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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Creativity | #188 | 4.227 | 4.227 |
| Overall | #294 | 4.000 | 4.000 |
| Enjoyment | #303 | 3.909 | 3.909 |
| Style | #1021 | 3.864 | 3.864 |
Ranked from 44 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?
A game where you can zoom to see things at a very small or very large scale.
Development Time
96 hours
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see description for full credits
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Great game! sad i didn't see this game before the rating period finished. Loved how you keep getting smaller and smaller to uncover new things. If you decide to add more content, i'll be first in line! one question, which game engine did you use?
Aw, thanks! :) We used a custom framework / engine which I'm afraid isn't exactly usable by anyone else but me right now, but maybe I'll get into some code cleaning one of these days.
Cool idea and great art. Keep up the good work!
Thank you! :)
Best response to the scaling theme I've seen in the Jam so far, and probably my #1 game of the Jam. The weird and playful world and the unique scrolling mechanic make me really feel like I'm exploring. They make this feel like much more than a point and click adventure. This game also creates really funny surprises with the scrolling too. 5*5*5*.This is a Masterful game and deserves the top 20.
Aw, thank you so much, much appreciated! :D
Wow such an excellent use of theme and I had lots of fun completing this! Excellent game! :)
Thanks a lot! :)
This infinite zoom works really well! Navigating through these spaces is very enjoyable, and give a great sense of vertigo.
The puzzles are well balanced. My only issue was finding the two hidden objects inside the mouse nose. Otherwise everything connects nicely. And the final is completely appropriate. Well done!
Thank you, glad you enjoyed it! :)
Take my 5 stars the ending was brilliant. Our games are kinda similar in a way although yours is a lot more sophisticated in terms of the quality of the puzzle. The zooming in is so nice it reminds me of those youtube shorts I watched where the guy makes giant drawings and just keeps zooming in to reveal new details. One complaint I have is the zooming in is a bit unintuitive it sometimes zooms in the wrong part of the image(not the part I want) for example the igloo was hard to zoom into.
Haha, thanks! :) Yeah, the idea for this game was actually born after watching one of those videos and the jam seemed like the perfect time to tackle building it. The zooming thing is definitely not great, yeah. I actually made some improvements to the system earlier today so that the room transitioning is more lenient, so at least post-jam players will hopefully have a better time with it :)
Well that was strange! But very enjoyable! Nice use of the theme!
Enjoyed how smoothly everything transitioned between each other, very well done!
Thanks! Yeah, definitely one of our weirder games, and that's not an easy feat :)
Cool puzzle! Interesting interpretation of the theme
Thank you! :)
Great work! Love the play on the scale theme and how smoothly everything zoomed.
My main complaint is that the point at which things fork when you zoom in feels a bit too far out at times so it goes one way when it should the other. Also the order I discovered the numbers in was different so had to try all combinations.
Apart from those little things I thoroughly enjoyed it.
Thanks a lot! Most of my coding woes this time came from trying to find a way to make everything scale smoothly while still keeping load times small, so I'm glad that's appreciated.
Yeah, the zooming problem is definitely an annoyance we know about, watching someone play through the game on YouTube and repeatedly zooming towards the tree instead of the settlement was painful :D I'd definitely like to work on the transition system a bit more post-jam, somehow extending the window during which the destination can be chosen, but I haven't tried it out yet.
The symbols on the door are meant to give hints about the order of the numbers, painting -> cave -> flower. Sorry if that didn't came across.
Thanks again for playing and glad you enjoyed it! :)
Oh yeah lol why was my first instinct brute forcing all combinations too ahah.
This is such a thematic take on point-and-click escape games! My fave transitions were the realistic ones, like zooming from the window to the moon, or zooming from the mouse to its DNA. So much phenomenal art! And of course, the silly ending (:
Thank you for the lovely game (:
Aw, thank you, glad you enjoyed it! :)
This game is one of my favourites!!!! I want to play more! I love your concept. Well executed. Not too hard but still takes some time to think about it. Thoughtful puzzles. Awesome use of the theme too. The music is great and fits very nicely with the game. Really well done! :)
Thank you so much! :) Glad you enjoyed the music, I also think it adds so much to the atmosphere. (Also fun fact, we spent more time on picking a fitting instrument than on the actual composition)
Super well done. Felt like a modern take on some of those old school point and click adventures. I mean that in a good way. I haven't yet made it out, but I'm determined to figure this out eventually. Nice work! :D
Thanks! Don't worry, I absolutely take that in a good way. Games like Submachine and its surreal mysteries were definitely a big inspiration and I'm glad we managed to bring that across :)
This was really really fun!
Loved everything about it, challenging but not too hard, fits the theme, great atmosphere and the ending was cool.
Also what you wrote in the credits on the game page was funny lol
Awesome work :)
Aw, thank you so much! Also glad you liked the writing on the description page, my brain was already a little foggy while writing it but I definitely had fun with it :D
Very cool puzzle, makes amazing use of the theme
Thank you! :)
Cool game ! The scaling theme works really well
Thanks a lot! :)
Really enjoyed this, it reminds me of those digital art videos where the infinitely scroll, very creative interpretation of the theme
Thanks! The idea for this was actually born after watching one of those videos earlier this year and thinking "wouldn't it be cool if you could actually explore this yourself interactively?". This year's theme was the perfect opportunity to tackle it :)
Wonderful
Thank you! :)
An escape game using infinite zoom!! It was so much fun! It's amazing that you were able to create such a high-quality escape game in such a short time! :) I also really love the artwork!
Thanks a lot! Almost all of the art credit goes to my girlfriend who did most of the heavy lifting for this one while I just sat in front of my code editor and struggled with basic math :D
Let her know I’m impressed by the scene where it goes into the nostril!
No complaints at all, this was super fun! Great job!
Thanks a lot! :)
This was definitely a interesting way to make something with the given theme. Really unique, great work!
Thank you! :)