Shrinking Bubbles by StJester

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made by StJester for LD 42 (JAM)

You are in space...

In cold unfriendly space...

All you have is bubbles...

They can give you warmth that you so desperately need. But they don't last long and you have to run. Run out of this space.

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Ratings

Overall 944th 3.065⭐ 25🧑‍⚖️
Fun 1144th 2.565⭐ 25🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 379th 3.391⭐ 25🧑‍⚖️
Theme 167th 4⭐ 25🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 1080th 2.543⭐ 25🧑‍⚖️
Humor 864th 1.921⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Mood 997th 2.545⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Given 13🗳️ 5🗨️

Feedback

Syrapt0r
14. Aug 2018 · 16:38 UTC
Short nice little game. I love the look of the path you draw and the gameplay is simple and intuitive. It gets a bit repetitive though. Good job!
Dylan Shumway
14. Aug 2018 · 16:55 UTC
Cool take on the theme!! I found the controls to be unresponsive a lot of the time, but that may have been because of playing on the web client? Drawing the paths is super satisfying and I love the color contrast between the paths and the deep blue of space. Nice work!
tgb20
14. Aug 2018 · 16:56 UTC
Took my a second to figure out movement, but once I did I like its effect. I fell the objective wasn't super clear though.
mukult
14. Aug 2018 · 16:58 UTC
It feels very repetitive after a while. Some variations or obstacles would have helped .. for example, there is moving asteroid that the player has to dodge to reach the other bubble or something.
Ramping it up would have felt better. Anyways..good job on the game. It was fun. :)
PopDaddyGames
14. Aug 2018 · 17:01 UTC
I really love your drawing style- very felt marker cartoony! :)
Purrfexionator
14. Aug 2018 · 17:02 UTC
Neat little game! It fits the theme in two different ways! Not only are you literally escaping space, you are also running out of space in the bubbles because they are shrinking. There wasn't really much here, and there wasn't really a reward system, but overall it was a cool little experience!
Purrfexionator
14. Aug 2018 · 17:02 UTC
sorry. computer was being slow and accidentally spammed the publish button a few times.
Purrfexionator
14. Aug 2018 · 17:02 UTC
Neat little game! It fits the theme in two different ways! Not only are you literally escaping space, you are also running out of space in the bubbles because they are shrinking. There wasn't really much here, and there wasn't really a reward system, but overall it was a cool little experience!
Matank
14. Aug 2018 · 17:02 UTC
Cool mechanic with drawing the path! Would be much more fun with a few more challenges.
wujood
14. Aug 2018 · 17:03 UTC
Really good core mechanic! Movement was not clear from the beginning, but once figured out it was really good! The way that you can draw paths was awesome! And indication of the progress made would be nice though. I was thinking about quitting the game because i didnt know if it was going to be one of those endless sidescrollers.
And one thing: You want a rating in Audio, but there is no audio in web, is that a bug or supposed to be that way?
merdeboi
14. Aug 2018 · 17:05 UTC
Hey nice game, good take on the theme and nice art.
nikasxirtla
14. Aug 2018 · 17:05 UTC
Great concept, could have been a lot better if there were more objects floating around, wouldn't have been as boring and repetitive.
Steffanie
14. Aug 2018 · 17:06 UTC
I really liked the jetpack drawing // contrast against the cold and I'm pretty sure I ran out of space...bubbles in space, so I love the theme representation! Great work for such a short timeframe and really unique interpretation!
guin36
14. Aug 2018 · 17:06 UTC
Interesting concept that feels like it wasn't really fleshed out enough. The core mechanic is an interesting resource management problem, but there wasn't any challenge and definitely not enough hurdles to jump to get to the next bubble. The controls were simple and very intuitive. I particularly liked the effect for drawing the path.

Overall, I think the concept is interesting, but some challenge could be added to spice things up a bit.
ChaosTheLegend
14. Aug 2018 · 17:08 UTC
Very original idea, and it's very fun to pop those bubles but there is not very much to play with, flying from buble to buble gets boring really fast and i couldn't find any purpose of path drawing other than overall look, you can just click wherever you want and player will fly to this point, also I haven't heard any sounds or music but audio category haven't been opped out(is it a bug?). Other than that, good game. Graphics is really nice and controlls are very responsive.
Demn
14. Aug 2018 · 17:08 UTC
Hey ! Liked the fact that the character followed precisely what we drew with the the mouse. Really felt punishing on some parts. Overall, the game is pretty neat and quite smooth. Good job !
Rebelloeric
14. Aug 2018 · 17:33 UTC
Hey that was a nice game, i liked the idea of the theme you put there, running out of space literally... when those bubbles started shrinking i started to lose my breath haha, good game o/
netguy204
14. Aug 2018 · 19:53 UTC
Cute! Visuals were nice. I lost my first round and won my second. I wish my win felt more like a victory and less inevitable (I only lost because I didn't understand the controls). I think making bubbles more sparse or smaller as you proceed could help ramp up the difficulty and make it feel more like winning was an accomplishment. Nice work!