Exaltation

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.90
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.45
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.42
Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.67
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★4.47
Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.81
Mood★★★★★★★★★★4.10

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Exaltation - 2D action-platformer game. Avoid enemies and solve puzzles to save your life. Climb up the tower to get to the top!

Made by Buckwheat Studio

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Controls

A/D - Move Left/Move Right

Space - Jump/Climb

LMB - EMP Blast

RMB - Spawn minion

F - Switch between player/minion

B - Fast switch to player (Only for minion)

R - Get unstacked (Reload scene)

P - Pause/Settings

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Game Content

Exaltation - Gameplay Trailer


Exaltation (Original Game Soundtrack) - Soon

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Screenshots



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Buckwheat Studio Team


HellHound (@hellhound) - Game-Design / Lead / Music

m0rph1y (@m0rph1y) - Game-Design / UX-Designer / QA

Ulziton (@ulziton) - C# Code / Level-Art

Kryakikrya (@kryakikrya) - C# Code

biteZZZ (@bitezzz) - Level-Design

Alivye (@alivye) - 2D Artist

Morderr (@morderr) - 2D Artist / Animator

Aline007 (@aline007) - 2D Artist

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Comments57

gelsti
gelsti7 Oct 2024, 22:13
super game, I really liked the art and animation, really cool! Good job
Mmm1008fm
Mmm1008fm7 Oct 2024, 22:33
Love the game! Incredible for a jam! Animations and gameplay overall! Good job ❤️
AriPizE7 Oct 2024, 22:36
Awesome level design! The art is on point and the sound effects are great! Thanks for all the hard work!
teroflups7 Oct 2024, 22:38
This game is awesome
Gaudy
Gaudy7 Oct 2024, 22:45
i love your dick
LDJam user 236545
LDJam user 2365457 Oct 2024, 22:54
The art is really slick, and I enjoyed the music! The concept seems solid enough, I like the idea of an asymmetrical platformer where you have 2 characters that have to work in tandem playing towards their strengths.

Unfortunately, the movement mechanics really prevented me from playing much of the game. I'm not sure if it's intended, but the player slips through the platforms, and it's really hard to jump from one to the next. I had to hold down the space bar and just hope I got lucky enough to reach the next one.

When I got to this section, I simply couldn't make any more progress:

Let me know if there's something I missed with regards to the movement, I'd really like to play this one til the end!
volish7 Oct 2024, 23:22
Interesting level design and funny SFX + АЙ АНТОНЧИК🔥🔥💪 ЧИСТО В КОНДИЦИИ ВОШЕЛ🦁🦁🦁☝️АЙ ЛЕВ ГЛАВНОЕ ВОШЁЛ ТИХО И АККУРАТНЕНЬКО 🔥🔥🔥☝️☝️КРАСАВЧИК ДВИГАЕШЬСЯ РОВНЫМИ ДВИЖЕНИЯМИ АЙ ХОРОШ😈😈💪💪💪☝️🔥🦁🦁
AxolotlUwU
AxolotlUwU7 Oct 2024, 23:24
It's actually cool game, art of it is so fantastic, but there is many problems with movement controller and tutorial. It's sad, but maybe test on Friday will be more politely to play)
Kryakikrya
Kryakikrya7 Oct 2024, 23:28
@andrewkennedy Hi. You need to go to the top and left and there are will be little quest which you need to do to go to the next stage
StrangeHead7 Oct 2024, 23:31
I really liked the game. interesting mechanics with two characters. excellent animations of movements and mechanisms, a good art style, I can also highlight the music, it turned out to be atmospheric.
S78048 Oct 2024, 03:06
The game was really fun! I do think the music a bit too loud, but the visuals and the cutscenes were cool. The movement felt a little floaty but it was inputs were snappy.
AlxJE
AlxJE8 Oct 2024, 06:08
It is incredible to make such epic game in just 3 days! Love the art works and protagonist’s design. Excellent design!
Dzukika8 Oct 2024, 07:07
looks epic!
Mars
Mars8 Oct 2024, 07:28
Great work! Overall a solid game for a game jam, good art, music, nice concept and a quite big level filled with some interesting puzzles. Very cool that y'all managed to put this together in just 3 days! I especially liked your take on the theme, and how you made the tiny creature a companion for some classic "control two characters to solve puzzles" gameplay.

