Hamster Bowling

Stick around for the whole ending!

Give me this song! I love this game I was so surprised that all I did was dry off the hand. Can you put up a link to download the song?

Here's the mp3 file for the credits song.

https://www.box.com/s/4760c664c016df1a8aa7

Cheers!

LOL! That was amazing! I'm glad I got to the end.

Haha, what an adorable game. I love the style you chose to make this game in. It's very much unlike most other games, and the opening little cinematic is a great touch. (Did you guys make that yourself? In the hamster cage??) Music was good, and the sound effects were nice. The drying part was a departure from what I was expecting, but the originality of this game made me enjoy it a lot.

Thanks! Yes, the opening cinematic was hand-made. The hamster cage was just three sheets of glass hot-glued together, with the camera moving through the open side. The letters in the sign were just cut out of the cardboard box and we put a light inside it.

@TheGamingProject, strega and Cake&Code - Thanks for playing and commenting! We certainly were trying for something that had no one would expect, and had a lot of fun adding all the non-gameplay stuff (e.g. the rap song and the video). The gameplay was pretty much done the first night :). Hope you had fun with it!

(edit for the above comment) - that should have read "... that no one would expect".

That was, interesting. I did not expect that. Good job.

Very funny! I have to say I really loved the opening cinematic and, it fit the tiny world theme great!

My compliments to the rappers. :) Limited gameplay, but very funny entry.

This was by far the funniest game I have ever played. The visuals, the audio....GAH, this is awesome!!! Probably the most fun I've had playing any game so far!

So impressed... thanks for making this..

So do I mash they keys? It didn't seem to work properly, or maybe I wasn't doing it properly

I think 4 was the number to shoot for. Very interesting. Good job!

Hilarious ending, Great visual style.. Good job!

What the.. I don't even? I think I love this game. This is my new favorite Ludum Dare entry. First perfect score I've ever given out. I love the ridiculous blend of animation, video, simple gameplay, humor, everything. Well done.

Wow. Just wow. That was uhh... yeah. Good job.

That was amazing! I absolutely love the intro and the gameplay was fun too. The audio also complimented the game very well.

Overall, I really had a lot of fun with this entry, it was unique and awesome. Great job! :)

Pretty funny-- the gameplay could use some spicing up, but it was fun to the see the content anyhow.

This was certainly the most original game I've played so far.

I wish I could rate 6 stars for so many categories...

I'm really impressed, congratulations!

so funny. clearly more time spent on 'not the game' than 'the game' haha, but it almost doesn't even matter. great job. fun and got a laugh out of me

Awesome! A really original idea, fun and simple gameplay, bravo!

What was this? Haha, so great! I hamster bowled a 257. Sweet. This is a game with personality to spare. Love the integration of the live video and puppets. Fun credits song too.

It is really original game! I scored a 200! ;) Cool song! ;)

Awesome idea! :p Well done :)

Holy sheep !
You have made from a basic game a really funny universe.

Great work :)

Awesome.

It was so unexpected! Once you have the hang of it, it is quite easy, but fun nonetheless. Extremely awesome credits song!

Very funny and interesting game. For sure the best hamster bowling I have ever played. Nice job! =)

That was beautiful. I didn't know it was such a rough thug life being a hamster bowler.

That was perfect, utterly.

Who knew hamsters could bowl

That blew my mind!

Amazing stuff. Can't praise it enough.

This ... is ... awesome! Gorgeous! Marvelous! Magnificent! And I'm not ironic! Especially the song at the very end!

@tfendall, could you please, please please make a *transcription of the lyrics* of the credits song? I gave it a try, here it is:

=== http://pastebin.com/r2a0kkm6 ===

Could someone help me with correcting the text? I'm pretty sure everyone will surely appreciate that as well! I will not get rid of this tune out of my head for a long time ...

OH LAWD. This was great!

Overall: 5/5!
Innovation: 5/5!
Fun: 5/5!
Theme: 5/5!
Graphics: 5/5!
Audio: 5/5!
Humor: 5/5!
Mood: 5/5!

Lost it at the rap.

hahaha! :)

Thanks everyone for all the awesome comments! We're so glad you guys enjoyed it.

@Tomalla - I updated your paste on pastebin with the lyrics. Have fun: http://pastebin.com/6tJXeUTY.

@tfendall - I don't know how many exclamation marks I should put to visualize my appreciation to you. I hope three of them will do, more would look a bit more ... 'suspicious', so to speak: thank you so much!!! And surely I will have a lot of fun with it. Cheers!

This is hilarious. Ludum Dare needs more FMV games. Really nice work.

I hit 'R' to restart the game, and the second playthrough seemed buggy. The video didn't match the score on a number of frames and one time the video just went all corrupt and blocky. The first playthrough was fine.