Gruesome

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.45
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.31
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.93
Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.86
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.41
Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.54
Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.36
Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.33
Coolness★★★★★★★★★★55%
You are the Grue! Eat adventurers and avoid the light.

Use WASD to move, and click to eat adventurers. Controls are configurable on the Options screen.

Made with Unity 5. Other tools used include Blender, Gimp, Ocen Audio, and ChipTone.

Windows and Linux builds are x86.

screenshot

Comments20

Erkberg
Erkberg28 Aug 2015, 12:27
Pretty fun little game. The gameplay and level design could've been a little more varied, but the hilarious soundeffects made eating those poor adventurers enjoyable. Music was also pretty good.
Some vertical gameplay for example would've probably made it much better, in the current state of the game the ability to jump is pretty much useless. I imagine avoiding the light by jumping up somewhere and then striking down on adventurers. One small bug I noticed: If you haven't started the game and press Esc on the menu you get into the pause screen. If you continue from there on, you end up in an empty scene.
Overall, I enjoyed this, good job! And props for having an options menu with rebindable keys, something I rarely see in LD games.
zenmumbler
zenmumbler28 Aug 2015, 16:43
Gameplay wise there was not much to this and the AI was (as per usual LD standards) herp-derp but I still enjoyed myself because of the ridiculousness of it all and the sounds.
adsilcott28 Aug 2015, 16:47
Fun and simple game.
bradur
bradur28 Aug 2015, 17:37
The models & lighting & sound design was spot on! The game got a little self-repetitive towards the end, but I felt it was great fun to stalk around the dungeon and attack the unsuspecting humans. Well done!
kaitokidi
kaitokidi28 Aug 2015, 21:14
So good, great job guys
AdayMC
AdayMC28 Aug 2015, 22:37
Well done in every aspect. Was fun to eat them all!!!

Good job!
PS: Amazing eruct sound :P
peecestudios29 Aug 2015, 02:23
Good game pretty fun but it was too easy. All the NPC just sat there or faced a wall. And it lag just a tad
Fanatrick
Fanatrick29 Aug 2015, 02:45
Liked the simplicity, disliked the lack in gameplay.
bossmojoman
bossmojoman29 Aug 2015, 02:48
I always wanted to be the grue. Great job!
brianbruggeman29 Aug 2015, 02:48
Love that you've got a mac port. Controls are cumbersome, though, on my mac book pro. And the choice of eat really needed to be a keyboard button. Tried to set that up, but didn't look like the keys took. Overall, though, I enjoyed your work! Thanks!
Slashee the Cow
Slashee the Cow29 Aug 2015, 03:35
That was really great! Did seem a bit easy though, I never came anywhere near running out of health.
metranil
metranilauthor29 Aug 2015, 03:42
Thanks for checking out the game everyone, and sorry about the bugs. I agree 100% about the AI being derpy and the gameplay/level design being shallow - I just ran out of time.
Drunkteam29 Aug 2015, 15:38
Cool game. I like the playability, although i am not convinced about the camera control. The music reminds me a jungle or an desert island, another music theme would be more suitable but in overall very well.
Galan29 Aug 2015, 15:47
Mmm adventurers. While it was fun slurping them up, I wish the light mechanic was a bit more fully-developed. The hallways were a bit too dark (I had to adjust my monitor in order to see not-black), and it was hard to tell where the light was and wasn't, damage-wise. Would have help if there was some feedback when taking damage.
NuDawg30 Aug 2015, 03:35
Lot's of fun, but I could only find 44 out of 50 adventurers, and my monstrous appetite was not satisfied. Job well done.
aucguy30 Aug 2015, 03:46
Fun game but I wished the people noticed you more and ran faster.
CrazyMinnowStudio
CrazyMinnowStudio30 Aug 2015, 04:29
I love the style, it also has nice audio. Eating adventurers was satisfying but I wish there was more of a visual damage effect on the player when being injured by the light. It would have been fun for the AI to respond more to the players arrival. Good job!
boardtobits
boardtobits30 Aug 2015, 05:19
Music was the best, I like to think that's what monsters are hearing vs. the epic choruses we usually ascribe to them. It would have been cool to tie in the grue lore a bit more, waiting for an adventurer's lantern to go out or something, but it was a fun dungeon run nonetheless.
mubox
mubox4 Sep 2015, 21:40
Good graphics. :]

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