PullPals by eric-lathrop

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Description
Stretch your monster, cut existing arms, or grow new ones as needed to complete each puzzling level.
Controls
Mouse or touch (Play in your browser on Mac, Linux or Windows! Mobile coming soon)
Team
Two Scoop Games
Featuring guest musician Jake Mercer and logo design by Cara Bezuska
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Screenshots

| HTML5 (web) | https://two-scoop-games.itch.io/pullpals |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/40/pullpals |
Ratings
| Overall | 57th | 4.063⭐ | 42🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 35th | 4.075⭐ | 42🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 109th | 3.85⭐ | 42🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 1020th | 2.718⭐ | 41🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 214th | 4.113⭐ | 42🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 94th | 3.925⭐ | 42🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 133th | 3.803⭐ | 40🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 390th | 3.513⭐ | 41🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 32🗳️ | 26🗨️ |
Stellar job. :baby::baby::baby::baby::baby:
We have been tossing around lots of ideas for fun new features, more challenging puzzles, and multiple unique monster pals to keep you company!
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Gameplay is fun.
Artwork is cute.
I like the mechanic, I was able to cheese it a little by dragging one hand and skimming over the shapes to quickly skip over areas. But that's something that you can easily fix, not worth worrying about in a game jam.
A very complete feeling game.
I don't quite understand the finer points of the game play, so I didn't progress very far, sadly. I thought I have to bring my monster into one of the three dotted shapes? Sadly, either it required you to be ultra precise, or I keep spawning too many arms and my monster is too lopsided for it to register.
Very interesting concept, though!
The art works perfectly with the game theme! The music is a bit repetitive, but the sound the monster does is pretty cute.
On things you can improve:
- Have a normal game menu. Your idea is cool, but in this type of games people just wanna go from one level to another non stop, and having to control your character to do that is a bit annoying
- More levels with interesting gimmicks. The initial concept is pretty fun! But if you decide to take this game and publish it, there has to be more to the game than just pulling and creating new arms! (But I'm sure you thought about this as well!)
- Increase the range of connection with the points. This is my main criticism, it felt like you had to be way too precise to get to the points and was frustrating at times.
All in all, a pretty fun game!
I love it when I touch my pal's tummy and it says "football butt"!
It started really fun however I did figure I could cheat by detaching the pal's hands and dragging one of his hands and just fly him over to the end. It was kinda tricky to get the hands to attach because I would drag them there, they locked and then quickly unlocked if I didn't release my mouse fast enough. I kept missing the attaching points because the hand would quickly dettach and keep moving with the camera. It got a little bit frustrating.
The physics are interesting and a great job.
Overall was a charming entry and with some improvements and more levels you will have a game to release. Congratulations :)