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Ludum Dare #50jam

Delay Bedtime

by matt-e
Overall★★★★★★★★★★4.04
Fun★★★★★★★★★★4.29
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★4.04
Theme★★★★★★★★★★4.56
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★2.38
Humor★★★★★★★★★★4.28
Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.84
https://matt-eng.itch.io/delay-bedtime

You are a toddler and bedtime is at 8pm! You can distract the adults by unleashing mayhem.

This was created for Ludum Dare 50. The theme was Delay the inevitable.

On normal difficult 9:00 pm is a great time! My best time is 10:07. Best time in the comments 10:22!

Tips:
- The adults see in a straight line which is blocked by walls. Don't make a mess when they can see you.
- You can't rewind the clock past a certain time, otherwise the adults will figure out what your doing.
- The Adults will send you to bed when the clock reaches 8pm or the sus-o-meter is full.
- You can create a partial mess and finish it off later when you need to.

Thank you all you lovely people for playing my game 😀. The feedback is all appreciated especially criticism and what scores you got!

Please do *not* watch this. It's more fun to figure things out for yourself 🙂. However if the game doesn't make sense this play through might help.



Music and sounds was taken from a stock site.
Tools: Unity

Comments24

natpat
natpat5 Apr 2022, 05:34
Made me laugh out loud. A very silly premise, and I liked having to both cause mayhem to distract and having to turn back the clock. I found myself getting caught quite quickly - maybe having the adults have a line of sight cone like in some "classic stealth games" would have made it a bit easier! Maybe I just need to get better, but could have been nice to have a few rounds of attempting to turn back the clock.
Matt Eauthor5 Apr 2022, 11:55
Thanks for the feedback 🙂. I was trying to implement a light cone but sadly I ran out of time.
Vincent Salgueiro5 Apr 2022, 12:01
Took a while to figure out the sus-o-meter but once I did had a total blast - awesome job!
kemp
kemp5 Apr 2022, 12:02
You know you're in trouble when the neighbour comes in to help wrangle you to bed! Fun twist on the stealth game genre.
stevepdp
stevepdp5 Apr 2022, 12:02
This had me chuckling at moments. A fun submission and creative use of the theme 👍
JojoPalambas
JojoPalambas5 Apr 2022, 12:04
Very nice game! Fits the theme perfectly, in such a unique way!
Kind of hard to understand the logics of the game but really fun!
LDJam user 168929
LDJam user 1689295 Apr 2022, 15:02
Very cute. The sound effects helped a lot with conveying the game.
arqitech
arqitech5 Apr 2022, 21:20
Great game! :smiley:

Right on theme! It took me a second to work out who the adults were, so an in game tutorial would have been nice.

Overall, a very good job :thumbsup:
MrEvilGuy
MrEvilGuy6 Apr 2022, 03:45
9:18 on normal mode. THIS GAME IS HARD. I love it. The AI is so good hahaha, I love how they block the doors. Great music and sounds --good use of stock! Really makes me want to perfect every movement :D
franticCoder6 Apr 2022, 03:47
This was fun! I played it at least 5 times just trying to beat my old time. I liked how easy the gameplay was to figure out and how the WASD keys are the only controls in the game. Very nice job!
darwyn
darwyn6 Apr 2022, 19:06
Ah childhood memories....
bohmann6 Apr 2022, 19:20
haahhhah what a unique game. Really very interesting to play even if the grapichs is so simple :D One time i bugged out game when released pigs, one pig left in cage and all people were hopeleslly trying to catch it and i could last forever :)) Very nice uncommon game
Matt Eauthor6 Apr 2022, 19:23
@bohmann thanks for playing and letting me know about the bug 🙂. I'll fix it after the jam.
Dining Philosopher
Dining Philosopher6 Apr 2022, 19:38
Amazing entry! Played it quite a few times but never got further than 8:25 - it seems like outrunning the adults is the most important in the long run. Really love the mix of mechanics, the well-programmed AI, the inevitable end because more adults enter. The music and sound are very fitting as well.
Rost
Rost7 Apr 2022, 19:05
Funny concept. With some more graphics I could become very cool
Ethereal7 Apr 2022, 20:49
probably the best fit for the theme so far! was fun!
Aune
Aune7 Apr 2022, 21:28
Great idea, it took me two or three runs to figure it out. Once you get it, it's pretty cool. A bit addictive ^^. Nice entry !
mlho7
mlho78 Apr 2022, 13:17
Concept is really cool, and the way you implemented it is too, great job, it's fun to play.
KuKuRammus
KuKuRammus8 Apr 2022, 19:05
Really cool game, one off the most interesting interpretation I've seen this jam. Sound effect really add a lot to gameplay, great job :thumbsup:
Ines Brezavscek9 Apr 2022, 08:19
Haha, made me laugh with the stressful music. I like the idea and the mechanics of doing things to delay it. I did have a hard time figuring out just who the adults were. Cause they were different colours? But really good use of music, made me laugh with stress haha
hgcummings9 Apr 2022, 16:47
Absolutely love the concept! This was really fun to play and I really felt like a mischevious child running around the house. Rewinding the clock or unleashing the guinea pig are especially entertaining.
ruruie
ruruie10 Apr 2022, 00:33
This is fantastic. I can't get over how sad the violin is when I'm sent to bed.
ruruie
ruruie10 Apr 2022, 00:38
10:22!
tgiant
tgiant16 Apr 2022, 12:34
This is a very cool little game.
Good work. If you slap proper graphics on this game you have a winner.
The sound and music felt very well planned. Good work.
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