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super creative use of the theme! the goal was a little confusing at first, but that's because i didn't read anything. i love how your snake turns into resource management. you don't want to pick up a worse head, but sometimes you have no choice because your snake is too small. nice work!

I'm a huge fan of snake games, and this one really adds an interesting twist. I had some trouble telling which type of blocks do what, or how to make use of special abilities, but overall this has some real promise.

fun but I did not make it

@kelp Honestly? Neither have we. But we were oh-so-close more than once! Last phase sure needs balancing.

But we're pretty sure the game does indeed have a win screen. Perhaps someone will see it some day.

Really cool game! Feels polished too. I found it a little difficult - maybe I'm just not good at snake though.

finally i did it. after a few hours. Highscore Screen was nice and the last phase is very hard. To long for that little game to solve it, ist a little frustrating. but a nice game

@keip we wanted to make game for a bit skilled players and with progressing feeling. I guess "few hours" means we did it well :)

@lancival thank you! I guess, some games are harder than others and it's fine. Overall most important that you liked the game

This is an awesome entry. Great concept and really fun execution. Nice job!

Fun twist on the classic snake and a very well polished game. I was getting pretty frustrated with the goals being only 1 block away from death and died way to frequently to try and finish. Maybe a block that gave you an extra life (aka bounced you off the wall) would be good to provide players looking for a casual experience the safety to go for the "weak spots".

Thanks for submitting your game for me to play on my stream!

If you’d like to rewatch the playthrough, you can find it here: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1608912292?t=4h47m13s

Good luck on your ratings, see you next LD! :D

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@ch33sybacon that's a super cool idea! but I guess it won't be fair to add it after submission :(

Well. After all that's only a prototype x)

@backwardscap thank you <3

Great idea!

@fstleo thank you!

Wow by far the best entry I have played so far.
This was the perfect balance of extremely fun, frustrating and short enough to give it just one more try again and again.
I wanted to play this for 5 minutes but in the end I spend half an hour until I could finally beat it (small note: after it showed me the "you won screen" it started showing "try again at the same time layed over it).

The pixelart graphics are amazing, the music great and the gamemechanics really innovative, clever and with a lot more depth than I initially expected.

I had a lot of fun playing this! great job!

@cambryx hey-hey! Really cool you liked our game so much. And thank you for your feedback! It's so pleasant to see people like our games so much :)

Awesome Pixel Art! Really love the clear introduction. The design of UI really attracts me a lot.

@tao-yuanyue thank you! I think UX still needs a lot of polishing, but goof if you liked :)

We hadn't time to make it super clear so ended up with those screens

Great art style, all of the assets are really well done! The UI in the top left has great UX and is well thought through, I understood it immediately. The blocks that get shot off and will destroy your snake are a little too visually similar to the ones that you can pickup, I lost my first run because I thought I could re-pick them up. I also found that the blocks that provide abilities spawned too rarely!

Very nice game and great entry!

@simba thank you! Yeah, blocks sometimes are hard to distinguish, indeed. I guess if we had more time we would fix it, heh (and add more beautiful animations!!!)

Nyooooooooom.
I didn't win but I had a blast.
Too much of a blast, I kept crashing.
But this game will forever nyoooom in my heart.

The only critique I have is that the little blocks that stay and turn into solid metal? are a bit of a downer. But that's part of a challenging gameplay so.. *shrug*.

Thank you for the great game.
Nyoooom.

@otterfaelure thank you for kind words <3

The game is really interesting, but it seems that the dash is not always registered, leading to defeats when I try to attack the weakpoints. That was a bit frustrating, but I really find the concept and the take on the theme interesting, so I might play the post jam version if one appears !

@jrevel sometimes it may happen that you "undash" in the middle of something and lose, and we didn't have time to fix it properly :(

Maybe today or tomorrow we would make a fix, not sure

Thank you for your feedback!

the game is a big hard to get into, but once it clicked I had a lot of fun! I love how you turned a well known idea (Snake) into such fun and juicy game and the art style makes things even better, really nice work!

Very cool twist on a classic game. The art was very good - I admire anyone who can create beautiful art - it's a bit of a problem for me!

