Soak 'Em Out

Very polished - cute art style complemented by the music and sound effects. Nice difficulty progression as well. When I found out that I could still move while blocking the cars' splashes I did a lot better at the faster parts.

Great work.

Hi!
Found the game on the frontpage of Newgrounds! Congrats!
Amazing style, really sets the mood as a Nes game, incredible.
Addictive and fun, music is perfect.
My score: 157

Very polished and well-made game!

This is such a great game. I love how retro it is! Great Job!

Excellent work. The art, music, & presentation overall is very well-made, & the gameplay of avoiding water is fun & engaging. Great job.

Spot on for a retro game with the theme. Felt very complete. Nice chiptunes and NES-style graphics. Gameplay was intuitive yet challenging. Nice work!

Excellent game ! Very polished, nice gameplay, balanced difficulty progression. Outstanding work for a compo ! WELL DONE !

nice, clean game. i really like the music

Amazing game with simple but very addictive mechanics. I really like how soundtrack is faster and faster with raising difficulty.

Super well arted and animated!

Love the simple control scheme and gameplay feedback via art and sound, so it's easy to understand without a big text wall!

Great example of how to scope a ludum dare game and then knock it out of the park with polish!

The art and music are beautiful and mesh together perfectly to give the game a great overall style! The music's gonna be playing in my head next time I'm waiting for the bus :smile:

I'm impressed by all the art in this game. Very polished.

Incredibly well polished and atmospheric.

Got almost to 100 droplets!

Pros:

- Great and addictive gameplay loop
- Clear objectives that you learn from try and error (not in a bad way!)
- Great design for the level and the actual idea behind it (Meow!)
- That being said, I'm a sucker for pixel art anyway...
- Color palette feels really warm and enjoying, even though the game is about a very rainy day. Great achievement here
- Nicely done difficulty steepness
- Great visual/audio sound ques for incoming danger
- Soundtrack and music greatly complements the gameplay

Cons:

- I believe the car hitbox is rather unfair, but maybe it's just me not understanding the flow of it fully. Sometimes, I put the umbrella when car is already on screen and then it's 50/50 whether I get a penalty or not.

I loved it overall. A very solid and well-scoped entry. Excellent job!

Everything about this game is great! The art is so good and the music is incredibly catchy! The retro throwback to Game & Watch is so great and it honestly makes me inspired to try making a game like this in the future. You really did a fantastic job on this! I love it!

Great pixel art, especially the cat and the color selection! The music fit nicely and the gameplay (while simple) was super fun!

Love the art,
Love the Music & Sounds,
Love the gameplay.
Loved how actions would overlap assuring the incoming storm and preventing the game from being too easy.

Got to 419! Great stuff. Movement feels great.

Love everything about this game! The sounds, art and design were all very well-thought out! Such a polished game! I haven't been able to get the sunflower seed into the pot yet but overall I had a lot of fun playing. Really amazing entry!

Impressive game! Feels like an authentic Game & Watch!

Genuinely amazing work! From sound design to visuals, this game is perfectly polished. The only real criticism I would have is the controls. My brain wants to think that holding space lowers the umbrella, and letting go raises it- but that's pretty much grasping at straws. Impressive stuff.

Absolutely loved this!

Really great little game. The art and audio were sublime. The droplets and the car were very well indicated as well. My only complaint is that it can be a little unfair when the car comes right when a droplet is falling. Or maybe there's more strategy to it. Either way though, I'm definitely coming back to this game. Great job

That bus is never going to arrive, is it? haha. Incredibly charming and fun! Your game was very polished. Surprised it was all done by one person.

Great work!

This is an awesome game, you really matched that game and watch style and the art and music are perfect

Cute game! I liked the character and the umbrella animation when you move it up and down. Music and retro-style was awesome too!

The game felt a bit slow and tedious at times. I would make it grow more challenging a bit faster, with faster change between modes and lower point thresholds.

Also this would work great on mobile if you are thinking about exporting it...

Beautifully retro and so cute! I like how cohesive all the elements are.

This is so brilliant! Everything is so well done and cannot pick a fault! Really loved this and is definitely a standout for me!

420 haha. This is really good game. Fun gameplay, nice soundtrack.

Hey, I found your game on this vid : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qfbdLhY_F0&ab_channel=LouisGalaxoz
I really love how the graphics looks, everything is very polished : the rain effect, the cars, the city skyline background, the dark effect, the rain drops, and of course the audio, everything ! Nice job, congrats!

I'm beyond impressed! This is so solid! I got to 710 in a couple of runs, and I would play a lot more if I didn't want to give other games a chance as well. The interplay of the droplets, cars, and waterfalls really changes how you play the game as the game goes on in a way that I think builds upon the foundation that old Game & Watch games laid out. The only complaints I really have about the game I think are beyond the scope of a Ludum Dare... the game suffers from the same pacing issues that many Game & Watch titles do, which could either be seen as staying true to the source material or maintaining an ugly vestige of the time: it takes a painfully long time for the game to really pour it on (pun intended) and become exciting, so you're stuck blocking single droplets for quite a while whenever you want to replay the game. The game speed seems to reset whenever you take a miss as well; it's probably nice to have some breathing room, but it disappoints the inner adrenaline junkie that wants the game to maintain its speed. I think Game & Watch Gallery games would typically include an extra hard difficulty that alleviates the pacing issues a bit; something in this vein would be nice to see if you ever decide to expand upon this project in the future. That's looking at the game through the lens of a tribute to G&W titles, though -- as a Ludum Dare compo entry, it's just a really beautiful and fantastic game. Nice work!

Wow that's a lot of quality music for a compo entry! The graphics are very good also. It doesn't feel like a jam game with the amount of polish it has. Gameplaywise it's a good game but a little too easy. You should fail faster and the game should progress to the higher humidity rate faster. The controls work perfectly though and all the UI is done so it's instantly understandable for the player what they have to do. Well done.

644 is my high, really addicting. Love the music and the cute little character, the outfit matches her like Lucky from Super Lucky's Tale. Really think this game would be an awesome publish/

I just loved it!!!!

Simple, beautiful and totally polished! It looks like an old console game, not only in aesthetics, but in spirit!

Amazing! The most complete for me so far in the LD 50!

It's on my favorites list of all LDs.

Congratulations!

This is such a delightful little game
the music, sound effects, idea and graphics are all so adorable and it fits together nicely
and the game is very addicting

This is such a delightful little game
the music, sound effects, idea and graphics are all so adorable and it fits together nicely
and the game is very addicting

Cute little game that reminds me of the the old school Game&Watch games. GJ!

One of my favourite entries, cute, fun and addictive. That bus is surely taking loooong.

Good job and congratulations!

Awesome little game! Love NES style look of it. Really well polished and well balanced.

This game is very cute, loved the graphics. The execution is nice and feels very polished.

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