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A jam submission

Solar PunksView game page

A Solarpunk themed game about choosing to fail.
Submitted by jammydoodles — 4 hours, 2 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Presentation#14.5004.500
Overall#133.3963.396
Concept#153.5003.500
Use of the Limitation#232.6672.667
Enjoyment#242.9172.917

Ranked from 12 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

Team members
Me. miupii.io on instagram for cute arts.

Software used
Unity and Krita

Use of the limitation
The leaderboard is inverted and scores can go well into the negative. Doing badly will allow you to progress up the leaderboard.

Cookies eaten
None :( I had a lot of iced coffee though.

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Comments

Submitted(+1)

I REALLY love the highscore idea. Definetively one of my most favourite ideas of how to use this limitation. The game looks just awesome. This is a super job! Interesting was the concept that I had to switch my thinking about who jumps first. That totally broke me, but was super cool. 

At first I thought, why that water spawning is so angry about me, but than, as I red the highscore rules, i knew why it was designed that way.

Just great, congratulations.

Developer

Wow thanks so much for your wonderful feedback! It put a smile on my face :) I'm happy you liked it!

Submitted(+1)

The artstyle looks amazing, nice choice of colors and mechanics are simple but the gameplay is fun.

Developer

Thanks for the feedback, I appreciate it!

Submitted(+1)

I like the concept of your game. his art style is very beautiful.

Developer(+1)

Thank you so much for playing :)

Submitted(+1)

Seeing a live leaderboard in a jam game is always cool, way to go! Nice art style too.

Developer

Thank you! And thanks for playing :)

Submitted(+1)

Really nice game, very polished! It was a bit hard to time the jumps to line up with the plants, but that's probably my fault.

Developer

Thank you so much! It's tough to get the timing right (I may have played it a few too many times these past couple of days hehe) you can move horizontally as you are falling up or down which helps a bit! Thanks for playing my game :)

Submitted(+1)

I love the style of your game! It has a lot of character! My only issue is that it seems like you are always gonna hit a water orb along with a plant. Could be a skill issue tho lol! Nice game!

Developer

Thanks for playing my game! I appreciate it! Since I have an inverted leaderboard and negative scores are a thing, I wanted to make the waterorbs plentiful so players who choose to fail on purpose can rack up a good score, but yeah it means doing the standard objective is harder! It's tough being evil :D

Submitted(+1)

That’s hilarious, I didn’t realize while playing that the inverted leaderboard was a thing, I definitely will try again for lowest score :)

Developer

There seems to be an issue on very particular systems where the text disappears mid-game. I'm very curious if anyone else has this issue, if so please let me know so I can try and understand what causes it! The text is the score on the top right and the leaderboard text. Tell me what system you are on if this issue happens! Thanks and I hope you enjoy my game!! :)