this is indeed really hard!

sadly, even when muting the game the adorable little space slime still sounds heart breaking when he falls in the lava.

I could not complete the (first?) level; two times I was very very close. It frustrated me that the slime never found his bed 😅

This is cute and started off easy, but in the end I could only let it die. Great work! I like the sound effect of the creature, giving it a voice of some sort was a nice touch.

That was very fun!

Simple and hard. I like! :)

Haha, that is really hard! It's the kind of game where you don't want to stop playing because even little mistakes can result in a death or sending the slime in the wrong direction. Really fun way to spend a little time.

Really difficult and really fun! A great rage game :)

It's quite the hard game, tho that isn't necessarily a bad thing. The little critter is cute and I kinda like the sounds he makes. I'd switch up a few things in the level design (Character bounces off the walls for a long time until you can regain control of him) and the difficulty level, but despite those nitpicks it's a fun game.

That was really hard! I tried so, so many times and almost got to the end but just missed it. Checkpoints would've been nice!

I love the sound of the... thing... it makes when it bounces around! Wish the background music was longer, the mute button was appreciated after several runs.

Might come back for just one more try... good fun!

Does the music pitch change based on rapid bump succession? It sounded like it did when I played and that was really cool.

@mrfluffysheep I'm afraid it's just looping 4 blocks of notes. It was my first time trying to compose anything like this. Definitely learned a lot.

Possibly the best twist I have ever seen on a game mechanic that is oh most as old as video-games. I never expected to play an Arkanoid(Breakout\Brick Break) Platformer but it turns out its makes for fantastic gameplay. I appriciate you having a nice simple musical loop and a mute button. I wish there was some variation on the sound the slime makes when he bounces as in rapid bounce moments it can become a little bit of an annoyance. Congrats on inventing a new sub-genre of platformers I am sure in a year or two somebody will have taken this idea and made it into a rage game and made thousands raking in the cash from twitch streamers promoting it to there audiences.

@theseusinabottle Thank you for the feedback! There's so much more I wanted to do with it, given the time and skill. I totally agree about bounce sound variation. I might just put some more time into it after this is all over and put it out there on itch.

Pretty cool mechanic! The bouncing is a little hard to control though. I kept expecting the slime to bounce of the same angle it hit me with, maybe also influenced by the velocity of the player a bit.
The angle seems to depend on which part of the player's platform the slime lands on though, which I still didn't get used to after quite a few minutes.
I didn't look at the time, but I think I might have played more than 10 minutes. Really wanted to see what happens when the slime reaches its destination. :P

I never got far enough to see the bed because the slime would go into auto pilot through the level (great!) until it hit the wrong wall and bounced all the way back to the start or to death (not great!). Really does have rage game vibes, but it's good! It's pretty loud, I had to mute my chrome tab since the mute button only affects the music, but I like the music and sfx when I turn down my browser volume. I love how cute and happy the slime looks and sounds, even if the "woohoo!" is a little piercing every time it bounces. Kinda sounds like a small child screeching it into my ears: adorable, but ouch!

It also took quite a few runs to figure out what the sparkly yellow +'s were. I initially thought they were checkpoints until the slime finally landed on one and my paddle got bigger.

I'm used to brick breakers where the angle depends on where the ball hits the paddle, but I think it might be a bit too extreme on the very edges of the paddle: rather than an extremely angled bounce, the slime just falls off into the lava.

Overall, great work! I had fun and it's very charming!

@papabirb I recorded my 4 year old saying "woohoo" a few times, layered them, added reverb, and a pitch adjustment, so... yeah, you're spot on. My appologies for the volume, I was trying to match it to the rest of my system sounds, but a simple volume control menu probably would have gone a long way.

Fun! Like the concept!

It's a bit hard to predict where the ball will bounce and didn't get very far at all but I somehow found this to bring me much joy regardless. Just somehow very honest in execution with a very neat idea. Brought a huge smile on my face, this game is what these jams are about. Thank you!

Is there anyone in the universe who can complete at least one level? :D It's way too hard, but the idea is neat.

step 1: play quickly
step 2: ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh wtf rigth left nonoonnoo ... fuck..
step 3: repeat the proces jajaj

very fun and hard game xD nice joob

Love the title xD
As everyone else said, it's way too hard.

What gets really frustating for me is when the slime accelerates more than the max speed of the paddle, there's no way to catch it even without taking rebounds into account

Very fun game and also the hardest I've played today. I find difficult to calculate where the ball will bounce when hitting near the edges of the base. Music is good. The SFX doesn't seem to blend. The concept is really great, having to move through the stage bouncing with the base is really entertaining.

A dangerously hard game with some dangerously hard slap-bass playing. Amusing and tortuos in equal measure. Sir, I salute you!

Ambitious concept with a lot of potential! It's clear that the level design was slapdash, but the implementation is solid and all the pieces are there. Excited to see how this one works out moving forward. :blush:

At the beginning it's hard, probably making a lot of people give up. I was giving up as well but I like challenges so I kept trying. Good job. The music is a bit repetitive but i like that it could be muted.

This is indeed hard, but mechanically it is very fun. There is 100% a really fun and engaging game buried in this entry and it just needs a bit of polish, content, balancing, and juice to bring it out.

I hope you keep working on this.

Physics are a bit problematic, at my second try character glitched and i coudn't see it, also game would benefit from restart button, because it's played with keyboard, and you have to use mouse to restart the game, it's a bit annoying, but still it was decent entry

Move over, Cuphead! lol, jk, but yeah this is SUPER challenging! I wouldn't make it any less difficult in terms of how the mechanics work, but I would recommend making the powerups have a bigger pickup radius. Well done!

And yes, let the spacebar or something else trigger restart so I don't have to get reaching for my mouse. :)

Cool! Having to aim the slime at the powerups adds great dimension to the game :)

Pretty hard but very fun! Nice entry that give a will to retry again and again!

adorable :D Really hard, true, but it feels like i could try for ages :D

so difficult lol i tried so many times and dead in somehow the same way. Though its a pretty cute game, enjoy the weird sound of the slime (so special )

Very challenging, especially when the slime bounces between the paddle and a low platform. I managed to get him flying faster than I can move and lost him somewhere offscreen. Nice game!

This is adorable! I love the noises the little dude makes when you bounce him. Great work!

Hardest game yet for me this jam haha :)

I think I tried 10 times, then I gave up. But it was fun!! Well done.

Fun and very challenging! I didn't however manage to beat the first level even after trying for quite some time. It could maybe have been good to have a couple of shorter and easier levels first. Either way, good game and I enjoyed playing it!