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A jam submission

Courting ScarlettView game page

A very serious game about love
Submitted by practical-manatee — 8 hours, 49 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Creativity & Theme#4313.9713.971
Overall#9413.4063.406
Audio#9843.1713.171
Seriousness#10973.4293.429
Visuals#12053.3433.343
Enjoyment#12223.1143.114

Ranked from 35 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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Submitted

It was a very fun and creative idea! I do think the game was a little too fast tho, the spinning made me dizzy sometimes haha, but other than that, cute spiders (never thought I would say spiders were cute!) and great game!

Developer

Thank you for visiting and leaving a nice comment! We are super happy that you found our spiders cute. :)) We will definitely try to fix the camera, so it's more user friendly. :D

Submitted

Very cute and interesting concept. I liked the visuals, only negative thing is that the controls were kinda hard to get used to at first. Good game!

Developer(+1)

Thanks a lot for coming by and leaving a kind comment! We will try to improve the controls so that everyone can enjoy the game. :))

Submitted

Cool and unique mechanic. I had to stop at some point in the third? level because I got dizzy and disoriented but I love the idea of the perspective changing around with the little spider. The visuals are really cool. Love the spider design.

Developer

Thanks for coming by and leaving a nice comment! Oh no, I'm sorry to hear that the camera movement was dizzying, we will try to improve on either the speed or in general giving control for the camera. 🙈

Submitted

They always seem to play hard to get, but once you have your dapper little hat, and bouquet of flowers, no spider can resist your charms! <3
Great job making this game! If there's someway to make the wall physics work without rotating the entire world would be cool though.

Developer(+1)

Haha, thanks for playing and also for streaming, was fun hanging out! :)) We will try to improve the physics and also to fix the bug that you have encountered. :D

Submitted

Such a nice and polished game for the jam really well done no complaints 

Developer

Aww, thanks a lot for coming by and leaving a kind comment! :))

Submitted

Really charming concept, loved the intro narration and the little details like collecting flowers and the top hat. Controls are too jittery and hard at places to but the spider wall-climbing mechanic is a fun idea. Great work for a first jam! If you have time we would love if you could check our game!

Developer

Thank you for your kind comment! We will definitely try to make the controls much better after the jam, we already got some great ideas in the comments. :) Thanks for the recommendation, we have checked out your game in the meantime, quite complex one! :))

Submitted

This was a really charming game with a lot of heart. I loved the premise of trying to impress Scarlett, and the serious narration/voiceover at the start gave it so much personality. The spider art and animations were great too, and collecting things like flowers and the top hat was a really cute touch.

My main feedback is that the controls and camera could use some polish. The gravity/camera rotation felt pretty fast and disorienting at times, and the web swinging mechanic was a little hard to understand at first. Clearer control/objective prompts before each level would help a lot. Still, this was a unique and funny first jam game with a really cute concept. Great work! 

Developer

Aww, thanks a lot for your comment and for your suggestions! We will improve the guide after the jam and also try to make it less dizzying and disorientating. We also have big plans with the web mechanics, we will see how it evolves. By the way, absolutely loved your game! (But already left a comment there as well :D)

Submitted

Loved the serious narration at the beginning! The mechanics were unique and I needed some time to get used to them. I actually didn't realize I could swing from the web until after the 2nd level. I actually got stuck on the floating platform on the 3rd level, but I had fun!

Developer

Thank you for your kind feedback! Oh no, I'm sorry to hear that you got stuck, there is definitely a lot to improve with the controls... Hopefully we can get it more enjoyable and less frustrating after the jam. :)

Submitted

I loveeeed the premise and the voiceover! The controls are a bit confusing, , though

Developer

Awww, thank you! Next time we will definitely try to live up to the expectations more! Improving the controls is already on our todo list. :)

Submitted

Really good idea and concept! The controls were a little confusing, though. Maybe it would feel better if you could rotate the camera yourself instead of having it rotate automatically. Other than that, it's a great idea—and very romantic! :D

Developer

Thank you for visiting and leaving a detailed review! Great idea on rotating the camera yourself, we will definitely try around with that. :)

Submitted

To be short about the review:
+ Voiceover
+ Spider's feet are synced to the hihats
- Controls are clunky
- In the first part of the game you can go in the different direction and go out of bounds , restart is required, which is inconvenient
17/25

Developer

Thank you for the detailed feedback, it's very nice of you! :) It's great that you have reported this bug, we will definitely look into the issue with restricting our game area, and try to improve the controls.

Submitted

good game and ideas, but the camera spins way to fast 

Developer

Thank you for visiting and leaving a nice comment! We will try to improve the camera after the jam, so it feels more helpful and less dizzying. :)

Submitted

It was relly entertaining the controls are so weird but it is good uniqe only the camera change is so fast other than that it was really good well done

Developer

Thanks a lot for visiting and for your kind feedback! :) Many people mentioned that the camera movement was a bit dizzying, we will try to improve on that after the jam. :))

Submitted

Woah this game has some really odd-feeling mechanics, the gravity shift spins the camera way too fast in my opinion and has me feeling almost motion sick at times.

