Caterpillar Courier by The Wondering Vagabond
Our very first game and entry to LDJam 53.
Let's combine one of the original video games with one of the oldest card games!
How many fruits can you deliver?
Song by TELL YOUR STORY music by ikson™ Link: https://ikson.com/tell-your-story
| Link | https://thewonderingvagabond.itch.io/caterpillar-courier |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/53/caterpillar-courier |
Ratings
| Overall | 1175th | 2.7⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 1133th | 2.643⭐ | 23🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 1123th | 2.595⭐ | 23🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 1189th | 2.571⭐ | 23🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 1032th | 2.643⭐ | 23🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 1014th | 2.15⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 1087th | 2.775⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 26🗳️ | 20🗨️ |
You did a cracking job :)
I picked it up fairly quickly, observe who wants what fruit, remember it, and find them again :D

I find the concept very original, and the mood and gameplay are pretty relaxing (yet the game is quite challenging).
As said a tutorial would have made a big difference because I had to lose a few games to understand what was happening.
Also, I think the difficulty curve is quite steep, because on every level, you not only grow making it harder to move, but you also have more fruits to remember. Maybe instead of adding one fruit every level, you could add one new fruit every 2-3 level ?
Anyway, it's great to have a working fun game, without any bugs (no pun intended), by the end of a game jam ! Good job !
Maybe a tutorial could have been good. But I think it's also ok without one, because of its fairly simple concept so you can pick it up pretty quickly.
You should mention somewhere that you're supposed to bring the caterpillars what they wont (the fruit that flashes in their place before they appear), as people are confused about what to do. You can put that in the description of the game.
