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Kika's Eggsplosive Descent by kazuo256

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made by kazuo256 for Ludum Dare 57 (JAM)

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WARNING: the leaderboards are not currently working on ludum dare's embed. If you wish to show off your skills, make sure to download the game or to play the itch web version. We have a mobile version!

Kika is an egg that hasn't hatched yet. She looked at the world and wondered... What could be inside that huge egg? Help her find out: dive deep into the depths of the world, but be careful with the bombs along the way!

The game is endless. Keep playing for as long as you like or until you get your score into the leaderboards!

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CHANGELOG

  • v1.1 - April 7th, 2025 23:38
    • Fix leaderboard on web build (itch only)
  • v1.2 - April 8th, 2025 09:53
    • Fix leaderboard on android build
  • v1.3 - April 9th, 2025 00:20
    • UI fixes
    • Level, score and character balance
    • Change scenery behavior
    • Remove non stop mode
  • v1.4 - April 11th, 2025 13:5
    • Add credits
    • Background and VFX enhancements

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Link https://gitlab.com/uspgamedev/jams/LD57-bolinha
Link https://kazuo256.itch.io/kikas-eggsplosive-descent
Link https://usp.game.dev.br/downloads/projects/kika/kika-win.zip
Link https://usp.game.dev.br/downloads/projects/kika/kika-osx.zip
Link https://usp.game.dev.br/downloads/projects/kika/kika-linux.zip
Link https://usp.game.dev.br/downloads/projects/kika/kika-android.zip
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/57/kikas-eggsplosive-descent

Ratings

Overall 152th 3.92⭐ 71🧑‍⚖️
Fun 47th 4.143⭐ 72🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 328th 3.435⭐ 71🧑‍⚖️
Theme 346th 3.829⭐ 72🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 256th 4.021⭐ 72🧑‍⚖️
Audio 239th 3.65⭐ 72🧑‍⚖️
Humor 299th 3.175⭐ 65🧑‍⚖️
Mood 528th 3.433⭐ 69🧑‍⚖️
Given 148🗳️ 171🗨️

Feedback

Anderson Job Loeffler
08. Apr 2025 · 01:08 UTC
(Vou escrever em pt pq vi q ceis são brazuca haha). Adorei o game, muuito divertida a gameplay, eu tava concentradíssimo jogando aqui. A arte está lindíssima, foi feita a mão? Muito legal a kika hehe, aquela arte da capa ali chama bastante atenção. A musiquinha tá bem bancana também, tá uma vibe bem arcade. Só não consegui dar submit no placar ali :(

Muito bom galera, parebéns pelo trabalho!
🎤 kazuo256
08. Apr 2025 · 01:29 UTC
É @anderson-job-loeffler , o placar na versão Web ainda não tá rolando, mas vamos arrumar assim que der. Se quiser deixar sua marca, por enquanto tem que baixar!
KnownAsPhi
08. Apr 2025 · 02:00 UTC
Really addictive game ahah, could picture it being on the mobile stores ! The watercolor style is great !
Gaverion
08. Apr 2025 · 02:02 UTC
Very cute art! A good design for the theme too!
Pontax
08. Apr 2025 · 02:38 UTC
addictive game. I was playing for quite some time. Would love to see this on app store would pay a dollar for the toilet time spent. great job!
Kamizenki
08. Apr 2025 · 02:47 UTC
Awesome gameplay, have played it several times. The designs are very cute!
LDJam user 407354
08. Apr 2025 · 08:06 UTC
A very efficient game design ! I love the fluffy feeling with the egg !
MorePixels
08. Apr 2025 · 08:09 UTC
Beautiful game, absolutely gorgeous! fun graphics and very addictive!
ArkansasLover
08. Apr 2025 · 08:16 UTC
The painterly style of the cover art drew me in. I'm glad this style was incorporated into the game. You should definitely lean in to this style more in your future endeavours. The gameplay was relatively simple but surprisingly challenging. Suffice to say, I have yet to find out what is at the end of Kika's Eggsplosive Descent.
I_POTS
08. Apr 2025 · 10:55 UTC
Simple yet highly effective design! The explosive mechanism cleverly increases the difficulty, making it an interesting little game with cute graphics. May I invite you to play our game？
JulioCezar
08. Apr 2025 · 20:24 UTC
Parabéns pelo excelente trabalho pessoal! Que jogo carismático!!!
GwendalG
08. Apr 2025 · 21:05 UTC
Quite addictive game, simple but efficient
Doridie
08. Apr 2025 · 21:17 UTC
Cool mechanics and design! At times I wished I had a some more level of control. I wasn’t always sure what I could do to survive certain situations. Really nice game overall!
Sagamore
08. Apr 2025 · 22:03 UTC
Funny game. Simple and beautiful.
Unfortunately, it was difficult to understand the controls. But when understand I'm realy enjoyed a game.
Gustavo Henrique de Moraes
08. Apr 2025 · 22:41 UTC
Olá amigos da USP!!!

