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A jam submission

Star FallView game page

The stars have disappeared, the mayor of Aurelia has charged you with finding them and sending them back into space.
Submitted by 0xNil, Tuvo
Rated by 9 people so far
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Design Statement
It was interpreted in basically 2 ways.
One was that space-like feeling, so in the game, the player loves space and you have to collect stars to restore balance. Another way was the mystic jungle feeling. So one of the levels is a magical forest.
This time the game went to something we haven't really went to yet : a narrative game. You get to wish for abilities and it's more of a linear progress line. It was definitely a new experience than just normal platformers, roguelikes or arcade-like games which we usually make.

Game Instructions (launch steps, controls, and gameplay overview)
Simply select Play or Continue in the main menu.
The game is a platformer. You have to find stars by talking to NPCs and exploring the map. Then you can go to the Temple through city's outskirts to use your stars to get a new ability (double-jump, sprint, glide, dash). You must find all 5 stars to restore the balance.

Controls :
Movement : โ† โ†’ | A D
Jump : โ†‘ | W | Space
Passthrough : โ†“ | S
Sprint & Glide : Z | J | Shift
Dialogue & Dash : E | X | K
Pause : P | Esc
Restart : R

Gameplay walkthrough video
http://On the game page.

Did your project use any AI tools or assets? If yes, please specify.
No Gen-AI was used.

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Comments

Submitted(+2)

The art style is really nice! Some of the animations could use a bit more polish, and I got lost for a few minutes, but it was really interesting exploring every part of the game. I really love it!

Developer

Hi!

Would you mind telling us more about which animations weren't polished enough, so we know on what to work on after the jam ?

Happy you enjoyed playing, thank you!

Submitted(+2)

This was such a cool game! I really love the artstyle though some parts of it does need polish but its completely understandable for a game jam. The fact that you've succesfully made a metroidvania in 2 weeks is also really ambitious and impressive! The level design was quite fun and everything fit the game perfectly. Though I do think the text shaking for the dialogue was used too excessively but other than that, I had fun! Great work!!

Developer(+1)

Helpful feedback.

It's the first time we made a Metroidvania and a game with an actual story, so we are happy with what we made.

Can you point out a few areas of improvements for polish? That would help us a lot.

Thank you for playing!

Submitted

There's a couple of things to polish, I think going back to talking to the same person I talked to before should've been a different dialogue to make it more alive. As I mentioned before, the use of the shaking text was a bit too much making it a bit hard to read at times. 

A bit more SFX when the text is appearing with different SFX for each person and also just for a lot of the interactions in general could increase the feel of the game as well! A bit more consistency in the town could also help with a bit of clear highlight of the door being able to be interacted since the door seems to be blending in with the buildings.

These are some of the things I noticed that could be developed further! Keen to see how the game gets developed in the future!

Developer(+1)

Thank you, helps us a lot!

Submitted(+1)

This was hella cute, wish w and space didn't jump it felt kind of awkaward. Also, you could have named the MC something other than keeper.  It felt kind of generic. I still thought it was enjoyable. But, find it strange that it doesn't say how long ago you submitted the game to the jam.

Developer(+1)

Hi!

We are happy you enjoyed our game.

Also, the Keeper is actually the observatory's keeper. The main character is reffered as "Me" in the dialogues.

The time of submission doesn't appear because of an itch.io bug at submission (our issue got solved thanks to staff) in case you were wondering.

Thank you for playing.

Submitted

I really enjoyed it tbh.  We should work together in the future!