thing for people who want to try beating levels faster/with less objects.
It's so satisfying completing a level, i can look past the performance issue, love it!
Most likely a webgl thing sorry.
Interesting game! Creative gameplay. There are lots of options for completing levels.
I can see how to get to the other 10 levels, but it wasn't immediately obvious. I only found this out after completing the first level, wondering if there was more than one level and then pressing tab when it restarted. And then it's only possible to switch level when you've restarted the one you're in.
Thanks for the warning about lag spikes. Unfortunately this constituted about 30-40 seconds of unresponsiveness the first time, then 5-10 seconds on a subsequent load of the page. It also caused the entire browser to become unresponsive for a few seconds at one point during that subsequent load which was a little worrying.
I had a similar problem in my game where I wanted the level to slowly fade from blue sky/green grass to yellow/red, and I was regularly updating the world lighting every 5 seconds or so. Unfortunately this caused momentary lag spikes every few seconds, and I thought that for all I know, it might be even worse on other computers, so I completely removed the feature, taking away a lot of the atmosphere from the game.
If you make a similar game in future (or update this one) I suggest a similar approach where you disable shaders, at least by default. As the issue only occurs when first moving the ball, it seems that it's just the shaders for the sparks and trails, which add visual flair but are not 100% required to get the point across. Then if you want, you can provide the option to re-enable them in the menu. If the issue doesn't exist in the Windows build then that could have them on by default.
I'm curious about how you did the ball rolling sound - is it just controlling the volume on a simple sound effect or is it more dynamic? And shaders - I haven't looked into Godot shaders but was there any special framework you used / assets / libraries you downloaded for the effects?
Sorry for the wall of text.
For the rolling sound I had 2 curves that adjusted its volume an pitch. I also fade-in the sound based on how long the player has been on the ground in order to avoid weird "popping" behaviour. I also added a slight reverb to make the sound end less abrubtly when leaving the ground.
For the shaders, I assume you're talking about the filter that's applied on everything. I made a video about it.
Thanks for playing! I have no intention in updating this game.