Hello my Lovelies! My name is Lovely Leckakay, and welcome to PokeyPoke. So full disclosure.
This is not my first time playing this game. This is my
Fourth time trying to play and record this game
So I should be decent at the controls by now
The point of PokeyPoke is to collect 19 turquoise stars like I did and 89 beautiful purple coins
and Badudaaaaaaaa~
You use your spear to get around this map with
Injecting- injecting? Impaling it into the clods of Earth in the wall and using it to maneuver around the maps you can of course
try and 100% it.
Now PokeyPoke is the love child of a game jam 49
Competition the most recent one in fact came out about two weeks ago
So it's a pretty recent little baby
And the development team is called the team NotPokio appropriately enough the main developer of the game is named ShaunJS
and he is the coder
and creator of this game the other two members of team NotPokio are InkedSplat
he's the artist who made the adorable art that you're seeing right now and
Rologfos is the sound designer so he contributed the awesome jammy tunes that were listening to what we're playing this game
And together they were able to make this even though it was done in 48 hours
It's not a completed project if you go on Shaun's Twitter. He talks about how it's not a finished thing
It's glitchy there's no tutorial and that's true. There's no tutorial, but other than a few minor cosmetic
Issues like my spear clipping through the floor if I'm in the far corner or something
I-I-I-It's a really good fun game
And it feels complete the little animations of Pokey here
running around and having our hair flip in the wind when you're moving left and right or
When you're jumping and falling down her hair wiggling side-to-side
Those are all really cute touches and the design of it is
Really well done. I believe it placed third in the competition overall so it did extremely well and was received
fantastically. I
personally really really liked this game being the fourth time I've tried to record this I
Really like it, and I don't mind playing it over and over again because it's just a good time
I mean look at Pokey's face
She's so perpetually happy all the goddamn time, and it's infectious at least for me so with your spear
You can climb up things you can destroy boxes like I just did by throwing your spear MYAAAAAHHH and doing the javelin throw of
everything oh
I should probably tell you how to do it because there are no instructions or tutorials and whatsoever when you upload the game
You're just thrown into it. That's it. There's no settings options for sound to turn it down or turn off sound effects there's
Nothing like that so if you go to the GM48 website, which I will link in the description below
You can read how to play it essentially
Really easy you press space to jump you use D or right arrow key to move right. A or left arrow key to move left
to poke and stab things you use left click in order to stick into the earth you hold down left click and
You use right-click to throw your spear, and if it goes into something like that for example, and you press right click again
It comes back to you, so
it's
Pretty straightforward as far as controls go when you're first playing it though. You are probably gonna. Have a hard time
Just getting used to everything oh
And if you see these sparkles in the ground they're coins so make sure you poke 'em to death so you can grab their goodness
Also those spikes kill you however because you have check points which are Pokey, but gold, every time that you
Interact with one of those checkpoints if you die, that's gonna be where you respawn
And if you collect coins like I did just before your death
You'll still have them as part of your progress bar
Which is nice because it takes out the fear of dying and losing progress
Which I think is a nice touch also with these spears err, spears? (lol) With these BOMBS you can use your spear to
Push them in the direction you want to have the granite blocks explode with these don't work with the big
Chunks of earth that are made of granite it only works with these little cubes of
Granite at least I'm assuming they're granite. They're some kind of un-spearable material
That's not soft enough to impale so
you can push these from behind, or you can go up here and
Collect them from the top by impaling them from the ground. It doesn't matter as long as you are able to get them like
BOOP Got it. Also. You can't destroy these like I was trying to when I first did this game
I thought that you could maybe destroy the bomb creater by throwing a bomb at it and
I was wrong because no matter how many times I threw bombs at it
It didn't get damaged it didn't explode, but you also don't die from
Being hit with a bomb look BOOM it hit me directly in the head, and I am perfectly okay, so
Let's get out of this area because we are done here
our work here is done and move on to the next part of the game so
Ha pa ba baaaaaaaaa~
You can either poke them to death or you can throw your spear at them whatever you want to do
I personally prefer to poke boxes that are close by
just because it's fun to have her impale things over and over I also can't be 100% certain that her name is
Pokey, *chuckles* I just gave that name to her because it seemed appropriate with the game being called PokeyPoke and whatnot and
With her love of impaling things and using her spear to climb up mountains and do
spider-man like feats or American Ninja Warrior like feats of strength
I dunno. And it just seems appropriate and fitting
so
As you guys can probably tell she is a beautifully happy little girl
And they have little sound effects for the spear going off which is freaking adorable, and I absolutely love it
But something I think would add even more
character to the character
is
Sound effects of her herself so when she throws a spear into wall and goes HYAAAH, like making a really
Happy sound to go up because she's so goddamn happy all the time
that she
really wants to
Enjoy herself when she's taking the time to go up these mountains. You know what I mean, so that's extremely fun
Weeeeeeeeee~
Or like when she jumps she goes WEEEEE~ or something along those lines, and we're gonna go to the left here
Simply because we can and it'll streamline the process a little bit so we want to go up there
But there's boxes in the way
so we're gonna c-c-c-combo BREAKEEEERRR all of them boom so now we can actually jump on our spear and
Get up there, so
That might be a little high. Nope I'ma liar
Boo boo boo boo boo boo boooooo~
and
Op, get that coin. Come up here. It's just delightful. Uhh, okay, so I'm not scared of dying because
yep, does that look like there's writing on the back of the star when they twirl around they have a darker blue color on the
Back of them you okay, that's a glitch it shouldn't have told me I found a star even though
It just told me I found one
Odd....
