Hi all! We're very happy to help christen the new site with our **10th Ludum Jam entry**! :champagne: We are two brothers from the UK, Joe (Code + Music) and Rob (Art).

If you would like us to check out your game, let us know in the comments and we definitely will!

Hope you enjoy the game! Looking forward to the battle for 1st on the leaderboard! :nerd::joystick::zap::joystick::nerd:

Rob

That was a ton of fun! I love the art and sound. It is very satisfying to kick the aliens around the planet.

The only thing that would make it better is more of itself. Different aliens, food, or hazards, to add some variety. Of course, as it is now it is a nice tight package.

Good family job. :wink:

The kind of game I like.

Nice plush style of the character, nice animations, nice music.

I sign for the battle.

That's a pretty fun little game. I made it to the leaderboard too! I need to look into how to do leaderboards it adds so much replayability.

I like the art style and while not a category, excellent game page design on itch.io.

As for gameplay, I feel it was simple but in that simplicity it was fun. I found myself trying to keep the food bar up and defend my next food source from those evil blueberries.

Music was well done. It definitely compliments the graphics and general mood of the game.

Fun and interesting :) Graphics is very pretty, good job. I like that there are online high scores, I will try to maintain first place xD

Yay got first! This was very much fun. Very enjoyable to kick those aliens out of my way to get those delicious berries, great work on this!

Great game. Nice conflicting goals. It was tough to achieve a nice balance. Knocking the enemies off was very satisfying. I would like some visual feedback from the character at low hunger.

Graphics, sound, and controls were excellent.

Awesome graphics and cool game!

Great little game, I felt that the collider for the kick and eating action could be a little more forgiving and as mentioned above, a low health warning would be appreciated but overall I really enjoyed it, its a fun concept, nice visual style and cute music, good work!

Pretty nice game! couldn't make it on a leaderboard but still enjoyed the game, the style is cute and the music makes it even stronger :D Well done!

Simple but satisfying gameplay. It was fun how you could still manage for a surprisingly long while in a vastly overcrowded planet before your unavoidable demise :P

I would definitely recommend to focus on variety if you decide to take this further, there's room for more enemies, food types, maybe powerups?

All in all, a tight, nice little package and a solid entry. Well done!

Really great entry! :D

Totally in love with all the graphics, like the model of the characters, the space skybox, the plants etc...
The small intro is well designed as well!

The controls feel great too, really responsive.
The kicking mechanic feels nice, like you wanna shoot the enemies even more, and the feelings is also made even better with the sound effects.

And moreover the online leaderboard is a really great plus!

One thing I guess I would add, to have some more "game feel", it would be some particles when you kick an enemy or eat a fruit or even when a meteor collides with the planet. And I think you could easily go even further with this game by adding new planets with like new eco-systems and so on.. ^^

Amazing work guys! :D

Yay, second place!! :D

Now this is just adorable. The aesthetic is just plain old cute and the sound effect when kicking enemies is absolutely precious. The game is pretty simple, but I don't think it needs to be any more complicated than it is. I mean, you're a little orange dude kicking blue boys around a tiny planet. 'Nuff said. If I had to be critical about this game for a second, eating things can be a bit imprecise, which is a problem when there's such a low time limit, but it's not too big of an issue. Oh, and is this leader-board really online? If so, I may just come back to claim the high-score . . .

In any event, I had a blast with this one. Good job!

@superpokeunicorn Thanks! Yes, the leaderboard is indeed online.

Read it and weep! Looks like I got the first 1,000+ score in the game:

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Also, I just noticed that the nests spawn out eggy boys. 10/10

@superpokeunicorn Congrats! :grin:

OH shit this is funny hahahah! Love that little animyl-guy- thingy :)

Adorable characters and overall fun game! Very cool that you included online leaderboards as well! :satellite:

This is fun and works really well. The *bopp* sound when you kick an alien is very satisfying. Things that would be nice:

* being able to use space to interact - repeatedly hitting the control key is awkward
* indication of what's going to happen when you interact - highlight the food that will be eaten or the aliens that will be kicked

This game was the most fun I have had so far from LD38 games. I'm at the second place in scoreboard with 999 hahaha! Thank you for making this game!

Super cute models and fun gameplay. Would be awesome to have a little more visual variety but it's okay for a prototype. Doing 3D in a jam is always complicated.

