Ludum Dare #42compo

Butterfly Catching

by felixnemis

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.25

Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.80

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.15

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.15

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.25

Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.61

Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.50

Catch as many butterflies as possible
Adding butterflies to your collection will give you glue. Bridges degrade over time, use glue to repair them.
If a platform isn't attached to the main platform it will fall. If you have less than 3 platforms you lose.
Rumor tells of a golden butterfly, perhaps catching it will bring good luck.

Controls:
R to restart
Keyboard: Arrow keys to move, Space to use net, Z to glue bridges
Gamepad: Dpad or left analog to move, A to use net, B to glue bridges

(The font I used was not made during the jam)

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Comments7

Firebelley13 Aug 2018, 03:37

Cute little game! Interesting take on the theme as well

coldfire8313 Aug 2018, 03:38

Game was fun, but animation on the net was a tad too long.

smilewood13 Aug 2018, 03:39

Interesting little game. It was fun running around after butterflies, then remembering that the platforms were falling out from under me and quashing to patch them up. I thought that your gameplay was quite smooth and played well, although I never got all that worried about the lose condition, I was always able to keep one or two bridges to each platform. Maybe speeding up the decay? Fun game.

Ossi13 Aug 2018, 03:54

This game's really addicting! I spent like 10 minutes playing it trying to catch the shiny butterflies. I really like the challenge of keeping the platforms safe while trying to put yourself in a good position. Solid use of the theme and a pretty fun game loop!

My only gripe is that you sometimes get stuck on the corners connecting the bridge and platforms. If the collision on those were rounded a bit it might feel a bit smoother to navigate. Great job!

My High Score!

felixnemisauthor13 Aug 2018, 04:43

Thanks for the feedback, the decay does speed up over time, there is a limit to how fast it gets but by that point I wasn't able to keep up even with the 2 minimum bridges.
I wanted to smooth the collision out on the corners, but I didn't end up having time.
My high score is 12890 btw

loveapplegames28 Aug 2018, 19:49

This game has some quite original ideas. Also it's a pretty complete game for 48 hours. I do think the game needs some work to be really outstanding. Catching butterflies could be made more fun I think by making it feel more like a "melee combat" game. Also, with bigger butterflies entering, the game it seems to become easier rather than harder, because more glue is available. Another little thing is that you can't see well how far gone a bridge section is. Brown could mean either it just turned brown or it's nearly destroyed. More colors before it disappears would be nicer. Finally it would be more exciting to have some enemies chasing the player, thus the player needing the bridges/platforms to survive.

Andrei93 Sep 2018, 11:22

I liked the Graphics, and the Gameplay was fun, Nice Game. :thumbsup: