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A jam submission

Swinging BlobView game page

Swing your way through the game with your boulder and your hook
Submitted by sigmaroxt — 12 minutes, 3 seconds before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Fun#19362.8822.882
Presentation#19683.0293.029
Overall#20223.0103.010
Originality#21103.1183.118

Ranked from 34 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?
Character is joined together with a boulder

Did your team create the vast majority of the art during the 48 hours?

Yes

We created the vast majority of the art during the game jam

Did your team create the vast majority of the music during the 48 hours?

No

We used pre-existing audio

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Comments

Submitted

Really interesting swinging mechanic and fun boulder system. Its a little confusing controls wise but once you get it, it has potential. One thing I would suggest is re-spawn points or checkpoint as one hit kill spikes are really punishing.

Submitted

Really fun game, I love using the grappling hook, sadly I got stuck on a level where I didn't know how to end up with the boulder at the end. The only issue I noticed was that sometimes the checkpoint doesn't work, unless that's something I misunderstood.

Submitted

It's interesting, but a confusing amount of actions to do at once, at least to start out.

It was a lot of fun to swing with the grappling hook to move faster than the walk speed haha!

Submitted

It was fun, but if the movements are too slow, if that's not intentional maybe speed up the movements and snap the movements

Submitted

This is a really clever way to make a grappling hook in a game interesting. I like how I need to drop the boulder before using the grappling hook but still go back for my boulder so I can do other parts of the level. The character does feel a bit floaty and that doesn't help with precise movement much but after making sure to plan out my movements and jumps I was able to get through some of the challenges presented to me in this game. Good job!

Submitted

This was really clever. There are a lot of games with grappling hooks but I like the spin of having the boulder as well and needing to throw it before using your hook, but also wanting to bring it with you. I like the minimalistic art style too, very cool! I felt it was fairly punishing in that hitting a spike early on when they are first introduced sends you to the start again. But overall nice job!

Submitted

I wanted to like this game, I really did. Excellent presentation, a very helpful tutorial, fun mechanics and brimming with personality. But the floaty platformer and this non-working checkpoint broke my spirit. After plenty of attempts to make it through, I just couldn't go on. I admit defeat.

Regardless, my rating doesn't account for that solely, don't worry. The game is fantastic in a lot of ways regardless.  Everything else around this issue of mine is great, and with some minor tweaking and balancing, it can certainly lighten up a lot. Great submission!

Submitted

Pretty good game and I like the colour scheme. The grapple hook feels good, but the other platforming feels quite slow and unresponsive.

Submitted

The game is pertty nice but it has a lot of little problems.
The physics of the jump doesn't fell very good wihc is unfortunate considering it's something you do the whole game.
The game is also veeeeery slow wich is not very good , especially when you have to restart the whole level when you die. Kind of a shame because the grappling hook was a really nice mechanic so if the physics were totally on point the game coule be really fun.
The graphics are very simple but still very effective.
 
Overall a fun little game that suffer from it's phisics, hope this can help you improve the game :)

Submitted

Nice game! Really effective presentation. I love the hook but the jump is hard.

Submitted

Hi! The music and art and everything is very fitting for this genre, it's just that you move unbearably slow, and you can't press space to jump. Maybe it's a framerate issue that you didn't have time to fix within the time frame. Anyways, congratulations making this within 48 hours!

Submitted

Jumping is very slow, but game idea is very good! I would play it more if the physics were better

Submitted

Great game!!

I loved the great execution of nice mechanics and the physics felt really great as well! 

Submitted

It looks so good despite its simplicity, i also liked a lot the tutorial implementation.

Submitted

Nicely done.  The one-or-the-other feature brings out the puzzle potential of this platformer further.  I wish death brought you back to your most recent checkout rather than the start. Regardless, the physics are impressively smooth!

Submitted

Love me some grapplehooks. Very nice presentation.

Submitted

I like the concept and the physics based gameplay is super cool. The platforming and jump are really slow and the controls area a bit funky though. I think with some tweaking to the controls and the platforming this can be super fun

Super creative! I lost the boulder as well. Overall amazing game! Nice music and a cute art style. 

Gorgeous itch page too btw!

Submitted (1 edit) (+1)

Love that walking animation. Also like the pixel art and the mechanics. I think some indicator where your boulder is at would be nice, sometimes I lost it and had no idea where it was. Great job on the game!