Arrow Keys : Move

X : Jump

C : Shoot 



Help Soan gets through 4 colorful levels, facing dangers such as : Spikes, Quicksand, Lava and even... VEGETABLES !!! 


Avoid Traps and collect Tomatoes, more Tomatoes !! 

Why ?! Because Soan love Tomatoes !


Shoot Lasers at your enemies, destroy everything yeaah!!

Collect all SOAN letters for an awesome bonus stage !

Fight Devo The Devil, the mighty BOSS from GrafxKid Team.

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Have fun

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Recently, a very good friend of mine sent me photo of his son, Soan, 4 at the time, playing Super Shmup (one of my 1st game, thanks to the Lazy Devs Academy)


At this time, I was working on another game prototype, a platformer, but the scope was waaaay to big (I realize now), and I was getting really tired of the project day after day. 


For his birthday, my friend build his son a RetroPie/Recalbox device, for him to play and  discover some retro classics. Super Mario was on top of the list, but beyond the first couple levels, it was too difficult for Soan. 


So I asked my friend :

- What does Soan want in a video game ??

And he answered me : 

- Tomatoes !! and Green Lasers !!! 


All of this give me the idea to use the prototype I've made to make a game that he could enjoy, something retro looking, with some fun challenges, but mostly discovery. 

I've tried to be the most authentic from what I recall to be the greatest games I've ever played, and tried to add some new fun features.

 I Hope you'll enjoy this game as much as I had to program it!

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Happy 5th Birthday Soan ! 

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GRAPHICS  

Bagong Games : Super cute main character

GrafxKid : All the cute enemies <3

thetgi : Super Bouncing spring sprite 

Krystman : The awesome laser splash animation

PiiiXL : The Palm Tree 

<3 Voice.p8 Font by somepx <3

Me : All the rest :)


MUSIC & SFX

Marion <3 & Me

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StatusIn development
PlatformsHTML5, Windows, macOS, Linux
Rating
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Authorshyfu
GenrePlatformer
Made withAseprite, PICO-8
TagsColorful, Cozy, Cute, Family Friendly, PICO-8, Pixel Art, Relaxing, Retro, Short, Singleplayer
Average sessionA few minutes
LanguagesEnglish
InputsKeyboard, Gamepad (any)

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Nice job! This is very sweet and fun. The polish is definitely noticed, and I in particular like Soan’s run animation. The final boss took me a few tries, and when it clicked it was a lot of fun to take ’em down. Way to scale down and finish something!

Wow, what a cute game and the story behind it is so precious!  Also, great music!

Thank you very much ! 

Soan's World Walkthrough

Hi, thanks for the video, but you kind of spoil the game (and it's a very short game..) 

I have trouble to understand the point of your video, you cut the title, the credits, the aspect ratio is very weird, you didn't mention anywhere on your yt page where the game come from, neither who made it, there's no links at all, it's kind of rude.

Anyway, I hope you'll add some info about the games you play/stream in the future, for now I give you the benefit of the doubt.

actually good!!!

Thanks !!

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I played the entire game, easily perfecting every level while having a good time. I played it before reading the description, and after reading it, I have more appreciation for Soan’s World.

 You took the time to make this for your friend's son. What an amazing kid he sounds like too. 

I could talk about the game, but I think that’s not the point here, the point is that you created something for a little one to enjoy, and even had him give a little input on what he wanted.

I have much respect for you for doing this, in a world where it’s filled with negativity, seeing this made me smile.

Thank you very much for playing, and for the kind words, really appreciate it!