LOWREZJAM 2021

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A small 64x64 game inspired by Metroid

Submitted by tducasse (@tducasse), Mauricet (@Mauricet34) — 9 hours, 13 minutes before the deadline

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Criteria	Rank	Score*	Raw Score
Visuals	#76	3.961	3.961
Gameplay	#109	3.412	3.412
Overall	#140	3.529	3.529
Audio	#167	2.980	2.980
Authenticity (use of resolution restriction)	#212	3.765	3.765

Ranked from 51 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

Did you work in a team?
We were 2 people:
- tducasse, code, music, sound effects
- mauricet, pixel art and animations

Was the resolution a challenge?
The amount of details that we can put in a 64x64px screen is very limited, so we had to adjust both the level design and the pixel art to make everything fit!

What did you learn?
I tried a framework I didn't know before, Love2d, and it was a lot of fun! The only bad point was the web export, since itch.io doesn't really support SharedArrayBuffers, I had to export using an older version, and it's not 100% bug-free...

Also, it was our first collaboration together, and I'm really happy with the result! I'll definitely try to do more collaborations in the future 😀

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MFauzanSubmitted3 years ago(+2)

as a 2D metroid game fan I really like this game. but the enemy skree is very unfair in my opinion.

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tducasseDeveloper3 years ago(+1)

I 100% agreed when I started play testing, which is why I put a grid tile under every skree, so that you can avoid them whenever you see one!

but yeah, I didn’t have enough time to make other people play it and watch where things were too hard/easy.

cykelkatalogenSubmitted3 years ago(+2)

Lovely gameplay and impressive work for a 2 week jam. I liked everything excepts those bats. Please nerf those bats 😅

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OmniclauseSubmitted3 years ago(+2)

Really solid entry! Ambitious idea and well executed. I liked the art and the music was better than what I typically hear from bosco ceoil stuff. The gameplay was great, but I ended up having to play with the keyboard which is a bummer because I feel like this game is begging to played with a gamepad. In both the web and download build pressing an unmapped button crashed it for me and I couldn't figure out what z meant because I am on an xbox controller. Those issues might be on my machine and definitely didn't affect my review. Just thought I'd let you know because the game is solid and it would be worth the time to get the gamepad functionality running a little better after the jam. Either way had a lot of fun with it on the keyboard. Good job!

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tducasseDeveloper3 years ago

Thanks for playing and thanks for letting me know about the crash, I’ll definitely have a look once the jam is over 😀

JunderSubmitted3 years ago(+2)

Great execution. The audio effects was great, when the web version liked to work at least, the music could have been a bit slower or longer before it looped. Sprite work was perfect. The only bad thing I could point out is that the sprites fall out of the 64x64 grid.

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picoter8Submitted3 years ago(+1)

Loved the art on this one. Enemies coming at you hard and fast from offscreen is definitely a no-no. This is a great start though, with a ton of polish, this could become a great little tribute game. Good job!

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The Zombie Apicolypse

Didle6Submitted3 years ago(+1)

Wow people really out here porting whole Nintendo games for this jam huh. Really well done. The controls did feel a bit slippery and the hit registering felt a little unfair but besides that it was pretty fun. Though for some reason the jump and shoot sound effects completely stopped after I got the ball power up. Besides that really good game!

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Pixels And Plunder

tducasseDeveloper3 years ago

yeah the web version is really buggy at times… Sorry about that! The windows export works way better!

jonah-srgSubmitted3 years ago(+2)

Super cute version of Metroid! The platforming feels a touch floaty but the gameplay and aesthetics match the source material really well. I was taken aback when the Fusion death animation played, that's a nice "modern Metroid" touch.

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abhimonkSubmitted3 years ago(+3)

Nice job with this! I ran into some audio issues with the web version, so I switched to the downloadable version (as a fellow love2d dev, I feel your pain with respect to web exports).

I ran into the same issue as another player where I'd get oneshot by some enemies (it looked like they're meant to deal 1 damage and reposition you, but sometimes they'd reposition you too close to the enemy, which resulted in me getting hit multiple times in a row). Some checkpoints would have helped a lot as well.

It's a little disorienting to get teleported away when you get hit. I think adding invincibility frames to the player when they get hit would be a good way to handle taking damage and would also remove the need to teleport the player away when they get hit.

All that said, this was a solid metroid clone! The art fits really well and the environments look great on the low resolution canvas. I'm also always impressed when people manage to put together metroidvania-style levels for a jam. Good work!

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dis0rderSubmitted3 years ago (1 edit) (+1)

Such a strange experience.

A janky Metroid-clone with funny-ass elevator-music. I love it and hate it at the same time! (The song is still playing in my head)

A checkpoint or health-items would be nice. I never could get to the red room without losing almost all my health to the bats.

After multiple tries I managed to get the Morph ball but couldn’t get past the Metroid with only one health.

