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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Presentation | #273 | 4.120 | 4.120 |
| Overall | #464 | 3.733 | 3.733 |
| Fun | #498 | 3.600 | 3.600 |
| Originality | #1222 | 3.480 | 3.480 |
Ranked from 25 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?
Bob the blob is very lonely, but joined together with his friends he has the power to survive
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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This is a very good example of how awesome games can be made from simple mechanics. The mechanics of this game is not hard to comprehend, but it is so much fun! The artwork of this game also looks so cute and the SFX is pretty good. Nice work for 48h! I had lots of fun playing your game!
Thank you so much! Our goal was to keep the mechanics simple, because this is our first game jam and we didn't want to overscope, so we're really happy people are having a good time playing :D What is your high score? 👀
I like the art and sound design, although it took me a game or two to figure out I was supposed to avoid the green ones too. I wish the character moved a bit faster to make it possible to survive a bit longer – right now it kind of sets a maximum possible length to the game (personally I couldn’t make it past 35s) and lowers the skill ceiling.
Overall it’s a fun concept and solid execution, though I do wonder what more one could do with this mechanic or how one might explore this further.
Thanks for the feedback! We agree that the balancing could maybe be better as the late game is mostly luck now rather than skill, though we have seen that practice allows for reaching scores up to 2.5 minutes 😝. As for the speed of the player as well as the question about expanding the mechanic, we had the idea to add more friends that change the abilities when they're stuck to the player. For example, some blobs may speed the player up or slow it down. While others may change the rate at which your health drains. We were also thinking of removing the laser enemies as they're too hard to predict, especially when there are so many of them. And yes, the design choice of having the haters be green was not the best of ideas 😅 Thanks again for the feedback and for playing!
A lot of fun, I liked it :)
Glad to hear that, thank you! :)
I got 46 as my biggest group! :D (56 total)
It took a bit to figure out that the bomb enemies could be used to knock off bad blobs, but once I did it really deepened the game mechanics! I loved the idea of infectious enemies that lower your max health. Great design choices!
Also the eyes following my mouse and going cross-eyed is the cutest thing ever XD
Wow 46 is pretty good! If you keep on trying you might reach @Gunface's record of 62 soon haha.
Yeah we tried to hint to that game mechanic by sneakily adding 'or use them to your advantage' in the description, but if we had more time we would probably add some kind of in-game hints to make it more obvious :) Instead we spent time on making all eyes move haha (priorities, we know 😝) Also try pressing 'w' for a fun little easter egg 😉
Thank you for your nice comment and for playing, glad to hear you're enjoying our game 😄
Heyy, this game is so fun to play. I really liked it, especially cute eyes but i have a suggestion about smoothness. Because when I move the character, there is so tiny jittering and this is annoying, maybe it can be solved by doing interpolate, I'm not sure. https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/48/deep-way-down for example this ludum dare game has stunning, terrific, amazing smooth gameplay with similar to your game mechanic. There is open-source code, I strongly recommend to check it out for improve gameplay :)
Glad to hear you liked it! We do actually interpolate the movement, but I indeed notice that both the player and the friends/haters sometimes don't move as smoothly as you would like, I hope it doesn't affect the gameplay that much 😅. Thank you for the feedback and the link, we'll look into that when we continue development on the game :)
game is super fun to play and art is so cute! really nice entry to the jam!
Thank you!!!
The game feels very solid and the sound and art style go really well together. Its a lot of fun and I want to play it over and over again to get a better highscore. The lasers are a bit overwhelming and it would be fun to have more sorts of "balls" to give you a speed boost for example. Great work!
Thank you, glad to hear it's fun and engaging! We definitely agree with your comment about the lasers; we'll probably get rid of them and come up with a good replacement. We really like your suggestion about adding powerups and will add that for the next update 😄
Super super adorable art. I love the adorable blobs!
Thank you so much!
It is amazing! I loved how you creatively handled the theme and how fun it is. I hadn't much time to play it (laugh at my 39 score) but it's amazing how you got it done in 48h. I hope you're one of the winners :)
heyy Jasmine, thank you! :D We were also surprised at how much we got done in 48 hours 😂 I must say 39 is a pretty solid accomplishment, it took me some time to get better at it too (tho danielle seemed to be a natural at it 🤔)
This game was super fun to play! The art is adorable <3
Thank you! 😁
Super cute! Love the art!
The game is quite difficult, but doesn't feel too unfair, so it's fun to try and get a high score!
Great work~!
Thank you so much! That's great to hear :D What's your high score?
My high score was 90 friends! I was trying to break a hundred but I just couldn't put it off, haha! :)
Haha I'm impressed! Thanks again for playing :)
nice game.
Thank you :)
Super presentation, but also SUPER HARD!
Thank you! We hope it's not too hard haha.
it's very fun tho ! But staying alive for a minute requires a lot of skills!
Thank you! So far my personal best is 160 seconds, but I'm having a hard time beating that haha. What score did you get?
Wow! my best was 82 but to be fair I didn't tried enough times to beat it.. It took me like 6 tries to achieve this!
I'm impressed nontheless :D Great job and thanks again for playing!
Really really cool art style! Despite being very hard, the gameplay is very smooth.
Thank you! :D
Super great game. I had a pretty hard time just reaching one minute and I barely did that. I think this game would feel awesome in an arcade cabinet with joystick controls.
Thank you for the nice comment! That is exactly the kind of style we were going for 😁. Also very well done on reaching one minute haha, it took me forever to get that score 😅 Now our personal best is 160s tho, good luck beating that 😋
haha wooow I'm impressed those are some great scores! I think you also beat our other high scores 😂
My other team mates are sleeping right now, but they will be so hyped when they see this tomorrow
I love that type of mechanic! Connecting little blob together is my kind of stuff. This game is super well-executed and fun. I wish to have background music to help the game feels. Overall really addictive and fun to play!
Thanks for playing and glad to hear that it is addictive and fun to play 😁! Background music is indeed something we discussed but we figured people might want to listen to their own music when playing a game like this and we didn't have the time to add a settings menu to tweak the music and game sounds 😅 If we decide to polish the game later we'll definitely try adding fitting background music :)
Very fun! Game gets really hard really fast. Maybe I'm just bad :)
Thanks! Yeah, the rounds are not supposed to take that long, especially since it might be too easy otherwise? There's also a little bit of a learning curve where you get better the more you play. We averaged at around 30 friends per round in the beginning, but after having played it a few times it's closer to 100 friends. Our pb is 676 tho, good luck beating that 😝
The art of the game looks very nice and I love the audio, great job!
Thank you!
Now that's a very cute looking game!
Thank you! :D
Also for some reason I really like "Clapstool". Something about the logo is just... great
Haha that's great to hear :)