Two friends want to reach the same place together but they have a little problem: They live in completely different worlds! Help the friends reach the common goal while swapping between the red and blue world. While the friends might not be able to see each others worlds, they can still interact by serving as a platform or carrying each other.
Press Enter in the menus to just jump straight to 1st level Use Arrow Keys or WASD to move and jump Press Spacebar to swap worlds Press Esc to return to stage select Press R to restart current room Press M to mute and unmute the game
Wow, this is super polished! The reaction when one falls is very cute. This is just a great little game! Very well done! I'd love to see controller support in the future!
Another very polished entry from you! That's a given as always. ;) Just the right amount of levels and the graphics were really cute. Can't say anything bad about it really. Why you so good!?
Holy cow this is solid for a game jam game! Maybe it was just the darker colors or maybe I saw an unbalance of spikes but I felt like blue's world was a bit harsher than red's which kinda (at least in my own head) gives it an even more interesting narrative.
Indeed, the idea is similar to my game, but your game is clearly better than mine ! Probably the best game I found so far. Graphics are cute, music is good and the levels are fun ! Great job !
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youngmadeof25 Aug 2014, 15:07
Really enjoyable puzzle platform romp. A quality entrant.
Cute! And the puzzles arn't as frustratingly hard as most LD games. One point of critique is that the worlds don't really feel like 'worlds.' It's more abstract than I'm used to from you. It would be cool if the worlds had completely different feels to them. This entry is awesome as always, but that would have made it even MORE awesome. :)
Very nice. I love the Game Boy Color feel. I want the controls to be a bit snappier, but minor note there. The mechanic is definitely not that new, but it is implemented very well. I love the simple animations, especially the hair. I would definitely play more of this if it were updated post LD weekend.
Yes, this is what I call a good "multidimensional" pixelart platformer for the theme! :D Perfect... but I somehow knew it even before I started the game :P
Very nice! Great, simple art and sounds. My only complaint would be the "floaty" controls make precision jumps difficult. Luckily, I only had trouble with that on the last level. Enjoyed it!
Great game! The pixel art is awesome and I love the character animations. Puzzles are interesting and sometimes challenging. I like the idea of using the other character as a stepping stone or carrying them. Creates some clever gameplay ideas.
(And yes, you're right, our games are quite similar!)
This game is very similar to mine in mechanic. I love the art style, and the gender-ized worlds and backgrounds. The music did get a bit loopy, but overall great game.
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Sheepolution25 Aug 2014, 23:10
This is so freaking cute! I love it! I love their faces, I love the look of the levels, the look of the background. The graphics in general are really good, along with the audio. It really gives me this SNES game feeling. And the game feels complete. It feels like a finished game, except short. The only thing I was missing was more and better levels.
This is so adorable it hurts! I had one stumbling point around the time I needed to know that the characters can carry each other. I had the impression that they were completely immovable when I wasn't in their world. I figured it out eventually but you may want a level that more directly forces it to happen. Just a thought. Fantastic work, as usual!
Wow, such a great game. Perfect style, so cute characters, nice "story". It was a bit easy for my taste, but that way at least I had a chance to complete it :D
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_Rilem26 Aug 2014, 13:06
Looks amazing, fun and clever mechanic. Also super polished! :)
It is very fun and I just completed it! The graphics are very polished and the mechanics are very cool! The music is not so good, but I think it is acceptable for auto generated music.
Amazing! I always love playing your games. The difficulty curve was spot on, though I thought maybe the later levels would have a higher difficulty ceiling. The music and art work together really well, and I especially loved the surprised face each character made when the other died. Great job!
Very impressive! I really have no criticisms. The controls were spot on, the levels were extremely well designed, the graphics and sounds were great. Surprisingly polished for a 48 hour game! Well done.
Wow, holy crap! This is super-well done, and the mechanics, art, sound, everything come off as really polished. It's pretty inhuman you did this in 48 hours. Great game, one of my favorite submissions. :) And I love them pixel people ^^
SO.... CUTE! What a great aesthetic, and spot-on controls too. I'm amazed that so many puzzles could be so tightly made in such a short time. Great work!
I got stuck on level 5 or so but had a great time. Loved the graphic when your buddy falls! Nicely polished and I had not seen this mechanic. Nice job. Can I get it on my phone soon? :)
Jump sound gets very repetitive and controls aren't fluent.
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Navarckyx27 Aug 2014, 11:16
Out of all the "two people helping each other" games I've played, I have only played a few I must admit, but I think this is the best so far. The level design is very good, ramping up in complexity but never becoming too hard as to be frustrating. Colours are nice, graphics are nice, they're as cute together as it was ever possible to make them (and are happy when they meet up!)
Heart Star has more polish than you expect from most games. I'd love to be able to make a game this good in 48 hours.
There was one bug I found where I could, from underneath, push the partner I was not currently using and cause them to fall through solid matter and into the abyss. It's a minor complaint though and once again well done!
Such a well done game, so polished and fun to play. The character movement feels great and the puzzles are cleverly done with nice progression in difficulty.
Gorgeous! I liked the music and SFX. I did keep having issues because I swapped worlds when I meant to jump, but that is probably just too much training from other platformers ._. Really polished and complete! I'd like to see some more difficult levels... maybe some with more moving parts and whatnot :D
Very well polished game for the time limit. I love the pixel artwork, the sound, everything. The way the little characters act when their counterpart dies is great too. Well done!
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JoeDev_net27 Aug 2014, 21:04
I enjoyed this game a lot and thought you did a good job ramping up the difficulty. The music was also very enjoyable! Great job!
