Ugly Turtle by HacksawUnit

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made by HacksawUnit for LD33 (COMPO)
You are the monster in this platform game. Strategically pop out of a pipes to squash passing plumbers and bounce to your safety.

Click, tap, or hit the spacebar to play: use your computer, phone or tablet!

Something special happens when you get 100 points. Are you turtle enough to try at it?

Ratings

Coolness 35% 1796
Overall 3.32 309
Audio 3.57 96
Fun 3.21 334
Graphics 4.10 76
Humor 3.62 104
Innovation 3.07 416
Mood 3.22 309
Theme 3.66 299

Feedback

highlyinteractive
24. Aug 2015 · 02:13 UTC
Quite good fun, but gets a bit repetitive as it's easy to hit the plumber once you get the hang of it. Nice graphics & sound!
Gigaraptor
24. Aug 2015 · 02:15 UTC
Its repetitive, but its quite fun at the same time
YellowLime
24. Aug 2015 · 02:38 UTC
Nice pixel art! The game itself is ok, but the music didn't play for me.
dollarone
24. Aug 2015 · 02:48 UTC
Excellent theme implementation. I feel bad for all the Koopa's I've killed over the years now!

Awesome graphics, really like it.
AlariSilver
24. Aug 2015 · 03:24 UTC
It's sorta like Flappy Bird: it repeats over and over and over but you just want to get to the next high score.
GAFBlizzard
24. Aug 2015 · 03:58 UTC
I'm afraid it would take too long to get to 100, especially with the score resetting. I am not turtle enough. :P

Nice art! Looks like something that would be on the Game Boy Advance.
mortus
24. Aug 2015 · 13:56 UTC
That's hilarious! Gotta get that 100 score though.
Techblogogy
24. Aug 2015 · 15:26 UTC
Fun and additive. Pixel art is good.
Overall this game is quite good
terop
24. Aug 2015 · 17:38 UTC
nice graphics... i couldnt exactly understand how the controls worked, but otherwise it looks nice.
pta2002
24. Aug 2015 · 18:39 UTC
Super hard, super fun, and a bit repetitive. I can't get past 3 :I
richardjs
25. Aug 2015 · 02:03 UTC
Another Mario-inspired entry where you play a turtle! We clearly had the best idea.

I thought you nailed the art and music style. It was very humorously satisfying to pull off a successful hit.

