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A jam submission

Whirlpool JunkieView game page

Ride the whirlpools!
Submitted by Virgil's Wings, SpiraledOut (@spiraled_out), EvanAtreyu, seanut — 1 hour, 38 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Visuals#7573.6883.688
Creativity & Theme#8413.6883.688
Audio#11363.0623.062
Overall#13323.1753.175
Enjoyment#20392.5622.562
Seriousness#20632.8752.875

Ranked from 16 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

Game Engine

Godot

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Comments

Submitted

A tutorial would've been nice for helping the player understand the goal or mechanics. Lovely art though! Fun gameplay loop as well!

Submitted

The game is missing some kind of in-game tutorial. In the wheel minigame I managed to match the angle with the desired angle but couldn't get out of that screen unless I pressed ESC. Idk if that was the intended way of going out and I won or if it wasn't and I forfeit the minigame by doing so. Besides that the art is gorgeous, specially the characters, and the minigames by itself are fun.

Submitted

Wow I loved the drawings (expecially the characters) and the minigames! It took me a bit before understanding some stuff (like how to spin the wheel) but after that everything was crystal clear.  Nice work!

Submitted

Really liked the visuals on this! Especially liked the cast of characters with their portraits and descriptions.

Unfortunately, I did struggle a bit figuring out how to play. My first speed bump, my brain told me that "red X = bad" so I initially avoided it, but I eventually did try sailing into it.

After entering the whirlpool, I wasn't able to get past the wheel scene. I saw the Helm-Spinner mini game was supposed to match the coordinate, but it didn't seem possible to match exactly and straddling it didn't seem to do anything either. And I saw the Sailing Master mini game wanted me to press space bar in time with an indicator, but it didn't seem to do anything in this scene, and looking at the screenshots it seem like that mini game was intended for a different scene.

It feels like there's some really solid bones here, just needs some polish on the UX/UI and feedback.

Submitted

I really wanted to like this game, and it definitely has a lot of fun stuff in it. But its just so obtuse. The mini-games were fun and I loved the art (UI was a bit janky at times), but some kind of tutorial is needed. 

(Also Deltarune splat sound effect)

Submitted(+1)

Fun stuff!  Love the art and the whole concept!  Wouldn't have though to build something like this where it's a whole bunch of different mini games and characters based on spinning.

Developer(+1)

We were so inspired by the idea of tough whirlpool seeking pirates, everything just flowed from there. Felt like mini-games were a good way to represent the tasks on board and bring the characters to life! Thank you for playing!

Submitted(+1)

This was an odd one. It was a little unintuitive, but I loved the creativity and it was fun to see how many ways you incorporated the theme into the minigames

Developer

Thank you for checkin out our game! We appreciate the feedback.

Submitted(+1)

Very cool and fun game! Love the concept and very well made game!