Growing Up

by gelisam

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.03

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.00

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.94

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.32

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.88

Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.18

Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.10

Coolness★★★★★★★★★★62%

Two button controls: left, and right. Grab the balloons (with your hand, not your entire body), avoid the birds (prevent them from touching the balloons, not your body), and enjoy this sad tale on what it really means to grow... up.

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Made in a weekend by Samuel Gélineau and Marc-Olivier Ricard, two exhausted colleagues who should really go to sleep now because they have to work on siftnlp.com tomorrow :)

(By the way the game is written in Haskell and if you think that's cool, I should probably mention that we're a small Montreal startup and that we're always looking for programmers who like or are open to learning functional programming — in Scala though, not Haskell yet unfortunately)

Oh, I almost forgot to mention! Those beautiful graphics were drawn by Camille, Marc-Olivier's girlfriend.

Comments18

disdanes15 Dec 2015, 02:53

I really like the concept of this and I especially love the hand drawn art style! Nice Job!

suppi15 Dec 2015, 03:38

The art is lovely, the mechanics are interesting, and it fits the theme well. some music and sounds would've made it even better!

DrFallos18 Dec 2015, 09:41

Interesting idea to play, a good style, with music would be better

adsilcott20 Dec 2015, 21:37

I like the hand drawn art. Nice game!

Hot Box Games20 Dec 2015, 21:40

Art is pretty and I thought the idea was fantastic and well executed, very poignant. Well done.

tompudding20 Dec 2015, 22:56

It looked great, and it's a lovely idea. It wasn't challenging though really and the the balloon pickup seemed a bit flaky

tigerrenko21 Dec 2015, 00:20

Loved the concept and art, also the way game is really tough and makes you think out of the box

Mirch21 Dec 2015, 02:05

Haha nice!
Art looks good, concept is cool, maybe you could make it like..getting more difficult over time.

hpearson221 Dec 2015, 02:06

Good mood and graphics, took me a sec to realize you can wrap the screen. Why haskell? it seems like a nightmare for a game jam.

Shivur21 Dec 2015, 02:07

I love the animation.

puppetmaster21 Dec 2015, 22:37

I love the handdraw art. They are very cute! Keep up the good work!

MercuryXGames28 Dec 2015, 19:14

That artstyle is the same as the game, Journey. I really like that genuine artstyle.

Muel31 Dec 2015, 03:44

This art.
Ooooh, this art.

Tosic1 Jan 2016, 16:00

Wow! Love the graphics!

gallerdude2 Jan 2016, 17:17

Lots of birds. Gameplay was fun, but it took me a bit to find that the screen was wrapping (which helped me a lot).

Xanjos2 Jan 2016, 23:52

Could do with some sound and most definitely an option to restart the game without having to refresh the entire page but I like the concept plus I love the hand drawn art.