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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Style | #1964 | 3.463 | 3.463 |
| Overall | #2821 | 3.081 | 3.081 |
| Enjoyment | #2953 | 2.878 | 2.878 |
| Creativity | #3756 | 2.902 | 2.902 |
Ranked from 41 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?
The game scales in intensity through its ever increasing arena and difficult combat. Furthermore, many of the mechanics like player stats scale multiplicatively. Assets also reference scale, through artwork representations and musical scales.
Development Time
96 hours
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You've gone hard here! Really like the entire theme of the game and it all fits nicely together!
cool game! Gecko lives matter.
Nice game :) I really liked the colors and the illustrations!
nice take on the theme! the fonts are a little hard to read but everything was good!
It becomes very hard quite quickly and when we have to choose our improvement the time is slowed down but not stopped. I don't know if this is intentional but it's quite annoying :/
But otherwise a really good game, fun to play and very pretty, good job ! ;)
Cool CaveLady story! Those lizards should find another food source.
I need the primary attack to be just like..... 30% longer! Was a fun little vampire-like :)
Nice idea! I enjoyed seeing more and more stuff, but got overwhelmed pretty quickly at some point haha. Still a fun game, congratulation for making this :D
It's a fun take on the survivors genre and I like how the camera pans out as the dificulty increases. The sprites are good but they're not visually consistent together.
Thank you for the feedback! We had to change our pixel art artist about halfway through the jam so that definitely led to some inconsistencies haha. Thanks for playing!
love the game, really nice
Very nice concept, a bit to hard for me to be able to see everything :/ but i like the slow zoom out as you progress Nice chill music
I love the atmosphere this unique pixel style looking combined with the music. It's fun, but is a little bit too hard for me. Also, I think my game share similar idea with yours, feels free to check it out! GOOD WORK!
Love the art, love the slowly zooming out camera and the ominous music. You're right that our games are conceptually similar, I love the art on the cards. I like how we each solved having additional abilities in a simple way differently (you had a special control, we went with just a number of attacks). It's fun! Just a bit slow paced at the beginning but it increases pretty quick.
This game has really good presentation! It's beautiful, and the camera slowly pulling back is both stylish and useful for readability as more monsters spawn.
I don't mind the game not stopping during level ups, but the slowmo should be stronger to compensate.
The game is way too hard for me, so I didn't get very far, but from what I saw, I really like the varied monster types forcing you to move differently.
Great game!
There's a lot of potential here, though it's still quite rough around the edges. I really like where the art is going, and the pre-historic cave-man theme with dinosaurs is a setting we don't see often enough. I think the enemy design is great, the fact that they all attack you in very differently but predictably makes the gameplay feel chaotic in a good way.
I enjoyed this, it's really cool and the mechanics all feel very polished. I think it's really annoying though that time doesn't stop completely when choosing a power up. I also really like the art style and the soothing music.
Thank you for playing! And yeah once the jam is over we are going to make it so time completely stops when choosing a power. Lots of people agree with you that it is difficult to play because of that!
Love the art style !! I was so bad at it tho, I died a lot !
Thank you! And haha yeah it is quite difficult, I think based off feedback we will add more of a breather when players level-up.
This is awesome! The overall vibes and aesthetic felt really good, and I really liked the menu crumbling animation! Great work!
Yay thank you! OMG the artist put so much love into that crumbling anim, she'll be super happy to hear that people like it!
The Cover Art is amazing, and also all the cards look so good! I whish the background would be less saturated , since it is such a bright color it is hard to focus on the enemies in my opinion!
I liked the attack of the bird ones even though it was quite a challnage, but the movement pattern with them first flying away and than speeding up to you is really fun!
Biggest Issue I had was when I was leveling I always died , since the game did not pause :)
Thank you! Our artists are so happy to hear you liked their work! Originally we wanted to make more tile sprites to break up the background, but unfortunately ran out of time. We will also def edit the game to pause during level up when the jam is over!
YESSS the pterodactyl is also my favorite enemy :)
Loved the atmosphere! It start out small at first but escalates really quickly.
Thank you! Definitely what we were going for to match the theme!