Small but entertaining and cohesive game. I definitely agree with your sound choice -- the slap sound made it feel much more satisfying. Also, I think your art is great! It took a minute to figure out that you have to accelerate while slapping (or at least, that's how it seemed to work), but after that my wife couldn't stop slapping penguins. Great job!

Great game and who doesn't like slapping penguins? :) Nice use of theme.

This is a really cute game - I love the voxel style! Maybe for the next iteration you could have some flailing penguin flippers to signify the slap :)

A lot of fun, mate! Low poly grapchics are amazing and penguin's controll works perfect. You have a good sense of humor hahaha

I love this! Amazing graphics, and the movement & animation is perfect. I love the little detail of the iceberg tipping in the direction of movement. However, sometimes, when I slap, nothing happens. Other than that, amazing!

Lovely game with really cute graphics. You stuck to a very simple idea and fleshed it out nicely enough to create an enjoyable experience :)

I love the concept the penguin trying to save his small house from the other. I kept pushing and unfortunately saw my house got smaller :'(. I think your game would be more fun and playable It was easier (less sloppy) to pushed off the house destroyers. Anw, this is a fun game to play

I like the concept (very similar to ours :wink:). The background noise is really fitting, and the graphical style is very clean and crisp. I love how the camera shakes when you kick the penguins. I had trouble making contact with the penguins a few time, and several times I got launched into the air and failed because more penguins came to attack my igloo while I was still airborne. I like the fact that this feels like a complete game, which is more than can be said for most other entries!

Thanks for checking out our game, [E.(a)T.](https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/e-at). Much appreciated :slight_smile:.

A fun little game. The graphics style is very clean and the slap sound is very satisfying. Overall, it is pretty fun to slap the penguins around. The game gets difficult very quickly and at some point you just get overrun. I like how the ice slab wobbles when the penguins move on it. This game is a short but very enjoyable experience :slight_smile:

I tried both Keyboard/Mouse and Xbox 360 Controller and couldn't seem to get my penguin to slap consistently with either. Is there some sort of trick to it?

I love this game!

Small little fun game. Loved the idea. Loved the voxel style. Loved almost everything.

Simple, fun, a little buggy. I floated off the ice and into the sky before the enemy penguins pummeled my igloo into oblivion.

Thansk everyone for the feedback, greatly appreciated! :D

@tdennist Ahah Glad to hear that! :) Yeah actually I did the hit detection quite quickly and it's a bit strict to detect enemies, you have to face them directly and be quite close to them.

@gcoope Oh yep nice idea! I started doing the animations but I had some problem making them work properly so I just stopped and went working on another part of the game.

@willbl3pic Thanks for the feedback <3 Yep sorry for the hit detection, it's been done quite quickly and it's kinda strict to make it work :x

@huynq Yep you're right, I had this feeling too, I missed some time to make the game feel more fair and more seemless in the way of moving/slapping, I'll try to focus a bit more on that for my next game jam! :)

@brotherst Ahah I had this exact same thought when I played your game! :) Right, sorry for those two problems, the hit detection is pretty rough to get it right (you have to face directly the enemy and be quite close to him, actually how did you do it in your game? I would be pretty interested to know how you get it to make it work so nicely!), and for what is being in the air it's because I had some trouble of setting the physics nicely and not breaking how the icefield behaves. Thanks for playing and leaving a feedback, much appreciated too! <3

@Veralos Yes sorry for that, actually you need to be quite close to the enemy penguin and face it completely so that it gets detected.

@OccultOne Sorry for this bug, I noticed that at the end and had some hard time to fix it and not break how the icefield behaves, I tried to reduce it the most I could to be able to work on some other parts which were needed.

Even if I didn't mention your nickname here, I read all your feedback and I'm happy to see that you liked it, thanks everyone! <3 I'll stop by to play all your games quite soon :)

really nice game, with a neat concept, and idea.
but i must say, it was rather difficult (at least for me.)
cute simple, and quick game. definitely not perfect, but really neat one. i did like it.

Alright, I tried this game out and I think it's adorable. I could see this playing perfectly on my phone (tilt to move and tap the screen to slap). Without repeating the feedback from above, allow me to add a few additional suggestions if you want to add a tad bit more.

Slap animation. Even if you don't animate the penguins, some special effect so that we know the slap was clicked and what the range of attack is.

UI change. For some reason my task bar appeared over full screen games, and for yours it covered up my house health and penguins slapped. If it were at the top, that'd be awesome.

hahaha love the penguins and the idea! good job ^^

I think the game would play much better with a controller.

The game was quite interesting despite a somewhat common setup, I guess it's thanks to good level design.

