Shoebox World by sanojian

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made by sanojian for LD23 (COMPO)
Grow your own ecosystem within the confines of a small shoebox! Can you achieve all eight victory conditions?

If only kids advertising didn't lie, we could have had a toy like this and also ruled the world with our sea-monkey minions. Well... ruled the sea anyway.

Ratings

Coolness 61% 3
Overall 3.20 292
Audio 2.98 237
Fun 2.91 383
Graphics 3.02 358
Humor 2.85 169
Innovation 3.02 395
Mood 2.73 396
Theme 3.02 443

Feedback

DaveDobson
24. Apr 2012 路 15:03 UTC
Great game - it took me a while to figure out how to get more money by harvesting, but once I did, it was fun. Creative, clean-looking, cute, and fun.
Fenmar
24. Apr 2012 路 18:43 UTC
A web game without flash! +100 Internets for you sir! It's cute and a little bit cruel. I would like to see a little win screen after collecting the achievements.
morganquirk
24. Apr 2012 路 18:43 UTC
:D cute game. I still don't exactly understand the mechanics but I was able to beat it.
馃帳 sanojian
24. Apr 2012 路 18:55 UTC
@DaveDobson - Thanks, fellow Crafty-er.

@Fenmar - The win screen was on the "polish" list that never got polished. Just text for you, sorry. Thanks for the comment!

@morganquirk - Yes it may be a bit confusing what is happening. Needs a little more baking in the over perhaps. Thanks for the rating! :)
Zathalos
24. Apr 2012 路 19:05 UTC
Nice game. I wish there was more content for it and more interactions. A little laggy though.
tcstyle
24. Apr 2012 路 19:58 UTC
I like this game. it reminds me of a quiet unknown game I played about 15 to 20 years ago.
Unfortunately I couldn't figure out when the money refills. It happened one time but not again.
The sounds end graphics are above average. Well done.
馃帳 sanojian
25. Apr 2012 路 05:35 UTC
@Zathalos - Thanks, of course I had much more planned so the user could make a balanced ecosystem and the creatures would breed, hunt each other, etc but time was fleeting.

@tcstyle - You get money for fulfilling goals (at the bottom) and you can sell flowers and blue beasts. The UI could be better. Thanks for the comment!
R3ason
26. Apr 2012 路 07:56 UTC
Oh yeah, I won! Pretty fun; took a bit to figure it out, but a cool little game; great graphics! Thanks!
schizofunky
26. Apr 2012 路 12:59 UTC
I'm not too sure what's hapening but when the (amazingly cooly drawn) monster thing attacks my beasts it's hillarious XD.
Make A Game
26. Apr 2012 路 13:08 UTC
=) Awwww.. The predator is so cute ^--^. The theme seemed to be a bit forced into the game by the initial cutscene, that was inconsistent with the other art, but the overall experience was very entertaining =D. Good job!
NiallM
27. Apr 2012 路 10:34 UTC
Doesn't seem to work for me. I get a 'sound initialization error' on the intro(?) screen and it doesn't respond to my input. Firefox 12, Windows 7.
馃帳 sanojian
27. Apr 2012 路 10:54 UTC
@Make A Game - perhaps it was a bit forced. I ran out of time to add a shoebox/fishtank feel to the game area so I put in the cutscene instead. Was hastily drawn and it shows.

@NailM - I think its a timing mistake in my loader. Just try refresh and everything should work.
tinymagus
27. Apr 2012 路 11:00 UTC
One of my favourites so far.
crazyheckman
27. Apr 2012 路 19:41 UTC
Good game, I was a little foggy on what to do but the graphics are good and it's fun to build the little world.
MaximSchoemaker
27. Apr 2012 路 19:46 UTC
I ended up with a barren land filled with carcasses and nasty monsters :P but I got all the achievements! ^^
rvmook
27. Apr 2012 路 19:48 UTC
Had fun playing the game although it took me a while before I understood how to get the hang of it
jplur
28. Apr 2012 路 00:48 UTC
Didn't realize I could harvest, but still had fun trying to just use achievement rewards to further my goals. Great game!
tinymagus
28. Apr 2012 路 01:07 UTC
Came back and finished this. After playing more than 50 entries this is still one of my favourites.
spiral
28. Apr 2012 路 02:20 UTC
Not the style of game that does it for me but I can see the fun!
Easy enough to understand. Graphics are very cute. Nice job.
Jigxor
29. Apr 2012 路 12:58 UTC
I got all the achievements and got "WINNER!" :) Fun game! I enjoyed that. The graphics were good, the gameplay was fun and the sounds/music complimented the game well.

Overall, a very fun game! Well done :)
MadGnomeGamer
30. Apr 2012 路 22:58 UTC
You can harvest?? HOW?
MadGnomeGamer
30. Apr 2012 路 22:58 UTC
Never mind, figured it out (flower-plucking). Great little sandbox-puzzle game!
MadGnomeGamer
30. Apr 2012 路 23:05 UTC
WINNER! YAYYYY!
Chinchilla
30. Apr 2012 路 23:46 UTC
Really really cool. The intro comic strip made me laugh, and the game overall was really fun to play. Good music too!
Nick Cash
01. May 2012 路 05:24 UTC
Had to read the other comments to realize you could harvest to get money, but after that it was quite good! Very easy, but still amusing and entertaining.
madflame991
03. May 2012 路 13:23 UTC
I really like how detailed the growing animations are. Nice time waster!
Datamosh
06. May 2012 路 13:54 UTC
I loved it! The graphics are awesome!