Struthio Camelus

by tw00

co-authored: @mathias-van-hooreweghe, @funkylizard

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.56

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.53

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.32

Theme★★★★★★★★★★4.02

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.39

Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.65

Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.50

Struthio Camelus...

#### ...or the life of an African Ostrich

This game is about a *“Struthio Camelus”*. A female Struthio Camelus to be precise. For the number of people out there thinking to themselves “What on Earth is this?”, its commonly known as an Ostrich. Our Struthio is doing her very best to protect her breeding egg that is in critical danger from a number of enemies from different shapes and sizes that all have one target in common; stealing the ostrich’s egg. There are wild monkeys, snarling crocodiles, lurking lions, giant elephants and even more monkeys. But they all underestimated this mother ostrich. She will do everything to keep the egg alive until her little chick hatches.

Team

Three guys, three different time zones, zero experience in creating games but 72 hours to learn and deal with it. It was a fun time with a great result: *Struthio Camelus!*

Gameplay

Controls

- Move: W A S D
- Attack: Left Click / Space
- Bend time: Right Click / ESC

Screenhots

About

Struthio Camelus was made with Godot 3 and Adobe Animate.

Changelog

- 4/25/2020
- Fixed animation issues in "Aim with mouse" mode
- Fixed coin pick up
- Minor bugfixes (Background tiles stopping after 30 blocks, looping sounds)

Tools: Godot

Comments25

funkylizard20 Apr 2020, 23:59

Sofy3521 Apr 2020, 03:08

I really like your game ! I was like "Oh my god ! stay away from my Egg !!" Good job ^^

LandoSystems21 Apr 2020, 04:57

Played it all the way through. At the end I was like, 'of course there's an elephant' :) really fun game, great work!

HomunculusGames21 Apr 2020, 05:31

The gory part when killing monkeys was fun and unespected hahaha!

WhoMakeWorse21 Apr 2020, 22:07

Well done for the work, it was very funny to play this game

neuronezero22 Apr 2020, 15:27

None shall pass ! Good game !

paulhocker23 Apr 2020, 00:31

this was a pretty decent game and i loved the concept. it was a little slow paced. thanks for making it.

Drums23 Apr 2020, 01:14

Such a funny game. It feels like there's a lot to see and do and the details are great. I was laughing at the goofiness of it. Nice job!

tw00author23 Apr 2020, 01:32

Thanks so much for all the feedback. We're really happy you're enjoying our game.

AguaHervida23 Apr 2020, 01:51

Great game! had a fun time playing this :) , Could be good to add some way for the enemies to have a little bit more of intelligence and not be stuck in a pond or a rock forever. Good work.

Guille23 Apr 2020, 13:47

Nice game. The movement felt pretty good, and the audio sounded nice. One thing I think you could improve on is telling the player how he/she died because I kept dying and I did not know why (Just my opinion). Good job keep it up!

Rodrigo Denúbila23 Apr 2020, 14:11

I loved your idea! Nice take on the theme! Good job!

Mathias Van Hooreweghe23 Apr 2020, 14:57

@guille Thank you for the feedback. Its true we could have put the instructions to protect your egg on the front page. We will add it in after the jam.

@sofy35 @landosystems @homunculusgames @whomakeworse @neuronezero @drums @rodrigo-denubila Thank you very much for the feedback. Glad you all enjoyed it.

@paulhocker We will consider maybe shortening it (or making it a little more intense ;)

@aguahervida Thank you. A small glitch we have to fix hehe

Guille23 Apr 2020, 15:05

Ok now the game makes sense. Plying again it is very fun. I originally thought the thing in the egg in the center was a cacti. Oops, my fault.

Mathias Van Hooreweghe23 Apr 2020, 15:25

@guille Ah I am glad you enjoyed. Hope you reached the elephant ;)

thecrancher23 Apr 2020, 23:25

Hey there! I liked the combination of leveling up, and exploring. I also thought the music was very fitting. I think that you could add an enemy that was faster than the rest, but it would have very little life. I also think you could put something like a treasure chest in the level and give it like 500 to 1000 life, and itll keep the player coming back to it to slowly drain it life and get a decent payday. I also think you could let the ostrich walk between the walls. What if you could pay to upgrade the eggs health, but it wouldn't increase alot for every upgrade and it would also be super expensive. Anyways this was really fun, good work!

-Cranch

erebus24 Apr 2020, 00:27

Very funny game. Thanks for bringing it by the stream!

Fatsheep24 Apr 2020, 01:28

Very fun, laughed way too much at the round kick!

Mathias Van Hooreweghe24 Apr 2020, 15:02

@thecrancher Thank you very much for all the feedback and the stream :) Will take some of your points into concepts we can work on afterwards.
@erebus Thank you for playing it and for the feed back. glad you enjoyed it.
@fatsheep Thank you for the feedback and the stream. Glad you enjoyed the game.. As said on the chat, we will look into the glitch with the ostrich going sideways ;).

MuchoBestoStudio25 Apr 2020, 15:42

Cool game done by three unexperienced guys. Good graphics with a simple gameplay. The shop is a good way to improve our character. The wave is a bit long because animals don't progress with time (only new animals make the game harder).

PS: We can hide the egg in a block.

Trexxak26 Apr 2020, 14:49

Absolutely brutal blood splatter on the chimpansees there :DD

I think you nailed it with the picking animation - feels very enjoyable clicking stuff. The sound effects too are very fitting!

The windows distribution lacks a .pck file though, just a heads up :)

OddSocks27 Apr 2020, 09:52

Awesome game, brutal bird! Music was great, and fitted really well. Art was clean and crisp. All great stuff :raised_hands:

tw00author27 Apr 2020, 13:23

@trexxak Thanks for pointing that out!

.pkg file can be found here now:
- https://github.com/tw00/ld46-web/releases/download/v1.0.1/StruthioCamelus.pck

Mathias Van Hooreweghe27 Apr 2020, 13:31

@muchobestostudio Thanks for the positive feedback. We will be updating the animals in post LD. I agree with you on the duration of the game, once enemies are updated I am sure it will be a lot harder and you won't realise the time go by. The egg and the brick is something to be fixed too ;).

@trexxak Thank you for the feedback as well as the heads up. @tw00 Updated the files as he mentioned above ;)

@oddsocks Nothing better than a bird needing drugs to protect her little Struthio ;). Thanks for the positive feedback and glad you enjoyed it a lot :D

Robert Li11 May 2020, 03:52

Simple but fun. Would be great if the egg has a bar of health so it doesnt die just by the attack of an animal. Overall great game. I liked the music that really fits the graphics.