angioop 2024-10-08 03:43
Love the art and the eating animation! It isn't possible to die though, lol
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD56 → Shrimpy
By brusi, Ido, kultuk, aviv-levy and Paul Maaswinkel
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 358 | 3.72 | 190 | |
| Fun | 431 | 3.54 | 191 | |
| Innovation | 664 | 3.14 | 191 | |
| Theme | 266 | 3.98 | 190 | |
| Graphics | 262 | 4.11 | 191 | |
| Audio | 102 | 3.95 | 187 | |
| Humor | 404 | 3.29 | 181 | |
| Mood | 346 | 3.75 | 184 |
Love the art and the eating animation! It isn't possible to die though, lol
oh wow, this game is the best looking one i've seen so far! the gameplay is smooth and essentially 0 bugs other than the fact that the spikey teeth dont kill you :P
Loved this! - such a fun concept, nice twist on the doodle jump styled gameplay - your captured the theme of the jam perfectly, and the theme of the game is awesome, it really felt so satisfying imagining helping out my little fish friend by cleaning its mouth. my fish friend who seemingly has eaten sushi somehow XD
Art is great, the little eating animation and sound was satisfying, great job
my main point of feedback is that it took a while for me to understand that the platform was platforms, they where pointy enough to indicate danger at a first glanse - I understand they are supposed to be teeth, but I think it would read more clearly if they where trubby teeth and a bit more rounded, or maybe even more squared teeth - doing a quick google on Fish Teeth, I see many species having almost like rounded squared teeth which could work great for the platform part and then have the pointy teeth in the back, and underneath being obstacles to avoid.
But other that that, Great job!
A very fun mini-game, I liked it. The animations and music are pretty cool. Maybe you need to increase the difficulty a little bit? Maybe a post jam version?
Really nice game!! I enjoyed the art and music and everything :)
A simple jumper game. I would have liked to be able to turn when I clean because I lost time on being faced the wrong direction and having to re adjust before I could try and clear the food scraps.
Very simple, yet I totally enjoyed the game! It's funny and I like the music and overall mood.
I just don't want to ever meet whatever has that huge mouth
What a long mouth lol. Love the mini pixel animation! A well polished shrimple gameš¦. (Sometimes the distance between the randomly generated platforms was too high to jump upon the upper one.)
Animations are very sweet and love the start screen showing Samson's full face :) It's both smooth and fun to play along with a charming concept!
Cute little game! I love the art and animations, I wanna play more game as that little shrimp. I did hit a point where I couldn't reach the next platform, not sure if I missed something or its bugged but the next platform was too high to reach at one point. Still really nice though, good job ^^
Very shrimple but cute game! Nice work!
That fish has an extremely long mouth omg. I didn't realize what I had to do at first when I was passing the friends so I got out of the mouth and was surprised with the 0 score. Then I read the instructions and realized :P! Very cute game though.
So great! What wins me is the overall presentation: from the visuals, animations to the audio, it feels very relaxing and polished, making it already a satisfying experience. Gameplay is simple and fun, works very well. Scored 8. Loved it!
The style of the game is simply fascinating, beautifully drawn art, special thanks to the artist. The gameplay is also quite interesting)
I approve
Simple and chilly platformer. First try i did not get it that i should save my little friends, i am selfish shrimpy! Maybe should add some obstacles to push player save them. Well done!
Simple but fun game! Only thing that bothers me is that i died twice because the jump i had to make was simply too high (or there is somemechanic i missed)
Simple game but extremely polished, with very beautiful music, sfx and artwork. Maybe it misses some sense of urgency, like for example you could lose points if you miss food and lose if you get to zero. That way you could push the player to risk more to avoid losing points, otherwise one could simply keep jumping without eating anything, which is fairly easy (which is definitely not what I did on the first run because I didn't read the tutorial on the page :eyes:)
Goofy cool lil' game, for some reason some jumps feel a bit impossible sometimes, but other than that, it's a neat arcadey game ^^
This game is incredible, absolutely loved it. The art is great and the theme is unique. Well done!
Hey, neat idea! I liked the art and audio a lot. There were a few runs where the upper platform was too far up for me to reach with my max jump. Screenshot 2024-10-10 103553.png Great job tho!
The art, music and sound all come together in a way that is SO relaxing and such a fun vibe! :relaxed: I really love the art and animations!! So cute. :heart_eyes:
I really think you just need a little more danger (tension), and some type of things to collect on the way up? (I kept trying to eat the little sushis :) )
If the spiky walls hurt or killed you... (which was a player expectation I think)... I would maybe tune the left/right speed down just a tad... I loved the responsiveness, but felt just a hair twitchy imo. I had a hard time controlling. But that is super polishy. Such a great entry!
