Extinction Intervention by rosypenguin

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made by rosypenguin for Ludum Dare 46 (JAM)

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Play at Itch.io: https://cosmicadventuresquad.itch.io/extinction-intervention

🦎 Summary

The dinosaurs are about to become extinct as the fated meteor torments them from above. At the same time, multiple other extinction-worthy events are happening on the globe. Can you keep the dinosaur era alive? It seems impossible, but if you click fast enough…

  • Save your dinos from extinction events!
  • Survive until present day.
  • How many dinos will you keep alive?

Works in mobile browser!

:video_game: Controls

Mouse: * Click to push back and destroy disasters

Keyboard: * R - restart

:bulb: Credits

  • Vu Ha - Code and Audio :computer: (@strega)
  • Rose Peng - Art :paintbrush: (@rosypenguin)
  • Johan Soriao - Music (@tenlki)

Ratings

Overall 772th 3.681⭐ 38🧑‍⚖️
Fun 1078th 3.389⭐ 38🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 1852th 2.957⭐ 37🧑‍⚖️
Theme 285th 4.139⭐ 38🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 158th 4.431⭐ 38🧑‍⚖️
Audio 306th 3.844⭐ 34🧑‍⚖️
Humor 366th 3.656⭐ 34🧑‍⚖️
Mood 760th 3.647⭐ 36🧑‍⚖️
Given 23🗳️ 32🗨️

Feedback

BrotherByto
20. Apr 2020 · 19:37 UTC
Nice game.

The pixel art is great and the music and sound fit very well.
Xiaphas
20. Apr 2020 · 21:52 UTC
My fingers hurt, but I love the art, sound, and music
vertry
20. Apr 2020 · 22:25 UTC
I like how you made dinousars!
Herman Chau
21. Apr 2020 · 01:25 UTC
Managed to barely keep them alive with one dinosaur remaining! So much clicking though haha
chrissx2
21. Apr 2020 · 02:03 UTC
Same thing as @xiaphas said. Can't feel my fingers, but at least dinos enjyoed life a little bit longer :P.
BradCode
21. Apr 2020 · 05:00 UTC
The dinosaurs wanted to go extinct as far as I can tell. I managed to save 1, but many did it try to stop me. Who runs towards a tsunami? really. The art is fantastic. So much frantic clicking. Nice job!
Sai Vivek Amirishetty
21. Apr 2020 · 05:15 UTC
The Art and UI is super cool and the game is really fun to play.
welby
21. Apr 2020 · 05:16 UTC
I had to stop because I was going to give myself an injury, but this game was a good clicker game.
indieaustin
21. Apr 2020 · 05:17 UTC
Really cool game concept. I think my favorite part is the art and music. Also my fingers hurt.
Michael Sjogren
21. Apr 2020 · 05:17 UTC
Incredible art , great sound and music, Smooth gameplay, nice theme!

Abit excessive in the clicking department my fingers can only handle so much.
Darylsteak
21. Apr 2020 · 05:21 UTC
I did it! First try! My finger hurts!

Everything in this entry came together nicely, the mood was great, the art was good, the sound was terrific.

But god damn my finger hurts
saucygames
21. Apr 2020 · 07:29 UTC
i was vibin to the show
koemeterion
21. Apr 2020 · 08:49 UTC
Same words from me as everyone else.
Fun, nice graphics, nice sound, nice finger pain.
Well done.
arzi
21. Apr 2020 · 09:30 UTC
Dinosaurs!

This was really fun game and a great idea! Also, dinosaurs!
ryzy27
21. Apr 2020 · 10:53 UTC
Not sure why, but I have a feeling that you guys don't like dinosaurs?

Anyway, the game was easy. I have managed to hold off your threats, no sweat.

![dino.png](///raw/eaf/6/z/315d5.png)

Wait...

Great game. Dinos look amazing, so does the rest of the assets. Music is pleasant to listen to.