I don’t know if it’s because of my browser, but I could sometimes see the collision-box of the character, and the backgrounds were missing at some segments.

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tducasseDeveloper3 years ago

Oh, sorry about the bugs on the web version! As I mentioned in the description, the web version is a bit broken, but the windows version works better!

As for the Metroid at the bottom, did you go back left after getting the morph ball, to get the missiles? They allow you to kill them!

Paul59Submitted3 years ago(+2)

Fantastic! Really smooth and easy to see what's going on given the limitations, deserving of a high score.

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MopiSubmitted3 years ago(+2)

This game is absolutely adorable, and the mini metroid theme is SPOT on!

I had a big issue with getting one shot by enemies though, even at full health. If I was standing on the tile a falling enemy dropped on, occasionally it would be an instakill

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tducasseDeveloper3 years ago(+1)

that’s definitely a bug, I didn’t fix it because I thought it added some difficulty, and my intention was to absolutely avoid them anyway. They fall if you are 10px close, so you can just slow down, or even just run, and turn back to avoid them!

Thanks for playing!

rsvp asapSubmitted3 years ago(+2)

Wow, so pretty, and feels good to play too! Well done!

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Bruce Bee's Arachnoid

ahintoflimeSubmitted3 years ago(+2)

The pixel art is really nice to look at, easy to understand. I wish I could shoot the doors to open them up!! Also the hitboxes were a little big with the enemies IMO (if I stood next to the tile with the drop down enemies they would hit me when it seems like they shouldnt be able to). Nice job overall.

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Pocket Volleyball

Johan PeitzSubmitted3 years ago(+2)

Very nice! Cool to explore the world.

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lukepass86Submitted3 years ago(+2)

The art is fantastic and it perfectly fits the 64x64 constraint. Unfortunately after a while the sounds stopped playing in my browser (only the background music was still on)!

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tducasseDeveloper3 years ago(+1)

yeah I’m sorry about that! As mentioned in the description, the web export is very buggy, but the windows version works fine, you could try that if you feel like 😀

Thanks for playing!

The art is all by Mauricet, he did a very good job at fitting as much detail as possible on such a small screen!

SlainteESSubmitted3 years ago(+2)

Very nice job, the feel is very metroid visually… the music is maybe the thing that is not that “metroidesque”. Subpixel scrolling/movement. Missing directional shooting a lot on this one :P

Good you kept a pattern for Skree hitting points as without a visual cue they are coming it was quite hard to evade them.

I love the death animation!

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Golden Star Sheriff

tducasseDeveloper3 years ago(+1)

I’m glad you liked the feel, that’s definitely what we were going for, totally inspired by the original NES version!

I didn’t have a lot of time to play test the whole thing, but yeah, the Skree falling without any kind of warning was definitely the first thing I noticed and “fixed” by adding the pattern. Glad you understood it!

As for the directional shooting… Mauricet actually originally made animations for it, but I prioritised other aspects of the game first, and I didn’t feel comfortable adding it and maybe breaking things in the process!

Thanks for playing!

WadwareSubmitted3 years ago(+2)

Beautiful work!

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tducasseDeveloper3 years ago

thanks!

iDunnyXSubmitted3 years ago(+1)

good job! When i got hit it killed my sound for some reason :D

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tducasseDeveloper3 years ago(+1)

ah yeah… were you playing the web version? Somehow it doesn’t work really well, it seems like things eventually break after a while. The windows version is fine though!

iDunnyXSubmitted3 years ago(+1)

It was the web version and yea it happens!

pencilgameSubmitted3 years ago(+2)

Wow, Nostalgia hitting pretty hard right now. Love it!

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SplendidDogSubmitted3 years ago(+2)

This game is awesome, I loved it!
It does loose some points in authenticity because it isn't pixel-perfect- it does use a 64x64 canvas but there's smooth movement and sub-pixels!
Still, I love how you were able to capture the feeling of Metroid with such low-resolution sprites!

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Teleportal Trial

tducasseDeveloper3 years ago

Thanks for playing!

By subpixels, do you mean that because of how I handled the movement, where it’s not constrained to the 64*64 grid, as in sometimes the character might be at 32.5 or something?

SplendidDogSubmitted3 years ago

Yeah! (I don't know if sub-pixels is the correct term or not but it's the one that came to mind.)

This has been debated a bit in the past since it does break the 64x64 limit a bit, because it *technically* isn't a true 64x64 canvas, but I'm not as strict as some may be on that front! I still think it's a pretty rad game :)

tducasseDeveloper3 years ago (1 edit) (+1)

ah right, cool! I guess it definitely can be counted as subpixels, I totally didn’t realise this was happening, but it completely makes sense, I didn’t clip it to full integers.

I think at the time I was more interested in making it look smooth and I forgot that it was a “sort of, it depends” restriction 😂

Thanks for noticing and explaining 👌

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