BaconMan by josefnpat

You play as BaconMan, a superhero who loves bacon as much as he loves saving the town from monsters. The trouble is, the monsters have found out where he lives! Now he must fight off an onslaught of monsters while trying to make bacon, which gives him his strength! Help BaconMan get his fill of bacon or die trying!
CONTROLS
- Left hand - WASD
- Right hand - Arrow Keys
- -/+ - scale game
- space/return - continue
GAMEPLAY
Use your hands to cook bacon and fight off monsters. Keep an eye on your Hunger and Health!
ABOUT
This game was made for LD40 in one day! Woot!
Ratings
| Overall | 403th | 3.608⭐ | 53🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 153th | 3.814⭐ | 53🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 329th | 3.461⭐ | 53🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 876th | 3.01⭐ | 53🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 735th | 3.202⭐ | 54🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 215th | 3.62⭐ | 52🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 43th | 4.106⭐ | 54🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 498th | 3.385⭐ | 50🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 70🗳️ | 66🗨️ |
Definitely unique
Loved it xD
And now I'm feeling hungry.
When you get into a flow or a nice "circle of life" you feel really good about yourself :D I had a sequence where I had 1 arm put new bacon and then go hit a monster while the other hand picks up a done bacon and eat it and then go for new bacon
I like the style of the game, it is very funny and huge cudos for the voice acting, 11/10!
https://youtu.be/WdPp6MmJRGM
- I found that once I got into a good rhythm, it wasn't actually that challenging. Idk if the monster spawn rates ramp up over time to eventually make it impossible, but I felt like it could have been made a bit more difficult if you made it so that you can only punch them when not holding bacon (or maybe you just lose the bacon if you punch with it?)
- The audio got pretty grating after awhile. I imagine that was at least partially intentional for the voice-over, but the music was more the issue for me (it seemed to get louder and quieter for no real reason)
- The time for a cooked strip becoming burnt seemed really sporadic, to the point that some pieces are basically just a lost cause if you aren't already on it when it cooks
- Making it so you can open the controls and exit repeatedly to repeat the starting line was an A+ decision
It was actually quite easy to survive on even with only using one hand though, but then again using two hands was more fun anyways so I'm not really sure there was much of a loss there :D
Voice acting.. absolutely A+
The sound effects were awesome. BAaAaAcon!
Awesome!
This is a funny game! The character made me laugh, and the art-style suits it. Also the SFX add to the funny mood (and I recognized the monsters' growl :smile_cat:). The mechanic is interesting, I think it would work great with gamepad like in "Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons". Only the music was annoying sometimes.
I am definitely going to include a LOVE splash screen in future games.