INFLATED is a game made for the GMTK 2024 game jam. 

You play as a character that can inflate its head and float around like a balloon with the aim of clearing every stage as fast as possible.

CONTROLS

Press SPACE to Inflate the character's head, interact with the menu and skip the grading screen.

Release SPACE and then pressing SPACE while near the blue entities to parry.

Use the LEFT and RIGHT ARROW KEY while airborne to move left and right. 

Press A or D and SPACE simultaneously while airborne to dash.

Press R to restart (The timer needs to have begun and you need not to have cleared the stage yet). 

MECHANICS

Releasing SPACE during the dash and then pressing SPACE shortly after grants you a vertical speed boost equal to half of the speed you originally had, and the corresponding head size.

Touching the blue entities deducts 5 seconds from the timer. However, parrying  the blue entities restores said 5 seconds and adds 2 more.

Parrying  the blue entities grants you additional vertical speed.

The pink entity will block you path unless the character's head is big enough to destroy them.

If the timer reaches 0 the stage will automatically be restarted.

The grade at the end of each stage depends on the time you spend falling, on the ground after the timer has begun and the time you spent on the stage according to the time given to you at the start. 

STAGE 3 NOTE

I have come to realize that the 3rd stage of the game requires some tricky inputs, so here's how yoy beat it.

1. Inflate and move until you have passed the first platform as seen bellow.

2. Press D+SPACE to dash to the left or A+SPACE to dash to the right depending on where the pink entities are.

3. No input.

4. Press SPACE to break through.   

 

 

CREDITS

Code by me (Pythagorean)

Art by me (Pythagorean)

Music by John_ioannis

Sound Effects by me (Pythagorean)