Boar Breakout DX

by b3b0

co-authored: @goateejoe

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.10

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.12

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.42

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.92

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.42

Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.46

Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.42

Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.00

Boar Breakout DX

In BOAR BREAKOUT DX you play as a pig, escaping from a lab. The catch? You are rigged to explode if you do not complete platforming challenges in ten seconds or less.

After a long weekend of staring at nothing but our PC monitors, we've finished our second LDJAM ever.

This is a project by a two man team and definitely still has some bugs. Thank you for checking us out and feel free to give us the harshest you have! Cheers!!🍻

CONTROLS:

Movement: WASD

Jump: Spacebar

Oink: Mouse

CREDITS

ART: ChinFullaTentacles.

TUNES/CODE: b3b0 b3b0.

KNOWN BUGS:

* occasional collision issues when hitting the corner of a block
* UI placement on resolutions greater than 1920 x 1080
* Keyboard play is more slippery than controller play

Tools: Unity

Comments29

PeebaBubber3 Oct 2022, 23:23

the style is good and the pig is cute. but a couple of times the goal block started to move before i even had a chance to jump on it and got left behind. Outside of that the game is good, even if i'm bad at it

b3b0author3 Oct 2022, 23:25

Thanks for the feedback @peebabubber! We're fixing some bugs for a "rolling edition", just didn't have time to round off a few edges with this initial release.

Timo Strating3 Oct 2022, 23:54

Nice game. It was a disappointment to see Unity WebGL popup after seeing the great boxart. but the game was still very solid. Great mood. There where some glitches. Hitting an edge of an platform made you fall through it sometimes. The level transitions where a bit slow and the physics was also very slippery. But overall a nice entry. Thanks for making it and hopefully a future game can also actually be played on a GameBoy Color ;)

b3b0author4 Oct 2022, 01:30

Very insightful @timo-strating - thank you for checking out the game! There's a few bugs that are impacting quite a few collision things - these are getting looked at ASAP after a long weekend of jams.

If it's good enough to keep up with, keep an eye out for updates.

Working on a review from your game in short time! Thanks for jamming with us!

Mr.Deku4 Oct 2022, 18:12

It could end being a cute, fast game, but the transition between stages is a little bit rough, I always died in starting stage three because the camera didn't move :/

b3b0author4 Oct 2022, 19:15

Thanks for the feedback @mr-deku! Thanks to that, we found the bug and have fixed it. Cheers, fellow jammer!

Chocolat-Endive4 Oct 2022, 19:31

Love the pig!
It seems that you have some collision issue, I manage to slip between tiles (or through?). The controls are pretty hard, I haven't manage to beat the game. Also, a longuer music loop could be cool!

But everything is nice, because the pig is cute.

vkaike24 Oct 2022, 19:54

this is a great game, the only thing that I would change is the checkpoint, I think that each level should be a checkpoint.

Fis4 Oct 2022, 20:28

Cute animations, I really like the artstyle of the title and the messages being printed. During my gameplay i got once stuck inside a block (possibly while switching direction while falling next to a wall) and once jumping was no longer possible after dropping a certain height.
Since the platformer mechanics are pretty hard and the time constraint very challenging, I would appreciate more checkpoints. Finally getting through a sequence and instantly dying on the next part throwing you back quite feels like a very big penalty.

Foulkes Art4 Oct 2022, 20:28

All I can say is this has awoken in me a deep yearning for more pig themed games. Well done!

Roroto Sic4 Oct 2022, 20:38

the game is kinda bugged but it is fun play !
the idea of 10sec per stage is very great ! and the pig is too cute !^^

Helzinko5 Oct 2022, 19:13

fun game, smooth controls. Like your graphics and audio

c4ris5 Oct 2022, 19:19

Cute game and great graphics! I had some issues with the game camera but overall I liked the theme of the game. If you have more time to refine in the future consider exploring the fluidity of the controls. Thanks for the fun time!

