Pest Quest by ruthiepee

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made by ruthiepee for Ludum Dare 56 (COMPO)

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A SILLY, CREEPY-CRAWLY SMASH-EM-UP

Can you crush all the cockroaches? Simply click to eviscerate all the pests in more than six levels of bug-smashing fun!

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TOOLS USED

Code & 3D Modeling: Spline.design

2D art & UI: Procreate

Audio & music: GarageBand and the Voice Memos iOS app with my 6-month-old baby

Ratings

Overall 91th 3.75⭐ 20🧑‍⚖️
Fun 114th 3.553⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 248th 2.917⭐ 20🧑‍⚖️
Theme 102th 3.861⭐ 20🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 54th 4.125⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Audio 35th 3.975⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Humor 36th 3.833⭐ 20🧑‍⚖️
Mood 78th 3.75⭐ 20🧑‍⚖️
Given 12🗳️ 12🗨️

Feedback

LightningST
07. Oct 2024 · 00:35 UTC
Great art and music! Also good job making all of the environments fun and unique!
GrUt607
07. Oct 2024 · 16:04 UTC
Okay this is a pretty fun game especially the sounds I really like
SdCorpse
07. Oct 2024 · 20:37 UTC
Music is awesome!
ILDr82
12. Oct 2024 · 23:39 UTC
Overall, it's good, but when I click on a running cockroach, it doesn't always react.
Pachino55
13. Oct 2024 · 23:05 UTC
Music is great, very fun game, I could sit here for hours playing this one
Spice Cabinet
13. Oct 2024 · 23:19 UTC
The sound effects and music are very fun and make squishing the roaches quite satisfying! It would've been nice to be able to reset individual levels though, since I had to restart the game a couple times when not all the squished bugs registered. Nice submission!
Budaniel
13. Oct 2024 · 23:33 UTC
I love the pole dancing roach! 😅 I had trouble finding the bugs on the last stage, but not in a frustrating way, and I did eventually find them.
oliver_day
14. Oct 2024 · 01:14 UTC
Even though it took a while for the cockroach to react and the frames felt really slow (could just be because I don't have my GPU working) I liked the style and the animation.
ellearx
14. Oct 2024 · 01:15 UTC
Roaches are my biggest phobia so I couldn´t play much but the game looks great and the mechanics are nice and smooth, great job!
impiaaa
14. Oct 2024 · 01:15 UTC
Cute sound effects and nice visuals, despite the gross subject. Moving roaches would teleport when I clicked them, and I had to zoom out to be able to finish the last level.
Harmadillo
14. Oct 2024 · 17:59 UTC
The levels look great and i really like the little spirit leaving the roaches bodies. Plus squishing roaches is always satisfying.
mrspeaker
15. Oct 2024 · 21:23 UTC
Haha, how can squishing cockroaches be so delightful?! I love the concept and the execution (no pun intended!) - the art and audio is really impressive.

Buuut, I have some technical problems on my Mac M2: I think because it's retina display which has a "devicePixelRatio" of 2. It looks like the my.spline.design link does not account for this, so I only see 1/4 of the screen zoomed-in.

So I used the "small screen" version which works (but is small)... then around level 4 (the one with the metro card) I squish 3 cockroaches, but the death animation doesn't trigger when I squish 'em and the level doesn't end.

I'll try it at work today though on my ol' work laptop!
🎤 ruthiepee
21. Oct 2024 · 12:59 UTC
@mrspeaker Thanks for the detailed bug report (no pun intended). The web viewer is a bit of a mystery to me because the documentation isn't very detailed, but I'll try to figure it out.
M2tias
21. Oct 2024 · 18:58 UTC
I've never heard of Spline.design before, interesting! Music is nice and art is really good. I crushed all the bugs but I think they are coming back when I go to sleep...
Maybe this is the start of a new genre: cozy horror.
Frogman
22. Oct 2024 · 15:29 UTC
I'm a winner! To be honest, when I first saw the name and title screen of the game I thought this was an adventure where you play as a cockroach. Suffice to say, my expectations were subverted :)

Anyway, this was great! I really enjoyed the graphics here, especially all the animations in the later levels and the various effects, such as the cockroach death or confetti ones. The sounds were very fun too, and some scenarios were hilarious! As others have said, squashing the moving roaches was a bit buggy sometimes, but otherwise things worked pretty smoothly for me. Overall, I really enjoyed it, awesome entry!
Urfoex
23. Oct 2024 · 13:08 UTC
![Pest Quest.png](///raw/dc/z/690b3.png)

Made me smile 😁
Nice entry 😁
Plasmak
23. Oct 2024 · 14:32 UTC
I love the audio and concept!! Laughed a few times while playing it :)