Joguei o jogo de vocês uma quantidade considerável de vezes e consigo fazer alguns apontamentos.

Primeiramente o jogo de você está muito redondo. A arte, o som e a música combinam muito bem e o jogo basicamente nem dá margem para entender o que se deve fazer de forma equivocada. Notei que vocês já falaram que estavam com problema no learderboard para web então não vou poder mostrar meu recorde de 3.000 pontos, infelizmente. A mecânica do jogo é bem simples, mas se aproveitando disso vocês fizeram uma adaptação para o jogo conseguir ser jogado até de forma mobile, mandaram muito bem nisso. No geral, gostei bastante do jogo e entregaram o que foi pedido pela jam. Abordaram o tema de forma bem direta, mas correta. ❤️❤️
swordguy47
08. Apr 2025 · 23:28 UTC
Incredible game! The concept is super simple but executed really well; really satisfying blowing through obstacles at once :P The aesthetic is also awesome; love the watercolor style artwork.
Dylan Shumway
08. Apr 2025 · 23:38 UTC
Super satisfying project! Gives strong Downwell energy in the best way. :smile: I love the artstyle as well! The visuals are really refreshing and make it fun to see how the environment changes the further you go. The controls handle super well and reward a bit of patience, which gives it a nice balance of easy to pick up and fun to master. Well done!
ten10gu
08. Apr 2025 · 23:45 UTC
I absolutely love this! Super fun, and ridiculously cute! The song in the background encapsulates the game perfectly: simple, but incredibly charming. Compiling it to Android was an excellent idea, because I'm totally addicted, ahaha.
boaheck-artgent
09. Apr 2025 · 13:43 UTC
Really great addictive game. Had anb absolute blast playing this and am considering installing it on my phone. I adored the art direction using watercolour so much!
Soul Grinder
09. Apr 2025 · 18:48 UTC
Really fun falling game with a nice variety of obstacles. The egg dude is pretty cool too, nice work!
Game-mon
09. Apr 2025 · 18:59 UTC
Nice game, reminds me of Downwell, could work well for a mobile game!
5huNo.3
09. Apr 2025 · 20:03 UTC
Really fun and solid gameplay! Great work on making an addictive game. It really makes you want to beat your own high score and see how the sceneary changes. It had such a pleasant artstyle to look at. Great work, really!
TobaccoLeopard
09. Apr 2025 · 22:41 UTC
The art is very cute ! Controls are really smooth, very responsive, you can move around as you like, to stay on one line and multiply the points before moving on to the next. The tension between trying to score points and the risk of dying by hitting the bombs is really great. It makes you want to keep trying until you reach the leading board! Well played!
cluster7ck
10. Apr 2025 · 18:43 UTC
Jesus this is addictive. I love the artstyle with the handrawn(?) aquarell. I envy you, always wanted to make a game in that style :D
outstar
10. Apr 2025 · 19:35 UTC
A proof how much a leaderboard gives for jam games - I was really into trying to beat the odds, but it seems others went REALLY far :D Really fun game and I appreciate you for adding extra theme for the visuals! My only feedback would be to maybe go for a more planned color palette, so what should stand out stands out, given everything - including the background - was the same vibrant, there are tons of websites with really cool color palette inspirations that I usually lurk during jams :D
Juutis
11. Apr 2025 · 15:38 UTC
This was great! Having such a simplistic control scheme is always fun to see and I think you guys pulled it off perfectly here! There's a surprisingly lot of mechanics and variety to the game. Kudos to you!
neowhoru
11. Apr 2025 · 19:43 UTC
So my highscore is around 3150 :D great funny game!
AgrMayank
11. Apr 2025 · 19:54 UTC
​Hey this is really fun to play! Reminds me of the old egg basket games combined with brick breaker.
Got the 5th rank - 1055 - in the 3rd try, yayy xD

P.S. - Bonus points for the Credits mini game!! THAT IS GENIUS!!
Tetracold
11. Apr 2025 · 19:57 UTC
Really like the visuals, they make the game stand out and add a lot of charm.
The gameplay is simple but addictive and it makes me wanna go back even tho a few times I exploded from bombs above even tho I thought I'd be safe
Sheepolution
11. Apr 2025 · 20:12 UTC
Really fun game! It looks easy at first, but dodging those bombs is actually pretty tough (and also I'm impatient :grin:) I like that you discover more blocks as you progress, and looking at the screenshot it looks like I wasn't able to discover all of them. Nice painty graphics, and a cool tune. Great job!
Ammonit
12. Apr 2025 · 14:41 UTC
Watercolor, watercolor, what are you doing to me? 😄
Texugo
12. Apr 2025 · 14:49 UTC
O efeito de aquarela ficou muito massa! O jogo é divertido e difícil. Parabéns!
daniel
12. Apr 2025 · 17:11 UTC
Cute, I love the presentation and art style you went with. I wasn't very good at it, but it was a fun gameplay loop.
Linky439
12. Apr 2025 · 17:21 UTC
Fun game! At first I thought this was going to be easy and just held space, until I met my first bomb :D
I reached 900 and something once, and then kept on dying around the 500 mark ^^

