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Don't Kill Gil by webthingee

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made by webthingee for Ludum Dare 46 (JAM)

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Keep your stupid fancy goldfish alive, long enough to give him a full, happy life. But the universe has it out for little Gilbert! Rack up happiness before he dies from hunger, bad hygiene, or boredom. Most exciting game ever!

How to Play

  • Win when the happiness meter is full (10 smilies)
  • Lose when hunger or hygiene runs out (3 strikes)
  • Use mouse or touch screen to drag cards
  • Play 2 cards per turn by dragging them to the middle play area
  • To end your turn, discard 1 card to the right

Play Options

Game Art

Screenshot 2020-04-19 22.49.17.png

The Team

Sean Lange // Marissa Epstein // Wes Rulvacaba // Johnny Mercuri // Matt Levine

Jam Details

  • Completed in under 72 hours, with original graphics and sound
  • Theme: Keep It Alive
  • Game Engine: Unity
  • Graphics: Photoshop
  • Original sound and music

We would really appreciate if you tried it out and gave us a rating. Thanks!

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Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/dont-kill-gil

Ratings

Overall 289th 3.935⭐ 94🧑‍⚖️
Fun 570th 3.652⭐ 94🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 481th 3.679⭐ 94🧑‍⚖️
Theme 67th 4.326⭐ 94🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 628th 4.022⭐ 95🧑‍⚖️
Audio 323th 3.828⭐ 92🧑‍⚖️
Humor 443th 3.567⭐ 92🧑‍⚖️
Mood 664th 3.689⭐ 92🧑‍⚖️
Given 14🗳️ 11🗨️

Feedback

PonyPen
20. Apr 2020 · 23:49 UTC
I really love the look of this game and I wanted to keep little Gil happy <3
Quincy9000
20. Apr 2020 · 23:50 UTC
Amazing style! Pixel art is my favorite.
Billnotic
20. Apr 2020 · 23:52 UTC
The sound effects feel very out of place, and the gameplay lacks variety, but I still enjoyed the short time I played it.
Chorlo
20. Apr 2020 · 23:52 UTC
Awesome. Was really nice to play. That -8 hurts :-(
Edvard Sandquist
20. Apr 2020 · 23:53 UTC
Its fun and all but could use some more cards and more features. Otherwise great game!
PolyOrbit Studio
20. Apr 2020 · 23:55 UTC
I think i killed Gilbert ! It's a pretty good game and i got scared by the "hey fishy" at the start
SaadSirius
20. Apr 2020 · 23:55 UTC
Amazing art,fun game play took me a while to understand whats going on but the game play was fun i realize this could be a good mobile game,good luck
MomoLala23
20. Apr 2020 · 23:56 UTC
Awesome game. Dragging cards sometime glitch to the middle of the screen, however: GREAT music GREAT art and GREAT concept. It actually got several loud laughts out of me.
Gus the Shark
20. Apr 2020 · 23:57 UTC
The sound effects are hilarious, music is good too! I also like Gil. For some reason I could not seem to be able to discard cards by dragging right, instead I had to move them up over the played cards. I wish there were more types of cards and I would personally reduce that -8 to a -4 or -5. Good job overall, the theme was well incorporated. :thumbsup:
lucisaurus
20. Apr 2020 · 23:58 UTC
oh noooo I killed Gil! :( so sorry! This is such a great concept, I love how you could play a sort of tamagotchi game but with cards! great mechanics and great fun. Cute graphics and sound was spot on for the mood of the game. Well done, I'm glad I could play it! :D the only thing I found was that when dragging a card to discard it, it was getting stuck in the fish bowl so had to move the card around the edge of the game window to discard it
MeHigh
20. Apr 2020 · 23:58 UTC
Nice to see a card game in here!
Chez3
20. Apr 2020 · 23:59 UTC
Great little card game. Only taking one card with you to the next round put an interesting twist on it that made me really contemplate the most necessary card in my hand each round.
Lawnchair Society
21. Apr 2020 · 00:01 UTC
This was 100% what I was looking for. The game is easy to pick up but hard to really master. My hat's off to you!
damian1ilin
21. Apr 2020 · 00:01 UTC
Nice game! Fun and simple mechanics. one think I noticed is that the music was too high by default (web), besides that I liked it, 10/10.

