NPFL-241

A little game made during the Global Game Jam in 2025 for the theme "Bubbles". Thanks to Per and Lente for teaming up with me to endure the sleepless nights and hunched over postures. Enjoy finding all the bugs we left just for you to discover <3

Story

Your work involves caring for an abandoned world. Sadly, it's slowly suffocating and all life will cease to exist in the future. Your employer has a solution for it though. He sent you the NPFL-241 and AVC-03 together with all the air your world needs in bubble wrap. Pop the bubbles to bring life back to your world and make life grow again.

Award: “where pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop” 

Once the player realizes that they can upgrade their popping ability and that they can also move to a new sheet, this game suddenly becomes real addictive and satisfying all at once. It feels like an enticing fidget toy that one wants to be frantic with the longer one plays. The aesthetics and sounds fit so very well, and from the conversation I had with a group member, there was a lot of thought in adding more visual feedback and possibly more upgrades. Definitely worth continuing the game’s development and finding where players would best experience that flow. I suppose the only thing that may be missing is some kind of meter to show the air level (if still following the idea that the player is popping these to gain more air; it does not need to be air really).