What is Babel Bubble?

Babel Bubble is a cartoony comic style 2.5D platformer in which players control a rebellious superhero who tired of being pushed, pulled, and inked into endless battles and clichéd storylines, break free from the constraints of narrative control. Armed with sturdy speech bubbles to use as platforms and explosive ones to beat up bad guys, the hero sets their sights on the ultimate escape: a towering urban style Babel's Tower that houses the portal to the real world.

Babel Bubble was developed for the Global Game Jam 2025 with a team of 8 people in 5 days.

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Level Design process

My aim for this game was to create a short but smooth experience that could provide a sense of mastery and accomplishment to players. The level would develop around the outside of a tower that gets more and more crazy as the player climbs it (like the babel tower).

Each floor introduce a new mechanic and the player have to go around the tower practicing it.

  • The first floor introduces jump and later the sturdy bubble.
  • The second enemies and the spiky bubble.
  • The third introduces hard jumps and freefalls.
  • The fourth gives the illusion of change of the world prospective making the game harder.
  • The fifth and last requires mastery and precise jumps.

There's no game over in the game, failing a jump results in falling to floors beneath while being hit by an enemy will push the player far away .