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A jam submission

SubterranautView game page

Explore the natures of alternate dimensions!
Submitted by long_cow, RPC29 — 23 seconds before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Audio#23.6673.667
Theme Implementation#33.3333.333
Overall#33.2223.222
Gameplay#52.8892.889
Fun Factor#52.7782.778
Special object Implementation#53.2223.222
Graphics#63.4443.444

Ranked from 9 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

How is your game related to the Theme and Special Object?
You explore the 'nature' of different dimensions with the goal of finding 'key'ranium which opens the portals

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Comments

cool yes

Submitted

Very nice game and fun approach to the special object! Thought the graphics and worldbuilding was cute. Impressive scale and progression system for such a short development time! Well done, I really enjoyed it.

Developer

thank you very much for the kind words

Submitted

I didn't understand how to play it but I liked the music and art

Developer (3 edits)

That's fair, we had to rush a few parts of the game near the end so there's definitely not clear directions as to what to do.

If you are to give it a shot again, or if anyone else looking at the comments is confused as well, in the starting island you're supposed to interact with the villagers and then enter the ladder like tile which will take you to the caves. This order will be the same for the next 3-4 worlds as well.

The main concept is to go to every world's cave, get some of the ores while fighting away the monsters (you can make weapons using these ores, just talk to one of the villagers) and one of the ores will be yellow and glowing differently. This will be the ore required to make a key to open the portal, which should be positioned in one of the other rooms in the cave systems. In order to make the key, you just go grab the glowing ore, mine it (with any weapon by just hitting it), go back to the villagers and one of them will be willing to make you a key, after which you will be able to enter the portal (will need a bit of exploring of the caves in order to find it). 

Every worlds villagers have a different weapon to offer to make, so I would definitely suggest getting some of the normal ores and playing around with the weapons as they are quite fun. You just have to switch among weapons using right click.

That's pretty much it. I hope you give it another shot, and we will definitely make sure to add more direction to the game so the player wouldn't be as lost. Thanks for the comment.