Anyway
It looks like there's writing on the back of them like there's more going on here, then we know about.
For example maybe Pokey is collecting these stars because it's part of a
Ritual or a legend that she's a part of or they're really desired in the village that she came from
Or something you know I feel like there's a lot of story that could be
Implemented into this game, so it's more than just a delightfully adorable and fun
little game jam game
It could be flushed out a little bit more and the map is already pretty big, but this could definitely just be one level
and
There could be so much more to it than we even know about maybe after Pokey finds all of these things
She's like huh, you know what?
I
Need to go back to my village because I forgot so-and-so or I want to bring so-and-so with me because they can
Help me on my adventure, and when she goes back. There's something wrong, and she has to save her villagers. I don't know
There's a lot of things that could be done here, but
What I was tossing around in my head for a story as far as a possible storyline to tie together why she's collecting these things
maybe what they are or
the impetus behind
her actions
Is that pokey is a happy little girl, she's a teenager or a young adult she could be
whatever age it's kind of hard to tell with pixel measurements but
She is such a happy person that the village doesn't think she has what it takes to be a warrior and her parents
Were warriors her mother died and her father
Either is still in the village or has also died. She's an orphan now and left her this red
bandage or pendent bandanna
Whatever it is that she has tied around bracelet
her thing here as a memento for her fallen mother who was a
Renowned and very highly respected warrior in the village before she died
and she wants to be like her mother she wants to be a
Warrior so in order to be like her mother. She wants to have the approval of the village to
Be on their royal guard so she can defend them
And do whatever she needs to do so she can maintain her honor
But nobody thinks that she is capable of following in her mother's footsteps because she's so goddamn happy all the time
And in order to prove them wrong
She took a spear of her mother's that was left behind, put her
Memento on it, that red little bit that is special to her, and was like SCREW you guys
But not really because she's too
Happy to say that like you know what I'm gonna prove you all wrong with a smile on her face
Determined that she can of course prove them all wrong, and then she went off to go collect these highly valuable
Magical stars for her village which can both imbue her with power and or
Help her to be respected in the village because they're a highly sought-after item
And the coins could just be
the currency of the game
That doesn't have to have too much significance to that so maybe you can buy a double jump or
other power-ups along the way once you do more of this game
You know besides just being a regular collectible
And after you collect so many stars because there's writing on the back of them
You are able to get super magical abilities
and
that's what the writing on the back is once you've collected so many you are able to read them and understand the magic skills or
Whatever it is. You need to be the ultimate warrior
So anyway, that's what I would have be the storyline for cute little Pokey here
And I am too close. Theeeeeere we go. I need to use the bomb to explode
I also need to use it by the way
There is let me show you there is a star up here
But it's locked by granite and in order to do it you have to use these bombs
But you can't go to the left or to the right, otherwise it's gonna fall to the ground like that one
just it so you have to be really precise with this one and
You have to jump and kind of judge when the next bomb is gonna come out
Because you need to get it as soon as it comes out. Yes, so it doesn't come back down
oh, man, so it accidentally hit the
Wall like I didn't want it to
Okay, yeah like that come on! Ahh man. I missed it
so that one's a little tricky just because of timing but
All of this is extremely doable and it's really fun to do actually
Aww come on! Come on, comeoncomeoncomeon!!!!
No no no no no, go up. Go up!
