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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Originality & Innovation | #4 | 3.971 | 4.029 |
| Theme | #14 | 3.595 | 3.647 |
| Fun & Game Design | #19 | 3.363 | 3.412 |
| Audio | #29 | 3.015 | 3.059 |
| Visual Style | #49 | 2.957 | 3.000 |
Ranked from 34 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?
As a player you must stack other GeoPal shapes ontop of your character to make new shapes and try match the level bonding shape.
Once you have matched, a new bonding shape will form and your current stacked pals age up and move forward with you, they might not fit into the next bond shape.
You will have to leave behind pals and match with new ones to fit the next shape, your goal is to keep your pals for as long as possible and find ways to fit them in bonding shapes even when they dont fit
An exact stack-shape to bond-shape match is not required, you only have to somewhat resemble the bonding shape with your stacked pals.
There is a match meter to see how close your GeoPal stack is to forming a perfect bond!
Did your team create the vast majority of the art during the 4 days?
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Very creative!
I loved the creativity of this game, very good
Wow, 5 stars for both Theme and Originality! Really unique, and the idea of trying to balance matching the current shape whilst not discarding your old friends is genuinely great!
the concept is really good and implementation too, the idea is very original and I had fun playing game, good job
Aditional note: I found really cool the algorithm you use for detecting the shape of the pals
Very good take on the theme! Should be in the top 5 on the theme category!
WHAT, THIS SO GOOD
ok i got all the way to the end with all my pals, I LOVE THIS GAME. SO ORIGINAL AND FITS THE THEME SO WELL WHILE STILL BEING SO FUN.
i'm going to tell everyone to play this cuz i love it!
Thank you so much for the kind words, I'm glad you enjoyed it, I also see you are #1 on the leader board, well done!
Took me an embarrassing amount of time to realise that the arrow at the start of the game is what we are trying to match the shape to. I was trying to match against the % gauge, which as you can imagine didn't go great ^^'
It's a very unique idea you had there, I also like the mechanic where the player is encouraged to keep the old pals as long as they can, cool stuff
Thank you for playing until you figured it out! There is a crucial tutorial the explains just that, to "walk into the arrow shape then press match" but I had disabled it during testing, I was also well over 20hours awake by the time I posted my submission, the confusion can be fixed with one bool, but I believe its against the rules to post such update after the deadline. Either way even without the tutorial message it seems most people are realizing what to do.
Thank you for playing!
I love the incorporation of the theme! I felt so sad when I had to let my geopal go! Well done
I love this kind of spatial reasoning puzzle anyway, but the twist matching worse to bring pieces with you to the next level is fantastic.
Pretty fun game! It was interesting trying to balance making the correct shape and while keeping elderly shapes that dont fit!
Very cute style hides a real tough game! The match animation and sound make it very satisfying when you get it right. It's a shame I was failing so often! I want to meet the match goal but also don't want to leave my pals behind! Oh oh the misery
Nice touch with the leaderboard too!
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Just a tip as a fellow Godot dev; you can replace the default Godot loading image with one of your own, its in Project Settings -> Boot Splash. I always recommend it as it makes the game feel more complete and only takes 2 minutes!
Thanks for the tip :) I will keep it in mind
Very clever puzzle game, very fun trying to keep your old pals! Nice Work!