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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Sounds | #32 | 3.542 | 3.542 |
| Overall | #37 | 3.625 | 3.625 |
| Theme relevance | #48 | 3.750 | 3.750 |
| Graphics | #52 | 3.667 | 3.667 |
| End-of-life plan | #52 | 3.833 | 3.833 |
| Fun | #69 | 3.333 | 3.333 |
Ranked from 24 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
End life plan
The game will remain available as a self-contained downloadable build. It requires no account, authentication, developer-run server, analytics, remote assets, or online leaderboard. Saves and ghosts remain local and can be exported as readable JSON. The complete editable project and preservation manifests will also be archived, so the game remains playable if the original page or developer support disappears.
Transparency note
AI tools assisted with programming, debugging, testing, documentation, and some text editing. All output was directed, reviewed, tested, and revised by the developer. Narration is originally recorded, asset provenance is documented, and the cover was generated programmatically from the game’s authored shapes and palette rather than with a generative image model.
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Very fun game!
Seriously, I like it!
What a creative take on the theme! Extremely meta which I love, a game after my own heart so to speak!
Voice acting is always fun! You did a great job as the narrator. I felt there was quite some delay between the things happening and the narrator describing them, like the events and narrations are added into a queue and doesn't interrupt the previous voice lines.
I appreciate the satire too! I've been part of a great many game jams, and visual novels and stuff shooting at you really is popular and they are pushed in every game. I thought I saw you mention in the Discord that this was your first game jam? Keep at it man, this is sick! If you can't make an amazingly polished game, you make an interesting or funny game. This is actually decently polished and interesting and funny! The trifecta. Keep jammin!
The game was really fun, the graphics were a little blurry tho. Btw i liked the game! :D
Being a zip file called "final_FINAL_v7_ACTUAL.zip" is the most accurate joke anyone who has ever done a game jam will read all week. And you drew the thing: a little zip with arms and legs and a face. Ridiculous and lovely.
"The jam page IS the level" is a genuinely creative bit of level design thinking. Climbing from #1061 to #1 as a platformer, with other people's ratings as the obstacles, is an idea that could only exist in this specific jam. That's the sort of premise that wins categories.
The stationery presentation is beautiful too. Everything looks like post-its and notebook pages taped to a board, the title in black and purple serif, a crooked red stamp reading SUBMITTED JUST NOW, a dotted bar running from #1061 to #1, and the menu as coloured notes. The LOCAL SCORE SLIP panel reading like a receipt fits perfectly. And there's a button called PRESERVATION sitting in the main menu next to Settings and Credits, plus a scoreboard that says "Verified by this device", local, no server. Even without playing I can see you thought about the theme beyond the joke.
And here's my problem: I couldn't start it. Not START CLIMB, not PRESERVATION, not any other button, single or double click. Same diagnosis as several entries here, the play area only occupies the top band of the window with the rest black, which points to a canvas at a higher resolution than the display and clickable areas offset from where they're drawn. The note text is also tiny, so I couldn't read the mode descriptions.
Of every premise in this jam that I failed to actually play, this is the one I was most annoyed to lose. "You are the submission zip climbing your own jam's ranking" deserved to work. If you patch the canvas scaling, reply here and I'll come straight back and rate it properly.
Thank you, seriously. This is an incredibly thoughtful comment, and I’m glad the ridiculous little ZIP landed properly.
The game has been working correctly in Chrome and for the other players I’ve heard from, so this appears to be a specific iframe/display-scaling edge case rather than the build failing universally. Your description of the canvas and clickable areas scaling differently gives me a strong lead.
Could you tell me your browser, browser zoom percentage, screen resolution, and operating-system display scaling? I’m going to harden the canvas resizing and input conversion either way, and I’ll reply here when the update is live.
very original idea, nice work
Love the concept and narraror and the art and everything. only gripe I have is that it's a bit hard to tell what is hitbox of things is.
I will second this. My opinions on this are glowing, but there were times where I jumped and got knocked by an unknown something
I loved how you tied the theme into the game!
loved the concept, really original, and the narrator is great!
Tis a vibe and Very meta little ice climber like! Fantastic art direction!