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A jam submission

The Hourglass of AnubisView game page

Steal hourglasses to escape the clutches of Anubis
Submitted by Alvin Philips, Tris Haf Games — 4 hours, 43 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Best Use of Unreal Engine 5#14.0514.750
Most Accessible Game#12.9853.500
Best Gameplay#13.4114.000
Overall#13.4824.083

Ranked from 4 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

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Comments

Submitted(+2)

Incredible work for such a short jam! The art is really great and the VFX, audio and UI are very polished. You guys were really smart and thoughtful with the assets you used to get the most out of the time you had. Gameplay mechanics are enjoyable and it's a great framework to expand upon further. I found the combat a little too challenging, with the enemies being far too aggressive in my opinion, but It's really fun to try and keep playing and get a higher score. 

Really impressive work as a jam game, I hope you guys consider working further on it!

Developer

Thank you :’)

We’ve been working on an update that adds some much-needed combat balancing and visual improvements. We’ll be sure to update it post jam voting period!

(+2)

Runs pretty buttery smooth, I love the VFX, and I love the music. The characters and guns feel very satisfying to run around and shoot with. The darts having physical bodies adds a lot to the experience as well. Enemies are challenging but fun to fight - I really appreciate the 3 different guns including the massive blaster RPG thingy - that was my favourite. Not to mention the banger soundtrack (it is way better with headphones so you can actually hear the bass elements of the track). I appreciate the screen vfx and the particles surrounding the pickup - I do think that lighting in certain areas is very harshly bright or dark making it hard to see enemies, and I would prefer some more artifiical lighting like braziers in the dark or something. I think it would be nice to have slightly faster projectile speed with the rifle and pistol because the enemies move around quite a bit. 

I really appreciate the bounce pads and its really funny because one time the game started and an enemy was infinitely jumping on it. I think the game should have time bombs, like an hourglass grenade you can throw that slows enemies. 

I'm not sure how much of the level design was done by you and how much came preloaded but it definitely worked for the purposes of the game mode. 

 Great work in such a short period of time. 

Developer

Thank you Ethan!!

The hourglass time bomb idea sounds excellent. We may add it in a future update (with credit to you, of course :)

Submitted(+2)

I think this is an endless survivor game, which is great for a 2 day jam plus the 5 hour extension. However, I might feel that the gameplay is just a tad bit too hard as enemies come at me at all angles and I basically lose health almost instantly just because of the enemies flanking me. 

The level design is amazing though.

Developer(+2)

 Thanks for the feedback! We unfortunately didn't have too much time to playtest and balance it, but we might tweak some of the numbers to make it easier in the future and make a few levels as well. Thank you for playing!!!

Developer(+1)

Thanks!! Sorry about the difficulty, we definitely wish we had more time/people to playtest.

Do you remember what your highest score was? I’m curious :)

Submitted(+1)

I think it was around 6

Developer(+1)

I see! My personal best was in the low thirties, but that was after a bit of practice :’)

Submitted

Nice