also, please check out my game: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/the-last-hope-1
KayaCarlton
21. Apr 2020 · 00:01 UTC
I really like your game ! Love the art and the gameplay, I made Gil happy he's so cute :D
SageWare
21. Apr 2020 · 00:02 UTC
I loved Gilbert, he's so cute. I won in the first try, but it wasn't always easy. I got a few cards that took out a lot of Gil's happiness. This game was so relaxing with great sound work too.
triggthediscovery
21. Apr 2020 · 00:11 UTC
It's cute, and I love the music. The gameplay would have benefited from being a bit more forgiving, my first run was unwinnable because of bad luck, which was unfortunate. I liked the idea of card counting (I assume the deck is always the same set of cards), it added an interesting risk vs reward layer which helped.
Jay Berlin
21. Apr 2020 · 00:12 UTC
Really fun card game. I had the same idea about keeping fish alive! Really liked the play 2, discard 1 mechanics as it forces you to prioritize. I think I'd add a little more padding for the food and dirty meters (maybe increase each by 1 or 2 at most) since if you already have one down, a little bad luck on the next card can knock you out. I could see where that would provide a lot of challenge, but I kinda wanted to keep playing the game when one knocked me out like that. Over all though, I really had fun playing this game, and I hope you keep working on it. I'd love to see you make more humorous effect cards.
ClaytonRumley
21. Apr 2020 · 00:26 UTC
Fun little game. That stupid favourite plant kept dying and ruining his day. I did come across one bug where if you took a card that you had put into the play area and dragged to the discard slot the game would get hung up. Otherwise great job on this theme! Love the artwork!
dillonbecker
21. Apr 2020 · 01:21 UTC
That was pretty fun! I went down the goldfish path too. We should start a list of all the goldfish entries lol. The mood was super chill and relaxing. I thought for sure I was going to win no problem when suddenly a 2 card showed up and ruined everything. Will definitely be playing this some more though. Would love to see it expanded on (different settings/tanks, music, fish; really lean into the atmosphere).
Bloody_xDlol
21. Apr 2020 · 01:46 UTC
Great game and really fun.
but i somehow broke it by placing two cards then taking one of them and discarding it (couldn't do anything after that).
i Really like those card games that force you to take hard decisions. Great Work!!
Gno Evenimente
21. Apr 2020 · 02:38 UTC
Very easy game. Great presentation across the board. There is soem bizzare behaviour sometimes when drawing cards.
JasonD
21. Apr 2020 · 03:41 UTC
Overall aesthetic is really nice! Would have loved some animations for the fish, though.

