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Ascend

By almost, Adafheyesh and Quack Doctor

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall2543.9340
Fun5013.5939
Innovation994.0639
Theme734.3239
Graphics944.4339
Audio1384.0139
Humor6102.9431
Mood1544.0439

Comments

charlieboss22 2020-10-05 23:52

wow that art!

mlkvr 2020-10-06 00:14

Great artstyle and pretty neat puzzles too like smoke and vines in addition to relaxing music, good job congrats!

veeramandadraws 2020-10-06 00:49

Really cool art style! :)

quack-doctor 2020-10-06 01:01

@mlkvr did you make it to the ladder? :) If you get past the tough middle challenge, there is a reward afterwards :P

mlkvr 2020-10-06 01:13

Unfortunately i got stuck in the loop but hey that means another reason to play again!

baconeta 2020-10-06 02:34

Ahhhh it's so hard to get past the middle section where the pandas are... can we have a hint!!? :s

quack-doctor 2020-10-06 02:41

@Baconeta

Yesss, you may get a hint, you go bump the middle apple first, the panda would go eat, and hibernate in the winter. You then go hop bubbles to get to icicles, and go to fall again, to get the apple on the right :) This time the panda noms on the right apple, so you go back, hop the bubbles, and keep using bubbles. (The next part is to get the left apple somehow). Let me know if you need more help!

quack-doctor 2020-10-06 02:50

@Baconeta, If you find the panda blocking the way, it's a one way door from right to left, press jump and while you are in air press left, which would probably help.

baconeta 2020-10-06 04:22

I made it :D! Thank you (I took a one hour nap break first to refresh myself ) Such a magical ending, thank you! A absolutely gorgeous game, worthy of incredible marks. I can't fault it at all.

quack-doctor 2020-10-06 04:24

@baconeta Yayyy, thank you so much! Yeah the panda level is pretty tough, we were worried if people would be able to beat it.

baconeta 2020-10-06 04:29

@quack-doctor I think I MAYBE could do it, if I spent long enough working it all out. The challenge is just perfect actually, I'm a little impatient though.

pee-thief 2020-10-06 05:21

gorgeous!

victor-hallock 2020-10-06 05:23

Great job! This is a game i will be playing more of for SURE!

spyranteros 2020-10-06 17:09

Very nice! It was lagging a bit for me but it didn't affect the game play. Nice puzzles!

ursagames 2020-10-07 06:29

Your game was played on my stream ( https://www.twitch.tv/ursagames/videos ) on 10/6. Thank you for sharing your game with us! You can find the timestamp of when your game was played here: https://tinyurl.com/yy4oycvv

shortbread 2020-10-07 08:57

Great concept and the art style was really nice!

fabiole 2020-10-07 10:14

Graphics are amazing. Some times it's not obvious where the platform are and it's kind of frustrating to restart the loop. Good work guys

oddsocks 2020-10-07 10:22

I got a little lost now and then! But the overall gameplay, art/graphics, and music were all great. Fantastic submission :raised_hands:

copito 2020-10-07 10:57

This was cool but I found it very difficult and had to follow the streamer above to even get past the squirrel :D I might give it another go later and see if I can get to the end

djayne 2020-10-07 18:17

Fanastic art work and some great game mechanics. Loved the atmosphere and it felt like I was in a painting. Particularly impressed with the particle effects.

arad-hamidsamiee 2020-10-07 18:37

Wow, well done. very aesthetic. I can't believe that I managed to finish the game, it was brain twisting. loved the way instruments blended into other instruments depending on the season. And that ending was _Breath Taking_

quack-doctor 2020-10-07 18:41

@arad-hamidsamiee Wow congrats, you finished it! It can definitely be tough, thank you for playing!

renge 2020-10-07 21:11

Really nice puzzle mechanics with the different seasons playing into one another! Had fun playing it on stream! The only issue I had is that sometimes the platforms are a little hard to differentiate from the background and some interactable objects also maybe could benefit from being a little more accentuated. Great game!

mauricioscherer 2020-10-07 21:52

Very beautiful game. I liked the attention with the loop and the connection between them. I was trying to climb the tree but I couldn't, am I stupid? Beautiful game congratulations

almost 2020-10-07 22:00

@mauricioscherer You need to solve a puzzle at the start of the game. Pay attention to any objects that change from season to season!

