FEED HOLE

by aj-jones

co-authored: @justine, @ncadieux, @taylor-reynolds, @carsencraft, @digitallydavid, @renardmf

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.58

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.41

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.34

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.65

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.97

Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.16

Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.49

Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.70

GYGA was created to fulfill the end of history, but succeeded beyond it's creators intent. A supercomputer, corrupted by entropy and bound to the planets core, feeds off data to stay alive and is the only thing staving off the collapse of reality. Also there is a lobster.
Capture rogue automatons and saddle them onto the immortal crustacean to cast the robotic prey into the maw of GYGA. The more the mechanical teeth gnash, the more you KEEP IT ALIVE, but be warned, there is no sacrifice too great for GYGA. Do you smell toast or is that just me?

Post Jam Hotfix:
Did a couple little tweaks to make the WebGL version more playable.
Had to remove some audio effects in FMOD, and force the load to happen prior to gameplay.
Also removed a large amount of mesh colliders for simple box colliders, hopefully this will allow WebGL to work a bit better!

Additionally the lobster has decided not to get stuck anymore, and will scoot to you a bit quicker.

(Has anyone found the melee weapon yet?)

Hope you all enjoy!

Credits:

*David Reynolds - Modeling, Layout & Texture

*Nick Saucedo - Asset Artist

*Carsen Kelliher - 3D and Sprite Artist

*Taylor Reynolds - Design and Presentation

*Justine Stewart - UI Development

*Chris Purse - Audio

*Andrew Thompson - Tech Art and Programming

*Sam Warner - AI and Programming

*Nick Cadieux - Programming

*Taylor Cunningham - Programming

*AJ Jones - Programming

Tags: #abstract

Genres: shooter

Tools: Unity

Comments40

chrissimas21 Apr 2020, 04:11

Oh my god I'm in love with the lobsters! The art is so on point!

Tbrax21 Apr 2020, 17:04

Weird but I like it

Topolino21 Apr 2020, 17:05

This game is a blast! I played the web version and was getting some serious lag issues when fighting mutliple enemies as once, but it was great none the less. I couldn't really distiguish the performance of the two weapons, I just ended up using them both as AOE. Really cool concept and fits great with the theme!

Patsui21 Apr 2020, 17:05

The whole concept was funny and you set up the tutorial nicely. The art was cool and gameplay was fine. Some soundfx were pretty jarring and it could use some UI indicators like 'E to pickup' etc. The crab companion was lovely. Well done!

Hozoku21 Apr 2020, 17:09

The graphic style is really cool, gg on the other hand I had a sound bug, your source audio is not called several times in the code?

GameGenesis21 Apr 2020, 17:12

The art is great, and the game is really fun! It is very laggy for web, so that may require some optimizations, but other than that, awesome game!

Luke Perkin21 Apr 2020, 17:13

Loved the style and mood here, very unique. I like mah lobster too. Gunplay didn't feel that satisfying and I was disappointed you couldn't jump into the chomping teeth.

Maxathon21 Apr 2020, 17:13

This has such good 90s early CGI jank energy. Bizarre and fun!

Audio issues similar to what others mentioned.

yeo_niki21 Apr 2020, 17:19

I love the atmosphere and setting of this game, the design of the units and the environment really helps to sell the story. I lost track of my lobster at one point and he got caught on some rocks when I tried to send him back (intentional?). It was a bit hard to tell when my bullets were hitting enemies and whether or not they were defeated. Still, the game kept me engaged and GYGA's taunts were both terrifying and hilarious! A suggestion, maybe power cores could be used to heal as well as to feed GYGA?

Piturnah21 Apr 2020, 17:22

Your web build is broken! Fortunately I tried the download as well. It was a cool game, the graphics looked fantastic, the music was pretty cool but some of the sound effects felt off. I was a bit confused as to what to do at first since the robots are so far away from where the player starts. A small note: it would be nice to have some UI graphic to show whether or not the lobster is toggled. I love the lobster, great game overall.

Justine21 Apr 2020, 18:23

Thank you for all the comments and feedback! You're all awesome :)

Aj Jonesauthor21 Apr 2020, 19:59

@luke-perkin Keep playing! You may enjoy the ending!

Aj Jonesauthor21 Apr 2020, 20:04

@yeo-niki The power cores heal you for a little bit each time you stash them on the Lobster!

yeo_niki22 Apr 2020, 04:41

@aj-jones Ah I didn't notice... Probably because I wasn't that great at collecting them in the first place :p

SplitPainter22 Apr 2020, 06:22

A weird/surrealist game? For that reason, you already get a lot of points from me. I loved how evertyhing connects in this game. Initially from the screenshots I thought it would be a take on Donut County, but after playing I saw it is its own game.

VirtuaWorlds22 Apr 2020, 09:39

Awesome game, cool graphics and music. Insane you made it in 3 days, great work!

