Collector by MechWarrior99
In Collector you start with nothing and go around a small level and collect various plants that are sold for gems. As you collect plants, blobs will spawn in increasing numbers, and come after you. If they touch you, they will take
one item that you have collected from your inventory.
Going through the purple portal will let you sell the plants you have collected, resetting the level, and give you an option to buy a few upgrades. Once you get enough gems you can buy an upgrade that will activate the larger Blue portal, allowing you to walk through and escape.... with nothing.
Controls WASD - Movement. Hold Shift - Sprint Space bar - Jump Hold E - Collect Item
| Youtube | https://mechwarrior99.itch.io/collector |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/45/collector |
Ratings
| Overall | 321th | 3.671⭐ | 37🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 451th | 3.4⭐ | 37🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 758th | 2.929⭐ | 37🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 544th | 3.324⭐ | 36🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 149th | 4.186⭐ | 37🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 570th | 2.882⭐ | 36🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 642th | 2.531⭐ | 34🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 614th | 3.279⭐ | 36🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 32🗳️ | 32🗨️ |
An interesting game and a great entry to this Ludum Dare.
Yeah, they do spawn pretty quick. I think if I turned them down just a tiny bit, it would feel a lot better.
I was thinking of adding a chase radius, but didn't have time. The UI work was definitely rushed last minute, I would have liked to make it at least a bit better. But I guess that is how it goes sometimes.
Thanks again!
Great job overall. In my opinion the game can be improved with two things: adding an upgrade that makes you pick up the plants faster, and maybe some randomization for the resources positions. But the look and feel is good and I enjoyed playing it!
I enjoyed it quite a bit, running around and picking items while running away from blobs is great. They are so scary with their sounds.
It can get quite crowded with them once you run around picking enough items, actually to the point where you can't pick anything and the only option is to run around to the portal. While this keeps the pace of the game, it gets also extremely crowded (there could be even hundreds of them, without me picking up any items just wandering around the map!). On the other hand, one could easily grind through the game by just picking closest 2 plants for 45 and 85 points, up until 2000.
Thanks for making the game.
Keep up the good work.
With regards to the crowding. That was the intention, to force you to go back to the portal. The main thing is that I didn't put an incentive to stay longer to collect more items, I think some small multiplier on how much you get per item would have been good the longer you stay. It gets to a max of 125 blobs. Yeah, that is something quite a few others have said as well. That you can just go back and forth really quick to get the 2000, would have been good to maybe disable the portal for a short period after using it or something.
Thanks for the feedback, and I am glad you liked it!
During my first game I didn't really understand what the slimes were able to do. And btw, the slime a really creepy xD But it's really fun to play, well done :)