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A jam submission

Trash PlanetView game page

Submitted by Devious_Oatmeal (@Devious_Oatmeal), cisco_the_vile (@ciscoraglandjr) — 53 minutes, 52 seconds before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Gameplay#942.3574.250
Graphics#1002.3574.250
Audio#1041.8033.250
Overall#1042.2534.062
Authenticity (or, Creativity in use of resolution)#1072.4964.500

Ranked from 4 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

Themes
I tried to incorporate every optional theme, and succeeded! :V
Well... Some might be a stretch, but y'all can be the judges of that.
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[Time Is A Construct] - You use your score (Sentence Reduced) to construct the upgrades.

[Save. That. For. Later. Or… Die] - If you don't plan on how you collect the treasure, you may regret it. So save some for later to keep your steps high, else you'll die!

[Pattern Recognition] - The map is always the same, and you need to recognize it plan your moves, or waste steps scanning, and enemies have special patterns.

[Biological Restrictions] - Upgrades are biological. A bit of a stretch though. lol

[Obey The Game Master] - The Warden has given you a set number of steps to use, else he zaps you. Take too many, and you die.

[Fugitive] - You've escaped from prison, and found yourself in a bittersweet situation.

[Gotta Go Fast] - If you take too long to get to the treasures, you'll die!

[Seeing With Sound] - Use your sonar to show the treasures hidden underground! But it only shows for a limited time!

[You're Not Allowed To Win] - The Warden has stricken a deal with you, but they will never let you out. Not after what you know. Highscore chaser.

[Cleanup Crew] - Part of your sentence is to clean up the monsters in the area that keep stinking up the place. Lore-wise, you're also part of said cleanup crew when you escape.

Tooling
Gamemaker 2
Been using it for years!

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Comments

Submitted(+1)

Really enjoyed the game! The visuals, opening dialogue, audio, and character art are super polished. Got a little confused on my first run, but it clicked once I understood the controls and mechanics. Congratulations on completing the project!

Submitted(+1)

Hi, firstly I want to congratulate you on trying to include every theme! It is an insane creative task, and I respect the dedication. 

Overall, I think this is an amazingly put together game! The art is just superb, it really gives this game an amazing esthetic! I'm not sure what the inspiration was for the talking big bad evil guy, I feel like I should know, and I feel uncultured for it, but the art and the composition really sells this "you are fully under the control of this person, and you are nothing more than a tool" feel. All of the pixelarts are well made, there is nothing more to be said about the art.

I really enjoyed the music, and it did convey the feel that we are inches close to our demise. The map opening sound effect however got annoying really quickly, I'll talk more about why in the level design section of my review.

The tutorial of the game was incredibly well implemented, this should be the standard of tutorials.

I think the idea that scanning only temporarily reveals the treasure, so we have to memorize it is awesome! It fits really well with the tile-based movement, and how we have to work around the monsters. However I have some issues with the implementation. Firstly, it felt like there was a delay between the steps, like if we move, we can't move for another quarter of a second, which isn't a big issue, but it was the first thing I noticed, so I felt the need to say it. Another smaller issue I had is that pressing down doesn't turn us around. I know this wasn't stated to happen, but this control just feels so engraved the the gamer mind that it felt wrong that it was missing.  A slightly bigger issue I had is that in my opinion the player should have more than 2 lives. As to me it appeared that the placement of treasure was randomly generated, there are situations where we can't avoid losing a health just walking, so even a single mistake can cost the run. The few lives was a far greater issue though because of my next critique:

It appears that there is a big delay on the grab timing minigame. If there isn't then ya'll have every right to call it skill issue, but I swear it wasn't enough to press it when it was inside the green part. This meant that on multiple occasions, a well timed grab still cost me a life, which made the 2 lives way too few in my opinion.

I foreshadowed a level design issue with the map opening sfx sounding too annoying. My problem was the as there were no visual differences at the different points of the map, combined with the restricted vision and the tile based movement, it was virtually impossible to determine which part of the map we were at just by looking at it. Because of this, I constantly had to open and close the map to see if I was even facing the right direction, so I got sick of the map sfx that by itself was completely fine.

Overall, while this review may sound rather critical, but I think this is by far the best game I played on this jam so far! It is really well polished, the artstyle is cohesive, every feature is fully implemented, the game fits the themes and is intuitive to learn, finished games like this are rare for a reason, and I think this game is a hidden gem in the jam. (get it? because gem sounds like jam and it's funny please laugh)

Developer(+1)

Thanks a ton for the review!

The difficulty was... not super balanced. lol

I didn't get nearly enough testing in, and it turned out to be much more difficult than I thought- not sure if good or bad tbh though. lol
But in every test I played, I was able to get through levels no issue with the limited HP, all my deaths coming from monsters- specifically a missed green.

Which I don't know if the green was perfectly timed. It seemed like it was when I tried it, but this is why a game like this would have some form of calibration. Things like player reaction time, controller input lag, and some screen/tv interactions would probably throw people off with this game.

But it IS maybe possible to get a starting area with too far-away treasures- I think.
You have roughly 60 steps, and each scan takes away a step (Which is something I wasn't able to tell the player through the tutorial in time).
That was definitely something I wondered if anyone would run into.
But I think you'd have to spawn in like, 1 corner, and all treasures would have to spawn in the opposite corner.

As for the guy at the start, no real references. The artist had control over that and he did kind of remind me of Wesker, or maybe Ocelot, but other than that, maybe something Metal Gear Solid-y? When I was writing his dialogue though, I guess I did have cliche controlling bad guy in games in mind. lol

Also, funny enough. It never occurred to me that pressing down should do a 180. I'll definitely keep that in mind for future stuffs, as this style of game is one I've never touched on before. Like a kind of Grimrock (Which I've never played, but am aware of) or old school dungeon crawler.