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A jam submission

The TutorialView game page

Entry for the Shovel Jam 2025 - A short pixel platformer about learning a game's mechanics!
Submitted by KingMidis — 4 hours, 21 seconds before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Fun#843.9193.919
Overall#1403.8293.829
Presentation#1484.0654.065
Creativity#3343.5043.504

Ranked from 123 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

Preferred Name
KingMidis

Newbie?

Newbie

Yes - I'm new to game jams!

How does your game fit the theme?
You are trying to "just get started" playing the game, so you go through a quick tutorial!

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Nice game. I can really this becoming a full game. Music and mechanics were really fun.

Submitted

It was extremely fun! It looks and sounds great, and the movement is crisp in pretty much every section. I would like respawns in the individual rooms, but that's a personal thing. What really confused me is for some reason arrow keys didn't work in the last level?

Developer

That's odd... They work fine for me.

This game is beautiful. Awesome graphics I am a HUGE fan of 2D art and I loved the art of your game, congratulations for your project. 

Gameplay: Awesome idea of jumping in the walls, making players avoid spikes and not making the respawn too slow, this really makes the differnce

Art: 10/10 I loved it, fantastic.

Sound effects: I would say it is ok, nothing to bad, steps were a bit louder than i expected and the music its not bad but it doesnt make you want to listen nonstop. 

Overall great job for a starter this looks AMAZING, congratulations, now it will only get easier from here!

Submitted

Fun: good mechanics, it's sad you can only use them once. 

Presentation: I like the art style and the sound effect, the character looks adorable

creativity: creative mechanics, the idea of a only tutorial game was good

Submitted (1 edit)

The movement feels great, and the level design is really good! The mechanics also worked well with each level. This was overall really fun to play!

Submitted

Excellent controls, art and animations ! Maybe an impact sound for when you hit spikes would add to the game. And I would love that player movement is blocked after death. I died a lot by just jumping on spikes after respawning. Overall amazing work ! 

Submitted

Very cute little game, the controls felt responsive and the artstyle was very cohesive. Very cool little experience. Only thing I would wish if the game was sped up a little, feels a bit like playing a video on 0.7 speed

Submitted

Very cute game. I love platformers and this one was really fun! I liked the pacing too, introducing mechanics little by little

Submitted

Well rounded gameplay and nice experience overall.

Only thing that i'd like to have is a button for a control reminder, had to restart twice because i didnt pay attention/was distracted from the instructor.

Submitted

Best game I've played so far has a nice art style and nice feeling controls though I will warn do not press z it brings you back to this page when playing

Submitted

Good controls, the grapple was my favorite because of the feedback when you landed one. Really nicely done, would have loved to see more or longer levels.

Submitted

Love it! The introduction and removal on new platforming moves was cool, great job!

Submitted

The animations, all the mechanics and everything. You nailed the game feel! Very nice game!

Submitted

Usually not a big fan of platformers, but I enjoyed the controls in your game. the different abilities keep it exciting and the difficulty is very well tuned.

Submitted

Fun as heck game where you're given an endless barrage of fun mechanics one at a time and then immediately lose them. Donkey Kong Country Barrels was my favorite.

Submitted

Awesome game and amazingly made!  The controls felt smooth and the art is very nice!

Submitted

This game has incredible polish and the movement did feel great. Though I wished the final level had you use all the mechanics together for the race as only dashing  is kinda boring.

Submitted

fun game, nice job.

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