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A jam submission

Winding DownView game page

Wind up the toys, count their steps, and watch out for the Count's tower!
Submitted by Brayan Oliveira, EduSpode, nschos, Gr0ss_16, Vinicius Saliba — 1 hour, 2 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Artwork#13873.8973.897
Creativity#22123.7593.759
Audio#22903.2413.241
Narrative#26932.8622.862
Enjoyment#28233.3103.310

Ranked from 29 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?
Wind up the toys, count their steps, and watch out for the Count's tower!

(Optional) What would you like to be called if GMTK features your game?
Nachos Team

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Comments

Submitted(+2)

Level 7 definitely had me thinking it wasn’t possible for quite a while before I finally put the final pieces together. Glad you left the note about level 3 or I might have spent a fair amount of time questioning my sanity trying to solve it. Otherwise, I really like the idea of winding up a clockwork toy as an interpretation of the theme!

I did run into the bug where the spikes fail to raise/lower when you step on a button. It seems to happen whenever you restart the level while a button is currently held down. Wanted to mention in case anyone else gets stuck on this.

Developer

Thanks for the feedback!! We really appreciate that you liked our puzzle idea and that you enjoyed some of them despite the bugs hehe  :]

Submitted(+1)

Fun and clever puzzle design! And I really like the cozy art style. :)

Developer

Thanks! First time trying pixel art and I'm really happy with the results <3

Submitted(+1)

I love turn based puzzles. This was quite fun, tho I would've loved a better introduction to the mechanics but had a ton of fun nonetheless!  

Submitted(+1)

Quite fun puzzle game and artstyle!

Submitted(+1)

Cool puzzle! Cute visual style.

Submitted(+2)

The art is very pretty, well done!

Submitted(+2)

The pixel art is absolutely gorgeous

Submitted(+2)

Amazing quality of the game, great puzzle game.

The clockwork mechanic is so clever

Congratulations on your submission!

Submitted(+2)

Great puzzle game and cute artwork! Even if the sequence at first showed the gamplay, it was a bit tricky to first figure out what to to. But reading the explanation helped and once you understand the concept its a really fun game. I will come back to play some more, it is a solid game and interpretation of the theme! Awsome work!

Submitted(+1)

10/10 Game of the Year

Submitted(+1)

cool game! the art is really good and the winding mechanic is interesting to explore more

Submitted(+2)

I was genuinely surprised by how pleasant this game felt. The pixel art is absolutely charming, and even though the levels are quite small, everything looks polished and inviting. The environments, interface elements, music, and overall presentation create a wonderful fairy-tale atmosphere.

I also really enjoyed the puzzles. I got stuck on level 13 for quite a while and even thought it might be impossible, but then I remembered that you can press a button while the character is still moving. Realizing that felt very satisfying.

The only thing that noticeably affected the experience was a bug where pressing a button would sometimes fail to retract the spikes. Aside from that, the visuals, audio, and puzzle design all felt very well made. I spent around 15 minutes playing, possibly more, and I may come back later to finish it.

Developer(+2)

Wow! Thanks for taking your time to play our game!! 

Reading this warms my heart! Thank you so much for taking your time to carefully review our game, your feedback is precious to us!! We will definitely go back to fix the bugs and make the game more polished <3

Submitted(+1)

Cool game! The puzzles were interesting, and I really liked the art! Shame that it had a few bugs though.

One thing that would have been, would be the ability to cancel a wind-up. I could only reset the whole level if I made a mistake.

Developer(+1)

Yeah... It was a shame that it had a few bugs! It appeared in the crucial moments lol xD

Thanks for the feedback!

Submitted(+1)

Love the polish and slickiness of it ! A bit more of a tutorial would have helped, but great entry !

Submitted(+1)

Despite some bugs you're aware of, this is a very charming game and I had a lot of fun playing with it! The explosion sounds are fun lol. Really like the art as well. 

Submitted(+2)

Pixel art is absolutely amazing and very polished I loved it, especially the coffin UI on the left side.
Too bad the gameplay is a bit broken but overall it's a fun idea and I enjoyed it!

Developer

Thanks! Yeah... We got a lot of problems in the last hours of development and with it we got a lot of bugs T_T

We're happy that you liked other aspects of our game, thanks! <3

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Developer(+1)

Thanks!! It was a chaotic process but we really like our little puzzle child <3 

Submitted(+2)

Similar to the other comment, the puzzles were fun but the keybinds were a bit finicky. Overall really good :)

Feel free to rate our game if you get the chance, it's another puzzle one!

Developer

Thanks!! We'll have a look

Submitted(+2)

Pretty stiky to learn, the input are not well defined in the tutorial session, but the game contains interesting puzzles! Really well done!

Developer

Thanks for the feedback! Really appreciate it.