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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Theme | #3 | 4.625 | 4.625 |
| Horror | #6 | 3.625 | 3.625 |
| Gameplay | #7 | 3.000 | 3.000 |
| Overall | #8 | 3.542 | 3.542 |
| Creativity | #10 | 3.500 | 3.500 |
| Presentation | #12 | 3.875 | 3.875 |
| Story | #15 | 2.625 | 2.625 |
Ranked from 8 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Which Theme did you choose?
Polar Expedition
How did you implement your chosen Theme in your game?
The story takes place amid snow and ice, where the player joins an expedition and faces the horrors lurking beneath the frozen surface.
Did you implement any of your Theme's Bonus Challenges, and if so, which ones?
Land of Ice and Snow: The game features a footprint mechanic, and the player’s movement speed varies depending on whether they’re walking through deep snow or not
Does your game contain AI-generated assets?
No
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Comments
wow this is truly unsetlling! Feels a bit like Dune meets the Terror meets Lovecraft, congrats!! The visuals are impressive and you really succeeded in creating a sense of dread, survival and loneliness. You really got the nightmarish polar expedition vibe right...and these creatures and how they attack are super scary, geez!! 😀
Nice idea for a snow creature and how the game sets them up. It's quite unsettling seeing an NPC go down suddenly and having to continue walking knowing those creatures are lurking somewhere and not understanding exactly what will trigger them to attack.
The snow depth trail system is cool and the way the creatures can push the snow up and you can see their trails coming is a nice sequence. I like the randomness too where the events are different each time, I tried a few times to save an NPC by sticking close to it and saw that they sometimes get quite far. The lighting also is very good with the way the sunlight glares through the mist.
Cool premise! I was a little confused at first because I didn't realize the mouse sensitivity was so low. I saw it on the settings but didn't realize you had to hit O/P and was clicking on the letters like changing the resolution. I later saw the controls on the Itch page and was able to actually move the camera.
I enjoyed seeing the "horrors lurking beneath" and I love the walk animation. They have such presence as they trudge through the snow.
Good job!