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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Theme Implementation | #2 | 4.467 | 4.467 |
| Gameplay | #4 | 3.933 | 3.933 |
| Overall | #4 | 3.928 | 3.928 |
| Audio | #5 | 3.967 | 3.967 |
| Fun Factor | #6 | 3.800 | 3.800 |
| Visuals | #6 | 4.367 | 4.367 |
| Special Object Implementation | #55 | 3.033 | 3.033 |
Ranked from 30 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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You use an ancient whistle granted by your tribe, to freeze yourself and create the foundation for future tribes people to make it to the top of the mountain.
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this is amazing, can't believe it's your first game! it looks and sounds great, has a really great mechanic. love it :D checkpoints very much appreciated haha (though I get they're more necessary for the freeze mechanic than just a lifeline for bad gamers lol)
Wow awesome!! Everything is done so well and it was so fun figuring out different paths with the ability. Would love to see more of this!
thank you for playing!!!
Amazing art ! Very cool intepretation of the freeze theme. I feel like the fall speed is a bit high and a little coyote time would make the jump a bit less frustrating. But still very impressive work for a first game.
already fixed in my patch XD I totally agree, waiting for the jam to end before releasing lol. Thank you for playing!!
Very good, for the first ever game it's crazy impressive. I appreciate the frequent checkpoints, because I was spending a lot of attempts on some places (and usually giving up after a dozen of those and just spam frozen corpses to create a bridge). Graphics are very nice too. I like how when the credits roll you can see the point from where the snow is emmited lol
lol yes I meant to have the emitter track the camera but totally forgot as it got closer to submission time! Thank you so much for playing!
Funnily enough, this is also my first jam and game, and one of my original ideas when brainstorming at the start was pretty much exactly this lol. Loved it. I'll keep it in mind to play when you update it. Great job! I liked how there was an alternate, faster solution if you figured out earlier than you have to that you should use yourself to climb up a section (that sounds so obvious reading it back but I got caught up in using myself in the water because of how you introduce the mechanic). I was gonna say I'd like to be able to get rid of blocks (froze one on top of the first spawn point that was a bit annoying), but I see ur already planning on working on that.
Also loved the art!
thank you so much for playing! I’ll give your game a play when I get home today. Yes 100% the soft lock will be fixed here soon XD and that’s a good idea about how the mechanic is introduced! I’ll keep that in mind and make an adjustment for that in the coming update. <3
I really like games where you cooperate with your past self, and I loved how this game made that idea feel like a natural part of its Freeze theme.
The background, realistic snow, and calm BGM all worked together to make Freeze something you could feel throughout the whole game.
I also liked that the game seemed to offer alternate solutions from time to time, which helped me keep playing all the way to the end. Thanks for making it
thank you so much!! I really appreciate your feedback!
Awesome, can't believe this is a first for you! Definitely the best submission I have played of the 20 or so!
thank you so much!! I highly recommend Tang & Tootie OS if you haven’t played them yet, they’re really good!
Played them both! Both are great. Tang was a miss in some areas for me, TootOS was more of my vibe.
This is really fun! had to brute force the game lol since i feel like the fall speed was too fast for me. But for your first game jam its soo good!
I totally agree! I forgot to implement a max fall speed so it just keeps accelerating ;-;, plus the gravity is pretty harsh. Regardless thank you so much for playing!!
First ever game?!?! That was amazing! The art, the sounds choices, the mechanics...I don't typically play platformers but I really enjoyed this! Absolutely incredible first jam submission, great job!
Thank you!!!
I loved the art and was impressed by some of the visuals/ and mechanics. Like the fires lighting up for checkpoints when you make it there. Climbing worked great and art/music was peaceful and easy on the eyes. Nice cozy platformer!
Thank you for playing!!
WOW, that was BEAUTIFUL art. Even though the characters are super simple, they fit with the whole environment. And you don't see a climbing mechanic often in platformers, and it was well implemented and everything felt very polished. Great job!
thank you so much! I’m not much of an artist, so it’s tough trying to balance simplicity with an aesthetic style, I’m really glad you liked it!
Congratulations for your first game !
I had a great time trying to figure out how to move forward, and I love the amount of polish for such a short time.
Congrats again !
thank you!! <3
Wow it's gorgeous! Well done! For your first game jam you knocked it outta the park! Good luck on your developer journey!
thank you so much! To you as well!
I really like the way you used the freeze mechanic of the theme. It all felt very natural and smartly designed.
thank you! I did notice that the whistle directly freezing something definitely was a common vibe of the jam 🤣
Really neat climbing mechanic and smooth platforming, ambient is also very warm ironically enough (because the poor guy must be freezing), good job!
thank you for playing! And yeah I agree 🤣
Really love the pixel art and music in this game! You've done an amazing job!
Tutorial is well built into the game and everything is quite intuitive
thank you for playing!! <3
This is great! Might be my favorite one so far. Showed my coworkers this morning too, and they liked it a lot! Good job! You should be proud
thank you!!! <3
Nice little game ! The game fell of the he jump is a little bit heavy, but ontherwise the game is very good. I especially like your pixel art !
Thank you! I agree 100% on the jump ty for playing!
Great game! The graphics are great and the concept really hits it. It's a little bit creepy when you think of it of using your dead self to go through a level but otherwise, great idea! Tutorial is very efficient. I struggle quite a lot with the platforming but managed to get through it. I wish there was a way to destroy blocks because I softblocked myself -_-'. Also a nice addition would be to push the ice blocks. Congratulations!
I worried about the soft lock too but ran out of time 🤣 I def plan to release a small update adding some more levels, fixing the platforming and adding the ability to push the blocks around. I think I spent to long on misc things and didn’t focus enough on the actual gameplay, lessons learned though!