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A jam submission

Ember YardView game page

Submitted by GenericPirate, Snuxx-code — 5 minutes, 31 seconds before the deadline
Rated by 8 people so far
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Submitted(+1)

This might be my favorite entry in the jam so far — hitting Chain x18 with the elemental combos felt genuinely exciting, and the low-poly art on the walking rig/workshop is gorgeous. The onboarding (how-to-play popup) does a great job explaining the water+spark/frost+blast combos before you're thrown into the action. Incredibly polished for a jam submission!

Developer

Thanks for playing the game! Really glad you enjoyed it and thanks so much for the love on the art style! :D

Submitted(+1)

Your game is impressive. The amount of content is huge. I think you could make the path indicator bigger and clearer, and the UI and tutorial could be arranged better. Right now, I feel a little bit distracted.

Submitted(+1)

Honestly quite impressive given the time frame, I wasn't expecting so much content specially on the Metagame. Congrats on the submission!

Player feedback: maybe that's just me, but to be honest I thought it was a bit too much in the first 5 minutes when I started playing the game. The interesting part for me was the arena gameplay itself, but there was TOO much Metagame content after that right away, and going back to the Arena, the gameplay got less interesting when I understood I could just stay still to farm with a basic weapon. I'd honestly feel I would engage better with the game if metagame was gated a bit, so I wouldn't need to read so much content right after the first time in the arena.

Developer

Thanks for the detailed feedback, and yeah youre right the flow could be better and give the players more agency. Ill do a follow up to improve on this. Hope you had fun playing anyways!

Submitted(+1)

Wow, this is quite huge actually! Perhaps, an entry with the biggest meta-game. Respect that!

Developer

Thanks for playing and checking out the game! Hope you enjoy it :D