Also, for anyone who is totally stuck, here is a video walkthrough: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRCgseM1b90 And there is also a video playthrough from ursagames' stream at https://www.twitch.tv/videos/762956252?t=3h15m12s.

mauricioscherer 2020-10-07 22:07

@almost Wow amazing! thank you!

landosilva 2020-10-07 23:13

Wow that was cool! Challenging puzzles and very neat graphics, musics and overall mood! Impressive entry for a jam, congratulations!

cireneikual222464 2020-10-08 01:40

Fun game! The art is great, has a surreal feel to it (especially at the end).

svyatozar 2020-10-08 20:57

Great stuff! I could not get above the roof level, but I noticed how the music changes with seasons.

quack-doctor 2020-10-08 22:40

@svyatozar Hi! Thank you so much for playing, a couple of comments above you, almost (one of our devs) posted a walkthrough in case you are stuck, check it out if you want to see the ending :)

quack-doctor 2020-10-08 22:41

@svyatozar and yess thank you for noticing that (I wonder how long you were stuck to notice that lol), there is sound of rain during spring too!

aeveis 2020-10-12 03:19

I beat it! It took a while figuring out how to affect things in seasons, and that I could climb the icicles and vines. Those trees were much higher than I expected, had some interesting puzzles. Nice job!

100th-coin 2020-10-14 05:25

Really cool puzzles! It took me a while before I figured out that I could climb icicles and vines, but the game really picks up! Really cool idea, and the artwork is incredible! Great work.

areywarlord 2020-10-15 16:31

Awsome puzzle idea. Awsome art and awsome music. (controls need a bit of polishing)

Great game!

rolly 2020-10-18 04:06

It's a very solid entry. I love the art, both visuals and music. The puzzles were very clever. After ~5 times running through all the seasons wondering what I had to do (which was nice, it let me enjoy the art!), it was very nice to understand that I could actually change the squirrel position to influance the other seasons.

I completed the game without watching the walk-through video, but spent some time on the panda part. I understood that I had to make it go on the right to use its bubbles to access higher platforms, but it somehow felt wrong to go left (so, "back in time") to take advantage of its new position. Also, when going to the left, the position of the panda is actually reset in summer and spring, so that was a little confusing.

Good entry!

lrvstudios 2020-10-20 03:45

Impressive! Gorgeous art - in every aspect. Great ambientation and really interesting puzzles. And everything with a solid ideia inside theme. Well done!

louis-denizet 2020-10-20 19:44

Very great entry! It was really moody and beautiful to watch, It is a very clever answer to the theme. I must admit I had to watch the youtube video as I was stuck in some puzzles but overall very good job!!!

2020-10-20 20:06

Oh my god I love this art! This is pretty fun too and well executed

sakura-magika 2020-10-23 23:04

this is incredible for a game jam! i love how the music stays in sync between the seasons but different instruments come in to play the melody. the art was beautiful, i love the painterly look, and how it transitions from season to season. i really liked the rain in spring.

the mechanics are great, changing things in one season to move forward in the other. i think there's an inconsistency with the bear's position not updating in every season, but that's minor.

my main criticism is that it was really hard to jump on the bubbles, and climb on the vines / icicles. i ended up getting stuck at the first place where you need to jump on the bubbles. i couldn't figure out what to do after making the second apple drop. i watched a play through, it seems you need to backtrack several seasons, because the path is blocked off, to get back to winter, but that wasn't obvious to me, and i just couldn't get back up on the bubbles again a second time.

the creature at the end was very surprising! the clouds were beautiful too.

i think a bit more tuning with the movement, jumping, and climbing mechanics would have made this entry perfect!

666savior 2020-10-25 01:45

Excellent puzzle game, there were a few sections that were a little difficult, mainly because it took me a while to figure out the mechanics of certain things.