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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Presentation | #9 | 4.689 | 4.689 |
| Originality | #27 | 4.295 | 4.295 |
| Theme | #73 | 3.984 | 3.984 |
| Fun | #155 | 3.410 | 3.410 |
Ranked from 62 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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You play as Byrnkill, a demon figure skater fighting for her freedom by doing INSURMOUNTABLE VIOLENCE against the agents of ice and empire that inhabit hell's lakebed of frozen oil.
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Awesome cinematics and incredibly impactful visuals. INSURMOUNTABLE VIOLENCE has never looked so slick !!
lmao, when people were asking me what kind of game i wanted this to be, i literally said something like "i want this game to be about doing an incredble amount of violence"
no clue what I'm doing and there's a bagillion things happening at once but heck yea bruda this slick as hell. I like the artstyle a lot
HELL yea, glad you gave it a shot! it is supposed to be kind of overwhelming. you gotta be just as overwhelming >:3! it's ok though we're making a better version rn
What a slick atmospheric game. I had NO idea what i was doing though!!! Great game.
hell yeah, thanks for playing pokeninjaguy! great to be your jam colleague again this year.
the objective is mostly simple though. kill them before they kill you.
controls are on the menu but not for keyboard bc i'm a dummy 💀💀
i mean, i got the "kill the enemies" part, but i wasn't exactly sure how LOL
HOLD DASH!!!
DASH THRU ENEMY!! FULLY CHARGED WILL GIV BIGGGGG HITSTOP AND EXTRA JUMP HEIGHT
JUMP TO JUMP OVER PIG
HOLD LOW KICK TO KILL PIG
AT HEAT 4 HOLD DOWN YOUR SNAP
WHEN U LET GO WATCH THE CRAZY SHIT HAPPEN
!!!!
high kick is good for clearing columns out of ur path :] only accessible at heat 3 and up
ah gotcha cool. I love the presentation and the movement is very slick!
ty dude! that means a lot coming from a team as slick as yours 😎
Ah, so that's what the "Presentation" category is for. Took me a while to get it but I'm very glad I got there.
let's gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!
You are a master of theme, setting, atmosphere.
Unfortunately, the game had some performance issues on my little potato laptop, but it was fun skating around as Byrnkill. And I love the enemies. Very cool game!
thank you so much, honorable battlenaut 🌹 i know u are busy but i may play ur game so that i may bask in ur yearly offering
The art style is really cool, and I love the voice acting in the cutscenes! The sound design in general for the cutscenes made them feel really intense and immersive. I am really confused on what is going on in the gameplay though, I just kind of spam buttons and not really sure when I take/deal damage or how I die.
thank you! yeah i'm glad people like our reads, i was pitched down a bit for the intro but bvssic backed it with cinematic music and did the read for the end.
every input that you use can be held down, but for the dash you'll want to hold it to full charge for the most dramatic effect. at heat 3 you get a high kick that clears out the pillars and at heat 4 you get a snap that does an AOE that obliterates all the enemies around you. the jump is an attack that cuts through a lot of enemies and keeps you safe from the pigs on the ground. the pigs can basically only be taken out with either dash or low kick and stab you on contact. your heat level is also your health, and an ice spear being stuck in you means you took damage.
It is really impressive to see what you were able to get done in such a short period. Unfortunately, I got to this a little late, so I don't have too much to say beyond what's already been said. Absolutely astounding presentation, but it's a bit hard to get a handle on what's going on, and the cutscenes (while great to watch) further lengthen the time between attempts. I hope I don't come across too negative here; I understand that these issues are likely the result of crunch and can be easily resolved. Overall, great work!
ahhhh! sorry, you can skip those with Escape or Start! i wanted to have a prompt but all the UI stuff was done at the last second. and yeah the amount that got done was a consequence of an intense crunch cycle lmao. my body wouldn't let me sleep a full eight, it just kept getting right back up and onto the grind. thanks so much for playing!
Wow cool! That style and music is really unique want to hear some lore about this world.
lmao, the lore is the united states of america 🫡🚩🦅💣💥🧊🛢️⚰️⚰️⚰️⚰️⚰️⚰️
lmao wow nice 💀
This game is super rad! I absolutely love the style. It kinda reminds me of Devil Daggers a little bit, which I love.
