Meal to Kill by spidamoo
Some Tips
There is a language switch on the start screen! Make sure to select English if you don't understand Russian :)
The web version is known to have minor issues with sound and mouse pointer. Downloadable is recommended.
The Plot
You are the royal taster! Your job is to keep the king alive. Make sure that he can eat what he wants, but not something that is dangerous or poisoned or just something he does not feel like eating.
The Dev Notes
This time around we tried to make a simple small game but give it as much polish as we could in the limited time. The only game mechanic is dead simple but our game has nice visual and sound design!
![2020-04-20 23-36-43.flv<em>snapshot</em>05.36<em>[2020.04.20</em>23.49.07].png](/game/img?e=LD46&gid=62279&u=raw/2bd/d1/z/2ea8e.png)
| Youtube | https://github.com/spidamoo/ld46 |
| Youtube | https://spidamoo.itch.io/meal-to-kill |
| Youtube | https://spidamoo.itch.io/meal-to-kill |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/meal-to-kill |
Ratings
| Overall | 488th | 3.819⭐ | 49🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 368th | 3.777⭐ | 49🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 981th | 3.402⭐ | 48🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 697th | 3.902⭐ | 48🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 762th | 3.935⭐ | 48🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 314th | 3.837⭐ | 48🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 54th | 4.207⭐ | 48🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 679th | 3.682⭐ | 46🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 17🗳️ | 36🗨️ |
The Ta Ta Ta Ta sounds get annoying relatively quickly and is unfortunate since the music is so good.
Overall, pretty solid and intuitive game.
Strenghts :
- Graphics and audio make for a game full of personality
- Simple, straightforward gameplay
Possible improvements :
- Sometimes the dishes are difficult to see against the background
All in all, great job !
See you later comrades!
Simple control but hard to understand what the king can eat.
Need a small tutorial about food.
JG "Meal to Kill" team 🤗
Just, I had to retry 5 or 6 times de last level to understand what to do.
Oh and the game over sequence scared me XD
Fun game. Simple gameplay does not spoil the impression. Beautiful visual style.
I love the talking sounds! I don't know if it's just gibberish or actually russian, but to me it sounded like fun gibberish, and gave the king loads of character! That every level had it's own rules made it more varied, however the levels seemed to change too much based on the rules, which made it quite obvious what to avoid. If, say, there were fewer items but the same every time, then a big change would have to make you think more. Now, on the drink level it was mostly just drinks, which made it very easy to remove the other items. Still though, it was fun that you changed it up!
The music is great! The sound effects were sometimes a little too loud, causing clipping but I still liked them and they fit the game really well.
A tip for the fututre: I know that you guys are russian, but I think that a large majority of your players will want the game in english, so maybe you should default to that and just have a russian option? I am biased though since I don't speak russian haha.
Well done! I really like it.
also nice game over screen
altough i think the progress bar was a bit shitty if you know what i mean