Ludum Dare #38compo

Beware The Idiots

by gris

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.18

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.58

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.00

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.73

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★2.97

Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.09

Humor★★★★★★★★★★4.16

Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.14

4 people are born every second. The world is too small and there are too many idiots. Your mission is to prevent more assholes from being born!

Instructions

1. Left-Click on sperm to kill them
2. Left-Click and drag to draw barriers. Barriers will dissapear after 10 hits or 10s. They have a maximum length and wont stop the quick sperm!
3. Right click to drop bait. You can only have 1 bait at a time(lasts 10s). Bait will attract sperm.
4. The egg has a shield around it. The shield will kill sperm over time but it will die after 100 hits.
5. Once the shield is down the first sperm to hit the egg will make you lose.

__Last as much as you can!__

Description

This is my first Ludum Dare. As you can see I kept the graphics pretty simple because my Photoshop and Blender skills are close to non existent. The mechanics are pretty simple and I mostly got them working in the first day. Second day was adding sound/music (totally overestimated my ability to do this), tweaking the graphics, creating the main menu and mostly trying to make it playable.

__Some Notes for the future:__
- I spent a lot of time reading the Unity Scripting API, UnityAnswers forum and StackOverflow. This was pretty unavoidable since it was my first time doing it but I'm sure I'll improve with time.
- I got stuck refactoring part of the code and trying to make it more optimal. This made me waste a lot of time and got me frustrated. Ultimately I had to end hardcoding a lot of stuff anyway. Stupid for such a simple game.
- I also didn't account for how my personal efficiency would plummet throughout the last hours.

Tools

- Unity 5.5
- W10 voice recorder
- Audio converter
- beepbox (For the music)

Links

- Source Code
- Win32
- MacOS
- Linux
- Web

48hours + Noob = Bugs

Some of these are just improvements. Some are easy to solve(just needed more time) others require me to research. Since I'm not sure if I can make changes I'll just note them down below.

- Clearer output on when the eggs shield is down
- Quick sperm goes through the edgecollider(It wasn't meant to be this way)
- Smoother lines (or maybe get rid of them? We'll see)
- Better screen adjustment(mostly in the main menu)
- Difficulty levels (Old man:Easy, Married middle aged man: Medium, Horny Teenager: Hard, Mr BlueBalls: Extreme)
- Maybe keep a record of highscores?
- Upgrades(different types of bait)

Genres: action

Tools: BeepBox, Blender, Unity

Comments32

Tat2Tim1 May 2017, 09:42

You really nailed the humor! Very amusing, and props for completing the compo!

TMW1 May 2017, 09:45

:D hehe :D I stopped ~250 idiots, then missclicked on "Restart" button. I like this game, it's an original + funny idea. Highscore record is a good plan and I recommend resizing the restart button to a bit smaller to avoid missclick in this crazy fight :) Well done, it was fun.

Shamps1 May 2017, 09:51

Your title screen is hilarious - loved it! In fact the humour/tone of the game is great. I liked the game itself - nice and intuitive point and click mechanic to do everything. And having the retry and back buttons on the egg is nice design. Even though the barriers are a great idea, I didn’t find them that useful - the sperm are too clever! Also, what are the barriers in relation to this ‘small world’ - maybe a specific type of contraception..?

Xangotrick1 May 2017, 11:05

Its funny, I like the style, it's a pretty unique clicking game, and I killed 730 potential children. Thanks for allowing us to do what must be done!

The music was a bit repetitive though, but again, 48h and all...

jandev0011 May 2017, 14:36

Love it!!! So funny!! Perfect to play after a bad day!! hahahaha!

Great idea, funny, simple and engaging.

Almost adictive, great use of barriers methods and fake ovum to concentrate troublesome massive attacks.

A MusT play in early adulthood classes!!

raudaschl1 May 2017, 21:49

Really enjoyed it. Great mechanics with the wall building.

Carsen D.1 May 2017, 22:16

I don't think I'm very good at this haha. I didn't find the walls to be especially helpful though and it sometimes it wouldn't work when I tried to draw them. Maybe they could be a bit longer or have a destroy-on-contact effect. My lack of skill aside, it's a fun, simple, and engaging game! The menu quotes gave me a good laugh too!

JOrbits2 May 2017, 05:38

Funny and fun game. I was not really sure if I was doing all right, the walls feel a bit useless because the sperms were just going around.

Breno_M2 May 2017, 16:46

I agree with Xangotrick, the music was a bit repetitive, but once they start filling all the screen all you can hear is the funny voice acting. I got rid of almost 1000 potential idiots. :)

krunoslav2 May 2017, 18:41

I just killed 500 sperms, haha. Fun game. Even if dynamics are simple, the option to build barriers and bait add a lot of fun. Nice idea. Sperms say "adieu"? I didn't get the other phrases.

Felicitaciones ;)

🎤 Grisauthor2 May 2017, 19:25

@krunoslav the sperms say different insults in spanish, english, german, russian,... In fact I made all my family record that for me!

Pandakipu2 May 2017, 21:35

Really funny, nice concept :)

Good job.

piscythe2 May 2017, 23:08

I somehow made it through my entire first run having entirely missed the fact that clicking was what killed the sperm. The irony here is not lost on me. This is a fun, innovative, and satisfying game.

glimaleite2 May 2017, 23:21

Hey, congrats on the compo! I'd love to know more about implementing that line drawing thing! Also, I'd like to point out that on the first try I kept clicking on the menu buttons from the planet.. I thought it was bugged or something. You probably should move those buttons to another place!

