S.A.V.E.🐣 by Noval33t
:hatched_chick:Play it here: http://platonicgames.com/LD38/
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Which one is the smallest of the worlds?
A super-globalized Earth? Life inside an ant colony? Pluto?
When we though about it for a while, we realised the smallest of the worlds may be something opressive instead.
Think about a cage.
Think about having each day less space to live.
Think about someone controlling and limiting all your actions, every day.
Think about living only to serve and die.
Think about not being human in this world.
We created the smallest of the worlds... but it might not be the world we enforce the animals to live in. The smallest of the worlds could also be our narrow mind, everytime we refuse to see what we are really doing.
:cry:
¿Why minigames?
We wanted to "talk" about as many topics as possible, so we though a bunch of simple-but-addictive minigames would fit this goal. Inspired by the mobile game 'Dumb Ways To Die' we wanted 'S.A.V.E' to feel friendly but meaningful at the same time. Hope we achieved it!
And we'd love to know your thoughts about the final result ^-^
Who are we?
We're Álvaro and Valeria, a 2-person indie team from Spain, and we make little cute kawaii mobile games at Platonic Games :blush:
Voting Category Opt-outs
- We bought the music and SFX from @AudioJungle
- Some of the animals are from @Freepik and modified by ourselves. Everything else, including backgrounds, visual effects and animations are all us :)
Special Thanks
We'd like to thank Esther Muñoz and Aaron Férreo for their insightful suggestions, and also @DoYouEvenJam for hosting such a healthy and friendly game jam!
Final Notes
We've a bunch more minigames designed but we could "only" make seven, so we'd like to keep working on #SAVE:hatched_chick: and hopefully bring it to mobile phones soon ^-^
Links
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/s-a-v-e |
Ratings
| Overall | 56th | 4⭐ | 27🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 23th | 4.083⭐ | 26🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 257th | 3.375⭐ | 26🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 329th | 3.542⭐ | 26🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 44th | 4.542⭐ | 26🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 28th | 4.08⭐ | 27🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 77th | 3.96⭐ | 27🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 5🗳️ | 1🗨️ |
This overall also felt really polished, like an app you could download from the store. And I tested the WebGL build on my Linux machine, works nicely :)
All in all a really good game with a great message/messages!
The art is very cute and all the single tasks are designed very well and have a great message.
I especially love the ice bear sliding down the hill haha :D
Would also be an awesome mobile game! :)
I never managed to beat the turtle level :(
anyway I liked it a lot, it's really polished. the lightheart mood and the fun part really help keep the player entertained and therfore convey the message where a more serious approach usually fails.
congrats!
--> "we wanted ‘S.A.V.E’ to feel friendly but meaningful at the same time."
yes you achieved this very well!
The music is a bit too repetitive for my taste and the turtle mini game was the only I didn't manga after several tries.
Games that approach serious real-world problems usually fall out as pretentious if done bad, but yours have just the right amount of sobriety/quirkiness to make it interesting yet evocative to the mind (the humor helps too).
To complete seven mini-games (even if there are micro-games) is not small feat, so congratulations for this entry!
otherwise, very clean, consistent and if the tempo of the music isnt slowly increasing then the game is making me feel like it is at least :D enjoyed playing
Very clear message being broadcast too, even if in a light hearted manner.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLywFLMDPJc