Mouse Wheel

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.65
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.71
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.94
Theme★★★★★★★★★★4.19
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.73
Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.98
Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.74
Mouse Wheel is a platformer game about a laboratory mouse tired of running around in circles. You need to get out of the wheel, preferably alive...MouseWheel2.jpgMouseWheel3.jpgMouseWheel.jpg

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Genres: platformer

Comments20

KingOfNova
KingOfNova5 Oct 2020, 22:31
fun little game.
A bit to easy though fun.
Towstee
Towstee5 Oct 2020, 22:35
Really cute and addictive game, could really be a cute mobile game !
Scharma5 Oct 2020, 22:42
This was a awesome surprise. I started playing thinking I would get motion sickness, and the puzzles were gonna be simple. Instead I was met by an incledible well made movement scheme, well thought out puzzles (always keeping things fresh and challenging) and an on theme art. I don't have much criticism (which is always good haha) except that I really missed some kinda of music or sounds. Well done lad, superb submission.
mohmehdi5 Oct 2020, 23:47
Realy cool game.
just missing some sounds
i liked the consept and puzzles
just a little issues in controls and physics.
i hope u work on this game and make more levels and features
SubMan
SubMan6 Oct 2020, 08:55
Cool game. But the physics of the jump should be improved.
Raphiell7 Oct 2020, 02:55
Lol! Didn't read your blurb at the top and I thought the point was to stay in the wheel. Wasted some time there. Interesting, are the levels randomly generated or prebuilt?

Well done on completing a game for the jam!
josephdevelops
josephdevelops7 Oct 2020, 04:07
Great premise. Good stuff! Would like the jump to be snappier. Though maybe the slow fall was realistic?
TheBugger7 Oct 2020, 17:31
cool game. really liked the graphics
Lychee
Lychee7 Oct 2020, 23:50
Cool game idea, I liked how you built on the concept of escaping the wheel. I think that gravity should be a bit less floaty though, so the player can be able to react more easily. The art was really cute also. Good job!
aevek
aevek7 Oct 2020, 23:51
This was a clever game! The levels were very well designed, and the progression was pretty good. Love the concept, its a cool interpretation of the theme. I also made the mistake of thinking my goal was to stay in the wheel, but once I remembered how to read I really enjoyed the rest of the game.
Joe Cowman7 Oct 2020, 23:53
Hmm, the Mac build doesn't work for me. It is just saying 'The application “MouseWheel” can’t be opened.' Wish I could play!
RainyDay2800
RainyDay28007 Oct 2020, 23:59
It's a really fun concept for a puzzle game that fits the theme well.
Just some points are, I found it really confusing to keep track of where I need to make jumps. You could let the player decide when to start the wheel so they can look around and make a little plan.
Also right now the game is skill based with the reflex jumps you have to make in time. If you wanted to focus more on the puzzle aspect you could let the player control wheel movement or at least influence to some extent.
Overall really fun game!
CiaranW8 Oct 2020, 00:00
Fun game, completed it (definitely didn't find it easy as one of the other comments said, it was a satisfying challenge!) I liked the graphics and concept. The puzzles were well thought out too! Sound would have been nice but i'm sure you already knew that :P And unfortunately gave me a bit of motion sickeness from all of the spinning!
ProdigalSon
ProdigalSon8 Oct 2020, 15:55
Nice and simple, straight to the point and a good literal interpretation of the theme. Be nice to have some sounds and music in the future to help with the mood. Maybe even have some scientist in the background "grading" your progression ;)
Aterlamia
Aterlamia8 Oct 2020, 20:06
Interesting unique puzzel game. It is to bad there was no sound would like some music and mouse squeaking. Only for my feeling the mouse jumped/floated a bit to far. Might be needed to make the jumps but it felt that shorter jumps would still make it and make it feel a tiny bit better.
Carson Bentley9 Oct 2020, 22:03
Very unique and interesting. I quite enjoyed this.
Cfdj4316 Oct 2020, 11:45
Really nice puzzle game, the jump is maybe a bit unresponsive and floaty? (although I can definitely see the game becoming too easy if it was more responsive)

Although it doesn't look it, is quite similar in idea to the game we made (except we went for an infinite runner style, and more reaction speed based)
JHax
JHax18 Oct 2020, 13:11
There's some cool puzzle design going on here, I've seen a few mouse / hamster wheel games but this is a pretty original take on it.

Low poly mouse is cute too!

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