Adelie - Chasing Pavements by Meep
Survive being chased by a rolling snowball with a crafty penguin.
Pickup, combine, and throw objects to delay the snowball's inevitable descent! Throwing objects at the snowball chips away at its continually growing volume, while throwing them at other objects can craft tools to better suit your survival.
To clarify how to combine objects, you can aim your throws. An easy way to do it without precise aim is to carry an object and then throw it downward while sliding through another object. 😀
No background music because of the deadline and also I don't know how to make background music.
Spoiler: The game is possible to beat (i.e., has an ending) if you put more emphasis on crafting fancier tools over throwing every bit of debris at the snowball. 🙂
Controls
- Arrows - Move (+ Aim throws)
- Z - Jump
- X - Pickup/Throw
Screenshots
Cartridge (p8.png)
Hall of Fame
- kuviman - 1:55.13
- raphiell - 1:59.03
- itsBoats - 2:02.20
| Source (p8.png) | https://static.jam.vg/raw/b19/z/49c5f.png |
| Link | https://meepmoop.itch.io/chasing-pavements |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/50/adelie-chasing-pavements |
Ratings
| Overall | 40th | 4⭐ | 40🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 141th | 3.697⭐ | 40🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 92th | 3.842⭐ | 40🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 158th | 3.921⭐ | 40🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 31th | 4.329⭐ | 40🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 202th | 3.461⭐ | 40🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 66th | 3.794⭐ | 36🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 78th | 3.811⭐ | 39🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 37🗳️ | 24🗨️ |
One of my favorites so far. I don't have a ton of critique, other than the lack of background music, and the snowball sprite doesn't rotate!
This was really awesome. Great work!!
I wish the game could have had a wiser screen, but that's a limitation of pico 8, IIRC.
I wish the snowball could be pushed to 1/3 part of screen on left side to give more space for obstacles to deal with. Currently, the snowball takes almost half of the screen.
I don't know much about P8 games but I guess it's not easy to make so props!
The keyboard controls are not intuitive, why not up arrow to jump? I'm guessing it's less weird on a P8 controller but at least leaving the option to jump with up would be nice ^^;
Appart from that nicely done, works well, a little repetitive though, it becomes more a challenge of reaction time, but jam game, it's normal.
The damaging spikes and throwable objects are not different enough imo, often thought I could grab spikes.
I like the graphics, it's a little messy at times but it's quite fluid and the shapes move well, I like the color palette too!
It's solid & polished, interesting entry
Just kidding, hehe. Saw your game on the stream and had to try myself with my boyfriend yesterday :)
SO cute!!! And the character is basically our "game studio", so we had to try this!!
I love the idea of a cartridge game and aesthetics, the transitions were really nice :)
Controller support would have been cool for the cartridge feel :id:
Sadly, we didn't make it to the ending yet, but will keep trying!
A very sweet little entry, congrats! :)
Great to see Adelie return, with a fun and challenging game.
In tweaks, maybe if the down-throw for combine had a slightly more forgiving target range, tweaking the difficulty down slightly without fundamentally changing it might be beneficial. There's already a lot of difficulty just in managing the slidy movement.
I've posted a review too: https://youtu.be/qxkNPOozqCE
highlight: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1449896005?t=01h26m59s
If you’d like to rewatch the playthrough, you can find it here:
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1450143040?t=4h32m14s
Good luck on your ratings, see you next LD! :D
💜 Elysia Griffin AKA Button Feedback Lady
https://www.twitch.tv/elysiagriffin
Thank you for sharing your game on my Twitch stream (MsMiaChar). Here's a link to the video (game starts around 02:54:00): https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1446760516
[Thanks for submitting your game to stream!](https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1457327946?t=01h51m48s)
Sorry I'm not nearly as good at your game as you are at mine. I did my best... :sob: