One-monster Elite Monster Rescue Squad by rustybroomhandle

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made by rustybroomhandle for LD33 (JAM)
You play Beefee, a tiny monster that in no way attempts to imitate an IP held by a well-known Japanese company. Your friends (see above) have been captured by the local villagers to keep as pets. As the only one not in a cage, and perhaps the only one with opposable thumbs, you are going to rescue them!

- Sneak around town using WASD or cursor keys
- Avoid villagers, they will alert the guards
- Avoid guards!
- Search containers for keys (hold down E or SPACE)
- Unlock cages to free your friends (hold down E or SPACE)
- Hide in tall grass or flower beds

HOW THIS WAS MADE:

All assets were built in Minecraft by the players of the IndieSquish Minecraft community. The models were then exported by an application called "jmc2obj" for manipulation and animation in Maya and Blender.

Development was done on a Manjaro Linux system using a closed experimental build of Unity Editor for Linux. Thanks very much to Na'Tosha and Levi Bard for that!

Source here: https://github.com/rustybroomhandle/sneakymon/

Ratings

Coolness 40% 1627
Overall(Jam) 3.90 79
Audio(Jam) 3.81 87
Fun(Jam) 3.65 130
Graphics(Jam) 4.41 70
Humor(Jam) 3.21 305
Innovation(Jam) 3.26 341
Mood(Jam) 3.84 108
Theme(Jam) 3.81 235

Feedback

fistmaker
24. Aug 2015 · 22:16 UTC
Solid entry! Smooth music fits the beat of the game. Plays well, simple mechanics. Decent challenge.
kvanderlaag
25. Aug 2015 · 00:17 UTC
Solid. Good music, great animations. Loving the 3D pixel-art style that Minecraft has produced. Mechanics are well-implemented. Throw some cutscenes explaining the game in, give it a few more levels, and I'd pay for this!
Fonserbc
25. Aug 2015 · 12:18 UTC
Awesome graphics,setting and mood and music!

And unity linux :O!
matthias_zarzecki
25. Aug 2015 · 17:40 UTC
This is lovely! And so much fun sneaking around :). The in-game interface (numbers and tutorials) work very well, as do the guard-vision-cones. The voxel-style is also cool.

A Few issues I noticed:
- Diagonal moving is quicker than horizontal/vertikal. I know that bug, I've seen it in other projects. The move-directions get added, normalizing the move-vector stops this
- Invisible walls at the level-egde are irritating
- The colliders on the pumpkin-vegetable-field are fiddly and not fun

Great work! :D
Lancelot Gao
26. Aug 2015 · 02:23 UTC
so cool, a bit like LEGO, fantastic visual style!
Miltage
26. Aug 2015 · 18:27 UTC
"Hey boss what should we do with these monsters?"

"Lock them in cages and strew the cages randomly around the town in such a way that they would be difficult to guard."

"Uh, okay. And where should we keep the keys?"

"I don't know, just like, throw them in open containers, it will be fine. Okay, no more questions."
tripleVisionGames
27. Aug 2015 · 20:22 UTC
You've created an excellent world and the stealth mechanic works really well. The art suits this style of game really well too with the bright colours and kind of 3d pixelart
Piotrek
28. Aug 2015 · 11:20 UTC
Nice stealth gameplay.
It's nice that so many people using voxel art, like me.
And it's nice that you used unity on linux, it is great alternative for windows.
Ninja Garage
29. Aug 2015 · 03:43 UTC
Nice concept!! Take some stars!
pansapiens
29. Aug 2015 · 05:58 UTC
Looks great, and all the content makes it feel like a pretty lively and fleshed out world. Love the 'collection sound' too - familiar, but that's why it works. Gameplay-wise I felt like it should have been a little more challenging - maybe some of the villagers occasionally turning on the spot, and more regions where there are closer calls and more careful timing required. Kudos for using the experimental Unity Editor on Linux ... fingers crossed it becomes officially supported in the future !
OnionBlaze
29. Aug 2015 · 10:15 UTC
I'm usually not into stealth games, but I had fun with this one! Love the graphics. The music fits really well also. I wandered around for a bit before finishing to look for secrets since I had spare keys, haha. Wish there was more. Great job! :D
FistBumpGames
29. Aug 2015 · 13:00 UTC
Very nice and entertaining stealth game!
ciaodavinci
29. Aug 2015 · 15:49 UTC
Nice job. Great art style. Really enjoyed the overall mood. Music was catchy and sfx fit well. Found the movement with the keys was a bit laggy. Played it on Safari.
Yrr
29. Aug 2015 · 16:58 UTC
Love it! Unfortunately the screen showing who you've freed makes it hard to hide immediately after freeing someone.
StrideWide
29. Aug 2015 · 18:44 UTC
Well done. Cool that you used minecraft for modeling. The screen that show up when you rescue someone blocks out the screen without pausing the game, and almost got me in trouble a few times.
Pomb
30. Aug 2015 · 14:36 UTC
Good work, really simple idea and good follow-through! Glad you didn"t have a lives mechanic in there :)
Tuism
30. Aug 2015 · 18:15 UTC
Hello fellow Poke-inspired game :P

The graphics are cool, though I think it was a bit heavy on my system... I keep getting bad lag spikes. But it didn't crash.

The concept works, though it feels like it was a bit rudimentary, would have liked a bit more interesting things to work out. The fact that keys were in everything was a bit weird. (Keys in buckets! Keys in barrels! Keys everywhere! Except where you might expect them, by guards and indoors :P)

I saw a clump of guys to the left on the bridge. It looked like some kind of red laser party freezeframe :P

Rad that you guys are using the minecraft stuff every jam :)
collaboration
31. Aug 2015 · 06:19 UTC
Wow. just love it, great job and art, music is cool!
wallmasterr
01. Sep 2015 · 06:45 UTC
Realy nice style and effects
Biruts
01. Sep 2015 · 16:41 UTC
Very nice project guys, i really love it, please check our game too and if you liked it give us a vote. Look for Road to hell and enjoy.
ponywolf
14. Sep 2015 · 16:37 UTC
This feels like a fully fleshed out game. Good entry!
Jupiter_Hadley
20. Oct 2015 · 14:19 UTC
Lovely graphics! I included it in my Ludum Dare 33 Compilation video series, if you would like to take a look :) https://youtu.be/wEgI5I5KLKY