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Congrats: You actually reached the end of the game! For context: This was mostly a troll game with very obscure references to community of the Spanish Streamer Isaac Sanchez, plus topical Soviet themes. Most of the text is fake or bad Russian (Spanish with cyrilic letters rather than real words).
Sorry it was not clear without that context.
Nice! I found the normal mode a bit too easy (can be cheesed [pun intended] by scaling in a spiral, always to the left or to the right) and the hard mode a bit too punishing.
Maybe something could do done about it, like adding obstacles other than boulders or floors that have restricted climbing of something. Of course, I understand that for a jam game that is additional content and mechanics that is hard to fit in the allocated time. Other than that, nice jam game!
Great concept for a jam. I specially appreciated the usability of the location hint and the fast restart, it enourages you to try again after an accidental death. One thing I was annoyed was, not the speed of the player, but the transition speed. Something in between log and linear, but slower would had been more usable. Otherwise top jam game.
Great work, although I had to remove some originality evaluation for not being entirely original, as I saw a similar game for the Ludum dare jam (yours?).
I would still like to see something like this, but with more content and more exploration of the mechanics (eg. animals, rocks, etc.), But overall a very enjoyable game.
Very impressive game jam, inspired by Slay the spire but integrating the theme very seamlesly and play without problem, despite what could have been complicated controls. The only comment would be that it plays too serious like a normal game, I would have liked to see some super-crazy growths or shrinkages, for a small format, as I think that humor it would have gone well with the mechanic. But you decided to balance it well for a regular game, and I respect that. Also great art.
I think we were playing each other's game at the same time. :-) It is a nice platformer -it is quite hard to make one that feels good because there are so many, and people are very demanding and it takes a long time (that's why I never tried to send one for a jam)!
This one properly fits the theme of scaling up and down, but as probably you have seen, many people have chosen to send similar things. I would encourage to keep tweaking your game after the jam to make it more juicy and polished, with things like: smoother animations or with more feedback when using the glass (e.g. a tween to change the size), tighter controls (a keyboard only binding, maybe? Go crazy with feedback: screenshake, larger animations, etc) and jump tuning (gravity doesn't feel great). My guess is you didn't have the time to tune those in 48 hours (something similar happened to me), so I'm not having them into account for my rating. Also more levels with exploration of interesting combinations of the main shrinking and growing mechanic.
One thing that I think you have is your great humor. Please keep exploring that. I checked your other games and while they were not as technical as this one, they were very creative. I would like to see more like those, with the same style!
As a tip, try if you can also the Godot 4.3 single thread web exporter, it went much better for me this time, and may fix user's problems with some browsers!
I liked the size increase/decrease mechanics, and how to made use of it for the platforming.
One thing that frustrated me, however, was the lava spawn/last checkpoint reseting, which I think was a bug and not intended. However, I was able to get to the end.
If you polish those things and tight the controls a bit more, with time, after the jam, and maybe add more levels to explore the mechanic it could be a nice platformer.
I liked the overall style and atmosphere.
I wonder if the following suggestion could be helpful to you: maybe you could have added some animations to the main character that would suit well the world, nothing super-complex, maybe a like a subtle swivel left and right, as if a child held the character? I think too much stiffness took me out of it.
But I liked the general shadowing looks and the feeling, as well as the VO, which not many jam games usually have.
Yes, it is in English and Spanish, and should detect your browser/os default language, although for some of the text I didn't have the time to traduce it properly. You can change it on the setting to your preference. I have a jam template that I share fully with the menu code, feel free to reuse it: https://github.com/jynus/godot4-jam-template
I rated the game high, specially on style (music and graphics are excellent!). However, I didn't have a controller handy and I suffered a bit with the controls: because the character moves relatively to the center of the screen, but the direction is mouse controlled, it is hard to keep it aimed as the player character moves over the screen. I am sure it feels much better with a controller (I know you mention this on the description, but mentioning it because of the Jam rules).
Also I would like to see a fast restart key.
Otherwise, top quality!
5 starts in creativity! This is the most original game I've played for the jam so far. And the fact that it is your second one ever is great! Visuals are consistent and give it a charm. Well done.
As a suggestion, after the jam I would like to see more levels and the ability to rotate the shapes. Well done.
Hola, gracias por jugar. La música no debería afectar al rendimiento, ya que se carga en memoria al principio del juego. Pero si has tenido problemas con la versión de navegador- eso sí podría ser-, hemos publicado también versiones para Windows, Mac y Linux- que deberían darte mejor rendimiento y no requieren un navegador. Eso podría arreglar tu problema, quizá?