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This game jam I wanted to challenge myself to make something like a rhythm-based QWOP + Parappa game where you synthesize raps from phonemes... and after spending a week and a half floundering around figuring out wtf an audio scheduler was I hard pivoted to just making something simple with a good amount of polish! And so, shrimpachinko: https://itch.io/jam/gamedevjs-2026/rate/4510202

I <3 Point n click games so thank you for submitting this. Love the style. Reminds me of old stuff from newgrounds/albinoblacksheep!

This was super fun, and I appreciate that the audio design made it feel even more chaotic :-D

There is an auto-jostle feature that should hopefully dislodge the shrimp... the drop log will display when one is trying to wriggle free. Sometimes it takes a few seconds!

Thanks for the updated web build. Cool idea, I'm finding it very easy to kill pacman lol >:-). I could see this being a fun multiplayer too

Cool puzzles, I had to revisit after I grew more braincells and still didn't make it very far 😅. Super clean though and the ones that I did complete were satisfying!

The mix of simple 3D and 2D looks really nice, I had a good time managing my people and unlocking the new rooms! I got to the military lab but now I can't build anymore. My chem lab and hydroponics lab loaded in as green boxes and my chem lab didn't seem to do anything (?) Also I think I had multiple people with the same name :D Overall it was fun!

Those are royalty free ones I found and pitch shifted at random intervals. The shrimp dialogue sounds are all me tho! And I did the victory/scoring sound effects on my microkorg synth. Thanks for playing <3

I enjoyed the progression of the game, it was satisfying to check off each of the tasks and go back and forth between filling the meters. And your cat's voice work is beautiful ❤️

I'm amazed that you were able to put this together and do your workshop. Such a professional level of polish and fun variety of puzzles. I appreciate the write-up post you did about your process and will definitely delve further into Panthera for my next project. Also - during the twin levels I was able to fuse the 2 playable blocks together and move them out of bounds if I spammed 2 different directions at once lol

The twist of selecting your next opponent's cell is super compelling, I played a few rounds. I would love to play a version of this with a hard AI mode

I think I found the issue with the "auto-decisions" and have just pushed a fixed version to the game page. Thanks for the feedback!! Hopefully should be good to go now :-)

Thanks for playing! This project wouldn't have been possible without your awesome Druid library since I used it for pretty much all of the UI. And sorry maybe I made the shrimps a bit too cheeky 😅

Very clean use of 3D! It was fun constantly capturing enemy pieces >:-)

Love the concept, I would totally play a full version of this if I wasn't constantly getting owned by demons with 1000 health lol

Sooo polished and well executed! Impressed by the level of detail and love that you can save and pick back up again later

Simple yet compelling! I kept hitting my own turtles though R.I.P 😂

Excellent tweak to the flappy bird formula, very very fun to play. And happy to see another submission featuring aquatic creatures :-)

Really great 3D style! Very retro and hip. Also love to see the "Submitted 55 seconds before the deadline" :D

I am so bad at this yet also very addicted! So fun and challenging. One of my favorites for sure

Yeah, auto-decisions are a bug! I need to find out what's causing that.. Thank you so much for playing!! :-)

this is amazing