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PANOPTICONView game page

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Submitted by Axiomata, PituophisCatenifer — 6 hours, 46 minutes before the deadline

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Criteria	Rank	Score*	Raw Score
Creativity	#5139	2.958	3.556
Audio	#6067	2.219	2.667
Artwork	#6290	2.404	2.889
Enjoyment	#7359	2.034	2.444
Narrative	#7505	1.664	2.000

Ranked from 9 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?
Create loops with empty tiles in the center of your trail in the level to progress, loop around the inside of an icosphere to play! Initial idea was partially inspired by the old arcade game Qix

(Optional) Please credit all assets you've used
Guterton - Heavy Stone Grind by guterton.wav -- https://freesound.org/s/760672/ -- License: Attribution 4.0
chill background music #2.wav by ZHRØ -- https://freesound.org/s/703713/ -- License: Attribution 4.0

All other assets are made by the developers

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Comments

pincushionxSubmitted1 year ago(+1)

It told me to get panopticon'd! The pillar effect is pretty cool. The sphere looks so eerie with all the eyes. After the one level, it just let me restart. I see a screenshot with a different level though. Maybe it's not in the release?

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AxiomataDeveloper1 year ago (1 edit)

If you're able to bring up 33% of the pillars, it'll move to stage 2. I did find this somewhat difficult to do but with practice I could get there sometimes. If time runs out it'll say "GET PANOPTICON'D and then tell ya to restart :)

There is also the possibility that you got 32.5% and it rounded up and told you you had 33%, that'd be my bad

DolphcodeSubmitted1 year ago(+1)

Loved the concept of this game, I found the controls for navigating the sphere to be well tuned, smooth, and overall very interesting. Fun twist on the usual snake/paper.io type of game. I quite liked the visuals and the audio actually, I found the overall atmosphere of the game to be very surreal.

Congrats on finishing the jam, and great job overall!

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PomeranSubmitted1 year ago(+1)

I really liked the idea of navigating inside a sphere

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JacobSubmitted1 year ago(+1)

Neat concept, I like the idea of being inside a sphere it's very cool. Good job!

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Florent "Salty" MartinaisSubmitted1 year ago(+1)

Interesting take on the theme. I feel like some controle features are missing, such as a dash or something to trick the evil eyes.
Good job!

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AxiomataDeveloper1 year ago

Oh, climbing over the pillars will break the trail of the eyes since they can't climb! But I could have mentioned as much outright :)

NanoComputerSubmitted1 year ago(+1)

I like the idea of going around loops to secure tiles, honestly that's what my team's game did with ours as well! Visually the game looks nice but figuring out where to go did cause me some slight confusion. Nice work on the game however!

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LemonBotSubmitted1 year ago(+1)

Great game! Got a little bit dizzy from the POV, but otherwise very fun :)

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Aadit RaiSubmitted1 year ago

is it even possible to loop around the whole icosphere without your path getting erased?

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AxiomataDeveloper1 year ago

No, the max length of your tail is 30, perhaps I should have mentioned, but I assumed people would realize it as they played.

Aadit RaiSubmitted1 year ago

How am I supposed to make the walls then

AxiomataDeveloper1 year ago

You turn? You can make loops that are smaller than the whole icosphere, just surround any number of tiles

Aadit RaiSubmitted1 year ago

I guess I will need to figure it out then, Its not doing anything right now

AxiomataDeveloper1 year ago

I have it on the game page, but controls are WASD to move, Mouse to Rotate, R to restart, ESC to get your cursor back. Walk towards walls to climb them :)