Thanks for playing and thanks for the feedback! I had to slap together a level that contained everything we'd actually built for the game in the last 10 minutes  😂 Our artist shines, she deserves all the credit  😌 It was a great learning experience for the non-game-dev folks among us, and we're finishing off the project this week. It was a fun weekend and it's still a fun project to work on!

Hey all, we didn't quite get to finish this one! We also re-used some of my code tools from previous projects so we aren't eligible to actually enter, but please give us your feedback, and we'll be finishing this off in the coming weeks!  ❤️

Thanks for the kind words, that's really nice to hear  🙂 I hope you do well on your homework assignment! 

Thanks for the awesome feedback! 

The interface for the DNA combining was definitely the part of the game I felt the least-good about! It needs design love. But some colouring was the best I could do in the time allotted. It looked a lot better in my head! It could be done a lot better if I were to re-do it.

The notes about hitboxes is great feedback, thanks. I had not considered what people's expectations might be. Enemies' damage radiuses are actually significantly larger than their body - they have a bit of a ranged attack, but there's nothing in the design that affords that! Good catch. The spawn point for the enemies could definitely use improving too haha, you get ganked by them as your transitioning quite often 😅

Thanks again for the feedback, I really appreciate the write up. Thanks for playing! 🙂

You're right. I tried to add a flashing animation to the player (and the monsters) when you take damage, and play a sound effect, but all of that polish was added right at the end, would have been great to add some particles and more animations. Thanks for playing! I appreciate the feedback 🙂

Thanks – thanks for playing!

For sure. The spawn positions can be super suboptimal haha. It would be awesome to add some different rooms and challenges. Thanks for playing! I appreciate it 🙂

Thanks! The animation for transitioning between rooms was super slapped-together 😅but I think it came together well! Thanks for playing, I will check it out!

Thanks for playing! I appreciate the feedback. The UI for some of the controls was a bit last-minute for sure 😅

Thanks for playing, appreciate the feedback 🙂

Thanks! I did it all with pen & paper because I'm more comfortable with that, but it meant a tonne more work importing all the assets, haha. 

Loved this. Properly sat down and played through its "entirety". Almost everything about this was well implemented. Very fun and the mechanics feel good, really nailed the "complexity from simplicity" design. The only disappointing thing was lack of ending, even something simple. I was really expecting to jump that gap to some kind of end-game screen, the bug wherein dash doesn't work on the first level is somewhat disappointing, but I was still able to get across by taking some damage and using double-jump, so I pretended that was the end and felt a sense of accomplishment anyway :P Really great work! Keep it up :) 

I liked almost every aspect of this. Great concept, fun controls, good visual (lack of audio but I can respect that). THE ONLY CRITICISM I have for this game in its current for is that it's REALLY ANNOYING that the path melts from the HEAD of the caterpillar, meaning slight inaccuracies in control prevent you from going down the path you were intending to go down. Frequent resets were incurred through no fault of my intention. If the path melted from the tail, the player would have some wiggle room, and the mechanic of being a caterpillar at all would make sense. Other than that though, I really liked it. I really enjoyed the emergent speedrunning mechanic as a result of your time constraints. My fastest time to beat the game was 21 seconds.

Farting does not seem to have any obvious effect; vomiting seems to be your only attack. The screen shake is perhaps a bit out of control haha. Couldn't get past more than 1 or 2 kills

DEAR LORD THIS WAS SCARY

I liked that despite the programmer art, the LOGIC of the game was actually incredibly solidly implemented. I was on level 3 for a fair while without progressing to anything else… I'm assuming level 3 is just infinite? However, I didn't get dual laser guns like in the picture… so, I don't know. Pretty fun 🙂 

Hi @Rhornbeck! Thanks for the feedback. I think accessibility is one of the strongest takeaways we've taken from this. We really appreciate the feedback. Colour deficiency is one of the first-and-foremost accessibility issues we are going to be considering in future projects, and I think we will likely be developing a solution to easily integrate into games so that we can solve the problem once, properly, for all our projects. This way we will be able to include it in Jam Games and prototypes as well! Thanks for playing! 🙂

Doesn't seem to follow my mouse in web version; on OSX – am I missing something? Might be a bug