Zombie dinner by goerp

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made by goerp for LD32 (JAM)
It's a game about food and health (ahem), but it's fun too! It's easy to win once you know how it works (and with a little luck) and even easier to lose.
Skip the intro speech with mouse click.
HINT: when you play the 'dessert level' Fruit is the only healthy option at the start.

You may have to click the application to give it focus.

---GOAL---
Can you survive zombie dinner?
Defeat the hordes of zombies that disturb your ladies' diner.
HOW? By throwing the right food at them! But you only have a limited amount of all the food.

---CONTROLS---
Use and to choose a food you think will harm a zombie.
THE SELECTED FOOD IS HIGHLIGHTED and the name and portions left are shown below (portions contains a bug and sometimes is not shown).
: throw food

Remember: if it's good for you, it's bound to be bad for zombies (and vice versa)!

But knowledge about what food is good for you is changing all the time!

--TOOLS and acknowledgements--

I made it all. Yes, ALL of it: the clunky inappropriate music, the crude animations, the crappy code, the bugs!

I used Flash for graphics and Flashdevelop for coding.

A Commodore 64 with Sid Wizard and a program of my own for music.
A guitar for some more music and a Zoom G3X for effects and drum machine.
Reaper to mix it all (and in darkness bind them).

*** HINTS ****

NO PRELOADER, PLEASE BE PATIENT!

IF IT DOESN'T RESPOND TO KEYBOARD: CLICK THE APPLICATION FIRST!

SORRY: NO REPLAY FUNCTION (out of time!).

Ratings

Coolness 70% 3
Overall(Jam) 3.18 546
Audio(Jam) 2.62 554
Fun(Jam) 3.26 362
Graphics(Jam) 3.37 475
Humor(Jam) 4.00 38
Innovation(Jam) 3.37 329
Mood(Jam) 3.11 490
Theme(Jam) 3.95 116

Feedback

NAL
20. Apr 2015 路 18:07 UTC
Very charming, if simple, game. With expansion this'd be lovely!
bnhw
20. Apr 2015 路 19:22 UTC
I think it must've broken for me; I clicked the lettuce and it was surrounded by a red border, but then I could do nothing else.
馃帳 goerp
20. Apr 2015 路 19:39 UTC
You must use CTRL to throw the food
You can't throw, until the thrown food has hot or gone out of bounds
You only have limited amounts of every food stuff (for lettuce I think you have 5 portions). After you have thrown 5, you have to switch to a different food.
The game tries to make changes so there is always enough healthy food, but it doesn't always work.
Matthew Rayfield
21. Apr 2015 路 19:11 UTC
cool. took me a minute to realize the radio was important. like the music and humor :]
Fluffy Tigers in the Sky
21. Apr 2015 路 19:27 UTC
really cool, innovative Idea and fun to play, everything pieces good toghether.
I'll put it in my list to mention in the Podcast :)
fluidvolt
22. Apr 2015 路 03:16 UTC
Funny game! Didn't know the radio was trying to help me out at first. I liked the storybook graphics and the unusual setting. Dying is totally worth it too!
refreshcreations
23. Apr 2015 路 22:14 UTC
Nicely sstyled artwork, with a cool concept, I would have loved some more sound effects for splats, etc, which would have really boosted up the mood of the game but the core mechanics are done really well, nice game!
SuperUserNameMan
24. Apr 2015 路 20:37 UTC
haha what a funny game with funny dialogs !
I don't know why, when i've read the text you wrote up there, my brain skiped the "controls" section, so at the first try I had no idea what to do and was wondering why clicking on food was ineffective ... hopefully, I managed to find out and could appreciate this game experience !
SecondDimension
25. Apr 2015 路 18:34 UTC
Great character drawings and very funny concept
mathmadlen
26. Apr 2015 路 13:06 UTC
I LOVED this! the art style is fantastic, and the humor is something else .)
Great idea!
pythong
26. Apr 2015 路 18:59 UTC
i think the game broke for me? up to the third zombie i could throw, after that all food was gone except 17 portions of butter, but it didn't do anything against the zombie
馃帳 goerp
27. Apr 2015 路 10:46 UTC
To be clear (or more clear): some food will hurt zombies, but other food will heal zombies.
The game will try to keep the amount of damage you can do enough to kill all zombies, but if you throw everything without considering the effect you will probably run out of food.
And butter is considered bad for you, so it is initially good for zombies.

Maybe that's what happened?
reiknight
27. Apr 2015 路 21:03 UTC
The grandma is adorable with that flamethrower hahahahaha! Take my like!!
Dining Philosopher
27. Apr 2015 路 21:03 UTC
Hehe, nice and funny game. :)
RobotHoboDanceParty
27. Apr 2015 路 22:03 UTC
Really enjoyed this! Very funny and unique. Great work!!
pythong
28. Apr 2015 路 13:41 UTC
believe it or not, the 'graphics' in my game are standard cubes in Unity :D just scaled, moved and a bit rotated, and you get a unicorn ^^
frogcheese
01. May 2015 路 07:29 UTC
Full marks for humor! This idea is ludicrous and absolutely awesome. The characters were great as well - one of the best game over screens I've certainly seen. :)

The gameplay was simple and became a cakewalk (rimshot) once I'd played for a couple of minutes. A fun, short game.
steboots
03. May 2015 路 20:04 UTC
This hit the theme right on, easy 5's for innovation and theme. That said it wasn't a bad game and I did have fun playing it, but it was peculiar watching food discoveries, trying to remember what was good and bad, and executing it. Not a bad entry.
Exeneva
05. May 2015 路 08:27 UTC
Very unconventional and funny game!
Smirnov48
09. May 2015 路 16:21 UTC
Nice game! Very funny)
ruerob
10. May 2015 路 16:34 UTC
Ha ha! Funny entry! Great approach on the theme! Very Nice humor! Well Done!
chromebookbob
10. May 2015 路 17:10 UTC
Great art style and fun idea
drludos
10. May 2015 路 22:23 UTC
Cool entry! I like your take on the theme (very humourous), and the graphics style is great! Fun game, you should expand it post-compo :)