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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Originality | #11 | 3.467 | 3.467 |
| Graphics | #14 | 3.467 | 3.467 |
| Accessibility | #17 | 2.600 | 2.600 |
| Overall | #20 | 2.867 | 2.867 |
| Controls | #21 | 2.600 | 2.600 |
| Audio | #22 | 2.733 | 2.733 |
| Fun | #22 | 2.800 | 2.800 |
| Theme | #38 | 2.400 | 2.400 |
Ranked from 15 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Godot Version
4.1.1
Wildcards Used
Diplomacy
Game Description
Cross the desert and find the collosal pyramid!
How does your game tie into the theme?
It's about ascending a Pyramid
Source(s)
N/A
Discord Username(s)
.sleepylobster
Participation Level (GWJ Only)
1
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Great game! I love the strong atmosphere this game presents, does a great job backing up the RPG elements, and getting to set the characteristics at the start is cool! It was disheartening to finally make it to the pyramid to find out I was missing the scarab and die soon thereafter, but I enjoyed the journey and the obelisks were helpful.
Thanks for playing! Glad you found the pyramid :)
Alas I could not get this to run properly on my Mac in Chrome. Would load a screen, then a long wait, then another screen, then long wait, and then crash :(
Thanks for pointing this out! I hadn't thought to try it on my Mac. I was able to get it working on Chrome in my M1, but only with a considerable amount of patience. There's a loading step that happens when you click "OK" after choosing your RPG attributes. What it's doing is building out the A* pathfinding graph for the entire map. I'm planning on making that clear with a loading screen once voting is over.
On my Linux desktop this takes about 3-5 seconds, but on my M1 mac it takes about 5 minutes (and also freezes all other chrome tabs). Once I cleared that loading step the game seems to run OK.
I wonder what's going on here? I'm curious why the performance on Mac is so much worse.
oh wow, that's a shocking performance gap! I'll give it another go as I've got an M2 and it should be up to the task!
Really enjoyed playing - well done!
Thank you!
Enjoyed the journey. Well polished and thought out, great entry
Thanks for playing and rating!
Wow, what an amazing game!
Great looks, polish and gameplay. Awesome art. Hex grid and pathfinding is impressive. Entire map is beautiful, UI fits the game well. Great job with the dialogue options and the RPG elements.
I managed to complete it on the first playthrough, although I had to backtrack from the pyramid to find the scarab :) Managed to buy 2 lamps and find the sceptre during my playthrough.
I think there's a small bug with the dialogue events, when you click through the place the event pops up, but if you continue moving after that, the next dialogue will be "there's nothing else here" and I don't think you get the resources if you don't go through the dialogue? - I encountered that with an oasis while clicking through it: dialogue popped up, but the character kept walking and the next dialogue popped up with "nothing else here".
Great job!
Thanks for playing and getting to the end! I'm impressed you managed to do it on the first try! I'm very flattered that you like my art haha, I definitely feel like it's a bit amateurish.
I know the bug you're talking about! Unfortunately I can't publish the fix until the voting is over :(
I can only say “It’s a perfect fit” to the theme too! Really liked the game. Visuals, Controls, Accessibility all were great. The only thing the map was very big, made the events repetitive and it took some time to reach the end. Some more sounds on reaching objects would have been cool. Beside that great game and really liked it! Lots of effort you have put here and it is def. visible. Great Job!
Thanks for playing and getting to the end ;) Adding sounds on objects was definitely something I wanted to do, but we didn't have enough time to make them.
The movement kind of seemed to break for me after playing a while, but maybe i reached a map edge or smth? I would have loved a few pointers like the obelisks for the pyramid as where to find the other needed stuff as i felt quite clueless arriving at the pyramid with items missing.
Still a cool experience overall!
I haven't reproduced that yet but thanks for letting me know! The pathfinding is all calculated when you hit "play" so I think there's a good chance it's fragile.
I loved this! Nice work!
Thanks for playing and rating!
Damn, this is a large game with quite a few systems built in! Really well put together in this short time. I enjoyed sneaking around in desert and finding ínteresting stuff. Well done!
Thanks for playing! When I was first thinking of this game it didn't seem that daunting, but there ended up being so much more to do and add
YO, that was an awesome experience! Beautiful graphics, fun controls, and decent replayability. The only thing I could complain about is the map being a little repetitive and sometimes too empty, but this is to be expected from the jam's limited time scope :p
Thanks for playing! Yea I definitely ran out of time, I was still hastily piecing the map together in the last hour of the jam
great effort - could do with a loading screen after selecting your attributes tho, i thought it had crashed. Great once it got started tho!
Thanks! Yea that's a good idea!
Nice graphics. This is one of those games where you can spend hours playing in one go. As an improvement, I recommend providing more explanation about the game's story and adding a button to access the game options. Good luck! :)
Thanks! I will definitely do that once the voting is over :)