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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Graphics | #4 | 4.667 | 4.667 |
| Overall | #17 | 3.972 | 3.972 |
| Gameplay | #30 | 3.593 | 3.593 |
| Audio | #38 | 3.370 | 3.370 |
| Authenticity (or, Creativity in use of resolution) | #39 | 4.259 | 4.259 |
Ranked from 27 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Themes
The ground is...
Team
Me and my two brothers created this game
Jam
I always enjoy taking part in LOWREZJAM. the limitations always push me to do something interesting!
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Really loved the artwork! The environments and sprites are really well made and the animations are great and easily readable for such a low resolution. I particularly like the way the sludge disappears once you solve the puzzle, it's a nice effect.
The music is very relaxing and works well with the no-stress/forgiving gameplay. SFX would definitely make this feel like a very polished game.
Great job!
Thank you very much! I spent a lot of time (probably too much) on the art and environments! And the sludge disappearing was a lot of fun to program, it required me to learn the marching squares algorithm.
We'll definitely be adding some SFX and additional polish soon now that the jam is over.
Thank you for playing!
Really nice game. I kinda got stuck on the second enemy as he didn't die when first hit and I couldn't find another rock. :'( I like the floor clearing effect, certainly SFX will add a lot when you get them in!
Thanks you! You're not the first person who's had trouble on that second enemy, I'll have to look into it and make sure things are working correctly. We're looking forward to uploading our post jam version, it makes some good improvements :)
Thanks again for playing!
I loved this game a lot. Excellent and cute graphics, great puzzles. Wish I didn’t get stuck falling in the water with the second (or third?) tree stump though. And while the title piano was mesmerizing, in-game audio would have made this complete.
Thank you very much! Yeah, honestly that water area is responsible for most of our soft locks... We'll definitely be addressing that and adding game sounds post jam. I hope you'll come back and give it another try when we fix it :)
Really charming game, the art is beautiful and the music is lovely as well. Would be nice to have some sound effects included, and maybe have the player movement a bit faster. I think I got softlocked the second time you had to throw a stone at the enemy, I threw it at them and it disappeared, and didn't respawn. Would love to come back and play a fixed version post-jam, because the world is really beautiful and it looks like a lot of love was put into this one!
Thank you! We'll definitely be adding sfx in a post jam version, I can look into player speed as well :)
Some of the later enemies have higher hp and you need to throw multiple rocks to defeat them, although I didn't do a very good job of portraying the enemy's health. Usually there is another rock nearby to help.
Thank you so much for the kind words, we'll definitely be posting some updates soon!
So cute and smooth! Really nicely done. Good job!
Thank you very much for the kind words :)
Super cozy little adventure, had ton of fun playing it, sadly got soft locked an hour into my playthrough, but hoping to come back and finish it! Cute grapics, interesting design space, well done.
Ah man, I'm sorry to hear that! There are definitely a few soft locks I overlooked when designing the map. When the jam is over we're gonna push an update that addresses all of them, hope you can come back and enjoy it then. Thanks for playing!
Super glad to hear, if you remember, feel free to ping me somewhere!
Really cozy adventure game! The atmosphere is great; the dynamic soundtrack is a nice touch and the visuals are top notch! Would benefit from some in-game sound effects to complete the immersion. All around great entry with some very creative mechanics and puzzles.
Thank you very much!
I definitely agree that some sound effects would have gone a long way, unfortunately the jam timeline caught up to us in the end.
Thanks for playing, I'm glad you enjoyed it :)
This is a beautiful and relaxing game. I enjoy the music and the sprite work a lot. It just feels like it is missing SFX. I was unable to finish it. I acquired the grappling hook / vine and wasn't sure how to use it to progress. Overall, this is a great entry!
Thanks for the kind words!
The SFX were an unfortunate casualty of the jam deadline, but we'll definitely be adding them post jam :)
The vine can be used to pull thrown logs out of the water so you can use them for different parts of the puzzle. Unfortunately there is a bug where the log sometimes loses its hitbox and can't be grabbed, so if you tried grappling the log and it didn't work that's our fault!
Thanks again for playing!
Such a lovely ambiance, it works super well even with such resolution !
Thank you very much! We've had a lot of practice in this resolution thanks to this jam haha
Really love your art and animations!
Thank you so much!
Amazing adventure, I loved the pixel art.
Thank you very much!
I loved your creativity in this game! I thought your creative graphics went well with your well designed music. Good job sticking with the LOWREZJAM theme of the ground is....Making the ground passible by bringing life thru the adventure of the game. Overall, It was a very fun game to play!!!
Thank you very much for the kind words :)
I managed to get up to the part of the level where the enemy was moving in a circle but got stuck. I felt the puzzle aspect of the game was a little slow and less challenging unlike Lode but I liked the vibe and artstyle of the game.
Thanks for checking it out! It's definitely a little more of an exploration game than a pure puzzle game like Lode.
Just out of curiosity, how did you get stuck? Were you soft locked without the item you needed, or something else?
Either way thanks for playing :)
Im not entirely sure if I was just stuck on the difficult part of the game or softlocked, I did end up throwing the lotus over the barrier which probably not a good idea.
This game feels so cozy, I love it! The graphics, the particles and effects, the music, the character, everything is just beautiful. Unfortunately I didn't finish it because I think I softlocked myself. I died while holding the stump and got stuck on the other side of the water :( But I'll come back to play it again for sure! Great game <3
Thank you so much for the kind words!
I tried to avoid soft locks like that, but I'm sure I missed a few during the jam :( We're planning to do a post jam update that addresses some bugs and things like that!
Thanks again for playing!
The art/music and overall atmosphere you guys created is very nice
Just wondering, how did you create the corrupted ground and its cleanup effect? Are you just removing tiles from a tilemap and updating surrounding tiles, or something else?
Thank you very much for the kind words!
The corruption effect is indeed on a tilemap layer, I used the 'marching squares' algorithm to update the tiles around the edges and keep the shapes looking good.
Thanks for playing :)
Really nice game. I encountered some minor bugs (you can glitch out of hollow trees when you grab items with the vine while inside, but nothing serious. Cute graphics, nice music. Only thing I missed where gameplay sounds.
Thanks for playing!
I hadn't encountered that bug yet, so thanks for letting me know! The sound effects were an unfortunate casualty of the game jam time limit, but we do plan to add some post jam.
beautiful game! great job, Loved the music :)
Thank you very much! We tried something we've never done, and made an adaptive soundtrack, so I'm glad you enjoyed :)
phenomenal art, great interactions, makes the noggin' joggin'.
Thanks very much! Glad you enjoyed it!
I really like the style of the game. Shows a lot of promise. lol had to restart once, got soft locked in the water area picking up a log while on it. Was able to get all apples in the end, Great job, keep up the great work.
Thank you very much, I'm glad you enjoyed it! We unfortunately found that log bug shortly after the jam ended so we'll have to wait to fix it 'til the jam ends. Good work finding all the apples, and thanks for playing!