I have three criticisms, though:

1. I found the visual language a little confusing at times.
For example, I thought the checkpoints had to be avoided at first, because they look like spinning sawblades. Seemed like something I needed to stay away from.
It also took me a while to understand the ledges. When I see ledges in a 2D platform, I assume they are platforms to stand on, it took me a while to understand they were ledges to hang from instead. I got stuck at the first ledges for almost a minute because I was so confused about why I kept falling throught the platforms. I see from @andrewkennedys comment that I'm not the only one who made this mistake.

2. For a platformer, the movement speed of the character felt a little bit sluggish.

3. I kinda didn't get the ending. It was visually cool, and there seems to be a narrative here, but I don't understand it.
queerjuice8 Oct 2024, 07:31
The combination of the ruins scene and the techno music is great, and the last rooftop walking scene is also very poetic. The character's movement operation is a bit stiff, and it would look more natural if the character could have a running animation, after all, they has to escape from a giant machine enemy. Maybe you can add a little feedback on being attacked, which can be sound effects.
Nedotepa8 Oct 2024, 09:06
Топово, жалко только что лагает
Daniela8 Oct 2024, 10:16
COOL GAME!
Kirass8 Oct 2024, 10:51
Such a cool game! I really liked it!
Forshley8 Oct 2024, 11:52
I love the artstyle
Yup1_X0dUs
Yup1_X0dUs8 Oct 2024, 12:16
Суперская игра, с великолепной атмосферой и музыкой!! Очень понравилась!!!
viscera
viscera8 Oct 2024, 13:02
МЕГА КПРУТО МЫ В ВОСТРОРГЕ АААААА за три для это вострог!!!!!!!!!!
Kotolazer
Kotolazer8 Oct 2024, 14:42
The story in this game got me emotional. Very nice visuals, I don't know how you managed to do it in 3 days. At the beginning of the game I fell through the textures, but you made saves and I didn't lose progress, thanks!
Jadabech8 Oct 2024, 14:45
Awesome, really! Game mechanics, sound design, music, i liked everything.
gudkova_ds8 Oct 2024, 15:56
очень крутая атмосфера в игре, не фанатка подобного жанра, но дизайн персонажей и графика прям вкусная!!
ma_th_eoo
ma_th_eoo8 Oct 2024, 16:02
The game is cool, i love games with some new "fight" system, the idea to freeze and not kill the robot are really smart. I liked too the 2 character controling idea, even if sometime i took like 10 try to drop the rat into a small way believing that i'm Curry or Kobe lmao. For real, this is really cool !
Alex18 Oct 2024, 18:22
nice game
rensun
rensun8 Oct 2024, 18:30
I liked the gameplay, looks unusual, cool mechanics with throwing enemies out!
designernap
designernap8 Oct 2024, 20:54
A LOT of work has gone into this and it shows. Really nicely done. I have to echo what @andrewkennedy says above though, I ended up just holiding space and hoping and got stuck at the same place roughly. Great work on the intro, onboarding and audio though. Love that the main character is tapping their foot to the music!
codeserk8 Oct 2024, 21:02
great job! love the art and idea! I fell some more times than I would like to admit tho! :)
Kseniya
Kseniya8 Oct 2024, 22:06
The game is interesting, but the music is very loud (((and the sound is not adjustable
Kryakikrya
Kryakikrya8 Oct 2024, 22:18
Hi, @kseniya , thank you for the comment, you can use the "P" button to open an options menu and make music not that loud. (settings will be updated when you close the menu)
Evelyn_Rudaleva
Evelyn_Rudaleva9 Oct 2024, 00:53
Я не верю что это возможно было сделать за 3 дня!!! Несмотря на баги мне безумно понравилась атмосфера, игра заслуживает высокой оценки на все 100!!!
WimbleBimble9 Oct 2024, 01:11
Ok, did not expect it to go this hard, but omg the game is amazing. Kind of hard to understand the climbing mechanic, but everything else is simply great.
MaryPots9 Oct 2024, 01:23
Сделать такой шедевр за 3 дня, это просто что-то с чем-то! Мне очень понравился вайбик игры. Вы большие молодцы.
GodBo9 Oct 2024, 06:40
Amazing game!The art and gameplay are great.It's a bit hard for me, especially with continuous jumps through multiple non-entity platforms,but I'm still having fun.I can't believe it's a game made over the course of three days
Zomk
Zomk9 Oct 2024, 06:53
Nice game. I was really amazed by the art
LDJam user 120290
LDJam user 1202909 Oct 2024, 08:02
Very solid entry! This game has amazing art and a whole entire kind of story and levels. There are many level design need two characters interactive to beat, that's nice.

