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Very nice to play, II had a great time playing your game, congrats! :smile: \nFor me, that's almost a perfect score!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1155583,"author_name":"LDJam user 234769","author_uid":"234769","epoch":1745226511,"text":"Absolutely LOVED the intro :joy: pure gold  \nLiked the epic music that reminded you that this was not just a game for the wamps :laughing: \nVery cool gameplay, the first time around I was wondering if it was too easy, but then trying to beat the game as fast as possible ends up being quite a challenge! My lowest time was around 220s and I still felt like I made some lame choices lol.  \nThanks a lot!!  \n","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1155690,"author_name":"OadT","author_uid":"oadt","epoch":1745248869,"text":"Guess these wamps will never figure out how gravity works. Loved the hilarious intro and story! :smile: Also very fun game. Wished it was a bit easier to notice when you can choose a new update and maybe some buildings could be a bit better explained, but it was cool to notice all of the sudden that there is a housing mechanic! Also complement to your kids for the art, looks very charming!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1155759,"author_name":"Static_Leap_Studios","author_uid":"static-leap-studios","epoch":1745257834,"text":"This was really fun! I pushed the button to keep playing after the first tree was defeated, eventually all the buttons disappeared, I might have had too many wamps.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1156001,"author_name":"YurisSmile","author_uid":"yurissmile","epoch":1745306163,"text":"Excellent work!","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":1156399,"author_name":"Aizomon","author_uid":"aizomon","epoch":1745369940,"text":"Lovely that the kids are a big part of this game!\nThis game reminds me of Lemmings in so many good ways! Great work! :D","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":1156658,"author_name":"vangrail","author_uid":"vangrail","epoch":1745413210,"text":"Very fun game! I had to scramble my last worms but they could not eat the last apples. Definitely a well thought-of strategy game! Nice that your kids are involved in game dev the process!\n![Screenshot 2025-04-23 145800.png](\/\/\/raw\/a4a\/06\/z\/6c69f.png)","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":1156877,"author_name":"Zettelkasten","author_uid":"zettelkasten","epoch":1745441386,"text":"I love how you can use the good-old Minecraft alpha ladder technique, placing a ladder only every second block.\n\n![asdasd.jpg](\/\/\/raw\/5de\/1\/z\/6c6c0.jpg)\n\nReally cool game! I enjoyed it a lot and played through a few apple trees until I mined away literally the entire map. The upgrade system makes it very satisfying (although I didn't find it first, maybe some better visual indication could help).\nSome small issue: Later in the game, the upgrade menu started to disappear and the text on the top-right box flickered.","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":1156980,"author_name":"LDJam user 276121","author_uid":"276121","epoch":1745452048,"text":"Excellent work, albeit tooltips on the building buttons would have gone a long way.","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":1157225,"author_name":"LDJam user 261037","author_uid":"261037","epoch":1745506893,"text":"Really fun game I am definitely coming back to play again, but it really needs a better explanation as to what each object does. I know they have a bit of an explanation under the upgrade, but I still found myself really confused for a bit and it would have been nice to read more an explanation of how the game works in the description.","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":1157298,"author_name":"jtap","author_uid":"jtap","epoch":1745514973,"text":"Great cute and funny game, I really liked it. Great idea and plot. Funny worms and their animation. Unfortunately, I did not have sound in the built-in version. I recommend uploading the game to itch.io, and also replacing the picture with a piece of a screenshot from the game. Thank you and your children for this game!","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"}],"format":"md","images":["ld57\/wayback-placeholder.png"],"links":[],"metadata":{"g_key":"97980","g_author":"1295865","g_event":"LD57","g_eventkey":"111","g_subevent":"EXTRA","g_urlkey":"451319","g_title":"Wamps Hate Falling Apples","g_status":"WAYBACK","g_place":"99999","g_commentcount":"14","g_site2_node_id":"415139","g_hide":"Y","g_has_icon":"Y","g_rqueue":"0","g_random":"0"},"nds":{"n_key":"415139","n_urlkey":"451319","n_parent":"406845","n_path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/57\/wamps-hate-falling-apples","n_slug":"wamps-hate-falling-apples","n_type":"item","n_subtype":"game","n_subsubtype":"extra","n_author":"295865","n_created":"1745120526","n_modified":"1775380630","n_version":"1311453","n_status":"WAYBACK"},"node":{"_collation":{"body_sanitizer":"TextUtils::SanitizeHTML via existing importer","event":"LD57","removed_author":false},"_superparent":9,"_trust":1,"author":295865,"body":"Wamps Hate Falling Apples\n\n![screen_shot.png](\/\/\/raw\/9b3\/84\/z\/6c58a.png)\n\n# Instructions\n\nUse the tools to dig and places ladders.\n\nScroll with mouse wheel or up\/down arrow keys.\n\nMore ladders are created over time. 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