Deadlicious

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.46
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.16
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.09
Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.29
Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.39
Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.54

The Game

You play as a starving zombie "living" in a city. In order to survive you have to harvest humans. But in order to eat - eh - harvest them you have to kill first. But be careful: they will fight back.

Harvesting a human has some positive effects:

It will heal you
It will reset the starving bar
It will give you points
So harvest as much as possible to raise your final score!

Starving System

If the starving bar runs out it will apply 1 damage-point to you. Also the starving rate will increase by a little. So you really want to avoid that the bar runs down to zero.

As mentioned above: you can reset the starving bar by harvesting (eating) humans. But you also can affect the system in negative way. Attack and running will let you starve more!

Humans

There are 4 different types of humans. They have individual health, damage, attack-speed and points. You can easily distinct them by there model.

If they are easy to kill then of course they give less points/health.

Hint: Friendly fire is ON. So humans can kill each other!

Controls

- W/A/S/D (or arrow keys) - Move
- E - Harvest (eat)
- Shift - Run
- Space - Attack

The game has an auto-aim-mechanic. So you only need to be close enough to an human. Hitting the attack-key will make you face the target before the actual attack triggers.

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Comments23

Tevin
Tevin9 Jan 2023, 16:53
Nice little game. I like the style of it :)
Hyster9 Jan 2023, 17:25
The visuals are very good :) The game is difficult, there not much you can do as a slow zombie, but my highest score was 19.
Adam Konig
Adam Konig9 Jan 2023, 17:58
Great entry! Visuals were awesome, gameplay was simple and easy to understand and get into. Wish there were more like powerups for doing more damage or starving less fast. Great work!
Pe7e9 Jan 2023, 18:10
Good game, the Humans were fairly aggressive for a cold evening during a zombie apocalypse.
Bazzzing9 Jan 2023, 18:16
Really good game. I like how the theme was interpreted and the balancing is motivating.
pauljs
pauljs9 Jan 2023, 18:17
Fun take on the concept and the theme!
Merin Car Trunk Key10 Jan 2023, 11:11
The graphics are cool. The animations are smooth as well. It was fun to play!
Nougato
Nougato10 Jan 2023, 11:35
Wow ! really good graphics and gameplay i'm loved play it ! I was able to reach 37 😁
Tomate_Salatauthor10 Jan 2023, 12:22
Thanks for the feedback so far :-)

@adam-konig Yes powerup also came through my mind. I actually wanted to use them to also make the player trying to explore the town. But (due to the nature of jams) I run out time and decided to not implement them.

@nougato Cool :-). I'm not sure anymore whats my best (specially considering the latest changes were I added new humans. That made the game harder). But I think atm I would be below 37. But with that a new idea came through my mind. In future I should add a "you beat the message" in case if one was better than me. Because I guess you would have seen it ^^.
Nougato
Nougato10 Jan 2023, 12:43
@tomato-salad Yes that's a good idea! I think a bulletin board can be an good asset 🙂
Xandruher
Xandruher10 Jan 2023, 21:35
Nice Game. Plays very smooth. I like the Mechanic how you lose health with getting hits or not eating.
Pulni
Pulni10 Jan 2023, 23:25
Plays so smoothly!! The general mood is quite nice, and exchanging slaps with humans as a zombie is just so satisfying! :smile:

One thing I did not quite like is how starvation works and how useless it feels to reset it when eating a human. Not much to play with, and not very satisfying. Perhaps if it also increased the time it takes for the bar to deplete, it would've been better! (And that should also be visible to the player, because now that I think of it, it might work like that right now and I wouldn't notice it.)

In any case, good job! :slight_smile:

P.S. Here's my best score
Tomate_Salatauthor12 Jan 2023, 10:22
@pulni Thanks for the feedback and well done. I think I never reached 40 or higher - so you also beat my best ^^. In case of the starvation I totally agree with you. Actually I wanted to that but somehow completly forgot it in the end. The game should communicate the state of the starvation clearly and now it only shows how its going down. But the exact rate would be interesting because that one is increasing as penalty if the player doesn't eat. I should have given that priority instead of alway pushing it back for "later"
JackOfCups
JackOfCups12 Jan 2023, 16:25
That was fun! The peaceful little ditty that plays at the end was a real treat, and I enjoyed the character models for the humans. I think I would've liked for the sprint function to give me a little more flat-out speed, so I can really get that surging hungry zombie feel. Incidentally, Deadlicious is a great rapper name.
MightyBanana13 Jan 2023, 22:46
Nice game! It would be fun if "harvested" people would turn into zombies to help you in fight - would really help to sell the "zombie" thing. Also, in the end people swarmed me as if it is they were zombies, not me)) Great entry, anyways)
Substain
Substain14 Jan 2023, 08:07
got a final score of 31 :) The graphics, the music and the gameplay go well together. You have to think about your positioning and when it makes sense to run. Maybe the attacking could be a bit less sluggish, but all in all it is well done.
dry-squid
dry-squid16 Jan 2023, 01:42
The art and music were great selections. Props to the asset pack makers. It’s pretty cool that you were able to put together such a cool game in so little time. Great work! I love me sum flesh!
Samuli
Samuli17 Jan 2023, 17:50
Got to 26! The game would have benefited from some guidance where the next humans are as the field of view was quite limited.
Ido
Ido17 Jan 2023, 18:01
Cute game for such short time.
It's nice to play a story from the opposite side :)
WeeFairyFabi
WeeFairyFabi19 Jan 2023, 15:13
This is a really cute game! I am definitely a zombie sympathiser now haha. I had a lot of fun running around harvesting humans, especially the Hazmat people... I have a personal vendetta against them now. Well done on making such a fun game :)
betovf
betovf23 Jan 2023, 15:51
I love the graphics and the humor :laughing: Good job!

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