Playbuck by Ithildin

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made by Ithildin for LD29 (COMPO)
Playbuck is a 2D platformer, with additional digging and eeer...mating mechanics. I'm not sure if it should be considered NSFW because of this -_-U.

You're the only buck in the burrow, so your life is pretty busy trying to procreate with all the does in the herd and, if possible, making it a snake-free area. Mating is exhausting, so you can expect some reward at the end ;D

Controls:
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* Left-right arrows: Movement
* Space: Jump
* D: Dig
* F: If next to a doe, mate with her.
* M: Toggle music on/off
* R: Restart game.

Known issues:
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* There's an annoying bug where the jump height at times gets capped, making it impossible to continue on the level. If you stumble upon it, you'll have to restart the stage (sorry about that D:). I haven't been able to determine when it's reproduced yet, but I'll resubmit a fixed version if I manage to do it (or if anyone less tired can help me detect the conditions under which it happens).

* Some collision problems.
* Digging works, but it's not particularly polished. My bad :S
* On the windows executable, for some reason the HUD texts appear at 0 regardless the starting Y position. I haven't been able to fix it so far.
* Repetitive, grating music (I would have liked to add at least some victory/defeat/main menu tunes, but well...time)

Tools
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* Language: Haxe
* Libraries: Openfl, Haxeflixel
* IDE: FlashDevelop
* Music: Famitracker
* Sound: Bfxr, Audacity
* Level Editor: Tiled
* Graphics: Photoshop, Aseprite

Stay tuned for the postmortem!
[EDIT 6/11/2016] Updated web link.

Ratings

Coolness 100% 1
Overall 2.93 798
Audio 2.58 656
Fun 2.97 596
Graphics 2.91 718
Humor 3.62 77
Innovation 2.64 872
Mood 2.71 801
Theme 2.89 855

Feedback

AestheticGamer
28. Apr 2014 · 04:17 UTC
I feel as I carried on my bunny was hopping with a burden. The more bunnies I sexed, the heavier my heart and self were. Eventually I got stuck in a hole, and couldn't escape. I had to start over, amend my deeds. I humped only one rabbit that day, and then found my way into the hole of bunny fortune. Truly an experience.
Algerator
28. Apr 2014 · 07:16 UTC
Love it!
Very fun idea, the rabbits graphics and animations are awesome and the music is lovely ^_^
The only suggestion I have is to make clearer that you dig by holding D (took me a while to figure it out, i was tapping D instead >_<)
Great job overall! ^_^
Arkorim
28. Apr 2014 · 07:44 UTC
Awesome! ^^ I laughed every time I sexed/obliterated a bunny :D
Sodaware
28. Apr 2014 · 16:08 UTC
Well that was...different :)

The jumping and falling is a little floaty for my taste, but otherwise I think it probably captures the life of a bunny pretty well.
Skywilly
28. Apr 2014 · 16:17 UTC
Poor rabbits :( (Congrats, it's very fun ;))
CodeNMore
28. Apr 2014 · 23:37 UTC
This game was actually really fun to play (and a funny take on the theme) nice!
Jason Lay
28. Apr 2014 · 23:53 UTC
I always wanted to play a rabbit and get busy! Good luck, fun game!
stvr
29. Apr 2014 · 15:27 UTC
Not a bad concept, but it seems like you win by hitting a rather arbitrary point in the level, rather than by, um, 'befriending' bunnies.
GiveMeAllYourCats
29. Apr 2014 · 18:08 UTC
Music was funny but got annoying maybe because it was too short xD but anyway nice that you can be a bunny and dig around. Most of my points goto theme and fun. Good job.
Zener
29. Apr 2014 · 18:38 UTC
Great game, full of bunnies and full of love! Very complete, and very fun to play. The animation is awesome, congrats!!
🎤 Ithildin
29. Apr 2014 · 22:10 UTC
Thank you all for the feedback, I'm glad that you've enjoyed it! :)

@Algerator yeah, digging could be improved quite a bit. You need to keep the key pressed for a bit while bumping against the tile so that the "dig" action is registered, but that shouldn't be necessary :S

@stvr Ouch, you're right. It seems that there's an additional check missing from the goal condition test. D'oh!
dector
29. Apr 2014 · 23:05 UTC
:D I though it's good old-style console kid-game... Until I pressed <F>. White rabbit looks like alive. Really.
grozamorei
30. Apr 2014 · 05:44 UTC
Lucky game
Mythalore
30. Apr 2014 · 11:25 UTC
Errr.... The theme and story of the game aside, the core platforming mechanics are solid and overall the game is fun.
Covenant
01. May 2014 · 12:55 UTC
The rabbit "slides" bit while moving, other than that it's a solid entry, congratulations!
gettothechapel
01. May 2014 · 12:57 UTC
it was a nifty platformer, i like the rabbit animations a lot
tomvert
01. May 2014 · 12:58 UTC
Haha, love the procreating animation :D
sirdorius
01. May 2014 · 13:03 UTC
Left-right controls aren't workign for me. Using chrome and win7
🎤 Ithildin
01. May 2014 · 13:25 UTC
That's strange. I'm on chrome and win8, and have played it in on Opera, and Chrome/MAC, too with no problems.

Could it be that the app lost focus? Try to click on the window just to be sure. Other than that, if it happens ingame the only thing that comes to mind right now is that the rabbit's got stuck somewhere :S
Gameness Monster
01. May 2014 · 13:40 UTC
It is a really fun game. I couldn't figure out how to make D work until I read one of the comments though!
The only problem is that my ladies bynnies vanished after I "F" them!!!
SecondDimension
01. May 2014 · 15:57 UTC
Definitely the best rabbit-mating game ever. Always nice to play something a bit different, the animation when pressing F was ridiculously fast!
crocantidepollo
01. May 2014 · 17:45 UTC
Aww look at them bunnies having their sexy time, so cute! I didn't know you could kill the snakes by jumping on them until I fell over one by accident :P
Anti
01. May 2014 · 20:51 UTC
I love this game! Nice controls but the music was a bit irratating. Good thing there's an option for that. Besides that, it is a great game for 48 hours!
Gaming_Ray
01. May 2014 · 20:56 UTC
Interesting, the digging wasn't really clear/functional though.
hyouko
02. May 2014 · 02:37 UTC
If you're going for the full rabbit experience here, there probably ought to be a button for pooping tiny little pellets.
🎤 Ithildin
02. May 2014 · 02:42 UTC
Hahaha, so true. How could I forget?!
mariscal
02. May 2014 · 22:38 UTC
Hahahaha I wasn't sure what to expect after reading the description of your game "Playbuck is a 2D platformer, with additional digging and eeer...mating mechanics". I had so much fun playing it... the "dating" animations are hilarious! I have no idea how did you come up with the design of this game, but it is the funniest game I've played so far! Good work!!
Oddly Shaped Pixels
04. May 2014 · 14:43 UTC
Fun little game!
matt_j
07. May 2014 · 20:51 UTC
Hahahaha! "Press 'F' to procreate"
xhunterko
17. May 2014 · 09:22 UTC
Thought the name meant something, different when I clicked. Oh well. The controls felt a little slippery to me, which did not help with the more, penalties, you incurred. Neat differentiation on the rabbit colors though!