Candy Cane County

by jeromwaarom

co-authored: @macintoshse

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.29

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.14

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.84

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.82

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.48

Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.14

Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.46

Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.16

Did you ever dream of candy when you were a child? Did you also dream of getting a sugar rush from eating way too much candy and exploding because of an overdose? No? Well, this is your chance!

/// REMEMBER \\\\\\

*Candy* will increase your sugar level! You will get a sugar rush from all that sugar, be careful not to overdose!

*Broccoli* is disgusting! It makes you vomit, but that does mean you lose some of your sugar level!

There might be some *guns* floating around, be sure to grab it if you see one.

/// CONTROLS \\\\\\

Maneuver - W, A, S, D / Arrow Keys

Shoot - Left Mouse / Spacebar

restart - R

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Tags: #colorful, #food, #funny

Genres: action

Comments13

Miguel Polvora4 Dec 2017, 23:00

Nice interpretation of the theme, overall I liked it. Good job!

Kirill Venzhin5 Dec 2017, 18:42

very looong intro( but, GL on jam)

Szeki5 Dec 2017, 20:09

High-score: 11191! Can you beat it? :D

azlen5 Dec 2017, 20:16

Very hard to dodge/shoot some of the candies. Overall, a nice solid game.

JeromWaaromauthor5 Dec 2017, 20:23

Thanks for the feedback, all!

Leandre Renouard5 Dec 2017, 21:36

Ah ah, I laugh a lot when I played the game, I love the moment with the broccoli. And the fact that we shoot on the candy with a gun.
A very fun game, than match well with the theme.

GastricSparrow6 Dec 2017, 12:38

Cool game! Very intuitive game design. Got OVER 9000 points on my first try. It looks good, plays smoothly, and the music is good. It's a bit hard to hit the candy with your bullets, but nonetheless it's a great game!

P.S. I actually laughed when broccoli makes you barf :D

Dudum Lare6 Dec 2017, 16:09

Hahaha! Awesomeeeee! This game is pretty hard and I keep messing up at the same place. I guess that’s the point. Here’s my highscore btw:

Concerning the graphics it looks really good,I have always loved pixel art and that will not change. You made it look really christmasy and that’s impressive. I also like the overdose shader effect thingy.
Concerning the audio, the music is great.

I will totally come back and play this game again, I’m going to beat my highscore.

Overall I like this game very much. I had an amazing time playing it. It’s kind of frustrating in a addictive way, that’s a positive thing. Thank you so much for this experience and good luck in the future! Have an awesome day, and I hope to see you in the next jam!

// Isak from @liquidbrain

fluidvolt6 Dec 2017, 20:41

Really cool. Intro bit is funny. Love the sugar coma blur effect and the distortion around the edges. It's pretty fun flying around with my pistols shooting candy, seeing what the next one will be. Nice one.

automatonvx7 Dec 2017, 19:59

Nicely polished feel, nice pixel art and music was good and really fit the mood too. The sugar overdose effect was a nice touch. Can't think of much to complain about really, perhaps the player movement felt a touch sluggish.By the way on the web version in chrome at least, the full screen button doesn't really make it full screen (shame because I want to get a closer look at the pixel art)