Very fun one, congrats!
ColeSlaughter
13. Apr 2025 · 01:20 UTC
[Thanks for submitting your game to stream!](https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2431006955?t=01h26m49s)

This was one of my favorites. I'm such a sucker for games with a simple mechanic that can be stretched to make a fun addicting game loop. I also really appreciate how, despite being so simple, you can really feel like you can get better the more you play. Sounds trivial, but that's not an easy feat. :thumbsup:
Steven Garberg
13. Apr 2025 · 06:02 UTC
I really like the art style! The game was tricky to figure out at first, but I found it really fun once I got the hang of it. Great job!
Alem26
13. Apr 2025 · 10:19 UTC
Feels really polished! The art is great, sound effects on point, controls feel good, well done!

It's definitely harder than I originally anticipated and it took a few tries to figure out what I am actually supposed to do :)
SvenErik
13. Apr 2025 · 12:12 UTC
Very addictive with a unique art style, took me a bit to get used to the game-play, but it just keeps me playing and even returning to it once again to now write a comment & play more hehe. Marvelous work!
Clear Voiz
13. Apr 2025 · 15:37 UTC
It's incredible how addicting a single and simple mechanic like this one can be! The fact that you can obtain doble points by positioning yourself correctly and that bombs have a timer if you touch them instead of diving into it give it a lot of depth! The controls feel really nice, and the animations and sound effects are reaaally satisfying. Very well done!
LDJam user 282870
13. Apr 2025 · 16:24 UTC
Man, that is a really good game. It plays very well. Very fun. Sound and music are great. Controls are flawless.

Game is addicting

Thanks for the great play
LDJam user 221097
13. Apr 2025 · 17:10 UTC
Oh, cool visuals! It's a lot of fun, and a nice touch to have playable credits haha. Nice job!
Potatobrain
13. Apr 2025 · 17:34 UTC
nice idea, i like the different block types and the combination with the trigger
jk5000
14. Apr 2025 · 07:01 UTC
I like the visual styles, and the music is also pretty good. The gameplay is simple and pretty fun. Overall a pretty well made jam game. Well done.
lespaul59
14. Apr 2025 · 09:24 UTC
Wow nice game. The gameplay is simple but fun. Lovely artwork and the animation and SFX makes it complete. Very cool entry.
fingolfin
14. Apr 2025 · 12:38 UTC
Absolutely charming and dangerously addictive.

The watercolor art gives it a unique, refreshing style, and the controls feel smooth and responsive. It’s got that perfect balance: easy to pick up, hard to master, with satisfying mechanics that reward smart timing.

It’s simple, it’s polished, and it’s fun. Great job all around.
sangheli
14. Apr 2025 · 22:16 UTC
I didn’t really get much fun out of this type of game,
but it could probably be pretty addictive on mobile
Transkuja
15. Apr 2025 · 10:51 UTC
This one is really fun! I suck at it and it took me some time to understand how bombs actually work :laughing: Really great job, I love it :heart:
Braeden
16. Apr 2025 · 01:54 UTC
Dude this is awesome! I can totally see this being on the app store or something. I am god awful at it though lol :laughing:
I really like the music and the sounds too, feels very retro
atsh
16. Apr 2025 · 15:51 UTC
Loved the dreamlike sprites, very special - I'm very bad at this game though :)
Missfire
16. Apr 2025 · 23:19 UTC
I would like to note the gorgeous visuals, colorful watercolor backgrounds and a very well animated character, that looked very cool and beautiful!
The mechanics turned out to be very addictive, in such games pleasant sensations from the process are very important, and in your game there were more than enough of them. It was fun to try to beat your record and get deeper, although bombs often interfered with this :D

I wish good luck to little Kika to hatch from the egg and get to know this world! Thank you very much for the game!
Mamboman
17. Apr 2025 · 19:35 UTC
Very nice game. I like the simplicity of the controls. It's super fun and super addictive. But very challenging as well. The graphics are very nice and the audio fits perfect. Well done!
Euler Moises
17. Apr 2025 · 23:42 UTC
A really unique idea. It's harder than it seems, but it's a lot of fun.

Congratulations!