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a carp’s dream (jam ver.)'s itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Creativity | #1928 | 3.458 | 3.458 |
| Overall | #1945 | 3.340 | 3.340 |
| Enjoyment | #1948 | 3.188 | 3.188 |
| Style | #2184 | 3.375 | 3.375 |
Ranked from 48 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?
it’s about a scaly carp scaling a mountain... you’ll see!
Development Time
96 hours
(Optional) Please credit all assets you've used
made in godot; input mapping based on godot demos (MIT license - https://godotengine.org/license/)
Shippori Mincho font by FONTDASU (Google Fonts/SIL Open Font License)
everything else by us, including art & music & design & programming & bugs
see description for full credits / links
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Nice art! However I couldn't make it past the second checkpoint or so.
Thanks for playing!
Hints (rot13) for the carp section after the second checkpoint:
Small hint: svefg, yrnea gb nfpraq gur + fvtaf ol serrmvat naq sybccvat
Medium hint: gurer'f na vzcbegnag yrffba arne gur purpxcbvag, cerff E vs lbh’er cnfg vg naq erernq vg
Big hint: vs lbh'ir pyvzorq gur + fvtaf, lbh'yy arrq bar zber oybpx sebmra gb sybc hc naq rfpncr gur jngre ohooyrf. lbh'yy unir gb serrmr guvf oybpx sebz arne gur purpxcbvag
Ì love the story this is based on and the art is so pretty! I love it.
Thank you for playing (:
Nice art. I really liked the puzzle where the carp and dragon had to work together. Good job :)
Thanks for playing and congrats for making it that far!
Nice art, it's a shame that i suck at puzzle games and the ice bending carp is too much of a struggle for me let alone the dragon.
Good work
Thank you for playing and giving it a try! If you let me know where you might have gotten stuck, I could write a hint for you or anyone else (:
Extremely clever and simple little puzzle game, im very impressed. Carp art is gorgeous as well!
Would be very grateful if you tried our game!
Thanks for your kind words and playing (: I loved your game!!
I had a lot of fun playing this, the music was very soothing and I really felt part of the journey :) Lovely level design and creative, simple mechanics.
Thanks so much for your kind words and for playing! (:
got through the carp part, but got stuck with the dragon. some explanation of the abilities would go a long way, had a lot of trouble figuring out what the dragon can do and not do
For sure, we could have taught the mechanics a bit more directly. If you let me know where you got stuck, I could write a hint for you or anyone else!
Thanks for playing (:
Love the art and theme! Very creative mechanics too that play very nicely together.
Thank you for your kind words and for playing (:
*absurdly* good puzzles; two mechanics -- each of which is so fresh and so good it could have been its own standalone puzzle game -- combined in a way that feels perfectly natural... i feel spoiled.
combining a difficult game with 'struggle against insurmountable odds' theming is a winner, but i also have a soft spot for this particular story as well. very glad to see you used gravity as a mechanic so it's actually really exciting to swim up waterfalls.
love the art style, the little reserved animations of the dragon as it moves, the writing, and the voice acting too. great heart-warming ending.
wonderful game, really sank its teeth into me! thank you :)
Congrats on making it to the end!! Thank you for your lovely praise and for playing (:
The artstyle is very creative. I love the watercolor theme
Thank you for your kind words and for playing (:
Unique concept, but very hard. I like the lore and the puzzle aspect! Please keep working on this, i'm sure you can make this game even better. I had fun until the spacebar ability came into play. So, work on making that better is all. Fun game otherwise!
Thanks for the encouragement and for playing (:
Very good concept! Simple and effective, you can create insane level design out of it.
Be careful to tune down the difficulty. It gets super difficult very quickly! Especially when we are hinted about the "space" ability.
Great job :)
I'm glad you see the potential in the design space of our game! We could definitely have a more friendly difficulty climb in the future.
Thanks for playing (:
The game is fun and core idea is interesting it was really hard for me to complete it tho but the rebinding key system is really good as well. Good Job.
Thanks for playing (:
The game was really fun and the core idea was very interesting, but I was difficult to me. It would be nice to have a hint system!
That's a good idea for the future! Let me know where you might have gotten stuck and I could write a hint for you or anyone else (:
Thanks for playing!
I forgot to reply to the blocked part, but I remembered after seeing the comments. Sorry for the delay. The blocked part was the part where the dragon jumps over the one-block block and heads to the waterfall. It looks like his head won't touch the waterfall, but he didn't jump.
Thanks for your reply, congrats on making it that far! Yeah, the mechanic of the dragon's ability could have been explained a bit more clearly. It has to have a clear line of sight from its head to a wall in order to teleport, any water would block that.
Hints (rot13) for that dragon section with the one-tile block and the small waterfall above the checkpoint:
Small hint: gur purpxcbvag vf cynprq gurer sbe n ernfba!
Medium hint: lbh arrq gb gryrcbeg hcjneqf
Big hint: lbh bayl arrq gur cyngsbez gur purpxcbvag vf ba
Oh! I didn't know that the dragon's jump can move even if the body is blocked. Is this the end of this game? I can't do anything after this
https://imgur.com/a/cqfCctW
Oh no, you found our bug ):
Hope you have time to give it a replay to see our ending, since you've almost made it!
(rot13): vafgrnq bs serrmvat / gryrcbegvat gurer, gur vagraqrq raqvat vaibyirf chggvat gur pnec hc nf sne nf vg pna tb, naq gura tvivat gur pnec n ahqtr sebz orybj jvgu gur qentba. V'z ernyyl fbeel jr qvqa'g oybpx lbh tbvat sebz nobir, juvpu fbsgybpxf gur tnzr... vs lbh erfgneg naq qb guvatf pbeerpgyl, lbh whfg unir gb pyvzo sbe n gval ovg ybatre gb trg gur raqvat lbh qrfreir!!