This was really fun! The setting kind of reminded me of how no man's sky starts, and I really enjoyed finding the resources to fix the ship. The Puzzles were really great. I loved the area transitions, those were really cool. I also really like how the areas connect in the end. One thing that I found a bit annoying was the objects that block the player. I think you should make the hitboxes for them a bit smaller, so it won't hit them when it seems you aren't that close to them.
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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Audio | #9 | 4.087 | 4.087 |
| Graphics | #11 | 4.609 | 4.609 |
| Accessibility | #17 | 3.761 | 3.761 |
| Overall | #17 | 3.851 | 3.851 |
| Controls | #20 | 3.870 | 3.870 |
| Fun | #27 | 3.891 | 3.891 |
| Originality | #39 | 3.804 | 3.804 |
| Theme | #145 | 2.935 | 2.935 |
Ranked from 46 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Godot Version
4.6.3-stable
Theme Interpretation
mutate blocks, mutate the world itself to progress
Wildcards Used
Disassembly Required
Demolish break or otherwise disassemble things
Discord Username(s)
squabbler
GWJ Participation Level
This is my 2nd GWJ
Team Size
2
Generative AI Disclosure
I confirm that this jam entry does not contain any AI-generated content
Comments
It's funny about the moveable hitboxes, because originally they were the same size as the block itself, but I changed it to be slightly smaller. However, I do agree that they should be even smaller than they currently are. Also, I think part of the accidental bumping is because the character is sliding too much. Thanks for the feedback, and thanks for playing!
86 days ago (+1)
Originally I had the character waking up around 4 rocks so it was impossible to not move one. But I thought that looked off, so I removed 3 of them, hoping that players would bump into it to see that you can move them and have an ah-hah moment. So that's partially on me for not designing it in a way that made sense or forced the interaction.
The transition effect is a couple of different things working together. Firstly, it's not really a cube. The transition is just taking screenshots of the current and next level, placing them on a quad, positioning those quads to represent a cube rotation, and rotating it.
As for positioning the player on the next level, I made a node called Door, which represents a way to get from screen to screen and it's just an Area2D with a player spawn Marker2D, but it has two variables that controls where to take the player (level and direction - left, right, up, down). This allows me to find the doors on the next level and position the player at the door which points to the level they came from.
Send me a msg on discord if you'd like some more information. Thanks for playing and commenting!
Yeah I had the character controls setup in a way that I could adjust the ground stickiness and acceleration, but I guess I got too used to it when testing features that I didn't think to adjust it for polish. I have an update ready to go once voting is done to address that and a few other things. Thanks for playing!
88 days ago(+1)
Hey, thanks for playing... twice! I had to get some help on how to design puzzles that were simple, but also fun. Glad you enjoyed it, and found the mixtape.
I originally had 3 rocks around the player, to almost force a bump into one. However, it seemed too much and didn't look right. After changing it to one rock and one tile away, I was doubting that players would accidentally run into it. From the comments I can see some players didn't realize you could move rocks from the start, and some did (which I assume could be accidentally hitting the placed one, but could also have been just seeing the gun and wanting the item). All that said, it's good to know that design decision helped someone.
Thanks for playing!
89 days ago(+1)
Oh interesting, I never considered that TAB would toggle between the Sound sliders hahaha - thanks for playing!
89 days ago (+1)
Thanks for playing! The cassette on the island in the swamp is optional, but can be grabbed later after you trigger a larger event. So yes, kind of a secret since it's optional.
The writing for the monologue could have been much better, but it's what I got for the jam on top of everything else. It originally was going to be an adventure log to track everything, but I couldn't design a solid way to show it, so I went with the monologue and simple items UI. Thanks for playing!
89 days ago(+1)
I'm thinking instead of only rocks that someone else pointed out, all moveable objects are ignoring OOB colliders, which is just a group setup mistake. Thanks for playing!
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