Layers of Larva

tomssuli 2024-10-17 22:04

Wow, this looked and felt like those old games in PS1 back in the day. Music was great and I loved the small details like matches and old finnish penni's.

Gameplay was quite hectic and I got that you can ghange forms, but there didn't seem to be any balance between them. The water form felt ultimate in power and others felt getting stomped over when more enemies started swarming. I died several times and quit, so I'm not sure if there was an ending to this. It seemed like endless struggle.

Nice presentation!

mrspeaker 2024-10-24 22:43

Hey, really great looking (and sounding!) game.

It's a shame you did get more ratings: not sure if you know this, but your game will only be shown to other players if you play and rate other people's games too (it says "Karma from Feedback given: 1" which means you don't won't show up high on the list of games at the top of the screen).

It's probably too late now (voting ends in a day), but next time play more some more people see your awesome work!

sean-osman 2024-10-24 22:53

Actually insane entry for a game jam, I love this Would love a more fleshed out version to play

justmars 2024-10-24 23:25

Thanks for the feedback @tomssuli, glad you enjoyed the aesthetics and the music!

We scrambled together a post-jam build in the last few days to fix certain major gameplay flaws related to the different forms that we didn't have time to iron out during the event (e.g. that all forms could move on water, enemies getting stuck, wonky targeting etc.). There is also a WebGL build on itch.io if you want to try it out. No new content was added, but the 0.2 version represents the game closer to the vision we tried to achieve during the jam but couldn't do so in time.

justmars 2024-10-24 23:37

Thank you @mrspeaker and @sean-osman! :pray:

Yeah, we are aware of the rating system and the fact that we are horribly late on that front. Our team has been occupied with university assignments and such for the past 2 weeks and were wayyy late to realize that the rating period is already coming to a close...

We'll try our best to get to the 20 rating mark, although it's not looking too great right now. But anyways, thanks for the encouraging words!

jackireland 2024-10-25 01:34

very cool

lgk-productions 2024-10-25 15:24

damn, that music is kinda wild ^^. I liked the amount of feedback and sound effects used, also not being able to move during morphing is a nice little risk/reward. I think the different forms could be used a bit more (apart from water there was no specific reason for me to frequently change forms), and being able to rotate the camera in some way would be nice to provide some more vision. Great job on finishing your entry though and good luck on getting the missing reviews :)

cortez 2024-10-25 15:36

I'm not sure what the different forms offers, but it was interesting to play! Love the big flies. I found two different boss, I guess I'm missing the flying one? Nice job.

anson-rutherford 2024-10-25 16:04

This is pretty well fleshed out! Really like the mixed use of 3D and 2D assets, it works pretty well!

smikevth 2024-10-25 16:46

Fun game and you did a really good job of making it feel like playing in a tiny world.

khelian 2024-10-25 20:55

Cute little game, kinda lacking depth but well that's a game jam. Liked the aesthetic!