An interesting idea for a game though, keep it up!

Developer

Thanks for visiting and leaving a kind feedback! :) Oh no, didn't want to cause any motion sickness, we will definitely have to slow down the camera or make it controlled by the user, so it's not as sudden.

Submitted

For some rason I can't shot the web, I will rate this game later when I figure out what I do wrong!

Developer(+1)

Thanks for trying it out! The web is disabled on the first intro level. Or did you have trouble on the other levels? 🙈

Submitted

I couldn't get past level 1 for some readon,i tought that i had to shot the web to fibish it

Developer

Ah, sorry, definitely some improvement needed in the mechanics! You should be able to get through level 1 by walking up the tree and then basically sneaking in small steps towards the goal. :D

Submitted (1 edit)

I like the pixel art for the spiders, didn't bother me particularly but I know pixel art enjoyers can care a lot about mixels (differently sized pixels), font choice was a bit hard to read,  Camera rotated a bit fast for comfort, and I sometimes fell off a wall when walking in a straight line  - could maybe add a bit more leeway before you fall off. I liked the sound effect when walking and the platforming with the spider silk was interesting. Gravity felt a bit heavy, felt like I fell really quickly which made doing tricks with the web shooting tricky to time. Great job for your first jam! Getting cameras right is surprisingly tricky, mine was worse on my first jam.

Developer(+1)

Thank you for your kind and detailed feedback! We are quite inexperienced in game development, so it's super useful to hear about mixels and unfortunate font choices, but it all makes sense. :) We will definitely have to work a lot more on the controls and the camera movement to make it more user friendly. Thank you for all your suggestions, we will try around with them. :)

Submitted

The game was too hard to control because of the janky camera.... Still a good idea and a cool game

Developer

Thank you for your kind feedback! Yes, definitely there is room to improve our camera and controls, will jump onto the task after the jam. :))

Submitted

Loved the introduction, game is hard to control though, a little bit frustrating. Nice work, keep it up !

Developer(+1)

Thank you for your kind comment! We will try to make the control less frustrating and more enjoyable after the jam, we will see if we succeed. :))

Submitted(+1)

Loved the intro lol! the gravity switching mechanic was a bit janky, but still a very fun game with a lot of charm!

Developer

Awww thank you! We are happy to hear that you have found it fun, maybe on our next jam even the controls will be better 😆

Submitted

This was quite an interesting (in a way that i enjoyed) spin on the swinging/grapple mechanic

Tho i do have to say that the camera completely rotating everytime you climbed on a wall was trippy af xD
If you didnt wanna fall, you just had to tip toe your way around corners or you'd just fall of due to the speed

The web swing/spin mechanic was a cool idea but due to the zoomed in camera it was a bit hard to see where you were gonna stick to (IF anywhere) more often than not, Id just shoot the web based on where the platform would be after a jump based on intuition. So suggestion 1 would be to zoom out the camera atleast when you are spinning 

Also, another thing, when you are spinning and jump off, it seems that you CAN keep the momentum of the swing (even if a little) but due to the camera rotating, it can just lead to you pressing the key of the opposite direction and cancel all that momentum.. Like say you are swingng and let go of the web line when you are upside down.. Suddenly the camera rushes to reset the orientation and so the right left arrow key u held while upsidedown to go right now takes you to the left (if that makes any sense xD)

I like the mechanic, but i feel it can be polished a bit

Other than that, I always appreciate voice acting/narration in jam games lmaoo And you guys did great with that!

I loved the different stuff we got to collect in order to impress scarlett, tho
I just tried it again to see what would happen if i didnt collect the stuff and went to scarlett.. Turns out she only appears once you get the stuff haha

Oh btw, spider art and anims were GREAT! I saw u guys used other assets and while im not at all against it and do it myself.. But it seems there was quite alot of visual difference between the assets you guys used.. Like each level looked completely different with no consistent visual style.. While im not great with that stuff either i did notice that :P

Overall the game was reallly good, it has its problems but i liked the way you implemented swinging and spinning.. The controls were a bit wonky but nothing you cant fix in a post jam update ig. I really appreciate the voice narration for the story and ngl i wish it was present at the end of each level. Speaking of levels i wish there were MORE levels. It felt like the game ended right after i got the mechanics a bit under control. (Do keep in mind, players wanting more is a good thing :))

Also saw this was you guys first game jam, so congrats on finishing it and getting such a great ready right in your first jam! Keep it up guys!

Developer

Haha, thanks a lot for this super detailed feedback! :)) We can definitely learn a lot from your comments and make the moving and swinging experience a bit less trippy 😂 Especially as some of your suggestions sound quite easy to implement with a big benefit. :))

On the narration side, we actually wanted to add proper cut scenes between all levels, just ran out of time. Maybe we can add them after the jam. 🤔

Thank you for coming by and for your kind comment! :)

Submitted

Ohh, if you go end up doing a post jam update, feel free to reply here and Ill be glad to try it out :D

and Im glad u found some feedback useful :)

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