A space traveler crashes on an alien planet and finds a shape-shifting friend named Buddy. With your new found companion, you must make your way trough a strange land to find your lost ship parts, while avoiding the local wildlife. Be nice to Buddy, he's all you got.
This game was made in a meetup hosted by Lone Star College as an event for students in the game design degree. If you like this game please check out the games made by our fellow students.
Update 4/20: Version 1.1 has had a few updates in the graphics and also some bug fixes. Will continue to bug hunt and will update the download folder as we post new builds.
Update 4/20: Version 1.2 Has a new control scheme and we have lowered the background music.
Update 4/22: Version 1.3 Fixed Lvl 2 out of bounds bug. Another volume adjustment to the background music. Centered the Ship Part Found graphic correctly.
We will be posting a build with updated music and changes soon. Any version
after VERSION 1.3 will be post Ludum Dare and should not be used for rating.
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astouder19 Apr 2016, 03:21
Our first game jam and it was a blast. Put every ounce of energy into it.
We hope you all love Star Buddy!
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astouder19 Apr 2016, 14:51
Dang this game is hard. Hope you all love a challenge!(yes it is beatable) going to make some touchups to the tile work. As well as a "ship part found" message that didnt make it into the build.
Really nice little game, especially for your first LD :) It was indeed hard to notice those little green guys sometimes like someone mentioned before. I found the player a tiny bit unresponsive, maybe make the moving and jumping a bit faster. But otherwise good job :)
The final version of this game's difficulty will be way more balanced when we actually have more than 72 hours to make it. Really hard to balance a game when one of your enemies is added to the game 40 minutes before the deadline.
I'm really glad people seem to be liking it despite the hard difficulty!
Very nice game. I just couldn't stand the controls, mostly the keyboard layout. It was very troublesome to me. But I guess that with some practise I should be ok. Except that part it's a pretty good game overall.
I watched your game on Shakesoda and that was super cool! I could NOT get passed level one but it was cool to see them pass it!! lol!! Fantastic game! The whole feel of it was awesome and you guys nailed the theme for sure!
Very cute! The shield didn't seem all that useful and I wish there had been some use for the platform in the first level because that was the best fun I had! The punch sound is very satisfying and I really like the general concept here.
Everything a game needs is in this game. I would have liked to see some puzzles requiring the other two morphs early on and interspersed with combat segments. Great entry.
Oh that's difficult. Movements are a bit too slow, maybe that's due to the gravity on this planet. Anyway graphics are nice and simple. Did I mentioned slow controls?
What seemed like a cute game about human-and-alien friendship, turned out to be a brutal game about giant jellyfish knocking you into pits of murderous blobs. Other than that sudden change, graphics and music were still cute and pleasant.
I really liked all the different modes star buddy could go into. I liked how clever you could be with it. When we discovered that you could smush the enemies with your star buddy in platform mode, it was a fun surprise. Platforming using the platform mode was fairly fun once we got the hang of using it.
Pretty cute. Can't figure out how to lift up with the platform, though. Animations were solid. Sound effects fit. I love punching those evil little slimes.
@Sathomason thanks! The platform shape was not meant to go up but horizontal as much as you want. So don't feel bad for not figuring it out.. the only up movement is the jump button. :)
- For those who mentioned the slow 'floaty" movements... This was on purpose.. our other game (Space Ninja) is very fast and time based, so we wanted this game to be more relaxed and slower paced. Plus the floatyness I felt was more alien planet like. - For those who mentioned the difficulty.. Yea it's hard! A little harder then was intended. We didn't get much time for balancing it. The "Jellies" were added to the build late and did not get enough time spent on fine tuning them.. they were supposed to float around, have slower projectiles and be killable with attack buddy or deflected projectile. Sorry bout that :( (A third enemy didn't make the game.)
We hope you all love Star Buddy!