Snail Gale

by moasip
co-authored: @ryan-macumber
Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.23
Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.97
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.73
Theme★★★★★★★★★★4.12
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.59
Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.08
Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.81
Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.06
Your name is Gale and you turn into a snail every 10 seconds. Find a way to escape the lab without getting caught!

Gale can outrun the guards and open doors.
Snail Gale can crawl in the vents, but will die if he transforms in the vent.

Controls:

* `WASD` to move
* `E` to interact with vents and doors

Tools Used:

* Godot
* Gimp

Font:

Neuropol

Authors:

* `Ryan Macumber` - Art, Music, SFX
* `Trevor Tomlin` - Programming!
Tools: GIMP, Godot

Comments22

Gnisro3 Oct 2022, 22:14
nice soundtrack and intriguing game design like how your forced to go snail to proceed to through the fends creates tension
MsPlanlos4 Oct 2022, 21:22
What a funny idea! :D Nice game!
Grandblood4 Oct 2022, 21:30
Like the soundtrack. Fun little game.
TheButterApple24
TheButterApple244 Oct 2022, 21:30
I love the concept! Music and artstyle are also very well done!!!
ofiro4 Oct 2022, 21:36
I like the humor in this one. And Gale.

The guards were a bit difficult. Trying to escape the guards and then being transformed into a SLOW snail is really something :)
Arihan104 Oct 2022, 21:38
What a nice game! The music and art is really well made, and the puzzles were interesting (other than sometimes being too simple). I don't really have many criticisms, so... good job!
Reckless4 Oct 2022, 21:45
Nice Idea for the theme! Making Gale a even quicker in his human form would make it less frustrating while also setting apart the two forms a bit more. I liked the music.
nullval
nullval4 Oct 2022, 21:51
Great artstyle, really inventive idea
tharky
tharky4 Oct 2022, 21:59
Nice graphics, I got stuck on walls sometimes but I've had fun with it :) Well done!
Alex de la Cour
Alex de la Cour4 Oct 2022, 22:44
Honestly you had me at snail...this game really made me laugh! I loved the art and the music so much, I thought the story idea was great and very original but perhaps Gale could have moved a bit quicker, and I got stuck behind counters as the snail a few times.
EOShadows
EOShadows5 Oct 2022, 00:08
Good game! The graphics and audio are great (I especially like the walking animation of the player, and the sound effect of the bare feet one the floor), and I also like the concept. Though having to just stand and wait to transform into a snail so that I can vent can get kind of repetitive and slow, especially when I've got to do it after every time I die. However I think this is just a minor problem and maybe adding a feature where the player can also force themselves to transform (though maybe be unable to transform back just to keep the challenge there) might fix the problem. Other than that though, I thought this was good. Well done!
LDJam user 3085345 Oct 2022, 18:45
Love the sprites and the mechanics. Waiting out the 10 second timer was occasionally frustrating, but the theme integration itself was playful and interesting.
GordienkoGames
GordienkoGames6 Oct 2022, 13:52
Hey, I played your game on the stream - twitch GGame86

Something’s wrong with music
Please give my game a try if you have some time!
kuro
kuro6 Oct 2022, 20:23
Fun idea, fun execution. Well done .)
Flying Dog Fish
Flying Dog Fish6 Oct 2022, 20:34
Great take on the theme. The game looks and feels nice too.
KatBoo7 Oct 2022, 10:55
Fun concept and great focus on the theme. Would play more!
johanhelsing
johanhelsing7 Oct 2022, 11:32
I love the character design. I like ambiguity of whether he actually is a snail, or just thinks he is one.

I don't mind the escape and timing being a bit hard, but some checkpoints would have been really nice, so I wouldn't have to replay early easy sections.
Likirus8 Oct 2022, 15:59
Very fun game and interesting interpretation of the theme. Quite difficult to espace the guards though, maybe they could ignore the player when in snail form.
craftmuch
craftmuch8 Oct 2022, 16:03
Great game, solid execution of the theme switching between characters. Occasionally I'd get caught in walls and so would NPCs but its easy to forgive as overall it was great fun.
Helen8 Oct 2022, 16:14
I like Gale's appearance and how his nightgown shifts :D great game

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