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Upwards

By nitin-kumar

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall4083.2955
Fun2913.3655
Innovation5392.8255
Theme6682.6454
Graphics5832.6755
Audio4852.4854
Humor4631.8940
Mood5072.6047

Comments

evanm 2018-08-12 22:51

art: 5/5 I like the 3d style game play: 4/5 a good platformer theme: 3/5 I like how the space gets smaller and smaller the higher you go audio: its interesting summery:I like it, could use some polishing, good job!

alexander-tan 2018-08-13 14:19

really fun game, runs smoothly. altough sometimed you can kill the red blocks and die at the same time

syrapt0r 2018-08-13 14:24

Fun little platformer game, really like the art style. Sometimes you die even when you hit the red blocks from the top, other than that, good work!

swini 2018-08-13 14:26

Simple gameplay and simple graphics. But i like it and it's fun to play!

jackou 2018-08-13 14:27

Well that game is simply fun! :) With some polishing it would be a great game just to play on mobile or something. Liked the SFX, music eventually got a bit repetitive. Good job overall!

sdrrv 2018-08-13 14:27

I Liked the game! But the music is really annoying! other than that the game is pretty cool! keep up the good work!

rkuhl 2018-08-13 14:28

I'm not sure about the art and music, but I really like the game play and controls.

myxcil 2018-08-13 14:29

Sooo frustrating and funny at the same time :D But you have to try and try again. Works fine in browser for me. Thumbs up

gurbx 2018-08-13 14:29

I like the clean style and overall feel of the game. Very arcade like. Good job!

The music could be a little bit longer before it loops as it gets a little bit annoying after a while. Still just having music in a compo game is a really good thing, so not a huge issue.

noam 2018-08-13 14:36

I enjoyed playing the game, it is fun. I love the customization options.

ace17 2018-08-13 14:50

Simple, nice, and smooth, even in the browser!

Kudos for not requiring Windows (BTW, now that feedbackfriends has been shut down, it's hard to search games by platform - anyone knows some alternative?)

nitin-kumar 2018-08-13 14:56

@gurbx @sdrrv @jackou I had a plan to add Bg music the last hour. But i forgot. I almost uploaded the game with someone else's music in it. Had to quickly get something out of Bosca and this is what i did frantically. It would have been better if i added a volume control.

nitin-kumar 2018-08-13 14:59

@alexander-tan @syrapt0r Can i fix the collision issues and upload it again? Does it count as minor bug fix?

mrnyarlathotep 2018-08-13 17:19

Nice simple concept, and good execution. Ran fine for me in the browser.

donitz 2018-08-13 17:29

Simple and somewhat hypnotic. Reminds me Atari games.

haj 2018-08-14 18:11

Loved it, perfect as mobile game.

star-garden 2018-08-14 18:11

This game is pretty fun! I like challenging arcade games like this, and I like how this games difficulty builds up over time in a natural curve. It feels very responsive which is nice! I like your menu page too!

zelberor 2018-08-14 18:21

Really nice platformer with very responsive controls! But the music is a bit too repetitive

ezra-lafleur 2018-08-14 18:24

Really enjoyed it! It was fun and compelling and had awesome art style and animation. The music was simple but fitting for the game

kappa-b 2018-08-14 18:24

Well Done! great little game and congratulation on your first LD. things I loved about it, the transition from lvl to lvl was very smooth and satisfying made the jump feel powerful, I love the leniency with collision on killing a enemy, nice variety of chances obstacles and enemy to change the game flow, the custom tail renderer was a nice touch. my only complain is the music, it got old very quickly. quality of life change would be to implement a restart by pressing R key for quick transition, since your using keys only for playing the moving from keyboard to mouse to restart is not a seamless transition from game to game. Over all you should be proud of the work accomplished.

sam-estep 2018-08-14 18:33

Neat little game! The menu that lets you change your trail was cool. At the beginning I was able to just stay on one side of the screen and press A repeatedly and keep jumping up, but that gets more challenging as the spikes come.

starhacker 2018-08-14 19:28

Well done game. Controls are simple. The main menu is really nice. There are few quirks with collision detection. I was able to kill an enemy from below by moving upwards and I got killed at the same time I stomped on an enemy. I would like to see the game be further developed.

suchista 2018-08-14 19:57

A bit repetitive music, simple but fun gameplay.

nitin-kumar 2018-08-15 06:34

@suchista @starhacker @sam-estep @kappa-b @ezra-lafleur I will add a music volume control for now. Please notify me if changing the bg music is allowed. I will add something new then. I am working on developing it further. Some low poly models will do the trick. Edit: Added music option and a little better UI navigation options.

rngsilvercraft 2018-08-15 18:13

Well personally I think the music fits very well for some reason.Nice addicting game with a simple concept.

sh1rogane 2018-08-15 18:41

Simple, nice and fun little platformer that is easy to get into and hard to stop playing. One small thing that I think would be nice to change is the transition between the floors. I think it is a bit of a hard cut, maybe try smoothing that bit out.

Would be interesting to see this game adjusted for mobiles because I think this is a perfect game for mobile.

shinysteel 2018-08-16 06:15

Very addictive, well done. I love the interactive menu screen / death screen (you can still jump). Game mechanics are pretty simple, and also pretty solid. A strong difficulty curve is evident with the introduction of spikes, more enemies, and smaller platforms which is great! Graphics are very average but work well with the simplicity of the gameplay. Colours are used effectively so that the player knows what enemies are. Music isn't the best but good attempt anyways (better than nothing :thumbsup:) Overall, solid entry, good job!

matank 2018-08-18 05:06

Really liked the aesthetic on this one! It was really simple but I couldn't stop playing. I was really bad at it though - only got to level 16. A few suggestions though:

1) I know it's probably pretty random but would be nice if there were some guarantees that made the difficulty less varied across attempts. I had cases where I would get almost no squares for 6-7 levels at the beginning, and then another iterations where the first few levels were three squares each.

2) Probably just me - I like having clear goals and not just playing against high score - but I would be even more addicted to your games if you had more motivation for me to beat a certain (beatable but difficult) score. For example - if I knew something cool would happen at floor 20, I would probably have tried doing it a few more times until I'd get it :)

Anyway, it was super fun, thank you for submitting your game!

nitin-kumar 2018-08-18 10:41

@matank Thank you for the feedback. How about a boss fight in a post jam version? That would give an objective and some closure maybe.

matank 2018-08-18 12:50

@nitin-kumar yeah, that would be awesome :)

lagman9000 2018-08-28 20:52

I'm terrible at this game, but I really enjoyed playing it. Super addictive good jam! :)

thibaultar 2018-08-29 12:24

As @lagman9000 I'm terrible ahah but it's really addictive and I tried hard to go far! Art id simple but do the trick and I really felt I was running out of space :)

Good job :)

nerzal 2018-08-31 17:45

I'd also like the idea of a bossfight. Although i was pretty bad at your game, it was fun to play!

jordantanner 2018-08-31 19:34

A really fun game. Coming from a dev to always likes to overcomplicate things (me), I can really appreciate a deceptively simple game. Just further proves that simpler is sometimes better. Great work!

shakedimus 2018-09-02 22:09

I loved the fact that you can control the block in the starting screen as a sort of tutorial, nice touch! The games mechanics are simple but fun ! The level design is good and I also liked the music. This is a very nice and polished game and the fact that you can play it with only two buttons is very cool, maybe you should consider a mobile port. Nice job! My highscore was 27