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A jam submission

Aqua BoyView game page

Puzzle Platformer(7th Place in Pixel Game Jam May 2024)
Submitted by DankNStein — 3 hours, 2 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Theme Relevance#74.7784.778
Music & Sounds#164.3334.333
Is it Fun to play?#174.3894.389
Mechanics#274.2784.278

Ranked from 18 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

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Comments

Submitted(+1)

I love the art style it is so charming!  the water physics were awesome though level (four?) drained super slowww! but that's okay we are patient here managed to beat all the levels!! I enjoyed how much thought was put into all of the puzzles and Aquaboys remarks! Very funny! Over all a great play I really enjoyed it!

Submitted(+1)

These are some creative puzzles right there! Very fun to play- art is easy to look at- music is repetitive, but good enough... Yeah, a very good game! For some reason I think this game has the potential to be speedrunned, lol. I'm awful at speedrunning so I won't do that- but it definitely has the potential! The only actual criticism i have is that this font and the pallete just kinda doesn't blend- but that didn't take away the fun! Good work, keep it up!

Submitted(+1)

Amazing job with this! The puzzles were fun to solve, especially the one where you need to use a wooden box to dive down and shoot yourself up. The sound effects made with water samples are ridiculous, what a cool idea and great execution! I also really enjoyed your humor in the narrative, it made me laugh. 

The art and animations were all really cool and slick. The water drain effect especially was really impressive, and I enjoyed watching it for a bit every time I'd solve a puzzle. But sometimes it takes a really long time to drain, especially in the second to last level I felt like I was standing next to the exit for a while. 

Looking forward to Aqua Boy's Metroidvania return!

Submitted(+1)

This game looks really polished :D The graphics and music is very good~ Love this puzzle game~~

Submitted(+1)

very amazing game, i remember when you were streaming making this. glad you got the water to drain right!

Submitted(+1)

Amazing! Game mechanics are well designed, graphics are charming and the music is seriously awesome. Given the amount of puzzles I don't think it was a good idea for main character to spoil the early ones, but that's a minor nitpick.

Well done!

Submitted(+1)

text was kind of excruciatingly slow at times, especially as it spelled out the solution for every level before giving me a chance as a player to try to solve it. Having to sit through it again each reset made restarting pretty punishing. The like multiple minute long wait at the end of the second to last level for it to all drain seemed a little egregious, if you knew enough about the water physics being janky to lampshade about it, maybe giving us a way to speed up time or something would’ve been nice? Often the boxes wouldn’t get placed where I expected them to, or I’d hit a switch trying to grab a box.

I love the use of water samples for all the sound and music, and the art was really cute. Actual gameplay when allowed was fun, especially getting to rocket up with the wood boxes, even if that didn’t quite make a lot of logical sense :p

Really great game overall, I’m just very adhd and impatient lol

Submitted(+1)

Nice little puzzle game, loved the attention to detail when you go underwater and the music changes to an underwater version! Great job :)

Submitted(+1)

Pretty well thought out and designed. I had fun playing though this.

(+1)

Loved playing this game, lots of fun and certainly has future potential for a bigger game.