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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Gameplay | #845 | 2.324 | 3.000 |
| Innovation | #938 | 2.152 | 2.778 |
| Theme | #997 | 2.324 | 3.000 |
| Enjoyment | #1023 | 2.066 | 2.667 |
| Overall | #1033 | 2.080 | 2.685 |
| Audio | #1067 | 1.807 | 2.333 |
| Visuals | #1205 | 1.807 | 2.333 |
Ranked from 9 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?
There are floating island, things are not in right place and size. What weirder than this?
What code and assets did you not make from scratch during the jam (if any)?
All made from scratch and by myself except for most sound effects, royal free by Pixabay
How many people worked on the game?1
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Ok this was REALLY well made!
The puzzles, the mechanics..
The puzzles were clever, the cam mechanic was mostly pretty polished
Do keep in mind, i really liked the game, but i do have some nitpicks :P
- The controls, Im not a big fan of needing to use E,F and "P" they feel very odd, id have prefered if i could just use the mouse for that stuff
- The cam mechanic was done well, but it sometimes felt hard to control, like me putting the focal to max but then the mushroom was right in front of me, It was hard to get the placement right with no support to place that stuff on. And.. if you place it bymistake looking at the horizon and too far away from your reach, you just cannot get it back. Now you gotta reset ALL objects. Id appreciate if you could get only a single object to reset or a way to get it back
- The subtitles moving on their own.. The subtitles work as the tutorial/how to play here.. And there being no way to access them after they disappear can be a problem.. Say i wasnt paying attention when something came, or wanted to read the stuff again to better grasp the mechanic. That is impossible rn as i could not find any menu that showed me the tutorial again
- Also, using ESC to pause in the web version.. I see everyone doing this, but it also takes you out of full screen and brings up your cursor again. Also, idk if you know, but unless in full screen, part of the viewport does get hidden
- The sfx that plays when in polaroid mode while hovering an object.. oMG it blasts your ears away :sob:
Im glad there was an option to turn that off, but still, Id love to see a better sfx for that :)
Also, all the bars in the settings menu are at 0 but still plays sounds, just a minor visual bug i saw
Other than that, you really just need to give some touch ups to the visuals and this will be even better!
Overall I liked the puzzles you setup, the mechanic was well crafted but I wish there were some more unique twist or addition to it.
Anyways.. This, by 1 person is seriously respeectable! You managed to get soo much right all alone
Dont let the small stuff bother you, they are just nitpicks you can improve on :)
You did great!
Thanks a looot, this is probably the best comment I have ever had, as it is the most sincere and complete in all its sides, good and bad. I did music the last day so I had to out the sounds as they were and the volume of each si very different, also I struggled a lot making the Polaroid system at first, then once it was working the main problem was that since the object resizes the further it goes our eye doesn't perceive it's and even by tricking the values perceiving the distance was still imposible, so I added the frame to take part of the problem away. At the start I wanted to make a stand alone tutorial for the game but I have never made it and also had absolutely no time, so I implemented the dialogues for this. Anyways thanks a lot, next time I will think better about the controls and dialogues and minor things like this one.
Now I'm working on an horror game (for the pizza doggy's 4 jam) but 1 wee has almost passed and I have worked almost less than 4 hours.
So I will try my best on this and every challenge to small these little things.
Next time will focus more on fixing UI things like setting.
Also I am kinda new to game development (about 4 months) and making polished mechanic which (at least for me) are complicated is difficult, but I am trying my best to improve
Hope you can read the message and thanks a lot for trying the game Nd the awesome comment, it has been good for me.
Haha, the music makes sense and really isnt big deal, I usually also leave audio for the last day and suffer the consequences xD
Ohhh btw I did see that frame and that definitely helped alot to figure out the size of the object, Ive seen similar mechanics but there, the world is a confined space, so its much easier to gauge the size of objects without any changes on its size on screen from your perspective and that also makes it easier to move them around.
Here, the game taking place over the definitely made it harder for you. But the way you solved those problems is commendable. I probly couldnt have gone nearly as far as i got without the frame signifying the size of the object.
Anyways, good luck for your next project and make sure to have fun! :D
And i cant belive its just been 4 months in for you
This mustve been such a complicated project for you. Id say, just being able to submit this in a 7 day jam with 4 months of experience is a HUGE deal!
Working solo, in 3D, with a complex mechanic. And then you managed to get some settings and music aswell. Hats off to you!
Keep it up!
Thankssssssssss
Good little game. The concept reminds me of other puzzle game (I don't remember the names). The sound when you watch a mushroom with the polaroid is killing me. Please make it less loud at least.
I cannot edit anything now, the jam forbids it, but I will pay more attention next time
The audio sometimes kills your eardrums, otherwise cool idea.
Thanks a lot, I think you are referring more to the sound effects than the track (that for each you can set the volume) anyways thanks will take it into further consideration in the future and with more time. Hope you liked the tracks
Nice concept, similar to "superliminal".
Thanks a lot, I would have liked to do more about floating things but didn't have time and enough inspiration so it ended only in greek style
This is a unique concept for game play, would love to see what you could do with it with more time and polish!
Thanks a lot
I loved the idea! A nice take on the use of spacial features
Thanks, I tried my best for what I could do
Interesting design
Thanks, glad you liked it