Love the interpretation of the theme - did briefly consider ouroboros ourselves! Fun little game, which definitely has scope to be expanded. Found the sound of the snake particularly satisfying.
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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Enjoyment | #911 | 3.752 | 3.752 |
| Audio | #1702 | 3.295 | 3.295 |
| Artwork | #1795 | 3.667 | 3.667 |
| Creativity | #2207 | 3.682 | 3.682 |
| Narrative | #2852 | 2.574 | 2.574 |
Ranked from 129 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
How does your game fit the theme?
The Snake needs to bite it's own tail to win, thuse making a loop
(Optional) Please credit all assets you've used
all assets were handmade by Dylan Bourgeois
(Optional) What would you like to be called if GMTK features your game?
Beers & Baguettes Productions
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Haha, it looks like multiple people have been having the same idea. Last year I actually made a game for the Playdate handheld that used the same concept, simply called Ouroboros (gameplay video here, in case you want to check it out without going to the trouble of installing a Playdate simulator). Don't let that discourage you from continuing with this, though. There are many different ways to explore this concept, and I'm looking forward to see which way you'll take it. We may just be starting a new puzzle game genre here😅
1 year ago(+1)
Hey Thanks for the great feedback, first of All I'm really happy that you enjoyed your time with this little project of ours.
It's funny to me that not everyone gets stuck on the same levels but that the difficulty curve overall seemed to have done it's job.
Regarding the tail, and sorry If I get way to technical, to understand the issue you must know that the snake is comprised of segments, each segment multiple things one of which is the spirte. The snake segments are stored in an Array And I change the sprite of each position considering multiple things: position in array (first is head, last is tail), last key pressed, orientation of segment before in the array.
When the snake "eats" and apple it actually adds a segment to the back of the snake, but since the "old back" was displaying the tail, the "new back" spawns with a tail also and you end up with a snake, that has two tails one after the other, mechanically all fine but graphically very immersion breaking.
My sleep deprived brain found a workaround to this bug that was moving one tile forward, since I'm updating the sprites of each segment each time it moves so It graphically fixed itself...
The next day I realised that was supposed to be a quick fix ended up being quite an interesting puzzle mechanic forcing the player to think a bit more before blindly moving and eating.
we are intending to add an "enthusiastic lunge" animation each time the snake eats an apple to better convey this "Bug" turned into a "feature"
So yeah, The project has quite a bit of technical debt as every game-jam submission I suppose given the time constraint but this is something I will leave in even after the factoring of the codebase. But yeah I rewrote my whole collision detection that holds together with duct-tape and a dream as you have seen for yourself ^
1 year ago(+1)
Thank you for checking out our submission.
these littles pauses are what we try to provoque as puzzle designers are we not ? ^^
Thank you for the feedback, yes the retry button is "now" always on screen, with a shortcut on the "R" key,
as for the undo feature, the way my code is setup (time restaints and such) makes that feature kind of hard to implement, but I do agree that I needs to be in the game -> Gonna take the time to rewrite a bunch of the scripts to make it happen, stay tuned for a post Jam release ^^
1 year ago(+1)
Glad to hear that, we went over the comments we received so far and will start work into trying to take everything into account for a first post jam release... And maybe more ;)
Thank you, fun fact,
I did the level design on an A3 sheet of gridded paper,
wining positions, possible lengths and layouts.
most levels (except for the first one obviously) have multiple solutions and the "Level Cleared" Banner is positioned in such a way to (nearly) never covering up the snakes winning position. Can you find the level where I did not manage this ? ^^
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