Picnic Calamity

by xenosns

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.43

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.55

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.98

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.98

Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.37

The ants have come for the picnic cake. There's just too many of them, it's inevitable. But at least you can squish as many as you can and say you tried.

Left click to squish ants.

Right click to place distracting cookies. 5 max at once.

Tags: #arcade, #high score, #ld50, #mouse only

Tools: GameMaker

Comments15

Pinky Toast4 Apr 2022, 14:08

Nice! Got to score 149! Ramps up pretty fast starting at 80 hahaha.

sivarde4 Apr 2022, 17:03

It gets so hectic, I was clicking like a madman. Fun little game.

CharlesSchar4 Apr 2022, 17:03

Nice game, music and sound effects are great! It can be pretty difficult. It seems like the cookies are a bit underpowered though, as they are limited and don't seem to appreciably lower the amount of ants you have to deal with.

sephyr4 Apr 2022, 17:04

Got 112 :).
Liked the cookie idea to protect the cake.

KewDev4 Apr 2022, 17:04

Good job! I got to 251! It starts getting really hard around 100. Had a good time!

Alex Stewart6 Apr 2022, 23:55

Fun game! I was trying to do a "no cookie" run, just for the fun of it. When it ramped up in ants as people mentioned, I frantically tried to use cookies, and found it didn't help too much by that point.

MrEvilGuy8 Apr 2022, 03:47

Holy crap that's a lot of ants. I was placing cookies almost every second as they kept eating them up so fast hahaha. Fun idea and fun game given the minimalism. Good work!

Lecloow78 Apr 2022, 06:21

Nice game

Saryah8 Apr 2022, 11:07

So much fun taking revenge on ants! A neat concept well executed. Preferect fit for the theme.

Olguinne8 Apr 2022, 18:59

Good job! I liked the sound and the idea with distracting cookies!

LDJam user 2807558 Apr 2022, 21:31

Haha, this is extremely fun for such a simple concept! Good job here. My high score was 178.

QuadApe11 Apr 2022, 13:01

Simple and addicting!
Sounds are a bit too harsh on the ears especially with a lot of ants on screen, UI feels unfinished, but the game plays nicely otherwise, good job!

BurnsDesigns11 Apr 2022, 14:50

It looks like you scoped well for a weekend and made a complete project. Any jam game that can deliver that is a success in my eyes!

XenosNSauthor11 Apr 2022, 17:43

@burnsdesigns Thank you! It was actually my first time doing anything game dev related in a couple years so also wanted to do something small to reorient myself with Game Maker Studio. I think for what it is I achieved what I wanted.