Pity that this game only have music but don't have sound effect.
Maria Alrik9 Oct 2024, 08:14
Wow, I'm impressed. Cool graphics and animations. It's very atmospheric. Cool mechanics. The game gets addictive fast!
Vitalina9 Oct 2024, 11:11
Oh my God, this is the coolest game ever! I played it before I found out you were in college and it's a great game and the work is really good. The animation, the gameplay, the level design, it's all top notch, you guys. I hope you get first place among the college!
(our elephant💪)
LDJam user 277851
LDJam user 2778519 Oct 2024, 15:12
Impressive game. I like the mood of the game. You did a good job!
I'm not sure if I understood
But I drew you a black slugcat 0.0
kiririn51
kiririn519 Oct 2024, 15:28
This was a lotta work for 72 hours! congratulations. Very cool and atmospheric. I usually don't fw tweening motion but the camera was so pulled back it looked good. I'm unsure if you're meant to slip through platforms, but the fact it only happens on some of them makes platforming a little unreliable. I was also able to keep space bar pressed down to keep jumping once I touch a surface and I'm also not sure if that's the intended way of playing it. I really don't mind taking different approaches to old gameplay concepts, I just think they need consistent rules of interaction so it doesn't come across as unintentional design.
maneoliz
maneoliz9 Oct 2024, 15:36
DAMN you guys are amazing!! the idea, the vibes, the art, the atmosphere, the realisation, everything is just absolutely beautiful, mwah, chef's kiss, my team also tried to make a platformer but we didn't even come close to you, i don't know what to critique honestly, absolutely loved it!
m0rph1y9 Oct 2024, 15:47
@thyoi WOW! That's impressive, that fun-art is soo cool, yep, you're goddamn right, we took MC from Rain world as a reference for our mini-friend.

Our team appreciate what you did, and that's soo cool, that's our first fun art for some type of our work. Thank you very much! We are so glad, that you liked our product!
juju
juju9 Oct 2024, 16:19
Very impressive for a jam game! I wish it controlled a little better though. It felt kinda floaty, but otherwise, many kudos!
Baynary-Egor
Baynary-Egor9 Oct 2024, 17:59
Cool game, art and music are cool, but it look like something you already made and just change the art and couple of mechanics! But still, empressive as hell.
LDJam user 387548
LDJam user 3875489 Oct 2024, 20:18
Well-built levels, the light looks very cool, cool!
Pimping9 Oct 2024, 22:02
Graphics are insane, definitely high rank!
NikitaStarostin
NikitaStarostin10 Oct 2024, 02:13
Unfortunately, due to the weight of the project I couldn't run it, so I'll give an estimate based on comments and pictures. The game looks great, and since there are also their own soundtracks (hopefully without the use of artificial intelligence), only respect, as I myself am a music composer. Anyway, for the graphic, a big kudos from JoBlow!
Zathnic
Zathnic12 Oct 2024, 16:36
Great art! The robot enemies and spinning wheels were impressive
PaDo
PaDo13 Oct 2024, 13:15
WOW! This is just mind blowing. I liked the implementation of the platforms. I also want to note that you clearly have your own visual style!
Yanato
Yanato25 Oct 2024, 13:08
Yeah, nice and finished game. Mood and art are awesome!

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