Nice mechanic, but a bit hard to jump
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Escape from Volcano's itch.io pageResults
Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
Enjoyment | #33 | 3.143 | 3.143 |
Concept | #45 | 3.286 | 3.286 |
Overall | #58 | 2.982 | 2.982 |
Presentation | #62 | 2.571 | 2.571 |
Use of the Limitation | #66 | 2.929 | 2.929 |
Ranked from 14 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Team members
Brady The Bloody
Software used
Unity, Aseprite
Use of the limitation
For the "Chrono" I have used the lava so you have a limited time to finish the level. For the "Three buttons" i let player use only 3 button. "A", "D", "SPACE"
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Its alright. I liked the ember effects. The sound effects were also pretty good. I found the controls to be quite finicky, like it was hard to determine how high or far you were going to jump and the player seemed to start running before they hit the ground which was confusing and the shooting didnt seem to work well for me, (not sure if i was doing it wrong). Nice use of the theme as well. Overall i though it was pretty nice.
Good game.
Gameplay is nice, but it's a bit hard to jump precisely.
Also some music will be nice.
But in overall i like idea of rising lava in platformer.
Good job!
Very enjoyable but I also didn't get how the shoot button works. And god damn that last jump on level 3 is difficult!!!
Addicting the same way that something like Jump King is. Does a great job of balancing frustration (in a good sense) and feeling fair.
The shoot button didn’t always seem to work for me, unless I’m misunderstanding the mechanic. I didn’t love the layout of the controls, either; A and D have a natural “left” and “right” feeling to them that gets upended here. Maybe something like X and Z would have worked better?
Space is definitely the right button to use for jumping, though, and it felt great.
I like the way you handled the controls, having the jump be in different parts to control where you jump is a nice idea! Artstyle is nice too, good work :))
That was fun. At first I thought you could not jump through the bottom of the platforms because I crashed into the side of one. Made it much easier once I saw that you can actually jump through the platforms on top.
I don't know how to play the game, i can't even jump up because i can't move in the air...i think you can remove the lava, the game is hard enough without it xD.
I hope the feedback helped you a bit, and it would be nice if you could check out our submission too, thank you! :)
The game is quite simole, with "A" you can move in the direction the player is facing (only if the player is touching the ground). With "Space" appear an arrow that move changing the direction, if you press "Space" again when the arrow is displayed you can jump in the direction of the arrow.
The "D" is for shooting (this functionality is not well implemented)
If you want to give a second chance here it is. :) thanks for playing.
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