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Bonely Way Is Up's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Style | #1021 | 3.864 | 3.864 |
| Overall | #2139 | 3.280 | 3.280 |
| Creativity | #2349 | 3.318 | 3.318 |
| Enjoyment | #3680 | 2.659 | 2.659 |
Ranked from 88 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 build a REALLY large ladder to "scale" up to heaven! Also the voice actor said the thing!
Development Time
48 hours
(Optional) Please credit all assets you've used
Used this texture:
https://www.artstation.com/marketplace/p/xKjzr/skull-n-bone-pile-texture
Used this for some meshes in the distance:
https://solarcompost.itch.io/weird-alien-flora-and-trippy-textures-pack
Used this for the building sound:
https://opengameart.org/content/bones-rattle
Used this ambient wind sound:
https://freesound.org/people/Imjeax/sounds/427401/
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Interesting game, quite a simple premise, but interesting nevertheless. Funny voice acting and great visuals, it feels quite... I wouldnt say slapstick, but a skeleton building a ladder out of bones is pretty metal. The music was great, i like how it only kicks in after a bit and doesnt start immediately
Oh my god, this game was so fun! The artwork was awesome, the voice lines were hilarious and made clicking not boring and simply just enjoyable. I think this would be a fun mobile clicker game like the capitalist lemonade stand game (or whatever its called). I would totally play a game like it. Great game!!
Thanks for the game, I had a good time! Simple concise idea, funny humor and cool style. If you put a button and a counter somewhere, there will be people who will spend a lot of time on it, just for fun.
Simple but very polished. This sort of folksy-inflected imagining of hell is pretty neat; not quite the same as anything I've seen before, but it definitely feels fitting and not totally out of left field either. As a fan of the "limited visual elements augmenting text" approach, I can see the bones (sorry) of a more game-y game here; introduce some choices into the dialogue, and a suitable twist ending, and you've got something very intriguing. As is, it's still an interesting experience and I definitely felt a sense of anticipation and mystery as I reached the top, even if it was ultimately a bit underwhelming. I'm curious what you originally had in mind for if you'd had more time!
Such a great song for a nice little game. Nice vibes.
first game to cause me physical pain of the jam, that's an achievement i feel
For real though, quite nice vibes, the way everything comes together to support the dialogue makes it both pretty intriguing lore-wise with a backbone (haha) of comedy. It might sound kinda contrary to the point, but I do think an accessibility option to use the scrollwheel or drag the cursor instead of just clicking would be nice, as it did genuinely give me a hand cramp lol. Still, definitely a nice game for the feeling and vibes alone, and the voice acted lines make it way greater than just a clicker game, good job!
insert bad to the bone guitar riff here
man, if only i could get the licensing...
Voice was great - loved the puns
Experience looked great!
As a fun click to hear jokes experience it was dead on.....
Thanks!
I enjoyed it. You know I like to think that this would be exactly the dialog of my protagonist if instead of old school noir I would have pick a western. It would be nice if there would be some better camera action as you clicking a ladder and panning upwords with mouse is the same input so you can't really see the ladder going upwords for the most time unless you extend you're play by panning every few meaters. But overall I had fun with the witty and not so witty humor :D [ also maybe a height counter could be nice and putting the progress bar on the side with a ladder texture ;) ]
Yeah the camera thing is a good point, I was half lazy but also half expecting it to cause people to rush through the game way too fast and not slow down and look.
Felling magic in my bones rn
Cool models for 48 hours! I built the whole ladder! Would have liked to see what you really wanted to do with the game.
My poor clicking bones! I could've just built an ossuary at the bottom and made myself comfortable. Fun experience.
this was delightful. really love interactive little experiences like this, super creative take! jams like these need more narrative focused games, lots of unexplored design space there.
Damn really good vo as for jam game. Visual are cool, but the best thing in the game is humour. Is it cringe? Yes. Were the jokes good to the bones? Hell yeah. Great job!
It was a lot of clicking but I managed to get our skeleton friend to the top 💀
I don't have any bones to pick with this game, the writing was very humerus
vibes are IMMACULATE
This was funny as hell, presentation is cool and has some vibes to it. Pretty fun clicker with some funny comments from the skeleton
Cool little clicker lol
The humour was cringe AF and I loved it. I wish there were more jokes
The presentation as a whole was cool. I like the hellish-western vibe you were going for here.
As a whole, there isn't much I can say. It's a fun little clicker. Gave me a good chuckle as well lol. Great job on this
Dunno why this guy would want to leave The Bone Zone but who am I to judge a calcuim comrade? Game tickled my funny bone and left my fingers with carpal tunnel but it was worth it to help a boney buddy out
As soon as bone man said 'this situation is rather humerus' I knew this was the best jam game