Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD50 → Baggy & Maggy
By JojoPalambas and revetoon
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 217 | 3.92 | 42 | |
| Fun | 139 | 3.94 | 41 | |
| Innovation | 369 | 3.61 | 42 | |
| Theme | 948 | 3.42 | 41 | |
| Graphics | 105 | 4.45 | 42 | |
| Audio | 214 | 3.87 | 42 | |
| Humor | 156 | 3.94 | 40 | |
| Mood | 261 | 3.91 | 41 |
LOVE the art. LOVE the theme! It's adorable! The music is great! Love how it changes when you pass a milestone too. I was chuckling out loud at your cute characters. The only thing that was frustrating were the game mechanics. It was a little hard to make some jumps and also to use the swinging on the logs. I didn't have the patience to keep trying. But other than that, I am in love with all the ideas and potential in this game.
I'm super bad at platforms so I struggled using my mouse and arrow keys, but I'm in love with the vibe and cute art work. I love the sound that matches the pixel nature of the art.
Really nice art, very cute - I love the characters! The achievements popping up were pretty cool too! The swinging on the logs was quite hard to do though, and I struggled to get very far, maybe some kind of auto-lock-on for the swinging would have been a good addition. Overall a solid jam game, nice job!
Absolutely amazing atmosphere in the game. Nice music on the background, love the art style. It was sometimes a bit hard to attach the rope while moving at the same time, but not too bad. Great game, nice work!
This was such a cute game! it may just be a side on platformer, but the art style and he music kept me intriqued in the game. Well done!
uhh took a time to figure out that W button does not work, you must use up arrow to jump only , please remove this hint form description. And i dont know where to go when you climb to the high point with tree, help me pls.. Overall game is made good and attractive
Loved the art, it was really cute ! Liked the gameplay as well, however I don't know if I missed something or if I had a bug but I couldn't interact with the candles, meaning I couldn't beat the game :(
It's very funny, I liked playing it, the music and drawing are very pleasant
Very nice entry, nice character design and visuals ! So cute. I got stuck at the candle part though, couldn't bring it with me or do anything with it even though Maggy was telling me how a candle would be nice... Great job anyways !
I couldn't jump with W, nothing happened. Arrow keys did work, but felt a bit weird when also using the mouse. Other than that the physics felt really good.
I also couldn't figure out how to get the candle into the mug unfortunately (maybe there was another possible route which lets you drop it in from above, I arrived dragging it from the right), but I played long enough to say you've got a concept that works! It was fun for the most part. The achievements on the first level were perhaps a little bit too easy to find however.
Also very pretty pixel art (and lots of it!). The tune playing was also enjoyable and fitting. Overall you did well with the mood of the levels I experienced.
Great game overall! I love the concept and the cuteness of the whole. The graphics are incredible and the gameplay is well executed. It would have been great to use spacebar to jump because on a AZERTY keyboard W is not easily accessible. And the music loop is too short, I muted it after some time. How do you feed the candle to the mug?
Cute! Controls on keyboard are solid, still I prefer controller. I got the match back to the mug. But I did not understand in the upper right side of the level how to climb, what to do. Still, enjoyed the little playtime. I like the graphics, very consistent and cute. Music is fitting, but a bit too repetitive to "present".
I love this game so much. It continued to amaze me as I progressed through it. The tea bag is adorable, and I loved the mug's reaction faces. The gameplay itself was also really fun, and the swing mechanic was really well done. One thing is that W wouldn't let me jump, which was kind of annoying. Still I was motivated to finish the game. The candle dragging mechanic was really interesting too.
I love the artstyle and cuteness! Great game.
This is an absolutely beautiful little platformer! 😊 The art, music, atmosphere are top-notch and the bungie string mechanic is unique. I was frustrated with not understanding the click to interact mechanic at first, finally got it, but then found it too difficult to swing across using the two logs. Maybe just a keypress to "auto-grab" the nearest target?