Come on no stop it, stop it. Stop it! Ohhhh my gosh
Alright so a little annoying, but that's okay. Did it at least to get rid of one of the blocks
Yes, it did it got rid of two of them perfect. That's all I
Need I don't need much
Come on. Bada diiiiiiiiing~
Come on, no oh no no no no okay, that is my biggest pet peeve with this game with the amount of times I've played it
It is freaking annoying when I accidentally click out of the box because it looks like it's full screen right now since that's how
configured it for my OBS recording software settings, but whoa whoa whoa whoa I totally missed the star there
Okay, I was looking away for one second, and I destroyed everything
Alright. -.-
But the
Dimensions of the game do not allow you to do full screen if you have a larger monitor like I do that you play games
on so it would be really nice to have a full screen setting that so that when you
Play it you can
Know and rest assured that while you're playing the game. You won't accidentally click out of it and end up on
A webpage, or well, not a webpage it doesn't have click ads, but you know what I mean
It shows whatever window was behind your game when you were doing it and for me that window was
Shaun's GM profile because at the end of this I'm going to show you guys the Team NotPokio's
page on
GM48 so that you can see who they are and kind of
Get a little bit more information on them I suppose and of course you can follow them or check them out on
Twitter if you would like to get much more information than I could ever provide you
and I highly highly recommend that you download and play this game for yourself because besides it just being
*chuckles*
Adorable and delightful as a pixel game
It is free completely free to download. It is still a work in progress
There's a few minor things that could be worked out, but for the most part. It's done. There's not much that has to happen here
it has
You know maybe some extra things that could be added story-wise or sound effects wise I mean Pokey
I think would be extremely delightful if she made noises every time she
Jumped in the air or collected something if she made a "Alright!" or
I don't know.
Something just cute to add to the cuteness of this game. I think that would be adorable
But also adding a instruction menu before you go into the game or a play and settings
Front card to the game so when you load it up. It doesn't immediately go into the game play
It those are just small cosmetic things the game itself the gameplay is
Perfectly intact and has no issues at all it flows
Really well and I have had no issues gameplay wise there have been a few
Annoying moments where when I die sometimes the audio will crash
And it'll make it sound like I'm spearing continuously
Extremely loudly in my ear and I don't appreciate that at all however
Other than little things like that the game is totally done. It's completely finished and
It's just the super duper fun game
Even she even has X's of her eyes
When she dies which is freaking awesome, okay? I didn't realize I was this far back at a checkpoint
Jeeeeeeesus I need to go find a closer one there we go
yikes, I don't wanna have to do that every time, but we have collected all of
The coins we have almost all of the stars
There's only one left which is across this canyon
But if you use your spear as a poky you can get across to collect it and after you've collected everything
That's it the game is
Done there is no screen that comes up to say Congratulations! You've collected everything!
*high fives self* Yeah! And give you a high five like I kind of hope that it will eventually when it finishes
But that's it. That's it the game continues
you can continue to poke around and kind of have fun and explore if you want to but other than that that's PokeyPoke.
It's such an adorable game, and I love it so much so quickly let me show you guys
This is ShaunJS' profile on GM48 he has a bunch of social media accounts. I'm gonna have his
creation time-lapse of this game during the 48 hour game jam linked at the end of this video so definitely go check that out
It's really cool to see how he codes everything and even does a little bit of the gameplay at the very end
It's really cool. He's the coder developer head of this team.
InkedSplat is the wonderful artist who did the art design for this cute, CUTE whimsical little game and
Rollergfos is the sound designer so he provided the music
I'm not sure if he provided sound effects as well, or if he just did the background audio
But either way I am really digging the soundtrack even though it loops
You don't notice that it loops because it's smooth, and it goes right into itself
Which is nice because it doesn't jerk or is laggy, and you can tell that it loops. It's feels continuous
Which is very important for a game and that's it!
That's PokeyPoke! So thank you guys so much for coming on this journey with me
I'm gonna link the game below so you can download and play it for yourself, and then if you have problems
Or issues then go tweet at Shaun so he can fix them. Let's all make this a better game together
Please go show your support for game devs. It's a
really hard thing to be able to follow your passion and
Any support that you guys can show as a community to
People like these who want to create their own games for free and give them out to the players is
extremely appreciated so if you have criticisms make sure that they're constructive when you
Go tell them them. Okay? There's no need to be nasty or anything. Either way. I'll get off my soapbox
Thank you guys so much for playing this with me if you enjoyed then
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Plus whatever other myriad variety of things I want to pepper into my channel, so thank you guys again. Thank you so much
I love this this makes me happy if it's a smile on my face much like Pokey's smile.
LOOK AT HER SMILE!!! :D Ahhhhhh!
Alright, it's just delightful. You have to play for yourself to experience this feeling
So I will let you beautiful beautiful people go and I will talk to y'all later
*blows kiss goodbye*
Goodbye my Lovelies~
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