Nice little game with a relaxing soundtrack. :) I personally like the interpretation of the theme in this one.
As @ScrapMetal already mentioned, would it be nice to have a little bit more challenge in the game. Enemies spawning from different directions for example could work for this type of gameplay.
The audio feedback while eating the objects to get points was very good. Nice job and congrats to your finished product! :)
Itās a cute game with a relaxing and calming soundtrack that really sets a peaceful mood.
Very cute aesthetics and animations, loved the concept and execution ā great job! Would have been funny if the shrimp evolved after eating somehow, like growing or something
Art is very nice, chewing sounds are awesome, concept is hilarious and clever, BUT I kept having jumps WAY to high, very early, on each and every run?! I even had a run where all the "teeth" (platforms) disappeared as soon as I started my very first jump? Am I the only one to experience this issue?
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Really like the vibes of this game. Audio works super well (love the eating sounds especially) and art is nicely done too! Well done to the team! ^^
Sweeet! You won me with the eating (cuteness) mechanic. Brought a genuine smile on my face. :D The game itself is pretty complete, so good job! Never ever have I felt so soothed before imminent death HAHAHA! And especially spot on on the theme : ))
Fun little game, managed to get an impossible run, then won with a solid score of 0, I liked the different paltforms wished the platforms that had spikes at the bottoms would prevent you from jumping through them, just a game dev nitpick from me, alas the game way fun :D
Nice game! Love the art and music. Gameplay wise the movement speed feels a little quick, and sometimes the upper platforms are impossible to reach.
Nice entry. Very relaxing gameplay. The sounds and graphics create nice "dreamy" underwater atmosphere. Level creation could need some work, i had a point where i could do nothing but lose.
Had a great time with this one. The concept is just very clever whilst also being quite cute rather than perilous (even if you can get eaten), the art is lovely, the little nibbling animation is adorable. The only nitpicks I have design wise is what others have said - the biggest being that sometimes jumps are impossible. I think you were really clever that most of the time that's mitigated by the nature of the gaps being closed as the jaw closes, but sometimes even that's not enough. The others are much more minor, in that sometimes facing the right direction was tricky and the spikey platforms felt like they should be hazards. But I completed it first try with a score of 12 so I'll take it!
In particular I want to highlight the sound design and music. I really love the music and calming atmosphere the audio helps cultivate. I think it's a splendid entry. It's my favourite shrimp-based game I've played thusfar, and that's not even a small compliment!
cool! but I lost quite often because of very distant platforms :( maybe I didn't realize something....
very cute and simple game, the music is great and its pretty replayable!
This game is so nice, loved playing it! The graphics, the sound and the music are great, good job to the team!
Fan game, but the problem with high jumps needs to be fixed, but I liked the game))))
fun game. but there will be a point that the jumping platform is too high and can't reach and you'll always die at that point.
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I love it! they have so many little legs :two_hearts:
it is actually possible to jump over the mouthborders into "freedom"
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I really like the concept of being in a mouth that is constantly closing. It's more unique then most infinite runners.
Oh this game is great! Love the art and the music, really gives it a chill vibe (even if the gameplay is a little bit less chill!) I enjoyed the twist on the "endless jumper" genre (though I know this one isn't actually endless) by adding just that one little mechanic of having to stop and gather items as well as timing jumps properly. Lots of fun, nothing bad to say about this, congrats on making such a complete game in only a weekend! I hope you all continue to make games as there is clearly a lot of talent here.
This was lots of fun! I spent a lot of time failing miserably at completing it but had to keep playing until I completed it! The pixel art looks great and the whole concept was fun!
Really fun concept and great execution! The pixel art was on point and the foley for walking was so good I wish there was less jumping just so I could hear more of it š¤£
Only constructive feedback I have is that the controls could have been included in the screen that says "press up to start", since I played the first time not knowing that the thingies on screen were game objects rather than just decorations.
I have to know when to give up on cleaning because I know I am going to die, which gives the game a unique element. The setting is unique; I havenāt seen any other game use the theme like that. Cleaning is cathartic, and itās funny to see sushi lost in the teeth of a whale, lol! Itās a good game! Well done!
What an entry, very fun and cute. I love music and bubbling sounds.
Fun game, I really enjoyed gameplay and artstyle looks awsome
Game won, 23. A pretty and very well executed simple game.
