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Terrarium by wetrustinprize

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made by wetrustinprize for Ludum Dare 54 (JAM)

Terrarium

Is our attempt on the Ludum Dare 54 game jam, the game was made in 72 hours. The game jam theme was: Limited Space.

This is our first jam as a team, and was nice to see how much we could do in 72 hours, we had a lot of fun and learned a lot.

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The Game

You're a Bug Caretaker and need to handle a lot of creatures in three terrariums, but these creatures have their own needs and you need to take care of them. * Creatures can only live in certain biomes and temperatures. * Some creatures like to be alone. * Some creatures hate being with other species. * Carnivores will eat other creatures that are not carnivores.

Controls

All the game will use the Left click: * to zoom in * to move the creatures * to change terrarium biomas and temperature Use the Right click to zoom out

You also can move the creatures to the terrariums with keys 1 and *2.

Credits

  • Vritu Velozo - Music, Sound Design, Art
  • Prize - Programming
  • Valquiria (KGeib) - Game Design, Testing
  • Jack - Art
Link https://github.com/wetrustinprize/bug-nursery-tycoon
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/54/terrarium

Ratings

Overall 467th 3.667⭐ 26🧑‍⚖️
Fun 712th 3.25⭐ 26🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 387th 3.563⭐ 26🧑‍⚖️
Theme 229th 4.125⭐ 26🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 58th 4.5⭐ 28🧑‍⚖️
Audio 125th 3.958⭐ 26🧑‍⚖️
Humor 604th 2.81⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Mood 200th 3.979⭐ 26🧑‍⚖️
Given 60🗳️ 24🗨️

Feedback

LDJam user 262766
03. Oct 2023 · 17:50 UTC
It is so beautiful and simple. Good really good work
MossGames
03. Oct 2023 · 17:54 UTC
This is a really funky game. I like the idea behind it and the theme is really well used. The numbers were a little overwhelming for me, but I think that is a personal preference rather than anything against the game!
🎤 wetrustinprize
03. Oct 2023 · 17:56 UTC
@anton4ik-dev thanks! Our artist really did a amazing job! We loved it so much that we are using our favorite species as PFP in Discord. :P
🎤 wetrustinprize
03. Oct 2023 · 17:56 UTC
@mossgames Thanks for the feedback! <3
minjutin
03. Oct 2023 · 18:27 UTC
I have no idea how to keep all the animals alive, but nevertheless: I love the atmosphere and all the little critters, especially the frog. Art is seriously 10/10
Archaeognathus
03. Oct 2023 · 18:34 UTC
As biologist and long time keeper of terrariums and aquariums I was instantly drawn to this game. Creature design is amazing and combined with the calming music the only thing that kept me from running away in panic as I tried to keep my castix from getting eaten. Can't decide which are my favorites... Jarecol or deer-dragons :O

Gameplay wise I was sometimes a bit overwhelmes, especially in the beginning, before realizing how to optimize :D
🎤 wetrustinprize
03. Oct 2023 · 18:37 UTC
@minjutin Thanks! The game is actually kinda hard to keep everyone alive, specially in the higher levels, theirs needs starts to conflict with the other species making everything a caos to handle where each creature must be!
🎤 wetrustinprize
03. Oct 2023 · 18:40 UTC
@archaeognathus Hey thats nice! Thanks for the feedback. The Jarecol is one of my favorites, but my #1 favorite is the Bolongo! :P
Shpimpasta
03. Oct 2023 · 19:40 UTC
This was truly an interesting one! I am a big fan of tycoon games and ones where you essentially manage a terrarium or something of the like. I must admit tho I was quite at a los as I started with 2 cold animals and 2 desert animals and then one that belonged to neither. So what ended up happening was I was unable to keep that lil frog spider guy alive. Is there a 3rd terrarium or any way to deal with this?
HagamosVideojuegos
03. Oct 2023 · 20:28 UTC
I like the concept, maybe need a simple tutorial or anything like that, but it's normal with a short time developing it.

The art it's so cute and I like the feels of the game.

