Swathed in a thin, yet steadfast casing, the egg lies in eldritch slumber, and when it cracks open, t̷̩̙̱̑h̵͈͚̼͑̑ḙ̷͓͝ ̷͍̋̓͘c̵̗͛͝o̸̻͐̑̿ṣ̴͂m̶̘̫͓̽͛̀o̶͈͈͂s̷͓̓͋͘ ̴̯̈i̷̗̇͒ṫ̶̘s̴̠̗̊͒e̸̝̍l̶̰̽͑f̶̪́̂ s̸͕͍͗͗ĥ̵̫̩̗̦͙͈̤̩̳͆̈̐̈́̀̒͠͝ͅä̸̤̙̟̥͙́̔͗ͅĺ̴̻͎̱̀̄̀͂͌l̴̢͙̯̺̯̎͊͐͛͆̐̀͑̐͒ ̴̨̺̼͚̲̠̗̤̓̃͒̏͛̉̎́͌t̸̻͎̩̣̣̝͓͎͙̅̅̀̓̍̊͌ͅȓ̵͓̳͉̤̮̤͕̓̎͆̈̐͝ĕ̵̳̑̌̋́ṁ̶͕͙͉̠͔͕̭̖͎͛̂͐ͅb̴̨̡̙̰͓̘͙̈́̓̀̂̉͝͠l̸̹̪̳̞̼͕͕̗̮̀̈́̐́̐ȩ̴͕̼̙̟̹̗̦̄̿̈́͑̑ i̷̺̓̀ͅn̶͙̅ ̵̼̦̓i̶̘͇̎͐t̶͚̉s̸̞̘̐̆ ̶̣̓̚w̵͕̿a̸͖̚k̷̦̓e̵̫̒ 🥚
Awesome game. Love the bgm and the end scene was awesome. Also got the easter egg before doing anything else lol. Definitely couldve made the game a bit harder but its pretty funny how it is. good shit
As an actual review, for a first game you got a lot of the basics down. The platforming is clean, and the mechanics, while bare, work. No crashes, no real bugs. A good entry for your first go!
Thank you for the kind words. Glad you enjoyed it :D The levels were longer in my original first draft, but I wanted to keep it short and sweet to respect the jam players' time. I might do an update later down the line and add more content. Thank you for playing! :D
Amazingly done transition from the fun-cute world to the shadowy creepy one! Love the little comments through the game, those kept me really engaged in the experience!
The final cutscene is perfect to wrap it all, really cool!
The comments/tutorial in the game are the absolute best, they're what made me want to keep going! I could definitely envision a fleshed out version, keep up the great work! I'm proud of you, toots!
This orb, adorned in its delicate, pearly armor, is nature’s very own spherical enigma, a yolky time capsule wrapped in a translucent, brittle sheath.🥚
I love the little comments. Jumping around was so much fun. I want to print these screenshots and have them up on my wall for motivation.
What a fun funky track to gather Eggs? to! Thank you for so many checkpoints as well, I am terrible at platformers/sidescrollers and I loved starting right where I left off.
(I found the secret easter Egg? too, but I won't post a pic of where it is c;)
YOU'RE A ROCKSTAR! :D What a wonderful and eggcellent review! And the first person to find this mythical easter egg thing? (Which, definitely doesn't exist by the way). Thank you so much for sharing your experience with the world. It means a lot <3
Thank YOU for bringing this "transformative" experience to the world! What an unexpected but clever take on alchemy at the end. Transformation plus the golden metaphor, you're a very creative dude.
Love this so much, it’s full of soul, and weird as heck. Great music choice. I’m happy to see someone went with the “philosophical” interpretation of alchemy as transformative change (becoming golden and sun-like!), Carl Jung was famously (and weirdly) into this stuff.
If you haven’t seen it yet, Tarodev has a great video on what makes a platformer feel great. I think the lack of Jump Buffering is what made it feel kind of sticky on the jumps over snakes. (And as other people have noted, checkpoints would be cool!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sWTzMsmdx8
Thank you very much for the lovely review! Glad you appreciated my rather unhinged take on the alchemy aspect, I do like my Jung :D
Spent the entire day wrestling with Godot to figure out a checkpoint system to no avail, but I will keep keep trying. I hope I can get it working before I run out of time. The jumps indeed suck right now, this is why I ended up temporarily patching over the pit falls with safety nets to make the game a little less infuriating. Have to make do with caveman solutions until I can get the checkpoints working, heh :D And again, thank you for playing!
I just learned about this while making my game, although by another name. Coyote Time, named after Wile. E Coyote hanging in the air for a few seconds. It really helped improve the feel of the game. If you need help implementing this let me know.
Thank you for the detailed explanation and the offer! I'm looking into this right now, I'll try and see if I can figure it out the caveman way first :D
When there is a collision just check your dy and if it's higher than a given value add a cracking animation. You could have him die or maybe it would be funny if he just gets put back together.
