Grab Your Nutz by Budaniel
We went for a simple game this time. The result? * Grab Your Nutz! *
As a squirrel forever falling from the world's tallest Infinite Tree (which totally exists somewhere, we're pretty sure), grab as many acorns as you can before the local bird population grabs you. Cardinals, Blue Jays and Red Tail Hawks all have different attack patterns and bird calls as they attempt to turn the squirrel into suet.
It couldn't be simpler: Using the arrow keys, WASD or an XBox controller, move around the screen in a perpetual free-fall. Dodge squirrel-smacking branches, snack on tasty acorns, and avoid getting picked off by one of many birds who - for whatever reason - see you as prey. We don't know exactly why a cardinal of all birds is attacking you, because we don't speak bird and couldn't ask, but we think it just hates squirrels.
If you do get bird-napped you will be sent back to the top of the tree to repeat your fall and redeem your fail. There is no end for this poor squirrel - he's in his own Groundhog's Day nightmare.
Would that make it a Squirrel's Day nightmare...?
In any case, help the squirrel grab his nuts - he needs all the help he can get.
| Youtube | https://aagh-games.itch.io/grab-your-nuts-ld47 |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/47/grab-your-nutz |
Ratings
| Overall | 1387th | 3.034⭐ | 31🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 1079th | 3.103⭐ | 31🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 1550th | 2.448⭐ | 31🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 1535th | 2.638⭐ | 31🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 1406th | 2.655⭐ | 31🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 784th | 3.155⭐ | 31🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 298th | 3.519⭐ | 29🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 1149th | 3.058⭐ | 28🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 30🗳️ | 31🗨️ |
The birds are really hard to dodge, for the falcon you basically have no chance :D
The sound effects are really funny!
It's fun, but way to hard, avoiding the birds is mostly luck. The music is fun to listen to, it doesn't get frustrating after a while. Also, I like the lore in the description, it adds a lot to this game. <3
Great work on the title screen!
I think that the branches should kills you too. or at least make you lose nuts.
also the nuts coming from the top feels a little weird. you kinda lose the possibility to implement that risk and reward thing where you can speed up to get more point or slow down to be safe. and the speeding up overtime.
like the others have said, dodging the bird seems to be more of a luck thing. I think if there was an indication, like a arrow, telling where they will be coming from, we would at least have a fighting chance.
it's a pretty funny game too.
I love the cute-murder execution of the falling squirell. Poor guy, he died so many times.
As other have already said, the birds are crazy fast and there's almost no way to react to them. Hell, I have been saved twice by hitting a branch and slowing down, when suddenly Hawk appeared out of nowhere in the spot where I have just been!
My highscore was 20 and I wanted to play more. It's such demanding and hard, yet very addicting!
Good job!
As we've probably already said already, we really had fun with this one. We do wish that the birds gave us a little more warning when they were about to attack, but we loved the way the chaotically careened across the screen a high velocities. Really adds to the hectic nature of everything as a whole. :smile: