Fart Squirrel by Pandakipu

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made by Pandakipu for LD 39 (COMPO)

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You are Farty, the skunk. Always looking for more power... maybe eating beans can increase you power...

Instruction :

Move with "arrows"

Jump with "space", you can double jump if you have enough bean power. It uses a lot of power.

You can float holding "space". It uses a little power.

Feel free to die and die again, the bean will respawn, but will it really help you at the end ? ;)

Tools :

  • Game Maker
  • Audacity
  • Bfxr

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Ratings

Overall 301th 3.367⭐ 32🧑‍⚖️
Fun 195th 3.433⭐ 32🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 461th 2.8⭐ 32🧑‍⚖️
Theme 469th 3.233⭐ 32🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 329th 3.267⭐ 32🧑‍⚖️
Audio 142th 3.4⭐ 32🧑‍⚖️
Humor 29th 3.862⭐ 31🧑‍⚖️
Mood 264th 3.107⭐ 30🧑‍⚖️
Given 37🗳️ 23🗨️

Feedback

helpcomputer
31. Jul 2017 · 18:41 UTC
Interesting controls, and I had a chuckle. It's quite difficult to avoid the spikes though at the beginning.
Taffaz
31. Jul 2017 · 18:47 UTC
Enjoyed playing this but it was very difficult. The drop with spike on each side took a fair few tries. There is a small bug where your bean count doesn't reset if you press a key other than escape to restart. Didn't really affect the game as I still lost even with all the extra bean power.
Tero Pulkkinen
31. Jul 2017 · 18:50 UTC
Nice little game. Too multiple tries to get the controls clear, but in the end it worked fine. I liked the graphics and nice collision detection and sprites. So nothing bad to say about it - worked fine.
kyttike
31. Jul 2017 · 18:52 UTC
I loved the game!

1 question though: are you supposed to be able to pick up the same powerups over and over?
TheLukker
31. Jul 2017 · 18:54 UTC
Good Game
cogcomp
31. Jul 2017 · 19:02 UTC
Unlimited power! :-) Tricky but addictive game. Great work!
Phlip45
31. Jul 2017 · 22:23 UTC
Good game. Unlimited Power made me laugh. Controls were a bit wonky, I kinda wish that there was a different button for float than for jump.

Is it possible to beat the game, start to finish without dying? (meaning no farming the starting bean.)
Vivoubos
01. Aug 2017 · 12:40 UTC
Yeah buddy! Heavy metal power!!!
The gameplay is really nice!!
Good job.

Ho mon dieu cette moufette est en train de peter!
Haha, il pète ^^
🎤 Pandakipu
02. Aug 2017 · 19:37 UTC
Hi, thanks for your comments !

@phlip45 yes, it's possible to finish it in one life :)
JSMCAG
03. Aug 2017 · 23:06 UTC
Hummm... Interesting concept... :laughing:

Seriously though, this made me laugh, specially at the end, so good job on that!

The game itself is short and sweet, and its mechanics are fun to play around with. I would only change the first part that requires you to float with spikes over and under you: it's just long enough that one jump is not enough to float all the way (without going all frame-perfect), but it's not high enough that you'd need two jumps to try to make it through.

Overall, good job!
Wheffle
03. Aug 2017 · 23:09 UTC
**WAS NOT DISAPPOINTED.**

Actually a pretty good side-scroller mechanic. Two complaints: one, the game started out *really* hard and unforgiving. Two, there were not enemies to fart-kill. I'm very happy I found this, my day is complete.
g12345
07. Aug 2017 · 20:50 UTC
I like the game, somehow.

The mechanic is fun. You can farm the beans if you restart (even in the first room there are 3 to get, so it's nice.)

There are also very tricky jumps and multiple paths at the end.

But I managed it and it was good fun!
Meanderthal
07. Aug 2017 · 23:08 UTC
Simple game, with a ton of character! I loved the art, animation and music :smile:
Logicon211
07. Aug 2017 · 23:15 UTC
Game was pretty fun, although I just restarted the game a bunch to get almost infinite power. It was kinda funny though. The platformer controls felt nice although I think it was too easy to hit the spikes sometimes. Good job 🏂🏂
domrein
07. Aug 2017 · 23:34 UTC
Best win screen so far. I liked it. The platforming felt good. The fart hover was a little slow. Awesome job :)
Mr.McGibblets
08. Aug 2017 · 00:40 UTC
Dude. Yes.
Fawaz.Strawberry
08. Aug 2017 · 00:50 UTC
UNLIMITED POWER!!!

Great game overall, although it became easy after if figured out that i could use restart and continue to increase my power bar, I still had a lot of fun overall. The music also matched the setting well and the art style while simple and common, was still interesting. I also loved the double jump and hover mechanics, they suited the game well.

Good Job!
Sondrian
08. Aug 2017 · 01:32 UTC
Me by the end of the game -"FOOL! THIS IS ONLY 10% of my gastronomic POWER!"

This was a really fun entry. I found an exploit in picking up power ups and then dying. The game never removed the gained powerups so I could amass an infinite amount of power.
PBG
08. Aug 2017 · 05:10 UTC
Pretty solid game - I actually like the act of managing floating versus jumping. However, the spike tunnel is nearly impossible to clear - I could never do it, so I didn't get very far. Solid mechanics, and it looks great.
mato26
08. Aug 2017 · 18:14 UTC
Just ":smile:". Thanks for this :smile:.
kpded
08. Aug 2017 · 18:37 UTC
Now I know what to do in a "go through tunnel of spikes" situation. Thank you for that lesson!

And thanks for music and cool idea it made me laugh
Erkberg
08. Aug 2017 · 20:03 UTC
Great and funny platformer that even plays well. The visuals and audio are also not too shabby. Some of the rows of spikes were a little annoying to overcome, particularly the ones where you had to double jump and then wait till you reach the correct height while floating. But it is an interesting concept of movement and overall well executed. Also, very nice of you to let the player keep their collected power-ups. :)
Overall, I einjoyed this a lot, good job!
Estebe
09. Aug 2017 · 16:22 UTC
Funny little platformer!
I haven't played a lot of playformers this LD, to my surprise, so this was a breath of fresh air :), so to speak.
The graphics, sounds and music are good. Though the controls steal the show. As they should. The controls feel simple and tight, so dying feels like a mistake on your own part, exept the cheap death traps.
Eventhough I'm not a fan of flat fart-humor, you used its theme throughout consistently. I liked playing the game to the end!
CTTFOW
11. Aug 2017 · 11:07 UTC
Well, that's definitely one way to see "power"... although I can't say I was really running out of it, but rather, gaining an unlimited amount of it. The music rocks, though!
Linus
12. Aug 2017 · 19:00 UTC
Unrealisitc physics (0/10).. Just kidding haha. Very funny game which was unlike any other platformer I have played this LD. I managed to reach unlimited power! The art was consistent and worked well and the SFX + music was really good.

As others have said the controls were good and the checkpoint was a really good thing because it was annoying to have to restart from the beginning. One thing that was a bit annoying was that there was no way to descend quickly so you would have to wait for the character to slowly descend. But I suppose the game might have been too easy if you could descend quickly because there would be a very low risk of dying.

Also the fact that your "power bank" increased after dying many times made it less frustrating and motivated me to keep playing. Great job!