Parasite Pop

Go through levels infecting different creatures to finally reach the human at the end in this 3D platformer inspired by Mario Odyssey! I'd recommend playing with a controller, but it works fine with keyboard and mouse too!

The basic controls:

WASD/Left thumbstick to move

Space/A button to jump

Left click/Right Trigger to dash

Right click/B Button to release from infection

R/Select button to respawn

Escape/Start button to pause

But you can change key bindings in the options.

This game was made in a little over a week for Godot Wild Jam #67. I'm the only dev that worked on it and I'm a programmer so please don't judge the art and sound too hard. I learnt an absolute ton during this jam, I don't even think I have enough space to explain everything, but I had a blast making it though I'm exhausted. This is probably my favourite game I've made so far, it's definitely the most complete.

The theme was parasite, and I went in wanting to make a 3D platformer, so I immediately thought of Mario Odyssey cuz Cappy is basically a parasite. So I tried to make a game like that, then I made the symptoms of the parasite big googly eyes and gave the scientist a moustache to fit the limitation.

I don't have a Linux or Mac computer and neither do my friends, so it has been tested in Windows, but I've been unable to test on either of the others.

The programs I used were Blender for 3D models, Aseprite for 2D Art, BFXR for sound effects and of course Godot 4.2.

Thank you to my coworkers Tom, Morgan, Will and Ben, as well as my friends Brad and Brandon for playtesting my game and suggested ideas and being all around great guys. Also thank you for taking the screenshots for me Brad.