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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Completeness | #41 | 3.769 | 3.769 |
| Overall | #69 | 3.436 | 3.436 |
| Innovation | #80 | 3.269 | 3.269 |
| Quality | #87 | 3.269 | 3.269 |
Ranked from 26 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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Your health doesn't reset when you respawn from a bonfire somehow? The jumps feel unwieldy at times as well.
I still beat the game anyway, say hi to the penguin for me:)
Thank you for playing our game and leaving a review!
The health not resetting was a design choice, we thought since it's a pretty short game and you could gain back health by collecting fish, it'd be a bit more challenging this way. But since fish also don't respawn I can see how it can become a little frustrating. I hope the checkpoints were frequent enough as to not totally sour your experience! Glad you still beat it, penguin says hi right back at you! :D
That was fun, and the art was really cute! I'm glad the bonfires served as checkpoints, made it a smoother experience. Also, the music totally reminded me of music from back in the day. It was a nice relaxing experience, thanks for making this. ♥
Aw thank you for your kind review!!! I'm really happy you had a good time with it :) Since the game was a bit challenging we definitely wanted to make it a bit less frustrating with the checkpoints.
Surprisingly difficult! Not sure if the slidy character movements were intentional or not, but totally plays into the theme of the ice, so I think it works. I also liked the fire mechanics, very dark souls-esque which I love. Awesome stuff! <3
Big Dark Souls fan here! :) We totally wanted to go for a "safe spot" feeling with our campfires! Thanks for playing and reviewing our game, really happy you enjoyed it! :)
short but cool, good call making the player black if near the fire to make that neat light effect, the art was very nice expecially the dog, jumping the stings was a little too unforgiving in my opinion.
great entry!
Thanks fory our feedback and for playing our game! :) I'm glad you liked it!
Very nice! Could definitely see my self playing this on my phone back in the day. Really love the style and the art. The glow around the fires is such a good little detail. Great work all round!
Hey, thank you so much for your feedback and for playing our game! Glad you liked it :)
Visually this is one of the best games I've seen in this jam so far. Nice work! Submissions like this make me feel a little bad for not putting more time into the art of my own game. I also like the idea of the campfire mechanic and its integration. I agree with a few other jammers that the platforming is really hard. It was a bit frustrating but not because of a lack of good design. It was challenging in a good way.
Thank you so much for leaving such a kind comment and for your feedback! :)
Don't feel bad about your art, having a dedicated artist definitely helped a lot! I couldn't have pulled of anything like that on my own either!
I'm glad you enjoyed the game even though it was challenging / a little frustrating. Because it was so short it was really hard to balance it in a way that it isn't too easy but also not too hard. I'll keep all the feedback in mind for my next game! :)
A cute little nokia platformer, I enjoyed it.
I love the artwork, and resting at a fireplace always felt so cozy.
Good job!
Thank you for playing our game and leaving a review! :) I'm glad you enjoyed it!
It's always complicated to do ligthning effect with only 2 colors. I think you done it well in your game! congrats !
Thank you so much! It was our artist who came up with the idea, she really did an amazing job! :)
Cool and cute little game!! Freeze bar makes the game a little challenging but overall it is quite easy and interesting to complete
Thanks for review and for playing our game! I'm glad you liked it :)
Nice game, lovely pixel art! It is a bit challenging for me as well, as others have mentioned. I do wish fires would respawn you with the full 3 hearts, but I understand why you chose to leave it at 1. I never really got used to the jump, it felt a bit off, but not so much as to detract a lot from the game. While I do appreciate the fast deaths and retries, the death might be a tad too fast. Often the game over screen would show up even before I saw the character hit the spikes.
I really enjoyed the temperature mechanic tho, it really did make me go faster at some points. Overall, pretty good, well done! :)
Thank you so much for playing the game and for leaving the review!
If the game would've been any longer, I think we definitely would've gone with a 3 heart respawn. Maybe we should've placed more fishes which would've balanced the one heart respawn a little. Next time I'll definitely make sure to playtest more and make the game feel more balanced!
I already mentioned it in another comment, but I had a very hard time making the movement/jump feel right. I think the jump feels a little too floaty, but for the life of me I just couldn't fix it haha.
I really love your feedback about the death screen, I didn't notice it was showing up too fast but now that you mentioned it I can totally see that. I think a little "death sound" and even a "death sprite" before the end screen pops up would've been pretty nice, I'll totally keep it in mind for future games, thanks a lot!!
Howdy! Absolutely loved the art, that final tombstone is so cute! I also like the indicator color swap for the player while under the campfire, neat visual trick to keep track of the player. I did find it difficult to the point of frustration though; I think the jump could have some more air mobility, or the hazards to be a touch smaller. Really fun premise too!
Thanks for playing the game and leaving a review!
Our artist really did an amazing job!
I had a hard time making the movement feel right due to the Nokia limitations, I just could not get the jump to feel quite good. I'm also pretty bad at level design, so all those things added up to the less than ideal difficulty, I'm sorry to hear you got frustrated by it, I didn't think of making the hazards any smaller, this might solve some of the issues. Removing them completly would've made the game too easy, next time I'll keep that in mind, thanks a lot!
I really like the artwork. also the music reminded me of some song but I cannot say which one.. It is pretty difficult but fun. :) good work!
Thanks for your review and for playing our game! :) Glad you liked it! Our artist really did an amazing job.
Very nice game. For me it was even a bit too challenging but happy that I beat it.
Is it on purpose that you only respawn with 1 heart if you lose them?
Glad you were able to finish it even if it was a little bit too challenging!
Yes that's on purpose, we were debating if we should have the player spawn with one or three hearts, and went with one eventually because the game was so short we thought it'd be better for it to be on the more challenging side. Hopefully, it wasn't too frustrating for you!
cool game idea, nice arts.
Thanks for your feedback! :) Glad you liked it. Our artist really did an amazing job!
Fun little platformer, the decreasing temperature adds some tension to keep moving, and really great spritework overall! Great job!
Thank you so much for your feedback, I'm glad you liked our game! :)
This was very cool, I like the fire lighting mechanic 🔥
I thought about making something like this :D
Thanks for your feedback, I'm glad you liked the mechanic!
We had so many different ideas for this jam as well! Will check out your game later, curious to see what idea you went with instead!
Really good use of the theme! Having to seek shelter every so often in the fire reminded me of the dark world in metroid prime 2. Great work!
Thank you so much for playing our game and leaving some feedback :) I'm glad you liked it!
Challenging! I had a similar temperature idea with my game!
Thanks for playing our game!
I'm curious to see how you implemented your temperature idea, I'll make sure to check it out! :)