Egg Mother - Keep It Alive! by Barrier
You are a mother cat-like creature and your job is to protect your egg! Everybody wants to eat your egg. Squash the roaches before they get hungry and take a bite out of your egg. Distract the beaky bird creautres so they chase you instead of the egg. Your only weapon is your speed.
Use the mouse to move and press LMB to dash.
Good Luck!
PS if you really can't keep it alive and want to finish press "i" for invulnerability cheat.
https://barrierx.itch.io/ldjam46-egg-mother-keep-it-alive
Squish roaches

Before they break your egg

Distract birds and lead them away from the egg

Full playthrough video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SCB2omy3M0
Ratings
| Overall | 334th | 3.629⭐ | 33🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 194th | 3.726⭐ | 33🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 753th | 3.016⭐ | 33🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 183th | 4.032⭐ | 33🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 484th | 3.5⭐ | 33🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 289th | 3.419⭐ | 33🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 107th | 3.71⭐ | 33🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 40🗳️ | 35🗨️ |
Nice Work
Nice game, the birds are fun and hard to deal with. Good Job !
(And it's super cute !)
* The birds turn very quickly, I got chomped just by dashing into theirs backs sometimes.
* I like the sound effects: the way birds laugh as they sneak up on the egg and their beak sounds are nice.
* It would be nice to be able to predict when the birds were going to dash. Some visual or audio indicator there would help.
* The little flip turning animation is great.
Funny game, the difficulty is well balanced, that's cute and nice! Good job :)
Refreshing new take, with a twist. I like! :thumbsup:
I feel like squashing the bugs could turn into some sort of combo system somehow. Like killing one allows you to leap to another nearby or something to rack up some sort of score multiplier. Something to think about!
It was very fun, maybe check the controls and make them a bit smoother.
I like it so much that I didn't mind getting reminded of the cats movie.
Also, I appreciated how the bug color indicated each bug's intent. It was a good way to signal which bugs were a threat and which weren't. Though, even when they weren't being aggressive, I was always suspicious they might turn. (Innocent little green bugs... I'm looking at you.)
The scale of difficulty between the bird (who you could do nothing about but distract) and the other bugs was a bit stark. It may have been fun to have an enemy that you could still squash, but you had to approach from a certain angle, like the bird. That really isn't essential though.
Overall, good game. Thanks for sharing
I hate that damn bird tho (but in a fun way)
I like the funny sound effects ... except that the 'agitated bird creature' one plays _constantly_.
This has already been mentioned, but still: Also props for putting an accessibility feature ('i') in a jam game!
I see it was a good idea to include the invincibility cheat.
And yes this "cat" lays eggs!
It's technically not a cat, its an alien cat like creature from a different planet, but there was not enough time to explore the whole setting ;)