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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Art | #7 | 4.111 | 4.111 |
| Fun | #8 | 3.667 | 3.667 |
| Audio | #14 | 3.519 | 3.519 |
| Overall | #19 | 3.570 | 3.570 |
| Theme | #36 | 3.556 | 3.556 |
| Originality | #50 | 3.000 | 3.000 |
Ranked from 27 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?
No
How did you incorporate the theme "COMBINATION"?
You combine souls of the same colour and size.
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Very cool looking game, you did great with the minimalist color palette. Good use of the theme too, great work!
I know you were in the stream, but this was a great entry and for documentation purposes the link to where I reviewed your game is below!
Thanks you for streaming, I had a great time.
The world is plunged into darkness and I couldn't be happier! :)
Haha, glad you got through it! Thanks for playing.
Always happy to save our champion and destroyer Pooka :D the gameplay is great, art is fantastic with some wonderful particle effects. Great game!
Thank you, that means a lot. Super appreciated.
The minimalist art style is really cool, especially the soul vfx. The level design and core mechanics work really well, though I'm not a fan of how slowly you accelerate.
Great work, really enjoyed this one!
Thanks very much, if I do a post jam update I will be reviewing the speed of everything.
short and sweet but also really good
(Doug in smash)
I love Doug, thank you so much!
super fun game, love the no consequence death to return faster, the music was also super cool, very nice work!
Thank you so much for the super nice comment :)
Love the artstyle, pretty difficult, but not unfair. Overall super fun, great work!
Thank you!
Nice sound and art style. Hitboxes don't forgive a mistakes))
Thanks for playing, hopefully they didn't cause you too much bother.
hm… I feel bad for the poor people
Haha apologies, thanks for playing.
Love it I had fun playing it. I like the concept of the mixing souls would have loved for it to have an impact on the game. In the end the only thing it does is changing colors. Other than that the level design is great. I feel so bad to had to kill those pour little buddies protecting there souls :D . Timing of the fireballs is hard but not too punitive. Same for the spikes. Great game!
Thanks so much for playing and the kind words. The souls had a tiny bit more too them but all the cutting happened but still happy with how it came out. I may add it back in post jam with some quality of life stuff.
Despite some unforgiving hitboxes, it was fun to play and had a lot of character. Doug really Fd up lol
Thanks you so much. Doug is a fav, I will use them again for something.
Issac of Binding vibes (thumbs up)!
Thank you!
Love the simplistic and very polished art. Also, very fun game and good level design
Thank you!
Very nice pixel art and sound :) Gameplay was interesting and the different traps were challenging but well balanced.
A couple of suggestions:
Thank you for playing and the kind words.
Killing Doug is a sure way to speed run the game. It is coded that you dropped the soul when the player dies but I wanted the jam game to be forgiving so it's commented out till a post jam update happens.
I agree with the background stuff, it was in my backlog to keep the environment simple but add little touches like you mentioned, just ran out of time.
I'll have a look at the spikes hitbox, might be more of a Doug thing rather than a spike thing, Doug has a forgiving hit area which is good but then it can give an odd feeling to when you do get hit vs don't get hit. Something to tweak for sure.
The overall aesthetic you presented came together so well. Even though the art was very minimal, it was very consistent and looked very polished. I got near the end but unfortunately ran into a bug where I picked up a green orb next to a purple orb and the purple orb disappeared. Outside of that, this was a really well made experience!
Thank you for your kind words and playing my game. Apologies that you ran into a bug, I thought I had that system fully bug free before submitting but must of missed a scenario. I will see if I can recreate and fix for a post jam update.
Great art style and narrative! I found it brutally hard though, I think perhaps it needs to be easier like say... Dark Souls ;) Those moving things just splattered me all over the pavement. But a very nice use of 'combination' when I survived long enough to see it!
The saws timing is tight and probably too tight for a small jam game. Small little tweaks post jam to ease things up a bit. Thanks for the narrative positive feedback, it was thing I was most excited to do but then had the least amount of time to implement so that means a lot.
I Loved the minimalist AND mecanics <3
Thank you!
What I liked
Suggestions / Questions / Things I noticed
Overall, I really liked the game and couldn't find many things to give advice on or criticize. Congrats on a fun game!
Thanks for all the super kind words. I really appreciate it.
I actually thought I made everything too easy, but I heard from a few people that they had to really time some of the saw rooms, which I suppose isn't bad. One player was just hugging the walls, so they were moving diagonally rather than in a straight line, which caused them to slow down as they were pushing against a wall.
Think you are probably right though, a few tweaks to make it a bit tighter. Something for the post jam update.
No problem! Good feedback helps us all.