There's something lurking underground. And you have been tasked with feeding It. Combine little pieces of food into bigger chunks and feed them to "It", but be careful that It doesn't eat you. There are others trying to steal your food. Stop them. And certainly don't let them eat you. Or It's food.
Please rate FedIt and leave a comment if you liked it! (and if you didn't!)
BEWARE: The Flash version is locked at 30fps and rotating has been disabled in the Windows downloadable version because of the engine's limitations.
EDIT: I just noticed the Flash target's window size was still set to 480, while it was meant to be 720. According to the Ludum Dare rules, I'm still allowed to change this after release, which I now did.
Controls: WASD / ZQSD / Arrow Keys to move. Left click to shoot. + and - to change the volume.
Pretty cool idea. I got like 135 points. I like the game a lot :)
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voxel28 Apr 2014, 13:38
Interesting and original :) I haven't played anything like this before, which is always a nice change in an LD entry. Tiny shots are tiny though, especially in the flash version.
I had fun playing this game once I figured out the controls and everything. I played it for awhile. The intro was eery, creepy, and awesome! lol Liked the background you used and not bad pixelart.
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pinkmonkeyhead29 Apr 2014, 04:36
Nice game. A little slow paced for my taste. Maybe you could make it get harder faster or add more enemies.
Man I was confused, I wasn't sure if I was meant to let the blue guys reach the bottom (so they got ate) or kill them. I seemed to get points when he ate them, but heard a ding when I managed to feed it the brown pixels. Not sure if my scaling was off. Really like the concept though, well done buddy.
@stvr There is. Living monsters are worth very, very little (regardless of their size). Food is always worth more. And everytime you combine two pieces of food, their combined value is more than their separate values added together :) So if you want to get a lot of points, it's always best to stockpile as much food as you can. Downside to that is that it's easier to shoot the food by accident and it's an easier target for the evil guys...
Rather hard to play with a touchpad, as it turns out. I feel like it would be good to start out with larger blocks and then work down to the smaller ones as time wears on.
Cute little game! My first instinct was to run around destroying everything but then moving the food was quite tough. Was much better when I stood near the beast hole and destroyed stuff close by. Quite interesting that it forces you to play different to what you'd normally expect to do.
Mechanically interesting, I really like the idea, but a few implementation problems leave it difficult and unfun to play. 1. The fact that you can shoot the food to diminish disincentivises you to shoot the red guys (or the blue guys) 2. The tinyness of the targets (food and creatures) makes it REALLY hard to get a hit or to roll them around. 3. I ended up just letting the blue guys through and killing the red guys, which got really boring after a while. 4. Needs more feedback on behaviours you want to encourage - like getting food to roll into a big one should make you feel WOOO! By providing visual feedback (juice). Maybe some kind of combo indicator.
I have to agree that everything was a bit too small, it was really hard to get anything done in terms of merging food. The concept is really nice, though!
It needs bigger bullets, better graphics, screen shake, recoil and better sounds. I like the idea, though! Good thing to destroy the food when shooting on it and the enemies going to it! That allows some tactics. As many of my arcade games this soon gets repetitive. What helps is adding levels/waves (with upgrades, stronger enemies etc.) so you've a feeling of progress as player.
All in all this idea has great potential, but you still got a lot to learn when it comes to implementation.
I like the concept, I think it could use a bit of polishing though. It'd be nice if there were powerups or something. I'd prefer if the enemies were larger and tankier though, which would add incentive for weapon upgrades etc.
Could not quite figure out the game in a min. but I liked it. I included it in part 15 of my Ludum Dare Compilation video series :) http://youtu.be/f3WpQDAZRnI
Funny little game! Would have like different levels. But it's a nice try for a 48h compo ;)
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Sheepolution10 May 2014, 13:39
I like the idea, but not the execution. Everything is really small, so it's very hard to see and hit stuff. The idea of pushing food in the hole is also annoying.
I like the combination of mechanics! There's a lot of interesting tradeoffs for what you should try to do. I did think the movement for pushing food was a little clunky, and I thought it was a little too hard to kill things, but the idea is great.
It could have used a little bit of a steeper difficulty ramp (it was pretty easy at the beginning), but I liked the sharpshooting-in-the-crowd thing. Pretty cool. Good job :)
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I think I would have liked all the graphics being a bit bigger to make the shooting less tricky.
Funny game!
A little slow paced for my taste. Maybe you could make it get harder faster or add more enemies.
friendly fire against food made it a little too hard and finicky to play to be really fun.
I like the idea that the reds would eat the fallen blue and get bigger.
Challenging and fun game, good work.
So if you want to get a lot of points, it's always best to stockpile as much food as you can. Downside to that is that it's easier to shoot the food by accident and it's an easier target for the evil guys...
It gets hectic very quickly though. :D
1. The fact that you can shoot the food to diminish disincentivises you to shoot the red guys (or the blue guys)
2. The tinyness of the targets (food and creatures) makes it REALLY hard to get a hit or to roll them around.
3. I ended up just letting the blue guys through and killing the red guys, which got really boring after a while.
4. Needs more feedback on behaviours you want to encourage - like getting food to roll into a big one should make you feel WOOO! By providing visual feedback (juice). Maybe some kind of combo indicator.
Overall great idea that can use some polish :)
Good thing to destroy the food when shooting on it and the enemies going to it! That allows some tactics.
As many of my arcade games this soon gets repetitive.
What helps is adding levels/waves (with upgrades, stronger enemies etc.) so you've a feeling of progress as player.
All in all this idea has great potential, but you still got a lot to learn when it comes to implementation.
It was a little too hard for me.
But yet it was quite fun ;)
Congrats on finishing the game! Simple and kinda addictive. Good job!
Two recommendations:
+ Make the bullet bigger.
+ Screen shake when you shoot/hit something.