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A jam submission

The Bug ContestView game page

In this game you need to catch as many bugs as possible under 60 secs.
Submitted by D980 — 2 days, 10 hours before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Audio#193.9293.929
Innovation#933.4293.429
Graphics#973.6433.643
Gameplay#1073.2863.286
Theme interpretation#1393.5713.571
Overall#1543.2143.214

Ranked from 14 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

GitHub repository URL:
https://github.com/Danman9800/TheBugContest

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Comments

Submitted

Really nice ! I think the jump is a bit hard to use.

Submitted

It was harder than I thought it would be! Fun idea, great graphics and audio. Game feels really polished right down to the ever-so-slightly animated background!Great job!

Submitted

Interesting idea, I like it! It is quite challenging, but this is how it should be :))

Well done! I like it!

Submitted

Nice work. I really like the visuals and the music. Gameplay was fun as well.

Maybe it was just me, but I would prefer player 1 being controlled by WASD keys and let the arrow keys for player 2, but that's just preference, not a problem. It took me sometime to start because I immediately went for WASD keys an got no response from them.

One minor thing I would say would be good to improve is player movement. As far as I tested, it was impossible to move sideways once you are already in mid air. That was a little bit frustrating, I had to carefully go sideways and jump in order to jump to platforms. It also sometimes reacted to the input faster than I expected, making consecutive jumps when I thought it would do just one.

Submitted

Nice retro music and artwork! I see great potential as a party game. Good Job!

Submitted

Loved the local multiplayer addition! Really good music and visuals imo. Took me a while to realise that you couldn't get up to the next level if you were standing right next to the wall :D Overall, great job!

Submitted

I know this is probably illegal but I played the local multiplayer by myself and found it to be even more fun than the single player. It was cool controlling two characters at once. Controlling even 1 character was fun don't get me wrong, but I enjoyed the added variety and jumping off each other's heads.

Submitted

Beautiful 8bit art and music! It took me a few tries to realize that hitting the bugs hurt you, but I was able to figure it out. Really cool!

Developer

Thanks for your feedback!

Submitted

Nice game and art. Retro music is cool too. One thing to improve is that it was hard to reach the highest platform (maybe the player could jump a little higher).

Submitted

nice! really liked the art and the audio . gg

Developer

Thanks :D

Submitted

Simple but fun. One comment I have is that you might want to mention that touching the bugs ends the run. That happened a few times before I figured out what was going on.

Developer

Thanks for your feedback. I will mention that.