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A jam submission

NES Amoeba PlatformerView game page

Submitted by Danes09 — 4 days, 17 hours before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Originality#83.3003.300
Gameplay#113.0003.000
Overall#123.0003.000
Polish#162.7002.700

Ranked from 10 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

How did you use generative AI?
I used Bezi AI to help develop most of the game mechanics and used my own custom built tool the "Sprite to Soft Body 2D Converter" which was also created from scratch using Bezi AI to create the soft bodies for this game

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Submitted

Cool game. a little broken considering you can just spam the jump button to bypass all the obstacle but still a solid entry.   

Submitted(+1)

I had tons of fun (and completely bypassed the route I was supposed to take by jumping/flying all the way up to the fire enemy and then to the goal)! I love the theme, visuals and concept of hurting the enemy by touching them, rather the opposite in most platformers. 

There's some room for polish with lag/frame-rate,  and some other things that that Steven mentioned below. The game overall was simple, fun and cute! Good work

Submitted(+1)

Overall: Lovely visuals and fun physics.

What Worked Well:

  • Visuals: Great color palette right off the bat. The jiggly arrow is cool, the white trail behind the character is a nice touch, and the springy platforms where you can see the springs inside are neat.
  • Physics and Feel: The squishiness of the character and the way it smooshes against the white thing at the start of the level is really cool. That kind of physicality is hard to pull off, so leaning into what Unity can do there is a unique move.
  • Ball Bearing Orbs: The green balls that orbit the player when you stop moving are a really cool detail.
  • Enemy Design: The spear enemy fire blast looks cool. Destroying enemies by touching them with your gel body is an interesting mechanic.
  • Purple Gravity Platforms: Neat idea.
  • Complete Experience: You made a start to end experience. That's worth a lot. I followed the arrows and made it to the end.

Areas for Improvement:

  • Falling Off the Left Edge Immediately: You can walk left and fall off the screen and die right at the start. Put a wall there so the player's first few seconds aren't a softlock.
  • Orb Frame Rate: The green ball bearing orbs hitch and glitch badly when you are moving. When you are still they look great, but the movement state needs work.
  • PNG Artifact on Mushroom: The orange mushroom bouncy platform has white edges on it that look like a PNG that wasn't properly cut out.
  • HP Bar Rendering: The spear enemy HP bar was rendering backwards.
  • No Challenge: Enemies don't seem to hurt you when you touch them, and you can just keep jumping forever, which means you can ignore all platforms and enemies entirely. The game needs some actual resistance.
  • Gravity Platform Side: The side gravity platform kept spitting me back down instead of letting me go up.
DeveloperSubmitted

Thank you for the very detailed review, I will look into the issues and try to resolve them. Also those orbs were part of the softbody and meant to help it look more like an amoeba so it was meant to deform with the soft body by design, but I might need to reconsider doing that. As for the side gravity platforms I will have to check them again, but I should note that when gravity is changed to the side the  A & D controls change from moving left & right to moving up & down and the 'space bar' jump weill make the amoeba jump "against the gravity" , could this have been the cause? I will look into this, again thank you for the detailed feedback. 

Submitted

"the side the  A & D controls change from moving left & right to moving up & down"

Oh, interesting. That probably explains my experience. I thought it was a physics change, not a keybinding change.

Submitted

I'd appreciate a rating of my game if you haven't already.

Submitted (1 edit)

Really cool soft body system! I liked the games feel a lot! I’d love to hear what you think of mine.

Submitted

nice game You can also rate my game and give your opinion. Starbound Paradis

Submitted

Nice game. Pretty original. Good art style and gameplay.

Submitted

Nice game. Pretty original. Good art style and gameplay.