I like the atmosphere of it. The bubbling sounds, the overall peacefull music... - the fact that it does not become incredibely hardcore after 1min30 of gaming.
Nice work.
Nice game, really nice atmosphere with the audio and the artwork! Great work!
The artwork and audio are super cool, love it ! The musig itself gives such a nice mood. Great job guys !
This was such a good game! I loved the peaceful vibes with the impending doom of being eaten :joy: I managed to win the game with a score of 25. Keep on making games!
This was awesome!
Super cute and clever take on the theme. But, was I supposed to eventually just choose to escape? I assumed I just had to keep cleaning until I slipped up and died. :/
The game is simple but it looks really good, ha a cool and unique twist on a genre with closing gap underneath you . Combined with the music it is very chill game. My one caveat is with the randomness, not a single time have I died due to fault of my own. Eventually sooner or later the game decided to spawn next platform way to high for me to be able to reach it. At first I thought that maybe I was doing something wrong, but after reading comments I'm not the only one who had that issue. Luckily it seems like an easy thing to patch out. Overall great entry I had fun and I hope you guys continue making more games.
Great art style and music. Like others have said, if you were to make some post-jam tweaks, maybe a one-shot super-jump , or a jump that uses a few points of the score, for occasions where the randomly generated platforms hand you an impossible gap would be cool.
Love the spritework and satisfying sound effects! However, it wasn't immediately obvious to me that I was supposed to interact with stuff, maybe a little indicator would help? Overall great job anyways!
I appreciate the mood of this game ! good job on the music also !
Art is awesome , head work, but you this, good jobāŗļø
Cool game.Creativity is fun.The graphic style is also really good.
Well done! The game is appealing and addictive. Good graphics, great sound. The idea of using your spare time to each as many creatures as possible is appealing. It makes the game challenging without the frustration of dying. After completing it, I played again and got a score of 27. It would be nice if there were always creatures to eat, sometimes the screen is empty just because nothing happens to appear.
Great game ! As a synth-guy really like the music. Everything is coherent from the gameplay ideas to the general design :heart:
You might add a retry button, but that a detail.
Cute little game, adorable music and sounds and original setting.
If you want reviews so badly, what about rating other games instead of spamming posts linking to your own game?
Nice fun chill game, kind of wish there a little more challenge to it though.
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Yay! Winnar!
Nice one! Love the pixel art and the controls of the shrimp very smooth
I loved your take on the theme. Yay dangerous symbiosis! :shrimp: :whale:
The main screen does wonders to set the mood from the very beginning (in fact, I kept thinking if there would be other dangers lurking up ahead), and then the rest of the game cements a really consistent experience, with nice pixel art graphics (The tiny pieces of sushi in particular were so cute) and fitting sound design. Kudos to the music, I could easily keep the dreamy psych tunes looping in the background for a chill afternoon.
Great job! :heart:
PS: Just a couple of technical issues: * Somehow I managed to kill myself and lock the game in the main screen once. :sweat_smile: :sweat_smile: :sweat_smile:. It doesn't happen 100% of the time though, it could be a timing issue. * A couple of times the height between two teeth seemed to be higher than the jump max, with no algae in-between.
Pretty neat game! I liked the music and the ending was really cool. I had a lot more fun once I realized you need to hold the interact button and not just click it over and over again lol.
It was so fun! Great idea, great implementation, great overall. Thank you.
Shrimple as that! Jokes aside, thought it was really solid! Controls felt a smidge floating but it's underwater so I completely understand the intent. The art was very cute and overall thought it was a solid game! Managed to get a score of 25 which I'm pleased about. :sunglasses:
I liked this one a lot, I managed to score 21! I really liked the art, it's really well done, I loved finding a new piece of food. They all had really charming animations, same with Shrimpy. Samson was also really cool looking, the teeth were very cool, but I thought the ones that were spiked on the underside would hurt me - that would have been quite cool I think.
Really good work on this game!
Very nice entry!
I like the sound desing especially!
The biggest issue as some others have said is the RNG. It is quite frustrating to die because the next platform simply spawned to high.
But a very nice take on the theme, a tiny creature eating even tinier creatures!
It's very fun! Nice entry :smile: I love the cute little shrimp and the animations :heart:
Nice chilling game!
Hey, spammers. :heart: You are aware that we can see you changed the game after the game jam, right, cheaters? :lying_face: :upside_down:
Aaah, run shrimpy, run!! (and don't forget to grab a snack on your way up!!) It's a cute little game, I like that we don't just need to jump but also take some time to eat, and I really appreciate that the music is rather chill so that I'm not getting stressed by trying and failing :D nice one!
