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All About That Buzz by ConradoClark

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made by ConradoClark for Ludum Dare 53 (JAM)

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All About That Buzz is a top-down, bite-sized Action RPG made in 3 days for Ludum Dare 53: Delivery!

This game was made by only one person (ME!), and was originally concepted for Compo but yes, I overscoped (by A LOT). I made everything from scratch for this jam, not limited to, but including: Graphics, Audio, Design and Programming.

Features:

  • Level Up System
  • Custom Weapons
  • Random Drops
  • Critical Attacks
  • 5 Different Stats: Attack, Defense, Speed, AoE and Luck!
  • WORKS BEST IN FULLSCREEN

The Story

The Bees started a revolution and are refusing to pollinate, mostly because of rebel groups and the Big Bog social media influence. Flowers started withering and are calling for help, while bees fight each other over the whole conundrum. The main character is an avid fan of the Flower Pop Band "Happy Flower", and is sick and tired of letting the flowers die. Deliver pollen to your friendly neighborhood flowers to reanimate and save them, one by one!

How was the theme implemented?

You are a bee with the task of delivering stolen pollen back to flowers.

How to Play?

W/A/S/D or Arrow Keys to Move Spacebar / Left Click to Interact with objects and treasure chests. Your can also play with a gamepad.

Basic Tips

  • You cannot have more than 3 weapons, but if you pick a 4th, the weakest one will be replaced.
  • If you run out of pollen, kill more enemies!
  • Some flowers require a lot of pollen, and you may need to do multiple trips to save them.
  • Stats are randomly distributed when you level up, but each and everyone of them are pretty useful.
  • Enemies do respawn if you leave a room.

WORKS BEST IN FULLSCREEN

Screenshots

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Link https://github.com/ConradoClark/ld53-delivery
Link https://conradoclark.itch.io/all-about-that-buzz
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/53/all-about-that-buzz

Ratings

Overall 135th 4.071⭐ 37🧑‍⚖️
Fun 82th 4.086⭐ 37🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 185th 3.843⭐ 37🧑‍⚖️
Theme 472th 4.014⭐ 37🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 208th 4.257⭐ 37🧑‍⚖️
Audio 176th 3.924⭐ 35🧑‍⚖️
Humor 152th 3.879⭐ 35🧑‍⚖️
Mood 252th 3.926⭐ 36🧑‍⚖️
Given 22🗳️ 63🗨️

Feedback

Mallok Studio
02. May 2023 · 04:51 UTC
Love it!
Valyn Tyler
02. May 2023 · 16:01 UTC
The graphics and sound are awesome! The game feels very polished. Clearly high effort. Good job!
Joao Mazzarolo
02. May 2023 · 16:02 UTC
Job job! The art is really good!
TheGameOverGuy
02. May 2023 · 16:03 UTC
This is great! Clearly a lot of effort was put into this for the jam! Keep it up, I can't wait to play it on full release :)
Hoshinu
02. May 2023 · 16:05 UTC
This is AWESOME for being made in only 3 days! The art and sound are both great!
Space_Games
02. May 2023 · 16:05 UTC
I love how well you rocked this art style! Nice job!
Igor Minenko
02. May 2023 · 16:06 UTC
wow, incredible, I cant belive you did this game alone, such a good game, well done!
BOPOHx
02. May 2023 · 16:10 UTC
loock like oldschool game from Dendy or Sega! like it! cool idea! go on!
polinnich
02. May 2023 · 16:10 UTC
one of the best i've seen today!
love the art, sound and humor! the game mechanics are also great!
good luck with your next projects:)
Codexzier
02. May 2023 · 16:10 UTC
I like the gameplay!
quabmara
02. May 2023 · 16:11 UTC
I loved the idea with the bees. And incredible job on doing it all alone!
trASSh
02. May 2023 · 16:18 UTC
Really cool game and idea! The sound effects got really overlapping when there were a lot of enemies in the room also the boss felt a bit too fast. I really loved the jokes and dialogues, great entry!
Phyrocast
02. May 2023 · 16:20 UTC
Very fun game! I only managed to beat it by finding a glitch to get where the last enemy couldn't get to me, but it was good!
Drestin
03. May 2023 · 20:55 UTC
Another bee game!
I love the humour and setting.
The gameplay is little more than avoiding being hit. I struggled against the boss, going in circles but getting hit nonetheless.

