Xenoluv by TennoTako
STORY
After the tragic event on LV-426, the Colonial Marines are sent to a well-earned vacation on the French Riviera. All expenses paid by the Weyland-Yutani Corporation. Alas, little did they know that they were followed by the Alien Queen herself, that has established its new lair inside the Bouillabaisse restaurant that the Marines were planning to eat at!
In this Alien Midwife Simulation, play as the loyal servant of the Alien Queen, nurturing and delivering cute alien babies, while managing and fertilizing unpredictable marines!
GAMEPLAY
Score as many points as you can in 3 minutes. You need to fulfil the queen's requests to earn points. Failing to meet her needs or giving her the wrong item will give you a penalty! * Food: Bring her a non-fertilized marine. * Baby: Bring her a newborn alien. First, you need to fertilize a marine by bringing him close to a hatching egg. Once fertilized, ensure he survives long enough for the baby to happily pop out.
CONTROLS
[Keyboard] - Move = W/A/S/D - Grab/Realease (marine/baby) = E or Space (+ Move key pressed in the direction you want to grab) - Dash = Shift - Start = Space
[Gamepad] - Move = Left Stick - Grab/Realease (marine/baby) = A (+ Left Stick in the direction you want to grab) - Dash = B - Start = Start
KNOWN BUGS
- Performance issue: it's our first game in UE5 and we couldn't figure out in time how to tweak nanite and the GI to have decent prefs...
- Sometimes the queen has 2 requests at the same time but only one of them can be fulfilled
| Link | https://huitremagique.itch.io/xenoluv |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/53/xenoluv |
Ratings
| Overall | 663th | 3.5⭐ | 23🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 750th | 3.262⭐ | 23🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 536th | 3.405⭐ | 23🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 864th | 3.595⭐ | 23🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 432th | 3.929⭐ | 23🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 685th | 2.8⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 309th | 3.553⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 808th | 3.289⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 17🗳️ | 14🗨️ |
btw, it would be good if it would be easier to bring her children (maybe reduce marine fertilizing time)
J'ai eu un bug où le bruit du marine qui s'étouffe se jouait en boucle. J'ai réussi à bloquer un marine au niveau de l'arche, ça je sais pas si c'est normal ^^
The gameplay is simple yet enjoyable, and I think adding background music would have made it even better. Nonetheless, I think it's a solid game with good results.
Congratulations!
Some added hazards, music, and a pause menu would be welcome additions to completely the package, but great work!
At one point a marine just walked up to an egg on their own, lovestruck - it was just like Prometheus lol
I found a lot of the time with the 'pregnant?' marines, they would just go straight into the hole next to the egg before I have a chance to move them - and to contrast, grabbing them for food is very easy. I think I also might have had a bug one time where all the marines were spawning off screen and stuck in the bottom right so I had to run really far and spam E hoping to pick it up.
I think with a bit more of a refined and expanded gameplay loop this could have been an amazing game, other than the issues I mentioned it felt very polished overall and I know I've already mentioned it but visually it's both unique and good looking. Overall great job with the game!