super cool concept, still a little confused about which objects give which color (watermelon only gave red and yellow) but i feel like there's a lot of directions you could take this
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Jealatin's itch.io pageResults
Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
Use of the Limitation | #7 | 4.286 | 4.286 |
Concept | #12 | 4.214 | 4.214 |
Overall | #17 | 3.857 | 3.857 |
Presentation | #50 | 3.571 | 3.571 |
Enjoyment | #50 | 3.357 | 3.357 |
Ranked from 14 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Team members
jabenero & raddishradish
Software used
Unity
Use of the limitation
Player cannot turn green, or they explode out of envy
Cookies eaten
0
Comments
Thanks for giving the game a shot despite the confusion!
The slime will push any fruit until it is in contact with a wall. Then, the interaction changes depending on the colors. If a slime is the same color as a fruit, it can move through it. The other mechanic is that the slime can exchange a color with the object it interacts with, but the slime also must always have at least one color while objects are able to lose all their colors, and you can only “hold” one of each color. So a blue slime interacting with a green (yellow + blue) watermelon would only able to RECEIVE yellow from watermelon and will turn green and explode. If you’re an orange (red + yellow) slime interacting with a green watermelon, you can either RECEIVE blue or GIVE red to the watermelon.
I think our intro level not being correctly updated to be… an actual tutorial level probably made it a lot more confusing too – we didn’t mean to introduce pushing in the first level, and the sprites should have been updated to fruits with strong color associations.
Love the little guy :D The core mechanic is fun and clever! Level design is also great but once you get the hang of the mechanic the levels fall a bit easy.
Thanks for playing, and I’m glad you like our little slime. jabenero was the incredible mind behind the mechanic!! I was the level designer, except I didn’t have as good of a grasp on the mechanics as jabenero did, so I had a bit of trouble trying to design levels with appropriately increasing difficulty.
The concept is really cool and works really well with the limitation! However, I'm having a really hard time figuring out which color combination gives which result. A little color wheel at the top of the screen wouldn't go amiss :)
PS: The shift button for speed up is really USEFUL.
If you could try and rate my game, I'd be grateful!Original gameplay with puzzles that will require you to rack your brains !
Interesting concept. it’s very difficult to understand at first but it’s fun once you do crack it.
This game was very hard, but as soon as I understood the color combinations I passed the levels. Incredible concept! Congratulations!
The concept and mechanics design is thanks to jabenero! In the hustle and bustle of everything, the first level wasn’t updated to be a proper tutorial level (should not have allowed pushing in that level and only introduce color change) and is missing the fruit sprites, so I wonder if that made the game a lot more confusing.
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