Great game team! I normally hate platformers, but I loved this one! How do you score though? I went really far and ended up with 0 points.
Outstandingly elegant execution of this idea. LOVE the visuals and audio. There's literally nothing to critique here, well done!
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Yes! A classic doodle jumper game with fun graphics :) I died from an (I think) impossible jump, but I love the idea of adding powerups and whatnot to this game as the art and music were impressive!
Love the atmosphere of the game created by the art and sound design, and especially loved the shrimps idle and eating animations. Unfortunately I could never get more than 6 points because the jumps were just too high for my shrimp to reach, shame as I would've played for longer if I could!
I enjoyed the bubbles the most. I thought it added an extra bit of magic to what was already a pretty game.
Enjoyed playing the game, but there seem to be points where it's impossible to progress higher up as the next set of teeth are out of reach... unless I am missing something :)
pretty cute game. i realized that there's interact button only after 1st attempt :'), nice work!
super cute game! simple controls simple mechanic, very effective. I didn't realise that i needed to hold down the interaction button lol. I only got a score of 9, but I really enjoyed :))
Simple, effective, cute, funā¦ What can I say more than: well done!
Cute and simple game! I LOVE the shrimp walk sound. Only thing is I wish it was more understandable what the walls are? Am I in the mouth of some giant creature?
Nice. Simple gameplay, but nicely executed. I too had a couple of runs where the only available platform was too high to get to. Would have been nice to have a bit more variety in the gameplay... faster over time, perhaps some penalty for leaving bits of food, the occasional power-up etc.
Bravo! The graphics are crisp, Shrimpy is a star, and it just plays very smoothly. And just when it's about to get a bit boring - you find out there's a proper ending too! Excellent jam game.
I finished with 17.
Cool game, real nice art, and the premise of escaping a predator mouth is kinda fun! Difficulty scales nice, and it feels good to play. I came to a point where the teeth were too high to reach though so maybe check on that, otherwise great :)
the art is super lovely, we need more shrimp love <3
Fun! I like how forgiving the platforms are since they get narrower toward the bottom, that's a nice design consideration. I did however reach a point where the platforms were simply too far apart to jump up to.
Super fun game, simple yet effective, i love it !
Love the music ! Really felt like I was underwater
The constantly closing jaws is just enough to make you feel like "MOVE, GOTTA MOVE" the whole time, love it. Didn't read the instructions so didn't realize I had to press space to eat the sushi and other things. But eating them means you aren't moving up, and there doesn't seem to be a reason to eat except for points. But of course having a zero on that score board after climbing so high is frustrating, so you know I HAD to eat some sushi on the way up... and that makes it so much harder!
Great game. Simple, but unexpectedly challenging.
Fun game with an effective core idea, works well with the theme! It's simple but works well, the mechanic of having to spend time to collect bonus points provided a good risk/reward system to keep the challenge up, especially later on when it felt like the screen was moving up faster (it was, right? Or am I just crazy?). Is it completable, or does it just keep going on forever? Just curious. Regardless, was a fun, simple experience! Nice work.
Game is really fun and I like the art style. One issue I has was during my first run there was a jump that was to high for me to reach. Other than that the game was a blast
A cute single platformer with lovely music - I feel like I might have been missing something, but some jumps seemed impossible and thus I inevitably would reach something that would just send me back to the start
A great game, not much to say that hasn't already been said!
Nice simple and complete game!
Fun game with lovely visuals and music. Great job here!
@shoppncart It's not going forever, there's an ending. :)
Thanks a lot everyone for the kind words and feedback! We're looking into the game-breaking impossible jumps!
Couldn't believe a game could be both so relaxing and distressing, but here it is! Love it, also super cozy audio and graphics! Good job!
Anyway unless I'm missing something, sometimes there's no way to keep going up and the player inevitably loses.
Very nice jumper game, love the Setting and the Animation, music is nice as well! Very nice Submission. :)
This was a super neat game! Well done :) Loved the music too!
Nice game,very interesting plot!!!!Nice job!!!!
I really enjoyed playing this fun game about a jumping shrimp. The pixel art looks great and the sound effects are excellent. I found the gameplay easy to understand and fun to play. It's a charming little game that made me smile.
