Ludum Dare #21compo

Escausage

by selfsame

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.45

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.52

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★4.16

Theme★★★★★★★★★★2.80

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.14

Audio★★★★★★★★★★2.28

Humor★★★★★★★★★★4.03

Community★★★★★★★★★★2.58

Coolness★★★★★★★★★★6%

Help the sausages escape.

Tested to work with windows 7, vista, xp

Mac version coming later in the week, or grab the sourcecode and install python 2.6, pygame, and pymunk

*Note, if your computer is too slow, some levels may be impossible to beat before the timer runs out, in which case wait for the post compo version*

! Use both the arrow keys and wasd, they each control an end. Also 'r' will restart the level.

Genres: platformer

Comments19

code_glitch22 Aug 2011, 18:21

Fun game - I liked it a ton. Some parts can get a teeny frustrating if you know what I mean.

Meedoc22 Aug 2011, 21:21

I love the avatar and the character control. It reminds me QWOP in a certain way.
It's hard to master and funny to play!

bitbof22 Aug 2011, 21:29

this is so stupid I love it :D

Bloodyaugust22 Aug 2011, 22:09

Funny, but overall just ended up being a mashing of the up and to the right keys. The engine also seemed like it was quite buggy.

Kinta23 Aug 2011, 08:23

I liked the concept very much and it was also fun to play. The physics are very basic, though and sometimes I ended up button mashing to get to the exit.
With a little extra work this could really become a good game. Keep it up! :)

Andrew23 Aug 2011, 10:08

The controls take some getting used to, and time tends to be a little short but it's pretty fun.

rawbits23 Aug 2011, 22:54

I like them struggling around to get somewhere and suddenly they fly... :) Hot dogs! Nom nom nom...

Hangedman24 Aug 2011, 19:15

Fun, very silly, but I found it often ended like a fight against the game rather than against the challenge the game posed, if you know what I mean. Still, a great contender, and something that deserves even more fleshing out.

tcstyle25 Aug 2011, 18:29

Yay for pygame. Funniest game I've played so far!

pdyxs26 Aug 2011, 06:33

nice and fun, but the controls were often unpredictable, which made it a little frustrating.

Chaoslab29 Aug 2011, 11:16

Excellent work! I like original off the wall ideas and you pulled it off! :-)

matthias_zarzecki1 Sep 2011, 08:54

This idea is great! It also gives off a great qwop-vibe.

Rudy1 Sep 2011, 13:03

Flying sausages! Extra funny idea. Controls are very hard though, half the time I'm just randomly mashing up and right. I also didn't get you use both wasd and arrows at first.

Benjamin2 Sep 2011, 14:37

incredible sausage physics !!! This game really need a slice-effect with sausage particles on the exit square collision. I also think that the multisausage is more fun with level like the hole than in the classic one-path level ( you always end up focusing only on one sausage at a time )

BlueShaman2 Sep 2011, 16:22

Very funny and ridiculous. Sort of fun, but is was I think way too difficult for the amount of limited control you had.

ratking2 Sep 2011, 20:46

If I weren't so full right now this game would have made me hungry. ;-) Nice game idea, but at some point too frustrating / uncontrollable so I ragequit.

uuav3 Sep 2011, 09:21

how this idea came to your mind ? really fun lol

pekuja11 Sep 2011, 17:27

Well that's a weird concept. Other than that though, it's quite hard to control. Also, I was confused in the third level when it says "you didn't think you were alone, did you?" because I thought I was competing against the other sausages, and I spent some effort the first time trying to keep the others behind me...

It's probably not the point of the game, but I wish I had better control over the sausages. It doesn't need to be easy. I just need to feel like I have a handle on my... sausage.