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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Creativity | #243 | 4.333 | 4.333 |
| Enjoyment | #558 | 3.905 | 3.905 |
| Audio | #1841 | 3.262 | 3.262 |
| Narrative | #2005 | 2.810 | 2.810 |
| Artwork | #2134 | 3.548 | 3.548 |
Ranked from 42 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
How does your game fit the theme?
The game is about surviving on a ferris wheel. The ferris wheel is a loop!
(Optional) What would you like to be called if GMTK features your game?
Mechanical Duck
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Really fun and cool arcade game with a surprising amount of secrets and contents!
This is a really creative take on the theme, great job!
Thank you! I’m glad you enjoyed!
This was fun to play! I unlocked the cheat menu and had some extra fun with disasters every 1 second :D
Good job man, im glad you enjoyed it!
Attention all players!
I have realized that it isn’t very obvious, but you can double jump in this game. I’m trying my best to let all players know so that they can hopefully have the best time playing! (Sorry for reposting this, I can't figure out a way to just pin this message at the top)
Very creative, the double jump made all the difference! Would love to see this game evolve more in the future!
Thanks for the positive feedback!
Attention all players!
I have realized that it isn’t very obvious, but you can double jump in this game. I’m trying my best to let all players know so that they can hopefully have the best time playing! (Sorry for reposting this, I can't figure out a way to just pin this message at the top)
This was really fun to play!! I loved that you added more disasters after every play because it made you want to play again and again to experience them (very addicting :D) great work!!
Thank you! I think I accidentally made it too addictive because I kept just played it instead of actually getting to work! I'm glad you liked it!
Really fun and nicely polished!
Thank you!
Amazing execution on this game! It felt really nice to control, the art is simple and on point, the gameplay has a high amount of polish and it even has a neat tutorial before you begin. It's challenging and had me wanting to try again to see if i could reach the cheat menu required score.
I got a 14.000 high score :D
Congratulations on making such a cool game!
I'm happy you thought it was good! I hope you found the cheats menu worth it!
Attention all players!
I have realized that it isn’t very obvious, but you can double jump in this game. I’m trying my best to let all players know so that they can hopefully have the best time playing! (Sorry for the reposting, I can't figure out a way to just pin this message at the top)
So rewarding to get a good run, also because it's super punishing when you're not focused.
Good work!
Thank you!
This game is so good! Great job, and cheers on your first GMTK Game Jam! This year was also my first jam where I tried to simplify and just build something fun, so your development story really resonates with me personally. I'd love if you tried out my game too and shared your feedback with me!
I particularly like how you expressed the loop theme by unlocking more disasters on each play through. It's funny to think that the "disasters" are the fun part of the game and that we as players want to unlock them! I found the pacing of the disasters expertly tuned to keep me moving and keep me engaged. My only point of feedback is I wish I could jump through the roof of the carts. Sometimes I missed a jump because I clonked my head and fell into the lava. But even that wasn't so bad because in the beginning at least it meant I just got to unlock more disasters!
Seriously, great job! Cheers!
I'm glad you thought it was fun and that my story resonated with you! Thank you for sharing your full experience with my game, it's really nice that you took the time to write it all out! Your comment feels truly genuine! Keep being a nice person, and in the meantime I will definitely be giving your game a try!
Extremely polished and clean game all around! I am seriously impressed with the amount of care that went into this. For example, the amount of disasters and unlocks, as well as the screen transitions! I do have a few suggestions! I really really wish I could jump on the circle in the middle, I dunno why but I want to. Also, I found that I could get a very high score by simply staying on the top of the wheel. I think this is the biggest flaw. Perhaps certain disasters should force the player on the lower levels. Finally, the bonus score pop-ups could be improved by making them something more tangible, like a coin or maybe add some temporary upgrades for the player. I see a lot of potential here. Anyway, great submission!
Thank you for all the suggestions! I’m glad you liked my game!
Fun concept. The controls feel good, but I think a bigger wheel would have been ideal, as well as an option to quickly restart (especially considering that I died a lot 🤷♂️). Other than that, I think the idea is very well executed. Congrats on finishing it in such short time 🤝
Thank you for the feedback and suggestions! I'm glad you thought it was fun!
Attention all players!
I have realized that it isn’t very obvious, but you can double jump in this game. I’m trying my best to let all players know so that they can hopefully have the best time playing!
I didn't realize until coming to leave my comment and seeing another comment that there was a double jump in the game! My main suggestion was going to be for it to be possible to jump to the other gondolas when they're above you, so... instead my suggestion changes to telling the player more clearly that they've got a double jump, haha. I really love what you did with the jam prompt on this. I also really loved the screen transition to back to the main menu, very nice.
Thank you! I'm glad you saw the message about the double jump! I've been trying my best to inform the players, but there's only so much I can do now that submissions have closed!
Very fun! Reminds me of that classic disaster survival Roblox game... but on a Ferris wheel! The movement was pretty fluid, and the double jump was very helpful. I do wish the new disasters would unlock immediately as you progress rather than only unlocking once you die. Great job!
Thanks for the feedback! I'm glad you thought it was fun!
This game was surprisingly fun. The variety of different events are entertaining and make for a good challenge. its also just a very funny idea of being trapped on a fairs wheel at Armageddon. Would like a little more story to it, just like a reason we are stuck here. Congrats on submitting!
Thank you for the feedback! Personally I'm not great at storytelling, so I'll leave it up to your imagination to decide how the character ended up stuck on a ferris wheel during Armageddon! Glad you enjoyed!
I'm not good either lol.
Attention all players!
I have realized that it isn’t very obvious, but you can double jump in this game. I’m trying my best to let all players know so that they can hopefully have the best time playing!
Fun game, liked the random events coming in to your way to stop. Unique interpretation of loop. My only minor nitpick is that the disable earthquake switch kept turning off when i died. but that wasn’t a big deal.
Glad you enjoyed it! If thats your only nitpick, I don't think we can really complain. Thank you!
Good to know! I’ll try to get that fixed after the jam!
I had a great time with this! I'm glad you noted in the description that you could double-jump! I had no idea the first 12 or so deaths!
Atleast you figured out you could double jump 😅, glad you enjoyed the game!
Glad you enjoyed and even played 12+ times! I was not expecting to get so much player retention!