Save the Slimes!

Here is my entry to Micro Jam 13: Lava! with the prerequisite "Time is limited"!

It was an exhausting weekend but I had a lot of fun and I hope you like my little game 💛

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STORY: 

The baby ice slimes       are lost in the lava maze, where the heat has turned them hostile     ! You have to find them, help them to cool down and escape the maze together before it is too late!

How it integrates the theme and prerequisite:

There are actually two ways in which your time is limited:

1. The heat in the lava maze is especially harmful to an ice slime such as yourself: your body temperature will keem rising constantly until you melt, so you must hurry to make it out alive!
2. The maze is not safe! When the timer runs out, it will start disintegrating. You must make it out of there before everything falls apart!

As for the theme, since it is a lava maze,  there is not much to explain 🙂

Assets used:

• My own Volcanoe Tileset and Asset Pack
• Background track by Sirental:  sirental.itch.io/elemental-dungeons
• Font: m6x11 by daniel linssen
• Sound Effects:

  
  

  • Fantasy Sound Effects by ivyism
  • free sfx pack vol 1-4 by hzsmith
    

Known Bugs and Problems:

• Levels can take a very long time to load. I don't know what the problem is, if you have any advice on what could be causing this, I'd be grateful if you could let me know! (I use godot 4 and don't have this issue when testing the game in-engine)
  
• Y-sorting is a complete mess! I realized too late that even the pause menu UI is sometimes partly hidden behind sprites. I didn't have time to go back and fix it in all levels before 
the deadline, but maybe I will release an update after the official rating period.

Please let me know if you find any other issues or bugs in the game. It helps me learn so I can avoid these mistakes in the future.