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LOWREZJAM 2021

Hosted by JackOatley, Gurpreet Singh Matharoo · #lowrezjam
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A jam submission

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A small, strange little world.
Submitted by zacryol — 1 day, 6 hours before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Visuals#833.9233.923
Authenticity (use of resolution restriction)#1314.3854.385
Audio#1463.1543.154
Overall#1663.3463.346
Gameplay#2811.9231.923

Ranked from 13 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

Did you work in a team?
just me

Was the resolution a challenge?
for some reason, I wanted to have a dialogue system in this 64x64 game. I got a small pixel font, but there was still a major limit on how many characters could fit in a single line of text. I noticed the optional theme "False Reality" and got the idea to make the game take place in a bizarre alternate world, and write a bunch of dialogue that was just short and somewhat nonsensical.

What did you learn?
I did a lot more spritework here than I have for other jams, and experimented with a dialogue plugin for the engine I use

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Comments

Jupiter_Hadley3 years ago

Love the different creatures! I included it in my LowRezJam compilation video series, if you’d like to take a look. :)

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ExtraMustardSubmitted3 years ago

Atmosphere, that's what you've created in this game. Music goes well with the art style, the characters are unusual yet seem familiar.  Nice job.

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Micro Ninja
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Paul59Submitted3 years ago

Nice character graphics. Is there something wrong with diagonal movement, it seems to judder badly?

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Crowd Sauce
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Ted BendixsonSubmitted3 years ago

Love the music. Love the characters! 

Obviously as you mentioned this could do more on the gameplay side, but you've done a solid job of explaining how to control the character and overall making it a calm world I want to be a part of. Not many can do that.

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Pixel TrashSubmitted3 years ago

this was a neat little experience, some crunchier gameplay would have really made this a stand out pick. I liked the music, character design, and atmosphere!

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C:\ANNIHILATE
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PhilPhilSubmitted3 years ago(+1)

Love the character's designs

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Cave In
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goddommitdomSubmitted3 years ago

Came back, replayed, still enjoyed. The monster designs are just *chef's kiss*.

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Aurora Runealis
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Ethereal airportSubmitted3 years ago(+1)

Oh I adore the little characters very much. 

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MICROGEIST
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goddommitdomSubmitted3 years ago

Love the character designs so much (and did you use Dialogic? I've been meaning to give that a try!) but the game froze when talking to the, ah, *spaghetti eye monster*.

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Aurora Runealis
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zacryolDeveloper3 years ago

yes, I used Dialogic

not sure what could have caused a crash there specifically

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goddommitdomSubmitted3 years ago

I ran through twice more to confirm, and it freezes every time. Not a hard crash, just unable to move and no dialogue pops up.

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zacryolDeveloper3 years ago

It's working perfectly fine for me, tested in both Firefox and Chrome.

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goddommitdomSubmitted3 years ago (1 edit) (+1)

Popped over to Chrome and it works there! For some reason my Firefox just doesn't want to play nicely with it. Weird. Sorry for the false-ish alarm, haha.

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