Moos from the Depth of Space by notnasiul

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made by notnasiul for Ludum Dare 57 (COMPO)

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WE WERE ONCE A MIGHTY RACE WHO CROSSED THE GALAXIES

In our voyages we found a beautiful planet and many of us fell in love with its pastures. The grass was indeed greener there! Some kept exploring, but most stayed behind.

However, those who stayed were soon enslaved, milked and... devoured by humans.

Now it's time to save them, time to bring them back. Time to return to the DEPTHS of space!

HOW TO PLAY

  • Fly your UFO with cursors/arrow keys
  • Activate your tractor beam with Z
  • Drop cows on your mothership's tractor beam to save them!

Ratings

Overall 60th 3.767⭐ 60🧑‍⚖️
Fun 36th 3.81⭐ 60🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 164th 3.233⭐ 60🧑‍⚖️
Theme 287th 2.319⭐ 60🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 49th 4.078⭐ 60🧑‍⚖️
Audio 107th 3.431⭐ 60🧑‍⚖️
Humor 19th 3.842⭐ 59🧑‍⚖️
Mood 103th 3.64⭐ 59🧑‍⚖️
Given 21🗳️ 36🗨️

Feedback

sarellano
07. Apr 2025 · 02:38 UTC
This is awesome! I loved the details on everything, the art, the gameplay (challenging but not too challenging), all of it!
BarnabeWild
07. Apr 2025 · 15:39 UTC
Very polished, good challenge vrey nice art!
Jared Saizdelamora
07. Apr 2025 · 16:57 UTC
Really tight game. Great art style, and very polished. Great job!
PolymathLD
07. Apr 2025 · 17:02 UTC
Loved this, an early favorite from the jam! Very funny, great art, solid gameplay, challenge factor felt just right. Multiple times I found myself thinking "I wish you could..." and then I actually tried it, and whaddya know, the dev thought of that too! Great work.
YibiRabbit007
07. Apr 2025 · 17:16 UTC
I love your art style! It looks so cute!!
LDJam user 385997
08. Apr 2025 · 09:39 UTC
Amazing game, really polished with great graphics and sound effects. The gameplay is also well-balanced, which made it even more enjoyable.
LDJam user 384191
08. Apr 2025 · 10:51 UTC
Great cart! I don't often see this kind of art style with PICO-8 games. The gameplay is simple but effective, and it feels very "complete" and polished. Love it!
JulienLussiez
08. Apr 2025 · 11:59 UTC
Really cool! It works well and it's well presented. I like the map to follow action, it's a nice addition!
Corbak
08. Apr 2025 · 16:54 UTC
I had a lot of fun with the game actually! Even so minimalistic but challenging. Well done on your entry!
I actually liked the fact you can pick up hunters and throw them on others to stun them. Was funny to see. The controls were feeling nice since it was really challenging to picj up and stay in the air, just like somehow flappy duck.
A cool little game that you finished to the end, congrats! :)
levi kingma
08. Apr 2025 · 17:00 UTC
Nice visuals and gameplay!
TimeLost
08. Apr 2025 · 17:02 UTC
The gameplay is simple but fun. The art style is excellent. The fact you can pick up the humans is funny and drag them to mother tractor beam. I loved how the map was done at the top. Overall the game is very good and fun.
Texugo
08. Apr 2025 · 17:14 UTC
This is great! Love the art, the game is really funny and the idea of cows abducting cows made me giggle. Also, I'm really bad at it HAHAHAHAHA
Delunado
08. Apr 2025 · 17:15 UTC
Holi! Very fun game, it was difficult but I managed to save the cows! He seguido tu progreso por el canal de Telegram y me ha encantado jugarlo :)
DennisPerSecond
08. Apr 2025 · 17:15 UTC
very nice little game, could be a part of "UFO 50" :D
shores
08. Apr 2025 · 17:16 UTC
Love it! This is the kind of game I always wanted to make as a kid! Now I don't have to make it, because I can just play this game that you made instead! Haha. Ha. Anyway it was deliciously fun and a pleasure, thanks for allowing me to play it!
resty
08. Apr 2025 · 17:16 UTC
this is a quite fun game, simple yet challenge. art is quite good too, love those cute cows
bigwhiteshogun
08. Apr 2025 · 17:16 UTC
the pico 8 games over the years are becoming more and more visualy impressive to me, this one is a great example, stunning pixel art, with so many limitations. Really good work overall, and enjoyable gameplay, though I did not manage to beat the game. One last cow... one :P
PieRo_PBeS_studio
08. Apr 2025 · 19:59 UTC
That's my jam ! I really like the idea and the little storyline of the game...I think it's really cool... the execution is great, the graphics are really cute, I love the look on the cows' faces when you hit them with the beam. I really like the arcade gameplay which I find very suitable for PICO and as part of a jam. It's very cool, well done.
island-jam-2-group-3
08. Apr 2025 · 20:59 UTC
Awesome game as always!
Adamwigs
09. Apr 2025 · 01:01 UTC
The cows were really cute! This gave me fun, old school Defender vibes, nice job!
mao
09. Apr 2025 · 02:31 UTC
I got all 10 cows, but I completely missed the fact you can pick up the farmers... I'll have to try it again!
xpoho
09. Apr 2025 · 06:30 UTC
![изображение_2025-04-09_132817749.png](///raw/d14/a3/z/6ba4a.png)

How can i eat burgers now?! Well, i will eat it anyway, i guess.


