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Captain Peggles

By sheepolution and shores

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall564.2060
Fun1324.0160
Innovation844.0559
Theme1154.2560
Graphics324.6261
Humor204.4360
Mood684.2360

Comments

teshimoto 2021-10-05 01:04

Absolutely loved the hame! Awesome art, interesting gameplay and great characters, great work!

spaceguinea-productions 2021-10-05 01:19

Pretty cool game and absolutely incredibly art! But I swear I was on that boat for longer than five minutes and nothing happened...

sheepolution 2021-10-05 01:26

@spaceguinea-productions Make sure you talked to all your crewmates (and parrot) on the ship!

torcado 2021-10-05 06:32

haha this is great! there was much more content than i was expecting from the first few moments. interesting way to kickstart the game, having you talk to everyone to know their location and function, i like it! i wish there was more interaction with the bird, unless i totally missed something (i was expecting like a food-counter at the end as a bonus objective)

art is super nice, sounds are great, very polished experience. lovely!

chesiq 2021-10-05 13:15

Really fun game, fits to the theme nicely. Cute graphics!

jonah 2021-10-05 13:48

Really great art and animation. I had a lot of fun playing this!

Good job!

2021-10-05 15:25

Funny game, I like being captain Peggles

immow 2021-10-05 16:54

Very cool game, the only thing lacking are my typing skills :)

saltysa 2021-10-05 17:59

I loved this game! Reminded of those little game they make you play to become a typist The mood was great, and the added difficulty in the middle of the game made it quite tense. This was really fun, I loved the visuals and music and despite my incompetent coworker, I made it to the treasure safely

siorc 2021-10-05 19:12

Stressful but enjoyable. Great work.

tchaiko 2021-10-05 19:13

animation and art style very crisp and awesome.

yellowkamel 2021-10-05 19:39

Very cool and a lot of fun. Thanks for submitting to my stream :v:

bootak 2021-10-05 19:55

Very nice game! I love the concept, great typing excercise! Great music, sounds, character designs, just all around well polished fun little game. Some dialogs are great fun, too. Very much enjoyed playing this!

drunk-wizard 2021-10-05 20:11

Absolutely love it! The music is nice, the sound effects too, even the dialog has some grunts, and the graphics, oh my GOD! Nice and unique take on the theme and the gameplay. I just like everything about this. My only gripe is that I had some longer periods of nothing to do, but I get that not everything can be perfect in a 3 day LD Jam :)

tosmaster 2021-10-05 21:12

This game is clearly a great looker! And great gameplay with a lot of humor. What else can one wish for?

andidebob 2021-10-05 21:30

This game is so cool! I am getting major monkey island vibes from the graphics. The dialogue is funny, the gameplay is super clever and really solid. I wish there was multiple levels (like different chapters in the captains life), but that is literally my only critique point. I want more of this :D

javasaurus 2021-10-05 21:31

Beautiful, absolutely love it ! The difficulty ramping could be a little bit more steep, but overall I really enjoyed it. Scored well on all categories !

tricky-fat-cat 2021-10-05 21:36

One of the funniest touchtyping game I've ever played. It has a gorgeous art and incredible idea. Well done.

dannyk1994 2021-10-05 22:35

Took a couple of runs to figure out what I needed to do. Walking mechanic was interesting and was very funny. Graphics were great too! Loved it :D

hawkin 2021-10-05 23:15

The artwork is so charming! Fantastic job with that, I can tell you had a lot of fun. And the captain's animations are pretty cute. I almost want to miss the keys just to see it.

I appreciate the effort that went into the title page! Sometimes that's overlooked, but it checks all the boxes: sets the mood, provides a little creator info. Great stuff!

Love the character interactions, too! Loved the fourth-wall-breaking. But I think the captain needs to upgrade his crew ;) Adding some sort of in-game banner to interact with all 4 characters "to set sail" would have been helpful. Anyway, that start was a great "tutorial" before starting the hard part. Great idea!

Onto the game, the difficulty scale was really well polished. The spread of the 4 characters provided just enough challenge normally, and was decently challenging when the storms came! The little touches in those moments (animations and music uptempo) really helped sell it.

I think I would have appreciated some sort of progress bar somewhere to indicate how close I was to the end, even after you told me it was going to be 5 min. I nearly tanked on a rock the very last moment of the game, but I finally did succeed :)

agentparsec 2021-10-06 04:13

Funny, inventive, and impressive :)

iacopo 2021-10-06 10:26

Really good game, (one of the few I have bookmarked) really creative gameplay :D

micheleleva 2021-10-06 12:17

I loved everything about this game, especially the art. All the gameplay elements, even if simple, put together form a well crafted experience. Excellent job!

zahab-aq 2021-10-06 15:05

This is one of my favorite games I've played yet. ###

A very unique and creative take on the theme! I really enjoyed my time playing this, and kudos for creating this in such a short time.

