Return to your roots, Teo Tooth!
A downloadable game for Windows and Linux
A very blursed game about a tooth returning home. Damage the tapeworm by jumping against its stomach.
Made for the Finnish Game Jam 2023 / Global Game Jam 2023 with the theme Roots by freaky_birds.
Programming by WindySilver, Lumi-Orkidea and Miksu98.
Graphics by nofuu.
Audio by Blingley.
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OH GOD IT'S SO BLURSED!!!
In all seriousness, though, the actual gameplay is pretty fun (and I love the "Yipee!" sound the tooth makes). My only real gripe is that I'm constantly getting stuck in walls or even midair, to the extent I doubt I can possibly get the tooth back into its socket (mainly because that little hop is exactly the kind of thing that seems to prompt this issue, and a second attempt would involve going through the entire game again). But that kind of thing seems forgivable in a jam game. If you were to tackle a post-jam version (possibly including an Android/iOS version, since the controls are already super touchscreen friendly) I think it could be great!
You summed up how I've felt about this thing ever since the concept came up and got chosen during brainstorming in five words and four exclamation marks XD Thanks for the feedback! It's inarguably true that the moving could've used a lot more testing and polishing than it got. It was by far the most painful part of coding this game for sure.
I lowkey want to revisit this to at least fix some visual issues and implement the audio properly; we had an insane crunch on the last day to get this even this playable so the audio side suffered quite a bit even though our audio designer made lots of stuff for this. We'll see if even that much happens, though. No promises at least from me!
I actually didn't find the audio lacking at all! More sounds would be welcome probably, but the jumps are frequent enough that it doesn't seem like there's any conspicuous absence of audio.
One thing that would make a colossal difference even with no other changes would be a button to reset the current level. The ability to hit "R" and start over when the tooth gets stuck would add easily enough convenience to power through the rough edges.
The ability to restart the level is an excellent idea (and definitely something feasible for a quick-fix post-jam version). Thanks!