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A jam submission

Dwellers' GroveView game page

A nostalgic exploration game about a young boy and his imagination.
Submitted by Trädkoja Studio (@tradkojastudio) — 8 days, 16 hours before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Storytelling#72.9213.200
Presentation (itch listing)#112.9213.200
Art Direction#133.4693.800
Game Play / Game Feel#152.7393.000
Level Design#162.5562.800
Overall#182.8173.086
Audio#212.7393.000
Innovation / Experimentation#252.3732.600

Ranked from 5 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

Judge feedback

Judge feedback is anonymous and shown in a random order.

  • Nice graphics and a very cozy designed forest. It's relaxing and it was joyful to explore the forest. I like the getting lighter when you do good deeds mechanic and it almost makes this game a bit "metroidvaniaesque". For that I think the core concept is strong and this could probably be fleshed out to a full game. on the constructive side I think that a "stop and smell the flowers" type of game needs more things to discover and explore but this is most likely due to this being a 8 week project. Also music would help a lot since you can be stuck backtracking for most parts of the game. Overall a charming game that as a lot of potential.
  • Rather more difficult than it looked. I eventually gave up when I knew what to do but in 20 attempts was unable to do it.
  • Nice and cozy, pretty cool that you have a fully animated character. I would like if I could see where I was on the map. The art is great.
  • Unfortunately I didn't get very far as the game crashed on me twice. But, it looks beautiful - well done on the visuals. The controls for game play aren't too clear from the start and I had some problems interacting with some objects.

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Comments

Jam Judge

The map needs to show where you are on it.

I didn’t know how to interact with creatures (or even if I was supposed to interact with them). I stepped in the water, got a pop-up about promising to be careful, and that was that – I could do nothing thereafter.

Developer

Hello! Thank you so much for taking the time to play our game. We are having some issues with bugs at the moment, the water is one and the missing E prompt for talking to creatures is another. We currently working on fixing those problems!
Thank you for the feedback!