Seriously so cute and very entertaining to play. I hope you guys get to do a longer version sometime:)
Reviews for "Fragile"
Great game! A hint for anyone who gets stuck: Tap the Up arrow to fly, hold it to jump.
Interesting, and the small bit there is fun, wish it was longer or had a more definitive ending. Even if just after falling into the hole it fades to black after a while. But maybe being stuck indefinitely is the point. Cool game!
I think I understand what the message is. The three sibling eggs are there to send the player the false message that if they fall too far, they're egg will break and they will die, making them believe they are fragile. You can make it through almost the entire game in the egg form until you get to the final hole. If you try to jump across it in the egg form, you won't make it and you will fall, breaking the egg open and revealing that you wouldn't have died and if you had done this earlier, you could have made it across the gap.
There's a few problem with this premise if this is what you intended. The egg siblings don't "die" soon enough. They stop at the edge, giving the player time to screw around and fall, revealing that they wouldn't die. Also, even after they die, the lessen doesn't really have time to sink in. Plus, you don't tell player that if they fall off of platform without jumping, they can air jump (without knowing this, it would be impossible to get through the entire game up to the hole as an egg). Plus, you can fall down the hole and air jump at the last second, keeping the egg from breaking.
Also, you don't tell people the controls, which leaves them with a lot of questions:
- What are the boxes for in game? Can they be interacted with?
- Was there a way to get over the hole while in egg form (was there a control that would allow it)?
Without giving the player the controls, you don't give them clear limitations that would make the reality of "dying" a real thing.
Aside from this, I did enjoy the game and played it multiple times. The art style was cool though an ending scene for falling into the hole would have been nice. I wish you luck in your future of game design and look forward to more games from you.
Great for a short game. The only thing that I lowered the score for was having no menu for restarting. I had to F5 a few times as I figured out the controls. I enjoyed the ending.
P.S. To the people who got stuck, there is more than the hole.