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The Dam Repairman

By casualnothing, Julia Nistel, beanboi, gordie synowiec and The pen god

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall7253.5020
Fun3773.6620
Innovation8333.1620
Theme5203.8020
Graphics9833.2621
Audio7553.0220
Humor2773.7220
Mood11313.0220

Comments

suicidalmango 2022-04-05 02:21

scored 811, loved it

agushmar 2022-04-05 02:55

Nice game <3 i like it

kianamosser 2022-04-05 03:26

Core gameplay loop is solid and I like how you rotate between different materials to fix the dam!

If you continued to add on to the game, I'd love to see different materials having different properties, maybe having a queue of which one will come next (like Tetris blocks), and a "high score" tracker so I can see how far I got.

Nice job! :)

callicou-jack 2022-04-05 18:05

nice game. it could be better if the right click of the mouse would be better than the "e"

duckwings 2022-04-06 03:26

So close to 10000...a roughly 24 minute run left me at 9776 before I let my guard down for a second and lost it all. This concept is really simple and in turn has a lot of depth. If you want to do well and beat the RNG, you have to use strategy. On to the criticism... Great pacing with the appearance of the cracks. You're barely hanging on most of the time, but the only way to lose is if you make a mistake (you can never blame a loss on the RNG). After 24 minutes, the music starts to get a bit old; for a game like this something less upfront may be better. Your game has a really clever core gameplay loop that never gets dull. Overall, I had a blast with this!

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(I recorded my run; if you're interested in watching let me know and I'll upload it)

darkwolf 2022-04-06 03:42

This game has a solid foundation (unlike the dam). I particularly like the art style in the intro. So far my best score so far is 1153.

The one critique that comes to mind is that pressing E so often and so quickly whilst also using WASD is uncomfortable. Maybe make right click move the ladder like @callicou-jack suggested?

julia-nistel 2022-04-06 15:33

@darkwolf thanks buddy, I did the intro scene and I'm glad you liked it, it was a lot of fun (:

uboretsky 2022-04-07 15:38

Trust me, Im an engineer

n00b 2022-04-09 01:48

I think the game had an interesting concept but it just did not feel fun. The controls felt a little awkward and the music was kinda irritating.

On the pros, the controls were responsive and I thought the graphics were pretty good.

jogy34 2022-04-09 01:58

Nice job on that, it was fun to play and I was able to get just under 2000 for the score. This would have been a great thing to have a high score saved and also would have been cool to have like a global scoreboard. I do wish there was some indication of how far away you can be to a crack to be able to seal it, there were quite a few times where I thought I was close enough but couldn't. I also think the cracks could have contrasted a bit more against the background. They could get hard to see at times.

aumbra 2022-04-12 02:43

This game has great visuals and fun simple gameplay and is overall very polished. Great job!

jk5000 2022-04-16 06:59

A funny and well made little game. I love the idea and I had fun playing the game. A short "game over" animation film, could also have been fun. Overall a good game jam game. Well done.

zimny11 2022-04-19 10:25

Awesome art style and nice music! As others pointed out E key feels awkward to use. Anyway, it was fun.

dlan-bess 2022-04-19 20:37

nice intro, put you quite well in the mood of challenge you are facing! The difficulty is a bit high at first, but once you get the hang of thing, it's fun to play.

dmtroy 2022-04-20 05:53

Simple but effective and super stylish, well done.