It took me a while to come up with a way to use this theme, but I eventually came up with the thought of "You Only Get One" relating to food, which eventually turned into this little arcade puzzle shooter idea. "Bafflements" was just the name I gave the enemies temporarily while trying to find a good context, but it eventually stuck!
Unfortunately I wasn't able to get everything in I would have liked to, the most notable part being the lack of music in the game, and I would have liked to have had time to test the difficulty curves and all that. But! I did it to prove that I could actually produce something in 48 hours. It's also the first time I'm releasing anything I've made to the public, so just entering is a big step for me!
I made my game with the following tools/resources: GameMaker Studio 1.2 GIMP BFXR "freepixel" font (found at dafont.com)
No pre-existing assets of my own were used beyond reference material. Source files are located inside the zip file.
A couple things to note that aren't in the in-game manual: Full screen can be enabled/disabled with alt+enter Game can be paused/resumed with ESC (text is somewhat buggy when transferring between game/menu and the "Start New Game" button resumes the game, only acts as a restart after game over) Levels can be chosen with the level select button before the game starts, up to level 99... and I highly don't recommend going that high! It hurts!
That's strange... thanks for letting me know, though. GM gives me my fair share of headaches, it seems. I got it working on three systems, myself, so hopefully it isn't a wide-spread issue!
It's a very challenging but a very nice game. Just a little bit distant from the theme but feeding only one per bafflewatchamatcha's counts I guess. But it's definately original, well presented, solid gameplay. It's worth learning the rules. I was able to get to round 5 and saw an "L" can you believe it:)
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Theme is good, Mood and Innovation are great!
5 for me overall, if I don't rate Audio.