The degree of polish on this thing is incredible. Gameplay is great, length is long enough to explore all concepts but not wear them out, graphics are awesome... Amazing work! :)
Very nicely polished. Fairly solid mechanics, but spikes seemed equivalent to non-existent blocks, so kind of pointless. I think the level design could have done with more work. Some obstacles were resolved on the necessary route to the platform, so weren't really obstacles at all. - Qualia
Great use of the theme on this one! Having both characters exist on the same plane while each is in a parallel stage layout is a really clever idea, and this concept was explored pretty in-depth despite there being only ten levels. And I loved the visuals! The adorable idle animations really added a lot to the experience. I'm excited to see what's in store for the post-compo version!
Gotta love those cute animations :D the levels are nice, not too challenging but they fit well with the calming mood of the game. I really feel bad for them when I fall of the platforms
Art, music, mood, et cetera are all beautiful! However, the game was a bit slow and the physics/controls were a bit slippery. The combination of those two made the game very difficult at certain points.
Very cool & clever little game. I cannot understand how you could do this from start to finish in just 48 hours. That's amazing feat.
I might have preferred some other color instead of purple... maybe like a blog that has both blue+red on them. (While I do get that "blue+red=purple", logically good). Just a tiny notion when I cannot come up with anything really useful :)
Another thing: I would perhaps considered showing those other dude's blocks transparently. Perhaps. I don't know if that would hurt the experience, but just something to think about.
I didnt like the audio that much... but that's probably me :D -- I do think it fits the rest of the game well though.
Very well done, a polished 48 hour entry. Congratulations!
Very well made small puzzle game. Mechanic isn't providing something new. But looking too polished. Level design is pretty good =) Visuals and music are nice.
Very well polished, cute, and fun to play! Great way to work with the theme, I can see this being produced into a full length game. My favorite aspect was the ability to carry the other character.
Amazingly well done and polished! Great graphics and sound, perfect use of the theme and great puzzle design around the main mechanic. The pacing of the puzzles was perfect, I would have loved to play more. You should make a bigger game out of this, one of the best Ludum Dare 30 games I've played.
This is the cutest thing =D Fun game, levels are nice, but it only gets a little challenging at the end, would have liked to have seen what the next few more difficult levels might have been like :)
That was a great experience: cool graphics, catchy music, clever gameplay, ... Nicely executed and with a correct learning curve. Spot on! Amazing work!!
Great style and mood for and smart puzzle-platformer. The one thing that pulled down the experience was the lack of control when jumping. It was too easy to miss the intended landing spot and it didn't feel like that complexity was really suitable. So I would suggest giving the player better control while in the air as the main point to improve.
Nothing too outrageous, but really really solid, polished and balanced. I do miss that exceptional thing that some of your other games had, like duke dashington!
This would be a classic if it was released in 80s. Right now I don't know how it would do in today's market but the idea and realization is so good. I imagined a multiplayer mode where players act in real time, not by turn :)
Looks great, sounds good too. The surprised expression when the partner fails is amusing. Completed the game in Google Chrome on Windows 7. Worked great.
Wow! An awesome entry! The art is adorable and the gameplay is pretty cool (and fits very well with the theme). Also, has nice sounds. Congrats for the excellent work ^_^
Great game! Complete from start to finish. Decent 8-bit audio and 8-bit general feel. Dual worlds are laid out well. Characters are lovable. Mild humor by stepping on each other's heads to get to the next platform. This would make a good 2-player side by side or arcade with 2 screens.
Really nice game. I would have preferred a less abstract world, and I don't think the idea of two platformer levels at the same time is new, but the game is still very pleasant to play.
Hi there. Delightful and charming platformer. The physics was very good, nice collisions and things just-in-reach. Red/Blue/Purple walls mechanic very nice. Appropriate sounds and nice pixel art. Good job!
Another awesome entry. You really have the LD thing figured out. The graphics were great. The puzzles were fantastic. This would have been great on a Gameboy. Awesome Job.
This was a near perfect game. My only criticism is that you could fall off the levels to the left and right, which I only found by ...
There have been other games with a similar theme, but this ticked all of the boxes in all of the ways. It has great looks, fantastic chip tunes, and plays really, really well.
This belongs on the Wii-U store, or similar. It really is that good.
It's so cute my teeth are hurting. Really clever little game, I would've wanted to see this on the GameBoy. That'd been cool! The controls are a little floaty, and there's the occasional Flash framerate hiccup. Other than that, perfect! :)
Very good and solid entry, with adorable audiovisuals. The levels aren't particularly puzzling, but I'll forgive that given the timespan. The main reason why it's not one of my absolute top entries (instead making it only to the regular top, how terrible) is because I've played nearly 150 games at that point and found games that are somehow more innovative or have more advanced narration. ^^"
The production value on this one is really high. Great music and graphics. Just the gameplay is nothing really new, and the levels themselves seemed to repeat themselves, not introducing any new concepts or challenges.
Great game! I love it. Definitely one of my favorites. Great level design. The progression between the levels is perfect. :D. Amazing job! Congratulations
I can't say enough good things about this entry. It's just really solid all the way through. Graphics are perfect for the feel. The puzzles are fun to play through instead of frustrating. The theme is definitely there. Everything is good. Very solid entry.
The only thing I'd polish is the audio: it should be as two-sided as the visuals. Start with a midi file, change one set of instruments to slow warm heartbeats and the other to high glassy watery sparkles. Pan the heartbeats to the left and the sparkles to the right. Make two music files, one for each world: one with the left side loud and the right side quiet, and one with the reverse. Maybe make a third version with no panning and even volume, and play it when both friends are on the platform.
Nice work!