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Mini Jam 165: Paint

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A jam submission

Happy CircleView game page

a little project for your town
Submitted by noah (@mahalis) — 1 minute, 17 seconds before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Use of the Limitation#163.4003.400
Presentation#173.2003.200
Overall#203.0503.050
Enjoyment#212.6002.600
Concept#243.0003.000

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

Team members
Noah Witherspoon—“noah” here and on mastodon.gamedev.place, “mahalis” many other places

Software used
Godot, Cinema 4D, GarageBand

Use of the limitation
the only controls are two directional buttons; the rest is all timing

Cookies eaten
zero, but several scones

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MindlessTurtleSubmitted2 years ago

Beautiful graphics.

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Saint Paint
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noahDeveloper2 years ago(+1)

Thank you! They were a lot of work 😅

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TeeSubmitted2 years ago

I like the idea but I feel like the execution could be a bit better, I might be wrong about this but I thought the goal was to completely fill the circle but when I did that it didn't have any kind of victory. Maybe I missed a spot but then I never got lucky with the clouds. Maybe if there was some balancing that allowed for a clearer victory that would've been nice. And personally I really didn't like the music it was super obnoxious and felt very unfitting to me. I can appreciate the effort but I don't wanna lie about it. Overall I feel like there was some good ideas here but a few things could be improved. Good job!

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FacePaint Salon
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noahDeveloper2 years ago (2 edits)

I appreciate the honest feedback! Yes, the goal is to completely fill the circle—it’s possible you missed a spot, but there definitely could also be a bug in my detection logic (it’s a different mechanism than the visuals use and should be more forgiving, but who knows). As to the balance/difficulty and music… fair! I always have trouble balancing my games (by the end of the weekend I’ve played it enough to be unreasonably good at the mechanics, so it always feels too easy) and I’m definitely not a musician. Thanks for playing it anyway.

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crazedmonkey231Submitted2 years ago(+1)

This looks really nice! A great starting point for expansion.

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Ink and Iron Arena
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Daniil7217Submitted2 years ago

An interesting idea, but clouds are too often spawned

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Duo Slimes
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NeonSubmitted2 years ago

wow, this is really laggy

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Painted
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noahDeveloper2 years ago

Sorry about that—it’s probably the volumetric shader I did for the clouds. It performs okay on my laptop, but that’s pretty recent. What hardware are you on?

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NeonSubmitted2 years ago

My PC is - AMD Ryzen 5 4500U with Radeon Graphics  2.38 GHz,     8gb RAM,      no RAM for GPU.

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PintSizedGamesSubmitted2 years ago(+1)

Cute little red tractor. I now hatred clouds

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Cursed Color Palette
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MacrowSubmitted2 years ago(+1)

this made me realize why i dont have a drivers license :)

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Tower.Paint.Refill
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