Flerth

co-authored: @daisy, @jlewis
Overall★★★★★★★★★★4.06
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.83
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.81
Theme★★★★★★★★★★4.52
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★4.48
Audio★★★★★★★★★★4.50
Humor★★★★★★★★★★4.42
Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.76
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The Peeps live about their happy, banal lives day by day, safe in the knowledge their wee world is round. It’s not. Don’t let them find out or the knowledge will eventually, literally blow their tiny minds. Keep them from the edge until they lose interest. It’s for their own good.

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CONTROLS

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- Left click to pickup Peeps and left click again to set them down
- Right click to SMASH!

Keep your panicked peeps from reaching the city.



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Play

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Web version & download version on Alexander Birke's Gamejolt


Web version on Team Gormless' Itch



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Screenshots

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CREDITS

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Created by Alexander Birke, Jamie Lewis and Daisy Spiers

Music from Kevin MacLeod

Sound effects from guitarguy1985, Flasher21, Slave2theLight, RSilveira_88, claracarpintero, TreasureSounds, and Pinball_Wizz at freesound.com

Comments41

jojocanard
jojocanard25 Apr 2017, 16:25
Very cute, easy to understand and interesting idea.

But extremely hard very quickly (for me anyway) and I didn't undestand how to score. I only scored 60 but it stayed on the screen for a long while.

Also, there were so many peeps that the game was ramming at the end.
crazi4561 May 2017, 15:54
Haha, this game is adorable! Enjoyed every bit of it, great job!
howardcs
howardcs3 May 2017, 08:36
Me like. Me smash. Game good.
parkdraws
parkdraws3 May 2017, 09:45
This is the best game I've played so far. The Peep's expressions are perfect, presentation is elegant, mechanics are engaging and easy to understand, interactions are juiced, humor is on point.

Great work!! ∑d(°∀°d)
sachos345
sachos3453 May 2017, 16:05
LMAO this is amazing 5/5 in every category ahahah it really made me laugh the first time i smashed my first scared out Peep haha. 330 final score.

@jojocanard you have to keep the Peeps in happy in your city once they start to get away drag them again to your city.
JLewis3 May 2017, 16:49
A lot of love for Flerth, thank you!
ArcticMattekar
ArcticMattekar5 May 2017, 13:08
Haha, very nice game. Lovely graphics and an awesome take on the theme.

Very well done! Had fun playing! :heart_eyes:
Foya5 May 2017, 20:05
I'm not sure I really understood how to score...but I enjoyed this little game!

Art is polished and cute ( as the sounds), and the concept and interactions are very fun! Good job! :)
FailedStarfish5 May 2017, 20:35
Really liked the art work and style, music was fun and really suited the style of game. Simple and satisfying gameplay, a really polished entry.
Boriky
Boriky6 May 2017, 08:45
Really cute game, very polished and fun. Sound and music are on spot. The graphic style is great! I enjoyed it :) gz!
Dev Dennis
Dev Dennis6 May 2017, 10:34
Hi Guys,

Again you made a great game. Actually I'm not sure you are the same team, but I played your game @parahunter from last LD. The style, gameplay and everything is nicely put together. Maybe the gameplay could use something to make it more challenging. I'm really impressed by your entry again, gratz.
citsua
citsua6 May 2017, 10:50
My experience with this game: smashing all them damn peeps before slowly giving up on life upon seeing the swarms of panicked peeps running around.

In all seriousness, really great and polished game, especially since it was made in 72h. I have nothing to criticize, except maybe that the game is HARD. A bit too hard.
r8berto6 May 2017, 10:53
Boy, that escalated quickly :joy: I ended up beating everybody
invader
invader6 May 2017, 11:02
Wow, that's intense! Great art and music, fun gameplay.
Spinaljack
Spinaljack6 May 2017, 11:03
Nice, guess the flat earthers knew too much. Top score was 260. Near the end I started preemptively smashing ones that look a bit too fast lol
dennyrocketdev
dennyrocketdev6 May 2017, 11:42
Wow, this game surprised me in best way possible. Everything was so polished, cute, professional and awesome.

Smashing those poor flat earthers feels super satisfying.
BlackRose6 May 2017, 12:46
hahaha thas so fun concept and so fun game! I like the idea, but at the star it was a little bit hard to understand what to do. I spend a good time and i have fun playing it
Nwestninja17 May 2017, 01:29
That was great! I loved crushing the flat earthers but even better was seeing the others run away. I think this is a great game! Loads of polish!
Chaseplays
Chaseplays7 May 2017, 02:32
Oh my gosh yes. I liked the simple mechanic, and everything was actually really polished and fun. The music was a good choice, even if you didn't make it yourself, and the graphics were perfect. Keep up the good work!
_for_science
_for_science7 May 2017, 13:20
This is a very nice concept. I love the squeeeking sound effects and the graphics. At some point I had to smash the village ... which was fun ^^

I had fun playing! Nice work! :joy:
philomory8 May 2017, 16:33
This was really adorable! I love the art style, the audio worked well (I know you didn't make it, but you choose well, Kevin MacLeod is a great resource), and the core gameplay idea was well-executed. I'm not exactly sure how you could expand this mechanic into a larger game, but for what you've made, it's pretty great. My only real complaint is that the difficulty scales up pretty dramatically all at once.
_for_science
_for_science8 May 2017, 19:13
I just replayed this for a bit, and I think stumbled on a bug?

