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A jam submission

Spongy DuckyView game page

Submission for GMTK2024 Game Jam
Submitted by Elektordi (@Elektordi) — 2 days, 20 hours before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Enjoyment#10893.5003.500
Overall#16013.4553.455
Style#17473.5453.545
Creativity#23493.3183.318

Ranked from 22 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

How does your game fit the theme?
The duck is a sponge, so it "scales" with water!

Development Time

48 hours

(Optional) Please credit all assets you've used
Isa and Kay Lousberg, Kenney, and some others (see game page)

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Comments

Submitted(+1)

Cute game! It was light hearted and a fun short game to play - I appreciated that there was a progress bar so I knew how much longer I had left to go.


I ran into framerate issues when the duck was at full size. I also think you could push the concept further by creating puzzles where you need to shoot out water or something like that.


Great job!

Submitted(+1)

Great submission! I like how you used the theme, it makes a lot of send with the theme, well done!

Submitted(+1)

The game is very cute and such a fun idea for this theme. :) Had a lot of fun watering the plants.

Submitted(+1)

Great use of the theme and the game play mechanics are great, the only thing I would change is weight worked with gravity, but mass to velocity should be updated too

Submitted(+1)

Cute art style. Sponge mechanic is cool. I think that a slower character could be nice. The game is really fun. Good job.

Submitted(+1)

Relatively charming. Maybe having a little less speed could have been a better idea but the game still works pretty well !

The main dilema of the duck needing enough water to go the distance, but being to big to pass some gaps works well, I would have liked seeing it more ! Maybe also giving a bigger jump height in bigger form could have added even more to the main mechanic.

Well done !

Developer

Actually, it's the opposite, being full of water makes you more heavy, so you jump less height!

Submitted(+1)

Love the sponge idea! It's a killer implementation of the theme because it explains why the object would get bigger and smaller rather than it just "magically" happening (like our game lol). I think this all very well executed from the animation to the art and color pallet. Well done. Hopefully you can get our game working (press Enter on the title screen - I'll add this to the description in case someone else has issues with the colors like you did).

Developer

No problem. Thanks for your thoughts!

Submitted(+1)

Like the art and the concept, controls were a little to hard to control and some plants you needed to be right in top of them in order to get watered, but overall it was fun.

Submitted(+1)

Very fun and cute! Colorful low poly 3D is my favorite style of 3D indie game. Really emulate the feeling of childishness of rubber ducky very well. A bit too hard in control, but I understand; it's a cool physics based game within a very short time frame. Good job! :)

Submitted(+1)

I liked the way you forced us to shrink sometimes, just to pass under something and then have less time to navigate and water the plant. Very clever mecanics, used well, amazing job in 48h !

Submitted(+1)

I really liked the game, very cute and fun!

Submitted(+1)

I liked the game!

Submitted(+1)

It was a very fun game! I have to switch to a controller since the mouse sensitivity was quite low, but that was the only issue I ran across when playing it. Great job!

Submitted(+1)

Charming and simple, I had a nice time playing it. :) I enjoyed the surreal aspect of some rooms, as well as some of the platforming sections. It's just the right amount of small challenge to offer a chill experience. Well done!

Submitted(+1)

Nice and cute, congrats. A bit too hard to control, maybe a few tweaks to movement and camera would help.

Good luck!

Submitted(+1)

I love this game !! The idea is very clever idk where you find it ahah.
If we could increase the mouse sensibility and decrease the duck speed it would be perfect !

Submitted(+1)

cute game, fun vibes, it took me a second at first to realize when I was filling up the plants, but once I got the hang of it not too bad. Overall had a good time, nice work!

Submitted(+1)

Cute little game. I like the strange idea of watering dried plants with a sponge duck.

However I had a bit of trouble  jumping on the plants, the jump is a bit tough in some places of the level. Great job overall !

Submitted(+1)

First plant pot I filled the game froze. Restarted but didn't get the same issue. Fun quirky game. I'm mouseless using a laptop mousepad so i found it a bit tricky to navigate but that's my issue. Great game. Congratulations!

Developer

Thanks! You can also play with a controller.