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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Limitation | #86 | 3.214 | 3.214 |
| Polish | #140 | 3.000 | 3.000 |
| Overall | #172 | 2.929 | 2.929 |
| Art | #172 | 3.214 | 3.214 |
| Audio | #182 | 2.786 | 2.786 |
| Theme | #220 | 2.929 | 2.929 |
| Gameplay | #235 | 2.429 | 2.429 |
Ranked from 14 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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This game is really good, has a brutally solid game core loop with an innovative twist on gameplay and mechanics. Magnificent implementation tbh. It’s true it’s a bit hard, but that can be solved tweaking the hitboxes and separating the flowers a bit. Gotta work on the UI elements, add Settings to control Music/SFX and you're good to go. Congrats on this concept!
Thank you so much for playing our game :) glad you liked it , I've already implemented those changes but as you know we can't edit any game file till the jam ends
Hey! Awesome job with the game, especially getting it done well before the deadline! You make effective use of the theme with having to figure out how all of the elements affect you since the instructor is unreliable. It might be interesting to have those effects change on each run so every time you play is a different ruleset you have to figure out.
I do think the hits to health can be a bit unforgiving, especially with how large the player is, how close together flowers can spawn, and how close to the ground the flowers are. I found myself dying right away for the first few runs, and didn't get a decent cadence going until maybe 3-4 attempts in. I think a smaller character/hitbox and making the flowers just a little higher up + further apart would likely solve this, but overall more margin for error would be great!
Some little nitpicky things: the game elements continue to spawn after the player dies, not a problem but should probably stop. The "Play" button in the beginning could use a bit more feedback for hover/click. I find that UI elements should be pretty high contrast and obvious. The pollen/health bar doesn't start all the way up, which I found a bit odd.
Overall, it's a really cute game and pretty fun to play once you get the hang of it! These are just some thoughts, so do with them what you will. Hope you enjoyed working on it!
Thank you so much for playing this game , glad you enjoyed it :) I understand all the problems and I'll go right away fixing them thank you for pointing out the problems , It's was my first game jam soI was kinda nervous so I couldn't get any one to playtest it a bit maybe that's the reason I couldn't point out those mistakes.
Of course! Hey it was a really good game for your first jam! (definitely a lot better than my first lol) It's a learning experience and you get better at noticing things the more you do it. Feel free to hmu if you ever want someone to playtest!
How about we share discords ? - gamesman4058
Really lovely game! (: It's very fun to play! I struggled a bit when the flowers overlapped and it might be fun to have a way to control the direction as well!
Thank you for playing our game :) glad you liked it.
Lovely game. I really like the cute art style and the gameplay was simple and easy to play. I was able to go for 2m.
Thank you so much for playing our game💙 2 min wow that's a huge run :)
Flying costs too much, and when you start collecting pollen, the most normal thing is that there's no time to escape from the poisonous flowers, and also, when you hit space on the countdown before starting, you're already spending pollen
Thank you for pointing our the mistakes , I just couldn't playtest it properly in such short notice but I'll fix all the bugs in next updates :)
The flowers spawned too close together and I am bad at platformer type games. Cute concept! The losing screen made me feel a little less bad about being bad lol
This was pretty fun! The art style is cute, but the poisonous flowers being next to the pollinating ones made it quite challenging yet fun nonetheless. The two different colors of the flowers add to the difficulty, which, if intended, is pretty neat!
Cute game! Very clean looking, my highest score was 1m 24
Thank you so much for playing our game 💙 glad you liked it
This game is so cute!! I love how the limitation was implemented. The only issue I had was most of the time the nonpoisonous flowers were right next to a poisonous ones so it was very hard to get them. Other than that this game is so cute and might also make a super fun mobile game!!
Thank you so much for playing our game. I knew non poisonous flower being right next to poisonous is going to cause issue but I didn't have enough time to fix it but I'll make sure to fix it in next update💙
Mr Forgetful why would you mislead me like this
Very neat little game, nice work. My highscore is 2m 2s, also the music is great
Thank you for playing our game 💙Mr forgetful is not bad he.. just has dementia.. 2m 2s is great I should make a leader board here where everyone could post their high score