Lovely game, funny and interesting take on the theme. Nice job!

Anudin2 May 2017, 23:27

Gameplay

Simple gameplay idea but I can imagine it working out quite well. Sadly there are some bugs (maybe only in the web version?). For example sperm sometimes didn't care for bait or swam directly through drawn walls (wall drawing is also a cool mechanic by the way). Edit: Just read that the quick sperm swimming through walls is not a bug. The problem is: it feels like one. To change the feel of this some juicy effect might be needed - something that clearly states that this situation if in fact a wanted feature. Also maybe drawing a wall should not destroy the sperm - explicit clicking would feel better.

Sound

The music gets annoying fast but the sound effects are kind of cool!

Other

The "tweets" in the menu are genius!

schizoid2k3 May 2017, 02:13

Killed 600+... not bad! Funny sounds effects made the game for me. :smile:

Great gameplay, but man there's a lot of 'em after awhile.

Congrats on your first entry.

terryg3 May 2017, 23:54

overall a fun game, the start button resetting was a bit confusing.

micahcowan4 May 2017, 02:38

Lol, can't get too far in this game on my laptop trackpad ^_^

Fun and funny. Nice job in 48 hours, and the sound is particularly entertaining!

MaggardJosh4 May 2017, 03:55

Funny title screen! Gameplay is simple and works. I found there were too many 'fast' sperm for the walls to be effective at all so I just didn't use them. Also think you were a bit too generous with the area around the sperm that would count as a 'click'. Had fun though!

🎤 Grisauthor4 May 2017, 10:18

@glimaleite yes, I'm aware of the problem with the 2 buttons getting pressed accidentaly. I plan on correcting this in the future version once voting is over. The line thing was me trying to put some more gameplay into the game but a lot of people are not liking it since it's glitchy. If you're interested in applying a similar solution in unity I recommend you check Brackeys youtube channel. Thanks for the comment ;)

@MaggardJosh Thanks for the feedback! And yes I'm overly generous with that hit area. I was trying to stay safe from people missing the little sperms in high res.

Izunah5 May 2017, 02:15

Great job finishing your game in time for the end of the compo, that in-itself is a great accomplishment. I enjoyed your game, was a funny concept and I think for your first LD as well as it sounds like your new to programming in general; that you did a good job. Like @maggardjosh I also had issues with some sperm going past the walls, but besides that everything else worked fine. I agree with basically everything in your bugs section of the entry page.

pascalman7 May 2017, 10:34

Good idea and it really Small World! Sounds and music are the best and funny. Good job!

wujood7 May 2017, 19:17

Great job with those drawable walls! I like those :)

Brothers Arcade7 May 2017, 20:03

The basic concept/gameplay is there, but i think you need to polish and to rework the UI. Its often easy to not budget time for stuff like that in a comp, but it can make the world of difference in the end. Overall nice effort and you should be proud of yourself!

LorenzoS7 May 2017, 20:52

Liked the sperm graphic (simple but effective, loved the smooth tail animation), nice gameplay. Sounds effect are nice, but their volume is too high compared to music, especially when they add up when you quickly kill lot of spermatozoons. Got 445 on my first try, as others said maybe the hit box is a little too large.

TomBuston7 May 2017, 22:42

The sperm animation was really juicy, the humor great, the gameplay good, nice entry overall :)

I had trouble understanding the purpose of the walls as it seems some of the sperms could get through it ?

The bait was a really cool idea, I could kill a lot of sperm in not so many clicks thanks to it :) (have you thought of a combo multiplicator in that sort of case?)

I liked the idea of understanding the mechanics in the menu by playing, it was a smart way to learn the game

I must admit, I first thought the ovula was a button, with the words "replay" and "exit" on it, I couldn't understand what was going on x)

Anyway, I reached 476 deaths, then I gave up. Nice game, well done!

Richard Michael Smith11 May 2017, 14:14

Take that sperm!

Love the sound effects. This is good fun. Sure it could be polished a bit more - for example: it would be nice if the particle effects when the sperm explode came from something the same size as the sperm but this is just a minor complaint.

Nice work!

Psilon11 May 2017, 18:04

This game is fun, the audio is funny. The gameplay is simple, but i like the wall concept. The buttons could be in a menu, they are too prominent.

Swynfel20 May 2017, 09:49

What did I just play? :O

Anyway, I just wanted to say very nice minimalist graphics! And I felt the barrier thing wasn't that useful, but that's probably because I didn't know how to use it properly.

Eric Florio1 Aug 2017, 06:15

I could not draw a barrier, don't know why =/

Two suggestions:

- Show the life points of the egg

- Show the size of the shot

Pond Loach4 May 2018, 16:58

omg the concept is so hilarious xD ik it doesn't sound right but still (the name also is funny) but i think the barrier like it was mentioned before wasn't that usefull

Yrasin4 Dec 2018, 17:26

This is actually pretty good aim training if you like FPS games, haha. The sound for killing the sperms were quite repetitive, but the gameplay was very fun. Good job!

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