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A jam submission

Branching OutView game page

Help the ants get to the top of the tree!
Submitted by BigBear675 — 10 hours, 40 minutes before the deadline
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I  LOVE IT! so simple and as addictive as that sweet sweet festering apple juice tastes. You have a really good balance of game difficulty vs skill required here. The graphics are also cute and the music fits very well. Overall i think this game is great. I would even hazard to say that if it was refined and had touch controls, this concept would sell super well for mobile phones.

bug wise, (apart from the ants :P) sometimes when i grab a piece to place on the rock at the start, it would place facing down towards the bottom of the screen. forcing me to essentially double up over that piece or restart perhaps some kind of "ghost" preview, would make it easier to see how it will place. This would also eliminate placing pieces on the wrong side of the Y's and to a lesser extent the V's.

Strategy wise, building 2 dueling branches seemed like the ideal strat, but you really pay for it when a beetle weighs you down and your smaller branch (which is inevitable to have because the pieces drop just a touch too slow for consistently maintaining both sides.) goes off the bottom of the screen.

Yeh, all of that said. I love this game, i would happily come back and play it, even as it stands now, in my free time. Good Job!

Developer (1 edit)

Wow, thank you a lot for your comment! That's so great to hear :D  And oh you're right, that is for sure a bug that I did not encounter in my testing.  Thanks for finding it!  I've just uploaded a patch for that issue.  Cheers!

P.S. I love the style and sound of your game, it's giving me flashbacks from the miniclip and addictinggames era of web games

Edit:  I didn't really fix the bug properly- I just made the impact less game-breaking when it happens on the rock