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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Visuals | #3 | 4.077 | 4.077 |
| Audio | #8 | 3.000 | 3.000 |
| How much do you enjoy the game overall? | #10 | 3.077 | 3.077 |
| Overall | #13 | 2.985 | 2.985 |
| Gameplay | #15 | 2.923 | 2.923 |
| How well does the game fit the themes? | #24 | 1.846 | 1.846 |
Ranked from 13 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
How long was your dev time?
3 hours (~1 hour art, ~1 hour music, ~1 hour code)
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To be honest, the gameplay doesn't really fit into the theme, also I feel like the music is too dark and gloomy for this kinda game. Something more lo-fi relaxing, or turning this into a beat game would have worked better.
I liked the art & music :) The main challenge seems to match rows & keys - arrows are located very differently on the keyboard. (Maybe something like 1-2-3-4 could be better? Dunno.) The speed increase is indeed quite low [IMHO] - I managed to get 441 and was somewhat bored for the first ~200-300 points.
pico-8 heavily restricts which inputs you can use in order to resemble old consoles. so i was kinda forced to use the arrow keys. Still i should’ve probably made the difficulty curve a bit steeper
I like the game. The visuals are really nice!
I think it would have made it a notch better if you would have used premade music (because music is always really hard to make sound good in less than an hour)
Also this would have opened up the space and time to match the popping of the bubbles to the beat, maybe even the pitch of the music assigned to different arrrow keys. That would have been even more satisfying.
But all in all a really nice game! But for me the music on a lonely train rime home would be less creepy and more kind of cozy (but I get the idea that it can be scary o travel alone in an empty train at night)
In Conclusion: A game with good potential and for being made in 3 hours really nice! Congrats!
sadly it’s not really possible to use pre-made music in pico-8, except by importing it from other pico-8 projects.
Very cool visuals, a bit less on the audio side. Great game though
I love the background art.
The music is very haunting; I can sense a lonely train journey vibe.
Cool, despite a lack of sound response cool game.