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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Enjoyment | #5 | 3.571 | 3.571 |
| Concept | #5 | 3.786 | 3.786 |
| Overall | #8 | 3.429 | 3.429 |
| Presentation | #15 | 3.500 | 3.500 |
| Use of the Limitation | #25 | 2.857 | 2.857 |
Ranked from 14 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Team members
GingaaBread
Software used
Unity
Use of the limitation
It is the player's fate to save all their friends / Both having and losing cogs is good
Cookies eaten
None :(
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You ALMOST had full controller support. Make the little guy move with the d pad or right stick.
Check out my review of your game at https://www.twitch.tv/scalphamission
Thanks for playing the game, that was really cool seeing it be played on a stream :D I'll definitely add full controller support in the future :)
I like this one! it has very smooth controls and the minimalistic style is super-nice. With little adjustments you could improve it a lot easily. Adding sounds, adding feedback effects (dust when touching ground), using the same radio for every square corner, etc.
Glad you liked it! :) True, music and some polish would improve the game a lot
Really great puzzle game!
The game is great but it needs music and sound effects for sure.
And the mouse button here is wrong, it should be the left mouse button :)
Great job!
Whoops, you are right! I didn't even notice haha! :)
Nice game! The puzzles are smart, and the visual presentation is great. I think sounds would really help the whole experience, but then again, it is a game jam. Well done!
Thank you! :)
Really nice game with interesting puzzles.
There seems to be a lot of drag between the character and the walls which makes it a little hard at times to jumping to other platforms, but it's fine.
Thank you! :)
Yes I agree with you, I will add better physics in a future update ^^
Really enjoyable puzzle-platformer! I really liked the use of the prisoner to finish levels after freeing them. I really wish this had music or sounds though. I also had difficulty on the fight with Victor - I could push in a fallen platform to get the floor trigger, but couldn't figure out how to get the cog. Then after respawning there was nothing (that I saw) to use to hit the floor trigger. Pretty nice game otherwise though! Great job!
Thank you for your kind review :)
Interestingly you made me aware that there is a glitch because you are not supposed to use the platforms from the part before for the boss fight haha! A platform that will help you reach the cog will spawn after Victor has spawned waves of bullets three times. Admittedly, the time that it takes for him to spawn those is way too long and will be shortened dramatically in a future update :)
cool game the only thing i would say is add a material to the player that will cause no friction when they touch the walls or platforms apart from that the game is really cool and presented well
Thank you for the feedback, I definitely agree with the friction part! :)
very nice game, more mechanics than what I expected! I wasn't able to finish the last level though :(
Thank you very much!
Can you tell me where you got stuck / found too difficult? You were at the edge of reaching the final boss :)
I got to the final boss I think! But I couldn't find a way to reach the cog needed
Ah okay, thanks for replying :) I thought so, one has to wait a while before a platform spawns
Very solid puzzle platformer. A surprising number of challenges, which scale up in difficulty really well. Smooth controls, crisp visuals. I love how much personality and emotion comes across even though the characters are simple geometric shapes! Overall, charming and fun.
The absence of sound is a shame. There are collections of songs that you can use for free, and you can use a program like Bfxr to create simple nostalgic sound effects.
Only one gripe about the controls: the friction sometimes caused me to get stuck against the side of objects while attempting a jump. To eliminate friction, all you need to do is create a Physics Material 2D, set Friction to 0, and assign it to the Rigidbody2D of the player.
One last minor comment: restarting a level that opens with dialog should not re-trigger the dialog.
Wow, thanks for the great feedback, especially regarding the Physics Material! :)
Regarding the dialogue: Even though it always retriggers when restarting a level, one can click Space to skip it completely. I will definitely stop it from retriggering it in the future, though!
Fun, but it's annoying when the player sticks to the sides of platforms.
Yes I agree! For a non-Game Jam game I would put more effort into writing some Physics to prevent that ^^ Still, the sticking sort of signals that the jump wasn't good enough :D Thanks for playing!
lovely game, i just though its more of a love story then friends, and the fate was like in latin saying " fatum nos iungebit " which means fate will unite us, that would be so much sweeter, my issue with the game is both issue and good, and that is no sounds, even though i hateee those loud annoying sounds, no sounds at all really minimizes interaction with the game, you should consider adding sound, just not annoying one please :)
Good catch about the love story part! :D I wanted it to be a love story but I needed an excuse why the love interest always ends up spawning in the cage even though having been freed the level before. So I thought there were just a lot of friends that were imprisoned :D
well you coul've made it like troubled wife, that always gets in troubles and you are infinitely supporting her by always beeing there for her helping her escape,maybe?
Very cool! I love the idea of controlling the two different bots. I got stuck on level 10, I feel like I tried everything! :)
Thanks so much! :D
Level 10 was indeed impossible after I made an update that accidentally changed some hitboxes haha. But it is fixed now, so maybe you want to give it another attempt and try to reach the final boss? :D
(fixed the resolution bug)
Haha, were you inspired by meatboy? Or I wrongly interpreted this reference :p
It's on my Steam list of games I have once bought but never played :D
Great game with cool idea.
Thank you very much! :)