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Doki Doki no Artichokie

By jezzamon and mrthee

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall3.289
Fun2.929
Innovation3.009
Theme3.789
Graphics3.429
Audio3.579
Humor3.509
Mood3.429

Comments

jharler 2018-12-04 15:19

I'm not sure what's going on, but this has crashed on me twice. Once in the title screen and another about 30 seconds into the game. I haven't rated the game, but thought I'd let you know.

jezzamon 2018-12-04 17:25

@jharler oh no! Did you get any error message or anything like that or did it just freeze?

jharler 2018-12-04 17:43

It just froze and then the Window's message saying the app isn't responding came up. I didn't see a log file or anything.

mrthee 2018-12-05 05:52

@jharler what happens when you try running the game on low?

maruki 2018-12-06 00:09

I think this is my favorite entry so far. I mean: every time you die you come back with a different head, which is a vegetable, the character dies in a very cute way, the song is cute, there's a butterfly (which, as you would expect, I could not sacrifice)... I could go on. This game has a very specific type of humor that I enjoy. Great job!

karai17 2018-12-06 08:28

This game ended up exceeding my expectations; quite a fun little platformer with some goofiness to it. My criticism would be that the controls felt a bit too floaty and difficult to use. The game also hard crashed on me, heh.

mrthee 2018-12-10 03:24

Game has now been rebuilt with Unity 2017.2. All runs on my Windows machine has proven to be stable so far :sweat_drops:

aurel 2018-12-14 17:05

Wasn't bad for a platformer but it wasn't immediately obvious what I was giving up when I was sacrificing. I lost the butterfly, but I have no idea what the butterfly did or why I gave it up and so I ended up keeping wall jump... but I never had a chance to USE wall jump.

Another thing that could have made it better, is if you displayed a counter for the number of stars earned. I wanted to see how well I did, but by the end of the game there was no way to actually know if I did well by going out of my way to collect the stars or not.

Otherwise, it was actually fun. The platforming was forgiving, the enemies were learnable, and the variety was nice.

bloodjohn 2018-12-15 15:46

The platformer is difficult for the first level. But the mechanics with the victim are great.

citsua 2018-12-17 18:55

I loved the heads changing after each death, the funny dialogue and the graphics in general! The controls felt really awkward though, with the knockback turning your character around, the gun not hitting enemies if you're too close and the dash having no feedback at all A cute idea with a lot of small things to fix, if you ever do a second version I think it could become really enjoyable!

static-ddq 2018-12-24 04:53

The controls is the the smoothest thing but it does function well most of the time. Sometimes jumping causes the player to move forward by abit and the wall jump doesn't really wall jump properly at times. I like the artstyle of the game though and character models feel alot like A Hat In Time.

ponchoguy 2018-12-31 17:59

Hey nice game, I played this on my stream!

I like how you did the sacrifice mechanic, it had great implementation and really fit with the theme! :smile:

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The mushrooom guys were pretty cool too! :yum:

A quick change I would add would be more detailed powerup images or even text - It was hard understanding what each did until I already made the decision.

For a more long term update, different map variation/s could be nice - Seeing green all the time did get a little stale, although maybe that would have been too much for the scope of the jam.

From us at [Whales and Games](https://twitter.com/WhalesAndGames) thanks for the game, it was a great play :thumbsup: