They are close, and nowhere is safe! They are the rat-mole-aliens!
There is some good news too, however: the aliens are on your side!
Kill all the girls with your underground army!
There are around 15 levels, and then you unlock the 'random' mode. :)
HOW TO PLAY:
Click on the spawners to spawn rat-aliens.
Click on the tubes to rotate them.
You have a limited amount of alien-power, so play wisely! When that runs out, you lose!
!!!!!!!!!!!!-----HINTS-----!!!!!!!!!!:
- Aliens change direction when they find their way blocked (they go straight until they cannot anymore). They'll then choose another direction at random, but not the one they came from. Keep that in mind!
- Aliens cannot bear earth's oxygen, and they'll die after a while.
- Girls take a fixed amount of hits to die (you can use more aliens to kill them faster).
- Girls will be scared and run away if they see an alien, use that to your advantage!
- Never, NEVER let an alien enter a spawner from above. That is a recipe for disaster.
NOTES FOR THE FUTURE:
I've been thinking about how to improve the design an, so here are some ideas:
- counterattacking girls (with flooding, or bombs, or who knows)!
- dynamic change of the tubes at times (they get closed off, some of them rotate automatically, etc...)!
- different alien types
- halfway goals, such as 'stuff' to collect!
- the more time the aliens spend in the sewer, the stronger they get!
Feel free to contribute! :)
CREDITS:
Made from scratch by Michele Pirovano with Unity 3D, Gimp, LMMS, Audacity, BFXR.
Fluid Soundfonts (used to compose the music): Copyright (c) 2000-2002, 2008 Frank Wen
This is really neat! It could use some balancing to make it more challenging and stop players spamming aliens, but this is a really solid game with a really solid mechanic! nice one.
Thank you! Yeah, I agree on the balancing bit. I was torn between improving the design straight away to avoid the spamming, and the joy of seeing so many aliens being spammed. The latter won, at the time. ;)
While it's a great idea that I had a lot of fun with, it comes down to finding the right path and then spamming the aliens as fast as possible until you win. Loads of potential in this game though, really good work! The graphics and especially the music are amazing, too :)
Visuals were cool. The pathfinding seemed inconsistent, so I couldn't really anticipate what path to create for the rats.. I also really liked the music, it was nice ^^
Great game. Seriously great. Loved the music, art and play mechanics. Really fun puzzle game. Polish and work on some more and release somewhere. It's worthy.
Thanks to all of you!! I've added a few ideas in the description section to solve the spamming design issue, while still leaving the joy of sending dozens of aliens up to greet the sun. :D
I enjoyed the graphics, music, and sound. The gameplay is fun, but I couldn't stand losing immediately when pressing the release button the last time. Wish all rats had time to die off first.
@Warzone Gaming: Will surely add more levels, after I refine the mechanics. I have a lot of ideas for extensions too, like special blocks, new aliens and so on... this was a more rough proof of concept. :)
@metkis: you are right, that is a good idea, as otherwise you are obliged to just click it and lose. I'll surely do that!
yeah this is great, right amount a twisted hilariousness.. already some good puzzly elements when the girls walk away from the toilets and stuff, could be improved a little with the pipe design/option, but already so much fun to play..
The graphics are absolutely delicious and they work really well with the sounds. This makes for a great mood. The little girls are absolutely hilarious and adorable, I love the way they laugh when idling. The game is unfair though and sometimes I didn't understand why what I was doing wasn't working (aliens would go down a weird tube, or I wouldn't know how many "hits" a girl would take before she was eaten). Pretty cool stuff though
@BoneDaddy: I see how you could think the aliens' movement is unfair, I'll add more information on it. The hits on the girl are always the same amount, tho. Thank you for the feedback!
Great polish!! And the music was so cool!! It took me a while to understand how the aliens behave but, after that, the game was really fun. I thought, at first, that they could change direction at any intersection... I'll have to read the description more carefully next time. =X
Pretty slick presentation, great pixel art and sound. Interesting concept for a puzzle game too. Not to be 'that guy', but it felt a bit weird that I was only killing girls. Why can't I kill some guys too? I support equal opportunity mole-rat-alien devouring!
Really cool game. Feels almost like an inverted pipe dream game. There was as lot of good strategy in the game, though there were a few levels where spawning aliens could complete it, most required a lot of thought and careful bating of girls to get them in the right position. Also very funny, though the highly public toilets is a little disturbing.
Overall a great fun to play game, I like especially the graphics and the interesting concept. Different types of girls would be nice, so that you need different strategies to get them. Maybe combined with different types of aliens or you can change an alien by directing it through different kinds of tunnels.
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Izitmee3 May 2014, 15:49
Beautiful game with beautiful art. I'm so frustrated I didn't participate and thus I can't vote for it :P
Love the graphics and the game! I included it in part 14 of my Ludum Dare compilation video series, if you'd like to check it out :) http://youtu.be/-VvtqXfr-Xs
Nice! I love how the puzzle element from the pipes blends in with the resource management part of spawning the aliens. It's also ver fitting. Great work!
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Loads of potential in this game though, really good work!
The graphics and especially the music are amazing, too :)
I also really liked the music, it was nice ^^
With a little polish it could be a hit in the app stores :D
great game with some solid mechanic. I miss some kind of juice and polish but that could be added in a post compo version?
@Warzone Gaming: Will surely add more levels, after I refine the mechanics. I have a lot of ideas for extensions too, like special blocks, new aliens and so on... this was a more rough proof of concept. :)
@metkis: you are right, that is a good idea, as otherwise you are obliged to just click it and lose. I'll surely do that!
already some good puzzly elements when the girls walk away from the toilets and stuff, could be improved a little with the pipe design/option, but already so much fun to play..
Yeah, I maybe threw too many unrefined mechanics in it, I just thought about making it cruel and fun, next step is to make them more synergetic!
It took me a while to understand how the aliens behave but, after that, the game was really fun. I thought, at first, that they could change direction at any intersection... I'll have to read the description more carefully next time. =X
Great job. :)
@ArcturusDeluxe: this is explained in the postmortem :)
Long story short: I had a shrieking niece around while working.
http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/2014/05/02/it-came-from-the-sewer-the-post-mortem/
You Win font is incredible.