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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Overall | #198 | 4.092 | 4.092 |
| Enjoyment | #221 | 3.979 | 3.979 |
| Style | #238 | 4.340 | 4.340 |
| Creativity | #597 | 3.957 | 3.957 |
Ranked from 47 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 more Jumbo your Pumbo gets, the bigger the threats. Also, you must literally build platforms to scale the gourd.
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(Optional) Please credit all assets you've used
Music:
- Cosy Melodies Pack 2 — ELV Games and pegonthetrack, https://elvgames.itch.io/cosy-melodies-music-2
Sound effects:
- Cozy Sound Pack — Ellr, https://ellr.itch.io/cozy-sound-pack
- Spraying water from a garden hose by meisterjaan -- https://freesound.org/s/323485/ -- License: Attribution 3.0
- Bird Flap B 05, https://freesound.org/people/deleted_user_2104797/sounds/330967/
UI Elements/Fonts:
- User Interface Essential — Crusenho, https://crusenho.itch.io/complete-ui-essential-pack
- Pixel Keyboard Keys - for UI — Dream Mix, https://dreammix.itch.io/keyboard-keys-for-ui
- Logic Loop — VEXED, https://v3x3d.itch.io/logic-loop
- m5x7 — Daniel Linssen, https://managore.itch.io/m5x7
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Wooow, amazing pixel art! The main character is really cool! Well-executed animations too! Awesome job—we really liked this entry. Also, great take on the theme!
Thanks so much!
I liked the way the platforms got further apart as the pumpking got bigger. This was a good take on the theme. I don't think I understand watering even after playing for a while. Pumpkin art is cute.
Thanks! So, the pumpkin pulls water from all of the tiles under it, so you have to water as much of the ground under the pumpkin as you can.
Ah, that does explain it. Didn't get that while I was playing, but it makes sense.
I thought this was a lot of fun, loved watching the pumpkin grow. You really put all your various assets to great use and in a cohesive way, really impressed! Love the farmer and the animations. Overall everything felt really polished.
I wish the timer was a tad shorter, especially once I realized there was a shop for buying multiple upgrades! Would be cool if the first pumpkin was only sorta big, but then after some upgrades you start really seeing the gargantuan ones.
Well done!
Thank you for the kind words, and the feedback! Choosing a timer length that allowed you to try a few things but wasn’t too long initially was tricky, and I think there’s still some tweaking to do. We also weren’t sure how well-calibrated we were, so we didn’t want to shorten it too much for day one and have new players unable to make any money. It’s a tricky balance to strike, but we’ll keep your feedback in mind as we iterate!
Beautiful game, finally I can grow the pumbo of my dreams ;-; those upgrades are gonna keep me coming back for more
Highly recommend maxing out the composter and water source, they are quite fun! Good luck with your future pumbo growing!
The artstyle, music, animations and mechanics are amazing! This feels really well polished for 4 days!
Great job!
Thank you so much! There are definitely things we would have liked to add or tweak towards the end, but we’re pretty happy with the level of polish we were able to achieve.
Love the art, it's very nice, strong 16bit vibes. Love the take on the theme and the idea. Very fun game, and pretty polished. Nicely done.
Thank you! Yeah, getting the pixel art to work with the fact that the game zooms out as the pumpkin grows was…challenging to say the least. Glad you liked the end result!
The art is amazing! I fell in love with this game!
Thanks so much!
Great game ! Good take on the theme and really good art! Well done :)
Thank you!
You've definitely got something great here. We had a similar idea for growing a tree and scaling it but it wouldn't have been as strong as this execution. The loop is satisfying, the style and vibes great, overall very well done! I'd love it if your team checked out my game and rated it as well!
Thank you so much, glad you had fun! I should probably sign off for tonight (gotta go make up some of that game jam sleep debt, haha) but I've opened your game in a new tab so that I'll see it first thing when I open Chrome tomorrow and remember to review it, assuming someone else on the team doesn't get to it first :)
Nice take on the theme!
Thanks!
The game loop is so satisfying. This is the longest time I've spent with a submission thus far.
Thanks! Glad our plan to trap our players is working >:]
such a cute, goofy game lol, i love it! the artstyle is nice, the mechanics are nice, its really well polished and clean, it has high replayability with the shop, overall a great underrated game! i would think that this project would have taken months, but no, only 4 days!? all 5 stars!
Thank you so much! Not much sleep was had by anyone during those 4 days, haha, but glad that the end product was enjoyable!
Nice game, I really like the art.
Thank you!
Accidentally sunk a *bunch* of time into this one haha, great work!
Thank you! Yesss, our secret plan to ensnare our players is working >:]
This one is really cute. Top pixel art and nice music.
Thank you!
Loved shooing those pesky birds away.
Yes, those birds should go find someone else's pumbo to peck at >:[ Thanks for playing!
this is quite fun! the controls aren't really intuitive but i got it in the end! great job! sadly i cant post the photo
Thanks! Yeah, the controls definitely take a bit of getting used to at first, but they were the best out of the sets we tested during the jam. Definitely something we might want to iterate on if we come back to this game in the future!
Loved it!
Played for like an hour without noticing!
Really good entry :)
Also, i love how he doesnt harm the pests, he just tell them to leave hahaha
Thank you! Haha, our secret plan to make people spend too much time playing our game is working >:]
And yes, we do have some very polite pests in our game. Early on in development we also had yelling at weeds make the weeds go away, which I'm still a little bit sad is no longer the case!
Nice Game! The concept is great and the art is also appealing.
Thank you!
The artstyle is so inviting! I like you have to water multiple tiles and not just the pumpkin, it puts more pressure. Great game!
Thanks! We are really proud of the way the watering mechanic works. There’s a lot of logic to make the water spread out between tiles and to allow the pumbo to take water specifically from the tiles that it is over.
Glad you like the artstyle too! We do as well!