Loved the very pleasant visuals in this game, everything from the 3D models, UI, cutscenes, to level designs! Great use of dithering material to help with the camerawork too. It seems that the lost crumbs restore after returning them, so you could technically collect only the easy ones to win the game. Nevertheless, it was fun exploring the levels!
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THE CRUMBGEON's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Visuals | #5 | 4.769 | 4.769 |
| Audio | #158 | 3.692 | 3.692 |
| Theme | #220 | 3.769 | 3.769 |
| Overall | #289 | 3.564 | 3.564 |
| Gameplay | #710 | 3.077 | 3.077 |
| Enjoyment | #732 | 3.231 | 3.231 |
| Innovation | #841 | 2.846 | 2.846 |
Ranked from 13 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
How does the game fit the theme?
The Crumbgeon is a sweet yet crumbly adventure where you play as a macaron on a mission to rescue your shattered love. Navigate the scorching maze, dodge the cookie’s traps, gather all 7 lost crumbs, and piece your sweetheart back together!
You risk it for the biscuit (or the macaron).
What code and assets did you not make from scratch during the jam (if any)?
SFX are from a free library.
Materials for the portals.
The 3 Niagara effects (fire, hit and exhaust) are heavily modified but based on synty assets.
How many people worked on the game?5
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1 year ago(+1)
Hi,
Yes unreal like many softwares will use the resources available on your PC at launch to precalculate a lot of things, which is normal and not a problem; computers are made to use their ressources. Its only become a problem if the ressources stay stuck at 100% for a moment ( several minutes).
Also the load is only at the beginning, unreal release the ressources after a few seconds. The game have been tested on differents computers and I didn't see any problems, game runs smoothly on every rig I tried. If there is some issues during the game it might be issues on your side...
Anyway I'am glad you like it :)
Thanks for the clarification! Just to be clear, on my system the usage doesn’t drop after launch — it stays around 80–90% CPU/GPU the entire time. Other Unreal jam games don’t behave like this on my rig, so I don’t think it’s just a hardware issue on my end.
And please don’t take it the wrong way (the game is good!), I’m only sharing my experience. There’s really no reason a small jam game should be hitting the same usage as something like Horizon Zero Dawn, especially in the main menu, where nothing heavy is being rendered or loaded.
Of course, computers are made to use their resources, but ideally in proportion to what the software is doing. When a jam project uses as much as a massive AAA title, that usually means there's room for optimization
It's not game-breaking since it runs smoothly, but I figured I'd mention it as feedback. It might just be default Unreal settings (lighting, post-processing, etc.) keeping the hardware load unusually high.
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