Play Chonk
Chonky Bam's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Fun/Design | #38 | 3.775 | 3.775 |
| Overall | #52 | 3.575 | 3.575 |
| Graphics/Animation | #54 | 3.930 | 3.930 |
| Technical Implementation | #56 | 3.521 | 3.521 |
| Theme/Limitation | #82 | 3.310 | 3.310 |
| Music/Sound | #92 | 3.338 | 3.338 |
Ranked from 71 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
How does your game apply the limitation (and optionally, the theme)?
By paying homage to the original Boss of the arcades. As Chonky, you're trapped On The Edge by Zookeepers gone mad.
Team Size
Solo (1)
What main engine/tool/language did you use to construct the game?
GameMaker Studio 2
Which diversifiers did you use, if any?
My Own Noise, Quick Run
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Couldn’t beat
bl4st😞Quite liked it, I can’t really say anything different to the others.
I naturally went for keyboard controls and I love the art, it all fits together really well.
Pretty fun
Took me a second to figure out what to do (and i mean after first death)
It's like a Donkey Kong simulator
Welp, seems like everyone else has said everything I'd want to say. So, take this as an echo (Cause I personally don't like typing redundancies. Somethin' weird with my brain), but I can add that if you do make that post-jam update, I'm definitely gonna come back to give it a shot. I can already see the sparks of a game that I'd put many hours into just to try for that high score. Just gotta get used to the timing, build a little rhythm, and then start soarin'! Well done on your entry
Thanks so much for playing. And, yes. The jammers have spoken and I couldn't agree with them more. Kind of kicking myself for not realizing it was the optimal control option earlier! Thanks for the kind words, playing my game and sharing yours as well.
Fun quick highscore game. i'm on #teamKeyboardControls too. and maybe being able to BAM when Monke is on barrel CD, I felt like you can get really punished if you happen to mistime one barrel. Art style is great. "Banan"
#teamkeyboardcontrolsandkickinghimselfnow here. But I'm just glad people enjoy it as is, so I'm more motivated to implement all the feedback ... and lucky for me it's a simple enough change.
Thank you so much for the "Banan" shoutout! It was my first time making sfx for a game.
really fun, short, polished experience. graphics are good and tight. sound effects are on point. the music is pretty relaxing. i like it!
my only real feedback is keyboard controls, and the timing on BAMMING the jumping enemies was tricky!
great work!
Thanks so much for playing, and I agree fully on the feedback. Might update post-jam with all the great advice other jammers have been kind enough to share
Really fun to play, short but really polished.
Also "day 15, still trying to keep Bam out of captivity."
Hahahaha! You made my day with that line.
I realized after I submitted how cruel it is that Chonk can never actually escape. I should have had an endless hi-score mode and one where you could break free to the jungle.
Really fun take on the limitation !I would definitely play this at a bar on a real arcade for hours. I wish the game had keyboard controls but other than than it's really a fun arcade game !
And the "'nana" just cracks me up
Thank you for playing and the kind words! It was my first time doing my own sfx for a game and when I went to place them in I realized I'd recorded three different banana item pickup sounds and only one sound for throwing ... even though you do that more than anything! Even now I wish I hadn't cut the "carbs" voiceline sound effect! Here's one voice role Chris Pratt ain't getting!
Nice game! Cool concept, I like the twist of you being the video game boss yourself. Also nice graphics and sound. Killing the red ones is really difficult but the difficulty curve is really nice. I would only say, that it would be a bit more intuitive to have the controls as keyboard keys instead of having to alwaysmove the mouse to the small buttons. All in all, great game, well done!
Thank you so much for playing! I agree about changing the controls. I don’t know why, but I had it in my head I was going to do mouse only and sometimes you get tunnel vision. Thanks again for the feedback and playing!
A pretty neat game! Seems like you really hit the nail on the head with the nod to old arcade games! Overall a pretty cohesive experience, well done!
Thank you very much for playing!
Great game! I love the interpretation of boss, it's kinda like donkey kong, but you are the boss. The on the edge part was also an interesting take, where you are in the middle, but on the brink of falling. The animations and pixel art style really brings back the good ol arcade times, and the music and sfx are also fitting with the overall style of the game. The difficulty ramp is nice, the beginning is easy, but it gets more hectic over time. I love the simple yet effective controls, only 3 controls, but you get so much out of them. The bam thingy is a really great idea, and the uses of them are more than just for killing red enemies, I just like controls that serve more than one purpose. And I actually could see this as a mobile game LMAO. great work! got a high-score of 18600, I don't know if that's good or not.
