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A jam submission

Help YourselfView game page

Every few seconds you freeze and die, but your frozen clone remains there. Use it to help yourself climb a mountain.
Submitted by Javier S. Dacarett (@javiersdacarett) — 1 hour, 3 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Narrative#25732.6432.643
Audio#28363.0003.000
Creativity#38113.2863.286
Artwork#39503.0003.000
Enjoyment#55032.5002.500

Ranked from 14 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?
Every five seconds your character dies, but leaves a frozen version of himself. But you got to restart at the starting point.

(Optional) Please credit all assets you've used
See description for full credits

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

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Comments

Submitted

Cool game with a creative idea.

Submitted

I think there were a few things that could've been polished more - some of the text was too small and hard to read, and the colliders were a bit sticky. But overall the concept for the game is creative and unique and has a lot of potential!

Submitted

This was a clever idea! At one point, I got too many frozen versions that I couldn't jump and pass them, so it became an interesting and fun puzzle.

Submitted

Interesting take on using your own clone to move on ^^ It fits well with the lore and all. I got stuck in the start as my bodies were already blocking me from moving on, a restart button on the same level would have been nice.

Developer

Hello, thank you for playing, and I am glad you liked the mechanic. There is a torch at the beginning of each level. You can press E, and it resets the level, but sometimes the frozen clones can block it. But I think a settings menu would be a good failsafe. Thanks for the feedback!

Submitted

Good idea 

Developer

Thank you! I am glad you liked it, and thanks for playing!

Submitted

I've seen a few games with this gameplay idea, but I really like the "frozen climber". Pretty art and nice job!

Developer

Thank you for the comment! I would be curious to know which games those were.

Submitted

Fun game, I love the music!

Developer(+1)

Thanks for your comment and also the composer here, I am glad you liked it, I was not able to finish it, but I am happy to know someone liked it!

Very cool idea for a platformer. I especially like that the time constraint of having 5 seconds to finish each level, and the fact you can block yourself and make the level impossible mean you really have to think about where you die. Sadly the jumping is a bit buggy which makes it frustrating when you mess up a level through no fault of your own. Fun little game though :)

Developer

Hello! Thanks for the comment, I am glad you liked it. Sadly, the jump was working very well in Construct 3 and only started failing on the itch.io version, but thanks for the feedback, I was also frustrated by it at it hahaha. Did you try holding the spacebar? It was supposed to work like Hollow Knight's jump, but it did not translate well here.