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A super cool and accomplished entry, well done :wink: ","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1123298,"author_name":"LanaLux","author_uid":"lanalux","epoch":1744010464,"text":"that was fun! i wanted to be able to fight back against the other wolves though since i was bigger haha","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":1123486,"author_name":"CodeRaurus","author_uid":"coderaurus","epoch":1744016503,"text":"Nice vibes and I like the simplicity in gameplay. I got 86 points, it felt like the predators got way out of control. How does their spawning compare to hares?\n\nNice work.","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":1125306,"author_name":"OnnGD","author_uid":"onngd","epoch":1744054682,"text":"I don't understand how this relates to the topic, but the game is cool. The spawning of hares and enemies from the bushes is genius","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":1125350,"author_name":"island-jam-2-group-3","author_uid":"island-jam-2-group-3","epoch":1744055337,"text":"Fun little game!","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":1125421,"author_name":"LDJam user 301711","author_uid":"301711","epoch":1744056351,"text":"I figure the predators need to out pace you at some point or the game would go on forever.  For the spawning the prey spawn at 8 locations but less frequently (8s) and the predators spawn at 2 locations more frequently (3s), this was to stop players from just sitting over the prey spawn points.\n\nThe size thing doesn't change the ability to eat predators, I just thought it was an easy way to show your relative HP.","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":1126024,"author_name":"Thomas Higgins","author_uid":"thomas-higgins","epoch":1744067454,"text":"Got a score of 68 after a few tries hahaha - it's a pretty fun game. I like how the HP is shown gain\/lost visually by reducing\/enlarging the player.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1126581,"author_name":"Isaac Hisey","author_uid":"isaac-hisey","epoch":1744076260,"text":"Well done, I got about 58 for my high score. I did just kinda hug and hover over a few spawn points and only went after other wolves that got near my area.","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":1128035,"author_name":"Martin183","author_uid":"martin183","epoch":1744095025,"text":"Cool game, and fun that we had same game name. I like the game mechanics, it's cool to grow bigger and bigger until it turns around (:","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":1131300,"author_name":"rensun","author_uid":"rensun","epoch":1744125465,"text":"Does not correspond a little bit to the theme as was told in the description, nice music and sounds, during the game and I faced the fact that I was constantly being eaten and smaller prey became very few, and when increasing the size still could not resist large predators, because of this felt a little lost\ud83d\ude05, but so cool work, turned out quite pleasant, so I wish further development)!","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":1132295,"author_name":"Civ92","author_uid":"civ92","epoch":1744132215,"text":"Fun game, liked the scoring mechanics and the fact that the game's difficulty increases with time as the screen gets flooded with predators and rabbits get eaten in seconds ! A few collision glitches between predators but nothing that prevented me from playing :)","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":1133871,"author_name":"gold.daniel","author_uid":"gold-daniel","epoch":1744143244,"text":"Cute simple game, artwork is charming and the \"company logo\" made me laugh. Love the eye of the tiger cover, would have been nice to have different types of prey\/predators. Overall good entry!","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":1135270,"author_name":"Tori","author_uid":"tori","epoch":1744155051,"text":"good entry, simple game but work very well ! ","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":1135846,"author_name":"Teist","author_uid":"teist","epoch":1744164043,"text":"nice work! not theme related though, not to brag but I did make 107 (good game though!)","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":1136066,"author_name":"solmaris","author_uid":"solmaris","epoch":1744167532,"text":"Cool concept! Reminds me of feeding frenzy a bit, very nostalgic.","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":1143431,"author_name":"Pythorogus","author_uid":"pythorogus","epoch":1744306388,"text":"nice game","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":1147471,"author_name":"ScoobySnacks","author_uid":"scoobysnacks","epoch":1744455620,"text":"That loud monkey sound scared the shit of me lol)","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":1150261,"author_name":"LDJam user 301711","author_uid":"301711","epoch":1744578033,"text":"Sorry everyone about the loud monkey sound at the start, not my intention.  I even had it turned down to 20% in the inspector for this build. Not meant to be a jump scare, just my lousy sound engineering capabilities.","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":1152090,"author_name":"LDJam user 213574","author_uid":"213574","epoch":1744721443,"text":"Cute game. I don't really see the theme but you finished a game in 3 days and its pretty well polished. Well Done!","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":1153316,"author_name":"Empyreans","author_uid":"empyreans","epoch":1744849403,"text":"It's the \n\n### eye of the tiger\n\n#### It's the thrill of the fight\n\n### Rising up to the challenge of our rival\n\n#### And the last known survivor\n\n### Stalks his prey in the night\n\n## And he's watching us all with the eyeeeee\n\nof the tiger\n\n~ Survivor\n\n","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":1155153,"author_name":"LDJam user 0","author_uid":"0","epoch":1745149368,"text":"haha, I'm hungry like the wolf! Nice game, gets pretty hectic after a while. 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