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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Fun | #17 | 4.246 | 4.246 |
| Overall | #38 | 4.179 | 4.179 |
| Creativity | #50 | 4.254 | 4.254 |
| Presentation | #160 | 4.037 | 4.037 |
Ranked from 134 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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TaHie
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Yes - I'm new to game jams!
How does your game fit the theme?
The lil' dudes start their journey across the city to reach their destination: WcWonalds
The game embraces the theme by throwing players straight into the action — minimal instructions, no hand holding, just food and hungry lil’ dudes. You learn by experimenting, messing up, and trying again. The chaos is part of the charm — the only way forward is to just get started!
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This was one of the best I've played in this jam, really good. Smart puzzles, nice pixel art. I also like that you don't waste time with tutorials, and that you lose and restart the level instantly. Great job!
I've played a lot of games from this jam, and non have I given 5 stars on everything until now!
The way the game encourages you to learn by doing, make mistakes and immediately try again is well implemented. Combined with the visuals and sfx, this is a pretty good game.
My biggest gripes are that it's fairly small on my 1440p monitor and that it crashed when I paused the level where you first get the pizza slice.
Thanks for playing! I realized about the crash only after the submission time was over, must be a null reference, sorry about that! Resolution was also a big challenge for me because how the game worked was each level is its own instance. So if i were to make different resolution options, i would have to manually edit each anchor for each ui element, on every single level. A pretty silly move on my part, will make sure to refactor it post game jam.
Very funny little puzzle game. I would add some shaders on top for some "game juice" too :D
liked the art and the lil dude energy
This is so cool... Art, music and (oh god they are hilarious) the SFX were on point, simple and easy to understand "power ups", first thing that comes to mind to describe this game is McLemmings. Got stuck on lvl 8 (skill issue on my part) but still... what a game.
Thanks for playing! The difficulty spike was on my part, I'll make sure to properly scale the it next time hahah
This game is so great! It's really cute, with funny sound effects and a cute "story". The puzzles are really well designed, I had a blast with them, and I could totally see some puzzle youtubers playing this. It's also really polished for jam game (especially a first jam game!) with cute intro art, nice UI, and no bugs that I could find! Amazing job!
Thank you so much for playing! I did plan on making a few comic strips on every zone but alas, real life shenanigans
That would have been crazy impressive, but even without extra comics, it's still terrific fun, and the perfect amount of challenging
Loved this, i took way too long on the last puzzle but i just had to finish this. great game! fun mechanics
only thing is wishing i could save the last places i had put my items. having to put everything in the exact same place except 1 thing 1 square to the right was a tiny bit annoying lol.
Really fun unique game I enjoyed solving the puzzles and the amount of levels in it has is incredible and love how puzzles can be solved differently, however I do wish it relied less or trial and error and showed more clearly the flying trajectory
Nice puzzle game, it was hard for me first to understand the objective and the connection with the theme, but overall I loved it, the idea is so unique that I have never played something like that, the art is incredible and I loved WcWonalds. Very good job on your game, nice puzzles and great sound effects! Nice job
Great puzzle game. Highlight for me were the sound effects. Got a laugh as the lil dudes bounce off pit walls over and over again.
That was definitely what i was aiming for! making the lil dudes look and sound as silly as possible. Thanks for playing!
Dude nice job! This is really good puzzle game! Great game for a first time!
Dude this is awesome!! Super sick job for your first ever game, really well done. The puzzle mechanics are pretty unique with a surprising amount of depth and fit the theme nicely. The art is easy on the eyes and cohesive throughout, with lots of charming little touches like the lil guys lounging about in the pause screen or the fart animation. The world map is a great touch. Music and sfx fit perfectly. A few minor criticisms is that the short music loop got a bit old after a few levels, that the perspective felt a little too zoomed out, and the lack of a full screen option. Oh, and it would be nice to have an option that lets you undo the last move rather than resetting the whole level. Overall, this is among my favorite entries so far and you have a real knack for puzzle design and world building. Keep it up!!
Glad you enjoyed it and thanks for the detailed review! I initially planned a lot quality of life features but eventually i had to scrap them as i didnt have much time left. I also had to squint my eyes playing the game as well cause that was the only resolution that didnt break the game lol. Planning to fix all the bugs post jam. Once again thank you!
Well done, I liked it a lot. I couldnt make it work on the browser tho, parts of the screen were cut off
Such a creative game jam entry, especially for a first time, really well done! :) The music is also simple but genuinely really solid and fitting. Are you gonna keep developing on this idea/making the game longer?
100% yes!! I love working on this game, i have so many cool mechanics and quality of life features that i had to shelf due to time constraints, so stay tuned hehe
Also might need to refactor all the code and rebuild the game from the ground up cause right now its basically held together by hopes and prayers
Very nice, definitely good luck with some of the rebuilding then indeed later on! (Also so relatable, I feel like if I touch my game it will collapse lol). I'll stay tuned!
Wow this game is very fun and the idea is very unique. The only thing I would add is perhaps the ability for the level to reset itself quickly once the fail state is triggered so player can get back to the puzzle quicker.
A fun and creative little game, good job!
Really good puzzle game - enjoyed it!
I did not finish the whole game, so just out of curiosity is there are mechanic where the half-unit placement is relevant? Just got hit by the thought, the tilemap has such strong highlight/overlay, yet half-unit is also possible.
But that detail doesnt deduct anything from the fun.
you got me there with that one, nope! I just couldnt figure out how to snap objects on a 16×16 tile 😭 but there are some levels that can be completed by placing on a half-tile so im calling that a feature hahah
Great game, really liked helping the lil dudes.
Love the idea! The lil dudes have their own charm. The puzzles are really creative too.