I appreciated how he changed up the jump occasionally, so it wasn't simply a game about hitting the timing perfectly without anything else going on. The challenge to get to 100 points, while simple, adds some replay value for the completionists, and was a smart idea.
Karai17
25. Aug 2015 · 03:58 UTC
Ha! Very cute idea, I liked it. :) Plumbers psyching me out though... Frustrating! :P
wg_phancock
25. Aug 2015 · 03:59 UTC
I enjoy the "play as bad guy" style coming out of this LD. The mario-like graphics look pretty well done.
LukeZaz
25. Aug 2015 · 06:10 UTC
Looks good and plays well, but its rather frustrating to lose your score so easily and the waiting between each try is too long.
guoboism
25. Aug 2015 · 11:57 UTC
Nice game. Fits the theme. Looking from the eye of little monster. Waiting for a mario to come.
Graphics and sound nicely done!
Jupiter_Hadley
25. Aug 2015 · 14:00 UTC
Great graphics, simple, fun, challenging game! I included it in part 2 of my Ludum Dare 33 Compilation video series, if you would like to take a look :) https://youtu.be/ml0OKpi-I0Y
HiVE interactive
25. Aug 2015 · 14:55 UTC
I enjoyed squashing plumbers. Great job!
Druid
25. Aug 2015 · 15:03 UTC
After a while, little boring. But this one have a big potential to be mobile hit!
SinclairStrange
25. Aug 2015 · 15:16 UTC
Overall a lovely little game, very fun, I could see people sinking in a lot of time to get high scores. The pixel work is fantastic too, very good!
SojaBird
25. Aug 2015 · 15:18 UTC
Haha fun little game well worked out.
Cool take on the theme
Ellian
25. Aug 2015 · 15:26 UTC
Damn, hitting ugly mario is SO satisfying!
I love the attention to details, like the turtle that goes walking quietly when it lands... awesome.
Pizzamakesgames
25. Aug 2015 · 15:28 UTC
Games using the already established popularity of well-known characters always start with a huge bonus. Most of the time, there is nothing beyond that bonus. It's nice, but strip away the mario and it's really short-lived.
Ulydev
25. Aug 2015 · 17:25 UTC
Really fun !
sararyCow
25. Aug 2015 · 18:40 UTC
Simple but effective game. Beautiful graphics!
superfreak
25. Aug 2015 · 22:34 UTC
Cheeky bugger. Really enjoyed the idea, great work :)
dalbinblue
26. Aug 2015 · 00:15 UTC
This reminds me a lot of the game "Spike Trap: A Love Story" though a bit simpler due to the time constraint. I love how this game is oozing with style, and it was fun but did get repetitive pretty quickly. I am however pleased to see your entry supports pretty much any platform available.
RadioLemon
26. Aug 2015 · 01:47 UTC
Very well polished and difficult
uvwar
26. Aug 2015 · 02:08 UTC
Frustrating but 'fun'!
el-pepi
26. Aug 2015 · 02:21 UTC
Very funny and original! The pixel art is great and I really like the music.
Chris M
26. Aug 2015 · 16:49 UTC
Great sound and charming art
StaNov
26. Aug 2015 · 19:32 UTC
Just great. Good looking, great graphics, great music. And revenge for Mario. Muhehehe :)
Archonthewizard
26. Aug 2015 · 20:14 UTC
Great idea. The art and sound were done well. Really liked the idle animation for "not-mario". Got boring once I got the mechanic down, though.
Realize2D
26. Aug 2015 · 23:08 UTC
Great concept!
TheZiggy
27. Aug 2015 · 21:26 UTC
Really addicting and fun! I'm going to be spending way too many hours trying to get a score of 100.
OnionBlaze
28. Aug 2015 · 06:05 UTC
The art and the music are both very good! 100 points might be too much with all this waiting though. :P Aside from that, good job with this! More variations would make this even better in case you decide to expand on it. :D
Slothmachine
28. Aug 2015 · 11:19 UTC
Hehe. Really funny graphics. Nice twist to the mario games.
DAT.NOT.MY.GAME!
29. Aug 2015 · 11:58 UTC
Nice!
Steve | tacospice
30. Aug 2015 · 14:25 UTC
Really awesome. After a while though, once you get the reaction skill necessary, it starts to feel pretty slow.
I only got up to 9 though :( I wanted to see if more cool things happen later, but.. it takes so long, even if it's not too difficult. Like, you start counting minutes instead of your score.

I don't have a good suggestion though for how to tweak it without ruining the gameplay already in place.

Anyway. Amazing graphics! Really great. Pretty good sound and music too. Simple idea that really works, besides the point above, which I nevertheless consider fairly minor.
FireTwin
31. Aug 2015 · 12:56 UTC
Cool idea, this would be great on smart devices with touch screens. I enjoyed it, it's just a little slow for my liking. Needs speeding up to be a great, quick game to play on the bus. Good job.
mubox
31. Aug 2015 · 15:34 UTC
It's fun. :]
bombjack
02. Sep 2015 · 18:48 UTC
There's a turtle... she's ugly... everything's in the name :)
I really like the mario under influence ;p very punitive and fun gameplay.
Saf
03. Sep 2015 · 06:41 UTC
Cute and entertaining entry! Loved the soundtrack. Would work great on a touchscreen device
BoaHeck_ArtGent
07. Sep 2015 · 14:57 UTC
Lot's of fun but I couldn't tell when I died. Overall a very cool game well done, I would love a version for my phone.
Omiya Games
10. Sep 2015 · 23:14 UTC
Pretty cool. Got up to score 10. The game can be quite stressful as you start to score higher.

I feel like the presentation, while beautiful in its own way, doesn't quite fit the gameplay. The hold'em up minigames are usually presented in a super-tense way, so I kind of wanted a more tense experience. I do, though, like that the Mario aesthetic gives an excuse to add extra curve-balls into the mix, such as a fake-off.