Fire is Friend by

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made by for Ludum Dare 46 (JAM)

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WEB LINK: https://joechatfield.itch.io/fire-is-friend

Controls:

| Left or Right: Move |
| Up or X : Jump |
| Down or Z : Pick up/drop |

Gamepad also supported :)

Protect your friend from the ravages of water in this puzzle-platformer.

This is my first jam and it's been super fun - will be back :D

I made everything from scratch in Pico-8/Lua as an excuse to learn how to use them :p

Hope you enjoy, thanks for playing :)

<3

Side note: Audio appears to stutter on certain computers/browsers when using the webplayer. This stuttering is not present in the standalone version available in the links below if you care about that sort of thing :p

Ratings

Overall 453th 3.833⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Fun 767th 3.548⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 299th 3.81⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Theme 933th 3.786⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 1157th 3.682⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Audio 696th 3.5⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Humor 1274th 2.794⭐ 19🧑‍⚖️
Mood 690th 3.675⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Given 25🗳️ 6🗨️

Feedback

DrewG8
21. Apr 2020 · 03:13 UTC
This was really cool! I like the way you represented light a lot. I think it might be beneficial to players to give a better indicator of how well lit the torch is, but the concept works really well. Good job!
matt2728
22. Apr 2020 · 01:16 UTC
Nice little game! Thanks for posting a web link. I got stuck on first play through, not sure what happened but it was at a corner. Maybe that door dropped on me?
Naca
22. Apr 2020 · 21:19 UTC
Nice! It was so interesting and so funny! I loved the concept and the gameplay. It took me a couple times to understand it, but I enjoyed it a lot :)
arzi
22. Apr 2020 · 21:33 UTC
It was a bit hard to figure out at first, but a fun little game nevertheless!
gnx
22. Apr 2020 · 22:27 UTC
Visuals and audio are really nice! It is a bit difficult to make sense of the game at first, but I think there's a lot of fun ideas going on here and using particles with traditional platforming is very interesting and unique.
CocaPasteque
23. Apr 2020 · 07:21 UTC
Nice entry ! Was a bit hard to understand at first but when I got it it was fun to play.
I got stuck tho, maybe I'm stupid but when I placed the first block to climb a ledge, I couldn't figure out what to do next. So I went back to the ledge to see if I missed anything and I think the block was gone, so I was stuck there :/ (where you have a block and the waterfall).
Like the music and I'm always a fan of these types of games made on PICO-8, love the graphics and the retro-vibe.

Good job !
radow
24. Apr 2020 · 01:47 UTC
For some odd reason this is the first pico8 game I've played this jam, which is really unusual… where are all those pixely retro games?!

Anyhow… this game was very different from what I expected, rather than the typical platformer I expected I originally struggled to get past the title screen. Playing further and further and being able to start to make sense of the often times rather minimalist and cryptic scene on the screen was really rewarding and I had a ton of fun :slight_smile:
ilPrinny
24. Apr 2020 · 02:33 UTC
Really fun entry, the puzzles were really solid and gave me that all important AHA moment when I solved them! Really enjoyed this one, the light effects were really nice too.
SnowyCocoon
24. Apr 2020 · 10:12 UTC
very cool concept :fire:
William Derksen
24. Apr 2020 · 17:17 UTC
It took me a while to understand how the puzzles worked but once I started getting it I had a really good time with it. I really liked the puzzles that were centered around information gathering through the use of light, and the one where you have to extinguish the torch to get by the sensor. I feel like you used few features, but you used them very well and explored they're potential well!

At some point in the middle though, (After the soundtrack change) one of my boxes seemed to teleport away from me to an unreachable location making it seemingly impossible to continue. Shortly thereafter I got stuck on a corner and couldn't move haha.

Great work, had a blast! Glad to hear that you learned some new tools from this process too!
Lyje
25. Apr 2020 · 19:27 UTC
Looks gorgeous and sounds great. The puzzles are neat, although I got stuck quite a few times due to bugs. But the concept is really nice!