Cantrex by snick

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made by snick for LD 40 (COMPO)

Hi there!

This is my first ever submission to Ludum Dare. Took me a very long time to get started, fooled around with many ideas that just didn't feel fun to develop or to play.

After a while I decided to use Unity instead of my own framework just to get stuff done, also so that I could easily just export the builds to different platforms (hopefully the windows builds works, don't have access to windows to test it). Edit: The Windows builds seems to work.

Didn't really have time to make music or proper sound effects because of my late start.

"The more you have, the worse it is"

In this case is the more hunger the worse it is because then you'll starve obviously. I had to scrap many ideas that finally started to come to my mind during these final hours.

Gameplay

The game is pretty self explanatory, You're a T-Rex trying to survive for as long as possible.

Move around with A/D or the arrow keys and avoid bombs that are falling the sky and eat pigs to survive.

Learned a lot from this, will definitely be more prepared and make something more interesting for LD41!

Now I'm looking forward to try out your masterpieces :smile:

Apps used:

  • Unity3D
  • Affinity Designer
  • cfxr

Ratings

Overall 508th 3.05⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Fun 543th 2.825⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 628th 2.35⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Theme 658th 2.263⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 515th 2.825⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Audio 433th 2.583⭐ 20🧑‍⚖️
Humor 146th 3.342⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Mood 475th 2.789⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Given 8🗳️ 2🗨️

Feedback

_benhumphries
04. Dec 2017 · 03:58 UTC
This is great! Going with the simpler idea definitely worked for you! I laughed out loud when a pig got hit by a missile. Totally unexpected.
LKS1990
04. Dec 2017 · 03:58 UTC
64 Bit worked for me on Windows.
AcsiD
04. Dec 2017 · 04:00 UTC
The only thing with this is the pig should not be killed by bomb.
for the rest Good small game
minimurgle
04. Dec 2017 · 04:05 UTC
I think increasing the rate of pigs being shot out would have been a good. I noticed that even while I was getting every pig it wasnt enough to sustain my appetite.

I had enjoyed myself though. Seeing one of the pigs hit a missile was surprising. Congratulations on getting done in the reduced ammount of time. I used the full time and only finished with half an hour on the counter.
Rocktavious
04. Dec 2017 · 04:23 UTC
Really good job on execution of a simple idea and simple game. Like others have said - the pigs couldn't keep up with my appetite. I loved that the pigs get killed by the bombs!!!
Sempiternal
04. Dec 2017 · 04:32 UTC
Seems like a fun game but a rate at which your hunger grows becomes too fast around 35 seconds mark where if a rocket kills a pig (which you don't seem to have any control of) - you lose
🎤 snick
04. Dec 2017 · 04:58 UTC
Thanks for all the good feedback, I would have wanted to give more time to balance things better or allow players to adjust some parameters. Good things to keep in mind for next time :smile:
Scriptorum
04. Dec 2017 · 14:06 UTC
I made it about 44 seconds. It's tough because you can eat all possible pigs and not get hit and still starve. I think maybe pigs should contain more nutrition, but die on impact and start to rot, reducing nutrition. This way you're rewarded more for catching the pig than picking one up. A live pig should die when hit by a bomb, giving you at least some nutrition. I did have fun playing, and like the art style.
🎤 snick
04. Dec 2017 · 14:29 UTC
@scriptorum I really like the idea of pigs giving different amount of nutritions like that, could be very interesting change to the game in general. 44 seconds that's bad ass!

I assume it's frowned upon to update the games during the "play+rate games timer" so I might have to wait a while to do changes and fixes. But for anyone trying this game out, tell me all flaws (except for the obvious like no animations, music etc) so I can learn and maybe put up an updated version on this page after this has fully ended with the tips and suggestions from you all.
DjeyCreations
25. Dec 2017 · 22:02 UTC
Haha it is fun ^^. The sounds are a bit annoying tho
notime4games
26. Dec 2017 · 02:29 UTC
I survived for 53:32!
Nice game well done!
Adam Passey
26. Dec 2017 · 23:12 UTC
Really easy to understand and just pick up and play! Nothing about the setting made sense, and I liked that. A pig cannon? Yep!
Dioinecail
27. Dec 2017 · 11:22 UTC
It is a bit unbalanced because you can't possibly survive more than 30~40 seconds, the pigs restore less than you get hungry for.

I liked the joke about dinosaur eating pigs tho :)
colozz
27. Dec 2017 · 12:43 UTC
I really liked the graphics (particulary the pigs).
It could have been more challenging (the pigs are easy to eat butdo not fil you enough).
Hope to see you on future LDs :-)
Tay
27. Dec 2017 · 17:02 UTC
I liked this entry a lot, the main concept of it was entertaining ,but the game did have some flaws. I don't the the pigs should be able to collide with the missile in mid-air (basically forcing you to starve) also a bit more audio sounds would prevent from making it repetitive too quick, but in general I really liked it.
Behenate
27. Dec 2017 · 17:02 UTC
Really fun and engaging game! Graphics are "minimalistic", but they are doing their job. Contorls were really nice and responsive. Pretty good entry!