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Metroidvania Month 27

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A jam submission

Snow Way Home!View game page

Stuck on a frozen planet, astro must warm it up to set his spaceship free and escape!
Submitted by mikoolec, TotallyPorff, Maybe — 2 days, 1 hour before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Metroidvania#173.2503.250
Enjoyment#192.8752.875
Overall#192.9062.906
Sensory#212.8752.875
Execution#232.6252.625

Ranked from 8 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

Engine
Unity

Team/Developer
Maybe, Mikoolec, TotallyPorf

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Francois van NiekerkSubmitted1 year ago(+2)

Nice! Quite a lot here for a jam! Here are things I noticed as I played:

  • The movement is very slide-y
  • The embedded web view crops out a lot. That's something you can edit with itch's settings
  • When enemies are on small platforms they can quickly flip left-right and it looks like they're bugging out
  • I think the character has friction with the terrain when moving vertically, so it can make it harder to jump up tall gaps
  • I didn't know I could wall jump until later. Did I miss an instruction?
  • Once I got the fire power, I couldn't figure out where to use it to progress. I expected it to defrost the frozen tree near the start.
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Beetlevania: Strawberry Secrets
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CiaNCISubmitted1 year ago(+1)

FFirst of all, nice work

I felt the controls a little slippery, but I believe that was part of game design.

There are some graphic glitches, but nothing to worry about.

I took me some time to figure out the controls, some menu or tutorial would be great.

Overall, it’s a great work, nice art and animations and the music matches the fell of the game.

I’ve made a review of it on my YouTube channel.

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MOV.SA
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mikoolecDeveloper1 year ago

Thank you for the playthrough, I'll check it out!

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mikoolecDeveloper1 year ago

I don't see the playthrough on your YouTube :/ I'll check later

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CiaNCISubmitted1 year ago(+1)

I’ll release the part 4 today

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mikoolecDeveloper1 year ago

I've watched it, seems you didn't finish. There was one last campfire left, in the bottom left room. You actually stumbled into there, but forgot about it after dying. Thanks for playing!

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CiaNCISubmitted1 year ago(+1)

Hey thanks, I’ll play it again to find the last one.

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TotallyPorffDeveloper1 year ago(+2)

Thank you, I'm glad you enjoyed the music!

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baron_elmwichSubmitted1 year ago(+2)

Eyyy I made it to the spaceship! Good job, that was a lot of fun. Since my progress didn't reset when I died, I didn't mind slipping and sliding all over the place and I was able to focus on getting better. I really liked the music, it was fun to listen to over and over again and I liked the way it changes. The spaceship sprite at the end looks really good! The only thing I would change is I didn't know when going down a hole would take me to another room or to my death, so I had to beef it a few times to figure it out. Great job!

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Legend of Keystone
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mikoolecDeveloper1 year ago(+1)

Thanks for playing! I didn't even think about the hole thing, that's a good find.

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TotallyPorffDeveloper1 year ago(+2)

Thank you for the kind words on the music! Im really happy with it :D

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canniceSubmitted1 year ago(+1)

Hey! I want to see more of this game, but I simply cannot get across this gap, no matter what I try. It seems like the jump always falls short, even if I try to get a bit of speed up. I'd love to know what the secret is that I'm missing? 

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Ochre Heart
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canniceSubmitted1 year ago(+2)

From the small portion of the game I did get to experience, here are my thoughts: 

  • I really liked your tile map terrain textures. The snow, icy blocks, and dirt visually look great. One gameplay thing I noticed though, is that no matter what texture I was standing on, everything felt like ice, very slippy. I would have expected that movement while on ice tiles, but it was on everything, so that felt a bit off. 
  • The movement and jump otherwise generally felt nice and responsive, but as noted in my first post, it felt like the jump's vertical and horizontal limits were too low for some of the jump challenges in your level. 
  • I really like the design and animations for your player character, really nice work there. Unfortunately I did find it a bit odd that it always faces the cursor location, even when you're just running around. It broke my immersion a bit when I was just trying to explore to the right, but my cursor was slightly left of center, so he'd run backwards. I wonder whether you could override that cursor focus temporarily while you have no new cursor movement, and then only make him face the cursor when new movement is detected? 
  • The enemies were cute but I barely had to fight them, because they'd notice me and yeet themselves off the edge of their platforms before I even got close to them. This was actually super funny, but probably not the intended way to move forward lol. When I was fast enough to get to them before they jumped, I wished there was a bit more feedback when I hit them with the weapon, like a sound or more of an effect. 
  • Loved the vibrant colours of your background, though it did feel a bit busy, like it took a bit too much focus away from tracking your player. Something as simple as adding a gaussian blur so that the edges of the background texture's shapes are less defined could help a lot to offer a bit more depth and separation from the player and collision layers, while still keeping your vibrant vibes intact.

