Marshmallow Bandit by Flamboozle

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made by Flamboozle for Ludum Dare 51 (JAM)

Marshmallow Bandit is a game made for Ludum Dare 51 themed around "Every 10 Seconds".

You play as a Marshmallow and your goal is to survive as long as possible by avoiding enemies, killing enemies with your water pistol, and reaching the next room within 10 seconds.

Every second you spare gives you bonus gold. Every so often you will encounter reward rooms where you can spend your gold to buy upgrades.

See how far you can make it!

https://flamboozle.itch.io/marshmallowbandit

Team Members:

Brendan (Flamboozle) - Programmer

Alex (Sirzer) - Audio

Also shoutout to Jayce and KoolaidLemonade who helps ideate and design the initial game.

Edit:

  • Made the game slightly easier, included a high score text and added the option for people to download the Windows version if WebGL on itch.io is crashing/not working

Ratings

Overall 42th 4.211⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Fun 37th 4.211⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 475th 3.444⭐ 20🧑‍⚖️
Theme 12th 4.528⭐ 20🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 91th 4.395⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Audio 52th 4.184⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Humor 512th 2.971⭐ 19🧑‍⚖️
Mood 311th 3.735⭐ 19🧑‍⚖️
Given 18🗳️ 16🗨️

Feedback

Smooches
03. Oct 2022 · 19:27 UTC
Absolutely love the art in this
eerongal
03. Oct 2022 · 19:30 UTC
Fun game, but the time limit makes things kinda tough, especially if you're stuck reloading for a few seconds.
David Stevenson
03. Oct 2022 · 19:32 UTC
Great job! The 10 second time limit makes this fairly stressful! :)
DavidBradbury
03. Oct 2022 · 19:33 UTC
Congrats on getting your entry in. This is very high quality! Good graphics, music, shooting felt good and the pace polished. I think the only things I'd change is maybe starting the small fast enemies a little further away and I think I would generally like health and lives so I can finish a level rather than being sent on.

Excellent entry though!
CantThinkOfAName
03. Oct 2022 · 19:36 UTC
Very fun but VERY glitchy, I actually never lost the game just kept playing until it crashed every time. It's quite a shame since the game is actually extremely fun and good in audio, graphics, and gameplay.
robeecodes
03. Oct 2022 · 19:37 UTC
This game is awesome! I'm not typically a huge fan of roguelikes, but I really enjoy this one, the atmosphere is really great and the controls feel very tight. I like how there are lives and, when you die, you just restart the room.

There's nothing about the gameplay I'd want to change, but if you let the player know how many rooms they'd completed on game over, I think that would be great!

I definitely will be coming back to play more :clap: Is there a way to win or is it an endless game?
🎤 Flamboozle
03. Oct 2022 · 19:38 UTC
I will upload a version to download since I've heard some people have issues with WebGL!

Also I realize the game is a bit hard for new players so I'm going to make it a tad easier so its less stressful.
DzejPi
03. Oct 2022 · 21:55 UTC
This game needs more love! The art is absolutely fantastic, it’s very well looking game! You nailed the atmosphere, sounds and music very well as well and gameplay feels nice and smooth. Very impressive amount of work, loved it! And I don’t even usually like these kinds of games. Well done!
LDJam user 234567
04. Oct 2022 · 17:01 UTC
Reload time is stressfull.

When you die the roll screen gives the impression to progress in the levels but nop :laughing:
DurkaGames
10. Oct 2022 · 22:31 UTC
We lost our boy in the 3rd room :( As the @fifut say, reload time is stressful. We did not understand, why the door open when all the skeletons was dead, but the Fire Guys was still alive.
Great job!
Misfire_dev
11. Oct 2022 · 19:06 UTC
really complete game experience, great graphics and mechanic for progressing, the shooting feels great and the intro is so fleshed out. this is an A+ entry really gj
AdrianGray
12. Oct 2022 · 17:05 UTC
Very great game!

Give some The Binding of Isaac feel but with a limited time!

Really highly polished and interesting gameplay

Good graphics, good music, good gameplay!

5/5
axelrinaldo
14. Oct 2022 · 23:29 UTC
I have never in my life had my heart beating so fast as I did playing this. Absolutely amazing, I find nothing worthy of critisism, the only bug I encountered was some enemies health not being reset on a respawn which was after all very appreciated :P
GodDoesPlayDice
14. Oct 2022 · 23:32 UTC
Very cool experience. One of the most polished games on this jam
LePoulet
15. Oct 2022 · 06:24 UTC
how can you be in the danger section with a such fun and polish game.My best is level 40 but I will try to beat my record for sure. 5 stars