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Happy Father by savinvadim

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made by savinvadim for LD 40 (COMPO)

My tweet 10 minutes after theme announcement: "Having a child is fun yeah? Imagine having 5, or maybe 10?"

Happy Father (AKA the men's nightmare) is a game where you need to take care of your children. You need to feed them when they are hungry, play with them when they are bored and put them to sleep when they are tired. Sounds easy, huh? Challenges start after 5th kid. How many kids can you handle?

Play it on itch.io: https://itch.io/embed-upload/678797?color=333333

Gameplay (x4): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azR5xo6DE-E

Screenshots:

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Windows https://drive.google.com/open?id=1RX81wFENACmAidY0m21CYpTXDZ3q15lT
HTML5 (web) https://drive.google.com/open?id=1dzF6oUQ6fmPnMsLuJSapiZ6NKzFNTZXi
HTML5 (web) https://itch.io/embed-upload/678797?color=333333
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/40/happy-father

Ratings

Overall 266th 3.5⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Fun 416th 3.125⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 229th 3.4⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Theme 107th 3.975⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 209th 3.625⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Audio 262th 3.15⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Humor 52th 3.789⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Mood 135th 3.5⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Given 19🗳️ 22🗨️

Feedback

Riemann Integrable
04. Dec 2017 · 06:55 UTC
Fun game! It's really hard, but it seems like you could definitely get better at managing everything.Nice graphics, and great humour. I really like it.
Pseudokai
08. Dec 2017 · 03:05 UTC
The action buttons aren't always responsive. Other than that it's a solid game.
Scowling Pastry
08. Dec 2017 · 03:14 UTC
Funny and hard game. I liked the graphics, but the UI often left the screen for me. Towards the end the click and wait mechanic seemed a little too tedious. Great job though.
gassasin
08. Dec 2017 · 03:19 UTC
i love that the room is floating in space :D Nice game i love the gui! Nice esthetics great job!
Annie Owl
08. Dec 2017 · 10:12 UTC
Well, i should rethink the idea of having a child now... Controls are a kinda clunky and i don't really get why some times kids react to me and some times not. But besides that problem, everything is nice and the setting of the game is pretty funny too :smile:
PixelFormedStudios
08. Dec 2017 · 18:09 UTC
A simple but cool concept and I really liked the graphics. Also great take on the theme!
rargrave
08. Dec 2017 · 18:10 UTC
I was joking about doing this kind of game with my kids, really glad you did it! It's the first thing I thought of when I saw the theme. And really good job of it as well. That Zoe, is a pain in the butt :) ...
drtizzle
12. Dec 2017 · 14:16 UTC
Nice graphics! Really cool low-poly style, reminded me of Interstate '76 for some weird reason :) Like more people said, I found the controls unresponsive and clunky, it would be a big improvement if that was fixed, especially because of the time constraint.

Overall well done!
Zinkler
14. Dec 2017 · 11:10 UTC
UI is a little bit weird, but I love the idea. Can become an interesting game after some polishing.
jjjjason
16. Dec 2017 · 07:05 UTC
Oh man the music is absolutely bonkers. That plus the outer space living room really add to the discordant and hectic feeling the game evokes, even ignoring the dozens of children that are prancing around crying. If anything it's better that the characters don't have walking animations, as it just further contributes to how stressful and uncomfortable the game makes me feel, which I think is the entire point. Pretty neat.