The Game

Pica.

Very beautiful please come to brazil

muito bonito

Very cute graphics, the single-button control scheme was a bit weird to get used to at first, but ended up feeling fun & challenging

Checkpoints in the very start do feel a bit too sparse, there's a stretch of 3 rooms where spikes start getting introduced that I got stuck on for quite a while

You guys should absolutely publish this as a mobile game. The control scheme is perfect for it. The art and animations were 10/10, I especially liked the particle effect when you jump, it just was so well animated.

My only bit of feedback is that these particular sorts of wall jumps with spikes on the walls felt unfairly hard compared to the much better feeling platforming in the rest of the levels. Lining up the jump height perfectly with them was more trial and error than anything.


Overall an excellent concept and execution I would love to see turned into a full game on mobile.

This game felt really good to play. Great work team!

@bobbie Thanks for the feedbacks! For sure we need to add more checkpoints so people can enjoy it more!

@pianoman373 Got it! It's always hard to level design perfectly within this timeframe, but thanks for your feedback! We need to make it more accessible and fun!

@guigagliardo @tanekoshima @alfredo-cossetin-neto and @tim-sims Thanks for the compliments! 💚

Amazing! obviously leap day inspired hehe. but still, super nice execution and the artstyle is gorgeous! great job!

Excelent game.. Had an amazing time with it! :smile: Good job!

Amazing game! So well executed and the art and music are both beautiful. The only think I'd want is a faster respawn or a way to skip the animation but that's just cause I died way too much haha. Took about 20 minutes but I got their in the end though :) Well done on the game

Really well-polished experience. A faster respawn would just complete this. :)

I played it for almost 20 minutes. The game is very polished, even the menu. The music never gets annoying either.

Had so much fun playing this. Took me 50+ deaths to get to the end and enjoyed all of them! The music and art were fantastic.

Great lil game! Simple but good art, music and controls. It is not as hard as super meat boy, which this game reminds me of. It would be great to have more of delivery in it's gameplay, other than that well done!

I really enjoyed this game, there is a lot of potential here! the color palette is really nice i love it <3

This is fluid ! And this is hard, oh my..

Animation is perfect, it's good looking and the music fit the mood.

Good work !

@kabura Yeah! We also had Super Meat Boy as an inspiration xD

@43sam @shawn-beck Thanks for the feedbacks! In the future we will certainly adjust the respawn time!

@ruslana Thanks! And yes, we really should have been more careful with the theme.

@tomeyro @mpk90 @jimmymcginger @bezedh @cepeka Thanks for the feedbacks ❤

Okay but what the heck, why does this game look so good? This pixel art style is adorable, and I am once again reminded that the art industry is not all about making the picture look as gloomy and realistic as you can (sob sob)

Also the spikes obliterated me so many times I nearly cried.
Jk jk, I blame my stiff fingers for at least half of my stupid blunders, and my general air-headedness for the rest of them.

Really good, excellent graphics and really smooth movements. Something about it just made me want to keep going!

I was having a ton of fun with this! Love the style, love the music..its a big challenging for someone like myself who doesnt game too much, but everything was super well done. The cute beat up box life logo on the side was superb too.

As a critique:

The checkpoints REALLY make a difference in the fun of the game. I'd make them a bit more obvious, less off to the side and just, right smack dab there for the player to hit. I missed the first one a few times in my peripheral vision thinking it was a secret wall...probably just my dumb fault, but once I started finding them the game really opens up its level of enjoyment and the challenges become more strategic and fun rather than 'man...i gotta go through all these all over again...'

Played about 30 minutes solid of it before putting it down.

I loved the graphics and audio, and the programming is rather clean as well

However, I think the level design needs to be more forgiving. This feels like the final level of a much longer game. For this I'd take the Super Metroid approach of "if I can't defeat the boss without getting hit once, it's too hard." As a developer, if you can't beat this entire game without failing once (not literally, but essentially,) it's too hard. This game also frontloads the difficulty without enough time to get used to it. A adjustable first jump could also really help, having you high jump all the time works for a mobile game but not in this context where we do have adjustable buttons.

Awesome work, though, this is very charming!

from UI to audio to graphics to animation, everything is polished perfectly. I just wish when I died it put me back in a little faster

This is amazing---super polished and very fun. I managed to get all the papers without dying after playing for a while. This could be an awesome mobile game, maybe with some random generation. Great work :)

Fun, simple, and very polished. Outstanding entry.

