Awarded gamesAmateur Division
Honorable MentionBubbleBound
General Description
| Title | BubbleBound |
|---|---|
| Platform | PC |
| School | Nippon Engineering College |
| Winner's name | Automatic Bubble Crackers |
Reason
Congratulations for winning the award!
When I heard that it is a jump action game to proceed shooting bubbles, I thought it must be very difficult imaging that I have to hurriedly decide the direction to shoot bubbles performing jump operation, jump on the bubbles, and so on. But, oh dear, the game automatically do the jump for me.
Thanks to automatic jump, I could concentrate on the direction to shoot bubbles and enjoy to my satisfaction the “exhilarating feeling of the move using bubbles”, which they say they were particular about and pursued in this game.
Exhilarating sense of consecutively jumping on the bubbles and the sense of speed of consecutive jumps by the bubbles arranged on the stage are also the features of this game. Operating ease to bring out the features is also excellent.
While I got impression that players might get bored as they proceed with the stages since not many gimmicks are presented, this game compensates for that point with the level design of stages and that is a point I appreciated.
I am looking forward to games that the award winners are going to create.
Noriyasu Suzuki, KADOKAWA Game Linkage Inc.
Work Introduction
This is a jump action game to go for the goal operating the main character who manipulates bubbles.
The creator of the game is particular about “exhilarating feeling of the move using bubbles”.
The player advances operating a character avoiding the bubble to be broken by an enemy.
However, there is no jump button to evade the enemy; the character jumps automatically regardless of the will of the player.
The player repeats the automatic jump and shoots bubbles to connect the bubbles to create a foothold, sometimes closes enemy in the bubbles, and sometimes makes a big bubble to step on it to make a big jump.
To consider “on which timing and how to arrange bubbles” and appropriately put the bubbles at the aimed position is the key to win the game.
Consecutive jumps taking in bubbles arranged on the stage are extremely exhilarating.
This game is unique in that the creator is also particular about the behavior of bubbles that follow the main character in belt-like form or caught in geographic features as well as the action and sound effect of popping bubbles.