Awesome! Cheers!
IC Rainbow
21. Apr 2020 · 14:03 UTC
Thank god I have two hands to click with :sweat_smile:
mike09123
21. Apr 2020 · 17:09 UTC
Really funny. Probably not a good idea to make spam clicking the only mechanic though.
Sarok
21. Apr 2020 · 17:29 UTC
Great pixel art and logo!
chelC
22. Apr 2020 · 07:13 UTC
Wow, it was fun! My hand is exhausted now though, I'm gonna get carpal tunnel from this game alone. I survived with two dinosaurs :'D
The art/music/game progression felt great.
Thibaud Ligneul
22. Apr 2020 · 20:00 UTC
I was scrolling the submissions list trying to found the game my team made, and I find yours, next to ours...
![Screenshot_2020-04-22 Ludum Dare 46 ldjam com Ludum Dare game jam.png](///raw/d5a/c2/z/3285c.png)

We have basically the same pitch but the gameplay is really different! :laughing:
There's a lot of features in your game we hoped to put in ours, but lacked time (well, we never thought of including UFO lol).
Great game, although my hand's hurting now :joy:
demontoon
23. Apr 2020 · 07:50 UTC
Super fun game ! Indeed, we have basically the same idea ahah
I love your little dinos <3
Why not try to also let people play with the right click ? In that way we can spam better :thumbsup_tone2:

Great Job !
PeachTreeOath
23. Apr 2020 · 15:03 UTC
Wow this game is so well done. You guys did an amazing job making all the enemies/disasters totally different with different threat curves. It's like a good bullet hell game where you have to analyze what's going on on the screen and quickly come up with a plan based on what you need to handle and when. I know people are mostly calling it a clicker game here but really it's a time management game like Diner Dash, but allows for more "skill" in the core gameplay if you can click faster. Also, was the music inspired by Megaman? The theme really sounded like a mashup of Dr Wily + Shadowman to me. Anywho I loved it, great job.
ysopprod
23. Apr 2020 · 18:21 UTC
I don't like games where I have to click so much, but your game was really awesome!
I love the idea and the polish of the end screen! good job
tenlki
24. Apr 2020 · 00:46 UTC
@peachtreeoath Thanks! I can hear a little of where it feels a little bit like (or you can even insert) MM2 Wily's theme, but strangely enough (according to my music layer names), the music was inspired by Chips Ahoy and Teen Titans.

...I'm not really sure if I can explain it more than that :sweat_smile:
LungTakumi
25. Apr 2020 · 16:11 UTC
Your game is similar to mine. But the disaster of your game is really greater than mine, and it hurts my finger. Overall is a impressive game.
DDRKirbyISQ
03. May 2020 · 05:36 UTC
Almost a perfect clear, woo!!! ...but got distracted by accidentally turning off the sound =( Unfortunately, it didn't seem like I could re-enable audio once turned off, oops. You can, actually, but most of the button is actually covered by the itch.io overlay, so only clicking on the bottom edge of the button works, d'oh!

Rest in peace single dino...

Also, is this a 1:1 aspect ratio? So rare to see...

I appreciated the differences in the various calamities, not just graphical but the way they behaved as well. It was nice that it's possible to click on multiple targets at the same time as well; all of it added some small elements of strategy on top of the mostly "physical" based game.
PlayToTroll
10. May 2020 · 06:03 UTC
I have a question what draw or paint program were you using for this?
velvetlobster
10. May 2020 · 06:14 UTC
I love games with dinosaurs, that must be said so I am a bit biased on this one. One of my favorites on the humor part, cause just by the look of it it already made me laugh.
velvetlobster
10. May 2020 · 06:16 UTC
![Screen Shot 2020-05-10 at 3.16.04 AM.png](///raw/0e4/e/z/33ec1.png)

I did not do a good job protecting these feelas though lolol
🎤 rosypenguin
10. May 2020 · 07:03 UTC
@playtotroll I used Aseprite for all the pixelart. You can watch a timelapse of my progress here:
https://youtu.be/3XoCi4D6d_g
PlayToTroll
10. May 2020 · 07:04 UTC
Bro must say very very very cool game but also hard and stressful but really really nice Graphics and the musik Maybe a bit too loud and the SFX sounds surely a bit too loud :)
Solah
10. May 2020 · 15:33 UTC
Wow, this game is epic XD
One of the best ideas I saw with this theme ! Now I know why the dinosaurs went extinct xD.

Very well done!