Squirrel puncher by eerongal
Help Dr. Buffnstuff retrieve his nuts!

Created in 72 hours for Ludum Dare 56 Jam
Credits:
Le Grand Chase - Kevin Macleod Mr. Exposition - Kevin Macleod Villainous Treachery - Kevin Macleod Mushroom 3d Low poly - Server Cat Studio Low Poly Acorn - TheMightyHitcher Farland Skies : Simple Cumulus - Borodar Arvore - Lowpoly Tree Cartoon - DioMartins Tree bark - Freepbr Patchy Meadow 1 - Freepbr Maple tree - atrodlerSilent movie frame - KTKato Motion Picture Font - Mans Greback
| Link | https://eerongal.itch.io/squirrel-puncher |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/56/squirrel-puncher |
Ratings
| Overall | 399th | 3.688⭐ | 50🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 149th | 3.898⭐ | 51🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 670th | 3.135⭐ | 50🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 549th | 3.673⭐ | 51🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 652th | 3.5⭐ | 50🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 12th | 4.449⭐ | 51🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 242th | 3.894⭐ | 49🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 41🗳️ | 80🗨️ |
Cool art desing with voice sound, sometimes squirrels were in the air.
Crazy-messy boss fight is great xd
The boss is cool and the powerups were nice, even if maybe too plentiful-
It was weird that i couldnt look down and the sencetivity was a lil too much
And I really liked the boss, pixelart and the whole "scielent film"-esk lore :)
This is once of those games that's just silly, and unapologetic about it. Good fun.
Very fun game, Northstar upgrade is my favorite and made me laugh :laughing:
Good times! Thanks a lot
Otherwise, I had a blast. I love the art style on the pixel-art and the pop-art title card.
My feedback for some things that were a little unclear:
* Somehow telegraph when the squirrels attack, because it was hard for me to judge how closely I would be hit.
* The intro said that I needed to scale the tree and find the nuts, but even after exploration I could not find my target. If the nuts were somewhere, maybe revealing it to the player somehow would clarify the objective. The challenge would be simply getting there, not also finding it.
Very enjoyable silly fun!
I appreciated that you provided the boss fight on the main menu, so I got to also experience that!
The graphics are good, but would benefit from more feedback to the player, especially when fighting the boss.
Also entertaining game, though the mouse is a tad sensitive. And the boss stage seemed to have you shoot these weird blue rectangles that kinda messed with the view. Otherwise a quality experience.
Perfect game. Sure, I would have liked to be able to look down a bit more, have slightly more polished movement, but that would have taken away from this one in a lifetime experience.
As my [insert native language] teacher would say, this game is a "experienta fundamentala de viata". Thank you for creating this gem.
10/10. Unironically don't have anything else to say.
EDIT: I JUST REMEMBERED THE VOICE ACTING. GREAT. (some lines were stopped while they were playing though, so I didn't get to hear everything Dr. Buffnstuff had to say :floppy_disk: )


-Dr. BuffnStuff
