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Boku no Tentacle by Zed

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made by Zed for LD29 (COMPO)
Man, this one was a stretch.

Enjoy a jetpack-y exploration-y atmospheric-y comedy romp through three (count 'em) levels of... tentacles. It's a bit like the Dam level from TMNT on the NES, except as a whole game.

Instructions, as per usual, are included within the game, except that you can press 'W' on the title screen to switch out of Full Screen to Windowed mode, if you like.

Ideally, I'd like you to play it in full screen wearing headphones, but I can't force you to. Hopefully, I CAN force you to at least turn your sound up, or else you'll miss ALL of the plot, and that's really the most important part.

Gamejolt is now back up, so it's hosted there. Both downloadable and quick play versions are available. It's just too big for me to make a Flash version, I'm sorry.

If you're on Mac or Linux, I can't personally vouch for this, but I've been TOLD most of my games usually run just fine in WINE, so... I dunno, maybe do that?
Windows http://gamejolt.com/games/platformer/boku-no-tentacle/25734/
Source https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0dbphIuRsVnMEozX0pXWlZoZ0k/edit?usp=sharing
Original URL https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-29/?action=preview&uid=4687

Ratings

Coolness 46% 1460
Overall 3.63 176
Audio 3.65 99
Fun 3.48 213
Graphics 3.59 302
Humor 4.28 7
Innovation 2.73 797
Mood 3.65 139
Theme 3.69 190

Feedback

Halbernacht
28. Apr 2014 路 09:29 UTC
Hey man, you might want to fix your game link. I tried to load it and I only got a dead link.
馃帳 Zed
28. Apr 2014 路 11:08 UTC
NO idea what happened there. I temporarily uploaded to Dropbox because Gamejolt was down at the time of submission. Went to bed, woke up, everything's on fire. Now it's over on Gamejolt, hopefully all is well.
Pete_H
28. Apr 2014 路 15:18 UTC
Great game, loved the commentary :)
Pietro Ferrantelli
28. Apr 2014 路 15:44 UTC
Great mood thanks to the good gameplay and the cool graphics. Congratulations !
Hyoga-3D
28. Apr 2014 路 15:48 UTC
mood and graphics are very great!
ezombort
28. Apr 2014 路 15:49 UTC
Nice sound and gfx!
Jools64
28. Apr 2014 路 15:54 UTC
I really enjoyed this. The gameplay was a little simple and a kind of frustrating because of the lack of check points but the funny dialog made it so worth playing through. Easily the funniest entry I've played yet. The graphics also had a nice asthetic to them and the audio was relaxing.

Great job!
matthias_zarzecki
28. Apr 2014 路 18:42 UTC
Awww, this is lovely!

The voice makes this, and the gameplay feels actually quite good. "Flappy-Bird-Esque" comes to mind, in a good way :P
helekopeter
29. Apr 2014 路 16:20 UTC
i found a bug when you die in level 3 the enemys dont respawn so i got stuck becus an enemy was right were i spawn
HBurd
29. Apr 2014 路 18:58 UTC
Oh god! That name!
crocantidepollo
29. Apr 2014 路 19:10 UTC
Nice!. Bonus points for having that whole nooooooooooo-fail-at-the-very-end-of-the-level factor
Tititesouris
29. Apr 2014 路 19:15 UTC
Really great game, good humour and the music with commentary puts you in a great mood. Good job!
PS: I'm French and tentacles really have nothing to do with us! xD
Ragzouken
30. Apr 2014 路 20:53 UTC
genuinely satisfying controls! the game was quite frustrating by i liked the voice overs :D
Jed T.
01. May 2014 路 13:05 UTC
This is amazing! I love atmosphere and the audio. the controls and the movement is smooth. It feels weird playing it though, the music tells me I should be relaxing but I'm under stress most of the time which is good! The game needs smaller levels (my 2 cents) Keep it up!
meszka
02. May 2014 路 17:01 UTC
Great commentary, makes you want to pass the level just to hear the next part. I also liked the background audio and general look and feel. Gameplay is very simple, but it doesn't get boring since the game is short.
allinlabs
02. May 2014 路 19:54 UTC
The gameplay is not very original but feel good and the dialogs are just brilliant (and dubbed !). Really happy I've played this.
soy_yuma
04. May 2014 路 20:43 UTC
Nice! It's almost as frustrating as mine! :-D
SnoringFrog
05. May 2014 路 05:38 UTC
I kinda felt like I was cheating as I took advantage of the fact that the bacon doesn't reset when you die to lure all of it near the spawn so I could speed past it and continue on unbothered, but other than that everything seemed spot on. Nice stuff.
MintArcade
05. May 2014 路 07:15 UTC
Interesting entry. I like the feel of it.
Mythalore
05. May 2014 路 14:58 UTC
I always really like the comment and cut scenes you put in your games and this was no exception, great if a little in need of checkpoints.
Mythalore
05. May 2014 路 14:59 UTC
*commentary
Thorig
05. May 2014 路 15:33 UTC
It seems to minimize on start-up (win7), is that a known thing? Or is it something on my end?
馃帳 Zed
05. May 2014 路 15:33 UTC
I THINK that might be your end? It was made on Windows 7 32-bit and runs okay here.
Idkfawin32
05. May 2014 路 15:38 UTC
I absolutely love the visuals on this one
Thorig
05. May 2014 路 15:53 UTC
Worked fine on my laptop, so no idea what that was about... Anyway, cool little game! Was disappoined that it was over so soon
iambored2006
05. May 2014 路 16:01 UTC
This is so funny!
I liked the gameplay very much as well, it feels really good to thrust. Indeed. Anyway, I got stuck in the ceiling a couple of times, not really sure why.
CogComp
05. May 2014 路 18:42 UTC
Well done! Relatively well balanced levels with funny dialogue. A lot more fun then some of the more "polished" games from this jam.
rojo
05. May 2014 路 22:55 UTC
Hey, not bad. I got a kick out of some of the humor. The first two levels were pretty easy, but the last one was much harder. I think the game could have used some checkpointing, and a proper level reset when you die.