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A jam submission

The Way OutView game page

Help the cavers escape the caves!
Submitted by bp_gg — 39 minutes, 22 seconds before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Presentation & Enjoyment#182.8743.400
Sound/Music#192.8743.400
Use of theme#272.8743.400
Art & Gameplay#282.7043.200
Overall#362.4342.880
Use of prerequisite#550.8451.000

Ranked from 5 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

Ziva

No

Wasn't made with Ziva

GameMaker

No

Wasn't made with GameMaker

Easel

No

Wasn't made with Easel

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Comments

Submitted

Overall a fun experience. My biggest issue was clicking "Retry" after losing taking you back to level 1 instead of retrying the current level, but I'm sure that's a simple change. I did crash a handful of times when retrying or returning to the menu, but my progress was saved when I refreshed, so that was more of an annoyance than anything. Wonderful visuals and music, although it would have been nice for more of a difference in sound effects between cavers reaching the end and bats killing them. Difficulty curve was not too flat and not too steep in my opinion, and that tutorial was great! Caving in the mountains fits the theme imo, although sadly there was no fog, so I have to give 1 star for that. Maybe you could have had fog blocking parts of paths but show cavers', bats', walls', and maybe rocks' silhouettes through it? Regardless of any criticism, though, I had a blast playing this, and I made it all the way to the end!

If you want to continue with this game, one more suggestion I have is an adjustment to the mouse movement. If I have my cursor up against a wall on my right, and I move my mouse diagonally up and right, then when I come around a corner that allows me to move right, the cursor suddenly teleports further right, seemingly to where it would have been if the wall hadn't been there at all, so it seems like there's some desync between the actual mouse position and what shows up on screen.

I was having so much fun and then I realize, where is the fog? Also, after finishing Level 4, it returned me to the level select where nothing was unlocked, so my progress got lost :/ Although, this was a good submission! ^^

Submitted

I loved it, nice music, art and gameplay. One thing I noticed - colot of cursor stands out from the general palette

Submitted

I thought it was really cool, though it's a bit tricky with a small mouse and high sensitivity; still, it turned out to be really fun, congratulations.