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Sblaaf!! by Thob

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made by Thob for Ludum Dare 48 (JAM)

Play as Brook, a fierce dwarf miner. Punch your way through the tunnel (an old-fashioned method) to reach valuable ore !

⭐️ It is recommended to play the .exe version, as the web version may have some lags.⭐️

HOW TO PLAY ? - Move with the Left & Right arrow keys - Punch with Space!

This prototype is our entry for the ludum dare 48, in Jam category ! Made by Lauréline Chambon (environment), Yanis Lhôte (character, VFX & UI), Théo Besson (dev, level design).

We hope you'll like it !

Music : Wind Rose - Diggy Diggy Hole

https://twitter.com/Thobinambours https://twitter.com/Ydrenor

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Sound credits : - https://freesound.org/people/Robinhood76/sounds/503554/ (slightly edited) - https://freesound.org/people/Robinhood76/sounds/567840/ (slightly edited) - https://freesound.org/people/Robinhood76/sounds/567840/ - https://freesound.org/people/NeoSpica/sounds/423518/ - https://freesound.org/people/AngelPerezGrandi/sounds/47340/ (slightly edited) - https://freesound.org/people/Iwiploppenisse/sounds/156031/

Link https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eIvvb22Z9BS8Esd3pFqXavOsDTFyJOVG/view?usp=sharing
Link https://thob.itch.io/sblaaf
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/48/sblaaf

Ratings

Overall 323th 3.894⭐ 35🧑‍⚖️
Fun 256th 3.848⭐ 35🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 1096th 3.076⭐ 35🧑‍⚖️
Theme 315th 4.061⭐ 35🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 126th 4.424⭐ 35🧑‍⚖️
Audio 850th 3.273⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Humor 219th 3.719⭐ 34🧑‍⚖️
Mood 755th 3.606⭐ 35🧑‍⚖️
Given 15🗳️ 25🗨️

Feedback

Ambeurk
27. Apr 2021 · 10:09 UTC
Loved it ! ...even if it was super hard because of my shitty reflexes xD

Very polished, the art is amazing and the LD super smooth <3
Plastacier
27. Apr 2021 · 11:29 UTC
### Nice work that's very clean!

> Very nice graphics and the production is so smooth!
> I'm just a little frustrated to finish it so quickly ^^

*Try to beat my score!*
![TryMe.png](///raw/3e2/d/z/407dd.png)
pedsm
27. Apr 2021 · 21:23 UTC
Crazy polish for a Jam! Would definetly play it all the time if I could get it on my phone
Dante2001
27. Apr 2021 · 21:23 UTC
Loved the polish, the speed sensation. Epic graphics and sound. Could be an awesome mobile game!
🎤 Thob
27. Apr 2021 · 21:35 UTC
@ambeurk @plastacier @pedsm @dante2001
Thank you so much for your comments !!
blmbop
27. Apr 2021 · 21:37 UTC
The art is amazing! I had fun didn't get very far though.
I've put a low score in Audio, because neither the original author of the song (The Yogscast), nor the author of the cover (Wind Rose) were credited.
oramun
27. Apr 2021 · 21:54 UTC
I thought this game was great and i could keep playing for ages. Simple to understand, quick to pick up and great execution. Awesome.

..can't get the music out of my head now though :P
🎤 Thob
27. Apr 2021 · 21:55 UTC
@blmbop Thank you ! The game can be quite hard but it is also quite short! The end is reachable!
Thanks for pointing out the problem with the credits, I fixed it ! I also added credits for the sounds used :)
🎤 Thob
27. Apr 2021 · 22:00 UTC
@oramun Thank you so much, your comment goes straight to our hearts ! We still have the music in our heads since Saturday morning...
Pixelipy
27. Apr 2021 · 22:01 UTC
I love it!!!! Would easily play it for hours on mobile!! The art is amazing! the animations are very smooth and the song is very very catchy hahaha !! nice job!!

The levels repeat though. it's hard to notice but they do ahaha. with some procedural level generation, randomization and different game modes like "infinite" or "finite" or "get more gems time trial or die trying" would make the game shine!!

Truly an amazing work. congratulations to the team!
Pixelipy
27. Apr 2021 · 22:03 UTC
Also, consider uploading your game to itch instead of google drive. Some people have to create the drive account to download, and it's a little harder than downloading it for itch. You can also link your itch with the lurum 48 tag so people looking for lurum dare games would find it more easily!
🎤 Thob
28. Apr 2021 · 07:46 UTC
@pixelipy Thank you Pixelipy for the feedbacks !
There is one level for now. We made this choice to be able to fully polish it ! So it is also hand designed to have maximum control over the experience. If we were to work on it again we would do a procedural generation system, and infinite/finite levels as you suggest I think !
I started to make the itch.io page but I didn't have the time to finish it yet nor to make and test the webGL build but it's in progress anyway (I didn't know I had to create a drive account to be able to use it, sorry about that).
Thank again !
asdehielo
28. Apr 2021 · 11:50 UTC
Cool game, looks good, plays well, the music and sounds fit pretty well. What else do you need?

I found a bug tho, after some runs I died but the menu didn't appear, so I had to force quit the game. Not sure how to replicate it, sorry.

