Squeezlings by Rongo Matane

Your little Squeezlings need help!
Though cute and very diligent these tiny creatures always require a little "nudge" in the right direction.
Guide their Rapid Evolution™ and satisfy your hunger!
Watch them as they take care of themselves and your plants.
The next yummy Nellemon is ripe for the growing!
— Controls —
WASD = move camera
Left-click = pick up/drop
Right-click = squash
TEAM:
René Habermann - Direction, game design, coding, production
Anne Hecker - Art
Raffaele Picca - Art, Coding, game design
Luca Martinelli - Coding, game design
Ste - Coding
Shux - Cover Art
Ron Kaiser - QA
Martin Kvale - Sound design
Cameron Paxton - Composing, music production, logo
| Link | https://bippinbits.itch.io/squeezlings |
| Link | https://bippinbits.itch.io/squeezlings |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/56/squeezlings |
Ratings
| Overall | 134th | 4.017⭐ | 32🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 250th | 3.733⭐ | 32🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 66th | 4.033⭐ | 32🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 20th | 4.467⭐ | 32🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 79th | 4.45⭐ | 32🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 19th | 4.317⭐ | 32🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 236th | 3.6⭐ | 32🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 54th | 4.25⭐ | 32🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 7🗳️ | 3🗨️ |
The game was an absolute blast though, well done.
Really impressed this is made in Godot too.
Here is my attempt:
https://youtu.be/wA4GMvD2DBY
My first and third run the chopsticks got stuck together, only taking movement input when i held the mouse button pressed. My second round I got quite far, but one night, when they gathered around the campfire, they just stood there doing nothing, never to return to their daily activities.
This is to be expected in a Jam but given the long game loop, it's quite annoying.
If you do take the time to fix these issue please send me an @ and I'll be glad to try it again.
love the chopsticks and the finger mechanic ;)
For my tastes, this is probably the best looking game I have played and the best use of the theme I have seen so far. Great work!
There are so many great systems you've implemented -- automation, breeding. This is really an impressive submission. 5/5!
(Maybe) bug report? I dropped one of the first berries in another bowl, and then tried to pick it up -- the game crashed. But maybe there was something else happening during the night that caused the issue. The game is not very performant on my laptop XD
I figured out the icons under their name showed what upgrades they had already, and how to cull the herd. I do wish you could close out of the help / quest windows when they popped up. But that's really all I think that would make it better.
Encountered one bug where the night feast wouldn't end and the game would be stuck. Not sure what triggered the bug, perhaps me killing a squeezeling during the feast.
Graphics and musics were great and made relaxing mood so I could play this for a long time all the way till the end.
I liked the evolutionary mechanics and the fact you could cultivate inferior creatures away to make way for the next pinnacle creature.

The differentiation to show squeezelings that have existed for a long time is a really good qol addition. The toast to show the end goal for some reason dissapeared very quickly for me (maybe due to me planting things when it was showing?) so didn't know the end goal until I ran into it
Ran into a bug where some frames were leaking into other frames (seemed to only happen to a specific type of squeezeling)

