Controls: Z , X, Enter, Shift, Arrow Keys

Music by: Isaih Martinez

Everything Else by: Howdy Riceball

Better to spill a little milk than expire completely! 

Have fun helping save all the food that's about to expire in the fridge in this new platformer for the Gameboy Color!

StatusReleased
PlatformsHTML5
Rating
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(11 total ratings)
Authorhowdy riceball
GenrePlatformer
Tags2D, 8-Bit, Colorful, Game Boy ROM, gbstudio, kawaii, Pixel Art, Retro, Short

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nails the visual tone of a GBC-era platformer perfectly

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Thank you so much!! Definitely trying to do it justice!

Hey Howdy. I have a question. Me and couple other people on reddit create QR Code games for Homebrewed 3DS and we'd like to ask if its ok if we make your Expiration Date game into a QR code to post on our subreddit. We will for sure credit you in the post and also post a link to this page so people can donate to you! Let us know if its ok!

Hey there, yeah that would be fine :D Please link me after so I can download it on my 3ds also ^_^

Hey howdy! Thank you so much for letting us post your game! Here is the link to the QR Code!

https://www.reddit.com/r/3dsqrcodes/comments/1cqydnk/expiration_date_gbc_homebre...

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more little non-intentional things I found:

balloons can be bounced off, and if bounced off to three tiles above the balloon's original spot, a fake balloon will appear 3 tiles higher than the real one, it disappears when it reforms though

at the transformation section, you can press jump a little bit the transform button, and this makes the milk body do some weird things, and gives you a higher jump if holding the jump button. this reveals the fish in the water is killable, for whatever reason

the fish maze has strange hitboxes...

the first lime in the line of fruits is put as a semisolid, I have no idea why, but I assume it's unintentional

if you jump across the fruit gap, you'll find the refrigerator's wall is offset

if in damage animation and climbing a ladder, you'll become invisible

in the second liquid section, holding right as you enter puts you somewhere unintended. You can get out, but it requires a damage boost and very precise movement.

pressing z twice near the hole after the second liquid section softlocks you

I love this game :b

wow thank you so much for all of this!! It honestly helps a ton! Especially since when I'm working on it and play test there's a lot I just don't try! You are exceptional at finding bugs, I'd love to have you playtest more of my games that are in development sometime if you would be interested :) But no pressure!

I'd be up for it

bug found: If you go into the expired milk thing, and hold the up arrow key, you can negate all damage

note: you'll need to have the damage animation happen at least 4 times to do glitch

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Great find! Thanks much with the next update I will correct that :D

:]

The idea and the fridge fan is hilarious, love it :D

thank you :D I’m glad you enjoyed it 

I really like the music. Also love the pun.

thank you so much 🤠🤩

"This is a bucket"
"Dear God"
"There's more"

"NOOoooo"

lol

I've just played it, the game is great, but I don't quite get what to do at the boss

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Thanks so much! Congrats on your game jam win! :D

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Thanks for joining the jam and making such a visual pleasing game in only 7 days!
It's looks so good on real hardware as well! :)

Slows down a little when played on an old DMG though.

thanks for hosting the Jam!! It was so fun to push myself to make a game in just seven days, I wouldn’t have been able to come up with the ideas without the pressure of the jam 🤠 I hope you host future jams, I will definitely participate in as many as I can 🎉

I will try to make this Jam a yearly event!
I already took a few notes on how to improve this in the future!

amazing can we please get more? Thank you

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thanks so much 🙏 I am hoping to add to it over the next month 🤠

Quite an interesting game, however, here are some of the points that could be polished ahead of time, have a look.

  • The movement mechanics could be improved more.
  • The overall environment looks great but we feel like it could be more dynamic.
  • Also, if possible the character animations are too less, so you can also think of adding that.
  • Some user feedback systems like camera shake and visual effects could be added to make it look more awesome.

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