Dino Fate by Zettelkasten

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made by Zettelkasten for Ludum Dare 50 (JAM)

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Your time machine crashed, and now you are stuck with the dinosaurs who are about to be extinguished by a threatening asteroid! Try to save you and the dinosaurs and survive as long as possible by teaming up with the dinosaurs Greedy, Guac, Gizmo and Ganfred.

Rotate your thruster moving the earth with [A] and [D] and push forward with [W]. Pause the game using [SPACE]. After collecting enough space potatoes, feed new dinosaurs by clicking on the icons on the bottom and place them on planet earth. Placed astronauts as well as your engine can be further upgraded. Press [Shift] + [R] to reset the game (and try to find the [Shift] + [???] cheat combinations...).

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Ratings

Overall 19th 4.348⭐ 25🧑‍⚖️
Fun 2th 4.565⭐ 25🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 205th 3.804⭐ 25🧑‍⚖️
Theme 78th 4.283⭐ 25🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 490th 3.891⭐ 25🧑‍⚖️
Audio 92th 4.109⭐ 25🧑‍⚖️
Humor 6th 4.587⭐ 25🧑‍⚖️
Mood 271th 3.891⭐ 25🧑‍⚖️
Given 32🗳️ 24🗨️

Feedback

LDJam user 280755
05. Apr 2022 · 02:50 UTC
Cool stuff! Intuitive and good pacing. Love the humorous voiceovers.
Embedder72
05. Apr 2022 · 02:51 UTC
I loved this game. At first I thought, wtf. But then it grew on me until I realized how much fun I was having. The voiceover work is on-point.
Kyle Welfare
05. Apr 2022 · 02:57 UTC
Loved the intro scene! The gameplay was fun, and the audio was fantastic. The low res graphics made it a bit difficult to keep track of all the things on the screen at times. Great job!
Rory Soiffer
05. Apr 2022 · 02:57 UTC
I'm a big fan of the particle effects and sound effects, they add a ton of juice to the gameplay.
onedozenbagels
05. Apr 2022 · 02:58 UTC
Great theme, amazing voiceovers, and totally a blast to play.

Worthy of sharing with my friends, family, and co-workers!
GameRaws
05. Apr 2022 · 03:05 UTC
I love the art style, and it was fun to play. Nice job.
3LSTMsInATrenchcoat
05. Apr 2022 · 03:07 UTC
Nice game! The dialogue and theming is cute (albeit a bit all-over-the-place). Movement and game feel are good and the difficulty seems fair. Sometimes it was a bit unclear whether certain things were asteroids or stationary background planets, but it wasn't too much of a problem. Fun SFX. A good entry overall!
SAGIII
05. Apr 2022 · 03:08 UTC
Hello! I liked the humour on this game and the idea of the rocket earth. Also the voice lines are awesome.
ComicSans
05. Apr 2022 · 03:16 UTC
Favorite LD, evar! 4856 points! :star: Ran out of things to buy/upgrade. :money_mouth: Had me LOL. Great work!
AlekM
05. Apr 2022 · 03:16 UTC
This game was the best one I've played so far. Super fun and packed with great humor. You guys did an awesome job!
Raphiell
05. Apr 2022 · 03:20 UTC
Amazing, exact same experience as @embedder72. Apprehensive to loving it. Really well done.
My Setup:
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My final score (1068):
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Alex Zahn
05. Apr 2022 · 06:44 UTC
Fun to play! I like the humor and lightheartedness, had me smiling. I like potato. Loved the spoken sound FX whenever you choose an upgrade, haha! Good job!

Some audio feedback: Music should be louder! The 'wabba wabba' voices during dialog got a bit repetitive - could do for a set of 4-5 voice sounds that get randomly selected. Loved the sound effects, nice work!
nyaa22
05. Apr 2022 · 12:20 UTC
This is the best thing I've ever seen in my entire life! Guac is the cutest and greatest Dino!!!! ✨😍
Max Hyper
05. Apr 2022 · 20:36 UTC
Incredibly fun, I just kept adding the laser dinos which was awesome! haha.
Also the story is hilarious, love the humor and the fact that your main enemy is God
Cosmicallity
06. Apr 2022 · 06:09 UTC
Really funny and really fun! It's got a pretty addicting gameplay loop!
nyaa22
06. Apr 2022 · 14:09 UTC
In fact I loved guac so much I got him tattooed! 😍

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SofiGnedova
06. Apr 2022 · 22:06 UTC
1. Nice graphics. Made with soul. Excellent combination of raster and pixel graphics.
2. "Ba-ba-ba" the person who made this sound enjoyed it. He shared his fun with us! Music theme!
3. Good balance! + The explosion and lifting of objects are very felt.
4. The plot is funny. The characters were very satisfied :)
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To be honest, I do not know what to find fault with. A funny little story and a funny little game. Whole, cheerful and very attractive :з
You guys are great!
Tan games
08. Apr 2022 · 20:38 UTC
Good humor and fun game. Asteroid dodging planet stacked with laser shooting dinos, whats not to like. I am Dinomandias, look on my works ye mighty and despair.
DinoHunter69
09. Apr 2022 · 01:13 UTC
Hey having really a lot of fun!! My Highscore is 35126 But i think i wont Beat that anymore ^^ Stil great Game!!
ZenohParadox
09. Apr 2022 · 18:05 UTC
I really enjoyed this game. It was a lot of fun. The visual style worked really well. The characters had personality, and the gameplay was a lot of fun!
Doot
15. Apr 2022 · 12:50 UTC
What a nice game!

The gameplay is quite simple at first, and then the tower defense elements add a lot of depth. You are always trying to survive long enough for the next upgrade, and the difficulty curve is really well done! The graphics were nice even if a bit unreadable after level 7 or 8.

Great job and thanks for the game I had fun 🦖🦕☄️
Junber
19. Apr 2022 · 14:05 UTC
Wow this game is really polished, especially for a game jam. Just so many great things: the graphics, the flesh-out upgrade system, the voices in the opening cut scene, ... The list goes on. The game is just super fun.

Here are a few nitpicks nevertheless: having to wait for the right moment to build/upgrade shield for them to be in the right position was a bit frustrating, I wish they would automatically take their position in the formation or something. The opening scene is great but it goes on for a bit too long imo. Once I got to a fully upgraded build with 5 lasers, 1 regen and 6 shields, at ~3000 points it felt like I was essentially invincible just standing still; not sure what the solution to that is though, maybe just a win condition? It could get a bit hard to read what exactly was going on at some points, maybe live, dangerous asteroids should look more different to debris?

But all of these things really didn't detract from my experience all that much. This is definitely the best game I've played this LD so far. Great job!
evgeney24
09. Jun 2022 · 16:10 UTC
Good humor and fun game.