Rotting Hood's De-liver-y Service by Kyle Farwell

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made by Kyle Farwell for Ludum Dare 53 (JAM)

Rotting Hood is the latest masterpiece from legendary development studio Gelato Labs. As a result of a zombie outbreak, the human race has deteriorated into savage beasts that will stop at nothing to eliminate their foe. Embrace a visceral experience as you assume the role of Rotting Hood and his accomplice Patient Zero, as they embark on a quest to fill the bellies of their zombie friends by fighting back. Eat up this action-packed side-scroller that will keep you entertained for hours! Bon appetit!

How to play: 1. Approach your next meal and press [space] to begin surgery. 2. Make an incision using the scalpel. 3. Grab the forceps and get to work removing anything in the way of your prize. 4. Once you've found the liver, drop it in the ice bag to keep it nice and fresh. 5. Finally, wield your trusty stapler and stitch the body back up. Good as new! No one will suspect a thing. 6. But watch out! If you hear the security guard approaching, press "HIDE" quick and mash the [z] key to snore so they don't notice anything. 7. Bigger humans have bigger livers. More liver = more good. But you'll have to work harder to get down to their livers, and the longer the liver is exposed to the air, the less fresh and delicious it gets!

A Gelato Labs Production for Ludum Dare 53

The Gelato Labs "G-Team" for LD53 is:

Programming:

Kyle Farwell (kfarwell)

Art:

Fuugul

Writing:

Ryan Refcio

Music and Sound:

Bryan Teoh, Pixabay, Kenney

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Ratings

Overall 440th 3.711⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Fun 556th 3.474⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 267th 3.737⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Theme 1124th 3.026⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 360th 4.026⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Humor 98th 4.026⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Mood 960th 3.053⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Given 44🗳️ 7🗨️

Feedback

slimefriend
02. May 2023 · 03:30 UTC
I love this! The surgery mechanics were really inventive, and I love all the random stuff you find in the patient's chest. Great job!
martinberisso
02. May 2023 · 04:28 UTC
looking good but is this "delivery" ?
Adam Gaskins
02. May 2023 · 04:42 UTC
Very cute!! Loved the graphics and lends itself perfectly to speedrunning! I kept getting the guy with SO much junk in his chest though :laughing:
FlashViper
03. May 2023 · 03:50 UTC
This game has cool lore. It was a little hard, but that's excusable for a jam game. I loved the artstyle, and some of the things that you can find in people's stomachs were hilarious
LDJam user 120213
03. May 2023 · 13:36 UTC
My only real complaint is it's EXTREMELY hard to hear the guards and there doesn't seem to be a way to turn the volume on that up, the music pretty much completely masks it.
SlySeville
07. May 2023 · 05:33 UTC
Such a clever use of the theme!
jdemattos
07. May 2023 · 05:40 UTC
I love the music and the art. The guards are hard to hear over the music, I think a great elaboration on the idea would be to give the player a more visual warning before they're caught, and a reminder to press the snore button. The humor was really cutesy grotesque which I love, and enjoyed the backstory introducing the story. Congrats!
feyd-rautha
07. May 2023 · 05:50 UTC
Ok, this was pretty great. By the end you really start to develop a system for how to quickly harvest the livers. It's pretty hilarious. It was super hard to hear the guard and I definitely only watched for the button to appear and nothing else. This was for sure one of the more fun ones I have played.
1tater_no_tots
07. May 2023 · 06:18 UTC
Fun game and interesting take on the theme with a pun. The sound could use some balancing, the snoring is a bit loud.
Pouyan ShekariKiani
11. May 2023 · 11:33 UTC
Real Fun game, definitely a major star in humor category lol. and i loved patient zero. poor guy seemed so innocent lol.
Gibran Bisio
11. May 2023 · 11:44 UTC
Nice work! 💀
Sibi
14. May 2023 · 18:00 UTC
Loved the humor and the frantic "digging" for the liver!
My final score was: 23171
LDJam user 202408
16. May 2023 · 21:55 UTC
This gets an easy 5/5 innovation from me, the story telling is really creative and made me laugh, the art style is nice and the overall concept is what I love to find in a game jam lol, my only issue was with the gameplay, while the gameplay is just as creative and I appreciate the liver having the word "Liver" on it for dummies like myself, there was no audio in the game so I couldn't really hear anything, this isn't your fault I'd guess so I didn't take that into account for the vote but I somehow managed to play pretty decently with no audio lol how'bout that? the game is full of attention to detail and I love it! like the "I'm not a zombie" captcha, the different dialogues as you restart and the sus toys inside people :laughing:. overall I think this is a great game with a really nice idea, you guys should try to play more games before the voting week is over if you want to get a score, I wish you luck on that!
amarokczukay
18. May 2023 · 23:39 UTC
"your livers get confiscated" this line got me laughing really hard
this was a really fun game, i loved the variety of items you can find in the corpses!

i thought i had no sound but nevermind i was on mute haha i've made a few more tries with the sound on, and it enhanced the experience a lot because sfx and music are really nice!
Robonaut121
19. May 2023 · 17:27 UTC
Wow, that was really good! Funny concept, although it took me a few nights of not getting anywhere to get the concept. A tutorial would have helped, but hey, I barely ever have time for tutorials too, so I don't mind :-)
I found myself not hearing the guards a lot - especially at first. Even when I did notice them, it was hard to spot the tiny HIDE button in the bottom right corner - some feedback when the button spawns would have been nice, like a pulse or scaling spawn animation. A lot of the UI and gameplay could have done with similar feedback, but in most areas the amazing art more than made up for it. One of my favourite games so far overall!
Sodoj
19. May 2023 · 17:37 UTC
Interesting premise, you don't see conscious zombies with personality everyday! I dig the idea behind the game as well, but unfortunately I kept getting caught by the security guard, I'm not sure what I was doing wrong. Nevertheless, this is a really good game, I enjoyed my time with it!
🎤 Kyle Farwell
20. May 2023 · 01:18 UTC
Thanks everyone for playing! Our resident audio engineer wasn't around but we'll be sure to mix things properly next time ;)
Max Amaden
20. May 2023 · 12:33 UTC
Really great entry!! I enjoyed this little game. Keep up the great work!! :grin: