Save The Cake by memoryFloater
Description
Everybody loves Strawberry Cake and that includes Sleems. Keep your cake alive by protecting it from almost endless waves of Sleems. While playing you collect coins which you can use to buy upgrades.

How To Play
Simply Tap Sleems with your Mouse or Touch them if you are playing on a Smartphone. If all pieces of your cake were stolen you can buy upgrades and retry.

Development
This was my first Ludum Dare. Everything was completely created by myself and from scratch. A Special Thanks goes to finefin who provided the great song.
Tools
- Unity
- Aseprite
- Bfxr
- Gimp
Follow Me
In case I decide to update or release the game post jam. memoryfloater
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| Youtube | https://memoryfloater.itch.io/save-the-cake |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/save-the-cake |
Ratings
| Overall | 685th | 3.717⭐ | 32🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 127th | 4.032⭐ | 33🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 1867th | 2.95⭐ | 32🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 1541th | 3.516⭐ | 33🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 1513th | 3.403⭐ | 33🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 372th | 3.645⭐ | 33🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 1079th | 3.467⭐ | 32🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 29🗳️ | 22🗨️ |
Very nice use of effects like the screenshake, sound effects, and coins popping out. Definitely a fun experience!
Only criticism I could possibly think of would be to randomise the movement a little more and keep thm constantly moving. Once I got down to one piece of cake, it was really easy to keep it on screen since I knew which Sleems not to kill to carry it back to the middle. Because of this, I managed to get through waves 15-22 purely from guiding the cake around the screen and spam clicking all the stationary Sleems. Adding randomisation would make this more difficult and the Sleems continuing to move would make it harder to spot where the final piece is.
Absolutely amazing game though and incredibly impressive for a solo effort from scratch! Has the scope to be expanded as well with more upgrades and enemies and possibly variations with the waves like boss waves. Awesome game! Really loved it! Well done! Wonder if anyone can beat my longest run? :tongue:

* I have to admit, the "???" powerup is just a money sink that does nothing. xD Had to scratch a rather complex power here (that allowed you to place bombs) but didn't want to ruin the UI layout.
* Yes you can strategically not target certain Sleems so they will carry the cake back. I figured it is a good "error" to keep in the game because it makes the player feel like he "found a trick to win easily". I guess you could say it's a mechanic the player has to learn to become good at the game.
* Max Wave is 29 if you beat that I'll definitely be amazed. Couldn't do it myself.
* A lot of additional enemies were scratched due to time and because I wanted to focus on delivering a robust game. Examples:
* Summoner Sleem: Walks into view, then stops. Summons a bunch of smaller Sleems directly on the cake if not defeated in time.
* Huge Sleem (Boss): Camera zooms out and you see a the Huge Boss coming in with a lot of health.
* Pufferfish Sleem: Cant be hurt when he has his thorns out.
* Orange Sleem: If a Red Sleem (the quick ones) touches a Yellow Sleem (the strong ones) by accident they merge into a Orange Sleem who is quick and strong.
* Boost Sleem: Stops walking in certain intervals to cast a boosts on other Sleems (health or speed).
* ...and a lot more
I might expand the game into an actual app if it's well recieved. :)
That was awesome! I really love games that start slow but absolutely escalate over time.
Spent almost 10 minutes on wave 29 before I lost and now I can't feel my index finger anymore but it was totally worth it.
The only problem I had - as I played on pc and not mobile - was that I lost sight of my cursor about half the time on later waves. Not that it was a problem at all since there weren't any free spaces without enemies left anyways. But changing the cursor to some icon with an easily noticeable color (e.g. red or pink) on top of all those white sleems would help very much.
Very good entry!
Piece of Cake !!! I beat the game !!! And my LeftClick finger too ^^
Man... more than 10mins of Crazy clicking on lvl29 and no more enemies, no lvl30, no end, just the one piece of cake left... :sob:
If it didn't hurt :fire: so much :fire: , right now I do it again :thumbsup:
So simple and so addictive ! GG guys !
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3Tl-v0Vybo