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Summon Salmon

By thejookerful

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall8423.3427
Fun7333.3027
Innovation11442.5627
Theme10432.9627
Graphics5593.7627
Audio4513.4427
Humor1923.7627
Mood7853.3827

Comments

sarah-vasilides 2024-04-16 12:29

This game is fun. The mechanics are simple but the level is challenging enough that it is still fun. I love the art and how the salmon are drawn. 5/5 salmons with saws :) 🐟

thejookerful 2024-04-16 14:39

@sarah-vasilides Thank you for your kind comment =)

bulba 2024-04-16 15:22

Pretty fun game

atan 2024-04-16 15:32

The game is simple and fun. I like trying to break my personal record. Sadly leader board does not work.

erukolindo 2024-04-16 15:39

A perfectly serviceable game, enjoyable for what it is. No real complaints, though I am wondering if it would be improved by some kind of penalty for summoning salmons unnecessarily.

imwonderr 2024-04-16 15:46

Nice little simple but fun game! Really liked the art. Congrats on finishing :)

eonarheim 2024-04-16 15:52

This was great, I love the art, parallax, and the title alliteration. The music was super chill, but I was pleasantly surprised when it picked up when things got difficult. The sound effects were also great. Honestly you probably have something here you go further with, more woodland creatures, diverting river flows, etc. I'd love to see more!

The fish buoyancy added an extra challenge that I liked.

axodo 2024-04-16 15:53

Simple but does the job pretty well. I like that you can go either above or below the mines! Bonus points for the leaderboard at the end. Good job :)

jack12342 2024-04-16 16:08

Funny, reminds old flash games

roburab 2024-04-17 01:28

I always wanted to play as a salmon king, but I didn't know it yet. Nice use of the theme and good graphics.

velvetlobster 2024-04-17 16:59

this has a lot of things that made me feel very powerful and I liked that.

I kinda kept smashing b and k like crazy and it felt awesome to jump over the bombs

I made a storm of these

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thejookerful 2024-04-18 10:39

@velvetlobster Haha at first there was no cooldown when summoning so you can spam it even more! ^^

tommes 2024-04-18 11:22

Great game, love the design. Good job on adding a leaderboard, makes it instantly more competitive.

neshtyak 2024-04-18 11:35

Amazing! The music is so relaxing and the explosion sound is the best. It's a fun idea and plays very well. Good job! The bear also remembers the character from the movie “Brother Bear” :)

hurp 2024-04-18 11:50

Funny idea, good work :D

13x666 2024-04-18 12:01

Third place baby, yeah! This was fun :D

I'm very puzzled by the decision to place action keys on B and K, my hand started getting sore from stretching like that after a while. And I think mines presented more challenge than bears and logs, but it started getting more fun as difficulty increased. Art and sounds are nice, and music is very fitting!

mumu 2024-04-18 12:44

I wasn't a big fan of the button layout but it was cool playing as salmon lol

nazorus 2024-04-18 12:59

Fun and simple game with pretty good art and cool parallax effect, complete with music and sound effects too so it's the whole package. The leaderboard is also a nice touch, what did you use to store the scores ?

My only nitpick would be the hitboxes which feel a little unforgiving sometimes.

Good submission overall, good job guys :smile:

deltamain 2024-04-18 12:59

This is soo cursed! :D Very fun game with a *very* interesting theme interpretation!

pabloabraham 2024-04-18 14:24

I found it easy to play and fun, and the art is really cool. Congratulations on the game!

lllarso 2024-04-18 14:34

Nice visuals and the fish is good to controll. Would be nice to have more obstacles and summonings. I`m a fan of the style of the fish ;)

keithswanger 2024-04-18 15:21

The art is great, and the difficulty ramps up nicely. The hitboxes are a bit hard to gauge, but chasing a high score was fun!

thejookerful 2024-04-18 16:30

@13x666 Yes, initially I used B and K as placeholders for Beaver and Knight. I planned to change them later, but ran out of time to find suitable keys ^^' @nazorus I had previously created a web API for another game jam, and it was flexible enough to reuse for this game. I didn't create a readme or any documentation, but the source code is available [here]( https://github.com/lopes-vincent/leaderboard) if you're familiar with PHP ^^ @lllarso That was the plan initially, to have lots of obstacles and different types of salmon, but the artwork took longer than I anticipated :/

Thanks to everyone for playing my game and providing feedback! =D

dimesto52 2024-04-20 12:07

a simple but fun game