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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Enjoyment | #202 | 4.152 | 4.152 |
| Audio | #472 | 3.783 | 3.783 |
| Artwork | #843 | 4.043 | 4.043 |
| Creativity | #964 | 4.022 | 4.022 |
| Narrative | #1986 | 2.826 | 2.826 |
Ranked from 46 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?
Loop around anchor points whilst looping around the track
(Optional) Please credit all assets you've used
All art, music and fonts by me :)
Backend/leaderboard services by Talo
(Optional) What would you like to be called if GMTK features your game?
Not Jam
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Very fun, tangibly polished. Nice work.
Fun little mechanic and very satisfying chaining through multiple anchors! Great choice for the picking the pool and float as a setting. Hope you would continue working on it and further expanding the number of levels of additional mechanics! Great job!
Really cool experience! Great sound, amazing artwork and very solid core gameplay. One thing I would have liked is for the wall not to stop you so hard. Still, the game feels very polished and there is evidently a lot of attention to detail. It's all very whimsical in the best way. Love the room to change your skin tone. Congrats!
Love this! Super fun summer vibes. Creative and enjoyable experience. I would be cool to have a multiplayer mode so you can race your friends!
Love the vibes of this! I was pretty bad at it though haha. Themeing is excellent and music and visuals were really fun. I think I would have appreciated a bit of a longer reach on the swing poles, by the time I was able to attach to them they ended up being more of a detriment so you had to be super accurate
I finally got the sub-50! Did I beat the dev times? Just played your game for like an hour straight haha. This is my favorite game jam game EVER! So much fun. Everything on this game is so darn polished. Thank you for making this!
Thank you so much! That beats my time by a very comfortable margin, honestly I didn't know it was even possible!
Wow what a game!
I really love what you did, the game as so much character, I LOVE it! :D
Well done, love the people floating around :P
Thank you! Hope you had fun floating around too :)
Being lazy should not be that hard! 😭
Simple but efficient concept and execution! Good job!
Thank you for playing! :)
The game is quite interesting, but personally I find it difficult to play. I would say the background music is a bit irritating, and it would be nice to change it — though that might just be a subjective opinion. Alternatively, adding sound settings would solve this issue for me. Overall, it’s a fun and engaging experience, and I think playing this kind of game with multiple players could be really entertaining. And you already had me at the menu on the left to change characters and color skin.
Thanks for playing! Audio settings is a great idea, I'll get them implemented once the jam is over with options to mute/adjust volume for sfx and music so people can set to taste :)
You already had me at the menu on the left to change characters and color skin.
Controls are nice, gameplay is fun and there even is a leaderboard !
The waving flag animation and booster pads made me think of Crash Team Racing, loving it !
I definitly need to improve my time !
Thank you for playing! 1:24 is a great time, you've done well :)
CTR was pretty much my entire childhood lol, couldn't resist dropping the flag waving effect in there!
Such a cute little game :) Really liked the pool idea, that was fun. Loved bumping into the others and hitting the boosters, that’s honestly the best part!
Thank you! Glad you had fun with it :)
the game is pretty cool! the pixelart visuals are on point and the physics feel great. the only complaint i have is that i wish space key would need holding when looping, instead of toggling it, but maybe thats just me. overall pretty fun and solid!!
Thank you for playing! I'll be pushing an update when the jam finishes with various bug fixes and QOL improvements, hold to loop rather than toggle will be one :)
Just about cracked the top 50 and I'll take that for now :)
Feels great when you chain the grapples and swings just right.
Wonderful art and music as expected. Super charming.
Thank you for playing, and very glad you enjoyed the music! Top 50 is pretty good going at this point :)
That was an absolute joy! Love the idea, the vibe, and the audio. Will definitely try to get under one minute!
Thank you - delighted you enjoyed it :) good luck on the time!
Amazing art, super impressive that you made it all. One thing that I think would be a small improvement if you continue development is to make it so that instead of pressing spacebar twice, you just press it once and when you release it you let go of the loop. But that's just a really small nitpick. I had lots of fun! Great job
Thank you! I'll add an alternate mode with press and hold to grapple, a few people have requested it now :)
Glad you enjoyed the game, and thanks for playing :)
Such a cool game, I had SO much fun with this!
Thank you :)
Such a simple, but really well executed idea! The controls feel great and I adore that you even added character customisation. The only thing I could ask for is more maps. Apart from that, a great entry!
Thank you for playing! I'm so happy people have been appreciating the character customisation, I was really keen to include it even with the limited time so I've been delighted that it's been well received :)
Awesome stuff!! Successfully hooking and spinning around was really satisfying and the visuals/audio were great. Would love to see this expanded on because it has a lot of potential (maybe other courses with whirlpools you can slingshot through, or multiplayer races!) but even in its current state the amount of stuff already here is super impressive, especially the leaderboard and character customization options!
Oh I really like the idea of whirlpools! Sounds like a fun programming and art challenge all in one :)
Thank you for playing and the lovely feedback :)
The map and physics very clearly have a lot of care put into them - pulling off the right turns here feels excellent. This'd be a great little speedrun game with just some more levels to play around in. Good game.
Thank you! Appreciate the comments on the map, definitely took some work to get it feeling right :)
Reminds me of good ol' Micro Machines and has a similar charm to Nitrome games, well done! If you keep working on it I would love to see the grapple range extended a bit, currently if you're moving too fast it's difficult to latch onto anything, and if you're too close when you do get a grapple you'll spin so fast it's hard not to bump into the other swimmers when you release.
I'll catch you one day, Purple Frog Swimming Buoy Lemon Lemon Purple Frog!
Thank you for playing! There's a few fixes I'd like to make to the grapple, a slight range increase should be doable too - I'll push something once the voting period ends :)
Superb time too!