Milk Hunt

co-authored: @tempii, @wariashi
Overall★★★★★★★★★★2.92
Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.74
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.71
Theme★★★★★★★★★★2.97
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★2.98
Audio★★★★★★★★★★2.40
Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.14
Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.90
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Weizengaming's first game at Ludum Dare



#### The more you have, the worse it is.

About the game


Play a milkman *(they're extinct right now we guess)* who's just doing his job. But caused by an explosion in the genlab next to the milkfactory, cows startet to mutate and want to get the milk back from the milkman or they just want to kill you. But you're the only milkman in the city and how are the people gonna get their milk if you can't bring it to them? So get the fu*ck up!

#### Try to collect all empty bottles and replace them with full ones before the cows can get you!

Good Luck!

What we want to add in the future:
* MORE COWS!
* Highscores

#### About the development process:

The theme this year wasn't the best as you can read by various other contributors but an unexpected idea came after half an hour of brainstorming. The idea didn't sound very complex and easy to build, but unfortunatly it was.
Building the map was a real pain and while we were doing this our brains turned off. Luckily we finished the map on the first day after 15 hours of working. I can't imagine how horrible it would had become if we didn't finish.
On the second day our team (2 people) got some additional help by a third one (quite unexpected that he's the third one) and we quickly made a lot of progress.
The last day was the day of the cows. Pathfinding, animations, variants and bugfixes. Everything was quickly done and we started to run out of ideas to do before the deadline so we added music. None of us is only a tiny bit talented in music and composing, so the result was and still is surprisingly good.
Enough talk about the last 72 hours, go play the game instead of reading this boring shit.

#### Screenshots:



#### Sources:

Mostly it's done by us, but sometimes even we need some help by the glorious www.

* Explosion-sound - https://www.freesoundeffects.com/free-sounds/cannon-10077/
* Cow-sound - https://www.partnersinrhyme.com/soundfx/PUBLIC-DOMAIN-SOUNDS/animal1.shtml
* Hit-sound - https://www.freesoundeffects.com/free-sounds/punch-10083/

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Comments28

Tad
Tad6 Dec 2017, 03:35
I tried it on linux and unfortunately I couldn't get it to work. I could launch the game to the splashscreen, but attempting to click on the "Start Game" button did nothing. :(
Weizengamingauthor6 Dec 2017, 11:38
@tad Try to use the arrow keys to switch the buttons and use enter or space instead of clicking.
talisra22
talisra226 Dec 2017, 19:21
lots of bugs....

im stucking!
Weizengamingauthor6 Dec 2017, 19:49
@talisra22 No, No, that's the point of the game and the mechanic of the first type of cow. They WANT you to get stuck.
Jose Pedro Dias
Jose Pedro Dias6 Dec 2017, 20:46
When I deposited the milk, even though the HUD changed I wasn't able to pick up more bottles.
Artwork reminds me of 90s windows games such as the Maxis windows adaptations. :)
Weizengamingauthor6 Dec 2017, 21:09
@jose-pedro-dias that is probably, because you are only able to carry 8 bottles in total. So if you stack up to 8 filled bottles, you have to bring at least one to an empty carton. After that you can exchange an empty bottle on the ground with a filled one.
Scriptorum
Scriptorum6 Dec 2017, 21:18
I kept dying without a cow in sight. Well, that's not entirely true, I died a couple times because a cow nuzzled me to death, but the other times I just got stuck and the game demanded a restart. I like the top-down perspective, this is exactly the perspective you'd need to avoid a murder cow attack in real life.
AFlatThrasher6 Dec 2017, 21:22
Enjoyed myself with this one. I liked being a milkman here. At times because of the AI of the cows (at least the big ones), there was just a horde of cows in one spot, which made things really tough. I couldn't decide if I liked that or not, it's just something to consider. I did like having to decide whether it was better to run back without being full with 8 bottles in order to avoid going into a scary spot with too many cows (with the hope the cows would be gone by the time I got back).
AllesKapaul6 Dec 2017, 21:23
The graphics are simplistic but really in style, I really liked that! The game is nicely polished. I didn't really like the music, it started to annoy me after a while.
ponker
ponker6 Dec 2017, 21:26
Haha this is similiar to the game my team made! But instead of milk its christmas gifts!
I like it :)
Weizengamingauthor6 Dec 2017, 21:32
@scriptorum thanks for the feedback, that you get stuck because the big cows are blocking your way is part of the machanic of them. The press “R” to reset display is another way to tell you that the game is over. And can you describe the scenario, in which you died without a cow in sight? This never happend and I have no idea, what could cause it. Or do you have a video, or screenshot maybe, so we can figure out the problem and fix it.
Weizengamingauthor6 Dec 2017, 21:34
@aflatthrasher Thanks for your feedback. It’s nice to hear that people start to invent strategies. Thats how we have planned the game to be. Also, right now almost all of the cows have the same (relatively simple) strategy, we plan to implement more different cows with different strategies. The only different strategy right now implemented is for the walking cows in hard mode, maybe you want to try that out :)
Weizengamingauthor6 Dec 2017, 21:36
@alleskapaul Thanks for your feedback. You can turn off the sound by clicking on the speaker icon in the bottom left corner, but to mute the music and keep playing the soundeffects should probably also be possible.
Simon Stalhandske
Simon Stalhandske7 Dec 2017, 21:48
I wouldn't say that it's a fun game but perhaps it's a game that accurately portrays the life of a milk deliverer who doesn't have a truck and who has to physically walk back and forth between the factory and the houses where she delivers milk.

