Dog Care Center by Fran Segura
ABOUT THE GAME
Dog Care Center is a mix between first person shooter and pet simulator. As the manager of a little doggy daycare, you have to take care of your client's dogs and keep them fed, happy and clean until their owners come back for them! Dream job, you say? Wait until those little puppers start to grow in number!
- WASD: Move
- Left Click: Shoot / Interact
- Mouse Wheel: Alternate between Treat Gun and Watergun
- G: Throw ball
HELP
From time to time you'll receive a phone call from a person that needs your services as a dog carer. You better answer it fast, or it'll affect your reputation!
Basically owners expect three things when they come back for their pets: they shouldn't be hungry, they shouldn't be dirty and they shouldn't be sad.
The pets themselves will warn you when they are in need of any of those needs. For example, when they are bored they'll show purple spirals on his head.
You are well equipped to deal with this, but beware! It's not an easy job.
For instance, you can use your treat gun to feed the dogs, but they get dirty when they eat. So now you have to clean them. Great! You can use your watergun for that (beware with this tool, it's not yet in the market because it needs some tweaking).
But guess what - cleaning is boring, and they know it! You can play fetch with them with balls. By the way, you should get them back since you don't have a lot of them.
And of course, playing with them makes them hungry!
Eventually the owners will come and get them back, so you better take good care of them. Also, don't make the owners wait too much or they'll get angry!
THE TEAM
Code
Jaime Muela https://twitter.com/jaimuepe
Art
Hermes Escriva https://twitter.com/hermeses
- Paloma Pipeleers https://twitter.com/rhasculpts
Fran Segura https://twitter.com/fvsegura
Sound
Alvatross https://twitter.com/AlvatrossKid
| Windows | https://jaimuepe.itch.io/dogcare-center |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/dog-care-center |
Ratings
| Overall | 51th | 4.133⭐ | 32🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 26th | 4.2⭐ | 32🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 366th | 3.6⭐ | 32🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 451th | 3.767⭐ | 32🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 10th | 4.667⭐ | 32🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 71th | 4.017⭐ | 31🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 43th | 4.133⭐ | 32🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 43th | 4.224⭐ | 31🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 25🗳️ | 32🗨️ |
It's super funny to throw away the doggos with the water gun <3
Congrats team, very nicely done!
One question: what is the purple smoke?
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**Here is our game feel free to check it out: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/jumpcard**
Some small bugs/suggestions:
-Physics are a bit wonky sometimes i got stuck in a corner due to a dog walking into me.
-Make the phone easier to click!
-Make the balls easier to find (also why are there other balls i cant pick up?)
-Exit button doesnt work
Other than these I found the entry very entertaining and it had good polish. Visuals/audio are on point!
Otherwise, I have so much fun in pushing everything with the water gun against wall or in the air, while running everywhere to answer phone and doors, that push to a certain feeling I can't really describe but really like, both know what to do, and don't know what I actually do, my reflex do it for me. It was really enjoyablke, and the overall graphic is just so nice ! Really, a great good job !
I did have some frustration with picking up the ball and throwing it. I feel like it may have been more enjoyable to have 3 guns, one that shoots the ball alongside the water and treat gun.
I also got a couple bugs. In-game when I pressed ESC, I got two buttons for resume or exit, but neither of them did anything when clicked. The dogs would also get a bit stuck sometimes and jitter around on the spot or get stuck in the fence.
Overall though, this was so much fun and a great submission!
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My biggest criticism is that the phone is a little hard to find. Or at least that the Switch is to easy to mistake for a phone. Oh, and the exit button doesn't work.
Your game just makes me happy, thank you for that <3 I will definitely be keeping it long after this Ludum Dare.
Check out my team's game if you get the time! https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/check-please
@le-american hi! Thanks for playing :) what do you mean you can only throw the ball sometimes? Some kind of bug? You can only carry three balls at once, maybe you didn't have any?
I found that the mouse-look speed was too slow, and would have felt better if it was a little more sensitive.
I didn't like switching between the water gun and the treat gun, and the ball throwing. It would have been better if these were all accessible by different buttons, so you could do them without the need to switch weapons.
I think there's a bug with the Exit routine, because when I tried to do it, the game kept on running. I had to Alt+F4 out of the game.
Overall, I loved it, these are minor issues, but things that should be addressed, and can be fixed with minimal effort. A+ overall.
I left my rating of your game, if you can leave your feedback in our game, Witch's Escape.
I hope you continue with the project.
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/witchs-escape