#### Some things I liked #### - The mood, the polish, and the humor were all really well done. - I also appreciated that there were cutscenes and a story that immediately pulled me in, and the characters were also very lively and likeable! - I liked the game loop, and I felt that it provided just the right amount of challenge to keep it interesting. - I also felt that the player was introduced to the mechanics in a thoughtful way. I never felt confused as to what to do. - The art and graphical style was also very charming! Everything felt cohesive, and the art style definitely added a lot to the game. - The sounds were nice, and helped pull everything together.

#### Some things that I felt could be done better: #### - I felt that there should have been some sort of progress indicator that showed me how much time was left. Being told it's 5 minutes and the system status actually being visible throughout make for very different user experiences. - I also would have like a little more challenge, so maybe adding difficulty toggles would be something for a future build.

As you can see, I do not have a lot of criticism, so I say **good job!** Thank you for helping me spend some time in a fun way.

preda 2021-10-06 15:41

Damn, this is really good. Love the music, the controls, the interactions. It's really well done. And I really liked the thicc guy looking around

tulkas 2021-10-06 15:59

Ahoy mates! A very good and smart idea on the theme. Art and music are fascinating. I was very impressed with the prologue part(i must say, big fan of the rude parrot also). Generally speaking, outstanding experience!

pomo 2021-10-06 17:04

Had a great time with this one! Add a higher difficulty setting for the mlg pro typers next time :P

rein 2021-10-07 05:40

Someone recommended this to me on my stream earlier and I'm really happy they did. The art was fantastic and the whole experience was very endearing. Very nicely done.

leokrechmer 2021-10-07 13:10

Amazing game! Thanks for suggestion, but I already have your game in my play to list! Just great! Amazing arts, humor and audio! Everythong just great :) Love the parrot mechanic :) Thanks!

euler-moises 2021-10-07 18:11

I imagined a complete game here! With many hours of gameplay and side stories! If I were you I would think too, because you're going to make some money.

Congratulations on the excellent game.

quite-good 2021-10-08 21:06

Yarr this game is amazing! Clearly so much effort and heart went into every little detail of this game, and it really pays off! Each interaction and animation has so much character and charm, and the actual gameplay, while tense at times, is well balanced and easy to understand. Loved the changing weather and the comic book opening and ending cutscenes too, they were little cherries on top. Sail onward!

zimny11 2021-10-12 16:53

That was so much fun to play! Everything is just great. Music, art style, game mechanics... Amazing job with the game! Arrr!

daspikeyboss 2021-10-14 05:21

Wow! This game is so good! The artwork is amazing the music is great and the game is fun to play. The idea of having to press different key combinations to walk and keep your balance is really good. All the different characters and the conversations was really well done. The two main things that I think should be changed is the addition of a health bar to see how close you are to sinking and making some of the interactions shorter. With that last one I am specifically thinking of when I accidentally press space in front of the rope ladder and have to just stare down at the enemy boat while I wait for the dialog to finish.

Even without those changes this game is really really good. This is the best game I have seen in the jam so far. Really great job!

atmospherium 2021-10-14 16:50

Unique and challenging gameplay that I expected to be frustrating, but ended up actually feeling good as the game went on. The typing challenge felt simple enough to not be frustrating, but the game moved fast enough toward the end that it added a good level of intensity. The art was VERY well done and added a lot of character and polish. Overall a really enjoyable game.

jarno 2021-10-14 18:05

Small, simply but perfectly polished! I love this little game!

simon-rahnasto 2021-10-18 09:56

Gotta love that sheepolution magic, you can't put your finger on it, but it's there and it makes your games something else!

I really enjoyed this one, the graphics are so freaking cool and the animations are just so good. I loved the little unique sound that each person makes when they talk, that is something which I might steal! :smile:

I have never really been a fan of typing games, but this doesn't really feel like one. You managed to balance it really well, I feel like it was always a really close call, but I juuuust managed. Really smart game design to have the player literally learn to walk, before the game starts.

There is so much I want to talk about, mainly the amount of polish that has gone into this. This is one of very few game jam entries where I can't really think about anything which could have been polished further, it's just perfect. The sound, music (and before mentioned voice effects) are all really good and add to the overall atmosphere and mood.

As always, fantastic entry!

emaigualmc2-art 2021-10-18 16:42

Ahoy sailors! I like to see another pirate game like ours xD I found it incredible, the voice acting, the character design is perfect, the humor, the color palette, the idea of ​​how to move the characters is very interesting, it shows that the lines were made quickly but improving those details and polishing it would be perfect. Amazing work!!

zeilanda 2021-10-19 08:55

The game is looking interesting! Very like art, it's cool! Also like idea of this game. A really angry with guy on the mast)) Have a lot of fun with this game.

negator2vc 2021-10-20 06:26

Excellent game with amazing visuals! Love the pirate theme. Interesting movement mechanics. Nice entry!

misfire-dev 2021-10-21 10:05

super polished game, really enjoyed shouting at my crew and plundering the high seas.

kiwi663 2021-10-21 13:27

Wow very nice game. I love your music and art. God job!