Crybaby-sitter

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.06
Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.96
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.11
Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.54
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.09
Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.33
Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.59
Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.04
A 2D platformer in which you have to care for an unruly baby.
The longer the baby goes without its pacifier, the harder the game becomes...

Controls:

WASD/Arrows: Move

E: Scan for pacifiers

LSHIFT: Dash
Genres: platformer

Comments18

Moonlher5 Oct 2021, 06:22
I love it but it's so HARD lol congratulations for the game
hwaet
hwaet6 Oct 2021, 04:50
Ooof. This captures the panic of 'where's the dang pacifier!?' pretty well for any parents in the audience. The music is very catchy, that added quite a lot to this!
Robert Li6 Oct 2021, 05:33
MAN THE BABY IS CRYING. lol. Love the theme! the baby is clearly UNSTABLE! The movement is a bit hard.
LunacyEcho
LunacyEcho6 Oct 2021, 05:39
This is definitely one of the more unique takes on the theme I've seen! The feel of this game is super tight--you've got those crying baby sound effects and the frantic music really accentuating the "oh god this house is so big how the hell am i gonna search it all" feel. I also love the detail put into all the different rooms and the types of obstacles you need to dodge! I definitely found this game on the hard side; it might be good to have different stages of difficulty so a player can at least feel a sense of progression before getting difficultyblocked (and honestly one could even pull this off by just keeping the same scene and adjusting the difficulty every time). That's just one suggestion, though. Enjoyed it on the whole, and great job!
nardandas
nardandas6 Oct 2021, 05:53
The movement was a bit rough. I also found avoiding obstacles a bit hard away from the baby. You definitely captured the franticness I think you were going for!
Neeko69
Neeko696 Oct 2021, 05:54
The game is very challenging, sometimes I can't see the thing that hit me, even with the red outline. But nonetheless its very fun.
hadri6 Oct 2021, 09:40
Really hard but really fun game, loving the theme with the baby crying
hiroboto
hiroboto8 Oct 2021, 02:33
good job! interesting and fun except for the challenging movement lol
guess i need more trial
LDJam user 271014
LDJam user 2710148 Oct 2021, 05:34
Fun concept! I love the take on the theme; the baby crying when the controls change really sells it. The music was fun too and fit the game perfectly. I think a hurt effect (sound, red flashing, etc) would have helped a lot. I had to lose quite a few times before I realized that the flying objects were hurting me! It's a pretty hard game but the controls are consistent and fair. I liked the graphics and the cute character sprite as well. Well done!
BGDC
BGDC9 Oct 2021, 10:12
Too many obstacles with too little lives, dying is fairly easy and i feel the map is a bit too large to navigate considering the player's jump height and movement speed. Aside from that everything seems good, thanks for the game!
Barney2505210 Oct 2021, 02:18
Really good take on the theme.
guimoliveira
guimoliveira10 Oct 2021, 02:29
Did anyone get past level 1? :worried: It's a nice game, but it's so hard.
Piper Thompson10 Oct 2021, 22:25
nice entry, maybe runs a little wonky ... well done!!!
rjhelms11 Oct 2021, 04:06
Love the take on the theme a lot, and having things go wonky when the baby cried was a really nice touch. There's a lot of great ideas here, but I found it too hard to get very far!
Hawkin
Hawkin11 Oct 2021, 23:43
This was pretty good! The main character animation was adorable haha. I will say that all the randomly flying objects was a HARD challenge to avoid XD

I think you've got the basics down, now you can think about the messaging! For example: I didn't realize I could double-jump until there was a jump that I couldn't possibly make (i.e., you shouldn't rely on my knowledge of other games). This could be explained in the game page, but in-game explanations are usually preferred!

Getting into the player's head and knowing what they do or don't know is definitely the tough part about game design. Keep creating! Go Bruins!
Python_dragon17 Oct 2021, 07:14
I felt like the game moved at a good pace but I feel like it would benefit from an actual tutorial as well as making sure the player could always make the jumps as I got stuck in the bathroom waiting for the moon alot
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