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Growing Up by gelisam

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made by gelisam for LD34 (JAM)
Two button controls: left, and right. Grab the balloons (with your hand, not your entire body), avoid the birds (prevent them from touching the balloons, not your body), and enjoy this sad tale on what it really means to grow... up.

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Made in a weekend by Samuel Gélineau and Marc-Olivier Ricard, two exhausted colleagues who should really go to sleep now because they have to work on siftnlp.com tomorrow :)

(By the way the game is written in Haskell and if you think that's cool, I should probably mention that we're a small Montreal startup and that we're always looking for programmers who like or are open to learning functional programming — in Scala though, not Haskell yet unfortunately)

Oh, I almost forgot to mention! Those beautiful graphics were drawn by Camille, Marc-Olivier's girlfriend.
Web http://gelisam.com/ludum-dare-34/
Post-Jam http://gelisam.com/ludum-dare-34-postjam/
Source https://github.com/gelisam/ludum-dare-34
Original URL https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-34/?action=preview&uid=46246

Ratings

Coolness 62% 3
Overall(Jam) 3.03 772
Fun(Jam) 3.00 635
Graphics(Jam) 3.88 275
Humor(Jam) 3.18 247
Innovation(Jam) 2.94 657
Mood(Jam) 3.10 614
Theme(Jam) 3.32 790

Feedback

disdanes
15. Dec 2015 · 02:48 UTC
I really like the concept of this and I especially love the hand drawn art style! Nice Job!
suppi
15. Dec 2015 · 03:33 UTC
The art is lovely, the mechanics are interesting, and it fits the theme well. some music and sounds would've made it even better!
DrFallos
18. Dec 2015 · 09:36 UTC
Interesting idea to play, a good style, with music would be better
adsilcott
20. Dec 2015 · 21:32 UTC
I like the hand drawn art. Nice game!
Hot Box Games
20. Dec 2015 · 21:35 UTC
Art is pretty and I thought the idea was fantastic and well executed, very poignant. Well done.
tompudding
20. Dec 2015 · 22:51 UTC
It looked great, and it's a lovely idea. It wasn't challenging though really and the the balloon pickup seemed a bit flaky
tigerrenko
21. Dec 2015 · 00:15 UTC
Loved the concept and art, also the way game is really tough and makes you think out of the box
Mirch
21. Dec 2015 · 02:00 UTC
Haha nice!
Art looks good, concept is cool, maybe you could make it like..getting more difficult over time.
hpearson2
21. Dec 2015 · 02:01 UTC
Good mood and graphics, took me a sec to realize you can wrap the screen. Why haskell? it seems like a nightmare for a game jam.
Shivur
21. Dec 2015 · 02:02 UTC
I love the animation.
puppetmaster
21. Dec 2015 · 22:32 UTC
I love the handdraw art. They are very cute! Keep up the good work!
MercuryXGames
28. Dec 2015 · 19:09 UTC
That artstyle is the same as the game, Journey. I really like that genuine artstyle.
Muel
31. Dec 2015 · 03:39 UTC
This art.
Ooooh, this art.
Tosic
01. Jan 2016 · 15:55 UTC
Wow! Love the graphics!
gallerdude
02. Jan 2016 · 17:12 UTC
Lots of birds. Gameplay was fun, but it took me a bit to find that the screen was wrapping (which helped me a lot).
Xanjos
02. Jan 2016 · 23:47 UTC
Could do with some sound and most definitely an option to restart the game without having to refresh the entire page but I like the concept plus I love the hand drawn art.
dreamlogician
03. Jan 2016 · 04:10 UTC
The art is gorgeous. The game is decent, but the collision box locations are not intuitive and that made it a frustrating experience at times.
yuigoto
05. Jan 2016 · 01:29 UTC
The graphics are nice! Love the handdrawn graphics, and the concept of the game in general.

Missing some sounds and a "restart" button, though. :P