Mr. Cheesy by SAVVU
Mr. Cheesy is a game made only by one solo developer for the Ludum Dare 46 Game Jam! 🧀
Game Mechanics:
Slide down that Cheese Grater and since the theme of Ludum Dare 46 is "Keep it alive"...try not to end up on that Spaghett! 🍝
Move with left/right arrow keys or A/D buttons
Use power-ups with E
Thanks for playing "Mr. Ceesy" and a vote on the Ludum Dare page would mean the world to me. 🙏
⚫ Full Devlog on my channel available NOW!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1a3K_ozaPw
⚫ Game Trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1e1zBk3ud6o
New WebGL build with added features: * Lucky Power-Up boxes! * Mouse Traps..what else can I say..you now have mouse traps! * Backround changes slowly color after reaching specific milestones!
Mobile Exclusive Features below: * New mouse apeears when catching the previous with a mouse trap! * Fire Traps where you can burn you a$$ off! * Metal Cheese Power-Up making you invincible! * The cheese grater can break and has only 2 lines sometimes!
💙 Follow Mr. Cheesy on his brand new Facebook Page for frequent updates and further development/features: https://www.facebook.com/mrcheesy
👋 Join the Discord GameDevClub: https://discord.gg/BApYP2T
📺 I upload weekly videos on my Channel about Game Development and Devlogs (with a touch of my humour🤣)! If you love creating games or just want to spend some minutes watching a video, my channel is definitely something for you⭐:
http://bit.ly/SAVVUchannel
**NOTE: The official LD46 version is available for download on itch.io! Despite that I am still updating the game with new features you suggest and want to see. This new version will be playable as a WebGL build on itch.io!
**In addition to that I have uploaded an Exclusive Android version of the game that won't be for free! A am a solo developer and student and that's why I made this decision..to keep me alive as well as theme of LD46 says!😁 Thanks for the understanding🙏
Ratings
| Overall | 310th | 3.92⭐ | 276🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 166th | 3.964⭐ | 278🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 1172th | 3.313⭐ | 277🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 503th | 4.004⭐ | 277🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 668th | 3.995⭐ | 281🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 273th | 3.878⭐ | 273🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 65th | 4.188⭐ | 279🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 690th | 3.675⭐ | 267🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 236🗳️ | 237🗨️ |
The mouse must also be careful not to land on the plate. Nice music and graphics aswell.
After spamming A and D at the beginning of the game, I was able to fall off the cheese grater and get an infinity highscore, hehe.
Aside from this bug, the idea of the game is great and I love the music and sfx! Sometimes it seems like the player rejects my keyboard inputs and so I died because of wonky controls which is pretty sad. My "real" highscore is 4690 so I think that's pretty good :smiley:
Overall great game!
Thank you all for the support and feedback! It really warms my heart. I will rework it and hopefully it fixes all bugs
Fun little game. My suggestion is you can add some power ups to collect like shields or speed boosts.
I also love the dish animation when the Mr Cheesy gets damaged!
I think it gets repetitive super quickly, but there's definitely room for all sorts of weird powerups, gimmicks and crazy moments there.
@vulgaris Thank you for noticing and mentioning the UI elements! I really put a lot of effort in them.
@henriquecanella Thanks for all the kind words! By all you mean only me haha since I am a solo developer. 😛
I found the game a bit hard to focus on visually in full screen, perhaps pulling back the camera a bit would help. Otherwise fantastic entry!
@dsn I couldn't have a better support than this! You made me sooo happy.🥳
@jin9310 Awesome I am so amazed you watched my progress over the last days! Thank you really really very much!😍
@superpatch hahaha so awesome to hear you guys saying Mr. Cheesy! I don't know why but I love it. Huge Thanks ⭐
@ryannielson I have to thank you so much for that kind words! Maybe it is hard to focus because of the fast moving pixel art? I will try movingt he camera back a bit! Great suggestion. 🙏
@hruy-gashaw 🧀🧀🧀
@somethang123 That's a great idea of pushing the mouse back! This could be implemented when I introduce the jump mechanic. All 3 lines will have an obstacle that slow down the mouse!🐭
@banzi haha so happy you likes the spaghetti idea! Thank you so much. 🍝
Very distinct, pleasurable aesthetics!