So fantastic, I THINK I got to the last wave but then I had so many evil little turrets running around I was doomed :sob: So much fun, a real blast to play. And a great take on making tense situations from the theme, despite the relaxing music! Very addictive.

@joedev thanks! yeah, if you got too much turrets it means you got to 4th phase which is the last one :) Thank you for playing!

@madr thank you! 3d art-style of your Foody the Robot is actually good!

@0x-void-x0 yeah we didn't make it easy to understand what to do in the beginning :(

Wow! What a cool idea. Great job!

@david-hampson thank you!

Looks great. Nice idea and a funny name phun.

I love it, great use of the concept. I'm gona keep playing.

Very cool use of the snake mechanic. ramp up in difficulty is nice . final level is so tough! really enjoyed this game

Actually this a very comforting one!

Fantastic graphics and very clever spin on some classic mechanics! Well done!

Okay, after a couple of tries

Pros:

- Guacameelee meets snake
- Great visuals, I'm sucker for pixel-art
- Nice color palette
- Cool Animations
- Good Variety of 'difficulty'
- Glad to see a nice amount of upgrades as well
- Music is :pineapple:
- Good attempt on the theme itself

Cons:

The actual only con I can say is that, at least for me, the controls of the 'snake' felt really clunky. I would swear I have made a proper input motion, but the snake would not more around or would end up doing a turn in 2-3 tiles later than I originally anticipated. The game is quite catchy on its own, but this was a dealbreaker I couldn't go with for too long.

Yet, the game feels and looks polished as it could be for JAM entry. Great job guys!

@mikoziq hey! Thank you! Have you played in fullscreen? It maybe clunky a bit, but not for 2-3 tiles, this is definitely a bug

Took me a couple tries to get the hang of it but wow! So polished and quite fun. This is such a unique twist on snake games. The graphics and animations look great, and really enjoy the music and atmosphere. The larger pixel animations are very charming. Really awesome work for just a few days, well done!

Hey guys!

Nice entry, I didn't catch is there any objective, but gameplay wise it's working pretty well. Slightly overcomplicated in tutorial, but maybe I didn't catch some mechanic, dunno. Worth to mention that art is very nice as always :smile: Well done!

Hey @erlioniel, nice to see you there! Yeah, we did a game that need instructions and manual once again. But objective was in the intro, description and screen after intro - destroy pyramid. Also there was a mini-goal in the right bottom corner x)

I hope next jam we make something easier, heh

@vivifx hey-ho! Thank you, hope your angel won't exterminate our little snake, heh

Thank you for your feedback, glad to hear you liked it! (But can you say what "larger pixel" is?...)

The art is what obviously stood out, but I also really like the creative take on snake! I would have liked there to be some kind of default attack on all the blocks since it just feels bad to be lugging around some dead weights and slime. I also encountered a weird bug where I died but the game froze instead of restarting (maybe I was shot by a turret then by the pyramid?). Anyways great game, you guys did a fantastic job!

@xenoparticle hey! Thank you!

Yeah, bugs with gameloop happen time to time, unfortunately :(

Really fun!

@cookie-chr thank you!

Very fun and polished game! The core game loop is simple but very effective, I did experience some bugs with turning around and dashing real quickly but it wasn't a big deal. The art is fabulous and really consistent, and works well with the gameplay.

Absolutely love this game. Addictive and always providing that 'one more run' itch to keep playing.

Really cute game! The art and visuals are very well done and super charming. Gameplay is a bit confusing at first. And once you realize what's going on it's still quite difficult. I managed to the past the first stage of the boss (after quite a bit of time figuring out what I was supposed to dash into :D), but then in the second stage there were way too many bullets and I'd die without being able to do much. I've also run into the gray blocks thinking I could pick them up way too many times :D I really wanted to play this game more but gameplay was just a bit too difficult. I think with some difficulty adjustment this could be a very fun game!

@elmos-minion @defilerzero thank you for your feedback <3

@nyxkn thank you for your feedback. Not an easy one, indeed! But that's intended (besides frustrating with dashing at the beginning, that's not intended)

Small advice - you can dash through turrets :)

The art is incredible! Even the UI looks amazing. This is a really cool and nicely polished twist on snake. I'm impressed by how much you packed into this, the variety of blocks is great! I could see myself coming back to play this one some more later.

