TURBOWARP RECOMMENDED!!!!!! LINK BELOW! This is a demo of my newest game, School Shenanigans! The demo consists of a very hard boss battle* and two minigames! The full game would have been vanilla Scratch but is getting too big for vanilla Scratch. Read the Notes and Credits for more info. I didn't get mentioned in the final results of the Griffpatch Game Jam, but that's okay! I'm still grateful for the support this demo has gotten! Arrow keys to navigate / move and jump SPACE to confirm / throw calculator when the boss's shield is down Touch the questions when they show up to interact with them You play as the Black kid with the anime-like hair (Adrien (me), P1). The others are the helping CPUs. If you die, you revive after a short while. --- This project is MUCH faster on TurboWarp, I highly recommend playing it on there instead: turbowarp.org/1106113221 (Be sure to turn on High-Quality Pen if it isn't already on!) * For an easier boss battle, try holding down SHIFT when selecting whether to skip the cutscene in the menu to play an alternate boss battle (SHIFT only works in TurboWarp)! Controls will be the same, except hold SPACE to hold up your mirror
As featured in Day 2 of Scratch Week 2025: "Mini-Game Madness" https://scratch.mit.edu/studios/37055393/comments/#comments-294410507 I know it takes long to load, but it's worth the wait, honest! Hold down = or + while selecting in menu to play the full version of the boss battle. Or watch the gameplay here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjLFIzX47lk Update 2.21.2025: Two new minigames are available to play! This unfortunately might be the last vanilla Scratch glimpse of its game due to the sheer size of the project.json... This project is heavily inspired by Jake Walker’s Math: Final Boss Desmos graph except I actually made it a boss battle. Additional credits can be found in-game. I’m not entirely sure this massive project is what Griffpatch had in mind for the Game Jam, but I decided to enter anyway because I feel it kinda fits the Shapeshifter theme. Here’s why: - In the cinematic cutscene (not the dialogue one before it), Ms. Javanova’s calculator shapeshifts into the Pytha Hypostasis, the boss you fight. (Yes, the name is a pun on Genshin Impact’s bosses, because my younger brother is obsessed with that game.) - One key detail is the infinity symbol on the boss—it’s actually a line segment that grows and shrinks depending on the boss’s health. It forms a complete infinity symbol when the boss is at full health. - Oh yeah, the boss does transform. A lot. You can see the whole thing in action by holding down '=' or '+' while selecting whether to watch the cutscene to play the full boss fight (or, at least, what I have of it right now, it is unfinished). - The spikes in the battle have designs inspired by the angles your math teacher made you memorize back in Geometry class. I made them equilateral triangles (shoutout to Geometry Dash) because spikes as slopes didn’t quite feel right—but now they don’t totally fit the “Pythagorean Paradigm” vibe either. - Originally, I wanted an extra round where Percival swoops in, and you team up with him to summon a tornado for the real final blow against Ms. Javanova. Sadly, I ran out of time for this jam, but it’s on my list for the full game... - The main reason I entered this project into the jam is that I saw Jake Walker’s Math: Final Boss video from the Desmos 2023 Competition and thought, what if I turned this into a real boss battle? Then Griffpatch announced this Game Jam, and I figured it was the perfect opportunity to share this as both an entry and a teaser demo for the full game. - Quick Note: This is my first time programming CPU, so don’t expect perfection from your CPU teammates! Recently I just saw the real Nameless Deity boss battle from modded Terraria (the boss that inspired the original graph) and realized how reminiscient of it I unintentionally made this boss including the "your final test begins" line WTH Want More? Follow the game on Game Jolt (/games/school-shenanigans/937078) to play the full version when it releases! Don’t have a Game Jolt account yet? Consider using my invite link: /invite/LSPECTRONIZTAR (just add "jamegolt.com (g and j swapped)" before each link because the bad word detector here doesn’t like Game Jolt for some reason).