I smiled through the whole game, thank you for that. :D
@trexxak Thank you so much for the feedback. You made me smile as well! Great Highscore!😍
@daltonleavey Thanks for noticing the details! I am already working on power ups and a jump function as well.😁
@the1 And Mr.Cheesy loves you back.😘
@mantaraytv-games That really makes me happy too! Glad you likd that funny expressions. 🧀
@pixelcrustpunk You just win my heart! 💖
@siryakko Not bad at all! Thanks for playing and sharing your score!😁
@john-snyder hahaha that Gouda joke got me good! Thank you!🧀
@nillard Wnat such a high score? I have to go back and check my own now! I will make the hitbox smaller at the half of Mr. Cheesy. 🤗
The controls have a little lag, and more mechanics could be nice to keep the interest through the game, but it is a really nice entry and really polished !
@dodormeur Working on the mechanics to make them even better! A jump feature will be introduced as well! Thank you.🙏
@x-c Your feedback is much appreciated.😁
@miradore hahaha sooo happy a French person like you loved Mr. Cheesy! Means so much to me.🧀
@halflemonstudios Thank you so so much! More content is on it's way.🥳
@purrseus True the hitbox will be half as big. That's a great highscore I am impressed.😍
the game feels really polished and the music and sound effects are great.
@ahistyap Thank you for appreciating me working alone! This means so much to me.💖
@linluk Awesome then stay tuned until I realease the final mobile version! You can play whanever you want!💎
@stefan-jovanovic Glad you enjoyed it means a lot!🧀
Well though through and animations and planning has really made it a great game!
Great job!!!
@kostasvs thank you so much appreciate the support!🙏
Thank you so much for the great feedback!
Nice game!
@emicb Thank you so much for playing and your feedback!🤗
@pomelouncia Much appreciated and yes ina new version I have already adjusted the triggers!😁
Art is great, music and sfx fit the theme.
Sometimes when taking a turn Mr. Cheesy would get grated, even though he wasn't really touching holes from the path he was previously at. Colliders could be a bit more forgiving :)
Cheers!
@artyom-volkov Thanks a lot! Your feedback is much apprecuated!🙏
@curleyrach You are the first to mention the diagonal angle of the game! Thank you so much!😁
@ryzy27 Made them more forgiving as other players saud the same! Thank you sor the great feedback! 🙏
@naca Thank you very much for mentioning this!⭐
@notan-lemon haha seems like the pasta was the highlight of the game! This means so much to me!🍝
There isn't much to add or criticize in this case as it's simple but polished :)
Though it would have been nice if you added an html version. I guess that for a simple 2D game it would be fitting
I don't understand why this doesn't have a web build!
@sirredo Hola Muchas gracias! 🙏
@zaiuspanda Thank you for the great feedback!😍
@cheesepencil Thank you haha your name is aswesome!🧀 The web build (as a better version of the game will be available today)! Stay tuned!
@trigueiro HTML is going to be available today. It will be a better version of the game I continue working on! Next week I will also release a better version for mobile! 💖
I met no bugs or strange behavior. Very impressive for a solo game!
It's really nice to see such a finished and polished game within a Jam. Well done!
@fabula-rasa Powerups as well as traps are under construction right now! I will have a new release very soon. Thanks for the amazing feedback🙏
@albertnez This mreally means a lot! And I am so glad you loved the game!💖
@jmad Thanks for the kind words! You are right I need to have more patterns. They will be introduced with even more trap styles in the new verion of the game for HTML and Mobile.🧀
Like others have said, solid idea. Can't wait for you to expand. Nice touch with the youtube videos. Well polished game by way of menus, tutorials, links to social media, etc. That mouse was ready to capitalize on my every mistake and it added a lot of tension. The Perspective was surprisingly easy to grasp and the gameplay intuitive, love the spaghetti collecting the cheese when you take damage, nice touch. You have a good production quality all around, and a good social media presence. People could learn a lot from you, keep it up and I expect good things from your 'studio' I wish you all the best in your game development endeavors!
