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Pack-Man

By DrTheou, BlumBlum, Elie.Riopel, honoki, Shooting_Star and gyredhawk

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall3233.8250
Fun3503.6750
Innovation4023.5650
Theme6193.8950
Graphics1334.3950
Humor3053.5648
Mood3033.8449

Comments

fermingimpel 2023-05-02 02:32

i love the art, the boxes are very cute

samantha-keane 2023-05-02 15:45

Love the art work and the animations.

unima9000 2023-05-02 18:13

Art is super cute! But game it too hard for me, unfortunaly :( First two guards are kicked my 455 and I tried to get though them like 10 times. I think I will return to it and give few another tries, because it seems super intriguing and promising so far!

anrqangel 2023-05-02 19:28

Game looks great, interesting concept.. Good job!!

snesgaard 2023-05-03 13:36

Very well done tutorial, made it easy to grasp the core mechanics.

ostanton 2023-05-03 13:46

Very fitting music, great art style, and love the voice acting! It is a difficult game which entices the player to keep replaying until they win. I found the last level to be extremely difficult, but with enough practice it is doable. Great job! The tutorial is concise and doesn't overload you with text, instead placing itself within the context of the game, although I did get spotted by a guard when getting to the exit without the key. Since the text box appeared I thought I was safe to read it for the duration it was there.

squareronin 2023-05-03 13:53

I love the art! The game is tough but fun

mercilesscult 2023-05-03 15:11

What a nice game, the art is so polished and everything's working perfectly. I had a lot of fun playing it, you guys did an amazing job! ♥

patatenouille 2023-05-03 16:05

It was fun !

My only criticism would be that the interaction to get on top of boxes is very frustrating simply because you have to aim at the box, nearly all the attempts I failed were because I could not line it up and eventually got caught. Although it took a good ~50 tries, I still managed to beat the game :)

Other than that it is quite solid, good art and fitting music, decent levels, pretty good feedback. Great job !

broccolly 2023-05-03 19:15

Cute, good-looking and challenging - also humorous and entertaining!

groundwater-studio 2023-05-03 23:53

excellent art direction, all the illustrations of the boxes were super cute and charming. Using the lights to communicate the guards sightlines was a good call, I felt like the rules of the game were very clear and consistent.

rekkorize 2023-05-04 00:59

I couldn't figure out where to go on the second level :( Anyway, cute game with interesting idea! Nice entry

ryusui 2023-05-04 03:51

Cute, but the gameplay is just too punishing. The guards' sight cones are unforgiving and the pick up/put down mechanics are too fiddly. Is there a reason picking up and putting down boxes takes two separate buttons, on that note? In Zelda, for instance, picking things up and throwing them uses the same button.

yuriscat 2023-05-04 12:32

:smile:This is a really cute low-poly game! The chasing process made me feel quite tense, and I really love the adorable expressions on the boxes!

lisek-gagatek 2023-05-04 13:16

Firstly I have stumbled upon the other site and I was really sad that the download link wasn't working. Maybe adding a direct link to this site would make this more approachable?

The first screen is extremely cute, overall the game is really good-looking. I have seen some guards t-posing tho. Sneaking around is really enjoyable, although for me jumping and stacking mechanics are not precise enough, it's probably because of perspective. If they were somehow adjusted (I have no idea how tho) or swapped to something better fitting to the chosen perspective it would be a really good game.

Still it's a solid entry and I enjoyed it, gj!

chybby 2023-05-04 13:30

It was so hard to avoid the guards when you didn't know which way they would turn and when they came at you so fast from off screen :(

jk5000 2023-05-04 13:43

I like the visuals and music. The idea is really fun, but the guards is really difficult to avoid. Overall I will still say that is a good jam game.

midgento 2023-05-04 14:25

I absolutely loved this game! The art style is beautiful too

jelliott 2023-05-04 14:44

I enjoyed the difficulty, particularly since the guard's paths / actions are predictable. A timer for speed running on a second go would be cool. The box pickup mechanic is frustrating because it's so finicky. Also while the music is overall good, the bassoon comes in a bit before the beat most of the time, and after listening to it on loop for 20 minutes it becomes painfully obvious.

juliette-desmaisons 2023-05-04 14:50

I enjoyed that game a lot! The visuals are super cute and the overall mood of the game is really plaisant. The game is a bit difficult, but I like the level's construction.

