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Boo & Bat's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Style | #661 | 4.054 | 4.054 |
| Overall | #1123 | 3.622 | 3.622 |
| Enjoyment | #1543 | 3.324 | 3.324 |
| Creativity | #1814 | 3.486 | 3.486 |
Ranked from 37 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 bat character can manipulate the scale of certain objects as you scale the caves.
Development Time
96 hours
(Optional) Please credit all assets you've used
Game Design & Programming: Sphyx & Nooarth
Art: Nooarth
Music & Sound: Sphyx
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Sound Effect Sources: Wikimedia
Commons, ZapSplat.com
Font: somepx.itch.io
Buttons: Xelu's Free Controller & Keyboard Prompts
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Great pixel art and animation for this Halloween-inspired platformer!!!
Wow what a stunning looking game. Controller felt smooth as well.
A very well done game! The puzzles were quiet fun and the dificulty scalling was well paced, making sure the player always had the tools solve a given puzzle.
One idea I'll give if you further develop this is: if Bat isnt going to need to be on top of pressure plates or the likes, it could be good to make him auto path back to the player, that way we always have him there when we need him.
Either way, solid game, good job!
Thanks! We'll definitely reconsider major things like the role of Bat and whether they follow Boo if we develop this further (which we probably will)
Really lovely game. The tone and style with the fall / Halloween art and characters felt very cozy. The puzzles were also pretty clever, and the way it ramped up the complexity felt very natural and never felt overwhelming. Well done :)
This is very unique and amazing mechanics! You could further expand this game, this has a lot of potential! Congrats! Finished the game and left wishing it had more levels and more complex ones, possible add enemies and other obstacles as well! Very nice!
Thanks! We had some interesting ideas that we sadly couldn't fully implement in 4 days (for instance, we were gonna have objects that behave differently to being scaled up, like a balloon that goes flying). It is very likely that we will expand upon this idea since there is a lot more that can be done here, so we will keep you lot updated!
Really unique, I love it! The art is cute and the puzzles are fun, great job!
Thank you!
The theme and art style is really cute! Really got me into the halloween spirit lol
I think the puzzles are fun as well! Although I did find it sometimes got a bit tedious to keep having to restart from the beginning if the character got stuck, maybe having a checkpoint right before the player got stuck would be nice? I also think it would be cute to have the bat follow boo around so that the bat is ready if it's needed without having to retrace boo's steps first.
I really liked that you could switch characters and that both of them have different abilities!
Overall it's great game and would love to see more!
Thanks for the detailed comment! We actually considered Bat following Boo automatically, but to achieve something good with that we would need some kind of pathfinding, and so decided it was not worth the time. (Also the first level with Bat may not have worked if we did that since they are supposed to be on different locations)
That's fair! I still enjoyed the game a lot and the game was well made especially with the time constraint!:)
nice game love the artstyle and mechanics
Woow, awesome art style and color palette! Really creative take on the theme! Awesome job!
It's not too early for Halloween, I think 🎃! Really cool art.
The mechanics are simple and somewhat familiar for a platformer, but the puzzles are very cool. I would have tried something a bit more unique, especially for a jam, but it's well-executed and nicely put together
Thanks, it certainly is not that early 👻
I liked the art, but I didn't liked the fact that you had to press tab to switch player, it feels really weird to use for me for whatever reason.
Yeah for not-so-common control schemes it is kind of hard to choose defaults. Button remapping would be ideal but of course this is a jam game... Though you can use a controller which may feel more natural to you. Thanks!
The game was fun, but I really liked the art.
I like the character switch aspect of the game, the art is nice too.
the character switch mechanique is very unique and neat, i also really like the character design!
Cute pixel art and good mechanics!
Super cute game, I love the art style! The game is well polished, well designed, and fun to play, great job!
I love the simplicity of this entry - presentation as well I feel was one of its strongest points. Good design as well as I figured out almost instantly that you can grow pumpkins with Boo on top to reach higher places (Oh, and the increased pumpkin detail is such a nice touch too). I also really appreciated that restart had to be held down instead of instant.
Gameplay wise, it would be nice if there were a couple of in-between checkpoints especially since the player moves at a relatively slower pace. It would also be great if hazards were made a lot more prominent (or simply more dangerous looking, I didn't the vine-spike thingies at the start would hurt me lol).
Great entry, good luck for the rest of the jam!
Thanks for the detailed review! We actually didn't even consider checkpoints since each level is just a small "screen", so we thought it wouldn't be too tedious to redo a tiny section at worst. As for the spikes, perhaps we could place them at the start of that level so that the player could more safely experiment. Anyway, glad you liked it, and good luck to you lot as well!
A really nice plateformer, i loved playing as the bat, the feeling was very chill. I didn't really understand the Q and E of the character ?
Thanks! The Q and E buttons allow Bat to shrink/expand pumpkins, and Boo (the walking ghost costumed character) to push and pull lightweight objects (such as tiny pumpkins). You may need to get a little closer to the objects if you can't get it to work.
ooooookay !!! Got it now thx !
Pretty nice to play~ The interactions between Boo and Bat is really nice, and the puzzles are fair~
I did manage to make Bat stuck under a pumpkin and hayblock tho lol
Haha, thanks. There are some funky physics glitches here and there but I think we still did a good job hiding them 👀 (You are supposed to get crushed under blocks but oh well)
I love the art and moving pace of foreground and background. Boo and bat are so cute and their skills are really interesting. Thank you for creating Boo&Bat. I would love to play the finished version!