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Box of Squingus
By darpasquid and leckert
View on ldjam.com
| Category | Rank | Score | Count |
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| Overall | 294 | 3.84 | 21 | |
| Fun | 386 | 3.65 | 21 | |
| Innovation | 16 | 4.47 | 21 | |
| Theme | 62 | 4.42 | 21 | |
| Graphics | 305 | 4.05 | 21 | |
| Humor | 350 | 3.33 | 20 | |
| Mood | 846 | 3.15 | 21 | |
Comments
Really nice game! Loved the animations, the game concept and the levels. The difficulty progressed nicely and the overall presentation was really smooth and polished. I wish there was sound, some nice music and simple sound effects would make this a really solid experience, but what I got was already nice so that's ok. I don't really like the Space+Arrow Keys solution for shrinking the border, it feels a bit weird to stop and resize that all the time. You could try making the border auto drag when you exceed the maximum size so you don't have to pause as often.
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Pretty lazy of you to make the player do the side scrolling for you :D lol It was fun, challenges your multi-tasking skills.
a1ex-ng
2023-10-03 01:58
Really nice job done here, loved the art style and color in your game. The levels are well-designed and the mechanisms are introduced step by step, so when I was playing, the fun continued and no difficulties to understand.Though the key for shrinking the space was a bit hard to get used to.
Is a really inventive gameplay, very inovative! I really liked the level designs, I can see you have put a lot effort in to creating very interesting ones with the concept, which is very fun! I found the controls with holding the space button to be really unintuitive and slow down the overal experience unfortunatelly :( I had a lot of deaths because forgo to hold space of stop pressing it. I think this is a game that would benefit a lot using a joypad with two analogic sticks, one for each purpose, I would really love to see it like that, yet I completely understand that in a gamejam context is not good to limit the controls. At the end, I found your game to be so creative! Really love the art, the system and think is a concept that can even be take further and make it into a full fleshed game to sell! :) Really great job!
I loved the cat drawings :)
Such a cool mechanic! Such puzzling platforming potential! Seriously, I love this concept and want more of it. Having the bottom of the box be a death sentence is clever. I was fumbling a ton having space for adjusting the box and shift for running. I think if those were swapped, this could be even more comfortable to play and master. Dying for music and SFX, but still, such a great job on everything else. The victory dance is lovely. Great work!
The idea is super original and within the theme, very impressive gameplay, but the jump at a certain point doesn't seem to be possible to jump in certain parts, the jump doesn't seem to be able to cross certain very long holes. I got stuck at one part. Maybe it could be divided into smaller phase segments and a sound would go down well, but probably due to time the sound didn't come through. A great idea but the jumping thing that doesn't reach the end of the hole broke me
i really love the concep and the idea, the facts that you have to use multiple keys to finish the game is awesome! i also experiences problems with sound, but overall, i enjoyed playing your game, congrats!
oadt
2023-10-19 16:25
Liked the idea and clean graphics of this one! I didn't really get used to the space controls, but I liked the mechanic especially when you use it to avoid spikes. Maybe wished there were some checkpoint because some jumps are a bit hard :smile: Cool entry!
As mentioned before, controls are a little funky, I kept expecting to be able to hit space for jump, and shift + wasd + space + arrows is just a bit awkward. Level design is really tough but overall clever, and graphics are amazing! I'd love to see an expanded/polished version of this.
I genuinely really liked this game! I think that you had a great idea and that you could definitively expand this into a more polished version if you have the time! Abviously with audio, but also with more details in the graphics, more juice, etc ... The idea is simple but the game can be hard. Again, very cool idea and nice implementation! Very good work!
Really, really good! Very innovative, I love how you've used the theme. It's simple yet polished, not found any bugs. There's a lot of controls to remember but I feel that's where the challenge comes from and I like that. Overall I really like it, awesome work!