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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Style | #240 | 4.333 | 4.333 |
| Overall | #430 | 3.921 | 3.921 |
| Enjoyment | #546 | 3.762 | 3.762 |
| Creativity | #1288 | 3.667 | 3.667 |
Ranked from 21 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 main mechanic is weighing stuff on the scale
Development Time
96 hours
(Optional) Please credit all assets you've used
All SFX, Music, Art, Code, and fonts were hand made, Except for the not hand-drawn font, which came from Google Fonts.
Music was made in Garage Band.
Art was made in Procreate, and slightly edited in Blockbench.
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Such a great game. Only issue is that the sticky piece wasn't sticky enough (but game was balanced for this stickiness so it's ok - just it felt not sticky and it's called sticky).
Otherwise well balanced (pun intended 😂) game. Creative take on the theme I haven't seen anywhere. All assets are nice, colorfull, well made, nice sounding ...
Just a great game.
We had tried making the gum sticky, but we couldn’t quite figure it out in the timeframe that we had. We ended up just making it really rough, which kinda works, but not enough.
Thanks for the reply! Glad you enjoyed the game.
very solid puzzle game!
Especially solid since we don’t have soft body physics yet. Wink Wink
I love soft body physics. I almost put some in my game!
First I thought this would be guessing how much each item weighs, but then it was a physics simulation! Nice surprise. And difficult, with the ice blocks. Nice game!
Glad you enjoyed the game! Thanks for playing!
The game was meant to be tricky, but definitely not impossible, so it seemed to work well then!
The game is SOOOO GOOOOD!!! Good job!
Suggestion : Add a 3 second timer after the puzzle is done so player can't spam click the check button! (because i did lol)
Bummer. Thought we fixed that bug.
Thanks for the feedback! Glad you enjoyed it!
Very polished, well done. Physics were fun too.
I’m glad you enjoyed the game! Thanks!
Fun fact: The physics were actually the easier part of coding this game.
One of the rare games in this jam that has everything going for it. Art, sound, control, game juice everything is perfect. You deserve more votes.
Thanks for making it, this is one of the few ones that made me rate higher.
Thank you for the kindness! We (GoofyBox Studios) try to spend as much time on polishing everything up as possible. It always make a game feel more complete.
Wow, the atmosphere of this game is amazing! The sounds and the art work really well together to create a chill game.
I’m glad you enjoyed the game!
We spent quite a while working on making the game feel just right.
Thanks for playing!
this was my first 15 star rating, well done!
Thank you for the incredible rating! This game was quite fun to make, and has a lot of opportunity to be expanded on later.
Best iteration of this idea I've seen yet in this jam! Great atmosphere, art, game feel all around. Nice work!
It’s kinda hard to believe that this is the “best” theme-following game, but thank you anyways!
How is this so good!!! Love the interpretation of the theme
Thank you for the positive review! We’re glad you enjoyed the game.
The feel of this game is nice. The music and sound effects are soothing. Cute balancing game.
We decided on the balancing idea, since we figured most other people would do a climbing or resizing game. And GoofyBox Studios is about use interesting mechanics in interesting ways.
Thanks!
Ran into a bug on level 7, it added up to 75 pounds on each side but the scale would not equalize. I believe the weights were 40, 30, and 5 and I had them all stacked up on the left side. Overall a fun game though, very atmospheric!
Glad you enjoyed the game! If you could perhaps recreate the bug, that would be very helpful. All good if you can’t though.
Thanks for playing!
Very atmospheric and cozy. Great art style and polish. The objects behave and sound great. Would have like more variation in the styles of puzzles - most of the ones I played ended up being "stack all of these, please".
Great job!
It may be possible (not likely though) that we add more levels, mechanics, and worlds to this game later. Maybe then we’ll update the levels a bit to be more interesting.
Thanks for trying it out!