Space Goats 2

After trying to eat things and poop cupcakes out, and failing for a while, I realized that "E" did something. After a few more tries, I literally dashed my way to victory, especially after bypassing that cluster of vikings. So gameplay needs some work on, although it's a pretty good base to polish more. I really like the audio, from the music, voice-overs, and sounds effects. The humor easily came along with it with it's stupid but hilarious themes. One more thing though;

SPAAAACCCEEEEE GOOOOAAATTTSSSSS!!

A crazy idea turned into a quite polished game. It was not too long, not too short. I kinda forgot the control right away so some kind of indication when hitting the boxes to remind me to press the space bar would be great! Love the voice over, which at first I thought was cringy but you went for it (Could commit a bit with the laugh though). It seems that the level is not generated every time I play. It would be nice if you do some randomization so people can replay the game :D. Great work!

A space goat eating space vikings and pooping them as a horned cupcake?:D LOL, if this isn't the craziest game in this LD, I don't know what is :) Anyway it has nice graphics, great audio and top class poopcake humour! :)

This is the craziest game in LD-42, love it. Some random bugs here and there sometimes, but it doesn't really affects the game, Overall, I really like it

Nice game. I really like the style and your Audio/voice overs :smiley:

Great game, really good looking graphics, voice overs and cupcake pooping goats? 😂😂 LOVED IT

A fun, crazy game. The death screen made me chuckle and the music and art are great. Only wish it was longer!

This game definitely gets 5 stars for humour!) Loved the space monkey and donkey. But the best part of the game is the f*king narration - great job, Tim!)

Craziest theme I've seen so far. If I would suggest something would be to make the player move to the right automatically, there's no other drawback/benefit for not holding the key down, great voice acting btw.

Nice job time, I see that you were in a major rush during the stream. I wish there was more to do(you can mash space).

you clearly spent a lot of time on the graphics and sound of the game which was great - gameplay was a little too simplistic and needed more challenge - maybe some different obstacles or more levels - also the hitboxes seemed a little off - normal stuff for a ld. thanks for making the game - it was fun

Polished crazy game! I love how you used the sound, even with the reverb on the voice!
I would have improved a bit gameplay, but I know you already worked a lot on other sides of the game... good job!

A very fun game indeed. I hope You can make some improvements what you maybe missed or wanted to make.

The voiceovers really sell it! Significantly high production value for a LD game.
I never did make it past the group of vikings near the end, and found it faster if instead of eating things to just dash and dodge.
Has serious potential with some polish and more content levels/items. Has an urgent Kirby-esque feel to it.

Cool game! The game has a very nice humorous touch, and the light-hearted sound cues combined with the serious music creates a ridiculous atmosphere that makes the game just incredible!

The only thing I would suggest is some sort of timing system when eating things (Perhaps the closer you are to them the less you slow down), that is really forgiving at the start, but gradually gives you less and less time to time eating enemies correctly. I didn't watch your stream, due to me making my own game, so I don't know if you planned to do this, but I think it would add a nice touch to the game. Also, I think it would be nice if there was a shorter death animation.

But overall, great job, Tim!

Watched the stream every day as I was making my own entry alongide. The stream and this game were both really entertaining :smile:

Ah Tim, this game is hilarious! Kinda hard, but manageable. Would have liked another level. Good job! Popping into the stream when I needed a break from my own project was a relief lol.

It was fun watching this game come along, and make my first entry along with it

One of the most unique games I've found on LD42! It's also pretty fun! Btw, love your Youtube tips!

this is fun haha xD

space goats yeah
nice game

It's not a good day to be a goat :stuck_out_tongue_closed_eyes:

Fun game to play and honestly the music and voice work are show stealers. Well done!

This is a very polished game. It absolutely amazes me what some people are able to do in a weekend.

The story, art and dialogue were hilarious! I like that the different obstacles you ate delayed the monster differ amounts of time, however, as long as I ate everything I don't think it was possible to lose. This game gave me a good laugh, great work!

This game is crazy but I think it's lacking speed (by eating another goat we could have a super free dash for example), the story and the context are crazy, but it lacks a bit of madness in the game play! the graphics are super clean the music is good! and excellent feedback. Good job!

Whenever i eat a spaceviking or goat i feel punished cause you slow down so much :\ can't seem to get very far as well maybe i don't get the gameplay mechanic x)
Other then that the art and music is lovely : ) and the theme is funny xD

haha cool game :) it feels complete, good graphics, coool music, gameplay is basic but efficient. Well done you finished your game !

