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A jam submission

VinallyView game page

Play as a vine, grow and escape to the outside world
Submitted by Bartticus, Chimp Peen — 4 minutes, 44 seconds before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Theme#913.1824.500
Originality#1072.9464.167
Fun#1112.4753.500
Audio#1252.3573.333
Overall#1452.3913.381
Graphics#1472.3573.333
Accessibility#1671.8862.667
Controls#1701.5322.167

Ranked from 6 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

Godot Version
4.4

Wildcards Used
N/A

Game Description
Escape the cave as an ever-growing vine, wrapping around mossy rocks to anchor and regain lost stamina. Collect sunlight and nutrients as you find your way to the surface! Check the game page for tips on playing the game :)

How does your game tie into the theme?
Your vine is constantly growing, and you are unable to fully control it. You are only able to influence the direction of its growth.

Source(s)
N/A

Discord Username(s)
Bartticus, Chimp Peen's Revunge

Participation Level (GWJ Only)
1

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Comments

Submitted(+2)

wow, awesome take on the theme! it’s very dreamy, I love the mood. the controls are pretty janky though, I’d appreciate a way to stop growing so I could recover stamina and look around. I didn’t like how the camera was locked from moving up/down, and it kept clipping into things. some walls didn’t seem to be climbable at all, which was weird. I still enjoyed it though — nice entry!

Developer(+1)

All valid and welcome feedback, thank you. These are all definitely things we hope to fix as we polish the game, once the jam is complete. Glad you still enjoyed it through the jank! :)

Submitted(+2)

Really cool game! I love the art style and was shockingly engrossed in a game about growing a vine lol. It's really cool to look back and see the crazy path your vine has taken on it's journey towards the top. I agree with what the person said below about thinking they were soft locked at the beginning, once I did figure out how to play it took me a while to get a hang of the controls, but it's a lot of fun once you figure everything out. I would've liked some way to just pause and regrow my stamina, it was kinda hard to just stick to a rock and recover it fully before going for a large gap. I had a lot of fun playing thru this, great work!

Developer

Wow thanks! Yeah there's unfortunately a huge skill/knowledge barrier to play this game, it suffers from lack of tutorial for sure. But I'm glad you were able to have fun with it :D <3

Developer

The intention was to reward players for embracing the growth and wrapping themselves around the rocks instead of trying to stay still, but with a lack of a tutorial, I understand that doesn't come across. Thanks for checking this out, I loved your entry as well! :)

Submitted(+2)

Tried to download and play the web build but it says failed to fetch. This looks cool but I am on Linux unfortunately

Developer

Ah okay good to know, thanks for trying anyway

Submitted(+2)

Interesting concept.

Could do with a bit of instructions. I thought I soft-locked myself right in the beginning, when I held space for a while, ran out of "stamina" and fell to the ground, unable to recover, until I realised I need to climb up the nearby boulder. Then I got stuck again later when I was hanging from a boulder and tried to climb up the side wall, but couldn't recover stamina, not realising that you can't grow on the side wall (that looks fairly similar to boulders that you can grow on).

It's a bit too easy to move alongside a boulder without being attached to it, so you just randomly start losing stamina. And the camera could be sped up a lot (then again, I'm always turning up mouse sensitivity in games).

An option to mute the music is also always appreciated.

Developer(+1)

All welcome feedback, thanks!

Submitted(+2)

Great super chill vibes. Great use of the theme and the growing mechanic is really cool and impressive. Nice work! :D

Submitted(+2)

A litlle bit hard to play, but fun! I liked it!

Developer(+1)

Couldn't get the web build small enough to run, so download only! Whoopsie lol