I didn't feel like the cards in play gave me particularly meaningful decisions to make.
chromableedstudios
21. Apr 2020 · 04:32 UTC
Nice graphics, well executed concept. If you guys wrote the music too you nailed it--even if not a good selection for the vibe.
dummydojo
21. Apr 2020 · 05:25 UTC
I like the overall gameplay. very unique for a game about taking care of a fish! I would suggest to add some more game feel sounds and visuals. like discarding didn't feel like discarding, so I was unaware what was going on at the beginning. love the pixel art, but would like to see some animation with it to make it feel alive! great work!
Bonyok77
21. Apr 2020 · 06:21 UTC
the cards are glitchy sometimes but it doesn't matter because it's fun to play :P
Random Thoughts
21. Apr 2020 · 06:29 UTC
![Untitled.png](///raw/d86/21/z/3122a.png)
I DID IT! I MADE HIM HAPPY!
Not sure if this is a bug, but sometimes when I'm dragging a card and it goes over another card, it will snap and lock to the middle of the screen. Also don't really see whats the point of the happy splash card that adds 0 happiness for little gil.
Otherwise a really fun card game though. I ESPECIALLY like the victory music. That, combined with gil's smile makes it all worthwhile
21. Apr 2020 · 06:42 UTC
GILBERT NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
21. Apr 2020 · 07:06 UTC
Cute game! I wish there was a bit more strategy involved.
Horus
21. Apr 2020 · 07:11 UTC
Game looks nice! It feels like a form of solitaire, game design wise I feel like it's a bit lacking, but you've captured the atmosphere well. Overall I like it, however I think it is lacking something that makes it 'fun' perhaps thats difficulty, maybe it's complexity, maybe it's content or pacing. But it feels like it's almooooost there.
Flamus
21. Apr 2020 · 08:19 UTC
Gilbert is so happy !!! amazing entry, very cool design and execution of a well planned game. Maybe some animations are missing while you are looking through cards, but for a LD game its really no problem, feels soo nostalgic and relaxing! Congrats!
mirsakka
21. Apr 2020 · 10:08 UTC
I don't think he is stupid. :( Cute graphics and atmosphere! I think it glitched or something though because I couldn't move the cards or anything after some draggings.
sledzik
21. Apr 2020 · 10:21 UTC
I was 1 happines away then plant died but beside this cool game
taran.unraveler
21. Apr 2020 · 12:37 UTC
This is a great game. It happened to me that I lost just after the first turn as the poor Gilbert died of hunger but I just had no card to help me. Beside that, again, this is a great game! Well done! Enjoyed playing it a lot!
Effarek
21. Apr 2020 · 13:54 UTC
Funny game but might be very frustrating because of the randomness of the cards
Purrseus
21. Apr 2020 · 15:04 UTC
I especially love the music! Pure bliss.
victor_reiner
21. Apr 2020 · 16:27 UTC
It's so amazing!
rob1221dev
21. Apr 2020 · 22:32 UTC
It's just a plant Gilbert, no need to be so sad.
kjscott
21. Apr 2020 · 23:49 UTC
There was a glitch I don't think was mentioned was with the settings menu, all the volume sliders were set to zero when I first started but audio was playing. When I first started sliding one to the right you could instantly hear the volume go down then slowly go up as it moved across. Another audio glitch was if you clicked Main Menu from the settings window it restarted the audio but if you clicked close it just carried out. You can probably just ditch the main menu option there.

Other than that, wonderful little game. Loved the audio, the sad french le sigh, and the game play was interesting as I got into it. If I got a fart on the previous round I was hoping that I got something to clean the water and didn't have something really bad drawn against me that I would lose before I had a chance.
tonegas
22. Apr 2020 · 08:13 UTC
Yes It is the first game I finished!
RedDashGames
22. Apr 2020 · 18:35 UTC
Aww Gil is so CUTE!

Also this game is bloody amazeing could do with a bit more depth and its kinda quite buggy but the comsept is so cute and fun i couldnt stop my self from playing a lot, though i feel bad for Gril... Grils a good fishy. :(
GabrielH
23. Apr 2020 · 01:44 UTC
Really fun concept for a card game!
The randomness of the cards felt a bit unfair, as I got 2 -8 happiness right at the beginning of the game. However the idea and art were good and kept me playing still.
If I were to also nitpick it felt weird that each smile icon is equal to 2 happiness instead of 1.

The keep one card mechanic was very nice to add some strategy to the game, but it still didn't feel like a real choice to make, as the answer was always at best obvious or otherwise not important.

All that said it was a fun game, and I am nitpicking out of my enjoyment, great job!
Lexyvil
23. Apr 2020 · 08:06 UTC
Never seen a game about keeping something alive with gameplay that involves cards. It was quite fun till the end~ And I really loved the relaxing music. Great entry!
Shinlalala
23. Apr 2020 · 18:15 UTC
Nice original concept using cards to keep the fish alive.
There are some minor glitches when you drag the cards, but that's fine.
alxander
24. Apr 2020 · 13:08 UTC
I really enjoyed the game and played until the end. Completed on my first run, I did not receive any unfair cards throughout the whole game, like other people pointed out. The music also fits perfectly, great job.
JMad
27. Apr 2020 · 23:51 UTC
I made Gill happy! Yey! Really enjoyed playing. Nice music, fine gameplay, humourous situation. Great entry.
Only bit that was confusing is the fact that 1 happy actually equals half a smiley face.
Miranda
02. May 2020 · 08:51 UTC
Funny game!