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A jam submission

My Pal, BumbloView game page

Help Bumblo get back the Bee Kingdom's magic crystals.
Submitted by GAME JOY (@GameJoyDev), ShoobyTaylor (@ShoobyTayIor) — 30 minutes, 54 seconds before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Audio#753.7783.778
Fun#863.7563.756
Game Design#1723.6673.667
Overall#3233.3633.363
Graphics#5483.3113.311
Innovation#6312.8442.844
Theme#7022.8222.822

Ranked from 45 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

How does you game fit the theme?
The game's premise is that a child is helping a talking bee recover magic crystals for the Bee Kingdom. However, this is "not real", because [spoilers].

Did you write all the code and made all the assets from scratch?
Everything except for the font, which is "Press Start 2P" by Codeman38

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Submitted(+1)

It's an fun and good game good job

Submitted(+1)

This is a very fun game! Very Mario inspired, which I love xD

I found a little bug with the backspace tho, you can keep giving up and spawning dead players forever xD But nothing that interferes with the gameplay!

Great work! Keep it up ^^

Developer(+1)

Thanks for finding that and letting us know. Glad it didn't interfere with gameplay.

Submitted(+1)

This is a great game, I can tell its heavily inspired by Mario. I liked that you included a boss fight is such a small game. The only thing is that I don't really see the theme in the game. But great game anyway.

Submitted(+1)

Very cool game! I really enjoyed it until finishing the boss, which felt very satisfying... The only complaints I really have are the spin sounds being too annoying and repetitive, the controls maybe use shift for sprinting, and the theme not really applying to the game. The music was great, especially the implementation of flight of the bumblebee in the bossfight, sounds amazing. The artstyle maybe needs a bit of work but it still delivers that retro mario look... The lore wasn't that bad, I also like the scrolling format of the beggining and the fact that you can speed it up... The level select UI was also well done, where it shows the summary of the level completion and smoothly moves along the levels, but maybe there should be a better indication that the next levels were locked, because I actually thought I was already in the game and tried moving but can't XD. The jumping and spinning were well-implemented. I also like how in level 1, you intentionally didn't give the player an idea of how to get to the secret, and in level 2, you show that you can sprint while jumping to spin by using these very well placed mushrooms that you bounce off of... That's great level design. The boss battle was also very polished... A good set of moves where the more you play, the more you find out how to beat it, where at first, I thought it was really hard, but after figuring out the pattern, it became too easy... That's also great boss design, and adding a boss death scene was very satisfying... Overall really good game, very much enjoyed it!

Submitted(+1)

Great game, Fun little story interweaved with the theme. It had al the checks of a fun little platformer game. Great collectibles and decent level design. I also liked the music and sounds a lot in your game. Having different tracks for different levels is easy, but makes the game come so much more alive. And the sprint and jump spin mechanic was just hella fun haha! Boss fight was a bit hard tho..

Submitted(+1)

nice game, the music is really well made and the running jump was weird but really fun

Submitted(+1)

Great game! Feels alot like an old mario game and is very polished. Well done :)

Submitted(+1)

Your art style is really cute and the music is catchy. Had really fun playing 

Submitted(+1)

Nice twist ! :)

Loved the jump sprint ^^

The boss fight is a lot harder than the rest of the game but still fun.

Good work :)

Submitted(+2)

Super fun boss fight! Played at https://twitch.tv/hedgein <3

Submitted(+1)

nice art, sprint and jump was very cool and fun, the normal gravity should be more,

the laser of boss bee should be 1.5 or 2 sec max. Overall great game

Submitted(+1)

Holy smokes I really enjoyed this. The running jump is insane but so much fun. What a great game!

Submitted(+1)

Amazing game love the story its just soo good. Dude I literally love this game everything is perfect about it. I love the music the movement the story is just so cute and nice. I love the game amazing entry love it.

Submitted(+1)

Nice fun platformer. The controls feel good which is always a good thing. Nice job

Submitted(+2)

Hm that's one twist lol

In general I had fun. This is good as a platformer game and I think the level design in this game is pretty nice. Probably the most impressive thing from this game is the music though... WOW. Your team has got a proper composer I see.

The biggest critique I have of this game though, is the graphics. I think you should keep in this in mind next time: if you are making games with pixel art graphics, make sure all the pixels are of the same size (unless you are breaking the rule with intention). Inconsistent pixel sizes, as shown in this game, easily makes your game feels like amateurish and unrefined; which is a shame, because this is othewise actually a good game -- I'm pretty sure more people would've checked this game out were it not for the inconsistent pixel sizes as displayed in the thumbnail and screenshots.

Submitted(+1)

Hi there!

I think overall you have a good solid game. Your setups and introducing new mechanics were well done. Definitely getting a SNES Super Mario vibe from this game and a nice little twist at the end. Unfortunately, I was unable to beat the boss, lol, but I only tried a few times. Great job on your project and thank you for sharing!

Submitted(+1)

This was awesome! I love your graphics and the music was really pleasant and created a nice environment for the gameplay! loved the enemies and all of the mechanics worked well! Great job!

Submitted(+1)

Nice game to speedrun and great audio

Submitted(+1)

I loved the old vibe it gives. Mario with some different lore. BGM is delicious. I will consume this again.

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