- Made in 96 hours for the GMTK 2024 Game Jam -

Notes:

• if you got stuck you can press R to retry the puzzle. You can also press P to open the pause menu, which also has hints to help you if you're stuck!
• The downloadable versions are currently a bit outdated, so you should play the web one!
• Unfortunately, the last level contains a possible cheese where you can just expand all the Expanding Glorbs and move the first one to easily beat the level. I wasn't able to fix this within the time frame, but I recommend you try solving the puzzle in the intended way for the best experience! :D

Story

The deadly sun has claimed the lives of too many Shadeslugs... It is time to take action. Find the legendary Shadow Card to turn off the sun itself and save the shades forevermore.

Life as a Shadeslug can be tough in a place where there's plenty of deadly sunlight! Luckily for you, you'll find many Glorbs along the way. Glorbs are strange but friendly cube-shaped creatures which are built to scale and change their shape!

Use transformation cards to manipulate the scale and positions of the various Glorbs in the level in order to block the sunlight and create some nice shade, allowing you to pass through!

Development

Shadescale is a puzzle game developed in less than 96 hours for the GMTK game jam 2024! The theme was Built To Scale, which is conveyed through the scaling and transforming of Glorbs to create shadows. I used the Godot Game Engine, as well as Aseprite for the art.

Credits

Shadescale was made with the help of the following assets:

• Googly eyes: https://github.com/JohnMeadow1/GodotProjects/tree/master/googly_eyes

• Font: https://managore.itch.io/m6x11

• Music: https://alkakrab.itch.io/free-25-fantasy-rpg-game-tracks-no-copyright-vol-2
• Sound Effects: https://kenney.nl/assets/category:Audio?sort=update
  

Thanks for playing!