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A jam submission

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A slime's quest for revenge against the evil Dr. Kidd
Submitted by lapspider45 (@lapspider45), Moncii (@moncii_dev) — 4 hours, 7 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Overall#673.9003.900
Audio#713.7003.700
Gameplay#763.6003.600
Authenticity (Use of resolution restriction)#924.5504.550
Graphics#993.7503.750

Ranked from 20 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

Did you work in a team?
lapspider45: Yes. For the beginning of the jam I worked on music and Mad Monkey Games did the art and code. However, Mad Monkey Games had to retire mid-jam, and so I coded everything again from scratch, using the assets and music we had made so far.

But I don't regret teaming up, I would have been less motivated and had fewer good ideas had I done this jam alone. Teamwork rules!

Was the resolution a challenge?
Mad Monkey Games: Yes, the resolution was a challenge!

lapspider45: Using a tiny character sprite and a 3x3 tile size were both good decisions. We went with a pretty clean look, because the game is meant to be fast-paced.
For the second boss, you could not see the rockets coming at you. The solution was to add an indicator to warn when a rocket is offscreen, and a whooshing engine sound to the rockets.
lapspider45: The nice animations on the second boss went to waste too, you need to be really close to see them.

What did you learn?
lapspider45: I joined the jam wanting to compose music for a real (as opposed to hypothetical) game. This was my first jam, disregarding my previous failures. I did spend more than a week on the music. But as I had to step in and do the code, I also got to program my first actually-a-game game! Because I eventually want to spend 3 years creating my dream game (conceptual phase since January), I think this experience has helped me tremendously and I see it as an important step towards actually starting work on THAT GAME.

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Comments

Submitted(+1)

Really hard! I liked it, nice graphics, nice audio.

Submitted(+1)

This was so hard lmao I loved it. Crashed on like my 6th go of the Dr Kidd fight and I couldn't complete it :( Big ups I was not expecting to play for so long lmao, very immersive

Developer

Thanks for playing! I don't know if this is the same problem you are describing, but there is a bug where you get stuck inside the wall when Dr. Kidd teleports, if that happens press ESC and hit RETRY.

Submitted(+1)

It looks really charming and the music is excellent! The controls were a bit too unforgiving for me. I think I've have liked to have more subtle movement options. Could just be me not being great at it though. ;)

Overall I think you guys did a great job!

(+1)

nice game, pretty good music.

Submitted(+1)

uff... that was exciting! I loved the atmosphere thanks to the music and the camera control. It was hard to control the character as it became pretty easy to just shoot off into a wall of spikes but once I got used to it it became intuitive.

Developer

Funny thing about the camera, I had to set it perfectly centered on the player, after encountering a bug with the rocket warning indicators. Glad you liked it!

Submitted(+1)

Damn, that is an interesting control scheme. I actually enjoyed the look and feel of the game. The only thing I think would be a slight improvement is if holding left and right could trigger continual movement. This game is extreme flappy bird.

Submitted(+1)

Super hard, the final boss seems a bit too hard , my fingers hurt now haha The soundtrack is epic ! My best rate was A- on the first level

Submitted(+1)

Love the look and music. Really punchy gameplay. Only suggestion would be to add checkpoints, maybe before the bosses.

Submitted(+1)

I feel like the only true way to play this is to only hit the movement keys on the drum beats because oh boy it slaps. Nice job both!

Submitted(+1)

this game is hilarious…. the controls are a hoot and the music is A+. Nice work

Submitted(+1)

Fun game. :) I liked the momentum based movement.  

Submitted(+1)

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