Start with Muffin by Sibi
“I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know muffin.”
― Plato, The Republic
Summary
- Use the arrow keys ⇦⇧⇨ or WAD to jump'n'run
- The colors on top of the club tell you which icing you need
- Collect icing by pressing the button and touching the falling icing
- You lose your top layer of icing when it touches a block
Hint for level 2
Remember that you only lose your top layer of icing each time. So it helps to bring some spare icing along ;)
Storyline
Muffin McNuffin's biggest dream is to visit the highly acclaimed club in Muffinham.
But this sacred place of ludum and lust has a very strict dress code: Only cupcakes wearing the latest and greatest icing trends are allowed in!
So it is up to you to help McNuffin on his journey to turn from a muffin into a beautiful cupcake and have the party of a lifetime.
Wobble and jump around to get him covered in the trendiest cream to melt the bouncer’s heart.
If you have the wrong icing on you, just rub it off somewhere...

| Youtube | https://sibi.itch.io/start-with-muffin |
| Youtube | https://sibi.itch.io/start-with-muffin |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/45/start-with-muffin |
Ratings
| Overall | 247th | 3.777⭐ | 49🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 260th | 3.649⭐ | 49🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 211th | 3.67⭐ | 49🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 380th | 3.564⭐ | 49🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 249th | 4.021⭐ | 49🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 140th | 3.826⭐ | 48🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 69th | 3.957⭐ | 48🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 167th | 3.88⭐ | 48🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 52🗳️ | 32🗨️ |

Great entry!
\+ great music
\+ funny sound effects
\+ adorable
\+ hilarious
\+ good twist on the theme
\+ great graphics
\+ cute
\- confused about the extra jumping mechanic (is that a feature or a bug??)
\- second level really ramps up in difficulty in either case (after reading the game description, I know what I'd need to do, but it still ramps up quickly in the sheer number of steps needed to solve the puzzle, plus it hadn't been introduced yet that you can collect multiple layers of icing from the same color, and there's no feedback of what colors you can and can't collect and when and why)
\- easy to go out of bounds with the jumping glitch
Overall very good!
The gameplay is quite simple, but very functional. I can easily see it expanded with more puzzles :)
I think Level 2 was the hardest and I'm not sure I would have been able to beat it without reading your hint. A better introduction to this gameplay concept ingame would help a lot, if you decide to do a post-jam version :) Is it intentional that you can multijump close to the Muffingham Dance Club? Because you can, might be a bug.
But yes, as I said, insanely sweet game that is a lot of fun and makes me feel good :slight_smile:

Overall the GRAPHICS and SFX were on point, would you be making a tutorial on how you did it so we can learn a thing or two about art work? Thanks! Good Game.
I struggled so long to get the orange icing in the level where the button is right below a block (I didn't expect you could still pick up the icing that late!), that whenI finally managed, I totally forgot about the right order of colors and showed up with the wrong toppings. Feels like proudly showing up at a party with the wrong type of costume on. :wink:
The movement could use some work, at least in the webGL version. I didn't like that the jump had a fixed height, and also it felt a bit weird that the falling was slowed down.
Overall, good job!
Were you guys going for a tiltshift effect with the postprocessing? If so, that's something I've always wanted to try but a. I've never gotten it to look good and b. I'm always afraid it'll run like crap on webgl or mobile. It looks like you found a decent solution though and it really helps sell the miniature world look.
Lastly, this is one unique theme haha. Not sure how you guys came up with a muffin for main character and gameplay but it's a great idea since they are decorated from scratch after all. Very creative and the game in general was hard to put down til the end.