Up until finishing I couldn't get used to the fact that turning into the bomb was a hold, not a toggle. Because once you get lit, you no longer have to hold it, nor when you are in a tunnel - so for me it was very instinctive that "turning between boy and bomb is an action that gets disabled under certain circumstances", rather than "being a bomb is a tied to rolling". Something I would think about in a future when deciding on such controls.
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Billy Boomer's itch.io pageResults
Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
Use of the chosen theme | #2 | 4.565 | 4.565 |
Your personal opinion | #3 | 4.043 | 4.043 |
Innovation | #4 | 3.826 | 3.826 |
Overall | #5 | 4.087 | 4.087 |
Aesthetics (Art or music) | #12 | 3.913 | 3.913 |
Ranked from 23 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Title its based on
The Boy Who Became a Bomb
Any pre-made / AI assets used (if applicable)
No AI
Comments
Noted! If @aBlueHuman and I ever continue this in the future, we'll bare this in mind
Great job! Amazing art, use of the theme, playfulness, and so impressive given the time frame.
Cute short game about a bomber boy. I really enjoyed how simple yet effective the main mechanics were.
Ah I knew it was gonna be goodwith Crash Bandicoot sfx in the description. Very fun metroid morph ball game where you go kaboom. I adore his smirking bomb sprite. And that end screen is some of my favourite writing in the jam.
Thanks for entering! The next one is at the end of July
Fun game with lots of personality (main menu, the mc, animations, etc), the bomb transformation has lots of potential
Good Job
Very cute and interesting idea for a platformer, I can see a lot of fun puzzles you could do with the bomb transformation.
Loved the Hanna & Barbera sound effect when you're rolling!
I was really impressed with your animations and the character of everything! I see pizza tower was brought up below. I actually thought of pizza tower too.
I'd love to see more levels added!
Thanks! @aBlueHuman was behind most of the art/animations while I was the lead programmer
Both of us haven't played Pizza Tower (yet) and now I feel like I kinda need to 😅
Thanks! Funny you said that, I've never played a Metroid game (yet)
I'd love to work with @aBlueHuman on this more eventually but this kinda burnet me out towards the end of the 10 days
Love the game and the mechanics involving Billy turning into a bomb. If you develop this further I would love to see how the full game goes but one thing I suggest would be adding some features to human Billy as right now, the player can play the entire game as a bomb (as it is also faster than human Billy).
Great art, loved the explosion animation in particular. Fun and satisfying, love to see more.
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