This project was made for the Ludum Dare 53. Checkout our submission page https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/53/snail-mail-2
The friends from the garden love to stay in touch. Thankfully, the moist mailmen are on duty. Slimy snails can effectively traverse the terrain bringing letters from and to any loved ones.
Traversing the garden is no easy task! The moist mailmen are disgusted by their own slime and will never consider touching their own bodily fluids. Yet, they thoroughly enjoy navigating in slime from other mailmen.
Snail Mail is a real-time puzzle game. Each puzzle takes place on a (mathematical) graph. You must control your snails to deliver letters to the indicated kawaii animals on time then return them all to post offices.
Be careful! It's easy to get your snails stuck as they simply refuse to slither on slime of their own color. Snails leave colored slime as they traverse paths. Coordinate your different snails to solve the puzzles (Snails can walk on paths slimed with different colors than their own)!
Our slippery mucus mollusks must deliver letters to The Friends. Let's introduce them:
Lily is a dainty little creature. She's an old soul with a thing for flower pressing and post-modern art. She loves to flit from flower to flower in search of sweet nectar.
Mimi the mouse is a curious little creature who loves to nibble on cheese and explore new places. She speaks in a quiet high pitched squeak which is lovable to most, annoying to none!
Coco is a fluffy little ball of sunshine who a bit of a stoner and a loner. But once you get her out of her shell, she loves a good game of peek-a-boo!
Blossom is a hardworking little insect with the thickest thorax around. Her favourite drink are Starbucks vanilla lattés infused with flower nectar.
Fizzy is a jolly little girl who loves to sing and leap through the lily pads, and she has the brightest big black eyes you've ever seen. Fizzy plays drums in an all amphibian jazz band on the weekends!
Amber the ant may be small, but she's a hard worker; always busy carrying crumbs to the colony. Her hobbies include weightlifting, leafcutting, and nude yoga. Here's a secret she's got crush on Blossom the bee!
The legendary lyricist @adrien-tremblay has composed a great gastropod soundtrack on his acoustic guitar for the title screen.
Lyrics:
[verse 1] (Cmaj Emin Cmaj Emin Gmaj Fmaj Cmaj Emaj Fmaj Cmaj Emaj)
In this world of misery
His only mission is delivery
He’s got no home, only a shell to call own
Delivering mail so we don’t feel so damn alone
[chorus] G Am F C Snail mail, he will never fail
Writing my feeling down on this here paper trail
Snail mail, solid from tentacle to tail
Delivering messages on small scale
[verse 2] (Cmaj Emin Cmaj Emin Gmaj Fmaj Cmaj Emaj Fmaj Cmaj Emaj)
Snaily don’t slither away from me
Softly leaving trails across the land and sea
His antenni twerk to the rhythm of his tail
Sliding moist and slimey as he carries your mail
[chorus] G Am F C
Snail mail, he will never fail
Writing my feeling down on this here paper trail
Snail mail, solid from tentacle to tail
This is how we deliver messages on a small scale
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