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The Source Seekers by MuffinCookie

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made by MuffinCookie for LD 40 (COMPO)

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The Source Seekers is a game where you work at a company where your task is to collect Source

Source Fountains

There are Source Fountains that you'll have to harvest using your Source Drains, But beware the Seekers that will attack you when you start extracting Source. The more Drainers you have the more Seekers will spawn so be careful or you'll find yourself in a flood of Seekers going for your towers.

Notes

I've noticed that the tutorial isn't very clear about the fact that fountains can run out. A Fountain will only give Source while it has particles around it, But the towers will still try to extract from it :P

Also the turrets can't be placed too close to eachother, this sadly has no visual feedback.

Windows https://muffindev.itch.io/the-source-seekers
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/40/the-source-seekers

Ratings

Overall 200th 3.625⭐ 26🧑‍⚖️
Fun 197th 3.565⭐ 25🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 226th 3.409⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Theme 172th 3.792⭐ 26🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 112th 3.913⭐ 25🧑‍⚖️
Audio 306th 3⭐ 25🧑‍⚖️
Mood 116th 3.575⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Given 30🗳️ 5🗨️

Feedback

Siarhei Rakuts
04. Dec 2017 · 14:27 UTC
looks cool, but I do not quite understand the point
oxrock
04. Dec 2017 · 14:31 UTC
I think this game is great honestly. The more greedy you are with harvester the harder it becomes but the quicker things get done. I also like the art a fair bit. More enemy types would be nice but obviously time is limited during a jam so cutbacks can't be avoided. As far as sound goes, I think you didn't set the turret shot sound to be 3d because I'm able to hear them from anywhere it seems.
xtroix1
04. Dec 2017 · 14:33 UTC
Well the music isnt that good, but the game is fine
🎤 MuffinCookie
04. Dec 2017 · 14:40 UTC
I had little time to balance the map and I would have added more maps if I had the time. The music was a bit hasty aswell but it's something :).
Mormert
04. Dec 2017 · 15:06 UTC
By the looks of it, this is the graphics that I wish to make in my future 3D games!

Good job, love to see more like this!
jk5000
04. Dec 2017 · 15:57 UTC
To me this was a fun little game. It was easy to understand and easy to play. And the music is perhaps not perfect, but I still liked it. Overall a good LD game.
Odrez
04. Dec 2017 · 18:00 UTC
Can you add a Linux build? I cannot play this in wine as it surprisingly requires DirectX 11.
🎤 MuffinCookie
05. Dec 2017 · 15:43 UTC
It does have a linux build now, not sure if it works :)
05. Dec 2017 · 21:53 UTC
Great game (besides the slow fps :P)
mess110
05. Dec 2017 · 21:58 UTC
Linux build works fine, managed to collect 500+ source.

Wish I had something to tell me there is no more source to collect from a resource :) (PS: I failed the tutorial, but the game is fun)
🎤 MuffinCookie
05. Dec 2017 · 22:13 UTC
@mess110 Thanks for letting me know :)

The tutorial does have a line saying if there are no particles around a resource it's empty but I can see if you missed that line :P
I was a bit worried about that part not being obvious enough but owell, glad you liked it :D
gamesplusjames
06. Dec 2017 · 02:17 UTC
This was a really interesting concept with the management of the source fountains and having to attack monsters at the same time. It was a lot of fun in a genre I, personally, don't normally find the fun in which I think stands to how well you did with it. Great job and the core concept of managing objects like this seems like something worth expanding on!
CaramelCode
06. Dec 2017 · 18:04 UTC
Really good job making all those blender models in the short compo time! The game play is really fun to!
iseeicy
06. Dec 2017 · 18:09 UTC
This was a ton of fun! I lost pretty quickly the first time, but I planned out my run the second time around. Around a minute in I noticed that I had to move up to the first source fountain as my last two had ran out, and I rushed the last one to the best of my ability. I was killing enough seekers to get a new drain every few seconds, and managed to win with 0 SECONDS LEFT. Literally one as I was about to die.
Great work!
![f23fc55bd12082002b94ac613efa5846.png](///raw/1ce/z/dff9.png)
🎤 MuffinCookie
06. Dec 2017 · 18:43 UTC
@iseeicy Oh wow! Good job, haha I didn't think people would get that close to running out of time :P
Arputikos
10. Dec 2017 · 06:00 UTC
Sth don't work on W7 x64
![s.png](///raw/39c/1/z/e692.png)
🎤 MuffinCookie
10. Dec 2017 · 16:39 UTC
@arputikos I'd recommend choosing another resolution, perhaps your monitor doesn't support it? Or just going windowed mode