Gender Gender

Overall★★★★★★★★★★2.81
Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.71
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.12
Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.36
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.13
Audio★★★★★★★★★★2.05
Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.52
Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.40
Coolness★★★★★★★★★★50%
Helloooo! This is my first jam, and also my first game! :D I initially tried for compo but realized I couldn't make it in time (Started in less than 12hrs for compo time) so I tried finishing for the jam instead :)

I am quite happy with the outcome, though!

Gameplay:
You have 30 (NOW 60!) seconds to play this game: turn into a guy to attract girl enemies, and turn into a girl to attract guy enemies! Every enemy charmed is a score gained!

Art & Sound by me
Coding by ranmaru90
(ranmaru90 helped me recreate the game in Unity after we fail to get GDevelop to work, he joined solo for compo, check out his game Hot Kitty!)

Made initially with GDevelop but switched to Unity
Sound : Bfxr

EDIT: You can now play it on my itch.io! Note: The game screen isn't full, you can't see the score. :(

FIX 1
- Tweaked the jump sfx, sound won't be repeatedly played anymore
- Tweaked the movement, movements much more controlled now.
- Changed to 60 seconds per gameplay

Note from my coder ranmaru90:

If you are playing the Web version on itch.io, when the game is done loading:

1. Click on the "Full Screen Button" at the bottom right corner.
2. Click on the Unity logo
3. Click on the pink area in the game.

Now you should be able to play. I'm not sure if I did anything wrong, but the Unity WebGL export could be buggy.

If it still doesn't load, refresh it. It should finish loading by now and after refreshing would help.

Genres: platformer
Tools: Unity

Comments16

cbear_wallis21 Apr 2015, 13:20
the web version is broken for me :( and im on mac
wg_phancock21 Apr 2015, 13:24
Graphics and animations are very smooth and polished. Mechanics feel like a standard platformer affair, which isn't bad.

One issue is with sound. Holding space bar plays the jump sound every update frame...which is painful.
Horsed
Horsed21 Apr 2015, 13:26
The game doesn't seem to react on my keyboard inputs :-( Nothing moves.
NIGIC21 Apr 2015, 13:30
Web version seems to freeze when the game starts. Windows version works, albeit with a few glitches. (First time through, jump sound would spazz out until I landed and double-jump wouldn't work. On later runs I had issues getting the transformation to trigger. Movement feels sluggish, too, as if it wasn't updating at a full framerate.)

Blobs with hats is an interesting character design. The game in general feels positively silly. Like it. Good job!
Chikoness
Chikonessauthor21 Apr 2015, 13:33
Thanks for the comments all!

The web version is edited! you can now full screen in case it doesn't respond :)

I will check on the sound, thanks for pointing it out wg_phankcock :)
ranmaru90
ranmaru9021 Apr 2015, 13:35
Chikoness has edited the itch.io page and added a "Full Screen Button" to it.

If you are playing the Web version on itch.io, when the game is done loading:

1. Click on the "Full Screen Button" at the bottom right corner.
2. Click on the Unity logo
3. Click on the pink area in the game.

Now you should be able to play. I'm not sure if I did anything wrong, but the Unity WebGL export could be buggy.

Also, yeah, sorry about the sound, it was put in at the last minute.
Ogniok21 Apr 2015, 13:37
Great idea - perfectly suits the theme! :D
nassi21 Apr 2015, 14:11
Tried the windows version.

Character art is nice, but the environment doesn't really match. Also the gameplay is simple yet all sorts of wonky with seemingly unlimited jumping (along with the sound effect) and unresponsive gender switching.

Congratulations on your first game though :P.
The Capitalist Crayfish
The Capitalist Crayfish21 Apr 2015, 15:26
The graphics look very polished, and gameplay is fun. The controls are a bit clunky here and there though, but it's a nice game all in all.
Chikoness
Chikonessauthor21 Apr 2015, 16:59
Thank you for the comments and criticisms, I've done some minor changes :)
nutcrack22 Apr 2015, 09:04
Nice Idea, i like it!
Webversion takes forever to load, and crashs then...
Chikoness
Chikonessauthor22 Apr 2015, 10:08
Hi nutcrack, try refreshing the page if it doesn't seem to load :)
nopogo
nopogo22 Apr 2015, 12:36
Movement feels very crisp, and in platformers thats ofc the most important thing! well done :)
GTA LUDUM V23 Apr 2015, 17:48
Appreciate your idea, "gender bender", very unique.
Keep it up!
pvwradtke
pvwradtke24 Apr 2015, 02:51
That was worth trying. First the bad: physics can get in the way, it's not easy to control. The good: the idea is pretty much cool, not bad for a first try, not bad at all! Graphics do work well, and, above all, it's funny to play. Charming enemies is really a nice touch.
kirbytails725 Apr 2015, 07:51
Nice. The movement feels sluggish, though, probably because it's force/acceleration-based?

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