Press A and D to move the different sides of the bridge up and down to guide nutrient people to the right parts of the body. Don’t let them fall from too high, and keep them out of the stomach acid! You can tell what goes where by the colors. You need your nutrients to stay healthy and grow big! How long will you live?
Ryan Andersen: Programming, art Peilin Li: Programming, art Nick Shooter: Animation, music, sound effects
Update: We've made a few balancing tweaks/bug fixes since our initial submission. The only noticeable differences should be shorter play sessions and faster aging. Enjoy!
I actually like this one a lot haha, it's fun and the general feel is great, but it needs some work still, on the balancing side, it's often impossible not to lose the nutrient people, I feel...
Nice game with a gameplay really funny. Sometimes one of these creatures cannot jump and stays on the screen until the end - it's just a little bug. The aesthetic seems to me weird. Great music in background. A good entry. Thank you ++
Thanks for rating Get It Out! I appreciate the feedback. Hoping I can do a post-compo version with more content, but we'll see. This game was fun and simple. The two button controls made sense and were engaging. I feel like sometimes you have to let them die, which means it's more luck than anything. That said, I liked the little characters and their cute deaths. Lived to be 75! Thanks for sharing and congrats on submitting!
I survived to the ripe old age of 59! Nice concept, and the game works very well. It was simple but effective. I really liked the graphics and sound & music :).
Please package in zip next time, rar is irritating -.-
Game was very fun to play! Interesting concept. You managed to make it feel very organic, as sometimes you needed to help out the blobs as they got stuck under the platforms by lifting up the bone for a split second. One might argue this is a bug, but I think it adds to the experience as a feature. The music fitted the mood of the game very well, and the blobs running around and dying in the acid were a lot of fun to watch :) The only downside is that it gets boring after a while, but as a whole this is a really solid game!
I really enjoyed the gameplay even though it's not that easy to master the platform's movement.
The game itself probably could start more slowly and build up difficulty in a larger timespan. Nonetheless it's great what you and your team were able to put together in the given time.
The sound and humor fit perfectly and give a lot to the whole feel of the game!
Solid game in every aspect. It was way more fun than i expected! I like sounds made by nutrient people and this goofy background music. Gameplay was also very fun, you really need to concentrate especially when you are getting older (neat use of growth theme by the way).
You really succeeded in integrating the two button controls into lemmings style gameplay! Was really fun and awesome feedback, loved the death animations+sounds when they fell into the stomach acid :D
This game was awesome! It has a real "Lemmings" vibe to it, and the music had a strong "Tomba" or "Banjo Kazooie" vibe. All of those are incredibly good things. The art was solid, the concept was great, and the execution was solid, entertaining, and funny!
Easily one of my favourite games from the jam so far! Great job!
Great game. Visuals and sounds are great. The sounds of the nutrients crying as they burn in the stomach acid are hilarious. Very original take on the combination of themes as well. A really solid entry.
Very good game. There still a thing that bugs me... Nutritient people will be inevitably sacrificied at some moment to make a lesser evil, and it goes under such funny and light-hearted music. I want to save them all, but it's impossible! So there's some hidden dark agenda, as I think. Anyway, it's the best overall-balanced game that I played this LD, good luck with it!
Made it to 76. Love the game. Brought me back to playing Lemmings with the little nutrients splattering after falling too far. Their little screams as they dissolved in acid will also haunt me forever...
Really fun cute little game, survived to 69 years old :)
You did a great job with the dropping and raising mechanic to allow some really slick maneuvers when you have multiple dudes who want to go up and down. Great design!
Really fun game. I got to age 75. It's total chaos while playing, as I'm not exactly great with these types of games, but when I got the hang of it, I really enjoyed it!
Kind of difficult with the random colors, but it's a really cool concept. Love the sounds & music - reminds me of Rareware N64 games, or minigames in Final Fantasy.
Awesome use of 2button gameplay. The random spawn is a minus for me, Id prefer some spawning rules s.t. you could e.g. save all happy thought bubbles.. Nice rayman-style yeah/yay sounds and pleasant music.
Oh man this was a hoot to play! Really cute idea and great execution, too! I loved the sound effects that the little nutrient people made when they were matched with the right organ (and when they died in the acid or went splat), they made me chuckle.
Also it was a good challenging game, too! I like how the difficulty slowly increases. The learning curve is kinda tough at first, but after my second and third playthroughs I was able to make it to the ripe old age of 61!
Very nice game, hope you do more with it in the future.
I survived to 65. This one is cute simple and fun-- capitalizes on the human desire for efficiency... also I love hearing those little guys cheer when they make it.
Really cool and unique idea, I loved the graphics and music too. I found that it got quite hard to make sure all the people to the right areas, sometimes I would move the bone and it would hit the lower guys into the acid before I could save them!
This is so clever! I love the ideas of the body getting older and being in the stomach! Music is "silly" but is appropriate for the style and idea you chose and has a sense of humour about it. Well done for sticking to the two buttons. The wonky bone movement is a bit infuriating but adds an element of hilarity and skill. I wanted to save all the things but I couldn't! Well done!
made it to age 67, pretty fun, nice audio and graphics. Sometimes feels like I cant help but lose health though. Also at on point the platform got stuck at the bottom.
