Scribble from Scratch

Overall★★★★★★★★★★4.14
Fun★★★★★★★★★★4.03
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.95
Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.69
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★4.46
Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.29
Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.43
Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.82
"Every great story starts with an empty sheet of paper"

Reach the goal of our 13 handcrafted levels by scribbling your solution. But mind the limited ink.

Learn to Scribble from Scratch
Tutorial screenshot.png
Overcome challenges
Challenge.png
Find your own creative solution :-)
Creativity screenshot.png

Controls:

Editor mode (Active on Level load)
- left mouse to place a scribble.
- right mouse to delete them.

Play Mode
- A to move left.
- D to move right.

Feel free to share your experience with us in the comments as feedback is very welcome! We would also love to see how you solved a level if you are recording it!!

screenshot

Comments42

TheGameGuy8 Oct 2019, 06:14
A beautiful game, brilliant everything. Well done.
ScarletMayhem8 Oct 2019, 06:43
Nicely done! Was a little confused with the UI at the beginning, particularly with the repeated start button, but overall it was really amusing!
Duboisaxel8 Oct 2019, 06:46
Really liked the sketch drawing design, the mechanics are intersting and its also challenging which makes the game fun to play.
johnfn
johnfn8 Oct 2019, 06:48
This is a really clever mechanic. Also, the dedication to the handdrawn feel on the graphics side of things is really something else. Great stuff here.
AFestiveDolphin8 Oct 2019, 06:51
Creative idea! I love seeing artistic draw your solution games! The little details are fantastic too, like when you're laying down a block and a tree spawns on it in the background. Overall tons of fun and quite a bit of content too! Love the power-up ideas especially the spring lol
congusbongus
congusbongus8 Oct 2019, 07:00
Very good! And a very polished game. One nitpick: the catapult physics are really unpredictable - you could be flung very close or very far, so it's kind of imbalanced. With the right amount of tweaks this could be a great mobile game!
tohubohu
tohubohu8 Oct 2019, 07:04
I love this. I was excited to play your game when I saw you posting during the development period, and I'm glad it was built for WebGL. The theme is well done and consistent throughout, the graphics are really enjoyable, and the gameplay is just a lot of fun. Fantastic submission!
Tobias Maushammer
Tobias Maushammerauthor8 Oct 2019, 08:27
Thanks for all the great feedback, we're really happy that you are enjoying Scribble from Scratch :)
The strength of the catapult varies depending on your position on the catapult and your input during the flight. Which is as you said rather unpredictable. Maybe I'll find the time to rework it in the next few days :)
LoneWolfDev8 Oct 2019, 10:57
Wow!! The aesthetics are awesome, the effects of pen and paper are really cool, and the game itself aswell!! Really good one, I love it!!
Artyom Volkov
Artyom Volkov8 Oct 2019, 11:02
The game is good, it's not very innovative, but the art style and level design make this game very fun and interesting to play! Great job.
dazedhead
dazedhead8 Oct 2019, 11:24
The game is really fun and i like the art style. The drawing sound is a bit annoying and the cursor is not intuitive.
ryzy27
ryzy278 Oct 2019, 11:46
Great game and so much content. Art is amazing. How many people worked on it? Because it looks so cohesive.
I like that you took time to adjust forces to work with grid that you picked.
I wish there were more sound effects and some nice quiet background track.
Thanks and good job guys!
Lucidus
Lucidus8 Oct 2019, 12:08
Love this game... Great idea and graphics!
DanielMotta8 Oct 2019, 12:12
Love the game!! The effect of something sketching
Baski
Baski8 Oct 2019, 12:23
Really great graphic style. Scratch sound is good but maybe it should be little bit lower. :D
Mechanics are great, a little unintuitive but overall great game ! (And it's little bit same as my game :D)
Emma B
Emma B8 Oct 2019, 17:32
Very fun game ! But damn I hate this catapult, I'm stuck at the level where you only have them :'(
Graphism are cute and works very well. I like that it evolve with us by adding scenery or "yikes". Yikes everywhere! (yes, I died many times)
namnam
namnam8 Oct 2019, 17:33
Just Wow, I did all the level and had so much fun ! Every aspect of the game is great and polished. Great job guys !
Tobias Maushammer
Tobias Maushammerauthor8 Oct 2019, 17:36
Hi Emma, we all earned a lot of yikes/nopes:D and the level you are describing is our "endboss" so well done!

