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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Narrative | #388 | 3.875 | 3.875 |
| Artwork | #1204 | 3.958 | 3.958 |
| Enjoyment | #1340 | 3.667 | 3.667 |
| Audio | #1403 | 3.458 | 3.458 |
| Creativity | #2225 | 3.750 | 3.750 |
Ranked from 24 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
How does your game fit the theme?
The game features a count (Count Dia Mond, the vampire cat bat) going down into the earth to search for jewels, where she must find them before a countdown reaches zero.
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Pastacat Studios
Comments
Very cute! I liked it a lot! I didn't pay off all the loans, though.
I'd suggest using a key other than ESC to pause, since ESC takes me out of full-screen mode. (maybe that's a mac thing?)
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UNIDENTIFIED COUNT - DOWNReally fun and silly! My only real complaint is that the time limit is too short and bones are too hard to collect a lot of, so I never really went back for upgrades (I just didnt have enough time or bones). I think making upgrades cost less, bone blocks giving more bones, or faster base movement could have helped. Other than that, great job!
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Zero TimingSo cute! Love the overall aesthetic and I always appreciate a cat main character. Nice job
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Twilight TrackerArt, story and gameplay! Very impressive :) I really like the mining and upgrades, makes me think of old mining flash games I used to sink hours into as a kid. Awesome stuff!
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Robot MathsThe game ran kinda poorly for me but thats to be expected with most html builds. I Liked the art and concept a lot.
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Jiblet CivilizationTHIS IS SUCH A CUTE GAME
The art direction, music and little chats between Dia Mond (wait oh my god i've just realised the name is a pun when writing this) and Lia before each day were super charming, the characterization and personalities of both characters really mesh well together (even though their personalities are basically opposites of eachother lol)
The bones only giving 1 per dig and not carrying over multiple days kinda stings though, i ended up having to play through the last level with like zero upgrades (since i could just go straight for the gems in the previous levels) and it actually took me two or three attempts of just grabbing every bone i found for upgrades to get enough speed to get back up to the surface ^v^
I like it though! The gameplay could use more stuff to do/decision making when digging (do i go for bones or gems is pretty much the only decision you have to make with the jam build) but everything else is amazing !
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Like CogworkI loved the artwork at the begnning sequence and through the game in general. I don't know if this was just for me but whenever I would mine a cell the music would slow down which was really annoying, except for that very nice.
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The Countdown TimesLike the game play loop very much but progression feels a bit slow same goes for the default bat speed but really neat game and drawings.
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Do You Even Love MeI did many runs getting to the bottom without remembering the bat mechanic, but once I did I had fun. I especially like the whole "self made race" at the end while going up. I do think resources should carry over between days, both for game and narrative reasons.
Props to the music too, very catchy. I did have one issue, which is in fullscreen you exit with ESC, but the game also uses ESC. So I had a moment where I was stuck trying to unpause.
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