Oakhardt5 Oct 2022, 19:24

Okay I broke out! Nice ending screen. Oh also the title screen was cute and the music was nice. No one told me I'm a good pig until today! I found it a bit harsh to make it to the first checkpoint. Maybe every room would be nice, but after a while I got the controls down. I think you would really benefit from learning about coyote frames etc. Here is a good summary with an example for making really smooth controls for a platformer: http://www.davetech.co.uk/gamedevplatformer. It's really insightful!
I really had fun playing! Hope you had fun making it!

SimplePotential5 Oct 2022, 19:47

Oink, I love it :) I couldn't make it very far but I enjoyed the heck out of it. Felt like I needed a checkpoint on every level maybe. Nice job

Furano5 Oct 2022, 19:58

Nice Gameboy aesthetics !

I add more trouble with the gameplay however : moving felt so slipery ! That made the jumps really hard for me, who is not used to platformer...

Wizcas5 Oct 2022, 20:00

The pigs and the *oink*s are so cute! Music is nice, too! The control is challenging. I wish there were more checkpoints... :sob:

YES! Game Boy Color!

nataku925 Oct 2022, 20:07

Fun little platformer, great music. Took me a lot of tries, but managed to finish it! Controls felt a bit "slippery" to me at first, but eventually got the hang of it. Did run into a minor bug - not sure what happened, but the first time I left the final room (to the left), I got reset to the previous checkpoint instead of going to the ending screen.

shimmerscale5 Oct 2022, 20:08

The pig sprites are so cute! Everything had a nice retro feel to it. The controls were pretty difficult to me, though. It seemed like I needed to build up momentum to be able to jump farther, which was tough to do in such small levels. I love the concept though!

BeetleBox5 Oct 2022, 20:09

I didn't read the instructions and discovered the oink by accident.
Would play the game just for the oinks.

All of the graphics were great (oh man, that ending screen), and the game is built pretty humorously - both definitely a plus :)

The movement itself felt a little awkward - a bit too slippery for my taste, and the gravity was oh so high.
It definitely made the game a lot more difficult, but not really in the way I like my difficult platforming games. It made mastering the mechanics feel like a bit of a tedious task, and once mastered, solving the levels themselves also felt a bit off.

nardandas6 Oct 2022, 02:54

OH MY GOD the beginning and end scenes were SO CUTE. The platforming was pretty decent, I felt when I hit my head it was a bit punishing, but there was more than enough time for each level. It took me a couple tries to get past the first checkpoint, but the afterwards I had no more than one death per checkpoint. Lots of level! Good job

magus7711 Oct 2022, 06:03

love them pigs :)

epeachyband21 Oct 2022, 18:13

I love the GBC visual style. Great work!

KayLALALAValentine21 Oct 2022, 20:47

WOWWWW I absolutely love how the pig moves it's so mesmerizing!! Also the music is a BOPPP It's so intense and makes me get an adrenaline rush in the best way. The ten second feature is also brilliant! Short levels in ten seconds. WOW! Graphics are also super cute and simple. Love the gameboy vibe too!

organicpencil21 Oct 2022, 21:11

This game was majestic. Got stuck near the end(?) but I'm totally coming back to it when I have more time. Nice work!

johnnysix21 Oct 2022, 21:13

Really loved the audio, very cool - took me back to the old 90's PC games. I couldn't get past the spikes , and I was expecting to roll back to the other pigs from the first screen instead of game over . So if you made it further the second time, you'd pass the corpses of the failed piggies. :grimacing:

LDJam user 30272021 Oct 2022, 21:14

Grunt, grunt! Nice, now I need to eat some pork.

b3b0author21 Oct 2022, 23:04

@johnnysix that's f*cking genius. Where were you when we needed you? Also HAZCAT is rad as hell.

johnnysix22 Oct 2022, 00:03

@b3b0 - keep working on it :smile: The pig version of escaping the pit escape from dark knight rises :grin:

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