Darryl in Distress

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.30
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.00
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.03
Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.50
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.50
Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.00
Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.82
Save Darryl the baby turtle from danger! Darryl is a very curious, very newly born, very adorable little turtle that just wants to make friends. Little does Darryl know, that the innocent looking things on this cruel new world he has been bought into wants to kill and eat him! Darryl will interrupt you and try go back to the evils on the beach. You have to look after Darryl and keep him alive! Make sure he reaches the shore and joins the rest of his adorable turtle kind.

Move with the WASD keys, when Darryl moves to a dangerous area mash A & D to stop him from moving towards the danger.

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Comments20

BlackOpsBen
BlackOpsBen20 Apr 2020, 02:10
I did it! This is adorable!
James Gillespie
James Gillespie20 Apr 2020, 02:39
First few times I played the A+D mashing wasn't working but I could use them to walk. But it started working after some restarts. Love the art
fiaKaiera
fiaKaiera20 Apr 2020, 03:42
Simple. Fun!
I don't know how the detection works on some of these things. I tried to stray far enough but even Daryl is getting dragged from someone OUTSIDE the screen. I feel that shouldn't be.

Other than the bug of A&D sometimes not working when mashing before a few restarts, the game its job very well!
KieranCoppins
KieranCoppinsauthor20 Apr 2020, 10:28
@blackopsben Thank you so much!
@james-gillespie Thank you so much for playing! I'm sorry you had to experience a bug, should've given the game more vigorous testing
@fiakaiera Thank you so much for playing, the detection works by random time intervals between 3 and 10 and then Darryl goes to the closest danger area :)
IDidGame
IDidGame20 Apr 2020, 15:00
cute turtle, my finger are killing me though :)
Arcus
Arcus20 Apr 2020, 15:00
This was very fun! It's quite short, but that probably due to the lack of time :wink:
I had to open it twice (I think there was a small bug that prevented it from loading - could be on my behalf though...)
Stefanie Leitch
Stefanie Leitch20 Apr 2020, 15:12
Graphics were really good, but for some reason mashing the buttons didn't do anything to save Daryl so he died every time :(
rich20 Apr 2020, 17:49
I really liked the game. I did have an issue with not being able to save Daryl as well. It seems like it wouldn't register the key presses. I liked the art quite a bit.
Lestat
Lestat20 Apr 2020, 22:34
Cool game. Nice graphics. Fits the theme. Good job!
mehrdadsh21 Apr 2020, 12:14
i like the name as well, good idea
CharlieGray
CharlieGray23 Apr 2020, 16:50
Cute idea and cute graphics. Interesting that you control Darryl while also kinda passively protecting him.
kiguel18223 Apr 2020, 16:50
Really liked it.

Simple but really well implemented. Trying to find the optimal way to walk around the dangers to have time to escape took me some time but finishing it was very rewarding. Cute visuals as well. Great job!
silkworm_sweatshop
silkworm_sweatshop23 Apr 2020, 16:58
I like turtles! Cute and simple little game. Button mashing worked for me. I liked the sprites although the crab sprite not having black outlines breaks some consistency. I wish there was some sound as well.
elmo23 Apr 2020, 17:18
me: "no, no don't do it... want did i tell you" :D
shp
shp23 Apr 2020, 17:23
Darryl would not survive long in the real life! I managed to beat the game after I switched to using two hands for mashing the keys :)
Pabricka
Pabricka24 Apr 2020, 07:54
Fun game! The graphics were great, and the animals were cute :) Good job!
jk5000
jk500026 Apr 2020, 07:54
The game is idea simple and fun. The graphics is pretty good, but the game really needs some music and/or some sound effects. Sadly the fighting system did not work for me. Overall is this fun little jam game.
Linky439
Linky43926 Apr 2020, 10:07
Nice idea!

I thought at first you had to repeatedly press the opposite direction of where Darryl was going (to prevent him from going there) but once I understood how it worked, I managed to save Darryl in a bit more than 56 seconds ^^

The graphics are nice, though I'm not sure I understand what the pile of rock next to a thermometer might be (trash ?), but overall a cute little game.
I would have loved some audio as well :)

Overall a nice little entry, congrats!
ArtemFTW28 Apr 2020, 14:58
Well done! The graphics are really nice but some sounds and music would make this game even better. I also didn't really like how it fits in with the theme since your pretty much just keeping the player alive.

Overall it's a great entry!
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