Feed Them, With A Gun! by Andrew-David

Feed the Animals by Shooting them [Left-Mouse-Click , Mouse Position].
You Cannot Continuously Fire, Bullets Take Time To Load.
As You Feed The Animals, You Collect Currency,.
If You Have Enough Currency, Upgrade Options Will Start To Appear (above the player). Clicking Them Will Activate The Upgrade.
The Upgrade Options Available Are -
1 [LEFT] - Automatic Feeders - They Feed Animals Which Are Closest To Them Within A Range.
2[MIDDLE] - New Animal - A new Animal Pops Up.
3[RIGHT] - Expand Your Area.
(Currency required increases for each upgrade)
The Game Ends If Your Currency Is Below 0.
The Highest Animal Population You Are Able To Reach Is Your Score.
Software’s Used
Godot - Game Engine
Pixelorama - Pixel Art
Bosca Ceoil - Music
BFXR - SFX
font download link - https://opengameart.org/content/minimalist-pixel-fonts [CC0]
Ratings
| Overall | 108th | 3.926⭐ | 29🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 138th | 3.815⭐ | 29🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 172th | 3.778⭐ | 29🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 76th | 4.167⭐ | 29🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 184th | 3.944⭐ | 29🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 336th | 3.346⭐ | 28🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 361th | 3.1⭐ | 27🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 379th | 3.385⭐ | 28🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 16🗳️ | 27🗨️ |
I didn't like the input scheme, partly because I don't have a mouse with the middle button. :) So I couldn't create any new creatures.
It may have been better to randomly generate power ups so that anyone can play for a high score.
Good job!
I couldn't notice any prominent bugs :thumbsup:
I like this man :smile:
At the beginning this game made me busy but the Automatic Feeders helps a lot! And it won't be a good choice to expand the area too early because the animals will walk farther and you need to move longer.
The three upgrading buttons are easy to be ignored, more tips will be better.
GJ!
The game did seem to slow down in pace after you get a few mice and the upgrades become more expensive.
The music did get repetitive quite quickly! I think if you want to use a short music loop, it needs to be simpler
One thing I noticed was that the music seemed to be coming from the center of the level, and it was kind of strange having the music from one ear to the other depending on where I moved. Also it would be nice if the auto-feeders would prioritize hungry animals rather than closest animals, but you could definitely argue it's an intentional choice to make feeder spamming less effective.
Overall, quite a fun and well-polished game!
I started out slowly by setting up 'cannon's all over the place, my goal was full automation.
I ended up at 34 animals, all able to maintain themselves with the cannons without me interfering. I wanted to go further, but I looked away to write this, and when I looked back I was somehow gameover, not really sure how that happened? My animals were still alive.
Anyways, I thoroughly enjoyed the game, and the art style set the perfect mood. The audio was okay, at least it wasn't annoying :-)
It was a nice take on the theme!
If you plan on doing a post dare version, let me know, and consider making it possible to save your progress, I would like to see how far I can take this.
Kudos for a job well done, and thanks for sharing!
Couple of minor feedback and improvements
- Would be nice to have a hover state over the upgrades on what they do rather than relying on the player to read the submission page.
- Upgrades that you cant purchase are greyed out and have a hover state to tell you how much you need. I often found myself just waiting wondering how much the need auto feeder cost.
- As a balancing thing would be nice to have a max amount of feeders or animals per room size.
If you have a minute or so to check out my entry I would really appreciate it :D https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/ld-46-tower-defense/
If I had to make some remarks :
-you could move to animal count to the sides, out of the arena to not hide anything
-what is the point of increasing the area's size ? Isn't it easier to keep everyone in a thigh space ?
-I think that you don't need to had a reload bar for your gun. Everyone expect a gun to have some reload and not shoot indefinitly, there is no real need to show it
Also I will make sure that I play everyone's games before the submission ends. :v: (Just caught up with college submission. But I will start as soon as I get the chance 100%)
(The window also doesn't fit on my screen when I open the game.)
@igor-kingamer and @notafamousguy