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Power Bunnies by pcmaster

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made by pcmaster for LD 39 (JAM)

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Feed the Power Bunnies!

Don't let your bunnies run out of power and fade away.

The goal is to achieve a full board. It really is possible.

If you don't manage the first time, give it one more try :)

Controls: Arrows

Made with Unity3D + C# + Paint + Bosca Ceoil + BFXR

All done by me in about 2x 10 hours, but again, only Jam (too late for Compo).

WHY?!

‘cuz bunnies hump!

This is my 4th or 5th Ludum Dare. I didn’t have any help this time either. I started very late and I wasn’t sure with the idea at all. To be honest, even after releasing the game, it doesn’t seem too good and there’s too much randomness in the game. If you can, give it 2 or 3 tries – sometimes bunnies hump as crazy and fill the board and other times you have to stalk them with batteries for 5 minutes, hoping they will run into each other charged, finally.

Finishing and "releasing" a little game in a few days (or hours in my case) is FUCKING rewarding. I hope it makes at least some of you LOL :D Although it’s :poop: as I expected when I got the chance to start working on Sunday evening...

I just wish I had an artist and a capable designer, unlike me, I suck at designing anything feasible :(

Late towards the end I decided to create some sounds in BFXR and click a folk tune (about a bunny on a green meadow) I know in Bosca Ceoil, I’m no musician as you can simply judge :) My head started hurting after listening to my creation for an hour :)

Thanks for playing and reading!

OFFICIAL SOUND TRACK :cd:

[http://pcmaster.koinbahd.com/ld39/LD39-PowerBunnies_song.ogg]

:smallredtriangledown: PLAY HERE :smallredtriangledown:

Windows http://pcmaster.koinbahd.com/ld39/LD39-PowerBunnies.rar
HTML5 (web) http://pcmaster.koinbahd.com/ld39/
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/39/power-bunnies

Ratings

Overall 504th 3.241⭐ 60🧑‍⚖️
Fun 602th 2.862⭐ 60🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 317th 3.224⭐ 60🧑‍⚖️
Theme 149th 3.931⭐ 60🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 534th 3.224⭐ 60🧑‍⚖️
Audio 479th 2.707⭐ 60🧑‍⚖️
Humor 112th 3.455⭐ 57🧑‍⚖️
Mood 520th 3.036⭐ 57🧑‍⚖️
Given 68🗳️ 73🗨️

Feedback

ruba
01. Aug 2017 · 09:16 UTC
Theme, humor, mood, audio are awesome as always! Graphics has special spirit of programmers art :)
Gameplay is hard, I feel there should be some balancing done to be more forgivable.
NamInUz
01. Aug 2017 · 14:59 UTC
Very Nice, maybe there should be a time limit because when there is 2 bunnies remaining the game become quite simple.
However the baby bunnies are a great idea.
Sprouts
01. Aug 2017 · 18:15 UTC
Wow 113 bunnies is crazy. :P Nice work with your bunnies. I only had one :p More is always better.
mrerdalural
02. Aug 2017 · 09:35 UTC
At one point there was 116 bunnies on the screen humping each other and I was like "Where am I and why am I here?". Very funny game. I enjoyed it. Thank you for making it!
Poffle
02. Aug 2017 · 12:07 UTC
Wow. Haha. Within about 5 seconds I had 100 bunnies then before long I couldn't see my character never mind move him. With some better controls and more room to move this could be a lot of fun. Liked the style of the visuals and got a good laugh out of it. Nice work.
Coauctor
02. Aug 2017 · 12:09 UTC
I realized what to do after restarting the game, but then it started to be fun! It's laggy a bit when the area is crowded. Nice idea with energy-powered batteries.
ursagames
02. Aug 2017 · 14:02 UTC
That was amusing! It gets pretty hectic once there are over 100 bunnies going wild. The bunny sounds can get a little annoying at that point. Still, hilarious to see them spreading like wildfire!
Noxalus
02. Aug 2017 · 17:44 UTC
Nice game, but quite hard! :O The idea is really good and I love the graphic asset. You even put a way to stop the music/sounds, great job ;)
davideperozzi
02. Aug 2017 · 21:00 UTC
Like it even if the controls make it kinda hard but the idea is very great and the bunnies are cute :) Well done!
hairaz
02. Aug 2017 · 21:05 UTC
On one of my first attempts my grid suddenly filled up and I got 113 max bunnies without giving a single power-up. And this was really fun actually :D
I got some more tries after that, it's quite a fun game. It's really difficult at the beginning, but if you manage to hit a peak it becomes really hectic and crazy and I like that !
zgragselus
02. Aug 2017 · 23:30 UTC
Made me laugh quite a lot. I reached about 109 bunnies really fast, but they can easily block you from battery locations - it is quite tricky to feed them and not get stuck.
ToonTeamJ
03. Aug 2017 · 13:35 UTC
The angle of the board made the controls feel a little weird, but one gets the hang of it over time. The instructions are very helpful, but I couldn't get any bunnies to reproduce.
mathijs750
03. Aug 2017 · 13:49 UTC
One of the games I legitimately laughed out loud for. I reached 118 bunnies max before they surrounded me. As others have said the controls are a bit weird but that didn't hamper my enjoyment. :rabbit:
🎤 pcmaster
03. Aug 2017 · 14:56 UTC
@ToonTeamJ - just try once or twice again :)
geck0
03. Aug 2017 · 19:10 UTC
Funny game!
drtizzle
04. Aug 2017 · 08:36 UTC
Nice work! Cool gameplay idea and the graphics and music really fit together! The controls are a bit stiff, and when the big orgy begins you cannot move anymore because you are enclosed by (dead) bunnies. With some small tweaks this can be really awesome!

