a Spirit Awakening by StrayCat

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made by StrayCat for LD33 (JAM)
Controls:

Use arrows to move, and A, Q, W, S keys once you gain skills, to use them.


An angry penguin awakens his powers, to save society from its secret opressors.

A bit rushed, but something came out. I hope you enjoy it!

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Ratings

Coolness 37% 1713
Overall(Jam) 3.24 500
Audio(Jam) 3.21 346
Fun(Jam) 3.40 285
Graphics(Jam) 3.50 477
Humor(Jam) 3.72 112
Innovation(Jam) 2.65 808
Mood(Jam) 3.20 468
Theme(Jam) 2.15 1067

Feedback

MFEP
26. Aug 2015 · 10:45 UTC
It's the best game so far in this compo, thank you for these hillarious jokes :D Just a little annoying thing: At the 3rd level, when I get the ray spirit, if I fail to get up with it and fall down, I have to wait a lot for the mana to load back...
bossmojoman
29. Aug 2015 · 02:37 UTC
Good Job, Loved the penguin animation
Fanatrick
29. Aug 2015 · 02:38 UTC
Bit hard for the eyes o.o
fistmaker
29. Aug 2015 · 02:46 UTC
Great graphics and animation! Magic could regenerate faster, but fun game!
Adam Gould
29. Aug 2015 · 23:35 UTC
I got stuck at "Loading 100%".
dpisarcik
29. Aug 2015 · 23:54 UTC
Very fun game. Impressive how much got done in the short amount of time!
KingMatthew
30. Aug 2015 · 00:31 UTC
Very nice! I love the animations. The controls were a bit weird but I got over it.
Good Job
radmars
30. Aug 2015 · 00:42 UTC
Nice one! I like the different enemy and ability types. I think the ray ability should be mana-free since it's kinda frustrating to run out while using it.
🎤 StrayCat
30. Aug 2015 · 18:36 UTC
Thank you everyone! It was fun to play around and get something completed. We didn't have much time left to playtest, but we'll try do a full game with a more balanced ray in the future!
MrTwister
30. Aug 2015 · 22:22 UTC
Loved the story sequences and the hilarious enemies and attacks.

Some attacks definitely need some balancing for its cost/regen rate, and it could definitely use some extra polish, but this was really fun! I'm glad you managed to finish this. I enjoyed it.
Empyrealhell
30. Aug 2015 · 22:23 UTC
Fun little platformer with quite a few interesting mechanics. Mana regen is a bit slow, and the whale can be tricky since its targeting is unpredictable. Outside of that, not a bad entry.
Jezzamon
30. Aug 2015 · 22:51 UTC
Fun! I played it through all the way!

Some issues were:
There were a few times where I just had to wait for my spirit meter to go back up, which was pretty boring. I couldn't leave the game idle and do something else either thanks to flixel's auto-pause feature. :(

There were also a few where I just landed on an enemy without being able to see that they were there, which isn't very good as far as level design goes. I guess I'm meant to drop a bear down first?

What parts of the game did you make? The music and graphics were really good, so nice job if you made them!

I felt the theme was a little lacking... was the idea that the last spirit animal was meant to be the reference to the theme? I think games that use the theme the best are ones where the theme impacts the entire game, whereas this game could be for any theme really.

Anyway, good game!
peterkirk
31. Aug 2015 · 14:37 UTC
I don't understand how this is related to the theme.
TackoramaLtd
08. Sep 2015 · 08:03 UTC
A whale in the face is the answer! Brilliant.