Feed the Eggheads by candlesan

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made by candlesan for Ludum Dare 55 (COMPO)

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The Eggheads are not very smart! But they are very hungry and travel in groups!

Controls: * Click on the elevator summon buttons!

Summon the elevator to different floors to help the silly eggheads find a table that can seat their party.

Eggheads are always looking for food - so they will jump on and off the elevator and grab the first table they see! Manage the elevator movement to manipulate the eggheads to sit somewhere sensible!

Tools: * Godot * Photoshop

Game Jam was streamed on twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/candlesan

Ratings

Overall 218th 3.326⭐ 25🧑‍⚖️
Fun 195th 3.326⭐ 25🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 132th 3.5⭐ 26🧑‍⚖️
Theme 186th 3.542⭐ 26🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 230th 3.188⭐ 26🧑‍⚖️
Humor 98th 3.354⭐ 26🧑‍⚖️
Mood 245th 3.022⭐ 25🧑‍⚖️
Given 22🗳️ 22🗨️

Feedback

LDJam user 360310
15. Apr 2024 · 07:54 UTC
Oh I loved the concept! It was a bit hard for me to figure out how to scroll up and down, if it was all happening on the same screen it would remove frustration. Other than this great submission, good luck!
manabreak
15. Apr 2024 · 07:58 UTC
Fun take on the theme! Something very calming about directing the eggheads to the correct floors. Nice execution, though it could use some more goals. :)
OadT
15. Apr 2024 · 07:59 UTC
Cute entry! Maybe it could be helpful if you enable the fullscreen button on the itch.io page. I liked that there are additional rule like the eggplants only taking a seat if the whole group can sit on the table. Maybe these could also be mentioned in the description, but it is also funny to figure them out by yourself.

One thing I personally found a bit annoying was the scrolling. It feels to slow and cumbersome for me and I think you could (mostly) get rid of it by just using a smaller scaling. I liked the mechanic that you can buy more floors though!
Bewelge
15. Apr 2024 · 08:58 UTC
Really innovative idea and lovely execution! Well done!

Only thing I think could be improved is speeding up the scrolling up and down or maybe zooming out instead when there are floors added, since it becomes difficult to keep track which floors are full.
LDJam user 383212
15. Apr 2024 · 17:19 UTC
Love the idea, I think its a creative take on the prompt. Would have loved some extra content, or something else to buy other than new floors.
DzejPi
15. Apr 2024 · 17:24 UTC
Great take on the theme, great to see something other than magic! Very cute graphics, and Eggheads going on the elevator and moving feel very natural. Like others mentioned, it would be great to have fullscreen, I am on 1080p and it was barely fitting in the browser. But no biggie. Nice entry and interesting that you used Photoshop, I don't really have it associated with pixel art!
Macibacsi56
15. Apr 2024 · 21:58 UTC
Great idea, fun game. Well done :)
digital bacon
18. Apr 2024 · 06:25 UTC
Very cute game, loved it! Well done!
Inkweeper
18. Apr 2024 · 07:06 UTC
Haha summoning elevator is an exotic but practical idea I've never thought of. This mechanic is good and feels like memory management. The only problem is once I sent the eggheads to a incorrect floor, they would stand too close and make it difficult to tell how many they are.
RPGWanderer
18. Apr 2024 · 17:01 UTC
I loved your eggheads, I'm really into creatures drawn with tiny black beads for eyes :D The game is fun and strangely addictive, it would be nice to have shortcuts to the different floors or a "map" view to dispatch hungry eggheads faster :)
Foursay
19. Apr 2024 · 03:42 UTC
yum yum! eggheads are cute and also jammed my traffic heavily lol, I woudl like to see more incoming floors rather than seats floors though since there are just so many of them waiting there and I feel guilt not serving them in time lol. Overall Great Job!
ellaris
19. Apr 2024 · 08:41 UTC
Interesting game, once they leave the elevator they stack and when going back in it's hard to judge how many there are to figure out which floor to transport them to.
wo_ri_gou_le
19. Apr 2024 · 08:45 UTC
I like their shape and color, as if they are fruit ice bowls and looks delisious. They just wait and no complain, and been cute, really cute game! (It will be cool if I could pay other upgrades like, zoom out camera and has another elevator
SaraFilipa
19. Apr 2024 · 12:31 UTC
Awww so cute! I want to feed those eggheads! Super cute art and concept. :) I think it could be interesting to have some sound cues as well, i.e. elevator sounds. Well done!
Lone_Wolf
20. Apr 2024 · 00:06 UTC
Neat take on the theme, 'tis a shame the compo only gives you 48 hours.

As mentioned by previous comments a better way of seeing all of the floors would have been nice. There was a point where I was basically forced to stop playing because scrolling was too hard. That's a good issue to have though I guess, nice work!
Memnarch
26. Apr 2024 · 20:03 UTC
Nice puzzle game. Liked it.
Tod Semple
29. Apr 2024 · 05:04 UTC
Love the art and the vibe. Please finish so I can play more!