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A jam submission

SQUARE UP, SQUARY!View game page

Squary is falling into the sun.
Submitted by tw1ZTER — 2 days, 16 hours before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Enjoyment#7973.7923.792
Audio#18683.2503.250
Creativity#22513.6673.667
Artwork#30903.2503.250
Narrative#55882.0002.000

Ranked from 24 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?
Squary is on an orbit loop around a star trying to survive.

(Optional) Please credit all assets you've used
Music is from PRiCERPG, an old game i made a while ago, the same with the SFX. Theres no art assets, just shapes.

(Optional) What would you like to be called if GMTK features your game?
tw1ZTER

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Comments

Submitted (1 edit)

I enjoyed your game. The modifiers creating more obstacle's was great mechanic. The controller also felt very satisfying. It was also cool that you could jump out of the circle with our momentum. Also awesome on having a leaderboard. (what did you use for it?). Congrats on submitting. 

Developer

Thanks! For the leaderboard i used this: https://danqzq.itch.io/leaderboard-creator, you can also find videons on youtube on how to implement it. 

Submitted

Fun Game.

Submitted(+1)

Who wouldn't like a looping space-themed flappy bird! I would love the camera movement to be a little smoother, and maybe to see more of what is going on in front of the player, instead of centering on the square

Submitted(+1)

Fun game, has a good loop! The sun and outer circle textures got scaled up so much though that if you look at the edges you can see the pixels (this can be fixed by having a higher resolution texture). Other than that, though, fun game!

Submitted (2 edits)

Really nice visuals. Kinda like Flappy Bird with a different theme. I do like the shader works that you have, but there's some nitpicks here: 

  1. I actually didn't enjoy the fact that when you go too far out the sun glow dim then shine  in a very rapid rate. It throws me off quite a bit.
  2. I also think the camera centering on the player object also make it very disorienting with all the other parts of the screen jump around rapidly every time you jump.
Developer

Hey thanks for the feedback! first point i do agree i couldve done it better for sure! The second point im having trouble imagining how would ive done it differently, but i appreciate the feedback regardless. Thanks!

Submitted

For the second point, I think you could try anchoring the camera to an invisible point between the outer and inner limits. That way when the player presses jump, only their character avatar moves on the screen, everything else stays the same place and helps with reading the level better.

Developer

I see! Thanks for the info, it would definetely be an option for a next time XD

Submitted(+1)

Really nice shaders,  I quite enjoyed it too. The audio was kind of annoying though

Submitted(+1)

Came here from Youtube Chat. Now try mine

Submitted

The game looks very polished, and I really enjoyed playing it! Great game :D

Submitted

Very interesting and original mechanics that kept me coming back. I love that you added a high score system, I kept playing until I reached the top 5! While the game may seem simple at first glance, devising a strategy to get the highest score can actually get pretty intricate.

Developer

Glad you like it! Right now the top 10-5 is getting wild, im seeing like 200k~ scores  which is really hard to get! Thanks for the review!

Submitted

Great game! I love the music being in sync with flying in a straigt line and triangles making the loops harder. Got the 2nd place for now, but I will be back!

Developer

Hey gratz and thanks for the review <3

Submitted

Fun to play, and the art added a lot, the whole look of the game was awesome.

Developer

Thanks for the review!

Submitted

Got on the top 10 B) (for now hah)

Really enjoyed it! Very effective aesthetic and the movement feels great.

Only problem I had was that the constant rotation did start making me feel a little bit motion sick, altho that might be partly due to the fact that I'm currently on a boat hahah, so won't hold that against you!

Developer

Hey gratz! Thanks for the review and hope it wasnt that much of a motion sickness hit :p 

Submitted

I made it on the leaderboard! I like how you can choose to make the game harder in exchange for a point bonus. Fun and simple. Nice job!

Developer

Hey gratz! Thanks for the review!

Submitted

Great job!! I think the highlight of the scoring versus the meteorites is that I'm forced to make decisions as I continue on how much harder I can handle it being versus the score multiplier that I want. If you ever expand on this you should play more with that area of choice, risk vs reward!!

Developer

Hey, thanks for the mindful review! And about the rist vs reward, thats a great idea, i would probably focus on that if i happen to continue with this concept for like a mobile game or somesort! Thanks!

Submitted

This was lots of fun, I really liked the graphics and it's nice and responsive.. It's fun trying to launch myself out into orbit and trying to get a high score. 

Submitted(+1)

The art is beautiful, I like the lighting. Though the game can be quite easy, it would be thrilling if the sun can insta-kil you making you feel pressured falling down.

Developer

I can also see that being an interesting idea. Gotta admit it started being that way but changed because i thought it would be too BS to just die by hitting the sun, so i wasnt sure one way or the other :p

Submitted

Very polished, with very fun gameplay! I personally think there should be some color distinction between what is a good thing to hit and what is a bad thing to hit, (at first I thought that red triangles were a bad thing), but very fun, and love the soundtrack/effects.

Developer (1 edit)

Good feedback, you're right, i shouldve switch the color of the triangles :p next time!