Thank you for playing :D I went with the idea that alchemy could be any process of transformation or change, but I understand what you mean. And the eggs are indeed mysterious things! :D
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Swathed in a thin, yet steadfast casing, the egg lies in eldritch slumber, and when it cracks open, t̷̩̙̱̑h̵͈͚̼͑̑ḙ̷͓͝ ̷͍̋̓͘c̵̗͛͝o̸̻͐̑̿ṣ̴͂m̶̘̫͓̽͛̀o̶͈͈͂s̷͓̓͋͘ ̴̯̈i̷̗̇͒ṫ̶̘s̴̠̗̊͒e̸̝̍l̶̰̽͑f̶̪́̂ s̸͕͍͗͗ĥ̵̫̩̗̦͙͈̤̩̳͆̈̐̈́̀̒͠͝ͅä̸̤̙̟̥͙́̔͗ͅĺ̴̻͎̱̀̄̀͂͌l̴̢͙̯̺̯̎͊͐͛͆̐̀͑̐͒ ̴̨̺̼͚̲̠̗̤̓̃͒̏͛̉̎́͌t̸̻͎̩̣̣̝͓͎͙̅̅̀̓̍̊͌ͅȓ̵͓̳͉̤̮̤͕̓̎͆̈̐͝ĕ̵̳̑̌̋́ṁ̶͕͙͉̠͔͕̭̖͎͛̂͐ͅb̴̨̡̙̰͓̘͙̈́̓̀̂̉͝͠l̸̹̪̳̞̼͕͕̗̮̀̈́̐́̐ȩ̴͕̼̙̟̹̗̦̄̿̈́͑̑ i̷̺̓̀ͅn̶͙̅ ̵̼̦̓i̶̘͇̎͐t̶͚̉s̸̞̘̐̆ ̶̣̓̚w̵͕̿a̸͖̚k̷̦̓e̵̫̒ 🥚
This game was a lot of fun. The mechanics, art, music, and story were fun. Maybe a longer loop on the music? Otherwise. 10/10 encouraged egg.
Thank you for playing, and this lovely feedback. 🌞
Egg
Awesome game. Love the bgm and the end scene was awesome. Also got the easter egg before doing anything else lol. Definitely couldve made the game a bit harder but its pretty funny how it is. good shit
The zany ovular doodad, whitish pebble of imminent alchemical revelry 🥚
Thank you for playing! I am glad you had fun! That speedrun was hilarious by the way 🌞
those egg quotes go hard btw
Egg
Compact orb of anticipation, lounging in its cozy, mineral-coated sanctuary, waiting to burst forth from its protective cocoon. 🥚
Egg
Nature’s own cryptic enigma, awaiting its metamorphic destiny. 🥚
Egg
A chubby, oval-shaped relic of gastronomic alchemy, nestled in its delicate, porcelain-like encasement. 🥚
Inside, the universe grows quiet enough for you to hear the sound of its potential. 🥚
As an actual review, for a first game you got a lot of the basics down. The platforming is clean, and the mechanics, while bare, work. No crashes, no real bugs. A good entry for your first go!
Thank you for the lovely review! 🌞 I appreciate you playing!
Egg
A plump, alabaster spheroid swathed in a fragile, yet resolute exoskeleton🥚
GOTY 2024
🥚🌞🥚
Well... that escalated quickly. Great work, I really liked the graphics and the platforming. I'd like to see more, that ending hahaha. Great job
Thank you for the kind words. Glad you enjoyed it :D The levels were longer in my original first draft, but I wanted to keep it short and sweet to respect the jam players' time. I might do an update later down the line and add more content. Thank you for playing! :D
Amazingly done transition from the fun-cute world to the shadowy creepy one! Love the little comments through the game, those kept me really engaged in the experience!
The final cutscene is perfect to wrap it all, really cool!
Glad those comments had the effects I was going for! Makes me a happy egg you liked my MS Paint cinematic too :D Thank you so much for playing! :D
Eyy fellow eggers ! Sorry for the late reply. Lovely messages btw, they're really uplifting :D. The finale is a bit of a jumpscare though XD.
P.S. thank you for the rating on my egg game and sorry for the late reply. The eggs are random btw.
The EGGspert is in! Thank you for playing! 🌞You're a rockstar of the egg genre! 🥚
You're more of a rockstar !
This did it for me. Amazing experience.
Jokes aside, nice platforming, nice twist in the end... congratulations!
CONGRATS BIG BOY! I'm glad you had fun. Thank you for playing! 🌞
The comments/tutorial in the game are the absolute best, they're what made me want to keep going! I could definitely envision a fleshed out version, keep up the great work! I'm proud of you, toots!
Hahaha I'm happy you enjoyed the goofy comments. Thank you for EGGing me on and playing :D 🌞
egg
This orb, adorned in its delicate, pearly armor, is nature’s very own spherical enigma, a yolky time capsule wrapped in a translucent, brittle sheath.🥚
I love the little comments. Jumping around was so much fun. I want to print these screenshots and have them up on my wall for motivation.
