Growing Gertrude

by edgeofcode

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.00

Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.73

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.36

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.77

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.20

Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.15

Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.92

Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.00

Coolness★★★★★★★★★★52%

I've really enjoyed making Growing Gertrude. I hope you enjoy playing it!

You are Gertrude the amoeba. Eat those smaller than you to grow until you are large enough to take on Peanut the Octopus and steal her treasure (make sure you find the key first!)

Use the WASD keys to move Gertrude (the arrow keys also work, but will move the page as well as the character, so I recommend only using them in full screen mode where this is no longer an issue). You'll need 4 of each creature to grow enough to eat the next.

I used Unity, Inkscape, Audacity and LMMS to make this game.

Edit: I've added fixes to make Gertrude easier to control, and also to stop creatures appearing on top of Gertrude killing her instantly. Hopefully these fixes will make the game beatable. Though I'm wondering if it's too easy now - let me know!

Comments14

NecroMac15 Dec 2015, 01:29

It reminds me of Spore early levels as well as Agar, but controls are quite hard. And it is very easy to die from anything. Still, quite enjoyable.

deadread15 Dec 2015, 01:55

It's the multi cellular stage from spore. Nice idea, issue is that the randomly popping mobs gets annoying when your tail clips with the mob, as he spawns

Zknet15 Dec 2015, 02:14

Cute sound effects, but very hard to control.

pontooncity15 Dec 2015, 02:14

Controls are a little tough, being reversed from what you'd assume makes it tricky. Nice graphics and sound.

Alexander Ramsay-Baggs15 Dec 2015, 02:58

Really tricky to control. It would also have been nice to have some sort of chart so I knew what things I could eat at any one time or what the next one I could eat would be. Other than that, not bad. :D

jcmonkey15 Dec 2015, 02:58

this game would be pretty good if it had mouse follow, or mouse click in front of it to move. the controls got me, i had to stop playing. though this game looks like it would be fun.

xodene15 Dec 2015, 03:00

Not a bad game, but the controls are very much an issue as they're not very intuitive. That along with the randomly appearing enemies while you can't control very well is pretty rough.

Gunn3rboi15 Dec 2015, 06:07

cool game, i liked the concept of it but the controls were just to hard so i ended up quitting before even making it to the second stage but other than that i really liked it.

goffmog15 Dec 2015, 10:58

Lovely game, deceptively cute but hard as nails. A little bit of early warning before enemies appear would go a long way.

DrFallos16 Dec 2015, 14:18

I think game is good! I'd like to add something like hungry bar or timer to make player feed faster

alpha_rat16 Dec 2015, 22:12

Nice to meet you, Gertrude the amoeba!
I played it with the WASD controls and it ended up being very easy to play

Claire160518 Dec 2015, 22:55

Quite similar to a few others but still fun and a cute graphics and sounds! There's something incredibly satisfying about being big enough to eat the guy that just ate you. Only small criticism is that it wasn't obvious to me straight away that the icon in the top left was the biggest creature I could eat so I spent ages being way to cautious eating small fish when I could've been advancing faster.

BubuIIC20 Dec 2015, 22:16

Great game. I liked the noises of Gertrude. It is not so hard, once you figure out the game. Sadly, I was a glutton and after findig the key I ate to much and got stuck in a cave.