Puffed Up!

Welcome to 'Puffed Up!'

A side-scroller game where you play as a pufferfish, tasked with escaping from the kitchen staff trying to fish him out of their fishtank! Made by the Fire Otters team for the GMTK Game Jam 2024.

Story

Late at night in an esteemed Japanese restaurant, the doors part ways to reveal the intimidating figure of the town’s most renowned food critic. The sight of her sends the kitchen into a panic behind the scenes. She sits down. After but a moment of perusing the menu, the critic glances toward the kitchen window, locks eyes with the head chef and mouths the word, “Fugu.” The chefs all turn to face their oversized fish-tank, and staring back at them was a petrified young pufferfish.

How to Play

• To escape his fate, Puffy must outrun the hands of the kitchen staff!
• Puffy can swim in any direction
• Inflate by pressing Space. This scares away some enemies, pushes obstacles out of your way, but also slows you down
• Deflate by pressing Space again. This will also boost Puffy forward
• Coral and enemies can damage you and inflict knockback, so be careful!

Don't let them eat you!

The Team

benchi99 - Programmer
CrossfireCam - Programmer
Danirbu - Music
Darelt - Sound Effects
Rioni - Programmer
TeslaSP2 - Art