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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Audio | #11 | 2.694 | 3.111 |
| Does it follow the theme? | #12 | 3.849 | 4.444 |
| Graphics / Visuals | #14 | 3.079 | 3.556 |
| Gameplay / Fun | #22 | 2.406 | 2.778 |
Ranked from 9 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Any pre-made assets?
Sprites from
https://foozlecc.itch.io/cute-platformer-robot
https://opengameart.org/content/zortch-unused-textures-2
Sounds created in https://sfxr.me/
How did you interpret the theme?
Pressure is affecting our world physically in many different ways. In my game you are able to change air pressure to have interesting effects
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Comments
A very cool idea and approach to the theme, like the robot and sound effects used. However pumping and the timing is very hard to master, and putting the level of combining everything after just a few tutorials makes the flaw of pumping the air from an interesting idea to a very tedious and boring one, especially sometimes the mouse click/drag don't register on the pump. Making it quickly become frustrating instead of feeling interesting.
The gameplay is quite interesting, made for quite a fun game!
One complaint tho, maybe increasing the pressure would've been better bound to a keyboard button, like space or something, it gets quite tedious to pump it with the mouse.
Other than that, pretty solid for your first game! Keep it up!
Great work, little tips for the future tho:
-The pumping gets tedious after a few levels. Gameplay feels slow, to much waiting winding up the propeller, waiting for the pressure to decrease etc. Makes it also feel unresponsive, and overall frustrating.
The game's proposal is cool, but using the pump all the time is boring, good job!
Using the pump is pretty tedious but the Idea is good I'd say.
For me the biggest issue is sounds, they are kinda annoying, and the rest is pretty solid. The concept is interesting, you really have to keep an eye both on pressure and the game itself.
Denoss, thank you for your comment! I agree, sounds are thing I like the least in my game, but I will try to improve it in my future games. I hope you enjoyed the game!
I really enjoyed the way it feels when you use the pump! very realistic indeed) good job with sfx too, the add up a lot)
the only thing I didn''t enjoy as mush is that you have to wait a lot) but my game is suffering from that too, I guess)
chiotógach, I'm glad you enjoyed the game! Maybe adding a valve that decreases the pressure fast is a good idea to make the game better