Popao by christopf

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made by christopf for LD31 (COMPO)
Winter is coming and you sitting all day in front of a electrobox creating games. Your immunesystem could use a boost! What about the eaziest way?

Xboy and Ouya controllers should work (didn't check the Ouya, if someone uses one let me know if its working!).

For the linux build you need to have neko installed:
sudo apt-get install neko


CONTROLS

Move......................................Left-Stick............WASD / Arrows
Reset level.............................Y.........................Backspace
Fullscreen.........................................................F1
Mute (not working yet).....................................F3
Menu forward.........................A / O..................Any key



Game is made with Haxe && Haxepunk.

All feedback is very welcomed, even on the level design.
Have hopefully fun playing it.

Ratings

Coolness 63% 3
Overall 3.54 233
Audio 3.03 361
Fun 3.26 387
Graphics 3.69 210
Humor 4.03 14
Innovation 3.25 460
Mood 3.41 184
Theme 3.50 690

Feedback

Louisload
08. Dec 2014 路 11:14 UTC
oh my god... literally god against buggers. very funny and weird! in a good way :D
OneMuppet
08. Dec 2014 路 20:13 UTC
Good game! It wasn't long before the levels got trixy and I had to think hard to break them.
tomdeal
08. Dec 2014 路 21:06 UTC
Nice game. One minor complaint: with the 3D books, it is hard too see if the block is pushable when its overlap
馃帳 christopf
08. Dec 2014 路 21:10 UTC
Yea, you right tomdeal. I had the same issue, its quite tricky to get the book into the notch. Maybe i can masquerade it as advanced difficulty :P

Thank you all 3 of you!
ponk
08. Dec 2014 路 21:33 UTC
Hilarious and beautiful ... !!
Hellequin
08. Dec 2014 路 22:09 UTC
Very fun! I liked it!
rabbit
08. Dec 2014 路 22:12 UTC
Pushblock puzzles are arguably the worst kinds of puzzles. :I Its also needlessly slow.

Cool visuals though.
sollinxp
08. Dec 2014 路 23:50 UTC
I don't see something as bizarre and fun since biding of isaac, good game
RetributionStudios
09. Dec 2014 路 12:40 UTC
A very... interesting concept. But funny nonetheless! Keep it up!
Trite Games
09. Dec 2014 路 12:48 UTC
Hahaha what a nasty little game ^^ wasn't very motivating after two levels though. Maybe you could grow bigger on your way down...or at least be faster with the movements. High rating for Innovation, Humor and Fun :D
RockhopperGames
09. Dec 2014 路 12:54 UTC
I really like this game, despite my dislike of block puzzles.

The theme was really fun and creative (focusing so closely on the face was a nice touch), and both graphics and audio were good (though I think you could have looped that opening tune for the main game.

Making the snot move and push blocks faster could be a nice change though, it sometimes felt painful to be pushing so slowly when I know I'm on the clock.
oh_cripes
09. Dec 2014 路 12:59 UTC
Very funny! The puzzles were a bit hard though, I got stuck on the third level.
lekochen
09. Dec 2014 路 13:57 UTC
LOL, how could you come up with idea like that?
馃帳 christopf
09. Dec 2014 路 14:16 UTC
Thank you all, i'm glad you mostly like it. Make me feel worth sitting there like 48hours tipping on a bunch of metal.

On the movement speed: That's right. I also felt like it's a little too slow. But i thought at some points you can move a book just a pixel too far so easy. So with a little slower movement you won't accidently push a block too far.
But on the otherside i implement a little break for this case and the movement speed change would contact this. I give it for the itch.io version!

@lekochen for the case you questions was out of real interest^^ i'm eating boogers since i'm born and some time ago i found an article about a canadian bio-chemical scientist who was arguing that eating your own boogers is the best thing you can do with it. It gave it a more than my intuition explanation which i found interesting. I think it's an interesting point how social conventions, which should help us, are obviously damaging us.
BubbleChien
09. Dec 2014 路 17:12 UTC
This game is special, in a good way haha.

Not a fan of block pushers but I did it for the buggers. It was sometimes a bit hard to put the blocks in the right position vertically.
BarrensZeppelin
09. Dec 2014 路 19:46 UTC
That ending tho'
My only complaint would be the movement speed, I'd have liked to move a little faster.
Frozen Fractal
09. Dec 2014 路 20:01 UTC
The puzzles are good, but movement is annoyingly slow and it's a bit hard to see where exactly you can and can't exit. And overall: ewwww...

I had to do "sudo apt-get install neko" on my Ubuntu system, but after that the Linux build worked.
MoltenMustafa
09. Dec 2014 路 22:51 UTC
This is hilarious and awesome and I love it. :D
DaRaziel
10. Dec 2014 路 12:40 UTC
This is gross! But i like the idea! :D
A solid little puzzle game done very well!
Strange setting, but hey, i`m ok with it!
oh_andrej
10. Dec 2014 路 16:16 UTC
Classic game mechanics with a fresh coat of...well, snot I guess. Ew.

Anyway, interesting and unique style with a nice intro. Gameplay is functional, tricky and fun as you'd expect. Music during gameplay would be nice though (maybe you can get away with looping the...uh, "music" from the intro? It's very interesting and low-key enough to not get annoying during long levels.) Not a big fan of block-pushing puzzles (I tend to suck at them) but I liked this one!
Cake&Code
10. Dec 2014 路 16:23 UTC
Sometime balancing gameplay and speed is difficult, I agree that it's a bit slow but can understand that it was sacrificed for precision. Overall it was a pretty fun game and the idea is just fantastic!
WojWorks
10. Dec 2014 路 21:36 UTC
A simple block-moving game. Not too original, but decent.
cxsquared
11. Dec 2014 路 03:11 UTC
Woot another Haxe user! Really fun and weird game. I really liked it. It reminded me of the old Pokemon strength puzzles. Nice work.
FergusonTV
12. Dec 2014 路 15:56 UTC
That's... disturbing ^^
MrBadIvan
12. Dec 2014 路 18:53 UTC
Great sound and mood!
Backterria
16. Dec 2014 路 02:39 UTC
Very funny concept! simple but fun :)
Xanjos
17. Dec 2014 路 17:27 UTC
Well that was one really strange entry. It was actually pretty funny playing as a pile of snot. Mind you, the concept was good and the level design was nice.
phi
29. Dec 2014 路 16:42 UTC
This game is glorious. The concept actually makes kind of sense and I think there's some deep meaning in moving bibles out of your way to reach your goal of making yourself a healthier and happier person. And the sounds totally cracked me up. No second felt wasted. This is a masterpiece, you deserve an award. The only sad thing about this is that the bible quote isn't real.