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Toad in the Hole

By diabolical-sloth

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall3493.8729
Fun4753.6429
Innovation12402.9829
Theme6513.8329
Graphics2094.3129
Audio3583.7729
Humor2643.6329
Mood2044.1329

Comments

jazkottaja 2021-04-26 23:07

Really cute! Platformins was a little simple, but overall really nice game!

2021-04-26 23:09

Feels like a childrens story book as a short game, very nice and touches on some pretty heavy themes near the end, but overall it was just a nice little romp with a good story and fun dialogue (The snail was my favourite character btw :) )

threeli 2021-04-26 23:10

Hail friend! I'm in love with this. That worm though. Wow, I really hope this gets expanded. The writing is awesome. Graphically it feels a little unfinished, but dang do I love the characters. Shoot, even the constant water pouring sound works somehow.

anniv4x 2021-04-26 23:13

I just adore the atmosphere of this game! It's very sweet and everything matches perfectly, I love the music and little sounds in the background.. and the art ties it in together making it feel very peaceful. The game runs really smooth and movement feels good as well. However the dialogue does feel a little slow and the gameplay itself could be expanded on.

jlmast 2021-04-26 23:15

Haha, I was pretty happy to see the snail! Thank you, I had a great time playing your game.

jogy34 2021-04-26 23:17

The game looked and sounded great and I liked the extra collectibles but the massive amount of conversation got annoying quickly and kind of ruined it for me. The text seemed to take up 10+ times longer than the actual platforming and gameplay parts.

tera-bite 2021-04-26 23:26

Overall a pretty good game, im just sad because i couldn't manage to get all 15 flies ;v

diabolical-sloth 2021-04-27 02:11

@threeli thank you! my partner did all the writing and it's the first time I've ever made a game with a dedicated member of the team just for writing so we really wanted to put the dialogue front and centre.

recording the sounds was just swishing 2 different sized glasses of water in front of my microphone haha glad you enjoyed it

diabolical-sloth 2021-04-27 02:13

@anniv4x thank you! I would have loved to expand on the gameplay and make something a little more "celeste-like" but I ended up having to spend a lot of my time on art and the dialogue system. If I ever do anything else with this concept I thought it'd be really cool to be able to use the frog's tongue as a grappling hook.

diabolical-sloth 2021-04-27 02:13

@tera-bite I tried to hide a few of them in places that people might not look on a first playthrough (and also in the credits to make people check it out haha) glad you enjoyed it

diabolical-sloth 2021-04-27 02:16

@jogy34 that's reasonable to be honest. we wanted to focus on the dialogue as it was my first time ever making a game with a dedicated writer but I understand if it made the pace a little too slow for you. I did try to make most of the conversations optional just to speed things up for anyone just looking for all the flies on a repeat playthrough

hiki911 2021-04-27 17:24

wow, it's very fun. like it a lot, hope you will evolve this into something bigger

eugenik 2021-04-27 20:24

Great game. Really enjoy it !!!!.

arguablyarugula 2021-04-28 00:02

Super cute animations and I love the jumping and dialogue approach. The banjo really adds to the atmosphere!

agw 2021-04-28 01:12

Cute game with a beautiful music with banjo, remember a bit of Celeste, however I fell is missing something in your game, some mechanic...

hypertheory 2021-04-28 08:30

The art style is cute and the story is full of fun. I really enjoy it. Good job!

campostella 2021-04-28 09:01

Oh I love the sound effect, the atmosphere is really warm and coyz. Jumping when the edge of the screen is a little bit tricky sometimes but overall it is clear and fun!

itsonrandom 2021-04-28 12:54

I really enjoyed this! Lovely atmosphere and the music and SFX really added to it. Super simple graphics but they were really effective too! Agreed the pacing of some of the dialogue was a too slow, maybe having shorter snippets between gameplay? But given it's mostly a narrative game it worked! Amazing effort for the two of you

sofimei 2021-04-28 15:17

I think this is my favorite game so far!! Its so cute and thoughtful. The characters were very funny and endearing, as well as the music and overall story was super cute. I think my only critique would be the way the camera jumps between scenes pretty fast, otherwise I think it was all super lovely!

pious 2021-04-28 18:50

Super simple game and turned out to be very very cute and charming. I love the pixel art and the wholesome little story with funny characters and distinct personalities. Very well done you guys. I would have liked to backtrack the level though so I could catch the rest of the flies but other than that it was well done.

pious 2021-04-28 18:50

Super simple game and turned out to be very very cute and charming. I love the pixel art and the wholesome little story with funny characters and distinct personalities. Very well done you guys. I would have liked to backtrack the level though so I could catch the rest of the flies but other than that it was well done.

nsadie 2021-05-04 19:16

What a lovely game!

The writing was excellent, the pixel art really lovely (the croak animation was super cute) and the controls nice and responsive.

I really missed the ability to swim with all that water ;)

manio 2021-05-08 14:29

Very nice game! Reminded me of Celeste. Too bad it's a struggle to replay it and try to get all the flies because you cannot skip the dialogue :/