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A jam submission

Squidly the Friendly OctopusView game page

A game about an octopus who can't move in conventional ways

Submitted by HadMatter00 — 33 minutes, 56 seconds before the deadline

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Results

Criteria	Rank	Score*	Raw Score
Engagement	#465	2.582	3.333
Overall polish	#494	2.324	3.000
Overall	#509	2.453	3.167
Creative use of art assets	#521	2.453	3.167

Ranked from 6 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

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HawkinberrySubmitted4 years ago

This was fun! I liked the effect on the tiles, too. That gave them some depth.

If the hook moved a little faster, you could even start chaining together moves. And it would speed up the pace of the puzzles again. I think a mechanism to look around, too, would be helpful. It was easy to lose track of the keys, so I ended up just trying a bunch of angles to grab it.

I think the music was a little too much for the game. Even when I lowered the volume, it made me a little stressed :D It would be perfect for a boss fight, though!

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HadMatter00Developer4 years ago

Thanks for the feedback, I'll definitely incorporate it if I expand this game in the future. It's easy to forget that not everyone has the levels memorized. The music was sort of last-minute. I had been expecting to have more time and didn't have time to compose a new track for the game. As a result, I used a song I had made awhile ago that I felt fit the game.

GatlinkSubmitted4 years ago

I liked the idea but I couldn't go past the first pit right after the first key locked door. Using only that slow tentacle wall grab it seems impossible. Am I missing something?

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HadMatter00Developer4 years ago

If you land on the wall on the left side of the pit, you should be able to grab the ground across the pit to get past it.

GatlinkSubmitted4 years ago

I did, but gravity kept bringing me down faster than the pull brought me right, so I always ended up hitting the right wall of the pit. I heard someone say you should make your jam games easy, and I know I should have listened to that advice myself x)

Ron0StudiosSubmitted4 years ago

Doesn't work for me... Remember you can fix game breaking bugs it's all owed

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Defender's magic

HadMatter00Developer4 years ago

Do you have any more information? Is there an error when you try to launch it, or does nothing happen?

Ron0StudiosSubmitted4 years ago

Nothing happens, I waited for about 30 seconds

dqmhoseSubmitted4 years ago

The idea is super cool, reminds me of Carrion. Squids or Octopods are always fun!

Submitted

Primary Objective: Happiness

JWVeenmanSubmitted4 years ago

I cann't play your game :(
It doesn't run at all and I don't know why...

It's sad because I love games where you can play as a Octopus!

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HadMatter00Developer4 years ago

Does the game just not launch, or is there an error message that appears?

JWVeenmanSubmitted4 years ago

No error message or anything. I run window 10 pro (If that helps...)

railkillSubmitted4 years ago

I’m using Windows 10 64-bit and I was unable to get it to run. Starting the .exe had no effect. I see that this game was created using XNA, which is like, dead? So I think either it does not support Windows 10, or it only runs on 32-bit systems.

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HadMatter00Developer4 years ago

That's strange, as I am also running 64-bit Windows 10. It should have the required dependencies with it as far as I am aware. The only things not packaged with it are part of the .NET Framework 4. I just uploaded a build with those included to see if that fixes the problem. Could you try it again with the new build?

railkillSubmitted4 years ago

I tried downloading it again, but same thing, nothing happens when the .exe file is opened. It’s weird because if there’s missing framework files, it should show an error, but nothing happens at all and no message was shown even when running from the command line. Seems that some others were also unable to run the game, I’m not sure why. Sorry I couldn’t help.

malek elsadySubmitted4 years ago

realy cool and fun

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a walk with a spark

Richard WoodsSubmitted4 years ago

Unfortunately I was unable to get the game to launch on my machine.

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ULTRAVIOLENT 2D