Color Roller
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Controls: [UP] to jump, [SPACEBAR] to change color
A little game created together with Romanovg185 in 9 hours for Trijam: The Ultimate Mega Extreme edition, the very first game jam for the both of us.
This was also the first time we have used Godot (bless tutorials). For the art, Aseprite was used. For the audio, we have used BeepBox and Bfxr. All assets, except for (all but 1 of the) fonts, were made by us within the allocated 9 hours.
=== THEMES ===
1) The End is Near
2) Mistakes Were Made
3) +1
=== THE LORE ===
(a very true story)
On a sunny day, Mr. Blob decided to go hiking in the mountains to meet up with his good ol' friend Santa, when he suddenly slipped. Mistakes were made! Without any thumbs or limbs, how could Mr. Blob possibly keep himself from tumbling all the way down!? Along the way down, the many friends of Mr. Blob have left bars of +1, a popular snack in the mountains, of which there are two versions! If Mr. Blob eats it while he is the came color as the snack, it will replenish his energy. Otherwise... The end is nearer than you think! Luckily, Mr. Blob is an expert color-shifter, but beware! Shifting colors costs energy!
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"But black and/or white are no colors!"
Here are some things to google: Vantablack and subtractive vs additive color theory (whether they are colors or not is inconsistent over different color systems)
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I hope you find it helpful in some capacity, and I hope to see you continue to develop new games here on itch! :D
This was a fantastic first outing! Keep it up!
Thank you so so much for taking the time to review our little game as extensively as you did! It's very much appreciated by the both of us :D
We are both really glad to see you like our game, and the graphics especially! The snow is made of actual particles and the snowy mountain is a tiled texture that is very simply made by drawing a (dithered) gradient in Aseprite and (ab)using the Jumble tool to make it all swirly, and chipping away some pixels at the surface for the bumpy look.
I do agree that the audio is better off when it's not panned so harshly, and it was actually an accident! We used AudioStreamPlayer2D (in Godot) instead of a regular AudioStreamPlayer, because my eyes skipped over the existence of the AudioSteamPlayer node and somehow thought AudioStreamPlayer2D was the usual choice for 2D games. Glad you pointed it out though, so now know the difference between the two!
The idea of adding the ability to skip the tutorial, and idea to structure the tutorial in such a way that the player cannot pass the tutorial without switching colors, are both really good suggestions! And so is having the game reward the player based on the difficulty that the RNG presents, though I'm not sure if we would want to keep the random aspect of it at all, or just have a couple of pre-designed sequences of obstacles (that might be in a random sequence themselves) and rely on speeding up the game and introducing different (more difficult) obstacle sequences for increasing difficulty - if we ever are to continue working on this game, that is! The adaptive audio suggestion would be a really nice addition and very fitting for when the whole game speeds up.
Allowing different input schemes is definitely a good point - just makes it playable for a wider audience and that's always good. I never knew there were so many input schemes to keep in mind, and it never crossed my mind that people on a Dvorak keyboard would use different keys to play games, while it makes so much sense! (I also just found out you can edit input maps in Godot. Looks super handy!)
I probably skipped over some of your points (cause there's so many!!), but I definitely learned a lot from your review, both about game design choices as well as some Godot features by giving me the drive to actually look them up.
I can't speak for Romano cause he is currently in a very busy period of his life, but I will definitely keep making games (recently started on a bigger, more long-term project!) and participating in game jams!
p.s. Romano is too shy to write a reply, but I know he very much appreciated your thorough review!We're not sure if we will continue working on this game, but if we do, this itch.io page will most definitely get a makeover. If not, I'll be sure to keep it in mind for any future games!
Thank you! :D
You're welcome! Thank you for putting this game out there! :D
I'm so glad! And yeah that's really awesome! The graphics were done very well.
And that's so interesting about the AudioStreamPlayer2D function! But that makes total sense, those kind of things happen haha!
I'm really glad, that's all I could hope for ^-^
I look forward to seeing what else you do! Best of luck and Cheers,
-Gunnar Clovis
Great job with this! Very playable, really nice minimalist art style with lovely monochrome color palette, solid music and gameplay, playable in-browser, restart and tutorial built-in---this does pretty much everything right! For a first game, this is a knockout. Fantastic work.
There are few things to truly improve with this game, which again is very impressive for a first outing. Consider sprucing up the itch.io page, however. If you press "Edit theme" button in the upper-left corner, you can change the color palette and fonts of your game page, and upload screenshots and custom background art, etc. for the page!
Wonderful work, I hope you both continue making games!