Baby Drill

by aburron
Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.23
Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.75
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.30
Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.27
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.82
Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.59
Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.17

Baby Drill


Baby has decided that it is time to find his/her way in life and he/she needs you. Help her/him to dive into the unknown depth with her/his drill toy and reach her/his goal!

How to Play


Turn on your toy-drill with the key 🔑 and go on!

You have 4 buttons to control it:

🟠 Orange : Shoot your Laser against enemies 👾

🔴 Red (Hold): Cold your toy-drill to avoid Overheat 🔥

🟡 Yellow (Hold): Recharge your Energy

🟢 Green : Turbo mode to go faster ⏩

Pay attention to de alerts ℹ️⚠️🛑 and good luck!

(You can quit the game with Esc)

Baby Team:


Producer:

Christian Viñolo Fernández @aburron

Programmers:

Adrián Borja Pimentel @seind

Alberto Cabrera Borges @alberto-cabrera

Aritz Martinez Quintana @ztira

Technical Artist:

Guillermo Meléndez Morales @gyemelmor

3D Artist:

Luis Gainzarain Hontavilla @luiserchote

Verónica Quirell de José @quirell-art

Animation:

Luis Gainzarain Hontavilla @luiserchote

UI Artist:

Mireya Capitaine Gómez @darksaytan

New version fixes:

- Fixed the issue about the animations that were not displayed in-game.
- Found losing enemies that go out of the game frightened with the idea of been lasered by players.
- Also work in reducing the size of the file to be friendly with people that have to download it.
- Added "How to Play" in the description and an option to close de game with Esc.

Comments22

zoarfy
zoarfy27 Apr 2021, 21:09
Your graphics are top notch and the concept is funny. I wish I understood how to play. Also, a quit or leave button would be appreciated. Thanks for sharing.
Lyssa
Lyssa27 Apr 2021, 21:26
The game looked so cool, I just wish I knew how to play.
DarkSaytan29 Apr 2021, 15:13
@zoarfy and @lyssa, thank you for your comments! We added some fixes, a How to Play in the description, and the possibility to quit the game with Esc. I hope it would be easier now :)
Retro Banana Man NL29 Apr 2021, 17:33
Very nice game, it looked good and the childish xylophone sound was very fitting. The background noise was a nice touch, so it wasn't silent. I got pretty far, but I had to constantly keep cooling down my toy and was not really able to do much more (I was at least at 50+). Would've been nice to see what your final score (depth) was after you got game over.
Overall very well done!
Maybeagoose
Maybeagoose29 Apr 2021, 17:45
why doesn't the baby cry they just do it XD
Gazal29 Apr 2021, 20:06
Loved it! Funny concept ,challenging gameplay and nice audio design. Congratulations!
cocoplum
cocoplum29 Apr 2021, 22:00
it is little hard at the beginning to learn how to move the baby, and at the start page it is really hard to find the start page.
LDJam user 252856
LDJam user 25285629 Apr 2021, 22:49
The most challenging part is pressing the play button.
AniMagik29 Apr 2021, 22:50
I have fun.Thank you)
fabula_rasa29 Apr 2021, 23:18
Harder than it seems at the first glance :grin:

Although I discovered there is really little reason to shoot the enemies and most of the time you just need to keep pressing the red button, as the overheat happens waaaaaay too fast. Yeah, the game warns about enemy collision like every third or fourth germ you run into. But that really does not matter much in the context of constant overheating. So my winning strategy was: hold red, hold red, hold red, shoot once, hold yellow, rinse, repeat. There is really no time to use turbo in all of this or do anything much besides watching your overheat. Which is a shame.

I liked the victory drawing at the end. Really cute. Shame you just make the game close automatically afterwards - I wanted to take a screenshot :).
DarkSaytan29 Apr 2021, 23:37
@cocoplum and @offdutyextractors, we don't have a tutorial in-game so we put the how to play in the description saying that you have to use de key to start, sorry if it's not easy to understand, I hope you enjoyed it anyway.
DarkSaytan29 Apr 2021, 23:47
@fabula-rasa, thank you for playing!
Looks like there is a bug when you lose and restart that makes overheat go so fast (so fast as it was when you lose), we'll work in fixed it. I'm glad to heard that you reach the final of the game, and sorry about the victory drawing, I thpungth to put it like screenshot in itchio but is a little spoiler xP
Vivien Fargette30 Apr 2021, 07:08
graphics are great and sound design is nice.

I did not manage to beat the game and, seeing other comments, I am not the only one but balancing the game is not easy, especially in a jam. The start button is hard to find at first (especially with the big "start" which looks like a button at the top of the screen) and overheat gets fast way too quickly imo: I would rely more on virus to shoot filling the overheat bar as more virus + the bar filling quicker makes a double punishment hard to manage.

Other than that, the concept is pretty cool and the game is fun. I enjoyed playing it
machrom
machrom30 Apr 2021, 07:25
Quite a hard game, at first I thought it will be easy but it gets harder as you go on. There's little time to shoot in between cooling the laser and recharging the battery. I enjoyed it all in all.

Good job!
miej30 Apr 2021, 07:25
interesting idea. gameplay was a little repetitive once i figured out what things did. nice implementation though!
asdehielo30 Apr 2021, 09:27
The graphics and sound design were amazing, I felt like I was in the mind of a baby playing with his toy.

I wanted to complete it to see the ending, but I couldn't. It becomes extremely hard when you are about halfway through. The ship overheats faster and faster everytime for some reason, so I had to cool it down nonstop. At some point I had to shoot and refill energy aswell, which made me lose. Maybe I've missed a mechanic?

Cool game overall, good job!
imyellowfish
imyellowfish30 Apr 2021, 10:28
Nice work! Personally I think it might be viable to reduce the difficulty a little: when you mess things up, the game is not over but the player get punished until everything gets out of control(Like overcook did)

Graphics and Audio is great!
DR_Felice
DR_Felice30 Apr 2021, 17:37
Awesome jon and the idea! i was actualy possesed by the game. the and of the story let me understand all the idea of story! very cool and good luck with the ludum dare
room606
room6063 May 2021, 19:03
Fun 3D graphics. Man, This game over scene should definitely be a WallPaper. So "noir"-yish and babypunk! :tongue:
smilewood
smilewood3 May 2021, 19:22
An elegantly simple game. Striking visuals, fun sound design, and a surprisingly difficult four button control scheme. This was a lot of fun to play. The balance felt a little off between the overheat and the power, I felt like towards the end of the couple of runs I did there was no choice but to hold the red button almost all of the time, but that may have been part of what made it feel so fun and frantic. Overall very well done, this was a great game jam entry!
Shoc16 May 2021, 08:18
It's a good game!
The concept is good, but i feel it can be better adjusting some values of design

Anyway, it's great!

Good job you all ^^
Roolow
Roolow16 May 2021, 21:29
Glad to see another baby game in the lineup this year. I thought I'd be the only one.
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