Super Jelly Blaster by adcrusher

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made by adcrusher for LD35 (COMPO)
Protect your Jelly friends in SUPER JELLY BLASTER!

Play through masterfully crafted levels!

Become fully immersed in a fully open ended world!

Experience heart wrenching storytelling!

Get some tissues ready because there won't be a dry eye in the house when you're through with SUPER JELLY BLASTER!


Controls:
Arrow keys to move cursor

Hold x to pick up and move a jelly block

Release X to drop a jelly block

Coded in GameMaker
Artwork made with GraphicsGale
Music made with Milkytracker
Sound effects made with SFXR


Have fun! :D

Ratings

Coolness 63% 3
Overall 3.76 99
Audio 3.70 72
Fun 3.51 203
Graphics 4.10 62
Humor 3.06 169
Innovation 3.51 232
Mood 3.43 155
Theme 2.85 766

Feedback

Jordan
18. Apr 2016 · 03:40 UTC
Love the unique time based mechanic. Bit hard and I didn't see how it fit into the theme, though.
urfbound
18. Apr 2016 · 03:43 UTC
One of the funnest LD games I've played! The graphics are stellar from the cursor right down to the font; I love the retro arcade vibe. The instructions are really helpful and capture that old-school arcade vibe as well. The gameplay itself is original and fun. It has a couple of cool touches that I like, for example the fact that you can't drag a jelly over an existing one, and that you can continue from the same level you lost on. The music is great to boot. If there was one thing I would change, it would be to add some features that make it conform to the theme a little better. I get that it would take more time, but one idea I had would be to maybe make it so that combining groups of jellies would make them into new, larger jellies with different properties. Maybe half metal and half regular makes wooden jellies, which can take one hit and then turn into regular ones again. Overall a rockin' game! I had a blast playing it. What a great job for a two-day submission! Thanks for sending it in, hope you do great in the compo :D
brinkhousegames
18. Apr 2016 · 04:25 UTC
Pretty damn hard, but beautiful aesthetics and sound. Excellent work!
brinkhousegames
18. Apr 2016 · 04:25 UTC
Pretty damn hard, but beautiful aesthetics and sound. Excellent work!

Would love your thoughts on my game -- Tito's Revenge
http://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-35/?action=preview&uid=65699
ProjectX593
18. Apr 2016 · 04:36 UTC
Quite difficult, nice pixel art!
Chaserbrown
18. Apr 2016 · 04:37 UTC
I really loved this one! The graphics and sounds were clean! The only problem was that it barely fit the theme...
darksshades
18. Apr 2016 · 04:37 UTC
Very complete and good looking game. The mechanics is very well made.
Might be nice to have an indicator of how much time you got left.
torcado
18. Apr 2016 · 04:40 UTC
really interesting! Nice take on the theme too, shifting shapes... heh
but yeah the art and music are amazing!
nice job!
Roan Contreras
18. Apr 2016 · 05:09 UTC
I've had so much fun on playing this game, really challenging gameplay with awesome retro graphics. Really fits well with the theme. Thumbs up on this!
iSasFTW
18. Apr 2016 · 12:10 UTC
Super hard and addictive. It's so much fun though. I love the sound and graphics, and it's a really cool game. Too bad it isn't really related to the theme (Unless there's something more to it in the later stages) but if you had that mechanic (at least in the beginning if there is one) it would have been phenomenal! Overall, a great game!
retrogradeorbit
18. Apr 2016 · 14:14 UTC
Fantastic. Good lateral use of theme. Polished and playable. Is a little bit difficult.
JoeManaco
19. Apr 2016 · 19:56 UTC
Cool game mechanic. Solid puzzler and great graphics ;)
nextreality
20. Apr 2016 · 04:46 UTC
I liked the gameplay (though it was pretty hard), and the graphics were pretty nice, overall pretty good, maybe give a little more time to move those little jellies!
starpixie
20. Apr 2016 · 04:49 UTC
Well polished game, but all the fast arrow pressing let me kinda cold. Maybe with a limited amount of moves?
Thought Reactor
20. Apr 2016 · 04:50 UTC
Loved the sounds and graphics. Mouse control might have made it a little bit easier to play, but I enjoyed it.
Tacohej
20. Apr 2016 · 05:16 UTC
Love everything about visuals and audio. The problem I had with this game is the gamplay. It's all about solving puzzles fast, but since it basically impossible to make a level on the first try, it loses the whole puzzle aspect and suddenly your just a block trying to move around as fast as you can. Instead of having you play enough times to memorize all the moves, you could actually get a chance solving the puzzle by playing the level.

Anyway, that's just a opinion. Good luck!
t4u
20. Apr 2016 · 09:12 UTC
Liked the graphic. Like the idea but is too strongly based on reflex and not enough on puzzle.
avinashd
20. Apr 2016 · 21:27 UTC
A lot of the games I really loved were the simple ones, including this one :)
Ellian
21. Apr 2016 · 00:27 UTC
I had fun playing this, and the graphics are great. Kind of slow, but apparently bug free and easy to control.
Solid entry!
jakass
22. Apr 2016 · 17:05 UTC
Great Idea!!!
celmore1001
22. Apr 2016 · 17:33 UTC
Absolutely one of the best games I've played.
Cerberus
24. Apr 2016 · 06:08 UTC
i loved your game. the controls were smooth, the gameplay and mechanics where the best. i had a lot of fun playing it. superb work!
Freank
26. Apr 2016 · 08:44 UTC
Hi, nice game ! We're realizing a video with several games of the Ludum Dare #35.
Can you add your game on indiexpo.net ? (it's free)
So we can include also your game in the video ;)
p.s. write #LDJAM in the game's description
🎤 adcrusher
26. Apr 2016 · 12:04 UTC
Sure! I have uploaded the game here:
http://www.indiexpo.net/en/games/super-jelly-blaster
Thanks :D
gelisam
06. May 2016 · 03:03 UTC
The sound is great, except there's one sound between levels which was sometimes annoyingly loud, so I had to turn it off :(
emmelineprufrock
10. May 2016 · 00:07 UTC
Pretty difficult, but I liked the look and feel of it.
OnlySlightly
10. May 2016 · 00:07 UTC
Super polished! It felt like a legit game for the super nintendo. Great concept and very challenging. Great job!