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A jam submission

Sample SizeView game page

Submitted by Mystik Sauce — 2 hours, 7 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Style#11813.7863.786
Overall#24283.1903.190
Creativity#27343.2143.214
Enjoyment#39442.5712.571

Ranked from 14 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?
In "Sample Size" you play as a quantum scientist who can use their specialized suit to shrink sizes to enter test samples and grow to exit them.

Development Time

96 hours

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Comments

Submitted

I got the twelve glowing scrap and went back to the dying astronaut, but I wasn't able to interact with her anymore. Is that supposed to happen? Either way, I stopped playing after that. I liked the pressure of having to run through these arenas and get as many kills as possible before dying or running out of time. But arenas 1 and 2 are so samey and repetitive that it's hard to remember where I went last time. Its good there are more boss nanobots than needed to get the twelve glowing scrap. Otherwise I never would have found the last few. The speed powerup felt really weak. It either doesn't work or the speed increase is so small to not be noticeable. The shooting mechanic was strange, but I kind of liked it. I got down the rhythm of pressing and releasing to get max fire rate while dodging enemy shots. I wish it had some charging sound effects to help indicate when the shot is ready.

Overall, good job. Great visuals and gameplay, even if it could have used a bit more polish.

Submitted

Very confused about what I was meant to be doing as I kept being kicked out due to short timer and my health wouldn't reset. I would also be nice to get a better indication to when the player takes damage. I really liked the art though it is very cool.

Submitted

Yeah this is cool, I like the slow burn of it.

There seems to be a bug here the player stops after shooting, and needs to press a direction key again before moving.

Developer

Interesting, I haven't been able to replicate the bug mentioned. It seems to occur when you click off of the game tab and all controls freeze. Does this also happen in fullscreen or can you count out the possibility of tabbing out?

Submitted

The art is amazing
The movement speed and the short timer made it a little frustrating to try to explore tho

Submitted

Very polished game, and I liked the scenario. I found the weapon to be a bit hard to use, so I wasn't able to defeat the enemies and progress (this might just be me sucking at this type of game!)

Submitted

This is too good no to be in the top 100