This is simply a five star game, not much more to say. I love how there are no directional inputs.

i love the sweet and juicy visual style, the level designs are fun and the boss looks angry

guys... I GOT FIRE for being a brainless... useless box *starts crying* good thing I drank the bosses DECAF COFFEE

Enjoyed the tight platforming and clean pixel art with nice animations It's not an easy game for sure, the game throws you right in. Please disable asking for a price at itch.io, that's pretty lame.

Insane polish on this game! a little bit on the harder side about gameplay,i feel like, the hardest jumps are those that you cannot do trial and error, so a little limited time rewind feature can help to improve and learn the jumps! but nonethless a great entry!

Very polished and enjoyable game! I lose many times after first checkpoint but it was worth it! Thank you!

Great game! Love it! 54 deaths, not much to say!

Very cool! Art, animations, music and sfx work perfectly together, controls feel very responsive, and overall game has a great vibe. My only wish was for guy to go backwords (and not forwards) after sliding, but even with that it was a nice playthrough!

Smashing graphics, delicious music and SFX (what's this smooth jazz?) and challenging gameplay. Everything a game should have.
I saved it in my browser because I want to play more.

Congratulations on the excellent work.

Great game Cute art and animations ! Good luck

Ok, it's great. Everything fits just right. As for me - the last part was a bit too long, almost ragequited, but then I finally did it. Clever idea to make savezones with printer. Good job!

@shess Hahaha that's really sweet! Thanks for all the compliments and for sure those spikes hurt my soul

@skoobasart We thank you for your feedback and we are working on those checkpoints to make it a more fun experience!

@squidly It was hard to test everything within 72 hours but now that we have a lot of feedbacks, we are working on a better level design! And for the adjustable jump, I agree that it should feel better on pc but we chose to go with this jump just to make the level design easier since it's always the same height. But for sure we can make this a lot better, thanks!

@nuin Thank you! The audio people thanks for mentioning them haha As for the feedback of a faster respawn we are working on it!

@andreadbx First of all thanks for the feedback, we worked hard on that polish! We are working on adding more checkpoints so you can retry the levels as much as you want!

@cmdpancakes @python-b5 @dongle @nhcarter123 @agudar @rookrules @bauke-regnerus @katamary @pauljs @jul-li @euler-moises @pixelce Thanks for the feedback! I'm glad you enjoyed it. Much love from the team!

@bauke-regnerus that's an itchio default option that we forgot to change, but we are already on it! Thanks for letting us know!

@amolker oooooh I struggled a lot with this part too! We are working on add a new checkpoint in this area to make it less frustrating! We're really glad you enjoyed the game though!

What the hell... This is so good!

The pixel art is fantastic, the game feels so good and snappy, the sound design is spot on, the music production is great. I have not critique other than the game gets pretty hard. I got to the third checkpoint without too much difficulty but I couldn't get to the next one before being beaten by the game :sweat_smile:

Oh my... So much polish already!
Just needs a little smoother difficulty curve, more levels and you are up for a commercial release

I loved this one! Lots of ***JUICE***. The character also kinda looks like Balrog from Cave Story XD

loved the game. well polished and challenging. i really like the checkpoints and how you reduced the volume like you are in an elevator. well done

Bom para um caralho em
(Linda demais a arte <3)

the sounds are amazing and the art is so well done and polished! 😭 (eu amei que o save é na salinha de xerox)

This is actually very fun! It has the perfect amount of juice to make it super addicting. The audio is extremely good and the graphics are very cute. You could actually release this and nobody would know that it was made in 72 hours!

Loved it!

Cute game, just adored the graphics. Frenetic music to go along with the desperate button-mashing. Excellent work!

The cleanest game I've played in the jam so far. I loved the graphics and the UI is the juiciest I've seen in a while. Sadly I didn't get a very good time since I died often because of some tricky parts, but I sure had fun! Would be perfect as a mobile game!

Great game, cute art, great music loop, everything looks soooo polished... would love to have it on mobile. However, I suck at it hahaha 

@maimai Yoooo hahaha for a second you had me with the "what the hell" line, I thought you were about to trash the game. But thank you so much for the feedback and love, we for sure need to keep working on the difficulty curve!

@jp-design All of our team put a lot of effort in making it as clean as possible! And we are thinking about moving forward with this haha

@stevie257 Oooh you're 100% right, forgot about the cute Balrog, box characters > round characters

@paulhocker Thank you!! For sure the reduced space also helps with the level design haha

@pedro-medeiros Iiih ala quem apareceu hahaha Obrigado Pedro! Inclusive teu jogo tá muito bom também :blush:

@isadora Aaaaah muito obrigado!! Os sons foram todos feitos pela @daniserranu

@jatinstic-gaming Wow this means a lot to our team! Thank you!

