I actually really enjoyed this, great work!

I enjoyed the gameplay and the whale art is killer, but it could use more polish overall. Walking animations and maybe a pixel font could help tremendously, in my opinion

Great pixel art and a really funny take on the theme.

I found it hard to tell how far ahead of the whale I was when I was doing really well, and it's a little quiet (although I enjoyed the "wenk" sound effect). Adding some Jaws-style music that gets faster as the whale closes in might help on both points.

Cool! Yours physics are really tight, and the visuals do a good job of establishing context despite being pretty minimalist. My one criticism is that you don't really gain anything by holding onto penguins -- it seems as though the orca is stalled for the same amount of time whether you loose it when it's right on your tail or immediately when you pick it up.

Fun game! Sad to say, I died rather quickly on my first attempt. However, the next go around, I slid close to 800 tiles and sacrificed 10 tasty, tasty penguins. Like someone earlier said, having a better indication of how close the whale is would be nice. Though, I'm kind of torn. The whale art looks so awesome, I kinda want him to always be on my screen.

I laughed out loud at the sound effects, good job!

Awesome game, just a little bit easy. Make the character slower when it holds too much penguins and it is a 10/10

Very well done, the game has a strategy to not to get any ascending slope because it doesn't care how fast you are, it will slow you down a lot. Probably when the normal of the surface and the direction of the player are the most opposite it cancel the speed a lot.
The art is good it wil probably better with some animations.
It probably helpful to know how far behind is the whale when it get out of screen.
Overall, good job!

*WENK*

Felt really bad hitting ramps and losing *all* my speed, but it was fun! Had 4 penguins left when I hit that ramp, though, and just couldn't get going again.

My god these might be some of the best sprites I have ever seen.

Wow, the game is pretty cool, but I think that it would be better with some kind of points and highscore:)

I really like this game! Great take on the theme. I just wish it was a bit more challenging, after a bit of time I had 16 penguins on my head, and whenever I had to sacrifice one, a new one popped up, felt like it was impossible to lose at that point unless I actively tried.

If you know how to play it, it is quite easy. But I am missing some highscore ;)

Haha, that expression is priceless! :smile: But yeah, loved execution of the runner genre with the given theme. Some additional animation like throwing the penguin would add to fun and make life easier on upper slopes.

Are you making this in a full game? Please do :)

Really fun and simple game. I don't really have many complaints it was just really good. I love the fact that quiet a lot of the sounds were just made with someone's mouth. The fact that Penguins must be sacrificed strategically adds a really good layer of strategy to the game and the general placement is balanced so the game is never too easy or too difficult. Maybe just polish off some of the visuals (particle effects when the Penguin is being mauled for example) or add some more variety on the tracks. My favourite submission so far!

Very fun and easy to pick up. I loved the expression on the sprite of the player: very funny! I managed to go 791 tiles on my second go.

Thank you so much for the feedback everyone!! I'm glad my goofy game and mouth-made sound effects made people smile. @blodyavenger Sorry, no plans to expand this game, as I'll be returning to a pet project of mine after this. @relixes That's a very good idea for balance, I wish I thought of that! @pennycook and @fussenkuh great ideas for making the whale's position more obvious and more intimidating.

I'll be taking all the feedback here into consideration for future projects and I can't state my appreciation that you all went out of your way to write up your thoughts! I will continue to read future comments so keep it coming, thanks!

Haha that was awesome! It had a really nice feel to it too once you understood how it's meant to be played. I agree that hitting an upward ramp and losing 95% of your momentum felt a little lame, but it definitely felt cool to get in the groove and put some distance between you and the orca! Loved it

THOSE PENGUINS ;_;

I really enjoyed the game even though it's very simple. The controls were very tight and I liked exploiting the slopes and jumps to get more speed to avoid sacrificing penguins as much as possible.
Sound design is on point too btw :D

This is actually incredibly similar to my first Ludum dare entry 8 years ago. High ratings just for that! Nice job

I feel like the skill cap could be improved by allowing the player to vary the time of the jumps. As it stands now, it's often quite unavoidable to hit an ascending ramp and lose most of your speed.
Also, sometimes the game throw a lot of ascending ramps in a row, and if you mess up on one, it can be impossible to get the speed to get going again.

However, I feel it fit the theme very well. I wanted to stack all the penguins, and making a sacrifice felt quite difficult.

pretty good!

I really like the graphics, the penguins look co cute I didn't want to sacrifice them! Their sounds were awesome too! Overall really nice game, quite addictive!

Simple but quite fun for what it is. Art is pretty good for a compo game.

Amazing job! Really simple concept but extremely fun! Would love to see how far I have gotten as I'm playing instead of right at the end! Also, a boost mechanic or making it so when I throw the penguin I go forward a bit would help with getting screwed on catching uphill slopes.

Yes, @erebus that's a great idea- both distance markers and being able to throw the penguins for more speed would be my top additions to this. Unfortunately I thought about those things a little late. Live n learn :) Thanks for the feedback

Pretty solid game! Simple idea but quite fun :) It would have benefited from some more mechanics, but you have done a good job on the mechanics that are in the game. I also loved the penguin noises :p

1358 tiles my top score. The skating momentum mechanic is brilliant, feels really good to perfectly hit a jump.

I think this ludum's theme is not very original and people are making games with similar mechanics or similar ideas, so it's cool seeing ideas like this one :) The game could use some animations, but i gotta say the sounds are 10/10

Simple but satisfying, love it.

A super simple concept that is really easy to get behind, and I love it! The sound effects and art are also amazing, especially the skater sprite :heart_eyes:! Great game!

HAHAHAH! Died laughing while playing this. Talk about nailing the theme! Had a lot of fun, even as simple as the controls were I was pretty fixated on it. Bravo!