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Squeezlings

By rongo-matane, IdinaKloppstock, picster, Cameron Paxton, Lydmartin and pirey

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall1344.0132
Fun2503.7332
Innovation664.0332
Theme204.4632
Graphics794.4532
Audio194.3132
Humor2363.6032
Mood544.2532

Comments

broheartttv 2024-10-08 04:48

Love the squeezlings, the art style here is absolutely gorgeous. Well done!

kevin-meissner 2024-10-08 08:43

super cute and relaxing, good job :-)

merdeboi 2024-10-08 08:45

Very cute visuals, chopsticks and fingers are great tools to interact with the berries and seeds, amazing. They really reinforce the fact that these are tiny creatures, relative scale to humans etc. Very fast puberty for these guys. The AI works very nicely, great consider the time restrictions. So much squishing of these poor guys. Did get the glorious meal achievement going, but seemingly my scissors handed people never gathered any Plumkin or Brimquince thing.png

The game was an absolute blast though, well done.

mreliptik 2024-10-08 21:38

Very moody! Super cool aesthetics with a nice concept. Congrats :)

osh-studio 2024-10-09 08:36

Well done bippinbits! Another great submission, I'm always impressed by your entries, you and your team did a great job. Looks and sounds amazing, my only critique was that I ran into a few bugs here and theres, for example my chopsticks got frozen at one point and I couldn't un-freeze them without quitting.

icxon 2024-10-09 10:47

Controversial yet captivating gameplay; I do not feel right squishing those cute humanoids; Got used to it over time in a challenge to beat the game though; Was not able to get past arm/hands thing; Music, art and mood are incredible; 50 minutes is my record for a jam game;

Really impressed this is made in Godot too.

Here is my attempt:

https://youtu.be/wA4GMvD2DBY

landberglife 2024-10-09 19:01

It looks and sounds awesome, unfortunately there are still quite a few game breaking bugs. My first and third run the chopsticks got stuck together, only taking movement input when i held the mouse button pressed. My second round I got quite far, but one night, when they gathered around the campfire, they just stood there doing nothing, never to return to their daily activities.

This is to be expected in a Jam but given the long game loop, it's quite annoying. If you do take the time to fix these issue please send me an @ and I'll be glad to try it again.

belle 2024-10-09 20:31

Amazing and relaxing! The atmosphere was brilliant, the music and lights really built a vibe where I just wanted to stay in the game. Visually I adore 3d-2d combinations, it works very well here. As stressful as making a LD game can be, you used that to make a huge stress-reliever. Great job to the whole team <3

ollibanjo 2024-10-10 22:18

great submission, cozy, nice artstyle, lighting, visuals, music and sound. love the chopsticks and the finger mechanic ;)

tanis 2024-10-12 12:41

Superb entry. Really well done, it reminds me a lot the games from Will Wright. Kudos!

zimny11 2024-10-13 19:14

Great entry! It was fun to watch all of Squeezlings running around doing their jobs. Same with figuring out what do to and how to progress further. The art is amazing. Music and the mood are awesome too. My only complain would: be after getting first Nellemon, it was just quite a waiting game to get rest, without anything new to do. Besides, that well done!

langotriel 2024-10-16 00:58

Fabulous presentation, good vibes and a great use of the theme! (top marks!)

For my tastes, this is probably the best looking game I have played and the best use of the theme I have seen so far. Great work!

silkworm-sweatshop 2024-10-19 15:13

Great entry! For some reason I didn't pay attention to the evolution symbols for the longest time and I didn't understand why all my squeezlings just ignored the Brimquince. I think they all had been so imbreed with arm evolutions other than the scissors. Once I made a batch of new squeezlings I finally got som scissorhands and it went smoothly from there. At some point I got a bug where the chopsticks where stuck and I couldn't interact with anything. I kept the game running for a while and suddenly it got unstuck, thankfully and I could finish the run. Nice graphics, the chopsticks and finger were a nice choice. Some nice sounds and chill music as well and a cool evolution system.

weirdbitgames 2024-10-20 15:47

Wow this is very good! The depth of field and graphics in general are very impressive! I had a lot of fun with my squeezlings! It took a few attempts to get used to the controls and to work out how everthing worked. Amazing job!

hawkin 2024-10-20 18:30

I really LOVE this! There is so much to play around with, and I will flag it to come back to once my beefier PC is set up. But the graphics alone really sell the feelin that these are tiny creastures.

There are so many great systems you've implemented -- automation, breeding. This is really an impressive submission. 5/5!

(Maybe) bug report? I dropped one of the first berries in another bowl, and then tried to pick it up -- the game crashed. But maybe there was something else happening during the night that caused the issue. The game is not very performant on my laptop XD

lelulagames 2024-10-20 22:02

The design drew me to this. Lovely art style, nice use of blur to give depth, and great mix of 2d and 3d space, as well as cartoonish figures in a more realistic setting. It is endearing. I figured out the icons under their name showed what upgrades they had already, and how to cull the herd. I do wish you could close out of the help / quest windows when they popped up. But that's really all I think that would make it better.

tomssuli 2024-10-21 12:28

Great and polished entry!

Encountered one bug where the night feast wouldn't end and the game would be stuck. Not sure what triggered the bug, perhaps me killing a squeezeling during the feast.

Graphics and musics were great and made relaxing mood so I could play this for a long time all the way till the end.

I liked the evolutionary mechanics and the fact you could cultivate inferior creatures away to make way for the next pinnacle creature.

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shasaur 2024-10-22 00:42

Very impressive and intimate atmosphere, almost feeling like an up-close view into these creature's world. Graphics, lighting, ambience, and especially the audio captured a cosy, almost tribal aesthetic. The chopstick mechanics felt satisfying and well integrated into the theme of the game. Well explained tutorials helped ease new players into the gameplay loop. Encountered some bugs and freezing here and there when interacting with objects with the chopstick that could only be rectified by closing and restarting.

diego-teran 2024-10-23 02:41

Loved the atmosphere! That finger at the end tho

hestiaj 2024-10-23 15:12

The art is amazing!!!

ategon 2024-10-24 05:23

Really fun game. Visuals work really well and are nicely polished and the music compliments the gameplay well. The squeezelings ended up being fun to manage (although I think I mostly lucked out in my evolution line that won me the game since my strategy was to pretty much just spam new plants which got me to the end very quick). Can get to be a lot to manage late game but ends soon after so that ends up being fine.

The differentiation to show squeezelings that have existed for a long time is a really good qol addition. The toast to show the end goal for some reason dissapeared very quickly for me (maybe due to me planting things when it was showing?) so didn't know the end goal until I ran into it

Ran into a bug where some frames were leaking into other frames (seemed to only happen to a specific type of squeezeling) Screenshot 2024-10-24 010955.png Screenshot 2024-10-24 010951.png

langotriel 2024-10-28 05:13

Yo. Just wanted to say that you guys got robbed in the graphics category. I played 124 games and this is easily a top 3 graphics for me.