Picnic Calamity by XenosNS

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made by XenosNS for Ludum Dare 50 (JAM)

The ants have come for the picnic cake. There's just too many of them, it's inevitable. But at least you can squish as many as you can and say you tried.

Left click to squish ants.

Right click to place distracting cookies. 5 max at once. screenshot.png

Ratings

Overall 840th 3.429⭐ 30🧑‍⚖️
Fun 510th 3.554⭐ 30🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 986th 2.981⭐ 29🧑‍⚖️
Theme 297th 3.982⭐ 30🧑‍⚖️
Humor 447th 3.37⭐ 29🧑‍⚖️
Given 28🗳️ 35🗨️

Feedback

Pinky Toast
04. Apr 2022 · 14:08 UTC
Nice! Got to score 149! Ramps up pretty fast starting at 80 hahaha.
sivarde
04. Apr 2022 · 17:03 UTC
It gets so hectic, I was clicking like a madman. Fun little game.
CharlesSchar
04. Apr 2022 · 17:03 UTC
Nice game, music and sound effects are great! It can be pretty difficult. It seems like the cookies are a bit underpowered though, as they are limited and don't seem to appreciably lower the amount of ants you have to deal with.
sephyr
04. Apr 2022 · 17:04 UTC
Got 112 :).
Liked the cookie idea to protect the cake.
KewDev
04. Apr 2022 · 17:04 UTC
Good job! I got to 251! It starts getting really hard around 100. Had a good time!
Alex Stewart
06. Apr 2022 · 23:55 UTC
Fun game! I was trying to do a "no cookie" run, just for the fun of it. When it ramped up in ants as people mentioned, I frantically tried to use cookies, and found it didn't help too much by that point.
MrEvilGuy
08. Apr 2022 · 03:47 UTC
Holy crap that's a lot of ants. I was placing cookies almost every second as they kept eating them up so fast hahaha. Fun idea and fun game given the minimalism. Good work!
Lecloow7
08. Apr 2022 · 06:21 UTC
Nice game
Saryah
08. Apr 2022 · 11:07 UTC
So much fun taking revenge on ants! A neat concept well executed. Preferect fit for the theme.
Olguinne
08. Apr 2022 · 18:59 UTC
Good job! I liked the sound and the idea with distracting cookies!
LDJam user 280755
08. Apr 2022 · 21:31 UTC
Haha, this is extremely fun for such a simple concept! Good job here. My high score was 178.
QuadApe
11. Apr 2022 · 13:01 UTC
Simple and addicting!
Sounds are a bit too harsh on the ears especially with a lot of ants on screen, UI feels unfinished, but the game plays nicely otherwise, good job!
BurnsDesigns
11. Apr 2022 · 14:50 UTC
It looks like you scoped well for a weekend and made a complete project. Any jam game that can deliver that is a success in my eyes!
🎤 XenosNS
11. Apr 2022 · 17:43 UTC
@burnsdesigns Thank you! It was actually my first time doing anything game dev related in a couple years so also wanted to do something small to reorient myself with Game Maker Studio. I think for what it is I achieved what I wanted.
magicdweedoo
20. Apr 2022 · 06:48 UTC
it quickly turns into mayhem. i got 246. music is a real jam!!!!!!!!!!!