You’re jumping on a trampoline and trying to go higher. 100,000 height wins.
Grow or shrink your weight to escape from the trampoline pit by collecting weights or floats. Sort of like a reverse Ridiculous Fishing mixed with that trampoline mini-game in Kirby. Gameplay Video: https://youtu.be/2LeVcmlYNhE
Controls: * HOLD spacebar to increase weight. Release to decrease weight. Pressing it or letting go will clear the mass you've collected. * A & D to move left and right. * Even more fun on a controller.
Tips: * You want to hold down Spacebar on the way down and let go right before the trampoline tries to send you upwards. Then you want to hold spacebar again as you start to fall. * A little bit of timing goes a long way. Try to get rid of your weight before the trampoline lets go. * The faster you're going, the better it is to focus on avoiding the wrong item. * Can be beaten in about 7 jumps
Credits: Art, Design, Programming: Boz Music: Matt, Justin, and special guest dog Otto
The Unity WebGL export is still a little buggy, if it's not working, reload and try again
The art is a bit inconsistent with the highres pick ups and solid color poly everything else but other than that I liked it. Its different from other games that look like it so that was nice to see. Pretty good.
The controls and goal were pretty unintuitive at first, but once I got the hang of it, it was neat and fun for a few minutes. Not clear if there was any kind of goal or advancement? Anyway, fun -- thanks for the game!
Wow, the controls were tuned perfectly, everything felt great. As other people are saying, it took a while to figure out what to do (I think boiling it down to "get blue things while going up, get red things while going down" would have helped). I think the art assets all fit together really well, the high-res, abstract, sparse look is pulled off fantastically. It didn't really feel like it totally fit into the theme of the Jam, though.
I think the thing that was disorienting for me was the sudden, immediate turnaround when you reached the bottom of your jump. I kept expecting the trampoline to start giving resistance and eventually slow to zero before the tension finally launched me back up.
I had trouble figuring out how the game works but after reading your instructions (and tips) in your post I eventually got it. A better explanation or preferably input feedback in game would have helped a lot. For example you could shape the player object like an arrow and point it down when space is pressed and up when space is released.
I think that if you made the trampoline bow up and down instead of following the player's height it would be more understandable :P I spent 3 minutes playing thinking that the blue line was the score.
Not so easy to understand why I manage to go where I want and why I don't. But this hypnotic music prevented me to rage against this strange physics behavior. And I reached only 27000+, far below the target score, but it's fine, it was fun trying to.
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Really enjoying the graphics!
The controls and goal were pretty unintuitive at first, but once I got the hang of it, it was neat and fun for a few minutes. Not clear if there was any kind of goal or advancement? Anyway, fun -- thanks for the game!
I like the graphics~