What a fun funky track to gather Eggs? to! Thank you for so many checkpoints as well, I am terrible at platformers/sidescrollers and I loved starting right where I left off.
(I found the secret easter Egg? too, but I won't post a pic of where it is c;)
More Egg? Please!
YOU'RE A ROCKSTAR! :D What a wonderful and eggcellent review! And the first person to find this mythical easter egg thing? (Which, definitely doesn't exist by the way). Thank you so much for sharing your experience with the world. It means a lot <3
It was so satisfying to reach the end! Awesome ending you have to journey through to get to!
Thank you for making it to the end! I'm glad you liked it! :D
A wild adventure, dripping with danger and mystery. Full of stunning art and delightful surprises. A gem!
You honor me! Thank you so much for playing!
Thank YOU for bringing this "transformative" experience to the world! What an unexpected but clever take on alchemy at the end. Transformation plus the golden metaphor, you're a very creative dude.
This was excellent.
Thank you for playing!
Look at you! M-egg-a good job on the update.
Thank you for your feedback and guidance along the way! <3
I COLLECTED MORE THAN 3 EGGS! IT LIED!
Congratulations! You have collected 2 eggs!
Fun platformer! I collected all da eggz! I like the sound effects when collecting the eggs + movement
Thank you for playing! And for appreciating the satisfying crunch of spinning eggs chomped down in quick succession!
EGGSTREAMLY MINDBLOWING
ITN MADE ME E G G
=3
Thank you for playing! Perhaps this update will make you EGG harder?
I love you so much please dont die
For you, I'll try not to :D
I thinks we're going to lose the jam
That's alright, perhaps the real win was the eggs we collected along the way :D
Please never stop making games
Thank you for egging me on!
What a wonderful eggscape! Loved the laid back atmosphere and the encouragement along the way! Egg well done!
Thank you for the lovely, eggspert review! And thank you for playing :D
A fun egg-perience!
Thank you for playing!
this game is eggcellent
Glad the eggsperience was to your liking! Thank you for playing! :D
Eggsquisit
You’re cracking me up :D Thank you for playing!
I am confused in a good way which I didn't know was possible until now. 10/10
Happy to hear it! Thank you for playing! :D
Dude what a great game I love it
<3 Thank you for playing!
just completed the first speedrun of "Egg?". All egg%. My time from pressing start to hatching after collecting all eggs was 3:12.60.
That's a speedy egg right there! Thank you for playing!
theres a secret way to get hatching in like 5 seconds
I feel like Jump buffering, checkpoints, and coyote time would improve this game a lot
Still working on figuring out how to add checkpoints :( Thank you for playing
if this doesn't win, then the jam is rigged. egg
Thank you for playing! egg
10/10 ending. Truly a masterpiece of the egg-type genre.
Honored to be of service to the egg-type genre. Thank you for playing :D
Love this so much, it’s full of soul, and weird as heck. Great music choice. I’m happy to see someone went with the “philosophical” interpretation of alchemy as transformative change (becoming golden and sun-like!), Carl Jung was famously (and weirdly) into this stuff.
If you haven’t seen it yet, Tarodev has a great video on what makes a platformer feel great. I think the lack of Jump Buffering is what made it feel kind of sticky on the jumps over snakes. (And as other people have noted, checkpoints would be cool!) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sWTzMsmdx8
Thank you very much for the lovely review! Glad you appreciated my rather unhinged take on the alchemy aspect, I do like my Jung :D
Spent the entire day wrestling with Godot to figure out a checkpoint system to no avail, but I will keep keep trying. I hope I can get it working before I run out of time. The jumps indeed suck right now, this is why I ended up temporarily patching over the pit falls with safety nets to make the game a little less infuriating. Have to make do with caveman solutions until I can get the checkpoints working, heh :D And again, thank you for playing!
I just learned about this while making my game, although by another name. Coyote Time, named after Wile. E Coyote hanging in the air for a few seconds. It really helped improve the feel of the game. If you need help implementing this let me know.
Thank you for the detailed explanation and the offer! I'm looking into this right now, I'll try and see if I can figure it out the caveman way first :D
You added eggy double jumps and coyote time!! Woooo! Nice work, I like the feel of it.
Great Music and love the smiling egg. I think it would be cool if the egg cracks when falling from high.
I loove that idea. I hope I can figure out how to code that. And thank you for playing :D
When there is a collision just check your dy and if it's higher than a given value add a cracking animation. You could have him die or maybe it would be funny if he just gets put back together.
please win
An egg can dream :D Thank you for playing!
perfect game, GOTY contenter, would play again
Thank you for playing, and your kind words, my fellow egg connoisseur!
I love the wackiness, couple things though:
1. Alchemy is missing
2. The end is the same whether you collect all the eggs. I tried to collect 0.
But still had fun
Thank you for playing :D I went with the idea that alchemy could be any process of transformation or change, but I understand what you mean. And the eggs are indeed mysterious things! :D
Fun - needs checkpoints tho!
Thank you for playing my game! :D I will try to figure out how to do checkpoints for the next update!