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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Theme | #28 | 3.875 | 3.875 |
| Sfx / Music | #29 | 3.542 | 3.542 |
| Overall | #35 | 3.517 | 3.517 |
| Gameplay | #42 | 3.458 | 3.458 |
| Design | #49 | 3.583 | 3.583 |
| Innovation | #65 | 3.125 | 3.125 |
Ranked from 24 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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Really cool game and art, loved the idea, the gameplay is cool as well. The player feels a bit heavy but you added coyote time tho, couldn't finish tho, the elder part is really tough lol but still awesome ^^
Very nice game, nice idea and artwork. I'd say its too difficult to my taste, I beat it but the last horizontal electricity run took me at least 50 deaths at old stage, probably more. So is for previous top-left part, it's too tight when you are an old person, at first I thought that it's undoable. Maybe it's just me, i don't play platformers often :)
You explore the theme too good!
I don't no if you want add some "significates" in this game, but the idea of when we are kids, everything looks like bigger and when become older, everything becomes hard works perfectly!
For the gameplay, the mechanics works good, the controls works very well for this precision game, the sfx/music are very atmospherical for the game gender and the dificult progression in all stages are perfect (seriously, YOUR LEVEL DESIGN IS SO FKN AMAZING!!!).
Anyway, you realy make a master piece. 10/10, one of the bests so far.
Cograts ;D.
This game is so precious! The artwork is so adorable and endearing and I agree that the electrocution animation was spot on! So good!!! I'll be the first to admit that I was not very good ahha. I died a ton and I'm still trying to practice that jumping, but I didn't even mind! The use of the trees as checkpoints was a great idea and the game was just so cute and appropriately difficult, but not impossible, where I wanted to keep playing! Great Job!!! Loved it ! (:
Really good game! The only issue I had is that some of the jumps in young stage were REALLY tight.
Also, I collected 17 oranges, how many total were there? :P
Thank you! There are 18, I should have shown a percentage or something.
Dang it, I know where the last one was, but I was too big to pick it up at that point. I was wondering if that was the only one I missed. xD
Great idea! Simple design. The controls feels great for me.
And I thought sonic was fast! :P
Nice game bro, great electrocution animation!
Thanks! I spent a lot of time on it.
this game was tough! but i like how i respawn just a bit back to where i died, so that kept me wanting to try again! the animations was solid. the jumping a bit frustrating. adn i love that animation when you died lol
Thanks for your feedback! I tried to make death the least frustrating I could, since I died a lot and figured other players would too.
it's all good! I had fun overall
Love the electrocution animation!
Thanks! I wanted dying to not be frustrating, and part of that was making a good death animation. Throughout development I kept going back and trying to improve it.
In fact it's too good because I died on purpose multiple times to see it again :D
Great game! Tough but fair. Liked the soundtrack.
Thanks! The music is by Abstraction, I've linked to more of their stuff in the credits page and the description.
Slick animations and the music suits the game perfectly. Hard, but rewarding thanks to good level design.
If you are continuing with this project after jam, I suggest creating new sprites for the grown up characters and trees instead of scaling them up.
Thank you! I wanted to do new sprites for the grown up tree but I ran out of time.
Good start and I really like the concept. But the jumping and motion is too fast/crazy. Keep working on this one even beyond the jam.
Thanks! I've slowed it down so it should be much less crazy.
Cool yes, much better now. I got through the level 2x, trying to jump over laser beams as an old man is incredibly difficult (esp with the screen zoomed out). Also noticed an overlapping sound issue, there seems to be 2 music tracks playing at the same time after you die and restart.
Nice work on the game.
Thanks again! It's easier to jump over the beams if you move in the opposite direction that they're moving.
Hmm, the only time it start to play sound is when the level loads. I'm assuming it starts when you press R and not when you die?
The gameplay I experienced was that the background song switched when I die (main theme stops, calmer death music starts). Then when I press R the main music starts again ... but the death music is still playing.
Hope this helps.
The parkour is so frustrating to the point where I couldn't even get past being a child.
Thanks for the feedback, I've slowed it down so it shouldn't be so frustrating.