somethin' Ducks! by Bewelge
Play as a Duck Mother to breed & raise cute little Ducklings.
But beware of the crocodiles!
Use Arrow Keys to move.
Everything apart from the Font and the composition of the melody I'm using was made from scratch in the last 26 hours. The 'Chicken Dance' is obviously not my original melody the other sounds I did with my voice and some editing :-)
Enjoy and good luck to Everybody else!
Edit: I want to thank everyone for playing my game, rating and leaving feedback! It is truly appreciated :-)
I've had some time to improve and add some of your suggestions to the game and uploaded a "post-compo" version. Changes: - Added Snakes as additional Enemies! - You now have to pick up toast slices to grow your ducklings! - You can now knock out crocodiles by hitting the back of their head! - Crocodiles now slightly turn towards you to make it a little harder. - Spawn Rate of Crocodiles increased. - Multiple wild ducks depending on how many ducklings you have! - Added option to display hitboxes. Use this to see how close you can get to the enemies! - Added some background waves - Made player trail a little nice looking. - Added blood splatter
| HTML5 (web) | https://bewelge.github.io/somethinDuckLD40/ |
| compo Version | https://github.com/Bewelge/somethinDuckLD40 |
| HTML5 (web) | https://bewelge.github.io/somethinDuck/ |
| Post-Compo Version | https://github.com/Bewelge/somethinDuck/ |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/40/ducks |
Ratings
| Overall | 254th | 3.526⭐ | 40🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 229th | 3.513⭐ | 41🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 331th | 3.197⭐ | 40🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 197th | 3.731⭐ | 41🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 232th | 3.564⭐ | 41🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 294th | 3.059⭐ | 36🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 169th | 3.271⭐ | 37🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 314th | 3.114⭐ | 37🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 65🗳️ | 10🗨️ |
Good stuff.
But I love the idea and it's very soothing to watch. Nice graphics too!
Final Score: 3161210
Ducklings Created: 76
Successfully Raised: 62
Eaten by Crocodiles:11
Survival Rate: 85.526%
Most Ducklings at once: 11
@mrphil , Thanks, I was trying to implement it in a way that if you play safe you can survive almost for ever, but if you want to score quicker you'll have to take risks. Glad it somewhat worked out ;) Was planning on adding bread and only spawning other ducks and letting ducklings grow everytime you eat bread. Unfortunately didn't have time to. I only implemented the mechanism of the chicks growing at all like an hour before the deadline. Before that the game had even less aim :P
@peculiarcarrot , You wouldn't believe how many chicks haven't made it through development :'(
@kkneville , Thanks for pointing that out, turns out it was a typo. Now I just noticed that I maybe shouldn't have pushed the fix on the branch I've submitted to the compo :P Will try to seperate that later so that the entry is in the state it was at 3am :)
@great-bobleny , Thanks ! That's a pretty high score. Much higher than I've ever done myself :D
Snake with ducks, great idea, I love it! Simple, but effective graphics, the mechanics work flawlessly, very nicely done. The stats at the end are cool, but in order to motivate me to play again, there would have to be a little more. It's a good and proven concept, but you may need to implement another "twist" to make this appeal to a larger audience. For a compo game, great job! I enjoyed playing. :)
Enjoyed playing!
After a while I started experimenting with walking on crocs. Just avoid the head :D
@xynal , @taiku, @saucygames, @tay, @radmccool, @alottabit, Thanks for your feedback :-) You're all right, the crocodiles were too easy, I added snakes and made the crocodiles more dangerous in the post-compo version.
Everybody else: Thanks for playing and leaving such kind feedback. I very much appreciate it :-)