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A jam submission

The Colorado Cactus CircuitView game page

Connect tracks in a loop to bring resources home!
Submitted by Spicy Chicken, Pixel Overload, Robo-octo — 2 hours, 47 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Artwork#94.8254.825
Enjoyment#3414.0374.037
Narrative#5493.6003.600
Audio#5573.7253.725
Creativity#16043.8373.837

Ranked from 80 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?
The goal of the game is to create loops out of rails.

(Optional) What would you like to be called if GMTK features your game?
Pixel Overload, Spicy Chicken and Robo-Octo

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Submitted(+1)

Yooo I can't believe I missed out on rating this. Would have been a 5 across the board for me. My favorite game from this jam.

Obviously the visuals and audio are gorgeous, but I can't get over how creative this game let's the player be when you get to the more complex levels.
Honestly incredible to me that this was made in 96 hours!
Enjoyed it a lot and played until I cleared all levels on 3 stars. :) I even managed to clear the last level in 29 rails (rather than the 34 you need for 3 stars) which felt great.

Would love to see this made into a full Steam game. :D
Suggestion for quicker controls if this was made into a full game:
- Hotkeys for different materials (1, 2, 3, etc., like in Poly Bridge)
- Click + drag to set a direction as you're placing a directional rail.

Developer

We're glad you enjoyed the game so much and we are considering expanding it greatly. I also agree the controls could use a rework for a proper release and I would definitely try to keep the ability of the player to creatively approach the puzzles :)

Submitted(+1)

Your Average rank is #162 in GMTK 2025! Congrats!

Here is the link with all the rankings: 

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1pcYEGvaHF3y30mMEWwywmkRd2FCpo-u3_ZFpPFSo...

I felt bad that there is no average score, because some teams aimed for all categories, not just one. So I just scrapped the results page and made a table. I agree with Mark that "Overall" is questionable, but I still think "Average" is a valuable score, so I decided to share it.

Developer

Thank you we appreciate that and we are very happy with our position!

Submitted(+1)

Pixel Oveload always performs high up there never shocked!

Submitted

Really cute game! Loved the art style, it was a charming game, really polished

Submitted

Really love the art style, the puzzles are fun and engaging!

Submitted

Definitely high marks by every metric, but the visuals are the real standouts here. This one's got some serious moxie, and it feels quite complete. Very good!

Submitted

Art style and music are amazing! Very polished!

Submitted

Building this in 4 days is insane work! Very polished little gem. 

Submitted(+1)

Very fun. My only suggestion is to make it so that you can change your track type (straight, curve, dynomatie) with scroll wheel and delete with middle mouse button. Then you can have everything controlled by mouse if you want it.

Also I think there's a bug (?) where you can delete catsuses and trees with the delete track button. Only rocks you cannot delete.

Developer(+1)

I did think the rail switching controls were a bit difficult but we wanted to have zoom as well and yes we do have a game breaking bug that allows you to remove trees 😅

Submitted(+1)

Tbh I don't think zooming is necessary since most levels can fit on one screen... Good luck in the tree bug tho lol!

Submitted

Relaxing and enjoyable!

Submitted

Fantastic art, pleasant audio. Special thanks to the Cactus Conductor!

Submitted

Certified banger, best game I've played so far

Submitted

Nice! Classic train game fits the theme well. Nice work on the artstyle!

Submitted(+1)

Great game, I love train puzzle games. The pixel art in this is fantastic. I appreciate that everything in this has an animation in it.

Submitted(+2)

Great concept, visuals and sound design. Really relaxing to play, easy to lose track of time. Definitely something I can see being a full fledged game outside of the gamejam :)

Submitted

My wife came out while I was playing this game and said "well this quite cute." After watching for a while she then said "you better give this one 5/5. This is the best one I've seen you play yet" lol

Submitted(+1)

My wife came out while I was playing this game and said "well this quite cute." After watching for a while she then said "you better give this one 5/5. This is the best one I've seen you play yet" lol

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