Puddle of Slimes by Apoly7

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made by Apoly7 for Ludum Dare 56 (JAM)

You are the new Slimeherd. The chosen one to reunite all types of slimes to re-forme the king slime!

Slimes are small creatures that live peacefully together. They tend to move in group and follow their neighbors (do you know boids???). However, they need to be grouped to form the special King Slime. main play.png Guide them inside the fence by using your natural Slimeherd influence on slime. If that not enough, you have three capacities to help you in your task.

Beware, slimes behaviors vary depend on their species.

Blue ones are excited but frightened by dog and other species. Red ones are slow moving slime and are likely to be distracted by dog. Green ones are the more disciplined and follow the guide.

Controls: You only need the mouse to play, click on power to use it!

  • Click (or hold) on the first ability to move around the level.
  • Click on the second ability to put a dog on your position.
  • Click on the third ability to attract the slimes.
  • Click on the fourth ability to shout at the slimes.

You can also use the shortcut 1,2,3,4 on the keyboards to use this function. Capture d’écran 2024-10-06 174802.png Capture d’écran 2024-10-06 175333.png

CREDITS

Programmers

  • Luca Floreau
  • Grégoire Boiron
  • Benjamin Ledoux
  • Hervé Chevallier
  • Erwan Ousidhoum

Game Designer

  • Benjamin Ledoux
  • Hervé Chevallier
  • Luca Floreau
  • Grégoire Boiron

Main UI Programmer

  • Erwan Ousidhoum

Music Composer & Sound Designer

  • Arnaud Royer

Art & Cinematic

  • Alexandre Méaux

Problem Solver & Anger Management

  • Erwan Ousidhoum

Uncle Ben

  • Grégoire Boiron

Free Asset Store

  • Low Poly Fence Pack - Broken Vector
  • 25+ Free Stylized Textures - Game Buffs
  • Low Poly Mushrooms Pack - Papersy
  • Stylized Low Poly Rocks - JustCreate
  • (URP) Simple Toon Shader - Indie Game Helper
  • Kawaii Slimes - Awaii Studio
  • Simple Toon ​- Dmitry Chalovskiy

Ratings

Overall 685th 3.409⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Fun 759th 3.159⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 567th 3.275⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Theme 330th 3.925⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Audio 257th 3.675⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Humor 545th 3.05⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Mood 549th 3.5⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Given 24🗳️ 9🗨️

Feedback

Vlad_Russu
07. Oct 2024 · 12:27 UTC
Who is a good boy xDD
HangoverGames
07. Oct 2024 · 12:53 UTC
Great visual style and concept! Somehow it reminds me of overlord, with this indirect control. Best you can do in my opinion is to add a tutorial ingame. is this a bug or feature that you can spawn few dogs in one place?
ryzhovalex
09. Oct 2024 · 08:11 UTC
Interesting idea, but feels like a bit overwhelmed. Seems like there's a redundant amount of abilities, and it's not memorable (after reading the initial description) why i need certain ability. So i ended up using only the first one for the movement.

It would be cool to have only e.g. movement and some attracting button.

Unfortunately, the font is barely readable in my opinion.

Graphic is great.

Sounds and music are well done.
zwartraider
09. Oct 2024 · 08:14 UTC
Beautiful looking game! It kinda reminds me of viva pinata for some reason! The indirect control is also a cool mechanic. :thumbsup:
wzjo
09. Oct 2024 · 08:40 UTC
the lowpoly character is very cute, and i also like the enviornment design, but i also think that if the game can add some guides could be better.
LDJam user 373269
10. Oct 2024 · 08:27 UTC
I didn't immediately understand how to play and only by poking and prodding found a way to complete the game. Now I'm wondering why these dogs and the fourth ability?
![puddle-of-slimes.PNG](///raw/512/b5/z/686cf.png)
GameDevTraum
22. Oct 2024 · 01:27 UTC
Loved the 3d models and shading, also the music was very relaxing :relaxed:
Transkuja
25. Oct 2024 · 11:13 UTC
Lot of information to take in between the different behaviors of each colored puddle. Once you got the hang of it, it was fun :smile:
Ydindamin
25. Oct 2024 · 21:20 UTC
I enjoyed the models and the music! But I was a confused as to how to get all the slimes to merge? The green ones were easy enough, but the blue and red didn't seem to want to stay in the goal? Again, really cute game, I hope I can figure it out!
LDJam user 303058
25. Oct 2024 · 21:33 UTC
Very fun! Each color's behaviors were easy to figure out, and I like the music and short but fun length.

![Screenshot 2024-10-25 162819.png](///raw/2df/94/z/691f0.png)
Khelian
25. Oct 2024 · 21:35 UTC
C'était marrant, j'ai bien aimé la musique ^^