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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Audio | #120 | 4.087 | 4.087 |
| Artwork | #973 | 4.056 | 4.056 |
| Narrative | #1006 | 3.454 | 3.454 |
| Creativity | #1584 | 3.883 | 3.883 |
| Enjoyment | #1824 | 3.536 | 3.536 |
Ranked from 196 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?
You have been cursed and only have 7 seconds left to live, Fight to survive before your time counts down!
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(Optional) What would you like to be called if GMTK features your game?
Zach Barshevsky
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Great art and a fun, simple scroller game. I wished for more of a reason to use the grappling hook!
I'm glad you enjoyed the game! I wanted to do more with the grapple, like letting you hit the boss with it, but you know how these 96 hour time limits are haha!
Love the intro to the narrative! The art looks amazing, although the font comes out a little hard to read at first; after a bit, I got kind of used to it, so it wasn't really much of an issue.
I didn't expect a downward direction in a game on this theme, but it was executed excellently, I have to say.
Overall, an amazing experience.
Thank you so much! I'm really glad you enjoyed the game! All the different artists and our writer really pulled through and helped make the game what it is now!
Don’t know exactly how the score is calculated but I did manage to beat all the levels!
The music is amazing, so many songs and they’re all bangers! The art is also quite nice, especially the background art + effects!
For the gameplay, I think the early levels are well balanced, but the later levels are a bit too chaotic.. imo there’s too many projectiles to properly dodge, so you end up just throwing yourself at the boss while spamming attacks (or at least that’s what I did..). If there was an air dodge, or if the grapple had iframes, then I think the combat could be a lot more interesting!
Overall I had a blast playing this one - great work to the entire team!!
Yooooo thank you for playing and even beating my game haha! I definitely would have wanted to make a more mechanically interesting boss fight, but of course with the extremely tight time limit I had to do what I could! The score is calculated by taking whatever amount of seconds + milliseconds you had left at the end of the level and then multiplying it by 60. The score would accumulate level by level, but dying and restarting resets the score to 0, so in order to get a really good score, you have to beat the whole game without dieing.
I did it that way because I wanted to include a "1 life" mode, but realised it would be way too punishing for the Jam, so I added this system so that when I'm playing the game myself I can have fun doing a score attack with myself haha, my high score as of right now is 1264.56!
The transitions and the intro to the game are beautiful!
I really like the music in the first level it's my favorite! I wish I could've listened to the last track, but I kept dying on level 6...
Overall, it's a great game! I really think the colors changing with the music is the most exciting part. The only thing I'd change is that you can tank a tone of damage by spamming your attack on the Time Monster.
I'm glad you enjoyed the game! I'll put out a video later of the whole gameplay for the people who struggled against the (admittedly unfairly) extremely difficult final boss haha. And yeah, the tanking and attacking I thought was kinda ok cause it feels like a crazy desperate fight, but if I had more time I would have preferred to make dodgable, and more fair attack patterns, thank you so much for checking it out though!
beautiful art and crazy music
thank you so much for your song, ABSOLUTE BANGERRRRR!!!!! and I'm glad you liked the game!
Super solid game! Fun to play, creative idea, sweet background art, I like that its seamless going from level to level too, makes you want to keep playing!
Thank you so much for playing and I'm glad you had fun with it! /profile/frost-nova did the background art and it turned out really amazing, it was a vertically scrolling image with some GameMaker effect layers over it, so it seemed super dynamic. And the seamless scroll was something I was really happy to have worked out, it really helped sell feeling of falling endlessly.
5*, I actually beat this game! Can you beat this game? Musics great, loud though. Might want to turn down your volume. GL reading the font, I couldn't. Orbs suck you in but the boss ate my sword.
I knowwww the volume controls were something I really wanted to get in, but the time limit was brutal! Thanks so much for beating the game! I'm glad you had fun!
The background art is really nice, those clouds look so lush. I liked the framing of the game, and fighting things sideways was a good change from what you usually see. Wasn't a huge fan of the enemy designs though
The background art is really nice, those clouds look so lush. I liked the framing of the game, and fighting things sideways was a good change from what you usually see. Wasn't a huge fan of the enemy designs though
Thank you so for playing my game! /profile/frost-nova did the background art image and it was a looooot of hours of work! The moving clouds were a preset GameMaker Effect, they look really great for something that only took a few minutes to implement!
Excellent execution, I had a blast! I wish there was some kind of charged heavy attack I could use to time my hits to.
Thank you so much! I wanted to do so many different things haha, combo attacks charge attacks more air movement, better boss patterns etc. but that time constraint was really eating at me! I'm glad you enjoyed the game!
Game is great as always brother. Well done ^^
Thank you so much!!! Things really came together on this one and it was a shit load of work to get it done! Having a big team to help carry the load really made a massive difference.
The music and background absolutely slapped
The music and background absolutely slapped
it really did haha! go show the artists some love on their pages! Thank you so much!
Was a fun game, enjoyed the music and the artwork!
Thank you so much! I'm glad you had fun!
Wow, awesome game! Killer soundtrack. Never seen a vertical-scrolling beat-em-up before!
Thank you! I'm really glad you enjoyed the game, and I'm extremely greatful to all the musicians who all put their all into it!
The game is fun, although I think later stages are easier because of all the rebound, which is very chaotic
haha I'm glad you enjoyed the game! I thought the chaos was really fun!
Very fun to work on this game, and test it out all the way, cant wait for next year!
yeah dude thanks for all the help!
Great game, I really like it's art
thank you so much! all the artists really did an amazing job and im so greatful for their contributions!
Really cool art direction and sound design, but the font is a bit hard to read
thank you for your feedback! and yeah it was more legible when i was playing in the full screen mode on my PC but when it got here i realised i kinda messed up there!
This is insanely fun dude!!!
thank you! I'm glad you had a good time!