Good job for 3 days, though!
riley9
03. May 2023 · 21:47 UTC
Cool! I love the flowers and also how everything is drawn =D the music is nice too and everything feels very weird but friendly at the same time
Lyra_TheCat
04. May 2023 · 09:16 UTC
Very fun to play, loved the auto shoot system. good job
Mitchell J
04. May 2023 · 15:41 UTC
Fun! Very satisfying gameplay loop.
ping78
04. May 2023 · 16:18 UTC
Beeutiful game. Love the humor. Boss is unbeelievably hard.

Good job
MercilessCult
04. May 2023 · 20:21 UTC
Blown away by the amout of work you managed to do alone in only 3 days! Loved everything about the game, you get a perfect score from me, congrats!
LDJam user 76491
05. May 2023 · 12:09 UTC
Thank you all so much for playing and commenting so far!

I was originally planning a dodge mechanic and a skill tree as well, but oh boy, this was too much already haha

I was also undecided about what to do with the boss: since the main character stats were random, there is a non-zero chance that you can end up with lots of defense and AoE and in this case the boss is definitely going to be harder. Farming can alleviate that but perhaps the dodge mechanic would be the silver bullet to close this design gap hehe

Either way, I'm super happy with the final product, and I'm glad people are enjoying it as well. Thanks! You made my daisy :upside_down:
Local Minimum
05. May 2023 · 15:57 UTC
Cool entry. I don't know if I missed anything but upon pollinating the 3 flowers in the cave I wasn't quite sure what next to do. Well written and fun to play. There were some glitches with loot not being interactable if, e.g. if it ended up too far down on the screen and such and was unsure if there was any way to know or decide how picking up skills would replace which existing and so on.
LDJam user 76491
05. May 2023 · 17:48 UTC
@local-minimum Killing the "boss" spawns the big flower which has the "congrats you finished it" line and all that hehe

I planned to make it more evident that it was a boss (and planned to close the room automatically, play another song, etc) but I was out of thyme.

Thanks for playing!
Anthony Katona
06. May 2023 · 14:21 UTC
Super fun! Had a bit of that personal passion feel like Undertale
YurisCat
06. May 2023 · 15:08 UTC
This game has great art and completeness! It's really impressive that one person can accomplish all of this. While playing, I encountered two problems: one is that the pp and boxes can fall outside of the screen and cannot be collected, and the other is that when entering a walled room for the second time, it has infinite health. Overall, it's a great game, and I look forward to future updates!

![bee.png](///raw/574/82/z/5b7a3.png)
Yasmeen
06. May 2023 · 15:55 UTC
Great work, very impressive considering you made this alone! I liked the idle animation of the bee, and the instructions on the carpet in the intro area were a smart idea. With the combat it would be nice in the future to add some other options other than running away while the auto-shoot activates. For example maybe you have a bar you can fill that when activated gives you temporary invincibility? But overall amazing effort!
Stephanie Hansen
06. May 2023 · 23:12 UTC
Love this! Great puns. The attacking system is interesting and felt pretty cool. Sometimes the pollen would drop too close to the bottom bar with all of your stats and I was unable to pick it up.

Awesome game; great work!
Lisek Gagatek
07. May 2023 · 10:17 UTC
The game is very good. Dialogs are funny. However I've found it too grindy. I've achieved lvl 11, but got no spd upgrades, so the boss was impossible for me. I managed to kill him by cheesing and hiding behind the chests and making the boss stuck. The game would also lag a bit whenever enemy was killed.
interpixel
18. May 2023 · 17:35 UTC
boss arena was too small so it was hard to avoid taking damage and there seemed to be no higher level than 11. apart from those gripes i would say this is a perfect submission, All the pieces are there and it has originality and polish.