Wow! Fantastic art, sound, animations. The controls are smooth and intuitive. Great intro tutorial. My only problem is I can't quite figure out how to swing! I keep getting disconnected, so I wasn't able to get very far. This is such a super polished game though, you should be proud.
omg this is so cute, but at the same time the cup is making some really disgusting faces when you warm it up ahah The achievements were really nice and i expected a big final by flying into the sun for endless warmth but i'm glad it's to be continued :p Nice game !!
Fun, clear and relaxing. Loved the achievements detail. Mug face is funny to look at :) the way level changes via mug flying is a good touch. Rope mechanic is cool. great entry!
This is so cute! I love the artstyle and the gameplay, with the teabag using its string as a hook, great idea!
Sorry I'm a bit late at answering you guys, thank you so much for the replies ^^
@starship-captain-becca Thanks for the kind words and the feedback, we did a hotfix to make rope swinging less difficult.
@minthamie I know platformers are not for everyone, we tried to make the game not too difficult to focus more on the story but maybe it was still a bit hard for some parts, thank you for taking the time to test our game :)
@james-7777 Thank you for your kind words :) We took into account your feedback on rope swinging and made it easier to click on the logs, thanks for that !
@brandsma Thank you ! Same as above, we took into account your feedback on rope swinging, should be easier now :)
@aymeric-le-moal Thanks, yeah the candle part was not very understandable, but thanks to your feedback we added a simple tutorial close to the candle to help with how it works.
@forgin-bits Thank you for the kind words ! We added an in-game tutorial for the candle because as you said it was not very clear, thank you for your feedback !
@siskan Sorry about the issue with the jumps ^^' We kind of forgot to test it, but it's now fixed ! Same as above, we added an in-game tutorial for the candle, sorry for the confusion. And yes the first achievements were easy to get on purpose to introduce the achievement system to the player :)
@thibault-raffaillac Hello and thanks for the kind words ! Yes we had issues with the key binds, for AZERTY keyboards, the easiest is to player with the directional arrows, it's not perfect but we didn't have time to do better ^^ For the candle, you have to drag it by clicking on it to grab it with the rope, it is now tutorialized in-game thanks to your feedback :)
@itzemii Unfortunately controller is not supported, it was too much work for the rope swinging. Thanks for the kind words !
@manan Thank you ! Very happy that you loved it and managed to finish it :) Yes we went a bit overboard with the reaction faces, it was very funny to draw and add them to the game ! (Btw the W to jump is now fixed)
@shortcreative Thank you for the kind words :) We made it easier to attach to the logs thanks to your feedbacks. Indeed an auto-grab could be a good addition, and it would allow us to maybe support controller ^^
@daniel-username Thanks for the feedback ! When swinging you can use the left/right keys to swing left/right and press the jump key to detach yourself and land where you want (hopefully ^^)
@enderswype Yeah we went a bit overboard with the mug reaction faces haha :) That would indeed be a cool ending, but maybe a bit less fitting with the theme, I'm not sure.
@mortalfosca Haha happy you liked the faces and the Mug being able to fly ^^
@janniz Thank you very much :)
This is a very nice game, no violence and yet so in line with our topic! Great job - so much to love here: graphics and music, gameplay and level design, even details, such as trees!
played v1.0 - Beside the not working "W"-key (I just used the arrow keys then, so i have no problem with that) there is nothing but to say Congratulations! What a relaxing, comfortable, self-explanatory and loving game. Thank you for making this game :purple_heart:
Edit: i just realized that i got a catchy tune from the music XD
Super cute and very nice expression on the mug lol. Great art and innovative idea as well!
@olguinne Thank you very much ! As you said, we wanted to find an idea fitting to the theme, without it being about dying or killing. I'm glad you liked it :)
@melektaus Thanks for the kind words :) The v1.0 release is indeed totally playable, except for some quality of life issues. Happy that you liked the music haha
@dgspitzer Thank you, we gave extra attention to the reaction faces of the mug :grin:
Really great game! The puzzle mechanics were super fun to play with and everything felt very fleshed out. I'm amazed you were able to make this during the span of a game jam, well done!
