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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Visuals | #422 | 3.725 | 3.725 |
| Enjoyment | #490 | 3.431 | 3.431 |
| Gameplay | #602 | 3.137 | 3.137 |
| Audio | #732 | 3.020 | 3.020 |
| Overall | #748 | 3.092 | 3.092 |
| Innovation | #1052 | 2.647 | 2.647 |
| Theme | #1148 | 2.588 | 2.588 |
Ranked from 51 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
How does the game fit the theme?
In 2 ways:
1- I had a very limited time (about 7-8hours) to finish the game, and I thought "nothing can go wrong and I can easily finish the game right?"
2- Snail collects/eats thing on the path and surelly nothing can go wrong
What code and assets did you not make from scratch during the jam (if any)?
I made everything on my own
How many people worked on the game?1
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A fun game that fits the theme well! I was not ready for the speed to pick up like that.
Very nice and cute ! I enjoyed it a lot !
Please consider rating my game too ;)
A Pico-8 game in the wild, nice! The game was very fun and has a cute art style, and you did a great job in a very limited time.
My only constructive feedback would be to change the sprites of the “hazardous” collectibles. The skull is alright (duh) but the banana really got me confused because you would associate a delicious fruit with something “positive”, not something that removes your HP. With the fast-paced gameplay in play, I kept grabbing bananas because I subconsciously thought they were “good” pickups.
Changing the sprites so that they reflect what they “do” better would be my suggestion like a banana PEEL instead of a full banana for example.
Overall, good job!
You are totally right! At the time of the jam, this did not struck me for some reason, in post jam version there will be a banana peel for sure.
Anyway thanks a lot for playing the game, and huge thanks for feedback!!
I got confused. Should not eat that Amanita Muscaria. Simple, Solid game. I love when people make games like this one!
pretty fun compact game, found it a bit hard at first to understand what does what... Overall pretty fun though!
Fun little game! Interesting mechanic and not easy when the speed is cranked up
Great simple game! Awesome to see you made the assets, they look pretty and enjoyed the audio too! It got quite challenging in the end and I think it would be great to show which elements are good and which elements are bad with more clarity!
Awesome overall job!
Everything went wrong. but good take on a small minigame feeling!
Nice game! Got VERY challegning
Great game! It becomes very challenging once it speeds up tho!
Very entertaining and fun game, nice job!! We also made a snail related game, check it out
Really nice game!
Somewhere in the acceleration phase the jitter from the movement gave me a bit of motion sickness, but it got better as the speed increased.
Good job! The art feels very cohesive. Also it felt kinda not obvious that banana is bad to take so I had to try every item to see what do they do.
Cute game. Interesting item diversity for a simple runner game. Except for the skull, everything has a little bit of utility, so it's less about dodging and more about planning what you want to pick up. Great job!
skull was there as an opposite of the apple - simple hp gain/loose... the truth is that instead of skull I could use some fruit as well. In fact originally I had heart instead of an apple before, and changed it just before release... thanks for playing and feedback!
This is very cute. I'm a sucker for snails. I like the pixel art but I'll have to admit I was a bit disappointed that it didn't match the 1-bit style of the thumbnail, that image looks fantastic.
I myself don't like when games don't match the thumbnail, but there was no other way here, as I already had the thumbnail before the game was done, and I had no time to change it later :/ apologies for the bait
Cool game, this is a good challenge and it's rare to see a pico 8 game on a jam GG
as a small feedback, may be added more feedback on object i didn't know which is good and which is bad in the first time
thx for feedback! I started with pico8 just month ago and I am in love with it at the moment :) Also it allows me to create a game fairly quickly ...
There is a small screenshake when loosing the health + the hint text, but for sure it could use some tweaking :)
realy cool game! i realy like the integration into the theme. What could go wrong in eating 20 bananas haha.
check out my game to if you like!
Thx for playing, will definitelly check yours ;)
Nice! This was a fun challenge :) Love the retro look and sound of it all! Nice work :)
One thing that confused me was the banana-effect. It was a bit unintuitive that it makes you lose lives. But that also made it more challenging, so I don't know if it's a good or bad thing :)
thx for playing. Agree and it was intention to confuse at first... nothing can go wrong right? Haha :) but I try to communicate the bad effect to you as a player so hopefully it works out, at least a little :)
WOWWWWWWWW! It gets so fast!
Very nice! enjoyed it a lot. I wonder if adding danger indicators before a dangerous item appears would be helpful or would they just always be on once you speed reaches a certain level...
It can get very fast especially if you eat these delicious carrots :D
When I was thinking about the difficulty balance, I was considering few options, but at the end I am not sure if you'd have time to register the warnings in higher speeds? The best I could do was to make bigger the "field of vision(the area in front of the snail)" as originally that was really small. The next adjustment could be to move the snail completelly to the left side of the screen.
Here you can see a first prototype, where the reaction times were a killer by itself :)
Simple but well executed. Congratulations! :)
Got arround 500 !
Thx !