Gift Wrapper by NightShadow0

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made by NightShadow0 for LD34 (COMPO)
Santa has created a special super-sticky lollipop to help him gather the loose presents in his workshop. Little did he know that the formula also made the lollipop sentient! Can it grow large enough to crash out of the workshop?

Gift Wrapper is an arcade-style katamari-like, where your lollipop GROWS bigger as you stick to items, allowing you to stick to bigger items.
The planned game was much bigger, with you leaving the workshop to engulf penguins and polar bears in the north pole, stealing Santa's reindeers, then falling from the sky to terrorize a city. Alas, this is all i had time for.

TWO-BUTTON CONTROLS:
*Up directional key / W / Z: Move up.
*Down directional key / S: Move down.

Game made in Unity; artwork made in Photoshop; music made in SunVox; sounds generated in Bfxr.

Ratings

Coolness 65% 3
Overall 3.22 491
Audio 2.68 454
Fun 3.58 191
Graphics 3.00 526
Humor 3.14 174
Innovation 2.91 625
Mood 3.06 405
Theme 4.16 119

Feedback

joekinglake
14. Dec 2015 · 20:03 UTC
Nice mood going on! A nice take on the Katamari idea. I like the mood you have :)
AranHase
14. Dec 2015 · 22:00 UTC
Nice use of the theme, I never even thought about katamari!

Simple, but well done. My only little feedback is that in Katamari we can experiment collecting different things, as if we try to pick something larger than we can pick up, the punishment is very light. So forcing a restart every time we hit a bigger object may be a little too harsh...

but overall, really good submission, I had fun with it...
SusanTheCat
17. Dec 2015 · 02:01 UTC
Growing and two button!
pjimmy
17. Dec 2015 · 10:29 UTC
nice and cute, cool concept, love the toy references, well done
carlsommer
19. Dec 2015 · 02:57 UTC
It was pretty fun! I liked how both themes were incorporated, and I loved being able to wrap up dogs and drag them around with me : )
lurils
21. Dec 2015 · 15:42 UTC
Well done, seems well balanced too, never seemed like I didn't have anywhere to go. Really fun
hpearson2
22. Dec 2015 · 02:56 UTC
Nice little game, I like the multiple control scheme and it prevent the browser from jumping all over the place. The music is quite sharp.
michidk
24. Dec 2015 · 01:43 UTC
Really fun!
unprompted
24. Dec 2015 · 20:38 UTC
Naaaaaaaaaaa nanana nana na na na Katamari Damacy.
DDRKirby(ISQ)
29. Dec 2015 · 02:17 UTC
Hehe, glad to see someone taking this spin on the theme.
Xanjos
31. Dec 2015 · 02:00 UTC
Pretty fun 2D interpretation of Katamari.
Dreyan
02. Jan 2016 · 01:11 UTC
Cute game, nice use of the theme, fun ^^
ac7
04. Jan 2016 · 01:52 UTC
Very innovative! This is the best way I've seen the themes combined. You struck a very nice balance with the difficulty.
DecayConstant
04. Jan 2016 · 02:03 UTC
Nice use of both theme elements! :D
Also, thanks for listing the tools you used, I have to check out SunVox!
mockthebear
04. Jan 2016 · 19:20 UTC
The only think that i dont like its S to go down and Z to go up XD
🎤 NightShadow0
05. Jan 2016 · 01:57 UTC
Thanks for playing, rating, and leaving feedback, everyone!