April 26th-29th 2013 :: Theme: Minimalism
Ludum Dare 26 — April 26-29th, 2013
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Being the "minimalist" that I am, I limited myself to black/white/gray colors for this game. Everything is ... minimal :)
You are a big strong guy who likes food (don't we all?). This guy just attracts bugs, or maybe the food he has scattered all over does. Anyway, these bugs are just nasty, and if they can manage it, they will steal your food and run off with it. The nerve of those bugs! Luckily there exists scattered about the playing field, food boxes. These food boxes will secure your food from all insec- no, actually ... not every bug.Grab all the food and put it in the food boxes before the bugs take it. If you can get all the food in the boxes, you win the level, or if you kill all the bugs you win. Also you can win if < 75% of the food is taken, but you really shouldn't let those nasty bugs get ANY food.
Move with arrow keys
Activate your bug sprayer with 'Z' to spray those horrible creatures!
If you run into any trouble, press 'R' to restart a level.
Spiders are smart and crafty and can steal food that is NOT in a food box.
Stingers are territorial. When they sting you, you can't use your sprayer for a time
Roaches are just nasty. To kill them you must step on them.
* Roaches and Stingers can steal food from food boxes
* When you are carrying food, you cannot use your sprayer
* In addition to disabling your sprayer for a time, when stingers sting you, they also make you drop your food briefly.
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Ratings
 | Coolness | 84% |
| #191 | Humor | 2.95 |
| #475 | Audio | 2.83 |
| #562 | Mood | 2.87 |
| #650 | Innovation | 3.00 |
| #674 | Overall | 3.06 |
| #747 | Fun | 2.77 |
| #790 | Theme | 3.30 |
| #883 | Graphics | 2.62 |
Comments
Nice work! It was perhaps a bit too tough to kill the bugs because of the spray reload time though.
I liked the figure-out-the-most-optimal path aspect.
I had a bit of a dance with a roach, it was kind of a moment.
Very nice game. I had fun squashing/spraying bugs. They even seemed to be quite clever at some points :)
I wonder how making the bug spray limited or allowing a victory if all bugs killed would change the game. Pretty cool concept though, could even be considered educational with different words that needed to be spelled correctly.
@Dark Acre Jack: I hadn't thought of the educational slant. Hmm...
Oh. One other thing to everyone else reading the comments. You can win a level if you kill all bugs. I did not get that into the in-game instructions, but it is in the instructions above.
A good game in general, but the audio was what I really liked here. It stood out in an amusing way.
There seems to be an issue: to me, every sprite just displays as a magenta square, which makes it impossible to tell different kinds of bugs apart, among other things.
@ZeroDivide - That is odd. Try hitting Ctrl + F5 to force a reload of the unity file in the browser. Also, perhaps you are using an earlier version of the Unity3d browser plugin? Go here ( http://unity3d.com/webplayer/ ) and see what version you have installed. The version I have installed is 4.1.2f1.
I love the Atari feel you've got going here. My only frustration was not being able to drop the food I was carrying so I could dust a few bugs. Other than that, very fun. =)
Works nicely enough... found the ai of the spiders tended to clump them all together... Not sure the difficulty scaled sufficiently gradually.
Cool game, super hard though. I had to give up on the wasp level.
Very retro :) Movement felt a little slow, which made it difficult to deal with those little buggers stealing my food.
Haaa those bugs are trying to steal my food!
Had quite some fun playing this one :)
Nice entry, I played all the way to the end. Those roaches are so sneaky! The levels were well thought out, and it's the first game that I played where bug spray is a weapon since Donkey Kong 3.
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This was really good! I really liked it when the bugs would all run for the last piece of food and I'd wait to kill em all!