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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Devlog | #4 | n/a | n/a |
| Gameplay/Fun | #8 | 3.292 | 3.292 |
| Overall | #8 | 3.300 | 3.300 |
| Art Style/Visuals | #10 | 3.792 | 3.792 |
| Innovation | #10 | 3.125 | 3.125 |
| Audio/Sound Design | #18 | 3.208 | 3.208 |
| Theme | #19 | 3.083 | 3.083 |
Ranked from 24 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Game Engine / Tools
Unity
How does your game fit the theme?
Your player character is kept isolated in a chamber and can not interact with the outer world, you can only use your ability to possess souls and manipulate them to do your bidding.
Devlog link
https://seeone.itch.io/subject-yama/devlog/727381/subject-yama-postmortem
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Comments
Tricky but very fun! :D Great game.
I think the level order might not be the best as, in one of the first levels, you have to do pretty advance stuff to progress, pushing a box while in the air and risking falling off a cliff is not very intuitive for a game that just started, and then you have to get the box to a certain position halfway off the cliff to make a jump, then the following two levels were a piece of cake for some reason xd. I saw a guy who beat that part of the game without moving the box because the coyote time is insanely good, and I didn't know that. I do think the controls are more complicated than they should be. Other than that, good graphics and sound :)
It’s fun and well polished, great work! The controls seemed needlessly complicated to me. I think Q to select guard 1, E to select guard two, and double press one of them to start would feel a lot more intuitive. I suppose with more guards bringing in the number keys make sense, but I didn’t understand why 1 and 2 selected guards until I possessed them and then didn’t work to select them after. The boxes behaved weirdly, in that they seemed much heavier on the ground and then all of a sudden had no weight to them when moving through the air, I had to reset a lot of times because they would go careening off into the distance or end up in the wrong spot.
I liked the music, sound was fine but the weird click sound a second after jumping didn’t make sense to me, or why it seemed panned to the left. Right in that kinda annoying frequency range for me, and at first I was worried my laptop was falling apart 😅 I guess it’s supposed to be the eyeball hitting the top of the tank, maybe?
Would’ve loved to be able to fastforward through the text in the opening without skipping it entirely, though definitely prefer the ability to skip than none.
There’s a bunch that’s really great about this, all my complaints end up being nitpicks that aren’t huge in the grand scheme of things. Really fantastic job overall!
Since the audio design began, it caught my attention, super well executed (maybe the background music was a little loud). Regarding the graphics, the animations are super well done. The wonderful mechanics, the first time I got stuck in the tutorial, I missed the screen reset function. Very good game.
Nice Game, Please try our game :)
This game was really fun, I liked the concept and interpretation of the theme. The graphics, the music and the sound effects matched the vibe of the game very well and made the gameplay much more interesting.
I really like speedrunning games in game jam, and when I see a leaderboard, I can't help but try to get at the top! I managed to get first with a time of 02:04 😊
Here is my speedrun
Ayeee lets go, great run man!!
I am thinking sub 2 min might be possible
Played it but my butter fingers could'nt beat it lol , Great game , great graphics , and the sound design was also good! I got stuck in the 5th or 6th level , I dont remember but I was at fault not the game , pretty good for 7 days, A 5 star game for me
Kudos !
Thank your for playing, incase you want to try again there is a gameplay video on the page with all solutions.
I appreciate the 5 stars
Played and beat!
I like the simple but effective puzzles you created. The atmosphere was neat. Also really neat that you integrated a leaderboard (which I made it onto, but surely will be knocked off soon enough)
Cheers!
That was fun! The art feels very polished and the gameplay is pretty good. It would have been nice to have a quick restart button so you don't have to jump off the edge when you mess up something. But overall it's a very nice game. Well done!
Thank you for playing, I thought of having a quick restart button as 'R' but that was too close to 'E' and could sometimes cause misclicks, So I added a pause menu with a quick reset stage button.
Played and rated!
Love the art style and the audio, really polished overall. The gameplay is straightforward and interesting for a puzzle.
Took some time to finish the game but I did it, had a good time playing :)
Would appreciate if you check out and rate our game as well:
https://hadilepanda.itch.io/lonely-byte
Thank you! Played yours.
Love the puzzles in it.
Cheers!
I really like this! Very innovative idea and fun and challenging gameplay.
Thank you!
Good puzzle game, but sometimes I didn't know what to expect from this game, a puzzler, a precise platformer or a physics game.
Although this is just a jam game, but level design was not logical! Like having spikes or pit holes for patrols! And guards not reacting to being possessed after the subject leaving their soul is weird!
But fun game overall and finished it. good job :)
Thank you!
I love me a good puzzle platformer and I think this also hit the theme on the spot! Really fun little game!
Thank you!
The game was pretty fun, and the visuals were nice. I will say the music goind down in tone every level was kinda eery, and pushing the boces so slowly was kind of a drag. Overall pretty good!
Thank you!
I like it, very fun and good level design and difficut. Very good choice with the theme idea. And the art is really cool. Nice entry x3
Thank you!
Cool little puzzle game, This was fun, This also looked really good, the color contrast was really good and i really liked the concept
Thank you!
Gameplay/Fun
There's nothing to complain about. I enjoyed the experience. The puzzles were clever at places.
Art Style/Visuals
There's nothing to complain about. The shadows and lighting are great in this one.
Audio/Sound Design
I think a different song could've fit the mood better. No sound effects to judge.
Innovation
Controlling other entities in a platformer context isn't something commonly seen.
Theme
You're isolated from everything around you, so the game is accurate to the theme.
Verdict: Great game.
Thank you for playing.
This is a really unique take on the theme, and it controls quite nicely :) I can't say I had a lot of fun with the game because I really just don't get on with puzzle platformers, but I think you achieved what you set out to do pretty well.
I have a couple of minor nitpicks - it was pretty easy to make the puzzles unsolvable. I think that's my biggest issue to be honest, there were so many times I had to just jump off the edge to restart the room because there was no way for me to recover. Also, while the music works well enough and I think fits the vibe you're going for, it does start to get a little bit repetitive after a while.
It's cool to see a leaderboard in a jam game, always makes them more replayable :D I didn't really see much opportunity for speedrun strats, it feels like playing for time is just "know the puzzle", and the ones I played seemed pretty straightforward to me.
Overall, it's a nice little game. A unique take on the theme that works really well, with no major "bugs" and only a couple of minor flaws in the design. It also looks great! Good job 😁
Thank you for trying, I understand how it can be annoying to jump off the edge or restart the level in case of softlock, I might try respawning the boxes, That might solve this problem. I appreciate the feedback.