Grimder by CraigDuth
Our first LD game Grimder is complete! We were super chill about this one, working on it from 11am til 5pm throughout the weekend.
Grimder is a play on dating apps. With the theme “running out of space” we came up with the idea that Heaven and Hell have a capacity limit which fills up quickly if the wrong people are assigned to each place. You play as Death, swiping left and right to send characters to hell or heaven based on their traits.
This game was super cathartic to make, as most of the things that send people to hell are actually just our own pet peeves. Thanks also to our mates on Twitter that supplied us with a bunch of ideas for virtues and vices! You can find the thread here: https://twitter.com/callioperyder/status/1028142046727483392
Team: Craig Duthie: Programmer @craigduthie Calliope Ryder: Art, Design, Writing @callioperyder Ben Walden: Art, Design @benmwalden Iain Heap: UI, Design, Writing @IainHeap Big thanks to Chris Hodgson for sound and voiceover @chrishodgson99
| Android | https://craigduthie.itch.io/grimder |
| Windows | https://craigduthie.itch.io/grimder |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/grimder |
Ratings
| Overall | 353th | 3.61⭐ | 43🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 626th | 3.195⭐ | 43🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 224th | 3.598⭐ | 43🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 865th | 3.146⭐ | 43🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 365th | 3.775⭐ | 42🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 518th | 3.028⭐ | 38🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 81th | 3.838⭐ | 42🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 408th | 3.325⭐ | 42🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 24🗳️ | 30🗨️ |
@scott-purcival So the meters are filled with the difference between good and bad if you send them to the wrong place. Each trait has a value and adding them all up gives us whether they're good or bad. So if they're 5 good and 2 bad and you send them to hell, then it'll add 3 to hell. And yes! It's just our ideas of what good and bad is, nothing concrete! Most are just humourous :smile:
Love it! Very funny and fun to play. Great work!
But the game was really great! I like it!
P.S. you should really edit your entry to show that there is a Windows version. I found it more or less by accident and almost would have never played it :)
Try our game too, maybe you'll like it)
I'm impressed with this game! Very cool execution and unique concept. You took the theme but you didn't actually made it the core of your game, which is refreshing after playing so many games in which you just have to avoid falling off a platform, or getting hit by whatever.
What I liked:
- Simple, clean UI
- Great humor! I loved reading the cause of death
- Laika :D
- Color palette. I think it could be beneficial to add some more colors to the design, but it is actually quite good already
- Soundfx
- Level of polish
What I think could be improved, not much actually:
- More "deeds". They get repetitive after a while. I'm on a road trip right and I can suggest "Frequently complains about other drivers"
- The "It's a match" popup takes a bit too long to go away. Maybe you could try making it easier to skip, or just show it as a notification similar to the one that shows up when you make a mistake (but bigger, and I would keep the portrait).
- Lack of background music. What about some light-hearted classical music?
All in all, this is a very good entry! Congratulations to all of you! :)
These are some of my favorites:

This regretful litterer:

And specially this poor little girl at a concentration camp working as a driver that missed her brother's wedding :(

<3

Nice take on Tind...the theme, and lovely art style. It can get repetitive eventually, though, but it feels super solid in terms of polish.
Great job!