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A jam submission

The Bane of the Shell CrawlerView game page

A tiny big adventure of a valiant hermit crab! GMTK2024
Submitted by WhimsicalCicada — 3 hours, 2 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Style#47712.4573.250
Creativity#48312.5513.375
Overall#50122.3943.167
Enjoyment#51792.1732.875

Ranked from 8 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?
In this game you are a crab that needs to jump on many shells with different sizes and scales. You need to use the different scale shells to solve platform puzzles.

Development Time

96 hours

(Optional) Please credit all assets you've used
Tileset sprites: [https://szadiart.itch.io/pixel-fantasy-caves]
Background Parallax: [https://ansimuz.itch.io/underwater-fantasy-pixel-art-environment]
Free sound assets found on: [https://freesound.org]
Free to use music found on [https://www.weloveindies.com/en]

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Comments

(+2)

Another nice game using animals in a clever way that makes it such good fun to play.

Submitted(+2)

This is a clever take on the theme and a well made game. Surprised this hasn't had more ratings.  Good effort and congrats. 

(+1)

I loved the concept and the change of shells is satisfying, especially after going through a more difficult part. very good <3

Submitted(+2)

The game is intresting and liked the platforming with the shells. I also found the use of the shells as a pretty creative use of the theme.