I must applaud the huge amount of stuff in the game, and it's kinda funny that there are so many cows, AND I really got the feeling of monotony and hard work, so if that was what you were going for, bravo. Designing with a certain player experience in mind is always great.
Wakka28 Dec 2017, 12:22
something's wrong with the input, I keep getting stuck all the time (OSX)
Tempii
Tempii8 Dec 2017, 15:38
@wakka2 Thanks for the comment, can you explain how you get stuck and/or maybe post a screenshot, so we can try to fix that?
jynspielt
jynspielt9 Dec 2017, 10:32
also always got stuck :(
Tempii
Tempii9 Dec 2017, 11:10
@jynspielt Do you get stuck due to the cows, or without a noticeable reason?
Getting encircled by the first 8 cow is a game element, for which we think about changig it a bit because it seems quite some people don't like it.
If you get stuck without a noticeable reason, we would really appreciate some further explanation when and how this happens (maybe vid or screenshot also), so we can try to fix this.
der_finski
der_finski9 Dec 2017, 16:59
nice background with the appearing baby cows
the way the cows walk along houses is a lil awkward but funny :D
notpresident35
notpresident3513 Dec 2017, 03:20
Well, it's a good idea, but it does need some improvements. I don't know where to put the full bottles, the character moves absurdly and boringly slow, and the audio does get old after a minute or so. Pretty fun, and a nice idea.
Lazzor13 Dec 2017, 21:31
Nice, this was fun. Thanks to me, 40 people can enjoy some fresh milk! :D There were just too many little cows in the end. Good job on this game guys!
Ogma
Ogma14 Dec 2017, 11:23
Nice concept and take on the theme, I always like this kind of unexpected setting, it's refreshing and the unexpectedness of it makes it funnier, good choice!

It was pretty fun to play, splitting the game in two part was a nice idea. I liked your level design, letting you escape from the cows, planning paths but letting you being cornered if you don't take care.

While being blocked at a doorway, I mind tricked a cow by going to an extend of a portal, making her follow me from the other side and quickly backed and went through the doorway. o//
To make it easier for me, I only did 7 bottles rush, to be able to trade the empty one with the filled one with no problems and worry less about cows following me while I look after house I already picked up. Poor cows.. :
Weizengamingauthor14 Dec 2017, 16:13
@ogma Thanks for your feedback. We enjoyed reading your comment.
We're also happy that you like our game and had fun with it because that's the most important thing.
We will work on the things you have mentioned with the walking speed so the game gets more dynamic and less boring. Also we're trying to implement sprinting and dashing to get some mechanics into the game.
We hope that you will have more fun or had enough fun to tell your friends.
Thanks you.
Tempii
Tempii14 Dec 2017, 18:12
@lazzor 40 is a pretty good score(probably even the highest scored since now, I managed to get 37 on hard myself). On which difficulty did you played? If you haven't tried the hard difficulty, this could maybe be interesting for you, since you got a pretty good score.
Lazzor26 Dec 2017, 11:27
@tempii I played on the easy difficulty since I wanted to understand the gameplay first. But I'll play another round on hard then even though I guess my score will be lot lower! :)

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