Zombugs by AlbionBrown
Survive by making gas to exterminate these tiny devilish creatures! Collect canisters and chemicals from around the neighborhood and take them back to your tumbledri... I mean sophisticated fumigation solution mixing machine, to mix and reload your backpack.
Controls - Move: WASD - Aim: Mouse - Reload: R - Pickup: E - Put canisters & chemicals in tumbledrier: E
Source code included for your learning and to be laughed at. There is also no audio in this game as I ran out of time.
| Link | https://drive.google.com/file/d/1e6R2yjvIVMQ8xTNCrZy0FBaU2kFcmrPE/view?usp=sharing |
| Link | https://github.com/albionbrown/Ld56 |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/56/zombugs |
Ratings
| Overall | 879th | 3.184⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 685th | 3.237⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 1024th | 2.421⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 888th | 3.132⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 889th | 2.921⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 770th | 2.588⭐ | 19🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 830th | 3.167⭐ | 20🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 11🗳️ | 16🗨️ |
The game certainly lacks any goal. Why ever exit the house, if it's safe there? You could add there at least a goal like "find 3 items", that already would be much more interesting. In the lore, it could be like you must find survivors and "help them" by clicking E, so no no new mechanics required.
Also I strongly recomend you to put a game screenshot as a cover, the current one is clearly not attractive. I'm here only because I decided to go for games in the order that ludum dare gave me.
The shooting part is nice, but again requires some balance, like may be put less enemies and lower their damage. And may be spawn them out of the game view because it looks very strange ot see them spawning right next to me.
but ran out of gas and could not figure out how to get more.
are there any music or sound effects? i miss them
@ollibanjo Thanks! Graphics by H4rry. To get more, collect empty canisters and chemicals, thhen take them to the machine at the start. That'll process them and spit out a full canister.
The controls are smooth, and the game loop is very replayable. My only criticism is that since this is a score-based game, there's no end screen to show me my final score. Perhaps you didn't have time to implement it, but it would really complete the experience.
Overall, this is already a fascinating project for a game jam—great job!
cute game, found myself replaying it some time
Graphics are good, i would say maybe bugs should have died after damaging player? rn if one spawns right besides you it kills you in 2 seconds
Overall i enjoyed my time, tho instruction on inventory and the machine wouldd've been good to get me started more easilly (:
The reaload didn't seems to work.
But with a fiew changes (more weapons, increase in difficulty with time, a todo list) it would be a nice little game.
Great job