A tiny alien blob from outer space gets stranded on earth in a front garden. Use your blobs shape-shifting abilities to find the way back to your spaceship. Consume corpses to learn new forms and find out how to use the abilities!
controls: w-a-s-d: move space: action (consume a corpse/fight/eat/...) 1-9: morph
Webplayer up now, but only recommended for CHROME due to sound-problems/hang in Firefox!
I really liked the concept. The gameplay seems very well planned and the learning curve looks good, although it could use a bit more balancing. The graphics are ok, I like old school (SimAntish) style, but some animations would help a lot. The music was quite repetitive and didn't match the ambience imo. Good overall!
@chrismcr thanks. it feels good to hear someone likes the music :). discovering the rules is a part of the gameplay, but sure ... a tutorial would be good.
Wow, very polished. The music is perfectly fitting. Grand Theft Insect -- very clever. A bit reminiscent of Space Station Silicon Valley. I often couldn't tell exactly why I died for some reason -- maybe the camera cuts back to the upper-left corner too quickly? I love the mechanic of rallying your ant friends to attack the mega-bug. A little too hard, but good job!
P.S. You guys are the first I've seen to use the LOVE web-player, that is a promising development!
(ghoulsblade here) thanks ! yeah, the webplayer is still a bit young and lacks some things, but i think it's starting to be rather useful. I finally added audio support for the first time after this jam, and did some big performance tweaking also. Still some browser/system/version combos are problematic.
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noxious26 Apr 2012, 19:44
Great idea and nice graphics. It's easier after you found the rigth way ;-) And at first I did not see that the ability stands in the upper left corner. That made it really hard^^
Very cool game! Great concept, but a bit difficult! The web version worked great . Well done :)
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Cake&Code29 Apr 2012, 00:18
That was pretty hard, but the absorbing of new forms when in slime form was really cool. I found the movement to be a bit awkward as the character did the odd rotation in place to go in a new direction instead of facing it immediately or more quickly, made it harder to aim attacks I thought.
The shapeshifting idea is very good. The gameplay is interesting and fun. The movement is a little weird, and some times you die too fast. This game has potential :)
The concept is great and really makes me want to go forward to discover all the shapes he can get. What i feel lacking is some kind of direction as to where i should head to find the ship. Also liked the cooldown mechanic on the morphs, give the game a good pace. Congrats!
Great game. Best one I've played so far! My only complaint is that you have to start over when you die. I eventually gave up because I couldn't beat it.
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Martin Vilcans3 May 2012, 20:19
Good game!
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PIXEL^39 May 2012, 00:17
Creative idea, but there were lag spikes for whatever reason and and ran perfectly the rest of the time. Also, why did you make the screen size so big?
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raarlac9 May 2012, 01:14
Potatobeetle is the most annoying enemy i've seen in this LD!! Awesome game, played it a lot!
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The graphics are ok, I like old school (SimAntish) style, but some animations would help a lot.
The music was quite repetitive and didn't match the ambience imo.
Good overall!
http://ghoulsblade.schattenkind.net/love-webplayer/ludumdare201204/
P.S. You guys are the first I've seen to use the LOVE web-player, that is a promising development!
It's easier after you found the rigth way ;-)
And at first I did not see that the ability stands in the upper left corner. That made it really hard^^
Quirky little game, nicely done! :)
But it keeps me want to play it.