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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Theme | #21 | 3.889 | 3.889 |
| Graphics | #38 | 3.778 | 3.778 |
| Fun | #57 | 3.000 | 3.000 |
| Overall | #64 | 3.095 | 3.095 |
| Audio | #66 | 3.000 | 3.000 |
| Originality | #79 | 3.111 | 3.111 |
| Controls | #98 | 2.556 | 2.556 |
| Accessibility | #106 | 2.333 | 2.333 |
Ranked from 9 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Godot Version
4
Wildcards Used
Here comes the Sun
Game Description
Platformer, "During an icy adventure with your friends, you get lost, the earth opens up beneath you and swallows you whole. Your only hope, the small slivers of sunlight to keep you warm, and sane"
How does your game tie into the theme?
You must escape a dark icy cave before you freeze
Source(s)
No
Discord Username(s)
mertitude
Participation Level (GWJ Only)
0
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Comments
Well done on your first game!
Thanks!
Congratulations on your first GWJ and your first completed game. I think you did an excellent job! The game fit the theme perfectly. I enjoyed the atmosphere of the dark cave you were able to create. The last level really felt like I was getting to the mouth of the cave. I found that the controls worked well for me and didn't have trouble getting through the levels. I agree with the other commenter about wising I could go fullscreen because I really liked the art.
Thank you very much! it is appreciated!! Good to know there are aspects people liked!
Nice little game! Enjoyed playing my way through these short but sweet levels! I wished the climbable walls were a little bit more obvious and I felt like some jumps were really unforgiving (maybe there could be a coyote timer to help with that?)
Overall nice experience :)
Thank you for the feedback! Yes, I absolutely need to work on the game play side, I'm more of the artist so next time I think more time on the game and less on the art haha
Thank you so much for time to give this feedback!
I liked the ice theme and art enough that I wish it was rendered a bit bigger - it was pretty small on my screen. I wanted to see more of it!
I enjoyed the music but I would maybe not start it over each time you die - cause you end up dying a lot since that’s how you have to discover the correct path.
It took me a little bit of time to figure out what the blue bar at the bottom represented.
That is a massive compliment about the art thank you so much, make it bigger, check.
Yes i totally agree with those points! more ui help and music needs to be continuous! I think next time I will focus more on the function of the game and less on the art.
Thank you so much for taking the time
Short, but fun! This is pretty excellent for a first game in my book, especially considering that you had limited time for the jam, so congrats on jumping in to game dev (and making all the assets too, wowee!). I hope Godot is treating you well.
Some of the level design for this seemed a bit too punishing, at least for my taste (hint: I am generally pretty terrible at games). I especially am not a fan of having little sections in which I wasn't sure what way to go just because of the dark. This kind of thing might work in a game that rewarded exploration somehow, but here I just felt grumpy when I would lose because I wondered down a dead end I couldn't have known about.
That said, I still had a lot of fun replaying and trying to fix my mistakes from my last go through on a section, and the game was short enough that I never felt too angry at it, haha. Great work!
Thanks so much for that feedback! yes i must admit i put that in there as a trick make the game not super easy but also to quickly teach about the darkness hurting you, maybe i should have dialed it back a bit! thank you so much!