The Three Goblin Problem

by pfs

co-authored: @dobrila, @burst, @toreskovic, @yugeen

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.98

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.66

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.78

Theme★★★★★★★★★★4.48

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★4.46

Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.90

Humor★★★★★★★★★★4.36

Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.98

The time of discrimination is over ! The height bar for walking into a bar is at least three goblins.
And these goblins got an idea.

Move by using WASD keys and balance the three goblins with IJKL keys or the left and right analog sticks on your gamepad (you can also change the control settings in options).
Keep your balance until the end and order yourself a nice mug of "NotAnotherShelfTurd".

pfs: Music (Main Theme), Programming

Dobrila: Programming

toreskovic: Lighting, Programming, UI

burst: Game Design, Environment Modelling and Texturing, Level Design, Music (Noir Mode), Particles, Programming

yugeen: Character Models, Character Animations, Character Texturing

Copyright/Attribution Notice:
Game Over Theme by Cleyton Kauffman - https://soundcloud.com/cleytonkauffman
MORT VS ZUGHY PALETTE
Created by Purple Fruit by combining Softmilk 32 by MortMort and Zughy32 by Zughy

Genres: simulation

Comments23

Firebelley4 Oct 2021, 23:22

Ha serious QWOP vibes with this one! Super funny, but also really difficult. Art was fantastic. Great entry overall!

sir_onionknight4 Oct 2021, 23:34

I had a lot of fun failing over and over. This game basically makes me rage and laugh at the same time. Also, never thought I'd play a game with goblins in a trenchcoat. That was a lot of goblin ass lol. Love it.

Achilles Jiang5 Oct 2021, 22:32

I can't count the number of times my poor trio of goblins fell over but it was fun the entire time through - also having a 'noir' filter is one of the best features I've seen in a while! really great job!!

njs6 Oct 2021, 09:34

Well that was fun. The audio was really nice, it looked good, and it was strangely immersive.

LDJam user 2588636 Oct 2021, 09:45

End goblin discrimination!

My brain kept telling me to go near walls/pilars to grab onto... but alas, goblins are well known for their ability to go through walls when stacked on top of one another. A down side here I'm afraid.

Seriously though, the vibe and silliness were done very well.

Moritz146 Oct 2021, 10:04

Nice work!

Roboolet6 Oct 2021, 10:06

Great use of the theme. Visuals and general ambience are great as well, even on low quality. It would've been nice if you had to use the environment to balance yourself, like using the wall to straighten yourself out, but the game is pretty fun as-is regardless

fegabe6 Oct 2021, 10:10

the game is REALLY fun, reading about the back story and seeing the little goblins trying to reach the goal is really awesome. It's really hard though! maybe you could start easier with just to goblins and simple scenario to understand the controls. I laughed a lot and the art is great, good job!
ps: the noir theme is a nice touch too ;)

Garet6 Oct 2021, 10:12

Who in their right mind would put the bar so far fro the entrance ?
Cobrats guys, easily the funniest game of the jam I've tested.

The gameplay itself is laugh inducing but just the concept of the three goblins in a coat trying to get wasted is priceless.

Special kudos for the sad music when you trip.

With Goblins we stand :fist:

Thooom6 Oct 2021, 10:15

Fantastic game lol. It was super hard, and I'm glad goblins are 1/3 the height of a man, had they been shorter this game would've been impossible. Loved the sounds, the graphics, the overall mood, yes, even the menus were really well done. One of the best ones I've tried so far, if not the best :) Congrats on submitting :)

Copito6 Oct 2021, 21:55

incredible game it took me ages but we made it and I'm sure many drinks were had and they definitely didn't immediately fall over and get kicked out

vivyhasadream7 Oct 2021, 01:30

very interesting concept, I sense the humor. two sets of control to keep balance are unique and fun. Congrats!

tykenn7 Oct 2021, 23:14

This looks amazing and is hilarious! I couldn't get too far (maybe I'll give it another attempt once I finished testing a few other games

Adiwan8 Oct 2021, 11:22

It's solid idea but oh boy I got furious with the *unstable* controls (keyboard). When I thought I got the controls it threw a wrench into my wheel and tumbled over.

ashtheevil9 Oct 2021, 08:02

I tried my best, but won't reach the bar. Would be cool if controls are more forgiving or at least moving was constant. Really like the idea, though! It's hilarious and it's one of the best takes on the theme in my opinion. And the game looks very nice. Good job!

Junber11 Oct 2021, 02:33

That was great! When I finally made it to the bar though, my score was 0. Not sure if that's a joke, a bug or I'm just bad at the game. The lore that we got and all of the little animations made me really care about the main characters and made me push through to the end. The game just looks and sounds super good and the fact that the noir style exists is great. Just an amazing game overall.

Great job!

Pierre Morreel11 Oct 2021, 10:45

Nice entry for this theme ! Gameplay is simple but very effective, and replayability is nice too. I don't know how you managed to have this amount of art in the game, it's really impressive for a jam !

MaxKyckling11 Oct 2021, 14:32

Super fun! It did take some time to get used to the controls and it was really hard, but I quite enjoyed its difficulty! Great graphics, and some hilarious little speech bubbles here and there! If I have any feedback to give then it would be that the camera could have been better at times, as I died because I couldn't see anything a few times... :/ But other than that amazing game and I promise I gave you good ratings :D

C0nt11 Oct 2021, 16:29

I really liked the presentation even though I was shit at the game itself. Perfect mood. Audio got repetitive fast however.

LDJam user 26305717 Oct 2021, 15:56

Very fun game, it successfully reproduces the good moments of any murder hobo party I've ever been in for a game of D&D - just silly dumb fun in a tavern pretending not to be 3 goblins in a coat.

Nobongo18 Oct 2021, 02:48

The game was really hard to control at first but once I switched over to gamepad it became a ton easier to control. I would recommend making keyboard a little less sensitive. The music was really nice and the tavern and all that inhabited it looked really good, I just wish I could've looked around in it a little more to see everything. Maybe zooming out would've been nice just to give a better view. The physics were toned down which I think was a good call, it would've been fun to be able to trip the other patrons and watch them ragdoll around though.
Overall this was a really solid entry that fits the theme amazingly, great work!

MixedLetters18 Oct 2021, 03:44

Could not figure out how to make any real progress for the life of me, feel the amount the goblins tip just from walking could be turned down immensely. Very cool concept though, and it's clear a lot of care and passion was put into this from an artistic stand point. Well done in all fields but the movement I say XD.

retrome20 Oct 2021, 14:13

Interesting concept! Atmospheric graphics style and music. Funny animations. Pretty hard to learn but fun to play.

Some remark on polishing: game pretty intensively uses GPU, so turned on Low quality. After game restart lights are turned off on Low settings, so you need to change quality setting to turn the lights on.

Overall polished game!

Great job!

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