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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Gameplay | #1 | 4.167 | 4.167 |
| Interpretation of Theme and Completeness of Game | #2 | 3.833 | 3.833 |
| Overall | #2 | 3.833 | 3.833 |
| Creativity | #2 | 4.333 | 4.333 |
| Graphics, Sound and Polish | #5 | 3.000 | 3.000 |
Ranked from 6 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Extra Information about your game
platformer
Which theme did you choose?
Together
Which BASIC did you use?
QB64
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Hi,
Long time no see. Join it if you are interested in it.
https://itch.io/jam/jam-for-all-basic-dialects-2
Gameplay: Great, but you could as well have made the two robots controllable with different keys − e. g. one robot with the arrow keys and the other one with WASD. That would also enable two people to play together. I found it really aggravating that you die when one robot reaches the goal while the other is too far away − why not simply show a message and move the offending robot back a bit?
Creativity: As far as the idea goes, really creative.
Graphics, Sound and Polish: The robots look quite cute, but the surroundings are really boring. Adding some background music would have been nice, too (although I mostly play on mute). The blue box around the level looks weird. I don't speak Polish so I ignore that point 😉.
Interpretation of Theme and Completeness of Game: I like the game; you could add a win screen in the end, but apart from that, I consider it rather complete. I especially like your interpretation of the "together" theme.
The game would be OK, but ...
Again that weird "wasd" key layout, which is similar to the arrow layout, which is unnecessary duplication. For example, it suggests "qa op", toggling "tab" or "space" because F2 may conflict with other programs in the background.
There is almost no sound ..
And I found a mistake right away: one of the robots seemed to stick to the platform too much and penetrate the wall, which is shown in the video:
The plus is that it works with Windows 32 bit :)
Gameplay:
This was my favorite entry in this Game Jam. I usually don't like games where you're trying to solve a puzzle, but this one was simple enough to be accessible for the casual player.
The controls were good for the most part. F2 felt awkward to have to press to change between robots -- this could have easily been mapped to a more convenient key. Also, a few times I died for "being too far away" from the other robot. Thankfully this was easily overcome by doing a better job of keeping the robots together as they approached the far right of the screen.
Creativity:
I've played similar games where you have to take turns moving units to clear obstacles/puzzles, but this is the first one I've seen (in my limited experience of the genre) that is from the perspective of robots in space.
Graphics, Sound and Polish:
Nice animations such as rotating tires and moving levers and platforms. If I remember correctly there were a couple sound effects. Since the game is so short I never saw the point in saving, but it is a cool feature to have in case you expand on this game in the future.
Interpretation of Theme and Completeness of Game:
This game definitely succeeded in presenting a "Together" theme as one can only move on to the next level when both robots help each other out and make it to the end. The game loop made it easy to restart the game.
Hello! Thanks for submitting your entry! It is a nice attempt.
Gamers need to control the two cars smartly(turn on switches, jump onto platforms, etc.) to finish each level. This idea is so entertaining. Well done! I can imagine that you are able to design a huge number of creative levels with this good idea!
I encourage you to continue to improve the game even after the jam is completely over. I believe that the final version of the game will be quite awesome!