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Handsel and Gretel and Snakes

By jeremy-selwyn

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall11463.1227
Fun7763.3027
Innovation9633.0027
Theme11553.1627
Graphics10333.1827
Humor5053.2427
Mood9063.2827

Comments

bitlytic 2022-04-05 21:29

Honestly the movement in this game was really fun to just play around with, I think if you put this in a different game with less restrictions on when you can dash/jump you would have a really fun game. The visuals and tutorial are a little hard to look at mostly because the level is super cluttered.

aflatthrasher 2022-04-05 22:04

That was a whole lot of fun. I just loved the way the movement works. I could have swum around that room all day.

chocolat-endive 2022-04-06 20:53

The controls and animations are awesome! This little character is fun to move around. Graphics are a little "too-much" for me, but I guess this kind of style works pretty well! It's not your music but you made a great choice. Good job overall! I think it would be better to make the beginning of the tutorial in a more classic way, it's easy to get lost and to die right à the beginning.

(mmmh, tasty snakes)

jeremy-selwyn 2022-04-07 04:02

@bitlytic, @aflatthrasher @chocolat-endive, thank you very much for the feedback. Really happy you liked the movement, its very encouraging to hear. Might keep working on it after the jam. Trying to improve the tutorial, the over all busyiness of the levels and art.

corporation 2022-04-07 20:41

Game has very unique look) in some way it works in it's favour, but in turms of learning the basics - probably not. But still it's always nice to see someone being brave to implement something out of the box. And also I feel like with some tweaking this game has speedruning potential)

cloud-studios 2022-04-07 22:18

I love the surreal mood of this game! Also the movement is very unique! But when it's game over, instead of restarting the game, it just closes out the application. It would be more convenient if it the game reset in-game. Other than that, great game!

miltonnh25 2022-04-09 20:50

Good job with the game. I had a good time playing it and it was pretty satisfying to move around especially when you get chain of the energy cubes to fly through. I was also the fan of the kind of trippy aesthetic design which gave the game a cool feel. It did feel like the dash ability was a bit inconsistent in how much speed you would get from it, sometimes I felt like it didnt really give the boost when I used it.

jeremy-selwyn 2022-04-12 02:56

@corporation Thank you for playing the game and the feedback. Its great to hear the game has speed running potential, good motivation to fix it up. I agree it could use more clear introduction and clearer art.

jeremy-selwyn 2022-04-12 02:57

@cloud-studios Thank you for the feedback and for playing. Im happy to hear you liked the surreal mood! Think there must be a bug in the game because It is supposed to restart when its game over.

jeremy-selwyn 2022-04-12 02:58

@miltonnh25 Thats great to hear, happy that you liked the movement and aesthetic. For the dash ability that's good to know, thank you

fueelin 2022-04-12 06:56

Cool game! The graphics, sound, and fluidity of the movement came together nicely to create a distinct and noticeable mood. Not exactly sure how I'd describe that mood in words, but I enjoyed it. Really pleasant to play!

gandelianna 2022-04-16 19:07

Wow! I have a lot of fun! Thanks for your game!

rjhelms 2022-04-17 03:53

I really enjoyed this! The style of this is completely chaotic and I love it. Controls felt a little weird at first, but once I got the hang of them worked really well.