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Egg Barrage by Prostone

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made by Prostone for Ludum Dare 49 (JAM)

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ABOUT

Short (or dare I say early access game?) game!

Protect the egg by building walls of crates and test the unstable defence by letting cannons fire at it!

CONTROLS

  • Left mouse button - select box and start placing (or clear selection)
  • Space - Fire cannon(s)

NOTES

This year, there was no time to devote all of our time, but we still entered (only two people) for fun for at least a day and what should happen, happens. As such the game is not polished, but as always it was still fun brainstorming ideas and learning new things!

Link https://prostone.itch.io/eggbarrage
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/49/egg-barrage

Ratings

Overall 755th 3.522⭐ 25🧑‍⚖️
Fun 312th 3.804⭐ 25🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 680th 3.37⭐ 25🧑‍⚖️
Theme 890th 3.391⭐ 25🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 1066th 3.239⭐ 25🧑‍⚖️
Audio 926th 2.682⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Mood 994th 3.182⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Given 18🗳️ 31🗨️

Feedback

GrevaNU
04. Oct 2021 · 23:21 UTC
Fun little game! The only issue I found is that you can place the crates on top of the cannons, an updated version with defined placement regions would be wonderful!
Naymsayk
04. Oct 2021 · 23:23 UTC
I managed to defeat your egg game. Mostly by placing crates really close to the cannons. However it worked game was a fun distraction. Would protect precious egg again.

(PS thank you for tell me about my game being in draft mode on itch.io that was dumb of me and hopefully it is fixed now)
Feesh
04. Oct 2021 · 23:29 UTC
Despite the simplicity of this game and the art I really really enjoyed the gameplay. Messing around with games that have good feeling physics is always fun. Well done!!
cad
04. Oct 2021 · 23:30 UTC
Ah yes, a fellow egg game dev. Fun concept! If you expand on this in the future it would be awesome to see some quality of life features like remembering your previous crate setup, and preventing the player from placing crates on the cannons.

Great job!
April Lehman
04. Oct 2021 · 23:39 UTC
We really liked this game. Deceptively simple. It was fun to see the challenges for the new levels and fun to be able to nudge the egg with the crates. It felt like a game where you realized, as you played it, that it was a lot more interesting than you thought. Nice job!
LandoSystems
05. Oct 2021 · 01:09 UTC
Really enjoyed this more than I expected to. It's a simple concept with cute execution but it was really satisfying to block the cannonballs. With some puzzle design work this could be a great mobile game. Great work!
chainsawmcd
05. Oct 2021 · 16:28 UTC
This would be a fun mobile game. I'll reiterate what others said: limit where the player can put the crates and consider limiting the amount of crates. Nice work!
robert18
05. Oct 2021 · 16:35 UTC
Cool concept! As others pointed out you can kind of cheat and put the barrels directly in front of the cannon, and it would be nice if the amount of crates you can place per level is limitted.

Overall this is one of those games i'd sink a ridiculous amount of time into if there were enough levels
Furfel
05. Oct 2021 · 16:36 UTC
Funny puzzle game, but the controls need rework, why do i have to click every time to take the crate - but it's good to have a laptop with touchscreen :sunglasses:
OminusGalaxy44
05. Oct 2021 · 16:38 UTC
this game was pretty fun! it's hilarious watching blocks fly everywhere. however, you should've made it so you can only place the blocks at a certain place, because most of the levels can be beat by putting a crate right in front of the cannon.
brunozisman
05. Oct 2021 · 19:08 UTC
Really cool ideia, i had a lot of fun playing it! Maybe you could make it so that the player only click once on the box and then start placing them around and make them not placeble on some spots, maybe also a limit on how many the player can use. Overall a great game and very fun to play! Would definetly play a lot more
ValiantSugar
07. Oct 2021 · 21:46 UTC
The idea is interesting
There is an exploit, if you put a box right on the gun, you can easily pass the level
Pancho
07. Oct 2021 · 22:25 UTC
Great fun but somewhat repetitive, equally good job.
T C
08. Oct 2021 · 02:59 UTC
Fun. Was weird trying to figure out how to place a crate at first but I liked the idea, liked that you could just drop a crate on the egg in the planning phase and have it crack, haha. Honestly for what it was it was very fun, nice job!
loveapplegames
09. Oct 2021 · 15:54 UTC
Original and great fun! It's like an angry birds in inverse. A minor gripe is that having to click on the crate icon before placing a crate is kind of pointless. This game is worth extending further, with limits on crate numbers, different crate types, multiple eggs, etc, to make levels increasingly challenging.
Mighty Tiny
10. Oct 2021 · 11:49 UTC
Reminds me of something I would have played on ColecoVision. Love it.
csLupius
16. Oct 2021 · 07:23 UTC
It was fun but I cheated ':D if this was a full game, I would put placement blocks near the cannons, and I would add some more building materials like stabilizers and I would add some breaking stress mechanic, but for a short time given its a fun game