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A jam submission

The AlchemistView game page

Can the Alchemist find his way?
Submitted by DrManticore (@GameDevManti), knightleaf (@knightleaf) — 17 hours, 9 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Fun#173.4673.467
Audio#203.3333.333
Overall#233.5203.520
Art#233.6003.600
Theme#273.8003.800
Originality#333.4003.400

Ranked from 15 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

Did your team create most/all of the graphics yourselves?

Yes

Did your team create most of/all the audio yourselves?

Yes

How did you incorporate the theme "COMBINATION"?
You have to find the right combination of objects to open each door

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Comments

Submitted

I like the art style and music how it matches it. Has potential to be expanded and put on Steam!

Submitted

What I liked

  • I loved the art style. It's simple, playful, and clean.
  • The music meshes well with the art. Its consistent with that playful look.
  • The game doesn't need a tutorial to communicate your objective and how to play. It's pretty intuitive with an exception.
  • The theme is clearly implemented without having to look at the description.

Suggestions/Feedback

  • In regards to the art, I mentioned everything looks clean. I forgot about the fire pit. It looked a little fuzzy compared to everything else. I also feel conflicted about the grid outline for tiles.  I like it, but I'm also curious about what it would look like without the grid line.
  • Someone already mentioned it, but there was a lot of empty space. So either smaller levels or more set pieces would make it better.

Overall, I think my criticisms can be chalked up to the nature of game jams. Its a fun jam game that has personality. Congrats on the cool game!

Submitted

Honestly, the gameplay is very repetitive and simple, but I still finished the game because the art is so cute, it was fun just moving the character around, good job!

Submitted

Nice use of the theme and great art style, love the character animation haha great job!

Submitted(+1)

I really love the cute art for the little guy here.  It’s especially nice when he carry’s something above his head. Reminds me a lot of the old goof troop game! Collecting the different items was a good time. Great game!

Submitted(+1)

I saw the game on stream yesterday but decided to play anyway, very nice, the animations on the main character are kind of cute and the ending is wholesome. Good work you two! :D

Submitted(+1)

Fun, super easy to get into, a really good jam entry. I could honestly just watch the player character walk on a loop, just so bouncy and squishy. Awesome job. 

Submitted(+1)

Fun and simple game! I like the player animation and general feeling a lot. Great job!

Submitted(+1)

It's a really simple game but the personality and quirkiness, as well as the unpredictability of the environment, make it a lot of fun to play!

Submitted(+1)

what a serious fun game

Developer

Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it 😁

Submitted(+1)

Fun game with nice art. I really like the areas with different scenery and objects. Picking up and throwing items feels good too.

One suggestion I would have is to make the levels a little smaller with less empty space so the player has to run less.

Developer

Thanks for playing! 

Yeah, it was a tricky balance trying to get everything in, we ended up with a lot of space in the middle. 😬

Submitted

I'm sorry. I was looking forward to playing your game but I couldn't open the application. I have a computer that runs windows, so did you publish the game with Linux or Mac as the main. My computer says that "Windows Protected your PC." I wish I could have played your game. I hope to see you in the next one though. (and actually get to play it)

Developer

Hi, thanks for checking the game out. Have you had similar issues with other games from the jam? It's definitely a Windows build, but Windows doesn't like executables it doesn't recognise and blocks them by default. 

Making web builds of Unity projects is definitely on my list of things to try out! 

Developer

Hi, thanks for checking the game out. Have you had similar issues with other games from the jam? It's definitely a Windows build, but Windows doesn't like executables it doesn't recognise and blocks them by default. 

Making web builds of Unity projects is definitely on my list of things to try out! 

Submitted

It's on my list too. I was planning on doing it but the deadline was 30 minutes away so I just gave up and went for this.

The issue about window's security alert apparently is just a false alarm and you are just supposed to disregard it. I'm sorry for freaking you out. Your game was the first I'd seen with that problem but I have now seen a few. Once again, sorry if I worried you. I hope you have a good week

Submitted

I ended up finally being able to play your game, and that was really fun. I love the use of the theme and I love the animation. It's very subtle but worthwhile. I'm very glad I came back to this. Thank you for making this game.

Submitted(+1)

Enjoyable and cute visuals. Good job!

Developer

Glad you enjoyed it, thanks for playing!