@feingehacktes I will work on it since I have never released for MAC and don't actually know if there is something special needed!😝
@kaappis Thanks a lot for the support! If you follow the itch.io page I will announce there the mobile release!🧀
@galactic-chimp Thank you very much for the great feedback!🙏
@rodrigo-castro haha that ski game must have been great for sure! Thank you!🧀
@solah I am so happy you had a great time playing with Mr. Cheesy!🐭
@monkeydvrus WoooW now that's a Highsore! Thats even diffivult for me haha really well done!🔥
Great little game for the jam. Love the humor, especially the salad that collects cheese gratings! I did get bored quickly, maybe something else to collect while sliding might make it feel slightly better. - S
I really liked it :)
@finnhax Thanks for the encouraging words! I thought about having left and right buttons on mobile and no swipe controls since more features will be added such as buttons that throw a mouse trap behind you! What do you think about that?🐭🙏
I got 3239 on my first play... I think it was a little too easy. I'd like to see either some levels, so there's a goal to reach, or for the game to get increasingly faster and more difficult. (I think it _may_ have been getting faster, but if so I think that needs to ramp up a bit quicker)
Graphics and sound were great.
Well done!
@willypa haha now that you say it you are right! Never thought of it before!🧀
@garys Thank you! Your score is really high! I will increase the difficulty faster and I am also planning in introducing new obstcles and a mouse trap that you can throw behond you just like mario carts!
@oddsocks Thank you so so much for playing Mr.Cheesy together with your daughter! You can give her my thanks as well!🙏
I loved the art style of your game, it is a well crafted pixel art !
Almost everything is excellent, except the collisions, indeed, I was a bit frustated, because sometimes I was hit on my cheese head, whereas I was sure that I dodged well. I think that it might due to the isometric view which prevented me to be accurate at 100%.
But, overall very nice work !
I think I did kind of good! The feeling when you go over the holes is incredibly awful :D (it's like experiencing the thing for real)
If you pursue post-jam, I'd maybe round off the floating point for the scroll position, so the 'grater' slider is crisper, and maybe some animations of the mouse chowing down on the hapless Mr Cheesy.
The mouse overtook once I 'died' in the version I downloaded, which was a bit dissapointing.
Top marks for humour though, especially the pasta plate collecting the grated remains of Mr Cheesy. Brutal.
Rafal from 4Boa Team
I think that one way to evolve the concept is have the rat go down with you in the cheese grater as in a race. Placing rat traps and other obstacles with different effects to stop the rat maybe would be interesting.
@daria-toni Thank you so much for liking the game as it is! I have added new things in the updated WebGL version such as new backrounds, poweer ups and mousetraps! Fell free to check tyhem out! 🐭
@jojopalambas hahaha so you better avoid being grated! That highscore is top well done and thank you!😍
@johnnysix Thank you very much for your kind words! I will definitely work on the game post game jam and add new features in the WebGL version I uploaded yesterday! 💎
@morriekken Glad you had a great time playing and that you liked that kind of humor haha! Thank you!🙏
@ivan-garcia-filho That's an insane idea having Mr. Cessy melt down haha! I definitie;y find a way to implement it soon! 🔥
@jonathan-lorenz Neve thought about the red being blodd haha but yeah you are right now I see everything coming together! Thank you very very much for playing! 💖
This is awesome. The music is so good! and the art is very cute. I love the mouse. Pretty fun and simple game! There is not much else to say haha I would have loved to be able to jump or maybe even jump between graters or like have a transition between levels where you do a dramatic jump from one grater to another. Anyway very cool thanks!
I think I may have found a bug (or maybe it is a feature :wink: ) Sometimes the mouse stayed on the wrong lane as seen in the picture. I found I could somewhat force this if I quickly changed lanes repeatedly when I had clear path forcing the mouse to stay on different lane. We would only be back to the same lane as me if I went to the side lane that he is. For example, in the picture I share: if I keep on the top 2 lanes the mouse will never hit me. But If i go 2 times down then I will be back on the same lane.
@trigueiro haha I knew somwone would call out that bug! (Nope not a feature, but it could🤣)! I have already found a solution to this and in the next update it should be fine! Before that the mouse could fall from the grater haha so it is an improvement. Thank you for the detailed feedback!💖
@panagiotis-iatrou Thank you so much φίλε μου χαιρετίσματα! 👋
@rodrigo-denubila this means a lot appreciate that! 💎
Great character work.
Music and sound are great as well!