Cute little cows! And game ^_^
marudziik
09. Apr 2025 · 07:54 UTC
One of my favorite entries! And yay, PICO-8! Great entry, I enjoyed the polish - the fact that you can pick up cow and drop it on top of the farmers, and that you can knock'em out as well - lovely! Great job, thanks!
Fis
09. Apr 2025 · 14:12 UTC
it is such a nice litte game idea, well executed and great pixel art - love it!
Mathstr0fficial
09. Apr 2025 · 17:53 UTC
Really well done! P8 is a tricky engine to get to feel right, but you absolutely did. Super satisfying loop, and just hard enough to force me to get good without being frustrating. My full playthrough with more thoughts is here:

https://youtu.be/QCuKvKiW0fI
tolja
09. Apr 2025 · 18:13 UTC
Really nice! Took a few tries to beat and the mini map was very helpful addition
CodeRaurus
10. Apr 2025 · 17:29 UTC
I like it! The game gets quite intense when you're nearing the end, in a good way.

Graphically pleasing and the simple tune sets the mood well.

Good work.
busisen
12. Apr 2025 · 10:57 UTC
really well executed, nicely balanced - like others have said it gets intense especially towards the end but in a perfect way. the art is a great match - amazing entry, bookmarked it for later as well!
LeReveur
12. Apr 2025 · 20:44 UTC
It took me several tries before I manage to get it and finish, but it worth it, I enjoyed a lot playing this entry, good job!
ljg
15. Apr 2025 · 21:00 UTC
Neat game! I liked the cow's animations, well done!
LucaVazz
17. Apr 2025 · 20:30 UTC
Really well done game - great art and music and I loved the "mini-map" at the top
superpokeunicorn
19. Apr 2025 · 03:14 UTC
Hilarious concept! Thought the gameplay was really well executed; allowing the player to pick up and throw or even abduct the farmers was a clever dual use of the mechanic that offered some good decision points, especially later in the game as the farmers really pile up. Visuals were great; not only was the spritework charming, but the way things jiggled when in the tractor beam gave a real sense of weight. Music was a little on the repetitive side, but got the job done. Overall, fantastic work!
librory
19. Apr 2025 · 05:18 UTC
That's really funny, though not sure 100% how that related to the theme. Anyways i love this game and i on 2nd attempt i saved all cows. Like that u can beam up humans too, that's just rocks) Music and art are very cool too) Great job!
Ammonit
19. Apr 2025 · 05:25 UTC
The feeling is like I picked up my Nokia N-Gage and launched a classic, awesome game on it! Everything together is super cool!!!
ditam
19. Apr 2025 · 16:41 UTC
That's probably the prettiest Pico-8 game I've ever seen. Very cool! Just hard enough to be challenging but still fun. I love the added touch of the minimap, it's very helpful.
Jake G
19. Apr 2025 · 19:59 UTC
Absolutely fantastic pixel art!!! I love pixel art so much, and you nailed that part of it. You even had sprite animations for the walking, etc.

The cows are hilarious and adorable. I may have crashed my UFO into a cow more than a few times.

I wish there was slightly more music/audio but the sounds you do have are perfect.

Even the fire/burning animation on the gameover screen shows a full attention to detail.

IMO it's one of the top entries for LD57.
BadPiggy
20. Apr 2025 · 12:08 UTC
![Screenshot 2025-04-20 173104.png](///raw/8f7/d2/z/6c596.png)


Very solid game and idea here. The art looked adorable as well

That said, I think the ship's vertical movement needed some tuning. It seems to fall a little too quickly imo

At first I felt the number of farmers spawning and shooting at a time was a little too much, but I do love that you can pick them up. It makes things a lot more manageable and fun

That said, I feel like the game got pretty monotonous after a while. It really needed atleast one more enemy type, or atleast one other type of obstacle.

All things considered though, this was a pretty damn good and funny entry
MoD_Wiz
20. Apr 2025 · 18:34 UTC
I really do like this one, absolutely adorable sprite design and a solid gameplay.

Flying being on up is breaks my brain for some reason, it's 100% a me problem but I strongly feel that I would prefer thrust being on a button (especially considering that the second pico 8 button is unused).
Tried it on a keyboard, have beaten it on a physical device with d-pad and it still control felt weird for me.

![DR2S.jpg](///raw/b63/46/z/6c5bc.jpg)
Roroto Sic
20. Apr 2025 · 20:45 UTC
I love the mooood !! So funny game !! Very good pixel art , very very juicy game feels !!
My best is 7 cows save bc to much angry farmer !
Phasmantic
21. Apr 2025 · 02:55 UTC
This game was so good! I really liked the creative premise, and the pixel art was very polished. Overall amazingly done!