Great gameplay! I love how everything you can do you in the game, you already have but just need the knowledge, very into that kind of game design. Some fiendishly tough rooms to tackle for the optional content, and very satisfying accomplishing the motions to complete it. I felt so bad about Boyhowdy lol.
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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Actually Fun | #6 | 4.211 | 4.211 |
| Overall | #17 | 3.829 | 3.829 |
| Sticking to the Rules | #20 | 4.079 | 4.079 |
| Covert Environmentalism | #20 | 3.342 | 3.342 |
| Skremplet Revival | #20 | 3.684 | 3.684 |
Ranked from 38 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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Absolutely loved this one. Very difficult, but incredibly satisfying when you get a room down. Took a playtime of 55:35.966 and 268 deaths, but I really felt compelled to collect everything, and enjoyed doing it.
After the struggle to master those rebounds, using one to disrespect Boyhowdy like that was the perfect reward.
Also, it's a smaller thing, but using Keener's Goblic Endowment as justification for them showing up everywhere to tutorialise is just a really nice little touch. Wonderful job!
Love this game! I think you did a fantastic job introducing new mechanics (great tutorial writing btw!), and I love all the optional collectables. Really elegant design.
A really well designed game. Many nice and effective mechanics that are all well implemented and work well with one another.
I wish when the tongue was available again was clearer.
But other than that, I genuinely believe this could be further developed into a full game.
It's pretty interesting to make a platformer where you can't jump. It works surprisingly well! It definitely would be nice to have some sort of visual/audio cue for the timing on the rebounds, though.
Really ingenious game mechanics! It's very difficult though. I had to give up on getting all the flies. I switched to objective survive mode. Glad to be able to complete it. I am curious what happens if you get all the flies. Really funny implementation of Boyhowdy!





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