The characters were quite adorable, though I would love to see something like a slapping animation to clarify action :D

Good job on a fun, quick little game. The graphics fit well, and the slapstick aspect with the penguins flying off after being hit is well done.

I was wondering if there was anything to the two penguins that were just chilling at the top of the screen... Maybe I didn't get far enough to see that?

I only experienced the issue with flying up into the air once... and it worked out to my advantage because I was able to land back on the ice and not in the ocean.

A simple premise pulled off nicely. Nice art and great game feel for dat smack.

PRE-GAME
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So judging by just the screenshots, it seems I am going to like it. And right off the bat, I apologize if this review seems kind of rushed, or short, because I've been rating games, and I think this is the last one I am going to do before homework.

POST-GAME
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So I just finished playing it and here is my review:

-Gameplay
Solid enough, and being able to slap off pengiuns was awesome xD It was a fun game that seemed kind of repetitive, but had good replayability and held my interest for some time.

-Graphics
A huge thing that stuck out to me - graphics. They were amazing! The voxel feel with not textures and materials really fit the overall aesthetic and feel of the game. And GOD DARN THOSE PENGIUNS ARE SO CUTE owo

One weird thing I noticed was the shadows don't appear one water, its a really small thing, but just something I noticed.

-Innovation
It was great, I mean who decides to make a game about penguins slapping each other! Brilliant! And to pull it off well was a feat which you surpassed.

-Theme
It fit the theme OK I guess, as you're small world you were defending was the ice.

OVERALL
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Basically, I really enjoyed this one. I really liked the art and graphics style, the gameplay, and things like that. If you added a lot more content like more penguins, levels, playable pengiuns and stuff, I'm sure you could go places with this game.

Fun little game. I think the art style suited it well, and enjoyed the feel of the game. Good job. :)

Thanks again to all of you for the feedback! :)

@smiling-cat-entertainment Thanks for the comment! Oh no, nothing happens with those two actually, at first I thought about animating them but it turned out I didn't have enough time. Sorry for that issue, some physics stuff I couldn't resolve properly :x

@kataware Wow, really thanks a lot for that feedback, it doesn't feel rushed at all, it feels more like the opposite and you took time for it, thanks again!

I'm going now to review the games of all of you that I didn't review yet! :)

I love the voxel art style. The penguins look great.

It's a bit funky that there's no animation. A movement when slapping and maybe a bit of waddling would look great.

The slap sound effect was great. It felt impactful whenever I took a penguin out. I wish there was a more intense background soundtrack. Calm waves do not feel right for penguin combat.

I also had some input issues, I think due to my multi-monitor setup. I should probably have run it in windowed mode.

Funny art and good idea. Great job!

Awesome. I love all their eyes. I love their looks. I like the 'voxels'. It's so cute. Fits the theme well. Great job, really, I enjoyed it!

I love voxels, and the art was really cute. Good mood overall.

Sometimes the slap didn't seem to register when I expected it to, an animation for that would have really helped here.

Sound effects were well-chosen and added to the atmosphere, and I really liked the wobbly arena too!

Oh, good one!

Since it's already pretty complete and fun, let's focus on what could be improved :) Not as is - I'm thinking if you decide to take the project further with some updates or release it outside of the jam.

- ice floe balancing: while fun in itself, the floe doesn't feel too slippery. Would you consider making it more slippery, like ice, to add some challenge? It would fit the theme pretty well, actually. And let's be honest, penguins sliding on ice AND being slapped at the same time are hilarious, period :D

- obviously, some slapping animation would be nice - better feedback for the player, more humour in the whole setting.

- 'wetter' slap sound; while hilarious as is, a wetter, more penguin-flipper'y sound could fit here even better instead of pretty standard punch sound. Something to add a nice touch to the whole thing.

- obvious little things like difficulty levels, leaderboards and such, to challenge players further, and increase replayability / game lifespan.

Very simple, yet solid project with nice audiovisuals. With some more work and tweaks, this could be a pretty releasable game, well done!

Cheers, and stay awesome!

Super cute graphics, love it. Animate it, polish it and it will be great. Good work :)

Thanks to all of you for the feedbacks!

@takusan Wow, thank you so much for the great feedback (and I've seen how many great feedbacks you gave to others too which is amazing, I'm impressed to be honest, so thanks for all of them too, you're awesome man!). Actually you score a nice point with the slippery floor, this has been one of the first thing I tried to do but I couldn't do what I really wanted and it started to take me too much time. I didn't think about the wet slap sound, that's a great point too! Thanks again, cheers! :)

I enjoyed the game. Would have been cool if the penguins leapt onto the ice disc from surrounding ice blocks, instead of just appearing from thin air. Animations and outraged squawking sfx would have been a nice touch!