Dashing around the stage feels super great. The sound design is really insanely good. Super well done on that.
It took me a little bit to understand the game but reading the comments here helped with that. I'm not sure I understand the point of high kicks. Is that just to clear the pillars littered around the stage? I feel like I was able to make do with dash and low kick and sometimes snap. Eventually I was able to get up to heat 16. It sounds like the boss is bugged so I assume that's about as far as I can get.
Really awesome stuff though. I'd love to see more of this. Well done!
haha, it's funny, bc one of my jam partners said about the same, but i've never played things like devil daggers or hyper demon but that's what it gets compared to! my audio team was goated, BVSSIC has a lot of audio engineering expertise and HC1 provided some good starting samples that he processed. so for instance, we took advantage of sidechaining in the godot audio bus to make the audio duck underneath high-impact sounds like the snap attack or the dash.
the high kick was my way of clearing a path through the pillars yea! but we're gonna be revisiting the moveset. thank you for giving it a shot!
Very visually stylish game with some pretty wild scoring.
It was a little hard to tell what to do or what was going on my first go around, and unfortunately when I died, the screen faded to black and then the game closed which seemed pretty rude. On subsequent playthroughs, that didn't happen.
There was an airborne enemy that kinda kicked my ass quite a bit on my first few attempts, but strangely once I got the hang of it, they didn't spawn anymore on the following run. I'd like to see maybe some more visual clarity on the hit radius of some of the attacks, especially the kicks and the snap it was kinda hard to tell what I was and wasn't hitting in the heat of the combat.
Overall some slick movement in both the sliding aspect and the dashing and jumping and training enemies around!
yeah! thank you so much, there were a lot of design considerations and conveyance that slipped through the cracks because of how hard we were crunching 😩
Absolutely understandable. Still a super slick product as it is, you guys did awesome!
I was so excited for this one watching it develop in the Discord!! The presentation is spectacular, moving is smooth, and the idea is so unique and feels special. Thank you for making and presenting it!
ohhhh! at least one discord admirer! i'm glad you were interested! i hope you'll visit the steam page once we get it off the ground, we're going to hit it hard and try to get something even better out.
Now thats what I call presentation! The game looks and feels incredible although I do think the objective and abilities of the character could be communicated a bit clearer. The Sounddesign and Cutscenes are really amazing!
hell yeah, there was loads of care put into the direction of it 🙏thank you!
Thank you!
Intense and well done cinematic intro video, death video, and finishing video with great voice acting.
I noticed you can skip over the intro video but it would be nice to be able to skip over all videos (incase you end up watching them multiple times).
The audio is definitely engaging and well synchronized.
it is a bit hard to understand the objective of the game from the initial get go.
I would love for Keyboard+Mouse input information not just controller input information, once you go to controller though it's much easier.
Having some tooltips for each of the abilities to understand what they do would be great too!
A quick tutorial where you just go on a murdering spree without too much punishment would be awesome to get people into the thick of it and ready to play the proper mode.
There is a HP -9999999999 value for the heat when dying.
Mostly small issues I noticed otherwise the meat and bones of the game are solid and banger cinematics/voice acting, super surprised the team pulled this off within 9 days.
LOL yeah i was burning at a few different ends for this, appropriate for the subject matter. sans audiovisual assets though this was mostly a solo dev thing, BVSSIC was really supportive and helped hold my hand through hooking up the audio and keeping me focused there, but it really was mostly just me getting up whenever i got up, working far too late, and sleeping far too little. by the end i lost five pounds, my body went into starvation mode after a three-day stint with 1200 cals and ten hours of sleep between them, and i had hundreds of files hooked up. the animations were also all done by me, though i used what i had with the models bc all the models that are animated use the same base model. even the hawks, they're just the dogs but with huge stretched hands and more birdlike motion.
if i had another coder on the team i'd have been freed up quite a bit to address all those other concerns. was really suffering trying to fit menus in near the end so yeah i didn't have contextual control schemes. the heat being -9 trillion or whatever was just me making absolute sure the game goes to death state, as well as communicating to the player that they've reached death state bc i didn't make it very obvious when you're dead. so it's just a funny holdover that i kept in 💀the cutscenes are skippable though, including the death screen! in this version of the game it's actually preferable to skip the intro because there's a bug that makes the start menu inaccessible if you play out the whole cutscene, which is annoying asf.
