I don’t know why, but I had so much trouble on the penultimate level. My brain like completely shut down even though the solution was a single block-move right in front of my eyes. I was trying to shove a tall block against the wall but little B-0 just wasn’t quite small enough to fit in the gap. I sat there stuck restarting again and again for like 10 minutes. All I needed to do was move the tall block out of the way because I didn’t need it. Other than that colossal brain fart, I thought most of the solutions were pretty straightforward and had a good bit of fun throwing the boxes around in build mode.
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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Overall | #223 | 4.069 | 4.069 |
| Enjoyment | #307 | 3.908 | 3.908 |
| Style | #357 | 4.253 | 4.253 |
| Creativity | #436 | 4.046 | 4.046 |
Ranked from 87 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
How does your game fit the theme?
The theme of Scale courses through the veins of this game. The main mechanic is breaking down large boxes to make smaller ones, you're exploring a massive factory as a tiny robot, blocks get bigger the further you go, and the dialogue implies a grander narrative than you can see in game.
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Key art by Rand0man
Music from Chris Logsdon
SFX from Chris Logsdon and David Stearns
Shaders from c64cosmin and GNamimates
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WOW, that was great! I loved how open-ended the levels feel, like you could use a different solution every time. My one and only suggestion is to limit the camera scrolling at the level edges to keep more of the play area in view. All-around excellent!
Utterly Beautiful, the controls are responsive, the puzzles are fun and well made, the juice is JUICY and the game yells personality with custom cutscenes and storyline. This is truly a work of art and this not appearing in the GMTK best games video, it would be purely criminal
Best of luck to you with your game, it was truly an amazing experience and I am left in pure awe
Love it!
Very interesting puzzle mechanic and the level design was solid
Super well polished too, love the art, great job! :)

Nice game & puzzles :) I love the CRT filter :D
There’s an issue where, if the speedrun timer is on, you can’t interact with objects on the bottom part of the screen.
It would also be nice if the reset button was somewhere on the screen instead of having to pause first, or if you could instead reset with R.
Cool puzzle game, I would like a faster way to get back to the box movement screen
Simple mechanic but the puzzles were designed well. The game feels pretty polished as well, so I don’t really have any critiques to make. Nicely done!
Fun puzzles with a finished look and the atmosphere fits the game as well! Great work! :)
Very solid game!!! did need to restart as it glitched sometimes but had fun
Love the art, the ambiance is really nice as well ! Well done !
Really loved the art direction, SFX, and puzzle mechanic! I liked it allowed for multiple approaches in beating levels. I also like that my progress is saved when I exit and reopen the game (which I needed to do deal with the screen resizing bug). One quality of life improvement might be to allow restarting the platforming with the robot without also having to rebuild the platforms.
Stairs the game! Haha jk very fun game I sunk a good chunk of time playing it! Puzzles were challenging but not too difficult and fun. The difficulty progression felt just right as well I never felt like one puzzle was a sudden jump in difficulty.
Not so much a critique but a suggestion for a similar future game, it would be cool to collect hammers and switch between editing and playing the level somehow! Would add a bit more variety and possibly add more interesting puzzles!
Very cool game. enjoyed it a lot. fits the theme very well. very good pixel art. amazing!
As someone who made a game with (kind of) a similar interpretation, I really dug this. The aesthetics were excellent as well.
I liked the story and cinematic aspect of the game.
I got stuck on the level with 2 cubes and didn't know how to get past it.
But so far good game.
Nice puzzle game with a good plateformer character controller, my only issue was the order you learn stuff, maybe learn to move your character then open boxes and play with it, i locked my character when i opened the crate and i didn't know i needed to use it ahah, apart from that good game !
Loved the puzzle mechanics and the level design is also great ! You can check mine game also ! Cheers
great game, the puzzle mechanics and levels were so well made •⩊•







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