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Sisyphus's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Artwork | #2392 | 3.462 | 3.462 |
| Narrative | #2603 | 2.641 | 2.641 |
| Audio | #3723 | 2.821 | 2.821 |
| Creativity | #3863 | 3.282 | 3.282 |
| Enjoyment | #3938 | 2.897 | 2.897 |
Ranked from 39 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?
Sisyphus is constantly trying to push a boulder uphill so he can be spared but unfortunately the boulder always falls and he is stuck in an endless loop constantly trying to push it uphill
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All assets made by our small team. Sound effects from pixabay (royalty free)
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Love the art, definitely a game I could've seen me and my friends competing in during computer time back in middle school.
I like the unique art. Good job!
Such an original take on the theme!
I liked it a lot! Well done :D
Looks great and that music groove is curiously hypnotic!
My boulder did fall out the game world very early one so I got an altitude of -1500 before I restarted 🤣
I like the combination of art, color palette and font.
I love the game! It gave me the feeling of a game everyone would play at school duriong computer science lol.
My high score is 81.7
I really wanna brag about it and I bet everyone here to beat it
It's a bit basic. I find it odd that I was able to just fly into space because the birds kept pushing me upwards. I felt like it needed some more sound effects on the Player character, like a take damage sound, some sounds for the arrows. Anything like that. Otherwise, I thought the art direction was good and I could definitely tell what you were shooting for! :)
Took me too long to realize that I could shoot arrows, haha. Had a sea of birds harassing me by the time I realized.
Brothers of Sysiphus!!
I loved that you can adjust your mountains, kinda like you are the gods themselves! Maybe the zoom can be adjusted to be more smooth. Overall a very nice game :D
The color palette is great, I felt like I was inside of the paintings on the side of an ancient vessel.
I was a little sick with the zoom/dezoom of the camera, but still had a lot of fun. Very good game. Nice and catchy music. I liked the colours / artwork, maybe the contrast could be higher between the boulder and the landscape, sometimes I had trouble to find it.
The physics is extremely wacky, especially with the birds, but that's more funny than annoying.
Really loved the idea! It kind of became "Sisyphus and his army or birds carrying him into space" at the end xD I think it could have been fun to have more mechanics centered around the boulder! Maybe the upgrades could depend on the boulder's altitude? And like it could be downgraded if the boulder fell down? Idk I just really liked the idea so I'm kinda invested now xDD
Good job, and good luck!
So I ended up riding on the back of the vultures for a while? Not sure if that was intentional but I thought it was a fun twist on the classic story! also the art style and music were really lovely!!
the visuals look AMAZING! the color scheme used is just perfect for the game.
Game about us when we make games for JAM
Push that Boulder!
Do I need to push the boulder or jump off the birds? :D I chose the letter, as it seems most of the bonuses are up in the air :D
I'm glad I'm not Prometheus, so my liver is still safe!
clever concept!
The Art for this is cool. Mate you have got to add a jump buffer and some coyote time so that i don't get stuck in these situations where i keep trying to jump and it wont let me.
Cool concept! the movement feels very floaty, but I could see this being a very enjoyable game with enough time.
Fellow Sisyphus enjoyer! Love the traditional approach to the artstyle!