ZYMA
Explore ZYMA - or, what's left of it, at least.
This game is a submission to GBJAM14. Find their page here: https://itch.io/jam/gbjam-14
Controls
Keyboard
WASD/Arrow Keys (maps to dpad)
J/K (maps to B/A)
Enter (maps to Start)
Controller
Dpad (maps to dpad)
Right-Action/Bottom-Action (maps to B/A)
Start (maps to Start)
Note for controller: Some places in the game are easier if left and right are pressed simultaneously. Please swap to keyboard if you run into one of these situations. Sorry!
Developer Notes
This is the first game jam that we've ever participated in, and this is the first game we've ever published. It was a ton of fun and we learned a lot! But... we had to cut some things that we had planned to be able to submit on time, so think of this more like a demo for now. If it doesn't feel like the game matches the theme, that would be why. When we come back to work on the game later, it will be more clearly linked to the theme, we promise!
Our Musician
https://on.soundcloud.com/R7K2leWZH2I6TGGRGA
(nobody else on the team has any socials to link lol)
Comments
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On the one hand: I found it really hard to control the ball. (Made worse by the fact that I kept forgetting which was left and which was right.) Spent a lot of time knocking it into the air and waiting for it to come down, or tossing it backwards instead of forwards.
This was made worse by the one point where I felt I was making progress, when I got the ball up near the top, and could flip it up to the next screen...but I couldn't get it to roll onto the platform up there, and it kept going down again. There's a jankiness (in my browser, at least?) that causes the game to freeze for half a second when moving from the red area up to the teal area, which made that sufficiently harder.
Eventually I knocked the ball back to the leftmost screen, and kept trying to push it up...until I somehow went off the left edge and now I'm stuck on an all-black screen (with the ball in the lower right where it entered).
On the other hand: this is such a unique mechanism for a metroidvania that I didn't want to give up. (Until, well, I had to, obviously.) I may well come back to it, and I'd love to see where you go with it!