Very nice little platformer here, very polished in terms of graphics and sound--I especially love the various graphical touches like the vines and the splashing tea, and the music layers that get added as you progress through the game.
I do have two thoughts about the platforming itself: - There doesn't seem to be a variable-height jump. This becomes annoying when you have to climb up the sets of platforms on the side of a wall, e.g. when getting the lighter. In particular, the platforms are placed so that your jump overshoots them by quite a bit, making climbing up these areas kind of tedious because you are in the air much longer than you need to be. - The swinging physics are, in my opinion, not as fun as they could be. In particular, clicking a swinging pivot kind of just teleports you to be swinging there, without much in the way of maintaining your momentum. I think that swinging physics are a lot more fun when they incorporate your existing momentum and the character flows naturally in and out of the swinging state. I can't think of any game examples off the top of my head, but I hope you can see what I mean.
All that said, this was a pretty fun game to play through, and I also went back and got the Speedrunner achievement, which was fun. It was especially cool that jumping into Maggy would skip the cutscenes for that. That was a very nice touch.
I also think that the large variety of mechanics was cool. In particular, it was neat how the teabag string was used both for swinging and for grabbing the candle, and it was cool how there were multiple kinds of item interactions (picking them up, pushing them, and grabbing them with the string).
So overall, a very good entry, definitely the best platformer I've played so far this Ludum Dare. :smile:
Fantastic, I loved it (uwu)! I really liked the art for the game, the dialoge, the humor, specifically the tea bag's string for some reason (XD)! Great job, I was surprised to hear this was only made by 2 people! 4.5/5 stars from me, keep it up! :D
@feesh Well thank you :) Glad you like dit
@honey-pony Thanks for the in-depth comment ! Yes we didn't implement a variable jump height, it could have been a good idea indeed. And for the swinging, it's true it could have been made better with more time, and the snapping was intentionally to not get stuck on the ground too easily but it was not best solution. When I think about games with this sort of mechanisms, I think about *Speedrunners*' grappling hook which is very smooth and satisfying to use, I would have loved this kind of swinging but we didn't have enough time to polish this feature more.
@sephowepho Haha thank you very much :)
Super cute concept and graphics/presentation. Love the music as well, great work!
Very cute graphics and overall presentation. Great work!
Amazing game! It was a lot of fun to play. And it even has achievements! The art style is beautiful, the music is super nice and relaxing and game mechanics feels great. Awesome job with the game. To be honest, I want more :)
I loved Teabagging the Maggy into space :fire:
Pros:
- Amazing art, love the style - Great animations and effects - Multiple levels - Clever puzzles, and multiple mechanics to be thrown at the player - Minimalistic UI for tutorial is a + - Great controls feel, including physics - Characters are just adorable (for a Typical Tea enjoyer like me) - Going back to the Maggy is actually such a cool idea, makes you feel... warm - Hey! There's music! - The game even has achievements - SPAAAAAAACEEEEE
Cons:
- I just wish it was longer - Speaking of controls, I believe a keyboard-only layout could be achieveable with some clever targeting, but hey, it works just fine with mouse as well
A superb work made by you guys. Excellent job!
Loved the art work and the music. It would've been cool to have some slight soft-body physics on the wet teabag too so he lands with more weight vs the string physics. Great job with the polish !
That was fun! I really liked the sweet innocent vibe. It was delightful. Triggering the swinging mechanic with the mouse was a little awkward. I think the swinging overall could use some tuning to make it feel a bit better. Overall thought the game was good. I'm impressed that you had achievements
I really like this game! The art is amazing, the music is very fitting and gives a nice mood! The mission also fits the theme and I really like that you can get different achievements! As a beginner gamedev, I'm also really impressed with the physics! Great work ^^
what a lovely and fascinating game! i love the art and character design. the rope / bag physics was so much fun. the movement dynamics felt good too.
got the climber achievement!
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