Thank you all so much for your kind words and great feedback! And of course for enjoying our game :D
fiwon123
fiwon1238 Oct 2019, 22:44
This game is so nice. I liked to draw and resolve puzzles :)
I loved the graphics!!
kurrik
kurrik9 Oct 2019, 18:37
Very polished and well executed! Lots of nice details (like the background drawing, expressions on our ball man). Great job!
Marmeladki10 Oct 2019, 08:26
I love the design espesially how trees appearing on the background. For me scratch sound is really hard to hear.
NavrcL
NavrcL10 Oct 2019, 12:29
This is really well made and polished! Had much fun playing it. The art is amazing!
kuviman
kuviman10 Oct 2019, 13:53
The catapult is really annoying but overall the game is great :)
BilalCh213
BilalCh21310 Oct 2019, 14:17
Very artsy game. Really nice and easy puzzles. I liked the fact that when you draw blocks, there are background drawings being made above them which is so cool! Pencil sounds are a bit harsh to my ears.
BilalCh213
BilalCh21310 Oct 2019, 14:17
Very artsy game. Really nice and easy puzzles. I liked the fact that when you draw blocks, there are background drawings being made above them which is so cool! Pencil sounds are a bit harsh to my ears.
itsdanidre
itsdanidre11 Oct 2019, 13:48
Very amazing idea! I enjoyed the big brain calculations and strategies that'd have been necessary to play. Although there was no music, *scribble scribble scribble* :slight_smile:
ProdigalSon
ProdigalSon11 Oct 2019, 19:34
Really neat idea and so well executed! I tried to cheese it by editing have way to remove and add more blocks but ya'll thought about before hand and that's very sweet. I want to see more of this with music. Really well done!
Dane Tesla
Dane Tesla11 Oct 2019, 21:09
This game is so polished, congrats! It was fun to play and the scribbling sounds literally gave me ASMR xD A nice game with a lot of content, I reallt enjoyed how different solutions can be to the same problem. You guys rock!
Korath12 Oct 2019, 12:25
Thanks a lot for all your feedback. We already tweaked physics and usability, but we are not sure if we want to publish the new version, because we don't want to influence ratings with post jam work. But after rating phase we will definitly come out with a new version, and most probably this game will make it to a full version soon.
Yhi12 Oct 2019, 21:58
Incredible game! The best I've played so far.
DrEvilBrain
DrEvilBrain13 Oct 2019, 05:18
Logical conclusion: place spring so that you immediately spawn inside the launch pad, then use your height to go inside a catapult and yeet yourself to the chest. Use speedboosts whenever you can.
Amerigo Gazaway
Amerigo Gazaway16 Oct 2019, 07:00
Great concept and execution! Love the scribble sounds :)
T-Bo
T-Bo16 Oct 2019, 20:07
Awesome game ! Beautiful art style ! Nice work on levels and transitions ! Congrats ! :clap:
PeachTreeOath
PeachTreeOath19 Oct 2019, 04:20
Holy crap this execution! I normally run gigantic teams like yourselves but I usually can't get results this cohesive. How do you guys do it? Have you all worked together a lot? I only see 1 other gamejam with this crew.

Hard to come up w feedback nobody else has. It's a great engineering game with a splash of unique art and theming to go with it. I love that it conjures up doodles everyone may have done as a kid. I died many, many times but I loved finetuning things over time and learning how everything worked together (and how much launching power they had). The thing I like about this game the most is that there are just so many solutions possible, I always love seeing that type of stuff. Awesome job!
philomory19 Oct 2019, 23:46
This is a really nice looking game; the attention to detail in the effects is fantastic, all the way down to the ink in the pen. Unfortunately, it seemed like a _lot_ of the puzzles could be solved with a single catapult. Also, the reverse catapult seemed to be filled with glue, because when I tried to use it it launched me
approximately zero inches.

Other than that though, this was a fun take on a clever idea!
Twelvoo
Twelvoo22 Oct 2019, 17:30
I love the arts of this game so much! The effects are very well-animated and cute! I love the idea of the game as well. It definitely has the potential to be developed into a full game. Very good job!
lunareffect24 Oct 2019, 10:55
Excellent and really creative! Congratulations!
FinnThePirate
FinnThePirate24 Oct 2019, 11:09
Art style, level design, ink concept, everything is Just Brilliant. you should develop this further into a full game. one thing though, since there is no music, pencil scratch sound effect gets little annoying after a while
Captain Nakou
Captain Nakou24 Oct 2019, 13:47
This is FANTASTIC. Great idea, great execution, great art-style. Sound design is neat and all the details that add automatically to the map is genius.
I wont have mind some music tho.

great work, congrats!
Mec25 Oct 2019, 16:50
this was really well conceived. clever mechanics and overall cohesive package.

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