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October 7th 2024

The froggo is angry! He lost his tendies and demands happiness! Find him the tiny critters he demands as fast as possible!

Theme: Tiny Creatures Time: place: october 2024, Ludum Dare (jam) Team: Ithebreather   Point your mouse to steer and click (LMB) to go fast! When close to a planet, click RMB to start downloading critters! Got the wrong one? Click RMB again to throw it away. Got the one you need? Go to the froggo and fill his wall! When all 10 are filled, your score will be posted to the highscoretable. Are you the fastest doomscroller?thumbnail

Tips:

Use the minimap and the indicators at the edge of the screen.

  • The green T shape is the objective
  • The yellow T shape is the froggy  

Updates:

Performance update: textures outside of the screen won’t try to render:  

  • V1.1: post-jam version built in. To play, press P in the main menu. Do not rate the post-jam version
    • reduced paintings to be filled in 5 (instead of 10)
    • reduced planets to 8 (instead of 10)
    • slightly increased (de)acceleration-speed of arrow
    • Gravity has been tweaked to be slightly stronger
    • make the planets leave a trail
    • add an indicator for catched meme-critter in UI
    • canceling download makes meme go back slower
    • UI has been moved down
    • Make starry background moves faster  

Small update:  

  • V1.2: fixed bug in post-jam where the game would freeze up after selecting one of the two removed planets

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Wouter52

October 20th 2024

@geckoo1337 ayy! Yeah, we always try to do something different / alternative to keep having fun and to learn each LD-session. I must say, for fun this game won't do too well this year 😅 And that's ok! My friend and I had fun this weekend and we had a space-themed game in mind for years, where realistic physics would be at the forefront. Now we know why nobody makes such games: it's damn difficult 😆 But.. We had fun and we learned a lot! So mission accomplished

I'm curious for your feedback! If the game is too difficult, please try the post-jam version after rating (press P in main menu) and see if your issues are fixed in that version :-)

Wouter52

October 20th 2024

@f1krazy thanks for the feedback! We've had some more players that complained about the controls of this game. We released a post-jam version that should be more fun. Maybe give that a try? :-) I wonder if that helps

Wouter52

October 20th 2024

@ex3d0 sorry for the late reply! The last week of rating I'm always slacking as my personal life gets more demanding 😁

Thanks for the great compliments! We had fun creating this, and yes: the math's were a bit mind-numbing sometimes 😅 I'm glad to read that the post-jam version was a big improvement

Geckoo1337

October 19th 2024

Strange game - strange gameplay - strange aesthetic = a wouter52 project :)

I have to come back here again in order to increase my skill.

F1Krazy

October 18th 2024

I dunno if it's just me not being able to get the hang of it, but this just feels completely impossible to control. I spend a good three-and-a-half minutes just trying to get hold of the first critter from Facebook, and every single time I would either overshoot and go flying off into space, or undershoot and watch it fly off-screen before I could grab the critter. Eventually I just gave up. I can see what you're trying to do, but the controls need some serious work, because this just isn't fun or playable in its current form.

EX3D0

October 16th 2024

Funny idea, and reading the description excited me for the game. I'm an absolute shitposter and the idea of a funny meme game was hilarious to me. Unfortunately, the gameplay killed it for me. I found the movement really hard to control. I fully understand why, making a space game with realistic physics that also plays well is incredibly difficult, so I definitely applaud you for the effort because on a technical level its a really great feat. The post-jam version definitely fixed up all of the issues I had with the game.

The game was hilarious and fairly addicting once I got used to the movement, it just needed a bit more time for polish. You definitely nailed the chaotic meme atmosphere you were going for with the graphics and audio!

Wouter52

October 15th 2024

@mrs-wheelsx No worries! Sometimes a game just does not fit to your gamingstyle. I appreciate that you tried anyway and could sense a positive impact. I hope Wheelsx beats the current highscore. I love to see some back-and-forth in that highscore table 😁

Wouter52

October 15th 2024

@drinlan Holy cr*p that is fast! 😆 The ultimate doomscroller indeed! We haven't thought about expanding this game. Normally LD games are a one-weekend experience for me personally + some fixes in the next weekend after collecting feedback.

Some features we've thought about, but was not implemented are:

  • crashing when touching the PEPE. This was brutal though, as the game would get frustrating
  • making the gravity around PEPE, such that you always get sucked back eventually no matter where you are
  • creating a failstate where you could get sucked into the social medium when interacting too much with it

Also we could expand existing features:

  • extra social media icons
  • extra memes (like peanutbutterjellytime and the hypnotoad)
  • extra sounds for actions like plopping down a meme or pickling them up
  • social bubbles per social medium. The code supports it, but we had not enough time to create social media-specific texts. So we have 50 general bubbles and copied them to each social media object 😁

Some trivia:

  • You could get away with downloading memes from other social media icons. It works like this:
    • Chance to get right meme form suggested social: ~ 1/2
    • Chance to get right meme from other socoals: ~ 1/16

As you can see, there is not really an idea for a big expansion. Just minor tweaks to make this one bigger and better. My mate and I both have 9-to-5 jobs and other hobbies / volunteer work. So we have to choose wisely how to spend our time :-)

Do you have ideas how this game could be expanded?

Wouter52

October 15th 2024

@rallusgames thanks! Can you give some feedback about what things you found cool? Or even better: what we could change to make the game better?

RallusGames

October 15th 2024

Cool!


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