On the Other Side

My first participation to the GMTK Game Jam ever! 

Started pretty late so got around 28h, but still happy to have submitted something! I went for a simplistic monochrome artstyle to save time and make enough levels.

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Pitch

Help Mika and Maki, each separated on one side of the mirror, join the other.

Controls (Keyboard / Gamepad)

• Walk : Horizontal arrows / Left stick
• Jump : Spacebar / South button (hold to jump higher)

Credits

• Nathan Mansard
• Music : Kevin MacLeod - Sovereign
• Made with Unity 2020.1.9

Post mortem

• Working alone and deciding to hop into the jam a bit late, I did not invest much time into graphics. I could have used tilsets for platforms, make some extra animations and character movements to differenciate them and give more identity to the project.

• More work on level transitions and on damage / level reset could have also helped the game feel more polished.

• I went for a platform character controller, but on retrospect I think translate movements might have fit this game more. It opened some player flexibility on the puzzle solving and asked for extra dexterity skills, but opened the door for frustration from control problems.

• There are 9 levels. I thought about each level as a "story", where the characters have to overcome one kind of obstacle to progress, with the final level being them finally brekaing this mirror curse and reuniting, to give the player the sense of accomplishment. I hope I succeeded at that!