I started this in Game Maker because I had worked in it before so I figured it'd be easy to get right into things. Unfortunately, it took me longer than I expected, and I also spent far too much time fiddling with little animation bits. There's some glitchy bits with movement but otherwise I'm happy with it (engine-wise, that is).
tl;dr I spent too much time fiddling with little polish and I ended up not having time to make more levels
Story is that these aliens (blugs, cause they're blue and look like slugs to me) are dying out and need to repopulate, so they flew off to another planet to harvest its resources. As soon as they've got enough nutrients, they asexually reproduce and the first one gets transported back to the spaceship. The planet's interesting new plants can force genetic mutations in the blugs that give them new abilities, so the blugs have decided to take evolution into their own hands and use its' power to get even more nutrients and expand the blug empire.
Controls: Movement - Left + Right keys Jumping - Up key Attack - Z key (not gameplay-useful, only in test room) Fullscreen - F4 Quit - ESC
Too bad you didn't have time to work on proper levels. The engine itself feels polished and I was disappointed when I realized how quickly this was over. Hopefully you will keep on working this!
I couldn't really score this fairly because I kept getting stuck. Basically while trying to make the first ridiculously hard jump up to the platform, which you have to do pixel-perfectly, I got stuck in mid air, not high enough to get over the wall, and also unable to jump. I started again and got past it, and exactly the same thing happened in the next level.
Couldn't pass level 2 after eating the blossom I acquired jump ability but I got stuck in the air and couldn't jump again I restarted the game but the bug still happening btw I like the idea :)
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I'll be waiting for new levels and puzzles)