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A jam submission

Squirrel's Quest: Gifts for the BearView game page

Can you fatten up the bear? Off you go for the nuts!
Submitted by alljay, Rpt87gtm — 34 minutes, 26 seconds before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Overall#73.8923.892
Fun#73.6493.649
Cozy Fall Vibes#94.1624.162
Presentation#123.8653.865

Ranked from 37 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

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Submitted

The way the squirrel runs is so real. I also love the trees so much. The control is super friendly and smooth for me. Love it! I want to collect more goodies!

Developer(+1)

We are glad you liked it.

Submitted

Really like the squirrel's animations. Nice art in general. I fell running away from that bird so many times! I like how the bird pushes the squirrel. It gives the player a chance to recover if they get hit. The hidden den was a nice touch. It surprised me when I fell in. Vivaldi's Autumn is nice choice for a cozy fall song :) 

Developer(+1)

Thank you for the nice feedback.

Submitted

I liked it, I went beyond the map, jumping over the hole

Developer(+1)

Thank you for the feedback, we will definitely fix this bug in the future.

Submitted

Super cute game with super smooth controls. I restarted more times then I'll willing admit as Im not the best platformer but I just wanted to see the squirrels jump animation more as it was just perfect. 

Developer

Thank you for the feedback and for playing the game.

Submitted

I'm not a big platformer person but still I absolutely loved this! The art is fantastic and the squirrel's jumping animation hits on some really good nostalgia vibes. I found the platforming itself challenging enough without being too hard. Well done!

Developer(+1)

Thank you for the feedback, we're glad you enjoyed our platformer.

Submitted

Nice platformer, cute squirrel and the hedgehog scared the **** out of me when it first came at me! I did find it a little unforgiving that I was right at the end of returning the last bit of food to old-slim there and when I dropped down from the 3rd step to the 1st on the tree I crashed. Perhaps it was me being greedy with that last step though - the character control felt very smooth to me.

Developer

Thank you for playing our game!

Submitted

really fun platforming. only jump and move but with this level design, feel like a unique platformer. a suggestion is it could be better if camera shows a little more to the bottom because the game encourages backtracking and it's hard to see where to go sometimes.

Developer(+1)

We're glad you enjoyed the game. Thank you for the suggestion, we will definitely consider it!

Submitted

Cool art style and good ideas for the gameplay. And I also tricked a hedgehog)

Developer(+1)

Thank you for the feedback, please don't bully the hedgehog, he's a good guy))))

Submitted

Great little 2d platforming collectathon! The squirrel was a little jittery when moving, we had some similar behaviour in our game that was solved by setting the pixel perfect camera grid snapping to "none".

Developer

Thank you for the advice and for playing our game.

Submitted

Very fun

Developer

Thank you for the feedback!

Submitted

What a nice platforming game. My favortie parts were the character sprites (the jump was a really smart way to make a sprite animation that is fast to draw and good looking) and the bird mechanic. I like how the bird makes the backtrackig excitng and adds a sense of narrative to the gameplay

Developer

Thank you for the feedback!

Submitted

Love the looks of the art and the feel of the character controller! 
I was a bit too bad / easily frustrated to bring the egg back.
Great job overall! 

Developer(+1)

Thank you for the feedback!

Submitted(+1)

all the arts in the game are rather pretty, though there's a bit of art clash in my mind, mostly in the pixel scaling, the apples pixels are larger than the squirls and so are the porcupines, the underground section looks, blurry? maybe?

The chase sequence for the bird and porcupine are both rather exciting and different from each other, I do however feel that losing all progress when your eaten feels pretty bad even if it kinda makes sense.

Developer

Thank you for the feedback!

Submitted(+1)

the art is so cute and the challanges are well designed, i like it a lot.

Developer

Thank you for the feedback!

Submitted

How the heck can that hedgehog jump that high??? His leg not even visible?????

Developer(+1)

Thank you for the feedback!

He’s been training for a long time! ))

Submitted(+1)

Amazing art ! The squirrel jump animation is AMAZING. The overall art is lovely.
The height of fall is kind of punishing and frustrating, doesnt feel very cosy for me ^^
But beside that, awesome job ! Congrats !

Developer

Thank you for the feedback!

Submitted(+1)

I loved the art, especially the character art and animations which worked really well. It had that feel of a classic platformer. On that point, the platforming itself felt very balanced, which is a pleasant surprise for such a short jam like this. The character just goes exactly where you want it to, really good work on that. I also really liked the gameplay loop where you explore a place, then traverse it backwards while being chased. I didn’t love that you die when falling out of the tree, but I see how it would have been difficult to make this work without that (it would be pretty easy to avoid the bird if you just jumped off the tree lol). Great job on this overall!

Developer

Thank you for the feedback!

 We are very glad that you liked the graphics and mechanics. 

We had an idea to make it so that the egg specifically breaks, not the squirrel, but implementing this idea would have required more time.

Submitted

Oh, that’s a fantastic idea though, that would have been a really elegant way to solve the problem.

Submitted(+1)

A fever dream. Really fun gameplay, love how you give the bear the acorn because squirrels eat acorns so its a really powerful message about the importance of sharing. The art is also on point. The music is also really tasteful. - Skyquee

It didn't load for me, I was so excited to try what Skyquee deemed as 5/5/5. - Jiri

Developer

Thank you for the feedback!

Submitted(+1)

Nice and well done.

The squirrel's animation its lagging a bit while moving and the platforms could use some nice artwork to match the tree a bit better :D 

Developer (1 edit) (+1)

Thank you for the feedback!

Yes, we ran out of time a bit to polish the visual parts of the game. We planned to make different types of platforms and style them to match the tree, but unfortunately, we didn't have enough time.

Submitted(+1)

Cool Bud

Developer

Thank you!

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