Food Chain

co-authored: @sabrina-parenza
Overall★★★★★★★★★★4.04
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.76
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★4.02
Theme★★★★★★★★★★4.38
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★4.32
Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.84
Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.96
Mood★★★★★★★★★★4.19
A game about kawaii food sacrifice.

Controls

- Click and drag the candy to move them around. That's all.

Gameplay

- Candy from the same color as the barriers will pass through them, the others will be killed.
2018-12-04_01-48-37.gif- You can sacrifice candy to open the barriers that are controlled by the frying pans. To do so, the candy has to be of the same shape as the one on the pan.
- Barriers without frying pans can't be opened.
- The levels will not be finished until EVERY candy are either "dead" or "victorious".
- Press the "retry" button if you think you cannot go through the level anymore.

We didn't make many levels but I hope you get the idea and have fun!

Change log:
- Fixed a minor bug where the text tip for the fourth level was never being shown.

screenshot

Comments23

Lex
Lex4 Dec 2018, 02:18
kambing6 Dec 2018, 02:03
Good
- Solid game with high polish
- Great graphic design matches well with music
- The sacrifice mechanic is quite unique and forces players to think a little

Could be better
- Not sure how the join/unjoin mechanic worked
angelnm
angelnm6 Dec 2018, 02:06
very cute, even when they die! :smile:
briskimj6 Dec 2018, 02:06
This fits the theme perfectly.
nkrim6 Dec 2018, 02:07
Very cool, would've loved to see more levels to explore the mechanics and their consequences more, but it's still great fun and very interesting.
Jessé Santanaauthor6 Dec 2018, 02:09
@nkrim Thank you! Yes, we would love to have more time and go deep on the levels too. We will probably work on this after the jam ends and we get some feedback!
Jessé Santanaauthor6 Dec 2018, 02:15
@kambing Thanks for the nice feedback! You don't know how much it mean for us, we loved doing this \o/

And actually there is only an "unjoin" mechanic, there is no "join" (not through the player). When we first thought of the mechanic that was something we had in mind but it was too difficult to make it understadable (like: would we make the player click both hands to join them? would we make it by distance? would it be clear for the user?) So we decided to not implement it. Maybe we will think in a good way to do it later. If you have a suggestion I would love to hear it!
Abso
Abso6 Dec 2018, 02:18
This is amazing and so cute, artstyle isgreat and the game fits the theme so well. Would love to work with you on a project someday :D nice job and it would mean alot if u could check out my game and rate it too :3
foodzilla
foodzilla6 Dec 2018, 02:20
So cute! I found the controls a little annoying with their bodies blocking me, but other than that I had a good old time! XD
kambing6 Dec 2018, 02:21
@jesse-santana one suggestion I have would be to make everything snap to an isometric grid, so that you can be precise with the movements. (think Snake?) Theres many times where i dragged something and it accidentally exposed a poor candy to the wrong line and it died.
Jessé Santanaauthor6 Dec 2018, 02:23
@angelnm Hahahah! We tried to focus on the "cute" (it is style we love hahah)
Jessé Santanaauthor6 Dec 2018, 02:24
@abso Oh my god, thank you SO MUCH for the kind words!! Of course I'll check it out. =]
silkworm_sweatshop
silkworm_sweatshop6 Dec 2018, 02:39
This was a great little puzzle game! Concept feels pretty original. Art is cute and music fits great too. Would probably make a great mobile game. Definitely see potential here.
JustinMullin6 Dec 2018, 02:55
Hah, the animations and everything are so great! Dragging the candies around feels great, though it was a little strange to me that I couldn't get the chain of candies into the goal all together, and had to drag each in separately. That's a minor thing though. Apart from the fact that I'm now guilt-ridden about candy murder, I'm quite pleased with this little game. Bite-sized puzzling, not too long, and well polished. Nicely done!
skettyNmeebs
skettyNmeebs6 Dec 2018, 03:12
cute af lol

it was morbidly funny to watch all the other food smile and laugh while you burn one in a frying pan. congratulations on the first jam together.
Gizmolo
Gizmolo6 Dec 2018, 04:32
I like the idea, I think with more levels you could really flesh out the mechanics. Although I thought it was a strange game at first, the tutorials were really helpful. Good music, cute art, and a fun mechanic. Job well done.
GoldRanger
GoldRanger6 Dec 2018, 04:44
I am sick, I feel really satisfying when killing these little cute things, the hands pop out feeling just too good
pudding6 Dec 2018, 05:28
Controls can be weird at times but otherwise an amazing game with amazing art!
DaltonLeavey6 Dec 2018, 05:51
Really great! Simple but challenging. Dragging the candy around looks and feels really smooth. The color palette and art style are amazing! Hate watching those tasty looking little cuties get left behind but sacrifices have to be made haha. It was a little short and having to drag each candy individually into the winning area was a little annoying but very awesome stuff. Great work!
PurpledArtFrog
PurpledArtFrog6 Dec 2018, 07:46
Really cute game and well polished :smiley:
HermesEs
HermesEs14 Dec 2018, 18:43
So cute!! Love the art and music, and the idea is also pretty interesting.
The animations are amazing, they give an amazing touch to the game XD
The only thing I would add are more levels xD i need this game.
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