Ncadieux22 Apr 2020, 17:55

Thanks everyone for the feedback! We had a great time making it.
@luke-perkin Keep playing, you may be pleasantly surprised :smiling_imp:
@yeo-niki Mr.Lobby had a crustacean transformation and may turn into flying mr.lobby if he gets stuck :laughing:
@piturnah We moved the spawners a bit closer to the player spawn and I will work on adding some visual indication for Mr.Lobby following or not. Thanks for the tips!

Dan Colman22 Apr 2020, 20:50

Hilarious. Love the idea - weird and fun.

skitzogamer22 Apr 2020, 21:09

The Lobster buddy helps this game out a lot

colan22 Apr 2020, 21:11

Wow!! Very impressive .. the art is incredible! Keep Going

Ebediam22 Apr 2020, 21:23

The graphics are fantastic, really good job! Shooting enemies could use a bit more feedback, it was hard to tell if I was doing damage to enemies or not. I like the lobster idea! The music fits very well. Overall, well done, that's an impressive job!

Also, kudos for the Banjo&Kazooie like dialoge :D

MatheusBorba23 Apr 2020, 03:37

Good Game

Valeth212423 Apr 2020, 03:49

Blazingly good graphics, but the web build is so laggy on my computer >.

matthewi23 Apr 2020, 03:52

I love my new lobster friend! Game is super fun and I love this take on the theme. You're keeping Gyga's hunger meter alive, but so Gyga keeps the rest of the world alive! Only complaints are that it seemed that my projectiles had a limited range, forcing close combat, in which it was difficult to see what was going on with all the particle effects and explosions.

Aj Jonesauthor23 Apr 2020, 03:59

@valeth2124 Thanks! we'll keep that in mind, but if you get a chance try the download version, even has a couple more effects that add to the vibe!

timeloopedpowergamer23 Apr 2020, 07:36

Tons of fun madness. Sounds sometimes glitched out but that didn't detract from the wild weapons and effects. Crashed on hitting escape (too many times?). Still more stable than the release version of No Man's Sky and with twice as much gameplay.

p.s. loved the helicopter bots falling apart when shot and weird gun bubbles!

Marakuya23 Apr 2020, 08:07

Crazy idea and design. Loved it!)

gimblll23 Apr 2020, 09:13

Now that was a proper acid trip. I don't know what the hell was going on but I liked it. Always time for some crazy lobster friends.

xart201223 Apr 2020, 12:23

realy good fps, but can i switch mouse inversion?

WilliamCarter23 Apr 2020, 18:17

Loved the game! There was a lot of content, the controls were fun, and the game itself had a really distinctive feel to it. Really enjoyed playing it, and would love to see a post-jam expansion. My only bit of critique would be that the hit detection can be a little buggy on the html version. Either way, fantastic submission, really enjoyed playing it.

kschmidt26 Apr 2020, 00:36

Wow pretty cool! I played the web version and after respawning from being killed, I couldn't switch to any weapons, and getting killed again didn't fix it. Great intro and the companion was a neat idea. I also didn't know where to find enemies at first, and eventually found a LOT of them at once. Overall great job!

BinaryPrinciple26 Apr 2020, 04:19

Really fun!!!!
Had a blast with it, the sound is on point and I like the grainy look. Controls are on point, smooth but not floaty.

Aj Jonesauthor26 Apr 2020, 04:42

@kschmidt thanks for letting us know, I'll take a look into that!

Jcourt26 Apr 2020, 05:14

Nice work! The game is really fun. The art is kinda weird but it works well. I picked up one of the propeller things at one point, but I couldn't give it to the lobster, or use it as a weapon (maybe I'm just not doing it right).

I love the lobster.

Aj Jonesauthor26 Apr 2020, 07:23

@jcourt if you click fire while holding that, it will spin and you can hit the robots with it! I think you're the first to find that!

MacDoom26 Apr 2020, 20:29

Brutal entry man! All the pieces of this game are so surreal! The audio really immersed me in the alien-ultra-sci-fi setting. Weapons system a bit weird, all my guns where substituted by propellers =(
Excellent entry anyway. Honestly felt on a super schi fi world/situation. Good job

NicolasJL927 Apr 2020, 14:22

Nice game but it would be nice to have a sensitivity setting. I use a high sensitivity and it wasnt very pleasent

Sebeee27 Apr 2020, 16:59

This is a really good game, I like the graphics

ModalModule30 Apr 2020, 00:42

That was fun! The one problem I had was my lobster friend never came back, I think it was after I died, and when I tried to feed the mouth myself it bounced off! haha

Keppu2 May 2020, 11:06

Lol at the runescape lobster main menu cursor. Weird but interesting game where you serve your big mouth alien overlord. Sadly the spotty filter used for the textures hurt my eyes too much to play for long.

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