Art, sounds and mood are really good. I really like the mechanism of the infinite scroller with the forever closing mouth. About gameplay, it is too easy so it's a bit boring, I ended the game just because I wasn't challenged. I think the game would benefit to follow the player no matter what because here I was constantly out of screen waiting for platforms to show up and jumping out of screen. You could make the mouth close quicker and let the player go up a bit more. Also it would be more enjoyable with a coyote time for the jump. Last thing is with a scoring game, I think you should display the score while playing.
Nice entry!
@schadocalex Thanks for the feedback and for playing! I agree the game could be more challenging. The score is displayed to the top-left of the screen, but it only shows once you've eaten something. I wonder if maybe you missed the part of having to eat stuff off the fish's teeth, because this also makes the game more challenging!
This is something we needed to better communicate at the start of the game.
@aviv-levy ho yeah definitely I missed that part. I saw those but didn't know what to do, jumping on them do nothing. I tried to hold down like the description but nothing happens too. What am I missing? EDIT: ok the interact button is ENTER
@schadocalex you have to get close to the food and then hold the interact button (z/enter/spacebar), until the food is eaten :)
We definitely need to tutorialize this. Sorry about that haha
Ok then half of my first comment isn't relevant anymore. Still out of screen most of the time, still a bit easy + tiny creatures are sometimes missing for too long. But 2 of my runs got stuck by impossible jump, is it normal? Btw I gotta higher even more my votes with this additional gameplay! It's few details away from a game I could hunt!
Very responsive movement and fluid animations. It feels good playing. Congratulations!
But I'd like to know where the idea of shrimp escaping the mouth of a bigger fish came from? :D
Thanks for playing!
The theme tiny creatures brought the idea of cleaner shrimps, which are a lot smaller than the animals they clean, usually. The game is inspired by Icy Tower combined with the symbiosis between the sea animals, hence escaping the mouth part.
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Sometimes the shrimp goes inside the mouth of the fish, risking being eaten, even though it very rarely happens.
this might be stupid and such a tiny detail, but honestly i loved the animation of the seaweed :o
Wow this is a really polished experience! At first I thought the platforms coming in from the sides were daggers so avoided hitting them and I also thought the triangles on the sides were spikes too. I also went quite far thinking I was eating food when I had only pressed space once on them rather than holding it for a while. This is just me being dumb though!
Loving the music too and this is just a well-done simple concept, amazing!
this game is one of my favourites for this ludum dare run, amazing work! will be looking forward to more stuff from you guys!
my personal gripe was with teeth edges, I would very often just fall through even though i thought i nailed the jump. so i wish collider was a bit more forgiving, if it makes sense. also could be just a skill issue on my part, so dont take it too seriously!
and as many commented, very lovely art, animation and audio design! when is shrimpy merch dropping? :D
Really clever idea and a lot of fun! I feel like hitting the teeth should knock you back a bit to add some more challenge. Also I imagine an endless mode could be interesting for this, where they close in faster over time
A neat game!
The art is beautifully detailed, and I chuckled when I noticed the onigiri as one of the foods (the rest clicked in place afterwards as well). I presume the spiked teeth were supposed to present more danger, but the mechanic didn't make it in?
As it's possible to play with WASD, I'm surprised you didn't actually bind 'S' to eat as well.
Overall, great job!
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Man this sure is a very long mouth... but really cute idea and great overall execution. Really liked the small touches like the background jellyfish and bubbles and how the food was tiny nigiri or little sushi rolls.
the reason for eating was a bit unclear, once i figured out you can hold down the eat button it went a lot better. love the art and very cohesive style. Great entry all around!
simple and fun it's a fun arcade-y game! I liked the pixelart as well as the music, both very nice. the controls felt responsive and the game is very polished! I think it would be even more fun if there was an endless mode too
Very good entry!
Very nice and polished! :) That is one long mouth. Was just wondering to myself on my tenth attempt or so whether the game was endless and about a second later I made it out.
Despite the stress of the actual gameplay it was quite relaxing thanks to the music and the palette. I liked the occasional bubbles and the water noises. A little unhappy about having to hear the eating sound š
Simple but effective, and funny concept. Nice work!
This is surprisingly challenging! The art and animation are adorable, and really well polished. I would totally play an endless mode.
The art and music are so good! Ultimately, the game is quite simple though, but given it is a game jam, you guys are forgiven hehe. If you end up introducing more elements as the player progresses, be sure to give a heads up. Nice job!
It's cute! Love the art and music and the platforms being teeth was really creative.
Really cute concept! I love how to add depth to the gameplay you had to decide when to eat and when to keep going up. great job!
Nice to see how it ends after all that spamming and post jam changes. I'll keep an eye for next games from you, cheaters. :)