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A jam submission

I'm FlailingView game page

Take on the everyday challenges with this top-down 2d game
Submitted by veggievibestudios — 8 hours, 12 minutes before the deadline
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I'm Flailing's itch.io page

Link to your Game Design Doc on Google Drive.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ohRcBTsuXdWxX0Tyml0UGjYTrOIyekxzF5dwKOpWMao/edit?usp=sharing

Have you checked that your GDD is publicly accessible ?
Yes

Is your game set to public on itch.io so we can see it?
Yes

Summarise your game!
You are the weapon in this 16 bit-inspired top-down world exploration game with a goal to go about your business and avoid causing harm

As the flail, you woke up late and might miss your bus! You have to complete your grocery shopping before catching the bus to go buy your dream automobile. However, any harm you cause in the world will cost you money. Avoid the obstacles and other people to claim the top prize.

WASD or Arrow Keys to move around

G will let you pick up and drop grocery items (only available within the grocery store)

Space will let you skip the opening cutscene

Please explain how your game fits the theme:
While literally being a weapon, I liked the idea of avoiding harm. Even more important is that you are sort of out of control. I created a sense of tension in playing the game since it can be rather fun to destroy things, but this stands in contrast to the goals of the game and hurts the flail's dreams of owning his own car.

The game is inspired by both Zombies ate my neighbors and Paperboy.

Is there anything you'd like the judges to pay particular attention to?
I had a lot of fun making this

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Comments

Submitted

That's an amusing idea and I really suck at this. Destruction and mayhem is always fun this way, jolly solid work!

Developer

Thank you for playing!

Submitted

Funny game with an interesting concept! I would recommend slowing the camera down a bit in the first cinematic. with the framerate and camera speed, it's a bit hard to read.

Developer

Great suggestion, I will fix that in the next update. Thank you!

Submitted

This had me chuckling. I love the soundtrack and the sound effects. The concept is very novel (reminds of Iron Giant: a movie about a weapon that doesn't want to be a weapon). Full disclosure, I am bad at your game and soft locked myself a few times - maybe someday I'll get the car of my dreams though. I'm glad you had a lot of fun making this, because I had a lot of fun playing it.

Submitted

Pretty funny game, a shame that you're not supposed to smash things and hit people, because for me that was the most entertaining part XD