@dankar So glad you enjoyed playing!👍
@disperse Thank you very much for mentioning that I did it on my own! This is very much appreciated!💖
@eran-haas I am so happy that this idea is well received! Thank you!😍
@23edsa Thank you for the feedback! I guess you played the browser version with the new Bonus Boxes! I desogned them that way in order to introduce over the next days even more power ups and not just the mouse trap! Stay tuned!😁
@andidebob I really appreciate that thank you very very much!🧀
@shakedimus I have to thank you and your girlfriend very very much! Mr. Cheesy loves you both too! 💖
@karcode Sorry you didn't like Mr. Cheesy being eaten! In the new Update twith the mouse trap you can take you revenge by placing mouse traps! Thank you for th feeedback!🙏
@evert Thanks a lot! I was playing around with the difficulty a lot and it looks like it needs more adjustments!⭐
@1punnyguy44 This meas realy a lot and I have to thank you! I am definitely planning in udpating the game frequently and also port it to mobile with a lot of special extras!🔥
This is a really funny game! The idea is simple and mindblowing!
Additional respect for music. Awesome!
It's kinda strange, but somehow I couldn't find much to complain about this one, overall its just really solid.
Great work!
I like the game, the idea is good and the movement feels snappy. I only think that there isn't much to explore in your game. Perhaps a simple story or changing enemies. You've mentioned achievements and leaderboards, that would improve on the game.
Music and sound effects are perfect for this style. :musical_note: So are graphical assets. :crayon:
Good stuff! :slight_smile:
@justmars Sooo glad you liked everything abot Mr.Cheesy! I am very grateful for that! Stay tuned the the mobile release very soon!💙
@sprotex Thank you so so much! I am so happy about your feedback and your interest in the game! Spoiler Alert: In the next vesion that will be available for Android one addition will be a damaged sprite for Mr.Cheesy when having under 50% of life. In addition to that every time you catch the mouse, a new and different coloured one will appear to chase you! Much more soon...🧀🐭
Here's my score:
I think it's great the track pieces are preset and not absolutely random, to make the game more fair and the "skill" factor can be higher by learning the patterns. Changing the lane was sometimes a bit iffy around the holes, and I think I got the hit effect when just the tail-end (behind?) of the player was ever so slightly grazing the grater holes.
Music fits the game perfectly too, and I didn't notice anything odd in the sound effects which means they worked perfectly as well :) Nice and simple jam game!
Graphics and sound is also very good.
Keep up the good work.
@hegemege I thought a lot about having the traps at random pisitions but finally I decided to have patterns! Thank you for noticing that! This gives me more room to create more patterns with different traps in the future (I implement them in the mobile release first)! As for tyhe trap power-up icon T guess you are right..especially when there will be more power-ups and you have to see what you got from the box! I will test other positions for it! Appreciate your well written feedback very very much. Thank you!🙏
@kaisean-games Wait for the mobile update! A lot of extra gameplay and features will be available! Thanks a lot🙏
Had fun playing it a couple times and got a 3000 something highscore.
I saw there's a new build with additions to gameplay (and maybe interaction with the mouse, which was a bit lacking) and I'm sure it will add to replayability, just wanted to rate and comment with only the jam version in mind.
It's obviously very innovative and the idea of a cheese slice sliding down a grater and risking being used on spagetthi is deliciously silly and fun.
I hope it's sucessful in mobile!
@anuradha Much apprecyated feedback! Well yes in the new version that will also be available on mobile I have adjusted the difficulty and collision detection! With more obstacles that I am going to introduce it will be hopefully balanced! 🥳
@nathalia-hohl Thank you very very much for voting based on the Jam version! Indeed in this version the hitbox is a bit bigger than it should be! The new version is way better and improved as it also features power-ups! Your score is really high Well done and thank you for playing!🙏
@mental-inaction I thought about the same about the life! I may increase the amount you get or even introduce a new item for better healt restoration! Thanks a lot!😁
@khaoz-fang haha thank you very much! So glad you liked the pixel art!⭐
I also watched your youtube video on how to make.. nice man!
my score is 3435 first try ! I will replay this later!
@tommy So glad to hear that! It really means so much to me!🙏
@taran-unraveler Apprecyate the feedback! I am so close in releasing the mobile version and the touch controls there are so much better and it feels awesome! Stay tuned for that!🧀
@mharring Thank you very very much for the kind words! Stay tuned for the mobile version where the addicition gets real with all the new stuff I have added! On the FB page I have listed in the description you can find everything! 🥳
@gameovermexico Much appreaciated! Thank you very much!🔥
Fun game, well done. Awesome music!
Nice music track, is this VRC6 or something? The pitch bends are really great.
