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A jam submission

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Bacterium catalog game for the playdate
Submitted by IzackCosta — 2 seconds before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Overall#142.5072.967
Use of console#142.6203.100
Creativity#142.9583.500
Fun#161.9442.300

Ranked from 10 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

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Submitted(+1)

Didn't get to play this yet, but FYI:

You can't sideload .rar files to the playdate. The sideload page only allows .zip files.
Obviously this can stil be circumvented by just extracting the rar file and making a zip file out of it, but it'd still be appreciated if you could upload this as a zip file ;)

Developer(+2)

Thankas for the tip i'll do it now

Developer(+1)

oh i can't upload the zip now because of the jam period aparentlly. Strange, because just yesterday i could do a bugfix after the submissions ended.

Submitted(+1)

That's fine. You can always update it after the jam period ;)

Submitted

can drop it in via Data Disk Mode. 

Submitted(+1)

Had trouble finding bacterium for a while, and a few cases where they just up and disappeared part way through cataloguing.

That said, definitely some potential here for a fun and interesting game, maybe even some educational avenues as well.

Developer

Thanks for the review. Did picking the "POWER UP" upgrade resolved the problem you mentioned? I didn't had the chance of balancing the game much. Also did you tested the game in real hardware? How was the performance? This is another thing i ended up not doing at all.

Submitted(+1)

I don’t recall seeing anything that looked like a power up. But perhaps I missed it, it’s a large area, I might have to give it another try and see if that makes it easier.

Developer

There is a "upgrades" option in the playdate menu. There you can acess some upgrades. I didn't had time to implement a tutorial

Submitted(+1)

Ahh, I forget that the playdate lets games inject stuff into the menu, very much not used to that :D

Developer

I made a little bugfix(literally 2 lines of code) prior to the submission time. I hope it's no considered problematic.