I played a round in which the Peeps would only very rarely venture all the way to the edge.

I had garnered around 5000 points when their city suddenly began to warp and slowly ascended to the heavens to be never seen again...

at that point the Peeps didn't really have any place to return to, so this happened:

:rofl:
JLewis9 May 2017, 10:17
@for-science

Oh wow, hell of a ~~bug~~ secret ending you've found! Love the screenshot, thanks for submitting!
Meenners
Meenners12 May 2017, 05:34
LOL that was amazing! It was fun and enjoyable to smash little guys! My only feedback is that it got really hard really quick! For future development, have you thought about different type of citizens with possibly different actions? That would be awesome! Otherwise, the "everything" was amazing! Keep it up!
BrothersT
BrothersT13 May 2017, 14:11
Haha, oh my! This was very fun, but I think some balancing is in order, at a certain point failure is all but inevitable because of the limited speed you can perform actions compared to how fast the little guys are spawning. Maybe if there was no delay on picking up and dropping, since there is a man-made delay anyway based on you own reactions. I really like the art, animation and sound! Cute character designs!

If you fancy trying out our game, we'd love your feedback! https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/e-at
SecondDimension
SecondDimension13 May 2017, 18:36
That was... pretty dark actually. Scary how quickly I changed from a benevolent god trying to keep them safe, to just smashing everyone to death to cover up the truth :punch:

Graphics were nice and the controls worked well, good level of polish for a jam game!
Jupiter_Hadley
Jupiter_Hadley14 May 2017, 18:01
Cute graphics, funny game. I included it in my Ludum Dare 38 compilation video series, if you’d like to take a look :)

ponywolf
ponywolf15 May 2017, 21:36
Very nice execution. I love LD games that discover a new mechanic and can also make me giggle. Good work!
thristhart
thristhart15 May 2017, 22:05
Lovely! I love how the game progresses in terms of strategies, at first just keeping your lovely friends safe and then slowly becoming a wrathful god keeping the truth hidden. Adorable art style and the music fits it fantastically!
mar3k
mar3k15 May 2017, 22:32
This is such a cool idea! The graphics are nice, the music and sfx as well, and just smashing the people by itself is so satisfying
davision
davision15 May 2017, 22:59
Funny, maybe except for the fact that I have to smash them once the know the truth. Gameplay is too simple for my taste but it has the potential to be more
krunoslav
krunoslav15 May 2017, 23:08
Cute graphics, a very nice game. Cool mechanics Even if it is simply, it is funny to play.

One of the best graphics in all the Ludum, congrats!
Fran Segura
Fran Segura16 May 2017, 08:01
Great game! I love the idea and execution, very polished. Maybe it's a bit hard, but that's not really a flaw.

Congrats!
lolilith16 May 2017, 21:55
This game is probably my favorite LD game I have played yet <3

It&#039;s really cute and funny, I&#039;m quite proud of my high score of 550.

At first I felt so sorry I had to smash the non believers, but when there were too many I panicked and killed them all
mathijs750
mathijs75016 May 2017, 22:33
I love how I want to take care of the little peeps while simultaneously smashing them to pulp. The game gets hectic fast, but at some point the tension was lost and I smashed them all to pulp. Really endearing art-style and music choice.
shillingburg
shillingburg17 May 2017, 21:27
WOW this was amazing, i was literally laughing the whole time all while panicking that my civilians were learning too much. Having to kill them was brutal but extremely entertaining. Definitely the funniest game i&#039;ve played, well polished, with really charming sound design! Great job!! I dont have much feedback other than having some variations in behavior/different people types.
Yetikatt
Yetikatt17 May 2017, 22:55
One word.

Perfection.

Seriously though, I loved every thing about this game, the art style is AMAZING, the humor was great, the game-play was quick and responsive. I realized the second time round that you&#039;re meant to stop them getting back to town to tell the others about the planets edge by killing them D:

... which was funny though so I stopped feeling bad after my first homicide and quickly proceeded to mass murder all those adorable little... bird people?

The music was absolutely spot on and the sound effects(and animations) were hilarious. I honestly can&#039;t think of any constructive feedback to give you. Great job and hope to see more in the future!
JLewis18 May 2017, 12:51
Thank you all for the really great comments!
Flying Cat of the Pepes20 May 2017, 18:07
Cute little game, gets challenging the longer you play, so its kind of fun. Could use some more content, though. Maybe different species of creatures in the city that behave differently, or a mode with more cities that the creatures build over time. A quit button and a pause button would be useful, too. Overall, it was fun, and the graphics and sound where good and went well with the arcade-like, cute game-play. Great work!
JoshYKC23 May 2017, 11:04
Great theme. Really humorous. Funny little game =).

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