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Magic Magnet Mania - Stop The Mystical TreeView game page

Katamari Style Roguelike - Absorb Objects And Grow!

Submitted by PLASTUS, Reygun, ecki0006 — 1 day, 1 hour before the deadline

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Criteria	Rank	Score*	Raw Score
Story	#25	3.917	3.917
Music	#40	3.792	3.792
Fun	#87	3.708	3.708
Sound	#137	3.333	3.333
Overall	#140	3.625	3.625
Mechanics	#156	3.458	3.458
Aesthetics	#237	3.458	3.458
Theme	#369	3.083	3.083

Ranked from 24 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

How many people worked on this game in total?
Three (Plastus, Reygun, Ecki)

Did you use any existing assets? If so, list them below.
Magnet Collision SFX made by freesound_community taken from Pixabay; Doom Button made by Colt; Wizardus Maximus by madtrollstudio; Glass Dome made by grimmotron; Sign made by Pasindu.Anjana; Bookshelf by Billy Jackman; Arcane Accessories by Gamedev.tv; Farm Buildings by Quaternius from Itch io; Free-bush-3d-low-poly-models, free-environment-props-3d-low-poly-models taken from: https://craftpix.net/; (More detailed credits with links can be found in the games description)

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Hallow GamesSubmitted112 days ago(+2)

Great game jam game, I enjoyed it! Cutscene and aesthetics were cool. Played the web version. I couldn't more with the mouse after I first loaded the level but when I exited and returned, it started working.

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harounhgSubmitted113 days ago(+2)

Fun game! reminds me of donut county

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SatinelSubmitted113 days ago(+2)

Love the intro sequence!

Very Katamari Damacy, much fun.

The web version was very laggy so I opted to download the Windows build. Things were going great, until I held down the domain expansion at around level 10. The sheer number of things I pulled in crashed the game.

Without the hungry eyes (or gluttonous eyes or something-or-other) upgrade I had a lot of trouble judging what I could and couldn't pickup. It felt like plenty of things I was allowed to grab in the beginning, like candles, were definitely larger than I was, visually.

At a certain point, it felt detrimental to have a large magnetic aura because I was picking up a lot of tiny objects which didn't do much to increase mass, but did constantly slow me down and prevented me from getting to juicier targets.

I liked the music and how it escalated as size increased (or time diminished? Maybe both.)

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Animal Connections

DayaSubmitted113 days ago(+2)

Web version was giving some problems so played the windows one as per recommendations, Nice story intro, It was fun floating around collecting things, Music is great too, Nice work on the game.

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SkyRaptorianSubmitted114 days ago(+2)

Great game. The opening cutscene was a really good way to quickly show the story.

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Limited Connection

SpideySenseiSubmitted114 days ago(+2)

I loved the cutscenes they really helped in building up the gameplay. I also really liked the gameplay. Watching my magnet slowly get bigger in the backdrop of a farm was a lot of fun.

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Miri Can't Sleep

VisualImpactSubmitted115 days ago(+2)

Loved the cutscenes, especially the "mexican stand-off" bwetween the tree and the button in the beginning. Didn't really catch on to the gameplay but that is a me-thing. The mouse control felt a bit un-precise at times and I managed to get stuck a couple of times (at least I couldn't get free after trying for 5-10 seconds), but strill impressive to get sp much going in the limited time for the game jam.

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piratekingSubmitted115 days ago

linux build get’s stuck at this stage. the web build just points upwards and i can’t do anything. so can’t comment anything gameplay wise, but i love the initial cutscene and bgm. well done.

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PLASTUSDeveloper114 days ago

I'm sorry to hear that :(

I don't really know what the issue with the linux build is. I sadly don't have a linux distribution to test the issue atm :(

I'll try to fix it and get back to you.

For the web build: What do you mean by "points upwards"? Is your mouse trapped by the game and but you can't move it?

harounhgSubmitted113 days ago(+1)

I downloaded it too and yeah it also freezes however running it from the terminal gives these errors:

ERROR: No loader found for resource: res://03_Assets/Visual/3D/KayKit_DungeonRemastered_1.1_FREE/KayKit_DungeonRemastered_1.1_FREE/Assets/textures/uploads_files_2071355_Hand+Painted+Grass+Texture/Stone_Height.tga (expected type: Texture2D)

at: _load (core/io/resource_loader.cpp:358)

ERROR: Can't load dependency: 'res://03_Assets/Visual/3D/KayKit_DungeonRemastered_1.1_FREE/KayKit_DungeonRemastered_1.1_FREE/Assets/textures/uploads_files_2071355_Hand+Painted+Grass+Texture/Stone_Base_Color.tga'.

at: parse_variant (core/io/resource_format_binary.cpp:459)

ERROR: Failed loading resource: res://.godot/exported/133200997/export-dc5401557cd055c9e3dfe30c281322b5-grassmaterial.res.

at: _load (core/io/resource_loader.cpp:343)