Hope to hear back from you on that jump so that I can play a bit more of this one! :)

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mikoolecDeveloper1 year ago

Thank you for the very in-depth opinion and feedback! Regarding your points:

1. The movement actually varies a bit, the ice is slightly more slippery, while the mud slows you down (a bit buggy), but i can see how these can be indistinguishable, and the general movement too slippery.

2. I believe that's a product of using an outside program for the level design, so tests were few and far between, i was eyeballing most of the jumps 😅

4. It gets even easier when you unlock the Fire Charge, you just press F to delete all nearby enemies, we actually had a shield enemy type planned, but lacked just a few days to implement it

5. Thanks for these suggestions, i guess we just didn't think of that during the rush


On the jump you're struggling with: the player can wall jump, not only between two walls, but also on just one, keep holding D and Space after you get to that wall on the right, you'll clear it with ease.

It's always so nice to read a comment with a bit of effort behind it, i hope you'll go back and finish the game ❤️

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canniceSubmitted1 year ago(+2)

Oh thank you for your reply! I definitely did not realize the wall jump was a thing, and you're right - it was a breeze after that. I went back and succeeded in finding my spaceship. I'm blasting off agaaaaain

Alrighty so here are a couple more notes from my journey!

  • I experienced a graphical error where sometimes gridlines would flash over the terrain. 
  • I also experienced a bug (?) where if I had one health left and pressed P to open the menu, I was teleported to the tree. 
  • The tree looked pretty unique and was a nice addition to the environment, but I would suggest adjusting it a tad to better reflect where colliders are. Most of the collision surfaces were lined with the green foliage, and since its bright green highlight is the lightest part of the sprite, that's where I expected colliders. However there were some areas that had foliage but no collider, so I kept accidentally falling off the tree. I didn't have this collider issue anywhere else in the game, though, everything else felt really clear. 
  • One other note on the tree - I might be misremembering, but did it grow convenient extra branches to get up to the spaceship at some point? Without a map, I really struggled and almost gave up trying to find the spaceship. It was only because of the Pause > Teleport to tree issue that I even came back to the tree and happened to notice that additional path. If it does indeed get added at some point to unlock that path to the ship, it might be better to have it there initially but blocked somehow, so that the player notes that it's a path to revisit later. 
  • I thought it worked really well how you changed the environment when the fire for that zone was lit. I totally see what you mean now about the mud. It definitely feels different to the ice. I wished there was a bit more of a change in the map rather than just the visual / terrain swaps (like additional paths that open, previously iced up), but even so I think the zone's visual shift was a really smart way to indicate which zones you had "finished" and which zones still had a nearby fire to find and light. 

Despite a few bumps along the way, I still really enjoyed playing this one start to finish! It was so exciting each time I managed to find a fire and ultimately finding the ship. Solid little game, and I would love to see some updates!

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mikoolecDeveloper1 year ago(+1)

On the tree thing, it grew almost every time you lit a fire. After 1 lit fire, the ice melted a bit, after 2 the tree reached for the platform on top right, and after 4 it grew to the spaceship.

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NonSubmitted1 year ago(+1)

I think it's a very cool concept! But sadly I ended up having to stop because of the many bugs I encountered which simply felt frustrating. Wish there was more time left in dev to polish stuff, a lot of cool concepts here sadly overshadowed by just as many bugs! Hope this doesn't discourage you and doesn't seem overly critical, I think once polished this game can start to shine!

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Null Element
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