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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Fun/Design | #6 | 4.352 | 4.352 |
| Music/Sound | #8 | 4.197 | 4.197 |
| Overall | #9 | 4.172 | 4.172 |
| Technical Implementation | #17 | 3.972 | 3.972 |
| Theme/Limitation | #17 | 4.225 | 4.225 |
| Graphics/Animation | #29 | 4.113 | 4.113 |
Ranked from 71 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
How does your game utilize the limitation and theme?
Character completes the hero's journey having grown in strength and power to ultimately return and defeat the starting boss. Character collects money and a substance called collectoplasm in order to collect costumes which unlock abilities.
What was your team size?
You worked alone
Affirm you have followed ALL jam rules. (Select all below or your entry will be disqualified.)
If your game includes any of the optional challenges, select them below:
Use a theme and/or limitation from one of the past 8 Bits to Infinity jams in addition to the main theme
Feature secret items rooms or features in the game
If you did any of the optional challenges, explain how they were used:
*Theme Party*
I used the additional theme of "Exploration" from the retro platformer jam. The game has a focus on exploring hidden areas to find the coins necessary in order to progress.
*Hidden Secrets*
There is a hidden room in my game with an easter egg sound file from when the music was being composed. There is a hint on how to get to it in my description.
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Very nice game! Liked the idea of changing costumes but the act of doing so was a bit difficult in some situations.Resulting in dying because i was to slow or overshot the costume i wanted. But all in all great game :)
Thanks a lot! Yeah I’ve been brainstorming solutions like only letting you have access to a few costumes at a time or a costume wheel, or maybe even assigning abilities to different buttons and auto changing the costume when you press it. I’ll be sure to have a better solution on the next build!
Oh wow! I love the idea of getting different powers by changing your costume! I'd like to see a more polished version of this. The only comment is to maybe have the camera not do that weird panning thing when hitting a certain height (I'd much rather prefer the camera follow the player at most times) Other than that, great game!
Thanks for playing through it! I will definitely have the camera improved in the next update.
Wow this is very well made.
Thanks so much!
Incredible! I loved every moment of it, I felt like was playing a demo for a complete game. Everything was super fun, well-designed and polished! It even had a cool little message and lesson at the end!.
I'm glad I played this! I hope you expand on this idea with more costumes, more levels, more bosses, just more! Amazing experience, I would definitely buy it if you ever made it a full game :)
My one note, is that I would've loved to use WASD instead of, or in addition to the arrow keys to move (but thats just me).
PS: Always nice to see a fellow GMS2 user :)
Thanks so much! I didn’t say it anywhere so there’s no way you could have known, but I actually put WASD as well for the same controls just for people who didn’t like arrows. I tried to make it as user friendly as possible!
And I’m so glad you made it to the end! I think it works so well as a tight experience, I wonder if I’d be skilled enough to keep the charm while still having a full fledged experience. I’m so happy to hear there is interest in that though!
Cool game! i loved the jutsu character the most! Naruto-like? Great execution and fun to play!
Check out my game when you have a chance!
haha yep! That was my copyright friendly way of sticking Naruto in there. I don’t know if you caught the quote “have faith in it” but that was basically my alternate translation of believe it. And yeah, I always thought the substitution jutsu would make for a hilarious dash :)
Thanks so much for finishing it! I’m sorry about your spacebar haha
I liked the style of your game. It seems pretty complete. Only the tutorial was a bit fast, but your game is not the only one suffering from this :D
Thanks! Yeah my wife said the same thing about the tutorial...I’ll have to update that!
Same here. Lesson learned from this jam: listen to your wife more carefully xD
Adorable graphics and understandable controls!
I can learn a lot from you!
I also wanted to thank you again for providing an in-depth review!
Outstanding job!
Thanks a lot! And it was my pleasure playing through your game. I love being able to share some real time feedback. I had so many thoughts after playing my first few games in the jam that I’m actually saving time usually by recording it!
Wow, that was cute! Graphics may seem simple, but it has it's charming atmosphere, the music and sound effects are great too.
Didn't expect to see a 'metroidvania' game in this jam, so that was a good experience!
Thanks so much for playing it! Yeah it was tough to do the Metroidvania with such a short amount of time, but I figured since this one was a week instead of 48 hours, it was now or never :)
What a fun little game, and well polished as well! Very good audio!
thanks a lot! Yeah I’m definitely most proud of the music in this one
This is technically a very well made game well done! I can tell lots of work went into this. I like the fact that you can unlock new abilities that help you progress through the levels.
Thank you! Yep it was definitely a lot of work but we’ll worth it!
what a lovely game.
Thank you!
great lle game :)
I loved each part of it. the game is challenging and fun :)
great Job :)
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Thanks a ton! I’ve added your game to my queue of games to play and rate :)
I Completed your game, was really fun.
The music was good. The level design and progression too !
With a good message at the end! :D
Well done. 5/5 stars full
Thank you so much! And thanks for getting all the way to the end.
There are so many entries in this jam about collecting coins, at last I come a game where I get to spend the coins! And on something awesome! This game is smart, cute, and focused. One classy detail I especially appreciated was the arrow pointing to the shop. Great job.
Thank you so much for playing! Yes I’ve played quite a number of coin collectors in the last 48 hours as well haha. I’m glad you liked the abilities! It’s always nice when the collectibles have an impact in the game I think. And I’m glad you liked the arrow too. I almost scrapped it because I assumed the map was only 5x5 screens wide and no one would get lost, but I think it helps orient you, especially when you’re just entering.
Your game was so fun to play! I loved everything from the cute characters, to the fun gameplay, and to the touching message. It was very polished and I had no complaints when playing. Fantastic Job! 5/5
Thanks so much! I was really proud of finding a way to get a positive message in a game. I think most people don’t expect it :)
This was a lot of fun to play! I really liked the different powers.
Thanks so much for playing!
There are too many good things in your game! A really fun-packed experience. I love metroidvanias and I loved your game. The final costume punch animation caught me totally off guard, I didn't expect that much power... it was a good laugh. The music was also great, a bit loud, but really really catchy and fitting! 5/5 for me :D
Thanks so much! Yeah I had a blast putting together that final battle. I honestly think I could make an entire game out of that final ability and not have it get old. She’s quite the fighter! And you’re totally right about the music. I had a feature in my windows build where it would fade between a major and minor key in the boss areas of the level that had to be scrapped since it broke the HTML version and I didn’t have the time or know how to debug. In my effort to get a final build up before deadline, I just took a guess at the final music volume and got it totally wrong hahaha
this was Awesome! i have nothing to say just keep it up!
thanks! Glad you liked it!
Oh my gosh so cute. I loved the ending. I kept beating him up cause I thought that's what I was supposed to do then I felt really bad when we became friends. The costume abilities kept making me come back for more. This was a really sweet platformer great job. The one thing I would say is the music is absolutely way too loud It drowns out all your other great sound effects. Although it is a banger.
So glad you enjoyed it! Yeah you totally did fine on the final boss. I really just wanted it to be a catharsis moment of wailing on the dude after running away the whole game. And no need to feel bad, he totally deserved it. It wasn’t until after your mega punches that he realized he should be nice, so we’ll done!