@digital-bacon Btw, love your name haha Thank you!

@andrewpixel Aw that's really sweet! For sure our programmer @luisoliveira worked really hard for all that juice

@rhewid Oh I suck at it too, at least the character looks cute hahaha Thanks for the feedback!! :star2:

Wow what a great entry, with an outstanding level of polish. Even the menus are fun ^^
The art is super good and it's nice to see a Game Maker game doing so great!
The game is a bit hard even though it feels fair. I must admit I would have liked a faster respawn time because it's sometimes frustrating to die just one jump after the checkpoint and take a whole 10 seconds to reach the exact same point.
But I'm just nitpicking, I'm overall really impressed by the quality of the game, great job!

Super polished platformer!! Loved the art style, controls feel great, had a lot of fun!!!!

loved the game! great entry! I can't believe such polished games can be made in this jam and I am greatly thankful for it! looking forward for a speedrun build and even more levels maybe??

one of those games that makes you go "why has no one done this yet", good shit

5/5 amazing game!! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

10/10 game!

Here's my 0 death run :smile:

https://youtu.be/RkpaFqbcLZQ

Also PLEASE add a restart button, you always have to alt+f4 & go to fullscreen everytime you want to reset.

such a good game, probably the most polished entry ive seen

@toinef Thanks for the feedback!! We are working on a more speedrun approach, so faster respawn is a must! And for sure Game Maker deserves more haha

@resacagames Aw thank you!

@potkirland Our whole team saw your stream and it was amazing seeing how you were enjoying the game! Thanks for that and we are working on making it better!

@slimetrash Hahaha for sure there are tons of games like that, but I'm glad you enjoyed it! We are working on making it more unique.

@kankje 5/5 comment! Thanks haha

@markais Holy shit, loved the thumbnail hahhahaha And you really rock, I hope you're enjoying the game as much as we are! And about the restart button, we are working on it asap. Thanks for playing and for the video, we always love those! :heart:

@fidrik Ooh Thank you, we like it juicy and polished :sunglasses:

the core gameplay is so simple but the sheer amount of polish in this game makes it incredibly addictive and nice to play, good job!

This was brutal for me but absolutely fun and adorable. Awesome music, really clean design. A nice take on platforming with the constant movement, really helps push the pace. Great Job!

Simple mechanic and fun!

It's crazy how much polish and love you managed to pour into this! Great job!

Very fun game. Everything looked so polished too. great job.

The game is really fun and the art it's amazing, congratulations!

@bodhiagora Hahaha at least you managed to finish the game! Thanks for sending a screenshot of your time! We can't wait to add a leaderboard soon :heart:

@andrground @zhiteng-chen @slimefriend @kleinzach and @nicasiock Ooooh thanks everyone!!

Very very polished!

The graphics are super nice!

I love the graphics and sound in this game. The controls are so simple, requiring only one button to jump. The animation is also great.
Overall, it's a very cool game!

I really liked the style, gameplay, music and... I really liked it overall! This is more than a jam game. Good job!

Damn! I managed to make a 13 min run and was feeling proud. But the game moved to the main menu as I was readying to get a screen...

Anyway, absolutely ADORABLE graphics. It is really pretty.

Song is very nice. And the sound effects are on point.

I just wish there was a way to go back and get some papers. I left 2 behind, right before the last checkpoint, that was mortifying.

It's an absolute masochist gem! Congratulations people!

Really funny, I like specially the "reverse lifes" system and count your fails better than kill you.

Have a lot of good things, music, art, game design... But, for me, the theme sadly is not in the game or not at the level of the other things in the game.

in spite of everything, it's a good game, incredibly polished and fun.

Congratulations!

Amazing game, I really enjoyed it. Very nice game idea. Great work!

Great pixel art, I especially liked the facial expression at the end of the game xD


Took a bit too many attempts to get even this, maybe I'll try to do a deathless run some day :smile: This was insanely fun, good job!

VERY nice game guys, had a lot of fun playing!


Tons of polish on this one! feels really great to play, and easy to get lost in the gameplay loop. Really nice experience all around!


Rarely do I play jam games for *this* long while being dialed in the entire time.

