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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Theme - Was it a clever interpretation of the theme? | #1 | 4.250 | 4.250 |
| Hook - Was there an interesting hook to the game? Story, mechanic, etc. | #4 | 2.875 | 2.875 |
| Fun - Was the game fun? | #4 | 3.000 | 3.000 |
| Playability - Was the game playable? | #5 | 3.375 | 3.375 |
| Overall | #5 | 3.250 | 3.250 |
| Style - Was there a distinct "vibe" to the game? | #7 | 2.750 | 2.750 |
Ranked from 8 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Description of your game.
Reimagining the story of Sisyphus, pushing forward a boulder, as a videogame.
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Love an opening joke! Customisation was great, and the animation of the hands on the ball was simple but worked really well. A+ would push again.
Thanks for trying our game! We're glad you enjoyed it :)
Interesting idea and good take on the theme.
I found the game quite difficult to control, but I'm probably just a bit rubbish.
Putting the stickers on the rock was nice, the fact they were projected onto the spherical preview was a really nice touch, although not particularly sure what it added.
Thank you for trying our game and for the feedback!
The controls are designed to be a bit difficult, but maybe they were a bit too difficult. It definitely wasn't just you!
The idea with the stickers was to do with quote at the start, that Sisypus would've been happier if he could've earned points to decorate his boulder each time he pushed it up the hill. I think that because you didn't earn points until the boulder was pushed up the whole hill (which does take a while and several attempts), most people didn't get to experience this properly. If we continue work on this project it is definitely something we will address!
Great interpretation of the theme! The rock really does roll back down the hill if you lose control of it - annoying, but in the right way for game ;)
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It was annoying, addictive and fun :) I love the idea! At one point I thought the stone had gained character and I wondered if we could be friends lol
Thank you for playing our game! I'm glad you enjoyed it!
I really like the environment that you built. I abandoned my boulder to look around. I just wish there's was a bit more input buffering/predictive adjustments or check points. I found it super hard to get the ball up the second part of the first hill.
Thank you for playing our game and for your feedback! :)
I agree that the player input is far from perfect and could definitely do with improvements. The second part is very tricky :( maybe some more checkpoints would make it a bit less frustrating, so we will definitely bear that in mind!