Nice little game. I really love the art and the minimalist design. The mechanic is also pretty interesting. It's slow and stealthy, but also a little fast because of the drive to back-hug.
I think you should tone down the film grain a bit and may be make it so only the room resets when you die.
Best game so far! The idea is very creative, the graphics works great with the the dim lights and grains, the animations are also vivid and cute. Control also feels very good.
Two small suggestions: 1. Death penalty is too high, why not restart the same level instead of the game? 2. A indicator of how long has been holding the space bar would be nice.
Thanks for your kind words guys. I entirely agree that the sticky walls are a massive issue and the death penalty is a bit silly. @iSamurai I'm definitely going to add some sort of audio queue on the spacebar holding.
Thanks again guys. Much appreciated!
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ST121 Apr 2015, 03:41
The art and animations are wonderful, the subtlety of the tutorial is lovely. A well rounded game and concept I would say. The only drawback I see it that dying is way too penalizing, especially since it's not a fast paced game. A couple of checkpoints to bypass the tutorial would help a lot. Either way, congratulations on the awesome game! :)
The artwork and animation style really set the tone. Jumping physics/collision was a little buggy which caused some death. The hug-as-a-weapon choice was done very well.
Very nice job. Agree with most of the above. Love the movement and animation. They characters have a lot of personality. The world has a lot of style. I wish each room was a different scene in Unity so you would have easy checkpoints :)
Wow i always like good particle effects and you have some nice ones there about the game i like the lighting very original concept too.As the others i didn't enjoyd the reset level when you die.
The art and visual style is fantastic. Mood right off the charts. Hope you get more attention, your game deserves it.
The physics kept glitching out for me however, and then when I'd die, I was punished for it harshly. But hey, few of us have time to balance our games in such a short jam.
Legit I can't get over how good this game looks. At full res on my PC, it looks like a pretty polished full game to me. Great stuff.
I've found out the sticky walls is a massive problem that actually gets the player stuck forever at times. I've reuploaded a build with non game breaking colliders. Check updated description for full changelog and I forgot to mention "F" fast forwards! Cheers
Cool art direction, very moody and atmospheric, with the spooky lighting and everything. The hug leap is a fun weapon even though I messed up a lot. Good stuff!
I like the game and the art style. Specially because one of the uncoventional weapons I thought of would be hugs too, but in a very different way. You should hone the physics so that the player sticks less to the walls, it can be a trouble some times when you get stuck when youre trying to move. Also provide a way to leave the game (esc?)
This game looks amazing. Top marks for graphics and animation. And all the little touches like particles and flickering light really adds to it. That said I found the controls a bit fiddly, which caused me a lot of needless deaths. Overall though a great entry. Good stuff.
Wow! Very impressive visual style! Novel idea and I'm a sucker for stealthy types of games. Could use a checkpoint system but you can't always implement everything! Please continue working on this game. Great job!
Cheers for the feedback guys. Totally agree with you all. Will do a post LD release some time soon. Needs a proper ending, checkpoints and some much more advanced HUG PUZZLES!
A very nice platformer, looks very polished! Art style and animations are very well executed and the game mechanic also works well.
Personally, the noise and chromatic aberration is a little too much but if your unconventional weapon of choice is hugs, then definitely prefer this game over Hugline Miami!
Cheers guys! Thanks for playing, apologies for the lack of checkpointing.
@Phil Strahl - I agree the noise and chromatic aberration are a tad heavy handed. I would have preferred something like a CCTV feel with some lens distortion. Alas I ran out of time.
Most 'blocky' Unity games are very rigid and lifeless. Yours isn't. The characters are springy and fun, despite the world being very low poly. That's a good contrast... but then you go and add even more contrast with the dark and moody film grain. THEN... you add contrast to that with the friendly hugging mechanics. It's like your entire game is constantly at war with itself, but not in a bad way. The 'weapon' is unconventional, but so is everything else... and that's what makes this game rad. Good job!
Loving the graphics and animations! Controls could do with a little fine tuning but otherwise a great stealthy jumpy game, whatever you want to call it!
Gorgeous game. The animations on the character are very (VERY) well done. The environment is well lit and I love the art style. Great idea too...I love back hugging! I would just like to have a checkpoint after each screen cleared, but this is a minor thing. Please keep polishing this game! :)
Thanks for all your support guys. Sorry I've been absent from my page. Tonnes of things distracting me away. I'm back now and left a little post-jam version in the link section. So be sure to check out few improvements and additional content. Cheers!
Hah, great game with climatic graphics and visual effects plus nice audio. I really like the mood, reminds of Oddworld Abe's Oddysee. Really fun game to play, well done.
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I think you should tone down the film grain a bit and may be make it so only the room resets when you die.
Overall, really well done!
Two small suggestions:
1. Death penalty is too high, why not restart the same level instead of the game?
2. A indicator of how long has been holding the space bar would be nice.
Thanks again guys. Much appreciated!
The only drawback I see it that dying is way too penalizing, especially since it's not a fast paced game. A couple of checkpoints to bypass the tutorial would help a lot.
Either way, congratulations on the awesome game! :)
@GeorgeBroussard. Yeah it needs checkpoints.
Just also discovered you can speed run this a bit. Just hope someone finds out this weird accident.
The physics kept glitching out for me however, and then when I'd die, I was punished for it harshly. But hey, few of us have time to balance our games in such a short jam.
Legit I can't get over how good this game looks. At full res on my PC, it looks like a pretty polished full game to me. Great stuff.
I've found out the sticky walls is a massive problem that actually gets the player stuck forever at times. I've reuploaded a build with non game breaking colliders. Check updated description for full changelog and I forgot to mention "F" fast forwards! Cheers
Personally, the noise and chromatic aberration is a little too much but if your unconventional weapon of choice is hugs, then definitely prefer this game over Hugline Miami!
Noice Mate!
@Phil Strahl - I agree the noise and chromatic aberration are a tad heavy handed. I would have preferred something like a CCTV feel with some lens distortion. Alas I ran out of time.
Got some problems with collision - resulted in many restarts. Should be nice to have some checkpoints.
Art style is neat! That dithering makes gradients and light look very nicely.
Very good the minimalistic art style and the music.
The gameplay is solid, but the physics need more polishing [pretty fun sky rocketing when fast forwarding and jump-hugging XD].