Y'all did a *really* solid job here! The mechanics are simple, but they are stretched to their limits and explored thoroughly with the level design, which is a choice that I think takes a lot of restraint and know-how in order to do right.

The audio was also excellent, with a simultaneously relaxing and upbeat jazz tune carrying you the entire way. The sound effects were also nice and crunchy to fit the visuals nicely.

And speaking of visuals, what you've done here meets the same high bar as everything else. The animation of the box boi (and the boss at the end), as well as the assets for the backgrounds, save rooms, etc. are all super polished and clean while maintaining a distinct and consistent style.

In my opinion, this is a home run of a jam entry. Some might be a bit off-put by the demanding difficulty, but fortunately for me that kinda stuff is right up my alley. :) Excellent excellent job with this one, y'all!

Simply amazing! Loved the graphics and audio, gameplay is smooth as well. I found the theme is lacking but overall this is a solid entry, very polished and fun! Best I've played so far.

incredible execution on all fronts. great work!

5/5 polished game! Especially the audio & art! It's superb!

What a super fun platformer, it feels super polished, from the art to the sound desing and the controls. The only thing I would complain about maybe is the size of the spike hitboxes, they did feel a bit punishing at times. All in all a super solid entry, well done!


Neat runner with nice animations, graphics and sounds. Gameplay is pretty mobiley (well, it's a runner), although it was still fun to play on PC.

Nice entry, although the game really lacks Jump Buffering – it's a must for such platformers, and the controls feel frustraiting at times, when you pressed the button right before you land, but the character didn't jump. It's very easy to implement, so I don't think it's gonna be a problem if you continue the development. I'd also polish wall sliding sound closer to what's happening on the screen (at first sliding is very slow, so the sound should be really quite and build up with the speed of sliding down).

I think it can become a nice little mobile game, good job!

Beat this game with great pleasure.
Graphics, music and sounds, level design, difficulty curve, everything is at a truly high level. The controls are a real pleasure. Definitely one of my favorites for this LD.

PS: I would like to scold this game a little so as not to cover it with flattery, but I just could not find why, maybe some times spikes killed me not fully touching, so i don't really understand the MC's hitbox.

I really like this game. The unified pixel art style and the contrasting colors are amazing. The game's controls also feel very good!! I'm going to play it some more...

As was already said - incredibly polished game, well done! Although I'm really bad at it)
Also I'll note how good and satisfying the main menu buttons sounds are XD

So cool! The game is just too much fun. Simple controls but it can be quite challenging. Awesome entry, congrats :)

Awesome game, very polished. Played it on stream: https://www.twitch.tv/ildfuglen

Very good game. Nice jazz music in the background and beautiful pixel art. True, at one moment I almost broke the keyboard, but these are already my problems)

Really satisfying sound design. I loved the soundtrack too. Gameplay was very hard and punishing. I feel like that's what you were going for though, with the meatboy vibes. Personally, I would've liked the spike hit box to be a hair smaller, but maybe that's not the kind of game you set out to make. All in all, my nitpicks are just preferences. The game was really good and I had a lot of fun! Great work

Oh and I got 77 papers. I guess I cropped that out by accident


You have a great game! It was such fun. Your physics are phenomenal!!

Amazing game! Could definitely be ported to mobile!

This game kept me playing for while, the gameplay is engaging and reminded me of Leap Day. My game also uses this “you control box” concept, so it was fun seeing it used in a different way. I loved the visuals, the music and sound design are great and fit the game perfectly. Congrats to the team!

Really polished wow! Feels like a retail game, plays so well. Great job!

Amazing take on the genre! Felt extremely polished. Great work using the art to match the theme, a joy to play!

BR <3

Very polished game, but I got stuck on a spike section. After retrying for a couple of minutes, I had to put it down. Definitely had a lot of potential though. Very simple mechanic, but having the left/right control taken away presented an interesting challenge. It almost felt like someone else was playing the left/right controls while I'm playing the jump button.

A suggestion I'd have is to do away with physical checkpoints, make them automatic, and also make them more frequent. The problem is that taking away the left/right controls makes climbing back up previous sections quite slow, whereas in a traditional platformer you'd be able to take the optimal route every time since you have full control over the character movement.

A really great entry ! Instant fun, gorgeous pixel art and animation, groovy music, perfect arcade SFX, Challenging gameplay !

I had not the time to screen my end score but i have my chrono just before the outro!

I don't even know where to start, this entry was possibly the most polished entry I've seen yet. 5/5 on all categories without question.

Absolutely fantastic.