@darkfrost Thank you for appreciating the pasta! In the next update there will be a new food available as well as other amazing features and a mobile release!💎
@turritom You are totally right! I am tryong to have an online Highscore Leaderboard for itch.io and the mobile release will be announced in the next couple of days on the official Mr. Cheesy Facebook page:
You can find it here: https://www.facebook.com/mrcheesy 🧀
@bkmld Thank you very very much!🙏
@starerik Haha so glad you liked it a lot! Thanks!🔥
@nick-biglin That's awesme to hear! Mr. Cheesy loves you back!😍
@ddrkirbyisq That Highscore is for sure one of the greatest here! Really well done!🐭
@matootsy Thank you for the very kind words! You will love the next update and the mobile release for sure! If you managed to keep Mr. Cheesy alive from being grated and eaten from the mouse it must be in the theme haha! 🧀
@rongo-matane Thanks for noticing the perspective! It was not only a visual choice but a functional as well since for the movement I only unse physics (gravity + friction materials + rigidbody2D)! I mention all of the development process in the devlog video😋
@kjscott Thank you for the feedback! A lot of variations will be available in the mobile version with new traps and power-ups! The minor bug is fixed!👍
Simple yet addictive nice tunes at background and last but not least a little humour
great work!
@lazzydev72 Thanks a lot! I am sure you can do better!😋
@beforeeternity @flynn @rewzu @hadesfury Thank you very much guys for the awesome feedback!🧀
@mlkvr Your feedback is much appreciated thank you! I am sure you will love the mobile version with all the added features!😍
@mineiwik It's better than Subway Surfers! Thank you bro!😎
@pietptr In the next update I will add some new food to get grated on!🧀
@naamed True I can add soo many new stuff in this game and I definitely will! The mobile version already has a lot of updates!💙
This game is stunning...
Animations are awesome, the mouse is so cute :mouse:
Very good first entry !
I'm not reading over everyone's responses so some of this stuff may be repeated:
- Really good job with graphics! I really liked the color changing background; I felt that it showed off your attention to detail. One thing I might recommend, though, is some sort of tween or interframe between your motions and the mouse's motions. While I think that it's necessary from a gameplay perspective for motion to be instantaneous in an infinite runner, I think it would vastly improve the feel of the game. I noticed you made the cheese leave a skid mark whenever it moved to another column, but I think that a constant trail of cheese behind the player would suffice for making the transitions seem smoother.
- I didn't have much problem with the controls or how the game felt. It all felt pretty responsive when paired with the audio and visual effects. Good job!
- Some of the audio didn't really gel with the background music in my opinion. It seemed like there were two different styles, one of which was 8-bit and the other which seemed fragmented from it with the more realistic sound effects you used. If you found some way to merge the two I would've given you a full 5 stars for audio.
- More powerups!
Nice job with your entry!
@thedancingyouth Thank you very very much! A lot of new updates, power-ups and variations are already available in the mobile version! Feel free to check it out!🤩
@hlo-world This meas very much appreciate that!🙏
@r3d3r Thanks a lot! More content is already available on Android! Feel free to give it a try!🤗
@joe40001 Now the mousetrap gives you more points, a new mouse appears and you a new power-up is also available! All of this in the mobile version!💎
@franciszek-pyrc Thanks for the feedback! Appreciate that!🐭
@acr515 Thank you for the detailed feedback! It means a lot and I appreciate your time!
* A trail is already there and I thought maybe leaving a skid mark could make the movement even more exciting!
As for the mouse it currently has a slower response to the movement of Mr.Cheese to increase the feeling of
being actually followed.
* Glad the controls are smooth!
* That's right I will play a little bit more in Audacity haha!
* More Power-Ups, Traps, just 2 lines of the grater at some point and different coloured mice all available on
Android!
Well done on your Google Play Store publication! All the best!
The idea is great haha, the graphics are cute and the animation sprites look nice :)
Also the spagetthi scenes, made me laugh lol.
I can magine this to be a succesful mobile game (I played the HTML Version, didn't experiecne any bugs)
However, I would try to add a lot more features to keep the game exciting :) like maybe add a jump that you have to recharge to use it or something like that :)
Good job on finsihing your game and best of luck for future development :D
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The only two things I can nitpick on for me was that the game was a little easy, and there are too few powerups in the web version, although I see the latter was fixed in the mobile version.
All in all, i'd say it's a simple yet good entry.
Some ideas to develop on for android:
- Add some more power-ups with rarity of finding those powerups(mouse trap: found commonly, Super slow mode: rare and many more)
- Add moving objects such as other mice running around the screen or a human hand cleaning the lanes
Otherwise it was a fabulous entry!