Nibblers by kuggenhoffen
Just a small game where you must grow creatures in a simple ecosystem. There is no real goal to reach other than to unlock three creatures. Just try to keep your creatures alive and see what they do.
Controls: - Left click to spawn and drag creatures around. - Scroll or tab to switch which creature to spawn, you can see selected one top left. - Space to spawn to random location - i or hover over top left for info. - ESC to exit. - P to pause and start the game.
Build2 is done post Jam. It has following bugfixes: - Attempt to fix issue where creatures might get scaled bigger than the screen. - Fix SporeSprocket consume cooldown (20000 seconds), it is now 15 seconds. - Fix SporeSprocket having too large initial size. - Fix not being able to keep SporeSprocket alive even with perfect feeding. - Fix not being able to keep Tentaculoid alive even with perfect feeding. - Fix Squiggler growing only half as fast as it should.
| Link | https://github.com/kuggenhoffen/ldjam56 |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/56/nibblers |
Ratings
| Overall | 764th | 3.327⭐ | 28🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 828th | 3.038⭐ | 28🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 494th | 3.365⭐ | 28🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 312th | 3.942⭐ | 28🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 782th | 3.212⭐ | 28🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 874th | 2.3⭐ | 27🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 913th | 3⭐ | 27🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 32🗳️ | 34🗨️ |
It was just a little difficult to explore the game, maybe making it a little easier would help a lot.
Other people have already mentioned the animations and things, and I agree.
I did have trouble keeping SporeSprockets alive - I thought it was really interesting for them to release spores every now and then, but I didn't seem to be able to get them to actually eat enough to survive, regardless of how many small FleaFlecks were around? I'm not really sure if that's what happened though, without being able to see the stats of an individual creature.