Great stuff! It's a wonderful take on both themes, with a really cute aesthetic and a decent amount of polish. The gameplay is easy to learn but difficult to master, which is impressive for a game that doesn't rely on familiar genre conventions. You scoped well, and it shows.
I was a bit thrown off by how the controls were demonstrated before the start of the game. Since nutrient people were already spawning during the tutorial, I thought I was already required to guide them to the right body parts, and wasn't sure how to do that with large parts of my view obscured. I like how the nutrients spawn during the title screen, but I'd recommend that you temporarily turn them off during the tutorial.
Also, since the bone-bridge is controlled entirely by the physics engine, it made it a bit difficult to be as precise in my movements as it felt like the game demanded of me. For example, if I have a yellow nutrient quickly followed by a red nutrient, I'd need to raise the bridge as quickly as possible after the yellow nutrient gets off, but I had trouble doing that without accidentally lifting up the yellow one or letting the red one fall before it reaches the top platform. Then again, I reached age 72 on my first try, and since that's a reasonable human lifespan, I guess the game's telling me I did alright, and the game's not too hard. I feel like it's important for the player to feel like each failure is their fault, though (it helps them feel more in control), so maybe it would be better if the bridge were easier to control, but the game was more punishing of individual failures. Then again, the way the nutrients spawn, the player is forced to sacrifice some of them at times, so maybe the higher punishment rate would just make things more frustrating. I dunno... as I can attest from my entry (which you've already played), difficulty balance is *hard* and requires a lot more playtesting with other people than a game jam typically allows.
By the way: while you are allowed to make bug fixes during the rating period, I think balance tweaks are technically not allowed unless they're for a separate "post-jam version". I'm not going to take any points off my rating for that, but I figure you should know for future reference.
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I really liked the graphics and sound & music :).
Game was very fun to play! Interesting concept. You managed to make it feel very organic, as sometimes you needed to help out the blobs as they got stuck under the platforms by lifting up the bone for a split second. One might argue this is a bug, but I think it adds to the experience as a feature. The music fitted the mood of the game very well, and the blobs running around and dying in the acid were a lot of fun to watch :) The only downside is that it gets boring after a while, but as a whole this is a really solid game!
I really enjoyed the gameplay even though it's not that easy to master the platform's movement.
The game itself probably could start more slowly and build up difficulty in a larger timespan. Nonetheless it's great what you and your team were able to put together in the given time.
The sound and humor fit perfectly and give a lot to the whole feel of the game!
Congratulations!
I like sounds made by nutrient people and this goofy background music. Gameplay was also very fun, you really need to concentrate especially when you are getting older (neat use of growth theme by the way).
Survived to age 65! Can you get to Final Form in my game? :D
Easily one of my favourite games from the jam so far! Great job!
Nutritient people will be inevitably sacrificied at some moment to make a lesser evil, and it goes under such funny and light-hearted music. I want to save them all, but it's impossible! So there's some hidden dark agenda, as I think.
Anyway, it's the best overall-balanced game that I played this LD, good luck with it!
Combination = Organ-izer
Great work :)
You did a great job with the dropping and raising mechanic to allow some really slick maneuvers when you have multiple dudes who want to go up and down. Great design!
Also it was a good challenging game, too! I like how the difficulty slowly increases. The learning curve is kinda tough at first, but after my second and third playthroughs I was able to make it to the ripe old age of 61!
Very nice game, hope you do more with it in the future.
The game is well made and I like how difficulty gradualy increase! Good job! ;)
I was a bit thrown off by how the controls were demonstrated before the start of the game. Since nutrient people were already spawning during the tutorial, I thought I was already required to guide them to the right body parts, and wasn't sure how to do that with large parts of my view obscured. I like how the nutrients spawn during the title screen, but I'd recommend that you temporarily turn them off during the tutorial.
Also, since the bone-bridge is controlled entirely by the physics engine, it made it a bit difficult to be as precise in my movements as it felt like the game demanded of me. For example, if I have a yellow nutrient quickly followed by a red nutrient, I'd need to raise the bridge as quickly as possible after the yellow nutrient gets off, but I had trouble doing that without accidentally lifting up the yellow one or letting the red one fall before it reaches the top platform. Then again, I reached age 72 on my first try, and since that's a reasonable human lifespan, I guess the game's telling me I did alright, and the game's not too hard. I feel like it's important for the player to feel like each failure is their fault, though (it helps them feel more in control), so maybe it would be better if the bridge were easier to control, but the game was more punishing of individual failures. Then again, the way the nutrients spawn, the player is forced to sacrifice some of them at times, so maybe the higher punishment rate would just make things more frustrating. I dunno... as I can attest from my entry (which you've already played), difficulty balance is *hard* and requires a lot more playtesting with other people than a game jam typically allows.
By the way: while you are allowed to make bug fixes during the rating period, I think balance tweaks are technically not allowed unless they're for a separate "post-jam version". I'm not going to take any points off my rating for that, but I figure you should know for future reference.