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Hop Step Shrimp!!'s itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Theme | #10 | 2.840 | 2.840 |
| Art Style / Visuals | #15 | 2.600 | 2.600 |
| Audio / Sound Design | #18 | 2.480 | 2.480 |
| Overall | #19 | 2.500 | 2.500 |
| Gameplay / Fun / Engagement | #37 | 2.080 | 2.080 |
Ranked from 25 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
How does your game interpret and use the theme?
We interpreted "The Long Way to Home" not as a long physical distance, but as a challenging mechanical journey.
Based on the Japanese children's game Kutsu-tobashi (throwing shoes to predict the weather), players must advance solely by tossing their own shoes.
Overcome obstacles like cars and bird droppings to finally reach home!
Devlog Challenge?
Easter Egg Challenge?
Easter Eggs
We added three red shrimps to the stages.
You can clear the game without collecting all the shrimps.
By collecting the shrimps, you can read a short special message from us.
Did you use Farclip and want to be considered for the Farclip Award? (optional)
Game Engine?
Self-made & used stuff?
Have you joined a game jam before?
Roughly how much time did you spend developing? (in hours)
100h
Anything else you'd like to share about your game or development process?
This game is being developed by a five-person team.
Here are their Discord names:
すーけさん(@sukesan_0306)
ちりめん(@t1r1men)
Sophie(@sapphire09sm)
MM_W(@mm_w)
げち🦐(@gechi_ungexiren)
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Cute Shrimp!
Gameplay was very creative. I liked the concept a lot and I think it was executed fairly well. I thought the concept was pretty fun to play around with too! Main complaint here is that I wish I could turn the camera, as it being static made the shoe a bit hard to aim at times. Also perhaps make the jumping be a bit faster, as it does a drag a bit. Other than that the game is pretty enjoyable :D
Visually the game was solid. I really liked the terrain visuals, and I thought the art of the player was super well done! Only improvement is to add more animations to girl when she jumps or when she is idle. That would be the nice cherry on top!
Audio was great! I thought the sound effects were solid, and the music was super fun and thematic!
Theme interpretation was also super good! Fairly simple, but there is nothing wrong with that as it was executed well!
Overall, super cute game with a great premise!
AWWW, HOPPING HOME BY THROWING YOUR OWN SHOES IS ABSOLUTELY WILD! 😂🦐👟
This is such a creative interpretation of the theme. Taking the Japanese Kutsu-tobashi idea and turning it into the entire movement system is really clever, and the little shrimp character makes the whole thing ridiculously charming. 🦐 The obstacles like cars and bird droppings fit perfectly with the simple-but-chaotic concept, and the three hidden red shrimp are a really cute extra touch.
For improvement, I’d mainly polish the shoe trajectory and difficulty curve. Making the predicted landing point match the actual landing more closely, or adding a little forgiveness/checkpoint system, would make the mechanic easier to learn without taking away the challenge. A few more variations in obstacles or stages could also keep the later sections fresh.
SUCH A FUN AND ORIGINAL JAM IDEA! 🦐👟🔥 AMAZING WORK, ESPECIALLY WITH 100 HOURS AND A FIVE-PERSON TEAM! GOOD LUCK WITH THE JAM! 🎮✨
I’m probably too old for the floor is lava premise, but there’s a really cool hopscotch mechanic in here.
The mechanic is a good idea, I think it just needs a second layer. The guarantee of your destination takes all of the challenge away. Maybe if you select a destination but then have another mechanic for accuracy of that selection or something.
The visuals were mixed and matched it seemed to me. The audio is well mixed. Overall it is a complete game. Solid work!
Really cool different concept and mechanic, has a pretty unique artstyle and looks good as well. I tried for around 5-6 times, but i couldnt get past the 3rd or 4th obstacle.. i think maybe the difficulty tuning is a bit of an issue as well as the unforgiving nature of the game - just 1 attempt to cross and restart from he beginning after failure. Maybe it is more of the fact that aiming the trajectory of the shoe is not exact and it takes a few attempts since the game is in 2D and the character moves along the Z-axis. For example to land on the platform i had to move the mouse many time from different angles to get the correct trajectory. These factors combines make it bery difficult to pickup and get into instantly as there are a lot of factors which cause fricition very early on. The art is done well especially the player character and also the obstacles. I think it needs polish in the gameplay and mechanics but has enough good elements to build on, well done :)
Really cute game, and such an original idea! It reminded me of when I was a kid and I had to step only on the tiles I was supposed to walk on.
The art style is really nice, and for some reason it also gave me a bit of déjà vu, like a funny anime from the ’90s hahaha.
My only feedback would be about the audio. The music fits the game really well, but I felt like the car sounds were a little out of place compared to the rest of the atmosphere.
Feel free to try my game too and let me know what you think! :)
Great work, this is very cute and polished! There are some lengths and you might have overestimated the patience of the average game jam player, but overall it's a great game you made there.
Very cute game! I got frustrated with the movement tho, it shows the parabola but the character actually falls before the goal. Overall cool idea.
Cute game! I like the idea of only following the lines to get home. I got a little frustrated at the hopping speed, especially with having to go back far sometimes if the shoe went a bit too far into the road. The aiming distance also felt a bit strange to me, it seemed like it should match my mouse movement, but was much more exaggerated – a small move changed changed the position a lot.
Cool idea, and I enjoyed the music/theming!
i cant seem to play it on the browser , when i tried downloading it there is no executable files too, but from the images it looks great and the concept is also nice!
Thank you for your comment! I’m glad you liked the concept and artwork✨
I'm sorry to hear that you couldn't play it. I just tried it, and the game worked properly.
The Start button can be a little difficult to click depending on where you click. Also, there is a dark screen for about 6 to 18 seconds after clicking “Run Game” before the game starts. Sorry for the long loading time!
Please try reloading the page and clicking the Start button again. Thank you for trying out our game!
The first time I couldn’t click the play button for some reason, I had to refresh the page and then it worked. I really like the style of the game. The idea of hopping back home using only white lines was interesting and fun. よくやった!
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