This is really amazing! I love the stop motion animations :D I remember I had a team that does stop motion for a game jam. It was fascinating!
Great game, great mechanics used.
Reviews for "Escape3"
I'll be surprised if this doesn't win the Jam. Or at least make it top 3. The graphics are incredible and it does fit the "3 things" theme in a authentic way.
gameplay is a bit too frustrating to my taste, though. gets repetitive.
I really like it. The characters were compelling & funny, they made you want to play it through until you got to the end. That's really valuable thing for a game.
The eye adventure was great, because I like funny things you might not figure out immediately but then when you get it you are amused and happy! :D
The art style and the game world peculiarities made me want to continue the game even when it finished, because I wanted to see what would come next in this odd adventure world.
Your character animation was delicate, I loved especially the small funny feet off them and the odd dance of victory when a route was completed.
The only things I can think of that could be perhaps tinkered little bit still:
The music. Overall I think the music was eerie in good way and good choice for your eerie game world :). Still I think the game might benefit to have different music for each level, because then the idea of progressing in the game comes clearer as well as each of your amazing creatures would get their own adventure theme music. The same music and tempo continuing through the whole game was the only thing that bothered me a bit in the otherwise compelling game play.
The other thing I was thinking was the end animation. Your game creatures were so great that the ending didn't come out as compelling. In a way this is huge praise :D. You might want to think about letting them shine in the end even more, because they are the ones that made your game very special.
Using the personalities of the creatures might be a thing to think about. Let their gifts shine. They got to the end because of their different skills, so these could be included to the end animation.
Things that came to my mind about the creatures were that it could be even dark rainy night in the end, the tree/roots grows into a huge shelter for it's friends, and eye lights the tree house where it is resting with the other small guy? Or make them dance even better winning dance than after a level? Or let the eye put a light to the sky (like batman light) and call in huge amount of flying/gliding head creatures carrying the three guys away to new adventures?
You have so good & enchanting game world going on, that it would be cool to have an ending that leaves for the player longing feeling to continue playing the game and see more of the world and more of the new adventures of the three creatures which hopefully you will end up making!
It was actually really hard to try to find anything to suggest, because your game is 5++++ for so little time. And you really nailed it with the organic movement / organic strangely peculiar game world & characters. :)
Great.
Brilliant