Well done! Take a candy! :candy:
RenD
03. Oct 2023 · 20:43 UTC
Wow, the art is amazing. That combined with a cosy music and a nice sound design, you have one of the best mood I've seen so far. The game is a bit difficult but I guess it may be due to some missing feedbacks. Really unique game anyway!
🎤 wetrustinprize
03. Oct 2023 · 22:32 UTC
@shpimpasta the frog should be in the swamp biome, maybe a bug occour and it didn't show its biome? The idea is managing the two terrariums, so is kinda of a "timing" game ya'know? Thanks for the feedback! <3
🎤 wetrustinprize
03. Oct 2023 · 22:32 UTC
@hagamosvideojuegos oh yeah! A tutorial would be reaaally nice in this game, but we only did the help page sadly. T_T

Thanks for the candy! We apreciate it! <3
🎤 wetrustinprize
03. Oct 2023 · 22:33 UTC
@rend Thanks for the compliments and feedbacks! Heck yeah the game is really hard, even us playing here after the jam still can't pass the Day 4. :P
PorumbDulce
04. Oct 2023 · 05:18 UTC
Great idea
Fraz
04. Oct 2023 · 05:22 UTC
This is so cute! I love the creature design, and the music is relaxing. Nice job!
Henk Fan
04. Oct 2023 · 14:46 UTC
Awesome visuals with great concepts!
Congeesetador
04. Oct 2023 · 14:55 UTC
Amazing artwork and design of the game! It was a bit confusing how you were supposed to keep the bugs alive though, I had to figure it out through trial and error, but I love the fact you have to keep swapping between the terrariums to make sure one of them isn't dying and you have to keep track of all their stats to make sure they're happy, it adds a great deal of difficulty to the game, the music was absolutely perfect for the game setting and I absolutely adored the sprites for the bugs! Good submission!
LDJam user 377500
04. Oct 2023 · 15:00 UTC
very cute game! the game is chalenging and very fun to play. i find rapelho is weird because it facing backward. by the way very cosy music and the artwork is epic!. good job!
Emkani
04. Oct 2023 · 18:09 UTC
great visuals, somewhat unintuitive controls but not that bad. Very beautiful, also nice to hear som audio you haven't heard before.
AntariaN
04. Oct 2023 · 19:22 UTC
Seems to be a fun game, ugh I wish there was a macOS or Web build available. No low scores from me though, it's a game jam after all :)
🎤 wetrustinprize
04. Oct 2023 · 20:36 UTC
@porumbdulce @fraz @henk-fan Thanks!

@congeesetador Thanks a lot! Yeah, the game is very hard to start, we should've made a tutorial to make it easier for starting the game!

@mncc8337 Thanks! Whoops! I must flipped Rapelho by mistake. :P

@emkani Thanks! The controls was something we were trying a lot to fix, since I was learning Godot at the same time as developing on it was kinda hard to understand the raycast concepts. :P

@antarian Oh! We forgot to make a build for MacOS, sorry. The web version we didn't made because Godot 4.0 sadly doesn't support web using MONO. T_T
asfdfdfd
05. Oct 2023 · 20:14 UTC
Great entry! I love visuals and game theme. It may be even pretty meditative game sometimes, ha-ha.
Aglou
05. Oct 2023 · 21:22 UTC
I really loved the idea and the game was hella cute.
The controls weren't inuitive and I did not understood how to switch terrarium or to leave creatures in the box.
I wood really have played longer if the game was a bit more chill.
Ayxs
09. Oct 2023 · 22:06 UTC
I wasn't able to play your game. The UI scaling is not working or not enabled and on my 4K screen the game is unreadably small... I would love to try it out.

One other note, please don't ship your game in a 7z package. This requires 3rd party software for people to be able to play your game. Just use .zip files (often the compression works good enough) or supply a WebGL version for people to play.
Madasski
14. Oct 2023 · 11:00 UTC
Cute art style, good music, interesting idea.
Ginxel
18. Oct 2023 · 00:40 UTC
Adorable art style!!!!!