Thanks so much for playing! That is the second-highest score I've seen. I haven't even scored that high! The first record was set at 12,400, but then bl4st down below posted an insane 47,300 and the closest another user before you came to that was 15,000. So you're the silver medalist in the Chonky Bam Olympics so far!
I got so much great feedback from other users and wonderful praise from folks like you, I decided I'm going to post an update with the suggested changes from other commenters post-jam. Thanks again.
I love it, right in the nostalgia feels. Fun little game with a nice ramp up on difficulty. Great job!
Thanks for playing and the kind words. Means a lot after playing your awesome entry.
Really cute pixelart. I like the chill music. The take on limitation and theme is good. The polish is well dosed. Of course a working fullscreen and arrow key will be welcomed. But overall that's a great minigame.
Thanks so much for playing and the compliments. I just couldn't figure out how to get the HTML export to work with fullscreen, but the windows version does. I was too close to the deadline to keep fiddling with it, but that's going to my my job next week. Make sure I know the code to include for html to run in full screen. That's a necessity for jam games and I flubbed it! I've heard and totally agree on the keyboard control feedback. I think it'll make the whole thing much more enjoyable. Thanks again!
Loved the song and the retro vibe. The characters are a very cariasmatic version of DK and Mario Bros. Congratulations for the good work!:)
Thanks for playing!
Really nice and polished game! Art looks super nice and the music sounds good and fits the game really well. Those red guys are really tricky and i hate them so much haha. Highest score was like 15k or so and i thought it was pretty good till i saw the screenshot. BAM took a while for me to understand i thought you were just smacking the ground for no reason but i figured it out later. That probably has something to do with me just jumping into the game and trying figure things out myself. Not always the best way to play =) I would've continued playing if my arrow keys worked. Overall great game! Well done!
Thank you for playing and for the feedback. And 15k is nothing to scoff at! Beat the first user highscore ... but bl4st was on some next level stuff when he had that run!
My biggest takeway from this jam entry for future ones is that I need to build int he tutorial ... even if I'd just had the image I put in the description appear after the player hit start and before the level began it would help reinforce the BAM purpose.
Keyboard controls is definitely the way to go. It's so obvious now, but I was so focused on mouse only while developing I didn't think to let it go until too late in the jam. Thanks again!
Nice game but it's a little difficult which makes me try again and again!!!!!!!!!
It's definitely a quarter guzzler.
Great game! You also took the approach of playing as the boss! Your art is absolutely perfect and the game if very polished! It is very addictive and I like how you only get 1 life, makes you wanna try again and again!
Thank you! With how awesome the art in your game is, that means a lot. Thanks for playing.
That was excellent. I will leave that installed... Thought I was doing ok until I saw the screenshot from bl4st below.. :) Great music and the use of it to increase the stress of the game.
Thank you for playing! I listened to your full The Boss song on SoundCloud ... so good! I really wish I could have strut my way through the entire office rocking out to that, but those damn bottles and chairs!
This line kills me, "I'm adored by all my staff, My jokes always makes them laugh."
I will have to fix that game so people can see the ending... :)
Caught this on stream and had to give it a go, nice little arcade game you could waste a lot of time on. Only thing missing is those keyboard controls
Yeah, I'm kicking myself a little for not using the keyboard. Would have even felt more immersive to slap it! But I got tunnel vision about wanting it to be mouse only. Lesson learned! Have to build in some playtesting and get outside opinions before the end of the jam!
Thanks so much for playing.
I got hooked, the skill ceiling is actually higher than i expected as there is some next level strats to stack barrels. It has everything an evolved monkey can dream of, except maybe keyboard controls. Good job that was fun :D
That is some quality barrel tossing!! I'm not sure anybody is going to overtake that record. Congrats! For now at least, you are the world record holder in Chonky Bam!! Thanks for playing.
Really great experience, I loved getting to play as the big boss of the arcade game, definitely felt like I was eating the quarters of all those little guys running at me, haha!
Great job, I really liked it! :D
Oh, that's actually really clever! I should have set the score from a boring static number to "Quarters Eaten: 1200". Thanks for playing. I'm glad you liked it.