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A jam submission

Gold StepsView game page

Build steps out of gold coins to get out!
Submitted by sanechekz — 19 hours, 41 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Secondary Theme Interpretation#573.7353.735
Gameplay#1233.5713.571
Overall#1443.5683.568
Quirkiness#1623.5513.551
Gameboy Soul#1783.7143.714
Soundtrack/SFX#2153.2243.224
Graphics#2203.6123.612

Ranked from 49 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

How does your game meet GBJam's theme
Mr. Garry Oldsten ( G.Old...sten) is going through tunnels filled with gold coins to find out real twist, his family photo and Alzheimer's pills . So the idea that old gold is his family and he build those tunnels himself, just forgot about that.

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Submitted(+1)

Great puzzle concept with a striking style! Great work! 💚

Submitted(+1)

Great set of puzzles.  Same general feedback as others about clarity, but it's super limiting with the 4 color palette restriction.

Submitted(+1)

Fantastic entry with an excellent thematic delivery. Art, gameplay, music, and pacing all come together to deliver a consistent message. 5 stars all around for me.

Submitted(+1)

I think it's neat how the music fits the theme so well. It's very somber and tired.

Submitted(+1)

A pretty nifty take on a sokoban. Could definitely be a little clearer visually to distinguish height, but solid puzzle design overall and a good complexity curve. Well done!

Submitted(+1)

This is an excellent puzzle game!!

It’s definitely one of the best games from this game jam. I absolutely love every aspect of the game—especially the interpretation of the theme—and the ending made me feel a bit sad :(

I found a small bug: the initial dialogue box sits on a higher layer than the pause menu, meaning that if you open the pause menu while a line of dialogue is playing, the text box remains visible.

Developer(+1)

Thank you for feedback and kind words :)

Submitted(+1)

What a cool sokoban game! Very well done, would love to see this expanded on for sure

Submitted(+1)

Super cool and loved the secondary theme interpretation! Do wish there was some more visual clarity between variations of the coins and ground tiles, which I found a bit difficult to parse. Otherwise good work!

Submitted(+1)

Sweet game! Haven't seen this mechanic in a sokoban game before. More than a lot of the other entries, it was nice to see the theme really integrated into everything from the story to the gameplay to the color scheme itself.

Submitted(+1)

Really cool puzzle game! I wish there were a couple more levels but what you got is really good. The visuals are great. The sfx are bit crunchy for my tastes but the music is good. I'd love if you'd leave us a rating as well!

Submitted(+1)

I liked the puzzles, it was a nice game I got stuck in the third one I believe, thinking it was more difficult and in the end it was pretty easy and direct xD. I loved the moment I pushed a coin up to a stack and down from a stack, it felt like the puzzles were more deep than I initially thought. 

Submitted(+1)

The puzzles in this really made me think! Loved the little story and the journey it represented. The sprite work was really well done and it was very pleasant to look at overall.

Submitted(+1)

Really cool twist on Sokoban! It took me a while to get it but puzzles are meant to be a bit like that, right? Is it not me just being old and dumb? Huh?
Great job!

Submitted(+1)

Really clever puzzle game. The coin stacking mechanic is great, and the puzzles build on it nicely.

The different tile heights added nice variation.

The story also gave the whole thing a surprisingly touching ending. Really nice work!

Submitted(+1)

Floor height variation was very tricky to figure out due to the artstyle which I feel like is one of the “biggest” issues of the game, otherwise it is a cool sokoban-like.

Graphics other than the mention issue were great, sfx and mx were okay, and the puzzles felt nice.

Well done!

Submitted (1 edit) (+1)

Beautiful game! So much story provided diegetically.  The art was wonderful and the puzzle were tricky and satisfying.  

Only constructive feedback is the heights of the various floor tiles were a little hard to see

Wonderful game!  I added it to my list of favorites from the jam! Terrific first solo game friend!

Submitted(+1)

Very nice puzzle game. I love the theme of the old man on his last hunt. The mechanics are also really easy to understand. Even if it took me a while to understand that I can only get on higher stacks by first going on a lower stack. But that is just my monkey brain :)

excellent work!

Submitted(+1)

The puzzles were engaging enough to be rewarding to solve but not too hard where I wanted to give up. The music was gentle and nice along with the final scene of the game. It was slightly hard to tell what level certain things were on but that was very minor and easy enough to figure out. Well done with your submission! I loved it!

Submitted(+1)

Great puzzle game! I enjoyed the different interactions with the mechanics you introduced each level (using a lower level to split a stack of coins in particular was really clever). I would have loved to see a final level that really tested all of these concepts together (one of the bigger levels in the middle was the most difficult one, but rewarding).

Also a very touching way to interpret the theme at the end. :)

Submitted

Very cool puzzle. at first, it was a bit hard to understand that there are different heights. But I liked the puzzles and the direction indicators helped. well done.

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