Krilgor by Sheepolution

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Description
Krilgor is small. He's so small that you need a magnifying glass to see him. Help Krilgor find his way back home.
Controls
- Mouse to control magnifying glass and tweezers
- WASD to walk
- Space to advance text
- M to toggle audio
- E to open inventory
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/krilgor |
Ratings
| Overall | 21th | 4.143⭐ | 23🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 24th | 4.048⭐ | 23🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 13th | 4.238⭐ | 23🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 3th | 4.571⭐ | 23🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 85th | 4⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 215th | 3.095⭐ | 23🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 1th | 4.591⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 49th | 3.9⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 3🗳️ | 0🗨️ |
I'm slightly curious about the aspect ratio of the game window. The height actually didn't fit on my smaller monitor, and I feel like with a very slight redesign of the world you could make something more friendly to horizontal monitors.
The writing's superb, this level of camp humor and constant predictable pranks somehow feel perfectly cockroachy in itself. Only thing I felt was missing is some conditional dialogue for, say, trying to squish krilgor or the questgivers.
When I first saw the tweezers, I was expecting them to be much more difficult to use. They're large, the hitboxes they're trying to hit are tiny (especially the worms at the start), and the perspective doesn't lend itself to careful aiming. But I was immediately pleasantly surprised at how little effort it was to squish things.
It could be that I'm a messed up human being, but for the ending I was ready to squish krilgor. Maybe have a dialogue along the lines of "oh god what are you doing get those away from me" where the only way to proceed is to squish him. That may have been a lot harder to design properly though, and the current ending's pretty good too.
I really enjoyed this title. Keep up the good work, sheep.
The graphics work pretty well, especially that nasty tweezers animation when you squash something. Character design is fitting, especially the boss. The weak point here is the car that looks kind of generic.
Sound effects are really nice, but the game definitely lacks some music.
Gameplay-wise I have three things I would like to address:
First I was able to kill the guards before getting the task to do so which lead to a hiccup when I actually got there. An easy way to solve this would be to hide parts of the game that are not accessible yet by a blank screen.
Second, I think the game crashed when I defeated the boss. I couldn't move my character and he wasn't saying anything. I was able to use the tweezers but couldn't figure out what to do with them. I'll probably replay the game with my daughter, so we can check whether it works a second time.
Third, the boss fight itself. It would have been so much cooler if you could have put the car down away from the boss and see it run him over. I had to try a few times to actually get the crash right, so I was confused for a bit. But it was still clear what to do, so it's not a big deal.
Overall I enjoyed the game very much.
Its has some really fun gameplay, with very imaginative level design and a very good humor as well!!
Great job and i hope you can keep up with this game! =D
I have no real complains about this entry, I enjoyed playing it through and the humor was great.
Otherwise, a cute little game, I enjoyed it. gehehehe~
The game is full filled of humor conversation and well shaping personality of bug! I'm definitely enjoy of it.
My favorite game so far, well done!
I was surprised how many different stuff you have made that were interactive, too!
The concept was unique and the writing/ending was nice :D Good progression, love the inventory feature *cough*
Nicely done!
It would of been nice to have a key to return the magnifying glass to your tiny friend, but the arrow is a nice touch so you don't lose him. :)
WELL DONE.
Art was simple but effective, vocal sound effects were cute and not annoying. Some music would have been nice but I didn't really miss it. Humour was great! I felt immersed in the little world.

But apart from that - very good game. Had me gripped from the "Just kidding, I don't have an inventory". :P
Loved the ending, as well, very funny.