Brilliant! This is probably the cutest and most wholesome game I've played all year. The gameplay is simple but fun and the artwork is fantastic!
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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Vote on your favourite game! | #38 | 3.290 | 3.290 |
Ranked from 31 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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Thanks so much for the feedback! Glad you enjoyed playing our game :)
We actually have more voicelines for the penguin and also for other characters/effects, but we did not manage to include them in time for the jam. We will add them in a post voting update!
It will also include a small tutorial explaining the controls and the score system. Basically you will get percent points in the wow-meter every time you perform a trick (but only if the character want to see that tick). The higher the wow-meter the higher the multiplier you get on points. So if you combine 3 jumps quickly, you will gain more points. The wow meter always slowly moves back to zero.
Thank you so much! We are planning on releasing at least some bugfixes after the voting period is over. After that we will probably implement a few missing features:
- smal tutorial/introduction
- more tricks
- variable jump height based on how deep you dive
- better display of trick-combos
- maybe more characters
- different levels or more environments within the level like a snowy forest
Now that's my favorite game so far!
Visual
The art is cute, well drawn and feels so nice in a game! I didn't think that this style could work in this medium, but it does!
Audio
Nice BGM, really pleasing, and the SFX is so cute and not missing! I love it! Bonus point for having voice acting when you finish a task. That's a little detail but it changes everything imo
Tutorial
That's the bad point of the game, but not too bad. There are the controls cutely drawn, the only bad point is that you have to go and look at them, and at first I didn't realize that the upper arrow meant "jump".
Gameplay
- It's simple, you just move outside the water and dance for people, and that's nice.
- It feels nice to move in the water. I felt like gliding, I never felt heavy, and it was surprisingly pleasing!
Fun
One pic is worth a million words, right? There you go, then:
Bugs
The only bug I encountered is that when you have the same key to press twice, sometimes you can validate the two movements with one animation only. Minor visual bug that almost doesn't affect gameplay, and the game feels extremely well polished. That's awesome :)
Theme
At first, I was "it doesn't really fits the theme". But there is Ben and their surprised face when you move for them does the trick. Subtle but definitely in the theme :)
Great work here! I loved the game :D
4 years ago(+1)
Thank you so so much for your review! It literally made our teams day!
We will definitely add a small tutorial in a post jam update. It'll also include a bugfix to prevent two actions being performed at the same time! Thanks for letting us know about that, I already found the reason.
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