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A jam submission

Boom BayouView game page

You are a lowly crawdad, vying to topple the four ruthless crime lords who've usurped power in your neck of the bayou!
Submitted by bokoyoss (@bokoyoss) — 10 hours, 17 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
WINNERS#2n/an/a
Overall#34.0084.008
BOSS DESIGN#64.0504.050
FUN#64.0754.075
SOUNDS / MUSIC#84.0504.050
CONTROLS#83.9753.975
ART / VISUALS#234.2254.225
USE OF THEME#323.6753.675

Ranked from 40 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

Game's take on the theme
You have a limited amount of space in your tetris-like inventory, you must exchange your weapons, upgrades, and special abilities to craft your perfect build. You must also exchange your basic claw-shot for ammo

Did your team create the vast majority of art and music during the game jam?
Yes

Did your game use PlusMusic?
No

Did your game use Playroom?
No

Did your game use generative AI art?
no

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Good job! Will come and play it more thoroughly, trying to get through a basic test run and at least give it a try! Trying to get to everyone I can!

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Came back and did play this more great job 4/5! ALLIGATOR GUN! And Banjo Kazooie sfx

Hey there, I am trying to get other to re-submit their reviews for my game if possible...it was deleted and removed from the Jam on accident based on a technicality which was solved between the Jam Host and a particular asset used in the game...please if you have time, energy, and/or generosity to re-saved your ratings/reviews for the game. I am going through and re-saving yours given my browser kept your rating saved data on my end...but it looks like I lost all 73 reviews and ratings from my end....  :( best of luck to you in the Jam 

Sorry for the inconvenience if you have a chance to rate/re-rate

A very cool game with its own graphics and style and the features it offers!

Submitted

Absolutely amazing game here! Everything really came together to create a full experience : )  Loved the ambiance of the campsite, and the style of the low poly models had so much character, especially the models like the frog weapon. Also the music slaps!! it made the boss fights feel intense and a lot of fun. You should be super proud about programming those boss fight patterns each felt really unique. Awesome job one of our favorite games of the jam!

Submitted

We here at BabuScience love this game. We are all looking forward to a full release

Submitted

One of the best entries I played so far!  Art style is awesome, lots of originality, very funny and good to play! Browser version got really, really laggy. I'll replay in a downloadable version soon!

Submitted

Pretty fun and unique game, I really like the controls, they felt on point. Also the inventory system is something I really like, you can make specific playstyles depending on what you equip and I really dig the look.

Submitted (1 edit)

Each boss feels very fleshed out and unique (I especially liked Ory’s final part). I also really like the retro visual style. My only complaint is that the exchange theme did not feel like that big of a competent in the game. Once I found a build I liked, I never really felt like I had to exchange anything to suit each boss. Also the browser build is kind of laggy.

Submitted

Awesome game. Some of the best boss design I've seen in the Jam. Big fan of the art too. I wish I hadn't wasted time trying to play the browser version - it was almost unplayable. The downloaded one was good!

Submitted

Dang this game's got so much personality -- I love it :D

Very snappy controls and great variation in the boss and level design (impressive given the time constraint :)). The PSX style visuals are on point, and the music is very good (I'm generally not a bluegrass fan, but this stuff is good lol -- adding the PSX-era drums/bass/synths definitely helps it fit in the context of an action game and I really like that sound). I did have some trouble playing it in the browser, but the desktop version ran pretty well for me (although the 250mb download did surprise me -- I'm guessing the largest asset is the sound files, maybe shipped as wavs? A compressed audio format like ogg would shrink the download and load times a bit if you're not already using them). Nice work :)

Submitted

Amazing! One of the best I've played, you should be proud of this one. You should definitely keep working on this and give it a proper release, it has potential!  

Submitted

holy shit this is so f awsom  5 stars on all is so fun man will play this move  is just wow 

Submitted(+1)

Dark Souls of the crab games. Amazing graphics and building system, this game reminds me a lot of the N64 style, polished gameplay and amazing bosses, I just feel a little inconsistent in Orstein and Smough's hitbox (I hit them in the back), and the poisonous swamp boss is annoying.

Developer

We’ll take a look at the hitboxes; it’s supposed to just be the butt but maybe it’s not as tight as it needs to be. Thanks for the feedback!

Submitted(+1)

Amazing job with the polished visuals and really cool bosses!  I love how unique all the bosses and environments are.  I think the fov do with being a little higher but that's a minor gripe.  Also I'm not sure if it's a bug or just not intentional but after being knocked down a few times from the animal charges to the center pole the boss would stop coming down, which I feel is a missed opportunity to get past that phase faster as a hidden shortcut.  Besides that the bosses felt really well balanced and never felt like they were bullet sponges.  

Developer (1 edit) (+1)

thank you for the feedback! It’s not a bug! and perhaps it was too subtle but at half health there’s an audio “nuh uh” cue that plays instead of the possum dropping (so the last phase can’t be skipped) but maybe this is confusing and it would be better if it could be skipped… anyways thanks for the great feedback!

Submitted(+1)

This game is fantastic, the music creates such a cool vibe. I think the pixelation got a bit much, some of the bosses got hard to see but overall the visual style was so cool. Thanks for making this, I had a blast

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