epic game 10/10

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wooooow, the visuals are really great!

The art is pretty great. Kinda wish there was a food meter or something, wasnt sure when to do it. Died for some reason on day 20 and not sure what caused it

Interesting, didn't quite get it in the first 5 minutes though and a bit hard to read the font (maybe it's my old eyes or the 4k:) )

Incredible game! It's very cute and atmospheric. Love the premise, even the little opening sequence was very nicely done. The ONLY problem (for me at least), is that the font is a little hard to read at small sizes. This is a game I won't be uninstalling.

Very cool art and mood. I didn't really understand the gameplay much - I tried to lure guys around and away from the evil-seeming ones, but I wasn't clear why they died when they did, or which ones were good or bad to keep alive. Impressive design for such a short period. Nice work!

Great concept, great art, great sound, great atmosphere and great humour. V fun game!

All I've got to say is that when I lost, I didn't understand what caused the loss. Providing the player with more information about the state of the aliens may provide better gameplay. Just a suggestion though.

Didn't understand why my little guys were dying sometimes lol but I had fun during my playthrough. Also appreciated the creativity in ur character design

Very cool graphics and sweet sounddesign. The font is sometimes a bit hard to read.

THe visuals of this game are very well made! Love the concept and the backstory too!

The visuals in this game are incredible! I also like the opening text XD
However, I found the game a little to confusing to be playable. The main things that confused me were the purpose of the checkmark with the slider, why my aliens would seemingly die at random, and why I lost when I still had aliens. Also I found a small bug where you can buy food that you haven't unlocked yet just by clicking where it would be.
I think if I understood what I was doing a little more, this game looks like it would be quite fun and interesting to play

Cute game ! Really enjoyed the writing and humor, even though the font made it sometimes hard to read. Also, as other have said, would be great to understand why the creatures die and when to feed them !

Great presentation, especially the graphics! Gameplay seemed easy at first, but when the predators started appearing it became really tough to manage everything! It would be nice to have a way to quickly choose a food to put down, like selecting one by pressing a number key. Excellent work overall!

Very good visuals and super cute game all around

Love the concept and really nice art! I wasn't too fond of the out-of-bounds death, since it felt pretty challenging already. Great work everywhere else!

@fukusplutus Hmmm

@travis-hermant @dob @santriptasharma @angelo-saez @smallgaier @whismirk Thanks for the feedback! It's the aliens either falling prey to predator aliens (the snakes or simps) or them running out of bounds that causes them to die. We tried to convey this is in the couple of tutorial notes in the beginning, showing both aliens dying from eachother & from moving out of bounds, but we can see how it could have been conveyed better. Such is how it goes with game jams tho ay - thanks for playing!

great game, it needs some hotkeys for the different foods and things

@picusbgames @piturnah @fireshake Yea not sure what happened with the font, I think text mesh pro didn't quite handle it correctly & it had some unfortunate results. We woulda tried to find something more easy on the eyes if we had time but y'know, times a resource! Thanks for playing & the feedback!

@smallgaier Oo had not identified this bug - thanks for pointing it out! The way the shop worked was changed very late into development so we hadn't accounted for the locked foods being active. Thanks for pointing it out!

@armytag - yea hotkeys were on the todo list if we finished early, unfortunately we didn't get there in time but it would certainly be a very welcomed feature. Would really aid the fast paced gameplay! Thanks for the feedback!

@legavroche Yea we think we probably could have increased the bounds of the environment to be a bit larger - or at the very least had a more defined line between what was in & out of bounds. We experimented with having no death on touching the boundary but that then in turn made the game way more EASY so y'know, its all a balancing act that probably could have been pulled off a little bit better! Thanks for the feedback!

Extremely impressive outcome with such as small time frame, this is a very polished and unique game that also has a side of being increasingly addictive. the two most impressive features being the actual concept and the art design. Really nice job on making a good concept into a great game!

I really love this! All of the creatures are unique, both in their designs and their behavior. It was interesting to figure out how to get creatures to survive. I also really liked the creature sounds. Good job!

@icelight787 @drewg8 Thank y'all so much! We sampled the creature sounds from real aliens...👀

Fun little game for an alien day care simulator haha

@ducky tysm!

Super fun and love the concept! The challenge really ramps up with the ones that eat your willoughbys. All the different creature designs work really well together and make it very interesting.
Incredible visuals, sounds are lovely to listen to.

It truly does have an interesting twist on a garden maintenance game, replacing the plants by creatures. The unique visuals for every single creature makes them easily recognizable, making the game easier to understand.

My only complain is that the text is too small. That or i have to change my glasses.

Good job!

I like these kinds of little AI management games. the concept works here and makes sense. the pacing is good. sfx were hilarious. my only gripe is that the core mechanic (clicking and placing) begins to feel like a chore after awhile, especially since your level of control over the agents feels tenuous and it is difficult to really make a mistake here. binding each food to a key or number might improve the ergonomics. anyways, great work on this! also, the text is unreadable haha but you know, I don't hate it.

@acgaudette Hey thanks dude! You've hit the two biggest issues spot on as well lmao! If we had the time, we'd def have added some keybinds and fixed the font. I think text mesh pro kinda whacked up the font, and it kinda ended up headache inducing. Thanks for the play & the feedback!

Really liked the art in this game, the mechanics were fun and easy to learn. My only complaint was the font. Great job on your first LD Jam @soulcube :)