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Dave the Game

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CREDITS:

Programming & Game Design - SoulsTogetherx

Artwork - TheLofiBoi

Level Theme & Boss Theme - therealchrisnorton

Sound Effects & Misc Music - GhoulTunes

A game made for the Bigmode Game Jam 2023, spanning less than 3 weeks.

Playtime: 2-20 minutes 


Controls:

Move: A and D or left and right arrow keys.

Jump: W or up arrow.

Pause: P

Full Screen: F

Mouse to aim.


  Story:

"Dave is an Architecture student that has a lot of student debt (shocker, I know). One day, Professor Lickameinwiener's robots had an update malfunction, switching the once helpful little buddies from cleaning mode to absolute destruction mode! Suddenly the CIA hits up Dave's phone saying he gotta go slay an evil mecha orange (pretend this has been explained pls) that's finna go rampant if nobody stops it and, naturally, it would have to be him (don't ask why) but he will get a lot of money if he succeeds, the next day he gets a secret CIA special military-grade high heavy destruction power tactical fire weapon along with the orange's current location...the factory! And off he goes to face the damn orange and get out student debt!"


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Ehh, this was a really weird one for me, as it's a bit of a beautiful mess, in a way!

I actually found it pretty novel that it seemed to lean heavily into some unorthodox controls and physics to create some absolutely bizarre jumping puzzles: in a way, it was rather unique and mindbending to wildly walljump and rocket around! However, the more I played, the more it felt like the game was not properly coded and was just an absolute mess, and any intentionally I assumed previously was either a mistake or an excuse: bad either way.

It's just so bloody unintuitive, janky, and lacking so much quality-of-life or refinement that I gave up. It didn't help either that the game is so tiny and doesn't explain anything effectively, along with having a very boring and grey world. It's a shame since I thought the boss fight was promising at the end, along with some of the level design and little charming bits here and there, but yeah, overall I felt like this needed way more time in the oven. I understand it's a game jam game so you were limited and did what you could, but it is what it is: it's at least neat enough that I'd like to see another attempt from you in future!

TheLoFiBoi responds:

This review was so honest and constructive all i can say is thank you for the insight and for playing the game, and you already know our next projects shall be even better!

dont play this , my head become dizzy now

Cool game. It feels a bit rough in terms of movement due to its sensitivity to input. But the shooting and no friction idea is really good.

Yes I died, now i can quit this boring game

How do you full screen?

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Votes
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Score
3.67 / 5.00

Uploaded
Dec 17, 2023
3:00 PM EST