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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Audio | #2 | 4.333 | 4.333 |
| Graphics | #13 | 4.222 | 4.222 |
| Overall | #19 | 3.833 | 3.833 |
| Innovation | #118 | 3.222 | 3.222 |
| Gameplay | #127 | 3.000 | 3.000 |
| Theme interpretation | #151 | 3.167 | 3.167 |
Ranked from 18 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
GitHub repository URL
https://github.com/haydn-smith/waves
Game description
Explore adventure, friendship, and kindness as a smol penguin, making waves in a very big world.
Theme interpretation
Smol Penguin! explores the motif of making waves in the lives of others by the actions we take, and the kindness we show them.
The game also takes place on an Antarctic beach, where waves crash against the shore.
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Comments
Nice! Pretty fun little story told in an interesting enough way not feeling like too much or too little for what it was. The pacing of it was also pretty good but I just would have wanted a bit more things to do on those parts where you had control. Not much but just some extra interactable spots so it wouldn't feel that strictly linear.
Quite often too it "stole" the controls automatically to cutscene mode when just getting close to something instead of allowing the player to activate it themselves with the interact. Of couse it's a small thing but there already was so little actual gameplay in it that every extra bit would count.
Looked and sounded great! Very Undertale coded. And not only the look and sound but even the snowman reminded me of it and there was the "snow poff" moment with the plants. And by the way, does this snowman have a hat or not?
The message box animations were awesome! Small things like these make it really feel more interesting to even more "boring" things like reading the story. Moving on the other hand felt really sluggish, weirdly low framerate and the character kept jittering awkwardly while walking. I first thought that it was not running properly on my machine but then the slick text box appeared and showed that it has no problems running.
The game also refused to work on Firefox for me so I had to retort to using Edge.
Anyways, that's all I've got. With the walking animation fixed and some more actual gameplay things added, it could have easily entertained me for a longer time too. Good job! 👍
Thanks for the thoughtful review! It’d be great to one day expand on the gameplay 😊
The animations were soo smooth
Wow! The artstyle and sound design are sooo good! Finished the entire game and the ending was really beautiful too!
Thanks so much!
This was a adorable and relaxing game! I think you did a great job with the presentation. I had a great time playing it!
Amazing art style and animations! The music and sfx fit the game well. I enjoyed the short but simple story. Great job :)
Thanks! I’m very grateful to my composer who created the music 🙏
PEAK! Literally love this game, with it’s simple style and simplistic storytelling, it’s really good.
Endearing game! Good music and graphics that remind me of Undertale, good and short game ;)
A bit on the simplistic side when it comes to storytelling and gameplay, but it has a great artstyle which holds a lot of charm and potential and something bigger, keep up the good work and hopefully we'll get to see the little penguin in an even bigger adventure someday!
Thanks! I hope so too!
Adorable story and graphics! I enjoyed growing my smol plant and rolling snowballs to help rebuild the snowman. The music was great too.