Wow that's amazing, best game I've played so far in this LD. I just finished it and I just wanna play again. Congrats!
EDIT: new highscore:

Thanks for submitting your game to stream, but sorry my frustration tolerance is so low... I could only wish for options to save more frequently, as the checkpoints were super unforgiving with their separation. If you'd like, you can watch the stream's vod here;

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1813689516

Oh my god! So cool game! There is not too much delivery stuff in gameplay, but in narrative and story there is some. And also I saw already a several games with this mechanics, so it's not a unique concept. But it's very high quality polish to this type of gameplay!

The controls, movement, gameplay so satisfying and addictive, I can't stop playing xD
I got stucked at the end, it was quite hard and half of my time I just tried to reach to final :)
There is some problems with hit boxes, because I can't properly understand the hit box of player character.

I am also not fun of speedrun games, and there was a FOMO effect when I wanted to collect all of the pages, and it was annoying to miss something :(

Music, Sounds, Graphics, Effects - matched very well and it's very pleasant.

But despite to all negative aspects, **very strong game so far!** You guys did a really **great work!** Especially thank you to your game and level designers, so smart guys!


P.S. There is my first and only attempt :) (first and last i guess? xD )


Pixelart is amazing! Audio is amazing, 99,999/10.

Thank you so much for dropping by My stream! I really enjoyed the game :)

Thanks for submitting your game on the stream!
Here’s the stream if you wanted to re-watch initial thoughts (timestamps in the description to jump to your game!) [youtube link](youtu.be/jljB3XXZHcg)

Beautiful game, love what you did with just one input, this would work perfectly as a mobile game. Great graphics, music, level design, everything is spot on. Great job!
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The HTML port didn't run for me so I used the desktop version. It was really cute and fun! I adore the pixel art and thought the ending was funny!

This game makes me so tense, mainly because I can't die if I want a good time. Visuals and audio are fantastic, and the gameplay feels very polished. Great job!


I love it! Easily some of the most fun I've had with any LD game this jam. The graphics are great, the sound is great, the single-input gameplay is incredibly fun yet challenging, but didn't feel unfair at all with the checkpoint system. The difficulty progression was also well-made. Fantastic work!

What a beautiful, smooth game! Lots of fun touches like the copier respawn point, and a gratuitous number of frames for the boss's animation. Love an LD game with a bit of challenge. Well done, all!

Nice game! I really liked the artstyle and the platforming feels very nice with the double jump.

The polish and quality of this game is surreal on every level. The music and sfx are phenomenal. I really like how the bg music gets muffled in the safe rooms and other little details like that.
Great job!

Brilliant entry had so much fun, wouldn't change a thing.

Hey! @daniserranu @luisoliveira @thameuszin @redfellow and @thomaspixelart, Your game has been picked to be played at the 4th Ludum Dare Score Chasers Tournament! Which takes place this saturday May 13th at 14:00 UTC. We would like to request some changes to your game if possible, but if not your game will still be played at the tournament!

Requests:
- A means to quickly reset the level for a fresh speedrun - 'Ctrl+r' for example
- Also, when you finish and restart the music stops, we'd like it to keep playing

Thanks!
If you`d like more information feel free to join our discord server with the following link: https://discord.gg/925KmX8bam


I was made aware that I got the WR during the Score Chasers Tournament.
So here it is :smile:


This game is too good for a jam game. Nothing stands out as sub-par in it. My only gripe is that it makes me realize I suck at games :D.

This is so cool! Reminds me of the 2010's nitrome games :D

Fantastically polished. Audio was sweet and the checkpoints were nicely spaced but my limited skill caused me to early out.

incredibly fun and polished, i loved watching it on stream, i loved it even more when i played it! i can definitely see why it was on the score chasers tournament because it has so much potential, and it's very addictive! you could add 100 more levels i'll play them :D

unfortunately i forgot to screen my result, it was something like 20 minutes, 50 death and almost all the files but now i want to spend all my life improving my score

There are tons and tons of cool messages here, so we'd like to say: Thank you, thanks for playing our game!

You got an amazing amount of mileage out of one input key!
I finally beat the game after 17 minutes, wishing multiple times for a couple of extra save points, but I made it work.
This is a fantastic "rage into 'one more try' until I realise it's 4 AM and I haven't eaten all day" kinda game. Great work!

Daaamn those spikes haha. Really fun game, congrats to the time ! Sound fx on the jumping is not annoying at all, and focusing on the jumping really makes it very simple to pick up (but definitely not to finish)