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A jam submission

Paws to the StarsView game page

Find your friend on the roof!
Submitted by Ellimity (@ellimity) โ€” 8 hours, 27 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Art Style / Visuals#162.8572.857
Gameplay / Fun / Engagement#182.6432.643
Theme#202.6432.643
Audio / Sound Design#202.4292.429
Overall#212.5712.571
Creativity / Experiment#262.2862.286

Ranked from 14 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 go stargazing!

Game Engine?

Godot

Game Engine / Tools (Other)?
Piskel for pixel art

Self-made & used stuff?

Homemade Graphics/Art (e.g. models and/or textures)

Have you joined a game jam before?

Yes

Roughly how much time did you spend developing? (in hours)
10

Anything else you'd like to share about your game or development process?
This game was made by some awesome kids + game dev tutor Ella!

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Comments

Submitted

This is cool. I like the dog character. I do have some minor suggestions that maybe you already considered, but didn't have time to add, since there was a decent attempt at polish in this game:

  • Add a jump sound effect. (Missed this on my first platformer too and it really improves the game.)
  • Add jump visual. Even just squishing the character slightly upon jumping can make a jump feel more natural.
  • Sound effect for taking out robots, maybe a visual of them fading or flashing white before they disappear.
  • If you only make one change, add more than one life or at least some checkpoints so you don't have to restart from the beginning if you bump into a robot right before the end of the game.
Submitted

I had fun playing the game! The sounds were amazing, and it was really cute and well made, especially considering it was made by kids , thatโ€™s really awesome! Keep it up! 

Submitted

We love that kids were involved in this process -- it's such a cute game! Very enjoyable and simple. We enjoyed this game alot :)

Submitted

๐Ÿถ๐ŸŒŸ THIS IS SUCH A CUTE LITTLE GAME!

I really enjoyed the retro-style platforming and pixel art — the dog is adorable ๐Ÿ˜‚ and the whole game has that classic early-platformer feeling. For only 10 hours, this is honestly a really nice achievement, especially since it was made by the kids! ๐Ÿ‘

I also really like how the stargazing is the reward at the end. Reaching the roof and finally finding your friend under the stars gives the game a really wholesome ending. ๐ŸŒŒโค๏ธ

If you keep developing it, Iโ€™d love to see more sound effects, especially dog barks, and maybe let the player attack while moving to make the platforming/combat feel smoother. A few more lives or checkpoints could help too.

Huge congratulations to Everett, Ragnar, West and Ella! You guys did a great job! ๐ŸŽ‰

And if you have some free time, please play my game too and leave me a review! ๐Ÿ™โค๏ธ Iโ€™d really appreciate it.

GG and keep making games! ๐Ÿพ๐ŸŽฎ๐ŸŒ 

Submitted

Pretty retro-feeling game and nice graphics! 

Submitted

Fun little game! Here are my thoughts after finishing the game.

Gameplay: Good platforming is difficult to make, but with some polish you'll get there. There were some technical glitches (jumping when moving up or down a slope didn't always work), and some design decisions that I would do differently (more than one life). As it is it reminded me of early 90s PC platformers :)

Graphics + audio: again- strong early 90s platformer vibe. Graphics were readable and the dog animation was cute :) As for the audio- background music was ok, but adding more sound effects (barks) would be nice.

Theme: I liked how you made the stargazing the reward of the game. Finding my friend at the top of the roof gave me a warm feeling :)

Over all- I had some fun with this one. Keep up the good work (and the kids too)!

Submitted

Tell the kids they did an incredible job!  The art and audio were very good and the platforming felt good.

Submitted

Little nice platformer. One suggestion is being able to attack wihle moving cuz it was hard. Good job

Submitted

Yea, the game isn't like anything I've played but it's fun in its own way, Great honestly 

Submitted

Yea, the game isn't like anything I've played but it's fun in its own way, Great honestly 

Cute! good job!