@tetrapteryx thanks! Great to know you liked game so much!

Oh man, I had a lot of fun with this. I feel like it might make it a little more forgiving if the weak points were one square further out from the pyramid. I kept dying immediately because the controls were a bit tight. I only got to the second stage, but I'm curious to know how many stages there are so I'm definitely gonna come back to this one. Also, I found it interesting that you can replace the head of the snake instead of the tail. I'm not sure if that was intentional or not, but that feels like an overall win because it allows you to come back if you're stuck with nothing but dead weight.

Actually, yeah, that must've been intentional, since you lose the end of the snake. It wouldn't make sense to gain one then immediately lose it. I really do need to have another go at this. I think it didn't fully sink in on the first try. :sweat_smile:

Update: I've got the hang of it now. I've found a good strategy of tightly circling the base. It's gotten me to stage 4 pretty quickly.

@sliphtrex thank you! Drop a comment if you dont get over the last one and I tell you how much of them :)

Hmmm.. We dont know how to replace the head instead of tail. What do you mean?

UPD: Oh I see. Yes. That's the whole idea ;)

Congrats!

Great twist on the snake game, very fun to play with a lovely music. Different block make it always an interesting challange!

@kuboxxxxx thank you for feedback :)

@yogurtthehorse If you run head first into a block it will attach it to the front of the chain instead of the back. I guess, it's not really replacing so much as just adding on. I thought at first that your power-ups were dependent on which block was in front because I started with a speed block then slowed down with a slime block. Then I realized if I collect more speed blocks I go even faster. I didn't realize it was stacking.

@sliphtrex yeah, that's all intended :)

Definitely top-tier entry. The design of the main mechanics is amazing. Knowing that every decision has its pros and cons really make this game strategic.

When I got a slime block, I then ran towards the corner of the map dropping the slime block there. The slime then became some kind of backup blocks since they kept duplicating. Also attaching slime blocks made it easier to shoot during the last phase.

By the way I found a way to turn around for 180 degrees directly with dashing. When I was heading left, I pressed Z and rapidly press up then right during a short period of time, I turned to right directly. I wonder if it's intended though.

Robo Conga what is not to love - great entry!

Movement around the pyramid was a little frustrating at times but the combos are really interesting!

@moebiusmeow hey! Thank you for such detailed feedback :3

Actually you can turn around without dash by pressing very fast some 90 degree direction and than immidiantly 180 :)

@phillip-scott thank you for playing!

The game is pretty good, but gets frustrating after a while. There many small things that build up to an unpleasant experience. Like how the camera doesn't move well with the player, so you only get to see a small part of where you going ( and if there are any blocks laying there). The game is also very punishing by being game over after hitting a wall. Especially considering that the main target, the pyramid, is also a wall. The enemies move, so it's hard to hit them. The fact that the wall on the left is on the same height as the pyramid's target makes it also difficult to hit it. I've played for like 15 minutes but never was not able to beat it unfortunately. The music is nice but doesn't really fit the game. What I do like is the art style. It's cute and simple. The colors are nice. I feel like you have a solid game here apart from some these small nuisances.

Love the graphics, good job.

I like it! The music and mechanics of the snake are suggestive of the Lambada theme. Just creepy how scared the loud sound of the collision when you pick up a lot of parts. But I'll be happy to come back to play again!

The art was really nice, particularly for this kind of game. Everything was really easy to read. The gameplay was really satisfying for the most part, though I feel like I hit some edge cases where turning + dashing didn't let me actually dash. I really liked the hecticness of killing the pyramid! The running around finding new pieces was a bit boring, particularly without the speed booster. Very good overall!

I tried hard and this is the what I can get！good game！（rate back？）


super cute for the snake game!

I'm really sorry I didn't get to play this more on stream and do it justice, but damn this game is amazing! Awesome art, really innovative game design and an overall great twist on a classic game! It's already super polished and fun, it's amazing this was made during a jam. Amazing work!