Cornflake Capers by peejaygee

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made by peejaygee for LD32 (COMPO)
Here is my entry for the 'Unconventional Weapon'

Cornflake Capers - I actually got the idea from the initial Twitter post, with a picture of a spoon, and I thought, yeah, why can't a spoon be the weapon, but what will it fire.....and Cornflake Capers was born.

Instructions.

Shoot the Cornflakes from the spoon to blow up the mouths around the screen. You start with 20 flakes, when you have 4 or less (flakes), within 20 seconds another bowl will appear. Collect it to get another 10 flakes.

W A S D to move, Mouse to direct and shoot. Enjoy your Bananas peeps.

See how long you can last, try to beat your previous score, or try to beat your previous time, better still, try to beat both.

Graphics are from real things in my house, with the exception of the mouth, I have to say thanks to the Wife for allowing me to use her mouth for a animation.

I have also included the tunes in the game as a separate zip file, as I've had people before (previous LD's) say to me they enjoyed the tunes, so I figured I'd allow you to download them.

Game has been tested and plays fully in Firefox 37.0.1 if you use another browser and it doesn't work fully, well, what can I say, except download FF.

Hope you enjoy my little entry.

Ratings

Coolness 72% 3
Overall 3.18 548
Audio 3.50 144
Fun 3.23 402
Graphics 3.15 485
Humor 3.94 52
Innovation 2.72 804
Mood 2.84 631
Theme 4.03 78

Feedback

butterCup
19. Apr 2015 · 22:36 UTC
Will you be releasing the OST?
mcmahoniel
20. Apr 2015 · 03:04 UTC
The mouths will haunt my dreams.
shyupuff
20. Apr 2015 · 03:05 UTC
LOL what the heck?! This game is crazy! I LOVE IT.
doitle
20. Apr 2015 · 03:05 UTC
Pretty simple game with an unconventional weapon. Shooting corn flakes. I think I actually had the most fun seeing how many mouths I could get on screen while dodging them. Also most people probably will only hear a second or two of the main menu music but it's pretty good. I can see why you released the soundtrack.
dylanwolf
20. Apr 2015 · 03:12 UTC
Nice shoot-'em-mechanics. It was challenging, but not frustrating. The music and photo usage was really good.
recursor
20. Apr 2015 · 11:10 UTC
4 stars for humor because you used your wife's mouth. That is just hilarious.
Xinelu
20. Apr 2015 · 13:16 UTC
Best game ever hahahaah! :D
CogComp
20. Apr 2015 · 18:42 UTC
Wonderful! Well done!
nicklink483
20. Apr 2015 · 18:45 UTC
Those mouth animations made me... uncomfortable...

Haha, loved it!
LuisDC
20. Apr 2015 · 18:48 UTC
Love the music!
cgmorton
20. Apr 2015 · 19:37 UTC
Pretty nice game. I like the concept and style you've brought to it.

One thing: I think the cereal bowl refills are too slow. In the time it takes for a 10 cereal refill to appear, 10 more mouths have already appeared. I guess that's the source of the challenge in a way, but the same could be achieved by other means. I just didn't like dodging around for 15 seconds because I'm on empty.

And woah, I didn't even realize the music went up in key until I sat here typing with a gameover screen. You made some seriously extensive tracks for such a short game. Hands up who else knew the intro screen music went crazy after 15 seconds? Nobody?
HeyChinaski
20. Apr 2015 · 19:55 UTC
The mouths were hilarious. Nice implementation although I found waiting for the bowls to turn up a little frustrating. Great work! Runs well in Chrome.
insane66
21. Apr 2015 · 18:57 UTC
Amusing concept shooting cornflakes. Good Job.
Roysterini
21. Apr 2015 · 22:26 UTC
Hey Paul, this is cerealously funny.... but I can't help thinking....

"Maaah spoooon is to big!".

Would have liked more frames in the googly eyes, but nice entry :)

Great sound!
eastes
22. Apr 2015 · 08:08 UTC
Ha ha. I loved the laughing mouths. Was it your mouth? The title screen music was amazing too.
GaTechGrad
22. Apr 2015 · 22:07 UTC
Nice asteroids type shooter. I like how you used pictures of everything things from around your house.
Xanderzoo
23. Apr 2015 · 16:02 UTC
Wow, that was very weird. Nice game.
Garris
23. Apr 2015 · 23:52 UTC
This was a weird one haha. I enjoyed it! The music was nice, and the theme was certainly present. Very odd, but still very fun!
RafaCP
23. Apr 2015 · 23:57 UTC
Congrats! Fun game!
Huo-cuo
25. Apr 2015 · 04:25 UTC
I think you matched the theme perfectly.
WeaselZone
29. Apr 2015 · 01:29 UTC
Haha, great solution for the art! I enjoy creative solutions!

Cool take on the theme!
MegaPonies
29. Apr 2015 · 01:37 UTC
Those mouths crack me up xD Gief more cornflakes! (To me that bowl took forever to appear when I needed it most :'( )
Nice humorous game!
monkeedude1212
07. May 2015 · 22:18 UTC
Bowl didn't refill. Aiming also felt a bit weird. Good entry but the gameplay didn't feel very rewarding.
SledKnight
10. May 2015 · 15:33 UTC
Hahaah, funny. I appreciate the photo-art, since that's also what I did. xD
My only complaints are that clicking start always fired my first round, shorting me some ammo, and both times I got to less than 4 rounds, the reload took so long to spawn that I just died waiting on it.

That elevator music will haunt my dreams... ;)

Funny little game, tho. Nice job.