Sun's out Buns out

by phufhi
co-authored: @dodyman
Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.02
Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.92
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.91
Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.29
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.21
Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.97
Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.71
Fox building walls to save a plant during the bunny apocalypse.
Make the plant reach the top to win!
WASD or arrow keys to move, space to place walls.

Please use the Google drive or itch.io links if the download option doesn't work for you.
Also a web version is available now on Github!

Newest version should also be playable for people with smaller screens and be free of rare crashes.

Comments26

live-wire3 Oct 2022, 22:31
Cute art :heart_eyes: :rabbit: :fox:
DGo
DGo4 Oct 2022, 03:31
Cant play this one unfortunately, looks like the download link isnt working.

But that title screen looks amazing lmao
Phantom49
Phantom494 Oct 2022, 04:24
i wish I could play it, but the download link isn't working unfortunately :(
phufhiauthor4 Oct 2022, 04:36
@dgo @phantom49 Happy you found the game!
We've added a Google drive download option as well, hope that works for you!
Bxyzzz4 Oct 2022, 05:08
Cute graphics! The art style fit nicely together, and I liked the animations for the player fox and the rabbits :)

I was only able to water the plant 5? times before getting overwhelmed- it's nice that you have to choose between getting rocks or the water bucket at times. I did notice that you can somewhat cheese the game by simply grabbing the water and hugging the plant though!
Tomahawk934 Oct 2022, 21:13
Great game! Love the fox 🦊❤️
lavendaggers
lavendaggers4 Oct 2022, 22:42
Cute game, love the fox! Those rabbits are tricky
LDJam user 237588
LDJam user 2375885 Oct 2022, 18:35
Cute/funny game, I enjoyed it. Maybe some sound effects and/or music will improve the game.
msh11025 Oct 2022, 18:38
Cute game and love the art (got overwhelmed by all those bunnies very quickly though hahaha)! Would be even better with some background music/audio effects. :)
Rage Paint Games
Rage Paint Games6 Oct 2022, 01:23
I liked the concept, as I often have to fend off critters from my own garden irl. I need to play this again, now that I know I can use the water to make the plant grow. For whatever reason, my brain went straight to trying to pour the water down the holes to drown the bunnies... I wonder what that says about me...

But in any case, I think the game needs some balancing - which I wouldn't expect you to nail down in such a short amount of time; this is more of a comment if you plan on developing this further. The bunnies were very overwhelming very quickly for me as they multiplied exponentially, even if I managed to kill them all in the previous round. I'm not sure what the answer would be here -- perhaps since the rocks get destroyed over time anyway, give us the opportunity to grab more than 2 rocks in later rounds?
Adam Gallina
Adam Gallina7 Oct 2022, 04:00
Pretty good idea! The movement was a little frustrating at times, mainly because I felt helpless being on one side of the plant. That being said, it was pretty entertaining to play and strategize to protect the plant
simba8 Oct 2022, 14:06
Very funny and with a really unique loop. I really like the wall building idea! One variation I think might be interesting to explore is if the bunnies only attack the wall if there is no other path to the plant. This way the player would have to create a "maze" for the bunnies to take- sort of like in a Tower Defense.
Valyn Tyler
Valyn Tyler8 Oct 2022, 21:02
Really cute! I wish the plant's hitbox would be a little more clear tho
fizzbark
fizzbark9 Oct 2022, 06:14
Excellent artwork, even minimal sound FX would've helped communicate gameplay. I wish the water + rocks = wall mechanic was explained earlier, otherwise it was pretty clear. The hand drawn title font and name were the highpoint for me, although I enjoyed my time with the rest of it.
Steve74119 Oct 2022, 07:02
The little buns kept bashing through my solid stone walls. I'm scared
ruruie
ruruie9 Oct 2022, 19:25
Cute though I kept dying. Having only either stones or water (usually not enough time to get both) seemed limiting.
WFMG
WFMG10 Oct 2022, 00:13
bnuy
WFMG
WFMG10 Oct 2022, 00:15
They're very cute and sweet and I almost don't even want to keep the bnuys out!
fabula_rasa10 Oct 2022, 00:22
You had me at "Fox building walls to save a plant during the bunny apocalypse" :laughing:

Really nice visuals. Could use some more visual/audio feedback on hat is going on (some more, even simple, animations and SFX), as well as some music to flesh out the world. The game gets quite hard later, as the bunny explosions are enoooormous.
LDJam user 238700
LDJam user 23870010 Oct 2022, 08:57
Super cute game! I wasn't exactly the bunnies to multiply so rapidly, but I think that just added a lot of fun chaos to the game. It gets really hard towards the end, so I would have loved to be able to place more rocks later or have a way to heal my plant, as well as audio to let me know when my plant was getting chewed on. Nice work!
niki4u10 Oct 2022, 10:34
Fun game
khaotom
khaotom11 Oct 2022, 08:02
I knew it. Bunnies are pure evil. Their art is cute though.

I appreciate that I could carry both rocks and water. I don't know why I didn't think to try this in my first play. The way the game has 2 alternating phases is really nice.

I think a less difficult version of this would be really fun for kids, obviously the tyranny of this 10 second theme makes it hard to do that right now.
GodDoesPlayDice11 Oct 2022, 17:51
Good job, but the game could use a tutorial (we ourselves always do not have time to make tutorials on LD)
der_finski
der_finski11 Oct 2022, 18:08
Nice game, i ws supprised how fast the rabbits multiply (altho thats what these beasts are known for ;) )

Really likes it
zimny11
zimny1111 Oct 2022, 20:53
Really cute art style! And a cool game in general. It was fun to try it out. I just wish there was music :) Anyway, good job!
pkenney
pkenney13 Oct 2022, 01:36
Cool game! It has some small scope but it does a lot with that scope. I felt the difficulty balance was nicely designed. I had to take some risks and make some tough choices, and even then I didn't QUITE get the plant all the way to the top.

The art looked nice, and it also communicated effectively what was going on. For example, it was really clear when the plant was hit by a rabbit, which was really important to understand as a player learning the game.

The choice to show the rabbits go into little holes, and to have the previous-round rabbits come back, those were both good design choices too.

So a lot of smart ideas in this small entry! I do thin it would be a lot more exciting to play with a few sound effects and some other "juice". I see this is your first LD, so it's a great start and maybe you can work on some of those bonus-type skills in the future! If you haven't seen them, there are two talks on youtube that everybody likes, called "juice it or lose it" and "the art of screenshake." Check em out if you haven't, and you're curious about nice small touches to add.

Nice entry!
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