Well done!
Andreu
04. Aug 2017 · 11:17 UTC
The concept is great! I had fun though it was a bit too difficult for me. I think my brain couldn't get used to a isometric movement mixed with the arrows.
By the way.. when you only have one bunny left is funny to come to realize there is not going to be more offspring :P
🎤 pcmaster
04. Aug 2017 · 11:24 UTC
@Andreu: Thanks! After you play your own game for a bit, you become numb to some difficulties you had controlling it initially. That's what happened to the controls and "iso", I guess. I had "game over" detection on 1 bunny but I left it commented out by error when experimenting with something else :)
ryzy27
04. Aug 2017 · 12:01 UTC
First time I played I didn't know what's going on, but rabbits did job for me and I had almost full grid, second time I couldn't get more than 4 :) I like how you managed to fit everything on the screen. Text looks a bit blurry, next time maybe use TextMesh Pro. Sounds are nice and bunnies look cool too. Nice work, cheers!
TheFlyingKeyboard
04. Aug 2017 · 16:00 UTC
Fun idea of bunnies with batteries (like in old Duracell advertisements). Graphics look good, music is a bit irritating. Steering definitelly needs more polishing. Overall really fun concept, but needs polishing.
guckstift
04. Aug 2017 · 21:10 UTC
Very funny and cool game concept. But maybe to bad balanced. Look at this:
![Bildschirmfoto vom 2017-08-04 23-04-45s.png](///raw/955/1/z/8a12.png)
Sooooooo many bunnies. Really humpy, huh? :D
MestreRothLD
05. Aug 2017 · 16:41 UTC
So much love!
hehe

The moment where they start to breed like... bunnies... is nice and unexpected. Amazing entry.

One touch, maybe difficult to add, would be to allow the player to push a row of bunnies if you hit it, because, as noted in the screenshot above, it is really easy to get stuck. But maybe it would break some of your logic, only you know...

Great art and juice. Very nice game, specially with such short sprints. Congrats!
geeitsomelaldy
06. Aug 2017 · 16:30 UTC
Controls were a bit weird, felt it could have done with tank controls, but otherwise a fun game
Rixud
07. Aug 2017 · 17:41 UTC
the general idea is great but the gameplay is hard! because you can't pass throw the "discharged bunnies" some times make impossible to get batteries or move quickly... i really like the music and sound effects. Impressive you managed to do music, animations and sound effect by yourself in 2x10h ! NICE JOB! :thumbsup:
automatonvx
07. Aug 2017 · 18:06 UTC
As others said controls took a little it of getting used to, but after that was ok. I didn't do very well, just couldn't keep up with how fast the batteries ran out when i had more than a couple to take care of. Pretty fun. Strangely compelling. The graphics were simple but still cute the little animations of powering down and the ears jiggling make all the difference to give a bit of personality to them I think. Fun idea. Good job
simonhutchinson
07. Aug 2017 · 18:10 UTC
Very cool! This is great. A whole lot of fun and a really original idea. I agree with those above commenting on the trickiness of the isometric controls. I'm not sure if there's a better way to do it though. Really nice work!
🎤 pcmaster
08. Aug 2017 · 06:28 UTC
Perhaps rotating the controls 90 deg or tilting the camera one more bit. Perhaps next time :) Thanks for the awesome feedback!
Roberto Cano
08. Aug 2017 · 18:00 UTC
Cool idea! Got carried away with it for a while, but couldn't make the bunnies bump enough on each other :laugh: Good game concept and nice graphics. The controls are a bit hard to manage (perhaps it is me) and I couldn't manage to make the bunny population grow at all in a few runs. Congrats for the game and good luck!
BLK Dragon
09. Aug 2017 · 16:05 UTC
Nice idea.
Controls/camera are kinda get in the way of fun -- camera should really look straight so arrow-keys controls are intuitive; or even better, bunny movement should not be "grid-based" -- this way, placing battery into bunny would be much more easy.
kromeboy
13. Aug 2017 · 13:18 UTC
Hilarious game, and neat gameplay concept. With more balance it could be great. Good job!
kromeboy
13. Aug 2017 · 13:18 UTC
Hilarious game, and neat gameplay concept. With more balance it could be great. Good job!
Mengane
14. Aug 2017 · 09:43 UTC
I really like the principle of your game, this is very cool but for i find that bunny (player) movements are a little bit complex to apprehend. if you decide to remake graphics and player movements, your game could be a super challenge. Good job.
DerpyJish
18. Aug 2017 · 23:25 UTC
How very bizarre! It's a solid concept tough, and strangely humours, just needed a fair bit of refining. You said in your description about wanting a capable game designer, but remember there are loads of great resources out there for learning game design. Two of my favourites are Extra Credits (youtube.com/channel/UCCODtTcd5M1JavPCOr_Uydg) and Game Makers Toolkit (youtube.com/channel/UCqJ-Xo29CKyLTjn6z2XwYAw). I doubt they have episodes about the game design of bunny reproduction, but they are definately a great place to learn stuff! Good luck, and well done on completing another Jam (that's an achievement in itself remember :grin:)
JoshyOshKenoshi
22. Aug 2017 · 11:07 UTC
Wow - this game is crazy random! At one point I ended up with so many bunnies that I was stuck in the middle of the board, with pretty much all squares filled; the next thing I know, they've all died apart from one! Very odd, but very fun!