also, i voice acted the intro and the ending of the game, if you saw it floating around the comments! BVSSIC did the death monologue, and processed both of our reads to fit them into the tone of the game. i'm glad people like my voice acting, BVSSIC's been around the block doing audio for short films and stuff but it's actually something i've taken an unexpected amount of pride in for this game.
thanks so much for the feedback! i'm glad you enjoyed yourself.
Incredible theming and execution of an epic concept! I had a lot of fun playing this! I can’t wait to see what else you come up with!
my entire itch repertoire is kind of like this 😌or at least half of it is LOL the other half is shitposts
Felt like I was playing inside a machine girl song
ayo! that feels like an incredible compliment but i haven't listened to much of them 😭but now maybe i should 🌟〰️🌟i was actually listening to Blood Cultures on loop for a lot of this
The intro cutscene was absolutely phenomenal, the vibe it set in place everything, just SPOT ON! text, art, models, ambience chefs kiss! the gameplay was fun and entertaining, sliding around and learning what the abilities! I did crash after killing a couple enemies but overall awesome experience! great job :)
OH NO
yeah i gotta go back to the drawing board on the performance, everything you kill breaks into like 50 pieces even though there's an ice chunk cap, but it was important that they be dynamic for the gamefeel i was going for blasting through ICE enemies💀i am glad everyone seems to like my directorial abilities, though BVSSIC really pumped it up with the audio engineering done on my monologue!
Aesthetic was on point. Really captivating. The game play I found a bit hard to navigate. I kept hitting the edge of the map and losing momentum only to be bashed into dust.
lmao damn, yeah i wanted to make an appropriately cinematic and simple tutorial, but that fell by the wayside because i actually crammed a boss into the game in the final few hours 💀
Absolute cinema. This is crazy impressive and the atmosphere is incredible. I was actually jumpscared when the large enemies were barreling towards me. Please release a version with a tutorial so I can figure out how to play lol. Great work
that's awesome 😭 thanks so much! yeah we're planning on polishing it up and putting it out there on steam, hopefully the dev cycle is short
Let me know when you have the page up. Best of luck!
Very cool art direction, inspired by Skate Story perhaps? The movement and the versitile skillset work great in the game, but the gameplay is so chaotic I didn't know what was happening half of the time. It was fun mashing buttons though. Overall a really fun experience.
yo ozmaister! we haven't chatted since big trouble in little garden! how's it been?!
it's funny you say that, our server just did a monthly games club thing with skate story, and i am usually pretty aware of my inspirations. sam eng was actually made aware of my community because one of ours made a fangame so he could smuggle someone in to vote on skate story for the monthly game🤦skate story 2 by sam eng 2 music by blood cultures 2. we've breached containment 😩
anyway, it's actually more that i share common inspirations with skate story. there is ONE thing that i put in that was a conscious nod to it, which was that there's a subtle moon trail coming off the horns on your head. but other than that, i'm really big into soulsbornes and anime, like evangelion, which informed skate story directly. evangelion-coding is in like everything. it's insane.
yeah sorry about the tutorialization! one of the first things to go in a lot of jams 💀
Thats kinda funny that your community has grown so big that people are trying to influence it from the outside 😅. Now that you mention it, I can see those soulsbourne and anime vibes your game aswell. I think the chaotic feel does not come from the lack of tutorialization, but more about the readability of the enemies.
I've been pretty good. I have participated in game jams every once in a while and one jam game ( Organ Donor Delivery ) was even played by Jacksepticeye 😊.
Love the look and feel of this game! It was cinematic from top to bottom. The music meshed perfectly with the beatdown you were dishing out. This game really makes you feel like a magma ice skater tearing down the ruinous visage of of the United States drowning in their oily aspirations. Great game!
hell yeah dude! glad you had a good time with it 🔥this country is one of the most perverse institutions of all time and it's been heavy on my mind lately. hard to feel safe in it!