Bugs For Doug by DangItsPang

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made by DangItsPang for Ludum Dare 56 (COMPO)

Made by Owen Gold in 48 hours for Ludum Dare 56.

You are Cicada, the hardy robot assistant to Doug. It is your job to fill up your encyclopedia with all the local bugs! You can collect three bugs each day, and Doug will buy them off of you at the end of each day. Use this money to upgrade yourself to collect smaller and rarer bugs!

Controls are super basic: WASD to move, E to interact, T to open encyclopedia, Click items in the shop to purchase

Enjoy!

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Ratings

Given 10🗳️ 5🗨️

Feedback

ROBOWARRIOR1982
07. Oct 2024 · 08:36 UTC
This is a nice start for an small RPG/collect, there is a way to look the encyclopedia and see what bugs have already find ? (i don't find it). There are different place to search and that's limited by the tools you can buy in the shop, that's classic but work fine.
GrUt607
07. Oct 2024 · 14:52 UTC
Quite a good RPG game, if you want, you can hang out for half an hour
🎤 DangItsPang
07. Oct 2024 · 22:18 UTC
Hey @robowarrior1982 ! Yes, you can press T to open the encyclopedia. Doug should tell you that in your first interaction with him. I did forget to include that on this page though - sorry about that!

Hope you had some fun!
Historymaker118
08. Oct 2024 · 07:37 UTC
This is a fun concept and I like how you designed the core gameplay loop. I think it would benefit from some additional upgrades that you can purchase as I had far too much money left over at the end. Maybe add some upgrades that allow you to carry more bugs at a time, or one that highlights an area that will give you an increased chance of finding a bug you haven't caught yet? There's a solid little game in there somewhere and for a prototype made in a weekend it has a lot of potential. I hope you had a lot of fun making this.
Arscene
08. Oct 2024 · 07:47 UTC
Congrats on your entry. I wished I could choose to keep or not a bug. I really like the progression.
🎤 DangItsPang
08. Oct 2024 · 15:37 UTC
Thanks for the feedback, @historymaker118 ! Yeah, I was planning on having a bunch more items in the shop but simply didn't have the time. I'm not happy with how I balanced the money, but I'm happy I got something submitted. Hope you had fun!
euske
12. Oct 2024 · 15:44 UTC
This is pretty much a race with RNG, but you made the experience interesting enough, which is a great job. Nice work!
Tetrergeru
13. Oct 2024 · 15:51 UTC
Cute game, I liked the randomness, it adds to the thrill with the possibility of failure (maybe I am just saying it because I got lucky to catch the last rare bug on the last day)
StoicGoose
18. Oct 2024 · 22:25 UTC
Cozy little game with alot of athmosphere. I liked that the trader payed me so much, he must be really passionate about bugs :smile: