Tiny Taunters by ssiannas

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made by ssiannas for Ludum Dare 56 (JAM)

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You're one of us, you are a Taunter...

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... and you are determined to haunt a mansion and drive the residents mad with your presence! Run around the house taunting the residents and scaring kids! But beware, the residents will fight back!

▶️ Play Game (itch.io)

🎮 Controls

WASD - Move around the mansion

[SPACE] - Taunt the nearby residents. Be careful because you can't move while you are taunting!

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Ratings

Overall 450th 3.643⭐ 58🧑‍⚖️
Fun 426th 3.545⭐ 58🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 529th 3.318⭐ 57🧑‍⚖️
Theme 519th 3.709⭐ 57🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 413th 3.866⭐ 58🧑‍⚖️
Audio 101th 3.964⭐ 57🧑‍⚖️
Humor 272th 3.536⭐ 57🧑‍⚖️
Mood 308th 3.807⭐ 59🧑‍⚖️
Given 61🗳️ 121🗨️

Feedback

WhiteFox
07. Oct 2024 · 20:26 UTC
Lesssgooooooooo 🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳👻🐭🪳
metaksonio
07. Oct 2024 · 20:28 UTC
Woaaahaaa!! :fire: :fire: :fire:
Iustinian
07. Oct 2024 · 20:36 UTC
Really liked it, great job!
zbrogdom
07. Oct 2024 · 21:49 UTC
Love the audio. It's easy to exploit the game by cornering the child in a dead end, maybe they should faint from fear after some time? Anyway one of my favorite so far
emmagsmith
08. Oct 2024 · 08:59 UTC
Fun spooky game :)
TentacleDream
08. Oct 2024 · 10:53 UTC
I really liked the style of your project! It's a very atmospheric game and the voice acting is very funny! I would advise to avoid square colliders in future updates. P.S. the characters really cute ^^
Prussichger
08. Oct 2024 · 16:05 UTC
The sounds :laughing:
I like the style!
BastelBasti
08. Oct 2024 · 16:05 UTC
Love the game music haha and all the handdrawn details. Feels really indie (in a good way).
ArmainAP
08. Oct 2024 · 16:06 UTC
I like the sound and the visuals of the game.
The mansion is quite overpopulated with residents if you ask me :laughing:
snesgaard
08. Oct 2024 · 16:07 UTC
Fun game with great sound and art style. As others have said, it's very easy to exploit and effectively get an infinite score.
evindor
08. Oct 2024 · 16:10 UTC
Super cool little game! Art and music are great, everything fits very well! Props for making several characters!
ratly
08. Oct 2024 · 16:12 UTC
Simple and effective game, nice art and audio too!
pierallard
08. Oct 2024 · 16:28 UTC
I liked it a lot ! Thanks for this entry !
Jeffez
08. Oct 2024 · 16:31 UTC
Really nice game ! Was fun to see how to escape the different enemy. Music and Graphics were also really nice.

Good job !
🎤 ssiannas
08. Oct 2024 · 23:10 UTC
Hiya all! Thank you for your kind comments :heart:. We are all really excited because it was @metaksonio's first time doing art for a game and my first time writing music / SFX for a game and it was tough doing it while coding at the same time. So we are **really really really** glad you liked it.

We made a couple of small updates (more underway once we find time to polish some stuff).

Namely:

- No more kid exploits. They faint after some good scares.
- Tuned some enemies to make them just a bit spookier.
- Improved some of the annoying colliders.

Thanks @snesgaard, @zbrogdom and @tentacledream for the feedback and ideas :smile:
hidden61ade
09. Oct 2024 · 02:45 UTC
Love the art style!! The chase is tense but not too much. Good job!
David Soriano
09. Oct 2024 · 03:27 UTC
Simple game but cool. The audio is great and the assets too! Perfect for the spooky season
zwartraider
09. Oct 2024 · 08:20 UTC
I really like the music and sound effects in this game! Overall it's very charming and fun to play :thumbsup:
Zyppi
09. Oct 2024 · 08:22 UTC
I love the aesthetic. It really looks like an old movie. The gameplay is quite fun and the little bugs are cute. One thing I would tweak is the residents AI. They really like to get stuck around the walls making easy point farm.
sketchbookbug
09. Oct 2024 · 08:24 UTC
Beautiful game! Its really interesting that you don't have to kill people, you just have to scare them! It's so cool when you are mightful and a cute animated rat at a time. Didn't experience any bugs so far.
🎤 ssiannas
09. Oct 2024 · 08:47 UTC
@zyppi Thanks for the feedback!

