Tardigrade Travels: A Tardigrade's Terrifyingly Terrific Traversal Through Time!

Making a game about a water bear is a brilliant idea, guys! I especially like the graphics, everything is done so nicely! Like!

Cool game, would recommend

I couldn't find the .exe - the zip tells me not found D: I'd really love to try this game as it looks like the team is stacked with a lot of creative direction!

Same than dinobobbo! I would enjoy to try this game (Travel time lover here) but the .zip is not found!

Sorry for the inconvenience everyone! The ZIP has been reuploaded, and the download should work now

Thank you for the fix~!

The game is really cute - love how the tardigrade looks and its animations! I'm not even sure if all of that information is true about tardigrades, but I'd believe it :D this is like a fun children's book.

Some of the sequences lasted a bit too long in my opinion (like the ice age) and I'm not sure if space was the end or if I was supposed to discover something there.

Great job!!

I really enjoyed the game! I was a little confused about the ending. I wasn't sure if the space part with the other tardigrades was the end so I spent a long time in that area. I think more direction or a game complete screen would be helpful for that. It would also be good if there was a way to exit the game without having to tab out of it! Very cute little experience.

Cute game, love the animations and the cutscenes. This could be fun story driven adventure game if the tardigrade was given a personality

I absolutely loved the animations !! It's such a fun game, congrats 👏

Those cutscenes were great! I loved the little story transitions too that was a nice touch. Good take on the theme but like another commenter said above I was a bit lost at the end in space. Nice work.

Really love the artstyle, animation and choice of sound effects. I think you guys should lean more into the educational aspect of the "game" by adding more fun facts about the water bear. Gameplay-wise there isn't much to actual play though. Great work!

Wasn't expecting animated cutscenes that's for sure. The whole package is presented in such a nice and educational way I really appreciated it as a sort of interactive learning experience.

I appreciate the lack of a fail state as a way of conveying the absolute survival machines that tardigrades are, but mixing that with an uneven sense of conveyance makes the experience feel a bit more stressful than it needed to be. The fireballs and nuclear particles are very very hard to dodge, and even though you can tank them and move on as if nothing happened that is pretty much impossible to know on first playthrough, plus I think all stages could've benefited from that counting down bar that the nuclear section had over to the left.

This one is more of a personal idea than an actual suggestion, but if death is an impossibility in game, maybe a score that keeps track of how well you survived could encourage repeated playthroughs and provide a sense of accomplishment to players. However this is only true if that's the kind of experience you'd want to create, as an edutainment piece I think it's already a successful venture.

Graphics are of course incredible, the cutscenes are really cute and the stylization of the tardigrade and its walk cycle (swim cycle?) are absolutely pitch perfect, I couldn't get enough of it dopey lil face. Great job to all involved!

-Boat

Wasn't expecting animated cutscenes that's for sure. The whole package is presented in such a nice and educational way I really appreciated it as a sort of interactive learning experience.

I appreciate the lack of a fail state as a way of conveying the absolute survival machines that tardigrades are, but mixing that with an uneven sense of conveyance makes the experience feel a bit more stressful than it needed to be. The fireballs and nuclear particles are very very hard to dodge, and even though you can tank them and move on as if nothing happened that is pretty much impossible to know on first playthrough, plus I think all stages could've benefited from that counting down bar that the nuclear section had over to the left.

This one is more of a personal idea than an actual suggestion, but if death is an impossibility in game, maybe a score that keeps track of how well you survived could encourage repeated playthroughs and provide a sense of accomplishment to players. However this is only true if that's the kind of experience you'd want to create, as an edutainment piece I think it's already a successful venture.

Graphics are of course incredible, the cutscenes are really cute and the stylization of the tardigrade and its walk cycle (swim cycle?) are absolutely pitch perfect, I couldn't get enough of it dopey lil face. Great job to all involved!

-Boat

So cute! I absolutely adore the animations and sound effects. & I also leared some new stuff about this little creature. ：D

A very fun game to play, although I did get lost during the "trdigrade can get lonely" stage. Not sure what to do other than floating in space. Also the radiation particle level is a bit hard to dodge, I basically tanked it through (but the getting hit animation is also really cute!)

So much animation! It was a fun little adventure and I look forward to the projects you guys come out with in future ludum dares! :D

Spongebob screen made it really funny. Now I wonder if space level is intentionally infinite or if I quit too soon :D

Perhaps its some deep lesson about preciousness of life

To move to the credits, you need to bump with all the tardigrades in the stage—sorry for not making this clearer!

Adorable, funny, and unexpectedly educational?? The animation is absolutely stunning, especially considering the time limit. This is a unique experience. Well done!

So cute!! The art + animation is an instant ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ for me, very well made, it's clear artists of this team are super talented. I also like the simple minigame-based gameplay. The hit frame + sound had me dying. Excelletn work!

Awesome cute animations. The arcade minigame play is great for this sort of jam.

I'd love to see the little fellas evolve into a bigger project.

I think this is the first time I see a educational jam game! it's a really fun creative and well executed idea. the artstyle, the cutscenes and the humor are all great. I also thought it was clever to use the water bear's resilience as invincibility from damage

also is that a high pitched oof sound when the water bear gets hurt? If so that I thought that was funny

I really enjoyed this one, great entry

Is a rather cute game featuring a lesser known but rather fascinating species. I don't really know what to do when you're in space.

The graphics & animations were really good, and the theme, sound and story were fun. I wish it had felt more like a game, like having some reaction when not pressing the button till the bar runs out for example. Something like "see? almost invincible!". I was also confused in two specific moments: when the tardigrade started floating out of nowhere in the radiation scene, and in the last space scene (I wandered for minutes to nowhere, then played everything again to find out what I actually had to do). I don't know to what extent these were intentional, but it would be better with a fix or more context. Anyway, nice game overall! Love tardigrades.

The graphics & animations were really good, and the theme, sound and story were fun. I wish it had felt more like a game, like having some reaction when not pressing the button till the bar runs out for example. Something like "see? almost invincible!". I was also confused in two specific moments: when the tardigrade started floating out of nowhere in the radiation scene, and in the last space scene (I wandered for minutes to nowhere, then played everything again to find out what I actually had to do). I don't know to what extent these were intentional, but it would be better with a fix or more context. Anyway, nice game overall! Love tardigrades.

Nice game! Very interesting concept, beautiful animations and beautiful graphics, you executed it very well. Good job!

This is what I expect from a solid team - a project with minigames. The aesthetic is gorgeous, especially the color and the tiny creature itself. Sounds great too. The main mechanics work well as expected and I have fun playing. One of my favorite entries for this event. Well done ++

that Tardigrade is so cute!
love the game, very fun and educational. Also amount of animation work done in just 3 days is insane!