Snail Mail

by blast73

co-authored: @janice-lee, @bokchoyboy, @spookydaikon

Overall★★★★★★★★★★4.08

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.87

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.30

Theme★★★★★★★★★★4.57

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★4.50

Audio★★★★★★★★★★4.08

Mood★★★★★★★★★★4.31

Snail Mail! Deliver letters to unlock upgrades! Pick up a color coded letter from one house and deliver it to the matching house. Progress through 3 waves of increasing letters and pick your unlock after each wave to get faster. Good luck!

Play here (itch.io): https://blast.itch.io/snail-mail

Available Upgrades

Jump - Press SPACEBAR to jump in the air and bypass those pesky fences!

Dash - Press SHIFT to dash forward. Great for crossing larger gaps.

Shelleport - Press E to drop a shell on the ground. Press E again to teleport back to that spot! Once you teleport you'll need to drop another shell before teleporting again so use it wisely!

Bigger Shell - This upgrade allows you to carry 2 letters at a time!

The Team

Tags: #3d, #cute, #fall, #short, #snail

Genres: platformer

Comments29

Frey1 May 2023, 20:07

Really nice game. Awesome models, audio and overall vibe to the game. Loved the addition of the upgrades, made getting around fun. The incentive to replay at the end to beat your highscore is also pretty neat! Managed to get my time down too 1:20 on my second time around. Replaying it also made me really appreciate the level layout, easy to traverse and clear structure. Great job ^^

Fiinrii1 May 2023, 20:45

Really fun and cute. Loved the graphics and colour pallet. The gameplay was simple and easy to play which was great. Love the replaying for a high score and with the movement made it very repayable. Would love to see more levels.

Fiinrii1 May 2023, 20:45

Also forgot to mention I loved the simple relaxing music.

bokchoyboy1 May 2023, 22:13

@frey @fiinrii thanks for the kind feedback!

Gzalo1 May 2023, 22:49

Super cute!!! love the mood!

HermanLejter2 May 2023, 01:28

It's so cute! I love the snail. The abilities are all interesting and fun, too. Great art style.

HermanLejter2 May 2023, 01:28

It's so cute! I love the snail. The abilities are all interesting and fun, too. Great art style.

BOPOHx2 May 2023, 01:51

very cute game! keep up the good work!

rkeele2 May 2023, 02:13

Very charming and cute! The music sets an awesome tone, and the art is gorgeous (especially the leaf effect!). I really liked the waypoint system. I could see this game evolving into an adorable mail-delivery RPG!

Brandon Campbell2 May 2023, 04:58

You really created a nice feeling game. The art style, the music, and the controls all fit really well together. It has a really high level of polish for such a short amount of time. Really well done!

gn Fur2 May 2023, 12:24

Pretty good. However, the control scheme is very crammed, I am left-handed and WASD-shift-space just doesn't work for me. Arrows + ZXC would be much nicer. Also there is no in-game timer so you don't really feel like there is any challenge at all.

Saryah2 May 2023, 13:21

Love the look and design of the graphics, a nice calm snail mail game, just what I needed after this jam! XD

Megrez2 May 2023, 13:42

The snail is soooooo cute! Like the unlocked abilities. UI (The destination arrow) is kind of hard to see

bokchoyboy2 May 2023, 18:03

@gn-fur thanks for the feedback, arrow keys for movement is enabled! So you can do Arrows + shift + space

gn Fur2 May 2023, 18:14

@bokchoyboy oh, didn't notice this. But I still don't really like shift because of the sticky keys popup.

Maakole2 May 2023, 20:30

My record's 1m 38s. I love this game! I really hope you continue expanding on it after the jam~

Trevor Lentz3 May 2023, 01:43

Mood is so chillax with the music ♪♫♪♫. It's quite an impressive experience for a gamejam game. The houses and map design are well done and the time score at the end incentivizes multiple play-through. Awesome work!

Quinnster3 May 2023, 01:48

Super cool chill game! I think this is the most entertaining take on the basic idea of picking up packages and bringing them to houses. The movement mechanics feel great!

Michael Harris4 May 2023, 02:32

Calm, cute, and chill little game. I like the growing list of mechanics instead of just giving them all away in the beginning. Graphics are good as well. Good job!

LDJam user 3368514 May 2023, 20:22

Super cute game i beat it in 2 : 24

Fragment Games4 May 2023, 22:03

What a cute little character :-) Got quite a lot of things in there for a game jam game. Nice entry. Keep it up :)

vtranr5 May 2023, 00:13

So cute and so fun! Everything felt really smooth, and getting to pick and choose which upgrades you got over time was great!

a.huua5 May 2023, 02:00

Such a cute and chill game, the music and audio was so nice too. I do wish that the icons to deliver/pickup the mail was a bit more obvious or distinguishable, but this is really a polished entry. so cute x10

Ninnec5 May 2023, 04:16

Very thorough game play and I love the art and music. My only critique is that on my laptop I couldn't see the entire window making it hard to see the very helpful icons necessary for finding where to drop off the mail.

MallanSandan5 May 2023, 15:00

This was such a cute and fun game to play!

Winter22776 May 2023, 00:58

Nice game! Very cute 3D universe, neat controls, enjoyable audio and nice atmosphere. Well done!

nerdyHerbivore12 May 2023, 20:12

Loved "Shelleport" and just the chill vibes. Cute animation and town too

Adrien Tremblay13 May 2023, 19:32

Pretty cute game, very well polished. Liked how there was progression though the upgrades. Loved the art style. Managed to glitch off the map using the shelleport haha.

kanity15 May 2023, 13:18

Oh it was so delightful, I had a great time playing ^^ First of all, the world is absolutely beautiful, I love all the graphics, so cute and inviting. Secondly, I love how our cute snail moves, really feels like a snail movement ^^' And also, little tips in the corner of the screen on where a new letter appeared and where it has to be delivered - they really helped me! Thank you for this game, I enjoyed it a lot