MushRoom Bounce! - Two Squid Games

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWPZME5rsUI

https://www.ouya.tv/game/MushRoom-Bounce/

MushRoom Bounce! is a unique, addictive, 2D physics game where you spin, bop, freeze, and blast Mushrooms into various holes to clear each level!

This is exciting news for the OUYA gaming community, as MushRoom Bounce offers a fun and unique gameplay experience. MushRoom Bounce! is a complete break from any other gaming genre; there are no games like it on the market.

And it supports gamepads very, very well. This is a console game.

Kino Koichi is the Mushroom Bouncer, a bodybuilding mushroom whose job it is to "bounce" unruly mushrooms that are invading human territory! To keep the peace between mushroom and human kind, Koichi is on a mission to get the mushroom outbreak under control. Under ground, above ground, and back in time -- the mushroom madness is spreading in this addictive, crazy, retro, mushroom-bopping adventure!

Mushrooms abound out of bounds in this wacky mushroom-bopping adventure, set in a myriad of different locations... including some that might leave you scratching your cap. A cafe, the city streets, a desert island, a haunted house -- You never know where the little shrooms might pop up next!

Cute as they may be, this fungal frenzy is getting out of hand. Time to put these cute little guys back in their place. Like the bouncer at any exclusive club, it's time to bum-rush these mushrooms down whatever convenient hole you can find!

Join Koichi in level after level of mushroom bouncing fun -- put on your sunglasses and get bouncing today!

MushRoom Bounce! Features:
* 2-player Split-screen competitive mode
* Realistic, 2D Physics Action
* Bop, Dash, Bomb, Blast, Grab, Freeze, and Repel-ray your Mushroom opponents
* Like in Basketball or Billiards, a Mushroom's "spin" affects how it bounces
* Works with ALL wireless bluetooth HID Gamepads
* Gamepad Remap feature
* Leaderboards and Personal High Scores saved to server
* 33 Unique Areas
* High Quality 28-song stereo soundtrack
* FREE Version Includes 15 Levels!
* Tons of Variety -- Each level has its own funny details and surprises
* Supports keyboard input, including non-HID joysticks (those that behave like a mini keyboard)
* Also available for Android, Windows, Mac, Linux, and Raspberry Pi

P.S. Kinoko = "mushroom" in Japanese. And ichi means "one" so I guess you could say the Bouncer's name is "Mushroom One".

P.P.S. This is our first released game. Both of us Squids put 8 months of our lives into this game, and would LOVE to hear your feedback, good or bad. Criticism? Bug report? Let us know! Email matthew (at) twosquidgames.com. And please rate the game! Thanks for playing.

The game is, okay at best I think. It was a bit cryptic to find the 2 player mode (need to press A on the second controller ingame), but once found it made as a better multiplayer game. Maybe add some enemies/threats of some sort? A two player option in the menu may be better as well I think. Overall a good start. I hope you two do plan on updating it when you can because this has the potential to be a great game.

I think pressing any key on the 2nd controller should do the trick. I was inspired by 2 player "Contra" for NES where you press start on the 2nd controller to join in at any time. I thought it was an elegant way to do it.

Regarding game difficulty -- I was thinking the same thing. Namely, if it isn't good now, it could be. But we hit the point where we needed some outside players and feedback, so we went ahead and released it. Believe it or not, I released at the beginning of December and the game has seen about 21 version updates since then -- fixing all kinds of bugs and actually adding quite a few features. So yeah, I don't think we're "done for good" with it or anything.

I was thinking it might be good to limit the use of his special powers, or make it more difficult at least in "normal" difficulty. Maybe have the game start out in Normal, too (right now it starts out on Easy). That way the little kids could play it, but teens and adults could get a challenge as well. I do think the game is a bit easy right now. There is a "Normal" difficulty right now, but it doesn't do *that* much.

I dropped the price on the Premium Edition of MushRoom Bounce! to 0.99! (from 2.99)

That's 62 levels, including 33 unique areas and 28 background music tracks!
https://www.ouya.tv/game/MushRoom-Bounce/