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Keep this heart alive

By apandso

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall3453.8926
Fun3223.8126
Innovation8643.4526
Theme12603.6426
Graphics4714.1327
Audio9183.3222
Humor9673.0722
Mood9033.5626

Comments

wormholegames 2020-04-20 22:00

Nice little game! made it to 9.

apandso 2020-04-21 12:56

@wormholegames Thank you!

freakoftheyear 2020-04-21 14:12

I love the graphics, looks amazing! It was a bit hard to click on the right time though, didn't fully understand when i had to do it so spamming it worked the best.

heyllopotato 2020-04-21 14:12

It was a fun game, except the audio was muted right at the start and I didn't know there was audio but I turned it on and the audio was good, it was a fun game though it was pretty easy game but think it would really fun if it was a nice mobile game to waste time! Good job!

maqo12 2020-04-21 14:16

Nice and cute game!

siegmayer 2020-04-21 14:18

LOVED IT, perfect graphics with smooth animation, good music and sound effects. Interesting concept and fun gameplay. Fantastic work! If I were you, I would publish this on Play Store or something, very addictive!

siegmayer 2020-04-21 14:18

Keep it up!

tony-artz 2020-04-21 14:19

Really well done. I really love the cutesy art style. The gameplay is quite fun and innovative.

davidvfilipe 2020-04-21 14:20

Lovely visuals :D

jrf 2020-04-21 14:20

Really nicely done! The graphics are nice and simple and the jumping animation looks and feels really good. Difficulty progression was good and the different concepts being introduced one by one worked well.

minthamie 2020-04-21 14:23

Really cool graphics and nice physics :) I love the simple and clean look!

giordas 2020-04-21 14:24

Very nice game I couldn't stop until the end. Also, very nice graphics and style. Great game!

generic-games 2020-04-21 14:24

Fun game! Great background music, not sure if it's intended to be muted by default. The animations are super bouncy and cute, good job with those :)

apandso 2020-04-21 18:43

@generic-games Thank you! I turned the sound on by default now. I'm really glad you liked the game and love that you noticed all the details!

apandso 2020-04-21 18:44

@giordas Wow so cool you've played till the end! Thank you!

apandso 2020-04-21 18:45

@minthamie Thank you! Very glad you liked the physics I was afraid it will be a bit messy ^__^"

apandso 2020-04-21 18:46

@jrf Thank you very much for a detailed feedback! So glad that the difficulty progression felt good!

apandso 2020-04-21 18:47

@davidvfilipe Thank you ^__^

apandso 2020-04-21 18:48

@tony-artz Thank you! Glad you liked the cuteness and the gameplay :)

apandso 2020-04-21 18:48

@siegmayer Yay! Thanks!

apandso 2020-04-21 18:50

@siegmayer Wow! Thank you! That feels so good to read such comments! :D I will definitely be more motivated to publish it now!

apandso 2020-04-21 18:51

@maqo12 Thanks :)

apandso 2020-04-21 18:53

@heyllopotato You are right I should have unmuted it. Did it now so thank you for noticing! And the feedback! I'm motivated to port it to mobile now :)

apandso 2020-04-21 18:56

@freakoftheyear Thank you! There is a small timeout before the new jump - when the landing animation goes you can't jump again. About double jump - yes it feels like jumping right after the first jump works highest I think

duke 2020-04-23 19:55

Awesome! Very good use of the reduced color scheme and it's obvious that you took your time to polish the animations. It looks gorgeous. The game play is rather simple, but doesn't overstay it's welcome. The jumping feels a little clunky. I thin others mentionied this as well, but the jumping delay after hitting the ground feels a little off, but that's an easy fix. All in all a nice little jumping game with cute reduced art. Good job!

phoenix-fireflower 2020-04-23 21:01

A simple, but elegant game. The background music gets a little repetitive after a while, though.

donitz 2020-04-23 21:02

The graphical style is nice and consistent and the gameplay is smooth. Great job!

lajazuve 2020-04-23 21:19

feed backe and animation are absolutly lovely ! , the game is cool, but i think you can improve the difficulty with no problem, the obstacles take too many levels to be really dangerous, , may be you can add some more gradually. anyway, great job !

huddybuddygreatness 2020-04-23 21:50

Fun game! very simplistic and it helps it out a lot! I love the use of a color scheme, and the very squishy animations. Audio is nice too, great overall game.

pee-thief 2020-04-23 21:57

Very nice! pretty art and a nice level progression. The difficulty increased at a great pace to provide a challenge without ever getting frustration.

penguinbob 2020-04-23 21:57

The game is fun, addictive, and intuitive! I love the art design! Strong entry into the jam! Keep it up!

no-grapes-games 2020-04-24 02:42

Simple and fun! Clean art too. It was vary fun to play, and addictive as heck grabbing those circles :)

One nitpick (and it's pretty small): Jumping on the release of a click never felt quit natural, and took mental effort since typically the down press is used in games.

Great job, awesome entry!

apandso 2020-04-24 09:45

@duke Thank you very much for such detailed feedback! I agree people seem to find my idea of making the game more difficult by adding a jump "reload" frustrating. Will change that in a future version.

@phoenix-fireflower Thank you! I'm glad it didn't get repetitive right away as it was my first time making music so it was short :D

@donitz Thank you!

@lajazuve Thank you! As for difficulty I understand it can be too easy as I was aiming for a hypercasual experience but maybe in the future I could make a separate mode with a higher difficulty

@huddybuddygreatness Glad you liked the color scheme and animations :) Thank you!

@pee-thief Hey, nice that you liked the progression! Thank you!

@guille Wow thank you for your kind words!

@no-grapes-games Yay! So glad it was addictive :) Okay I'll rework jumping in the future. Thank you!

gullyngames 2020-04-24 12:23

I managed to get to level 10. The music got repetitive after a few minutes, but the audio was great if it was your first time making music. The graphics & animations were great as well! Great job!

fatpenguin 2020-05-05 10:22

What an awesome entry! Gameplay is very solid and straight to the point, I love it! designwise, this is a minimalistic masterpiece, the fluid animation is sooo nice, the jumping sound is cute and the music fits :) I've played until the last (?) level and sadly coulnd't beat it, but i'll try again later :D Afte the 10th level it said 10 again, idk if that's a bug :3 I think you can put this already on the appstore as it is no problem (if you wanna do that at all), but I would tweak it a bit :) I felt that sometimes the randomness can ruin your game a little, like when you get damage anyway if you decide to jump or not. the thing on the ground sometimes hit me in an unfair way as a felt it, like I jumped immediately before it hit me and it still hit me! Also sometimes the only dots I could hit in a while would have me collide with something, which led to situations where although most of the game went well I've lost anyway. (btw: I played using a mouse, so I can imagine that with tapping with your finger this to be much more intuitive) I know how hard it is to do this sort of random procedural gameplay as we've added that component to our game as well, and for a gamejam all by yourself in only 3 days, WOW! Outstanding result :) Really a good job!