Awesome game. Nice graphics, the music and VO is on point. However, it is too short, an endless runner version would be cool with a high score system. ^_^

Great job anyways, really enjoyed it! :)

I love the graphics and music. They remind me of those old flash games from the internet past. Not bad for a short game.

Cool game! Loved the music and the voice acting. The idea is just crazy, which makes the overall experience really fun. Good job!

It was very funny and polished very well. The only thing that was bad was the fact that the game was too short.

This is one of the most polished games I have seen made in a Jam and it was the funniest LD Jam game that I had played in a very long time. Good job Tim I loved watching you create the game, I just hope it was a little longer.

Tim, this game is the greatest game ever to feature space goats shitting cupcakes.

Go Tim! Awesome game once again!

Great concept. I didn't get much of a chance to watch while working on my game for LD. When I would look over at your stream I was like... WHAT?!? LOL How is that going to work!!! Well it did! It all came together well!!

Love the Humor , Love the Voice Overs , Love the Art ... what more can I say?

The humour and audio are the highlights for this one~
I can't say much for the gameplay, for how simple it is, but it's not bad.

Fun to play after watching it getting made on stream! Great game Tim!

Hey @tim-ruswick ! Really funny entry. I laughed a lot :)
Game is great but design could have some polish to it - imho slowing down player feels like penalty and i makes game less enjoyable, graphics is not terrible but there could be at least some shading involved :)

I really appreciate that his was made for the compo! Hats off to you sir! ;)

Great game. The art was adorable and it was a lot more interesting to play than I expected. There's a bit in the level where you're charged by five vikings, grouped three in the front and two behind them. That was interesting placement because I had to learn how to deal with them because the third viking would hit me during my attack recovery after eating the first two. And that slap sound is amazing. It had me chuckling every time.

The trees are in sync with the music too, which added a really nice feel to the title menu.

For the critques, I'm aware that time was a major factor. But just going to name off a few things of note ignoring that fact.

The music ends abruptly on the title menu when you start. If possible I would try to make it crossfade with the cutscene music, or at least just fade out. And the intro can only be skipped with space, which I only just now found out when testing for it. Would be nice if any input skipped it. Perhaps with a double press confirmation if you're worried about it accidentally being skipped, or at least some text that tells you [SPACE] to skip after you've pressed any input.

Other than the intro cutscene, you may never see Jim in-game or for a while not really know what you're running from. To make him more interesting as a character, I think it'd be cool to start the camera closer to him, have the goat on auto-run, pan towards the goat, then give a countdown timer to let the player know they'll be taking control of the goat soon.

I think the restart cutscene should also be skippable, it takes a while to run through, the fadout is too slow imo, and too light of a gray. Though that is all personal opinion and preference.

And it's a bit odd and anti-climactic that Jim stops as soon as you reach the ship, and the goat flies off without the camera. Leaving nothing of interest on the screen during the end cutscene. I think it'd be really cool to have Jim barreling down on the ship and the goat takes off at the last second, Jim still hot on his tail, then flies upwards into some parallaxing clouds.

Overall a very good and funny game. Well done.

I liked the silliness of your game and the audio and visuals matched well. I agree with @rk3omega 's critques but I can see this being the next Jetpack Joyride with some more content and polish.

Fun little game. This is one of those games that can only emerge from a game jam. This game scores higher on humor than any other. The art and music were also nice. Overall good game.

The intro sold me completely :laughing:, and the cute wacky graphics kept me smiling for the whole run. The music track was pretty cool, too, and it was really fitting as I was trying to escape from Jim and avoid the space vikings.

Gameplay was short and simple, but it worked well, no major bugs or glitches I can remember.

Very solid entry, nice job!

There was definitely potential here, but it was all squashed by the only level being too short. This would have worked better as an endless runner, with randomized obstacles. In any case, this game doesn't really have any challenge, you just hold right and press space occasionally for less than a minute, then it's over. The music was decent, and the graphics were all good, but the humor came off as very forced. Could've been a lot better, but at least it was playable.

Terrific use of audio and visuals to make one of the most funniest games this LD. Fun is short-lived by it being one level. But the mechanics a super polished.

Hey dude it’s a nice game. I followed a bit on the development of it. I like the soundtrack, but I know that it wasn't you who made it. definitely love the humor, this game kind of fits the theme. But I think the difficulty of it is a bit too much, that difficulty curved could use some refinement. Good luck!

Can't this game be turned into endless runner in future?