What An Alien Addiction! by jaywoody

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made by jaywoody for Ludum Dare 46 (COMPO)

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An alien has grown an appetite for late night snacks. His weird contraption makes earth-like food, but cannot differentiate greasy calorie rewards from healthy veggies. He will simply perish, if he can't get more of those cheese covered munchables. That's where you come in with your food sorting intelligence!

Drop the pizzas to the alien mouth hole. Use the trashcan to store healthy foods. If the trashcan gets full, try to stack on top of it until Mr. E.T. is full. Don't drop any foods to the ground or throw off the side. This will get our intergalactic friend angry.

You win if you can get our green lifeform full all 5 levels. You lose if he gets too angry and snacks on you.

Quantum food changes states from one food to another. Try to get it into our alien friend when it's calorie rich and nutrient-free. Don't throw it into the trash can or you'll scatter it away.

Bombs are bad news! Throw them to the side before they explode!

PC-version should work on all 16:9 resolutions (1920x1080, 1280x720 etc.) Html5-version is uploaded now and should work on most browsers.

I added some bugfixes to all versions: - The hostility and fullness bars don't go over 100% anymore

I added some fixes to WebGL version for now: - Now the levels start with giving first the new element, so you know what's new - fixed camera aspect ratio for most of the resolutions

Controls:

Use mouse to move cursor

Mouse1 down - take food into hand

Mouse1 release - release food from hand

Escape - Pause game

q - quit from pause menu

Ratings

Overall 533th 3.42⭐ 27🧑‍⚖️
Fun 415th 3.423⭐ 28🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 697th 3.08⭐ 27🧑‍⚖️
Theme 993th 2.846⭐ 28🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 684th 3.173⭐ 28🧑‍⚖️
Audio 280th 3.442⭐ 28🧑‍⚖️
Humor 316th 3.18⭐ 27🧑‍⚖️
Mood 602th 3.109⭐ 25🧑‍⚖️
Given 28🗳️ 22🗨️

Feedback

bulle
21. Apr 2020 · 12:15 UTC
Great game! - I really enjoyed it. I really got into problems when the trash filled and I realized apples are the lesser filling evil. I though still am not sure that if I hadn't been serving the alien, whether I would have been kept alive ...

Keep up the work!
🎤 jaywoody
21. Apr 2020 · 12:36 UTC
Yeah the balancing can get a bit hard at times! Thanks for the comments bulle!
Endurion
23. Apr 2020 · 12:19 UTC
Really good game!
I was soo close at the 5th stage. Quite a nice engine, I like that you can push other items with the grabbed one ;)

Well done!
🎤 jaywoody
24. Apr 2020 · 16:36 UTC
Thanks so much Endurion for the kind comments!
Douwe_Ravers
27. Apr 2020 · 11:42 UTC
Very nice game! Very cool start screen. Maybe when introducing a new element the first thing that drops should be the new thing. When the quantum food was introduced it only occurred once at the end of the round, that was a little confusing. But overall very cool game!
marcusnystrand
27. Apr 2020 · 11:46 UTC
Pretty fun and different game! Last level was a bit tricky but overall I think you could make the game more difficult :)

Well done!
🎤 jaywoody
27. Apr 2020 · 11:57 UTC
@douwe-ravers very good point! I've been meaning to get around to implement that but I've been super busy and haven't gotten around to it. I'll try to add that, though somewhere in the future. Thanks for the comment!

@marcusnystrand yeah I think you might be right. I kept it on the easier side to not be frustrating. Thanks for the comment!
Flying Dog Fish
27. Apr 2020 · 17:13 UTC
This was surprisingly fun. Nice music and graphics.
Valhalla
28. Apr 2020 · 09:11 UTC
Great game ! I really enjoyed playing, it's very fun. I appreciate the different levels. Quantum food is a good idea ! Music is nice too.
Notan Lemon
28. Apr 2020 · 10:17 UTC
This is great! First of all I love the title scene. It feels futuristic and really cool. The game system is great too. An extra twist is added by the limitation of trashcan volume and it's nice. Also music is gorgeous. Good job!
🎤 jaywoody
29. Apr 2020 · 15:35 UTC
@flying-dog-fish Thanks a lot! I'm glad you liked it.

@valhalla Very cool that you enjoyed it! I tried to make it varied enough between the levels so I really appreciate your comment. It took me a while to do that quantum food, but I guess it paid off. :)

@notan-lemon Thank you very much! I thought about the trash can and whether it should just make food disappear, but I think I like it this way more. It adds a bit of tension. I'm glad you liked it, too!
meelo
29. Apr 2020 · 23:43 UTC
I had a good deal of fun playing through this - the fourth and fifth levels were a nice level of difficulty, although I wouldn't have minded the game being longer (and having perhaps more elements); that said, for a game jam, it feels like this game hit all the essential pieces of what could make its idea work, so well done. The audio seems to have a lot of polish - like the little sound clip for winning or the sound effects for eating/throwing food offscreen; I like the background music as well, although it felt like it evoked a mood different from the rest of the game. Well done overall.
🎤 jaywoody
30. Apr 2020 · 11:13 UTC
@meelo Yeah it would've been cool if I would have had the time to do a few more levels in there and maybe throw some added functionality to make it more intense. Maybe in a post-jam version, who knows? :) I really tried to do a polished version this time for LD, so it's great to hear that it makes a difference. Thank you very much for the comments and playing my game!
cirno
01. May 2020 · 02:52 UTC
Idea and feeling of physics in the game is great. I enjoy the feeling of pushing a pizza using another pizza into the mouth of alien. Trash can management is also innovative. Soundtracks in game and after beating all levels are both nice. Great job!
IC Rainbow
01. May 2020 · 05:52 UTC
I'd play this in VR too.
blobo
01. May 2020 · 16:43 UTC
I solved the munchies! Haha, funny stuff. I loved the artwork, and how the game got increasingly more difficult. Nice game!
Fengol
01. May 2020 · 17:57 UTC
The text was very small and disappeared in the 2nd level before I could read it. Otherwise I loved it!
🎤 jaywoody
02. May 2020 · 07:25 UTC
@cirno Thanks for the kind comments!

@ic-rainbow Hey, that's a fun idea! It could be quite nice actually in VR with 3d-objects.

@blobo Nicely done! Thanks for the comment and playing my game!

@fengol Yeah I should've implemented a wait for user input on those intro screens and made them bigger. Time just ran out. Thanks for the feedback and cool that you liked it!
LMB
04. May 2020 · 00:45 UTC
This a very well-polished game! Nice title screen, cool graphics and sound. Simple mechanics, but they are fun for a while.
pierallard
05. May 2020 · 11:19 UTC
Haha that was funny ! Just a little glitch; at level 2, a pizza remained stick in the Alien's eye, and it can't eat anymore...
🎤 jaywoody
06. May 2020 · 14:33 UTC
@lmb Thank you so much!

@pierallard Oh man. It's still doing that? Thanks for letting me know! I'll see if I can fix it.
knason
11. May 2020 · 18:37 UTC
This was awesome! I got the pizza stuck on his nose on level 2 and 3 and then it was a bit harder to get it in his mouth but it was quite fun to try to get it fit in under. Good job on the music and a really nice looking monster! :)