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A jam submission

Flap & FreezeView game page

Slide your penguin down the mountain to escape the avalanche
Submitted by Mr. Moo — 2 days, 15 hours before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Fun#14.3234.323
Theme#14.3874.387
Overall#33.9163.916
Originality#74.0654.065
Audio#173.3873.387
Art#293.4193.419

Ranked from 31 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

Did your team create most/all of the graphics yourselves?
Yes

Did your team create most of/all the audio yourselves?
No

How did you incorporate the theme "FREEZE"?
Freeze Mechanic. Penguin Vibes. Icy Wonderland

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Submitted

The zoom in was great! The gameplay self was really solid except for a single thing, the penguin would sometimes flip for no reason causing a unfair loss for the player. Other than that, nice work!

Submitted

The screen when you crash is amazing. It's fun and a nice challenge. Although I ended up upside down a little more than I'd like!

Submitted (1 edit) (+1)

It was a great idea to limit what the player can do to two things! I'm really impressed by how well the mechanics fit the theme and how well it still works as a mechanic.

The things you can do are very simple, yet the ways in which you can use them are super varied and creative. It involves thinking about what is possible, and it involves executing tricky combinations of the two inputs like freezing to turn at a corner. It seems like this game applies the design philosophies you hear about in video essays like those from Mark Brown's GMTK. Well done!

The music fits (although you didn't make it) and you put some real effort to also theme the whole game about ice and freezing, with the penguin and the snow effects and the backgrounds. I also like how the penguin freezes at the goal area and again recalls the theme. Talking about it, you did so well to make the player character so expressive, I love the flapping as well as the freezing, and love the sunglasses!

The only criticism I have is that sometimes you feel a bit tricked, like when you go on a platform and you don't move with it like in most platformers. The levels with red ice behind the goal area also kind of fall into this category, it's very hard for those to get the timing of freezing right. Though I did it after a while, it didn't feel as fun as the rest. I would also suggest adding some checkpoints so if you brave one difficult stretch, you can tackle the next one in peace. But this is maybe a bit beyond the scope of a short game jam, and it's just as great to have more levels, which you made a lot of! Totally worht spending the time on that.

Overall, a phenomenal game that integrates the theme at every step, is fun to play and offers lots of content for a jam game, especially for a solo dev.

Developer

I'm glad you enjoyed! Thanks for the thoughtful comment and feedback, it's much appreciated! Big congrats on taking home the  gold!

Submitted(+1)

Awesome! very fun game. The levels were fun and increasing on difficulty. The animations were fantastic, overall pretty great game! Loved the last level, took me a couple of tries but I did it!

Developer(+1)

Thanks! :D I'm glad you enjoyed it! Last level is definitely tricky!

Submitted(+1)

Pretty fun! Getting the speed for the big jump was pretty cool. 

Developer(+1)

Thanks! :D

Submitted(+1)

Super fun. Love it. I really enjoy the closeup on failure.

Developer

I make you look at your shame XD Thanks for playing!

Submitted(+1)

Really cool movement mechanics and well designed levels!

Developer

Thank you for playing :D

Submitted(+1)

At first I didnt understand how to proceed, but once I realized it, I had a lot of fun! Really fun!

Developer

I'm glad you enjoyed :D

Submitted(+1)

Might you have made the best game in this jam? I would say so!

Developer

Idk if that's true...but thanks so much :D Means a lot!

Submitted(+1)

very good !

Developer

Thanks :)

Submitted(+1)

Nice work!  Very well put together with well thought out obstacles.  Only issue I had was that I'd sometimes rotate in undesirable ways, but a minor inconvenience!

Developer

Thanks for playing! Thanks for taking my penguin... for a spin

Submitted(+1)

Awesome game!some levels were kinda hard but i still had alot of fun with it!

Developer

Thanks! I'm glad you enjoyed :D

Submitted(+1)

You're welcome!it be nice to know what you think of my game if you check it out<3

Developer(+1)

Sure did :D I really enjoyed yours

Submitted(+1)

Very nice take on the theme. I love the transition screens, the music fits the game perfectly and it has a really cute art. Great job overall! 

Developer

Thanks! I'm glad you thought so :D

Submitted(+1)

Pretty good fun! Level 2 was hard, but then it got a little easier.

Developer

I'm glad you got the hang of it haha

Submitted(+1)

This game was so much fun! I can totally see it being an app in the app store! 

It fit the theme perfectly 

Developer

This definitely has mobile game vibes lol

Submitted(+1)

Had fun while playing this while waiting for voting solid game keep up the great work!

Developer(+1)

Haha thanks again!

Submitted

Have you thought about making a mobile port?

Submitted(+1)

The use of freeze adds a fresh take to this genre which I haven't seen before. The gameplay is fun and well presented.

Developer

Thanks! I'm glad you enjoyed!

Submitted(+1)

Reminds me a lot of classic flash games. Very on point with the theme.

Developer

Definitely get a lot of inspiration from Miniclip and those old school games. Thanks for playing!

Submitted(+1)

cool concept, fun game. nice job!

Developer

Thanks! I'm glad you thought so

Submitted(+1)

Very creative concept. I enjoyed it. This sliding penguin could be an awesome friend to have in a mobile game.

Developer

Thanks! I'm glad you think so! :D

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