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A jam submission

Marionette-runnerView game page

Cut your strings, defy the puppeteer, and run for your freedom.
Submitted by rigo.martin — 12 hours, 10 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Enjoyment#2253.2353.235
Presentation#2303.3533.353
Creativity#2613.4123.412
Overall#2823.1883.188
Connection to theme#3053.1763.176
Gameplay#3212.7652.765

Ranked from 17 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

Discord name (multiple if team)
martin_ytb.

Game engine / program used
Unity

Connection to theme (short sentence)
You play as a little marionette doll trying to escape a dangerous workshop filled with other puppets.

Is this your first game submitted to a game jam?

Yes

This is my first game jam

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Comments

Submitted(+1)

Hey rigo.martin, I composed some thoughts for the game if you are interested:

  • The initial animation that slows the map is quite slow. I was confused if the game bugged out
  • I'd also like to skip the animation that shows the level
  • Took me awhile to realize you can use the parachute
  • I managed to bug the player animation so that it was stuck in falling
  • The enemy wandering does not reset when i get out of reach, they just get stuck
  • The camera follow makes me feel a bit nauseous, maybe its too snappy
  • I would love some vfx or sfx especially for when you get hit, that would give it a lot more life
  • Maybe I missed something but I didn't realize you can attack until I read the other comments
  • The animations for the characters are cool

Good job for your first jam!

Developer(+1)

Thank you! All of the controlls are in the descreption (with the attack, and the parachute). About the other things, I know I could improve a lot to make this game better. Thanks again!

Submitted

This is awesome! Others have already said it, but dang those animations are amazing! They almost feel rotoscoped. Great job!

Developer

The animations are rotoscoped.

Submitted (1 edit) (+1)

This has amazing animation, genuinely beautiful art here. The combat is simple but also really good and the gliding mechanic is really fun. I got stuck a few times on a few things but other than that, amazing game

Submitted

Very cool game! I really like the story behind it and animations look great. The combat is simple but still pretty good. I just wish my attacks had some knockback, or at least the whip, since I feel like it didn't actually provide enough range to justify using it.

I love the glide mechanic, but I honestly think the level design makes it too easy to escape with it because you can just keep gliding and skip the entire level, making combat completely optional.

There also seems to be a bug where the marionette gets stuck in an animation and you can't move anymore. To me it mostly happened at the edges.

Besides that, I had fun playing!

Developer

Thanks for telling me. I don't know why the animitaion bug happens I'm trying to fix it... I'm glad you liked it besides these "problems"

Submitted(+1)

Great idea for a game! I love the story of game so much. And the gameplay is fun as well.

Submitted(+1)

The movement is smooth for a pixel character. But it seems I got some bug here. I got stuck in this pose and cannot move forward or backward. It's on the bottom of the platform with cactus. I was dropped to the floor and try spamming jump and then got stuck like this. 

Developer(+1)

Thanks for telling me! I'll fix it after the rating ends,

Submitted(+1)

Fun game, would be great if there was at least one more level, but great work overall. 

Submitted(+1)

WOAH, that was SO COOL, I love me some Delphine style platformer games, SUPER hype and the animation looks AMAZING. PLEASE make this bigger longer and more time for me to spend in it I will pay 1 dollar per hour, please sir, I need more of this game. 

Submitted

cool game for a first time game jam, u could add some sound effects and music but overall pretty nice

Developer(+1)

I wanted to, but I run out of time...

Submitted

Really cool game

I can't believe that those assets are made by you because they are incredible

Developer

Thanks!

Submitted

i really like the animation style :D

Submitted(+1)

Animations have no right looking this cool :D Good job!

Developer

Thanks a lot!

Submitted(+1)

Cool game interesting theme glad to see something unique thats still fun =)

Developer(+1)

I'm happy that you liked it.

Submitted(+1)

It's cool to see rotoscoping in someone's game!