ERROR: Can't load dependency: 'res://01_Scenes/Objects/GrassStuff/grassmaterial.tres'.

at: parse_variant (core/io/resource_format_binary.cpp:459)

ERROR: Error when trying to parse Variant.

at: parse_variant (core/io/resource_format_binary.cpp:503)

ERROR: Failed loading resource: res://.godot/exported/133200997/export-82a8f12a71db8751a2abf025b9b92ba2-opening_cutscene.scn.

at: _load (core/io/resource_loader.cpp:343)

WARNING: ObjectDB instances leaked at exit (run with --verbose for details).

at: cleanup (core/object/object.cpp:2641)

ERROR: 6 resources still in use at exit (run with --verbose for details).

at: clear (core/io/resource.cpp:810)

Also I noticed that the linux version is 30 mb smaller than windows and mac maybe "opening_cutscene.scn" was corrupted in the linux export? since it is mentioned in the error log. The windows version work through wine tho

AmorindisSubmitted116 days ago(+2)

Wasn't quite sure how to tell if something was small enough to pick up, but it was fun to play! Unfortunately my graphics card crashed when I did a domain expansion and pulled a bunch of stuff at once lol

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Hexbound: Powerfall

SecretRealityLabSubmitted116 days ago(+2)

Got a bit lost in the beginning, but little by little, got the vibe. Nice game .Well done!

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Eyebrows EyebagsSubmitted116 days ago(+2)

Never trust mustached trees!

I had a lot of fun with this one, once you get some mass it quickly turns into chaos!

I've played the web version, worked with no fail for me, except the magnetic aura when moving was barely visible.

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Strings Attached

PhilXDSubmitted117 days ago(+2)

Interesting game, reminds me a lot of katamari. The starting cutscene was really funny.
I didn't really feel like I was making connections to stuff, but more I was just consuming.

The environment was fine, especially for a jam, but it would feel better if there was some structure. Usually buildings don't just stand around randomly, but are next to roads, aligned. Maybe those roads connect to some open spaces, you get the gist. The current state is perfectly fine for a jam, but if you want to improve the game further, that might be worth looking into.
I also found some issues. First I had some issues with performance (and I did try standalone). When I looked some directions the performance really tanked, and reducing render distance didn't change anything.
This probably wouldn't have been too noticeable, if it wasn't for the framerate influencing the mouse movement.
Did you multiply the mouse movement by delta time? Because usually the mouse input is already the delta mouse movement from last frame to this frame, so multiplying it by delta time would square that, and accelerate the mouse on lower framerates, which is what happened in your game, which is why that would be my best guess as to what happened.
The grass seems very wet, it might be better with a little more roughness on that material.
I like the powerups you added, they add a lot to the game, and add some replay value, to find the other powerups.
I did find out that pressing c opens a cheat menu, and I tried using all powerups at once. It worked fine until I did domain expansion, that crashed the game. But that wouldn't happen in a normal play through

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PLASTUSDeveloper116 days ago(+1)

Thank you so much for your detailed feedback! It will be very useful when fixing the game. Especially the part with the mouse movement! I did this in all my games so far and that might fix issues for me even in future games :)

bugseidSubmitted117 days ago(+2)

Love the little cutscenes. Gameplay was pretty fun.

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Ossi_05Submitted118 days ago(+2)

Really fun game with a cool idea. Good job :)

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IncrediBroSubmitted118 days ago(+2)

The Best Epic Cutscene Ever!! Loved the setup!! Would love to try it out again with more polish. also initial moving speed could be better and the webgl version was lagging a bit. Great Entry regardless!!

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fritzofallfailsSubmitted119 days ago(+2)

I love Katamari-like games! Good job! I had some performance issues at the beginning, but it got better later

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PLASTUSDeveloper118 days ago(+1)

Thanks for your feedback! :)

Could you tell me what kind of performance issues? I‘d like to fix them :>

fritzofallfailsSubmitted118 days ago(+1)

Just some lag freezes when moving the camera fast, maybe because of how you show objects in view. And if you absorb objects, there are some frame freezes. Maybe a preload problem?

crabsmackSubmitted119 days ago(+2)

katamari roguelike immediately grabbed my attention :-). very slick main menu and the intro cutscene was very fun

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Sam KnightSubmitted119 days ago(+1)

Killed it!! I had an issue running the windows build (stuck at 0% after hitting new file) but it honestly ran fine in the browser for me.

Bit slow at the start but once it gets going it's very addicting to just start absorbing everything lol. Fun little power ups and good connection to the theme!! Great job :)

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Date Me, Please

PLASTUSDeveloper119 days ago

Thank you for your feedback! I will try to upload a fixed version :)

PLASTUSDeveloper118 days ago

Hi, once again thanks for your feedback! I found the bug and now uploaded a fixed version of all files. The executable version should work like a charm now :>

YGENSOFTSubmitted119 days ago(+1)

Liked it, was kind of hard at the beginning to know which objects were lighter than you (in term of mass) but the loop is interesting :)

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