Pelinguin's Strange Journey is a 2D platformer in which you play a half-pelican half-penguin creature who's looking after some scrolls. Starting from nothing, you'll acquire new powers to progress through your adventure.
How to play:
With Keyboard : Arrow Keys or WASD to move E to Interact (You'll have to find the other controls ;) after all you should start with nothing!)
With a controller : Left joystick to move B button to Interact (You'll have to figure out what the other buttons do ;) after all you should start with nothing!)
If you can't hear the sound from the game, it's not because your speakers are broken. It's because we chose not to put the sound we tried to make since we were not skilled enough to make good sounding music.
I like the look and feel of your game. Simplistic as the graphics may seem, the Pelinguin und Slimeblob are super cute. Everything has a nice mood to it, I'm especially a fan of the twinkling stars :)
I had problems, though: In the tower like level I was not able to progress upwards because my jump was too low or the slime pushed me out. I could not figure out what to do.
Also, I think the choice of controls is suboptimal. using the arrow keys to move is good, but E is really far from the keypad. On the other hand A and D are used for moving, but I can't jump whit W. This feels weird. And forcing use of the mouse to close dialogues is also a thing I did not like about the controls.
Nevertheless, I am a fan of your cute atmosphere :)
I like the penguin art and animation. Character movement felt a bit slow and sluggish though, and also couldn't figure out how to move up past the slime guy.
Hello guys, thanks for the feedbacks :) ! Sorry that you didn't make it through the end, we should have give you some tips during the game. We wanted to make a game where you have to try stuff by yourself until you find the right answer, but I guess it didn't suit to this kind of game (or we just didn't do it properly uwu)!
Hello guys, thanks a bunch for the feedback ! Yes our designer really nailed it !
As @etoile mentioned, we wanted the player to find the keys for each level, and it's logic for the lore of our Pelinguins ;) As for the level 4, you can shoot projectiles with the mouse click, you should really beat this level to see the easter eggs afterwards, and discover what happens to our ... hero?
The E button spam contest is torture. I can feel the arthrosis forming. Is the speed to it bound to framerate? Other than that I liked the jump challenge before it :)
@jefvel Whoops sorry for that x) It seems that we forgot to take the deltatime into account. Thank you for letting us know! We will try to make an update that'll fix this ^^
(Don't break your arm because of our game please, that's not our goal >w
I enjoyed the visuals and the penguins movement felt very smooth. Though sometimes I felt like I was hitting my head on a lot of things that would mess up my jumps.
"you play a half-pelican half-penguin" this intrigued me :). Good entry, the animations are nice, but you could speed up the transitions (especially when going back upright). Well done.
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I had problems, though: In the tower like level I was not able to progress upwards because my jump was too low or the slime pushed me out. I could not figure out what to do.
Also, I think the choice of controls is suboptimal. using the arrow keys to move is good, but E is really far from the keypad. On the other hand A and D are used for moving, but I can't jump whit W. This feels weird. And forcing use of the mouse to close dialogues is also a thing I did not like about the controls.
Nevertheless, I am a fan of your cute atmosphere :)
Sorry that you didn't make it through the end, we should have give you some tips during the game. We wanted to make a game where you have to try stuff by yourself until you find the right answer, but I guess it didn't suit to this kind of game (or we just didn't do it properly uwu)!
Yes our designer really nailed it !
As @etoile mentioned, we wanted the player to find the keys for each level, and it's logic for the lore of our Pelinguins ;)
As for the level 4, you can shoot projectiles with the mouse click, you should really beat this level to see the easter eggs afterwards, and discover what happens to our ... hero?
Other than that I liked the jump challenge before it :)
(Don't break your arm because of our game please, that's not our goal >w
I thought it was suspiciously difficult, like what kind of super humans made this game :smile:
A bit too difficult to make the right jumps when you get to the slimeys or what-they-are.
Great job on the game!
Also I might be your 20th rating :D
If you’d like to rewatch the playthrough, you can find it here: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/494941552?t=2h56m51s
Hope you got some valuable feedback on your game and looking forward to seeing you next LD jam if I dont catch you before then! :D
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