Ludum Dare #24compo
Hungry Flies
Hungry Flies
Mommy has just baked a strawberry cake and it's cooling by the kitchen window. Suddenly, hungry flies appear to eat it, but they are smart and can quickly evolve and learn how to escape from the bubbles. It's up to you to blow them up before they eat all your yummy cake.
Controls
- Mouse Move: Move bubble gun towards the flies
- Left Mouse Click: Fire
- Right Mouse Click: Explode
Development Notes
My intention was to place a kitchen window as background image and to place a cake by the windowsill, so the flies could come through the window and eat the cake, as the name of the game says. However, the short time would not let me do it.
I took the theme to the letter and the evolution is in the behavior of the flies, i.e. their behavior evolves as the time passes by.
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Contact
* Email: renato.ppontes at gmail dot com
* Site: http://inf.ufrgs.br/~rppereira
* Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/renato.ppontes
Acknowledgements
* Voice By Carolina Vidotto Pyramo <3 (https://www.facebook.com/carolina.vidottopyramo)
Comments14
YSelf Tool27 Aug 2012, 21:47
Nice minigame!
Not a new idea, but the different beahviour of the flies is a fine idea!
Fun to play!
Not a new idea, but the different beahviour of the flies is a fine idea!
Fun to play!
Jeremy108027 Aug 2012, 21:48
Haha, a very nice game! Loved the graphics!
madpew27 Aug 2012, 21:51
Sadly you couldn't get the cake into it. Love the music and sound-acting. Well done.
Vurb28 Aug 2012, 03:18
Lol this was really good and fun to play i loved the music :D and the whole concept its like remote detinating bombs i like it. Anyways the cons were the cannon controlls were a little stiff and it was kinda hard to play the flys move to fast i think. But still good game probaly the best ive played so far out of all the entrys.
SimianLogic28 Aug 2012, 06:23
love the sounds. i'm playing on a mac--having the right/left click so close together made me accidentally bring up my dashboard a ton. would prefer a spacebar-to-explode
would also be neat if the bubbles bounced off the side-walls like other Snood-like games... the "miss" wouldn't be so catastrophic if you could mop up some second wave flies
would also be neat if the bubbles bounced off the side-walls like other Snood-like games... the "miss" wouldn't be so catastrophic if you could mop up some second wave flies
evilseanbot28 Aug 2012, 06:30
One of the most fun try to master I've played yet. The evolving isn't very pronounced, but that doesn't kill the experience. Good job!
kato928 Aug 2012, 21:05
Nice game, it's a little simple, but still enjoyable. The evolution aspect of it is really subtle though...
imef28 Aug 2012, 21:40
Nice game! Took me some time to understand that it was the explosion which kill the flies... >.<
renatopp28 Aug 2012, 22:00
Thx for the feedback guys! I am taking note of all suggestions and I'll soon [hopefully] complete the game =]
gnx29 Aug 2012, 21:01
Haha the sound work on this is awesome. I also like how the hitbox with the bubbles is a bit generous rather than too small.
A suggestion also: since the player will mostly shoot 1 bubble at a time, why not have it break on the 2nd click rather than another button?
A suggestion also: since the player will mostly shoot 1 bubble at a time, why not have it break on the 2nd click rather than another button?
matthias_zarzecki31 Aug 2012, 22:53
Solid and punchy gameplay!
dj_pale4 Sep 2012, 20:32
Fun sounds, simple gameplay but not sure how it matches the theme tho :)
Rex Peppers7 Sep 2012, 21:49
Pretty funny... liked the sound of the bugs dying...
It gets hard when you use more than one bubble. Nice time management there!