blazerdom 2023-05-04 15:28

Nice small boxes! Good visuals. Sometimes the height is not very felt, but in general everything is implemented well =)

kingzero 2023-05-04 15:50

Visually and conceptually good but a bit frustrating. I would like to blend in with the other boxes so that I would not be detected if I do not move in between them.

shooting-star 2023-05-05 08:13

@fermingimpel @samantha-keane @squareronin @mercilesscult @patatenouille @rekkorize @groundwater-studio @broccolly @yuriscat @ryusui @lisek-gagatek @chybby @jk5000 @midgento @jelliott @juliette-desmaisons @kingzero thank you for the feedbacks it helps a lot to upgrade the game, and thank you for the kind words <3

binaryspark 2023-05-05 12:57

Cute art style, fairly consistent and I like that there are a lot of small props around the level to help decorate. The game is a bit difficult for me; picking up the extra box seems to be a little finnicky.

retrisma 2023-05-06 01:33

I like the art style, and the concept was pretty fun! Unfortunately, the gameplay got a little stale early on. I think the camera felt a little janky, and the guards, even though they followed simple patterns, were hard to keep an eye on and play around. Cool idea for a stealth game though!

chris-chen 2023-05-06 03:01

Fun little stealth game with great art! the final level was pretty tough, because if you didn't know where the guards were off-screen they could surprise you at a bad moment. I was also unsure where the exit was on that level, I did find it eventually but it might have been nice if it was more obvious.

The box stacking mechanic is quite cool, but it's a bit difficult to visually understand with the top-down view. The idea could maybe be expanded better with a different camera angle. But overall a fun game with a good concept, good job!

mintbreak 2023-05-06 04:37

Solid stealth game. I kept hearing the among us theme in the first part of the song 💀

firespike33 2023-05-06 10:50

@mintbreak Same. It's even in the same key.

I couldn't beat the third level here. It felt like a pretty big difficulty spike, with the guards in the big room being very hard to predict and often catching me when they were barely on-screen. I didn't know where the exit was either. Being unable to "reuse" boxes after jumping off of them made it feel too punishing to try jumping onto something that didn't lead anywhere.

rocket-and-blanky 2023-05-07 04:57

This game was so sleuth-y. The guards "catching" a box was while it is hiding behind another box is infuriating and hilarious.

christian-zommerfelds 2023-05-07 07:39

Nice entry! Some things I encountered:

* It wasn't clear how the field of vision of the guards worked (Can I stay hidden when I'm still? How big is the radius? Behind what objects can I hide?). Other similar games use a more clear line I think. * Guard rotation was a bit slow and to which side they rotated didn't seem deterministic (maybe that was on purpose!) * Guard would sometimes completely miss the box * Level 1 was already too hard. Maybe you could make small easier levels to explain the core mechanics.

Other than the above things the game is pretty nice. Cool guard animations! Congrats on finishing the game.

2023-05-07 11:06

This is a really good one. I like the cuty graph style and audio is nice. I think the scan field of the guards is too big actually, and he won't hesitate when he saw me. it's really make the game hard.

jdemattos 2023-05-07 14:59

Lots of juice and content in this submission. I'm not a fan of stealth genre but this played out nicely! As a newbie, maybe some cone of vision overlays or something to help. Music fit well, really loved the feeling and vibe

gabriel-cassimiro 2023-05-07 21:20

Nice game! Very beautiful game, good gameplay, cool sound and good art!

shooting-star 2023-05-09 09:22

@binaryspark @christian-zommerfelds @retrisma @chris-chen thanks for the feedback, we are working to fix the guards and their mechanics actually so it could be easier and better !

shooting-star 2023-05-09 09:25

@lisek-gagatek @jdemattos @gabriel-cassimiro @mintbreak thank you it means a lot to us ! we're glad you enjoy <3 we're still fixing the game and mechanics so it will be better ;)

dk-game-labs 2023-05-11 09:22

That game is very cute and graphics is so nice. This is very good for jam I think. Nice entry guys!

shooting-star 2023-05-11 11:53

@dk-game-labs thank you <3

nyanpierre 2023-05-14 14:06

Cute box~ ! And nice art style ! Its fun to play, good entry !