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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Use of theme | #3 | 3.929 | 3.929 |
| Overall | #7 | 3.229 | 3.229 |
| Presentation | #10 | 3.286 | 3.286 |
| Art & Audio | #10 | 3.357 | 3.357 |
| Gameplay & Enjoyment | #10 | 3.286 | 3.286 |
| Use of prerequisite | #24 | 2.286 | 2.286 |
Ranked from 14 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Ziva
Yes
Was made with Ziva
GameMaker
No
Wasn't made with GameMaker
Easel
No
Wasn't made with Easel
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The art is really nice, and the balance between staying alive while also preventing the tides from destroying your castles is an interesting dual-focus challenge that incorporates the theme well
thank you for your feedback :)
Excellent entry, I love your art style, easily one of my favorite entries in the jam!! Y'all absolutely nailed the theme and prerequisite; being made of sand and having to fight the tides while they slowly erode you was perfect. The punch animation is spectacular and the death animation is super cool too. There's lots of great bits of juice/polish like the slight camera zoom when building a sand ball or the impact feel of the melee attack. It's a really great jam entry, awesome job y'all!!
hey artist here, tysm!!! appreciate it <3
Fun game. Nicely balanced.
Nice game! i like that detail when you are submerged in the water 🌊🌊🌊 🦀
The theme matches the gameplay really well. The enemy movement speed might work better if it ramped up a bit more slowly at the start.
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I like this game I like having to repair the castles it took me way to long to realize that you can stash the sand-balls it became a game of managing those. I wish the melee attack was more controllable like the Don't Starve together system would fit well the attacks should be kite-able overall I really enjoyed this one thank you!
Thanks for the feedback! We do have onboarding in the first playthrough, where it says you can pick up sandballs and throw them. There’s also a UI showing how many you have. Maybe you accidentally missed the onboarding or something?
Yeah I saw the on boarding where it says you can and did that but then assumed that you cant get more than one so i would not be picking up sand balls between spawns. Just glue eating from me 💀
This game is hard, but with some more balancing to the crab spawn rate and seeing your health this can be a really good game! I like what you have made so far and the art style is cool. Great work
Hey, thanks for the feedback! Yeah, seems like most people are saying there's something a bit off with the difficulty balance, tho it probably shouldn’t be that hard
Could I ask what your first experience was like? Was it annoying/frustrating, or more like "alright, just a bit hard" kinda feeling?
I usually play using both sandballs + melee together while constantly running around, so it feels pretty manageable to me… but well, Im the dev lol. I think maybe new players don’t really realize how much they need to use both mechanics together early on.
I will definitely make sure to balance things better and make future games easier to get into next time :)
Thanks again for the feedback!
The polish this game has is great, rn the difficulty needs balancing, even if i just hold and gather sand balls all the time when the game starts its still feels like the enemies are too much to handle and at some point the melee just stops being effective and i die trying to dash and run around...
The game is cool, but in my opinion, the crabs appear too quickly.