Great job!
XCVZXC
28. Apr 2021 · 15:20 UTC
THe visuals look super polished. The gameplay is not very innovative but it is still really fun and addictive. Maybe the falling should be a little slower/steering faster because it is hard to dodge some obstacles (but i recommend rather making falling slower as the game is a bit blinking). Great entry!
Copito
28. Apr 2021 · 19:13 UTC
this is an awesome game if a little motion sickness inducing. I didn't rate sound either as if I understand the rules correctly you can only be rated on a category where you only used your own assets made during the jam

(although if i could rate sound it'd get top marks as it totally fits the game!)
grena
28. Apr 2021 · 21:06 UTC
Visually super polished! Control of the character is nice, I laughed at the mini dance of the dwarf at the beginning :D

I had few bugs (game wasn't restarting properly and once dead, the body kept falling without losing, quite funny though!)

Imho the biggest challenge is to "guess" the good timing to punch. It's very punishing if we punch several milliseconds too soon or too late, as we crash on the rock. Maybe it misses a small visual feedback that we are too soon or I don't know.

Anyway, nice entry, I really tried hard to beat my highscore! :p
QuantumSeagull
28. Apr 2021 · 21:59 UTC
Awesome looking game. Hard but good fun. Would probably work very well on mobile too. Great job!
Hozoku
28. Apr 2021 · 22:03 UTC
Another great discovery, effective gameplay that perfectly respects the theme! Not to mention the art which is of a very good quality, well done guys!
Craplex
28. Apr 2021 · 22:06 UTC
Love the game, i think this would work great as a mobile game would play this a lot when im bored. Great job
Flying Dog Fish
28. Apr 2021 · 22:07 UTC
This game looks very polished visually. It's fun to play too.
The1
28. Apr 2021 · 22:11 UTC
First of all graphics are AWESOME! Game mechanic is maybe not the most innovative but you know what i dont care because playing it is just so addictive. Polishing is also very good. Overall really nice game. Thank u and Good job!
sdata
28. Apr 2021 · 22:11 UTC
I found the window for the punch to be a bit short and some of the horizontal momentum was tough to control but the look is good and there is certainly a lot of polish
svyatozar
28. Apr 2021 · 22:15 UTC
Great stuff! Did you make any audio? Cause if you did not, you should not be rated in that category. It adds to mood though. Great work overall!
6smith
28. Apr 2021 · 22:15 UTC
love the art and the music of course!! havent heard that song in a while lmao

was having fun but i did manage to get stuck on a rock:

![Screenshot 2021-04-28 161325.png](///raw/ff8/c/z/416a4.png)

overall good job guys!
panurge
28. Apr 2021 · 22:16 UTC
We loved this, had lots of fun laughing at how bad we were! Really cool graphics sound and general mood.
fingamer
28. Apr 2021 · 22:16 UTC
SO fun, loved it!

The game looks visually super good. It seemed like there was only one stage. It would've been cool if the stage generated randomly. I read your comment about your decision concerning this and I perfectly understand it. I also encountered a bug where when I restarted the game, it would tell me that I was already dead but I could still move the character, etc. Don't really know how I managed to get that bug.

Cool and fun game, great work!
Biku
28. Apr 2021 · 22:19 UTC
LOL!!! Diggy Diggy Hole. I love that song hahahaha. I loved to hear that song. It matches perfect with the game. Listening that while using a dwarf on a hole. Great! hahahahaha
Sand-Gardeners
28. Apr 2021 · 22:20 UTC
well done on this entry, such a great level of polish! good job!
Hestrateja
28. Apr 2021 · 22:36 UTC
Nice audio and visuals! Apart from a few bugs here and there such as respawning and immediately losing while being able to move or dying and havin the lose screen not pop up it is a pretty solid game! Here is a photo of the second bug, happened on the WebGL version:
![bug.PNG](///raw/98e/22/z/416c7.png)

I completed the game and got this score,
![record.png](///raw/98e/22/z/416cb.png)
I think i could improve it if I can land the double rock punch-through at the end. Cheers and keep it up!
Knipsch
28. Apr 2021 · 23:10 UTC
Very cool and polished-looking! Gameplay was satisfying, but the timing of the punch felt a little unfair -- it already increases in challenge over time, so a tiny bit more 'coyote time' would have felt more natural to me without making things too easy. Loved the way the visuals, sound, and character art worked together to create a cohesive whole, and absolutely loved Brook's personality as well. Great job!
🎤 Thob
29. Apr 2021 · 16:22 UTC
Thank a lot everyone for the nice comments !! We're so glad you like the game so much !
- Following the few __feedbacks about the audio (sounds and music)__ used I asked Mike Kasprzak if he could opt out us from the Audio voting category (you can't change it by yourself after submitting the game)! Indeed, even if there was research, integration, retouching and mixing work on the sounds and music, we didn't do it ourselves and it would be unfair to be graded on that compared to other teams who would have done it themselves in the jam ! And it's done , __the Audio voting category has been removed from our rating !__
- We take note of your different feedbacks on the punch that doesn't always seem right! However, we wont directly make the modifications because we don't want to change the game during the voting period.
- We also noted the few bugs that you shared, thank you !
infinitycore
01. May 2021 · 09:24 UTC
Diggy diggy hole
Nuanda79
06. May 2021 · 22:19 UTC
Fun game! I'm not so good, my highest score was 32. it's not easy to dodge platforms without learning the pattern a bit. it fits the theme perfectly. Well done guys!