>"It really looks like an old movie."

That's the aesthetic we were going for! Glad it didn't go unnoticed. :smiley:

>"They really like to get stuck around the walls making easy point farm."

Yeah that's true :sweat_smile:. It's in our plans for the upcoming patch to fix the enemy AI once we find some time.
eerongal
09. Oct 2024 · 14:13 UTC
This is a fun little game with great graphics. It's kinda rough around the edges, but also its a game jam game, so no surprise there. Nice work
Transkuja
09. Oct 2024 · 19:13 UTC
Nice and funny game, love the ambiance :smile:
Tryam
09. Oct 2024 · 19:23 UTC
A simple but very fun game. I liked the graphics in the game and the good animations. The music is great too. All the characters are very cute, but they probably lack some sounds during the taunts.
Thanks for the mood! Good luck!
Neon Kuroasa
09. Oct 2024 · 20:27 UTC
Really great game overall, had a lot of fun, really liked the sound when you trigger a plague doctor
Oinkle
10. Oct 2024 · 00:23 UTC
This is a really humorous and fun game! Great Stuff :D
Cody Raethke
10. Oct 2024 · 03:42 UTC
Nice game! The character select was a nice touch, you could add different abilities or stats to them to add a bit more variety/replayability. I really enjoyed the music and sound effects, and thought it was a pretty unique idea. I kept getting hung up on the various objects throughout the room; maybe more specific collision shapes or more clarity in what the objects were would be helpful.
Slava Besckaravainii
10. Oct 2024 · 08:49 UTC
I really enjoyed the game, the music is top-notch, and the atmosphere is excellent. The kids’ squeals are delightful. The gameplay is simple and easy to understand.
LDJam user 385232
10. Oct 2024 · 13:54 UTC
Really neat entry, good job team ! I like the overall aesthetic and I really had fun trying to trap those pesky pest doctors in corners :laughing: . The animations are cute and effective and everything just runs so smoothly. Well done !
FrozenDude
10. Oct 2024 · 14:06 UTC
Great game with very fitting music. I enjoyed it a lot.
DurkaGames
10. Oct 2024 · 20:32 UTC
That was fun, we love the graphics. Audio was nice, overall great entry!
ProstoCupOfTea
11. Oct 2024 · 11:31 UTC
I love it, very simple, very cute
couldnt rate the audio atm, gonna get back to it as i cant listen rn T_T
maybe house could be a lil smaller as i was lost a lot...
Overall i like the idea and graphics
Joer
11. Oct 2024 · 22:05 UTC
![flax.png](///raw/f49/95/z/68a3e.png)

Stayed flexin behind the table for maximum score :D
Pachino55
12. Oct 2024 · 21:19 UTC
I really like the music in this game, nice job
Judith Hantisse
13. Oct 2024 · 02:45 UTC
Love the concept of the game and the general mood! The cries of the residents makes it very fun to run around. It's fun to try and get the AIs stuck on the obstacle as well. Nice job
Skel3ton
13. Oct 2024 · 11:25 UTC
It was fun... Ghost is my favorite. Silly music and voices are great. Good entry :)
GaryS
13. Oct 2024 · 15:50 UTC
Good fun! I managed to chase a kid into a corner and give a plague doctor the run around, returning to the corner to scare the kid again and again. Perhaps it shouldn't give more points once the kid has fainted. Enjoyed this though.
Sasa_2010
19. Oct 2024 · 10:14 UTC
Wow! The game is so wonderful! Keep making games!
Carraka
20. Oct 2024 · 02:06 UTC
What a cute game! I discovered an exploit where I trapped three kids in a corner and just stood there and let my numbers go up due to proximity. They never fainted. I want to submit my high score but perhaps it's dishonest since I didn't have to work for it. :D
WhiteFox
20. Oct 2024 · 10:46 UTC
Hey @carraka, glad you enjoyed the game! I really love the artwork as well and it's great to have @metaksonio on the team :art:. Thanks for mentioning the "exploit", it's been a game of whack-a-mole trying to balance the scoring so it's helping us a lot to improve. Feel free to submit the score, seems honest enough to me 😉
Plasmak
25. Oct 2024 · 09:25 UTC
This is really cute! Love the concept!
Geckoo1337
25. Oct 2024 · 14:57 UTC
Fun game - clever. The artwork is really well done - spooky ++
Korteh
25. Oct 2024 · 17:08 UTC
great spooky vibes, love it!