A whimsical game with great art direction and exceptionally polished. Loved the little opening graphics which showed you how to play and the music helps to set the feel and the sound effects has a great punch to them. I really like how you get to see the little aliens fly off into the distance, it’s very satisfying. I had a lot of fun here, and the addition of an online leaderboard is great! I’d say that giving the player a little bit more of an obvious warning that the food bar is low would be a good addition, as its not something that I found I focused on. As a result I would die suddenly without realising my food had reached zero, especially with such a fast subtraction and a game which is quite hectic. Overall an awesome game which I thoroughly enjoyed playing!

As a Mario Galaxy fan this is a nice surprise. This Game has a Very good Art and Sound Design. I especially like the Leaderboard, things like this are always a nice touch up.

Awesome ! That's so fun :D
Graphics are really great, the scoring is a good idea.
Great job !

This is the kind of game that step out of the crowd for its amazing quality. It's awesome that you make this in this little time.
The animations, the online leaderboard, the funny gameplay, ... congratulations.

Yall did a great job on this game :) the sounds, graphics, and theme were all on point, and everything felt like it went well with each other. I found myself really giving it my all. It seems like the trick is to spend most of your time booting off the monsters and just barely sustaining your food bar, but alas, the high scores blew mine out of the water! Nice job on this one :)

@kinjin That's some score! You really did sign for the battle.

Nice game!!! 8)

This was cute, and fun! Also, I was too focused on the game to check for certain, but it seems like when you kick the pests 'into orbit', they really do just circle the planet a few times and then fall back to the surface, don't they? Clever, it really reinforces the "small world" feeling.

Main thing I would change is an audio notification when you're close to running out of food, and _possibly_ some sort of radar for enemies.

I also discovered, I really don't have what it takes to reach the high-score table on this one :-p

i love the little monster and the aliens! The graphic are so cute and really well done. The gamplay its easy and fun. Congratulations

Fun little arcade game. Always neat to run around a sphere! The graphics are great, especially the main character. This game sure does ramp up quick! Not totally thrilled with eating and kicking being on the same button. I guess its to avoid what I was trying to do, which was camping a good bit of fruit until I was hungry. Something about kicking felt a little awkward. Can't put my finger on it and it might have to do with the camera view as well. Getting a good running punt on one of those lil' suckers feels great, though!

Oddly enough, I got stuck at the "Enter your name" part at the end. I typed stuff in and hit Enter, then it just sat there. Hitting Escape at that point dumped me out of the program altogether.

I loved the game! The graphic is so cute and very polished! I had fun playing this

Take a chance to my game too: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/the-microns

@ryte2byte We tried kicking and eating being on different buttons, but found that the best tactic was to just mash both buttons continuously. Sometimes the animation for the kicking doesn't trigger immediately, so that may be what feels off. It's very odd that you got stuck at the name entry. I'll try and take a look.

Fun little game!
Graphics and sound are very cool!!)

What a fun and great game! :D I really loved the graphics and the animations, they were very well made and consistent! The gameplay was very interesting, it really kept me in the zone trying to survive and to kick all of those annoying little creatures :P My only observations are these:

* I would like for the kicking/eating to be faster/more responsive, because there were times where I almost died while being on top of a fruit-thing and I couldn't eat fast enough.
* While the aliens are keep on coming, there is no some kind of "rubberbanding" mechanic to enable the player stay alive longer. It would be nice if there was some kind of "progression" or something to make you better as the aliens come. But that could just be me :P

Other than that, you've got a really great and fun game on your hands! Well done! :D

P.S.: I'd love to hear your feedback on my game, you can find it here: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/leucos

I ended up having too much fun punting aliens and starved to death

10/10

Kick-adorable-beings-simulator!!! haha ^^ Funny and cute game!

This was fun! Kicking the little aliens was hilarious. I found that the hit detection could have been a bit more generous. The game is simple, and feels nicely balanced. Graphics are pretty great!

Ooh this is a very nice polished game! I like that the concept is relatively simple but you want to keep going back for a better score.

I think personally I would like to see seperate keys for eating and punting. sometimes I ate instead of punting an alien and visa versa when there was a fruit and alien very close to each other.

Everything about this is super cute, the designs are lovely and I love the animation on the characters. The music is very fitting as well.

Great game! :D