Rotting Hood's De-liver-y Service

by kyle-farwell

co-authored: @fuugul, @lduser125

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.71

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.47

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.74

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.03

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★4.03

Humor★★★★★★★★★★4.03

Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.05

Rotting Hood is the latest masterpiece from legendary development studio Gelato Labs. As a result of a zombie outbreak, the human race has deteriorated into savage beasts that will stop at nothing to eliminate their foe. Embrace a visceral experience as you assume the role of Rotting Hood and his accomplice Patient Zero, as they embark on a quest to fill the bellies of their zombie friends by fighting back. Eat up this action-packed side-scroller that will keep you entertained for hours! Bon appetit!

How to play:
1. Approach your next meal and press [space] to begin surgery.
2. Make an incision using the scalpel.
3. Grab the forceps and get to work removing anything in the way of your prize.
4. Once you've found the liver, drop it in the ice bag to keep it nice and fresh.
5. Finally, wield your trusty stapler and stitch the body back up. Good as new! No one will suspect a thing.
6. But watch out! If you hear the security guard approaching, press "HIDE" quick and mash the [z] key to snore so they don't notice anything.
7. Bigger humans have bigger livers. More liver = more good. But you'll have to work harder to get down to their livers, and the longer the liver is exposed to the air, the less fresh and delicious it gets!

*A Gelato Labs Production for Ludum Dare 53*

The Gelato Labs "G-Team" for LD53 is:

#### Programming:
*Kyle Farwell (kfarwell)*

#### Art:
*Fuugul*

#### Writing:
*Ryan Refcio*

#### Music and Sound:
*Bryan Teoh*, *Pixabay*, *Kenney*

Genres: puzzle

Comments18

slimefriend2 May 2023, 03:30

I love this! The surgery mechanics were really inventive, and I love all the random stuff you find in the patient's chest. Great job!

martinberisso2 May 2023, 04:28

looking good but is this "delivery" ?

Adam Gaskins2 May 2023, 04:42

Very cute!! Loved the graphics and lends itself perfectly to speedrunning! I kept getting the guy with SO much junk in his chest though :laughing:

FlashViper3 May 2023, 03:50

This game has cool lore. It was a little hard, but that's excusable for a jam game. I loved the artstyle, and some of the things that you can find in people's stomachs were hilarious

LDJam user 1202133 May 2023, 13:36

My only real complaint is it's EXTREMELY hard to hear the guards and there doesn't seem to be a way to turn the volume on that up, the music pretty much completely masks it.

SlySeville7 May 2023, 05:33

Such a clever use of the theme!

jdemattos7 May 2023, 05:40

I love the music and the art. The guards are hard to hear over the music, I think a great elaboration on the idea would be to give the player a more visual warning before they're caught, and a reminder to press the snore button. The humor was really cutesy grotesque which I love, and enjoyed the backstory introducing the story. Congrats!

feyd-rautha7 May 2023, 05:50

Ok, this was pretty great. By the end you really start to develop a system for how to quickly harvest the livers. It's pretty hilarious. It was super hard to hear the guard and I definitely only watched for the button to appear and nothing else. This was for sure one of the more fun ones I have played.

1tater_no_tots7 May 2023, 06:18

Fun game and interesting take on the theme with a pun. The sound could use some balancing, the snoring is a bit loud.

Pouyan ShekariKiani11 May 2023, 11:33

Real Fun game, definitely a major star in humor category lol. and i loved patient zero. poor guy seemed so innocent lol.

Gibran Bisio11 May 2023, 11:44

Nice work! 💀

Sibi14 May 2023, 18:00

Loved the humor and the frantic "digging" for the liver!
My final score was: 23171

LDJam user 20240816 May 2023, 21:55

This gets an easy 5/5 innovation from me, the story telling is really creative and made me laugh, the art style is nice and the overall concept is what I love to find in a game jam lol, my only issue was with the gameplay, while the gameplay is just as creative and I appreciate the liver having the word "Liver" on it for dummies like myself, there was no audio in the game so I couldn't really hear anything, this isn't your fault I'd guess so I didn't take that into account for the vote but I somehow managed to play pretty decently with no audio lol how'bout that? the game is full of attention to detail and I love it! like the "I'm not a zombie" captcha, the different dialogues as you restart and the sus toys inside people :laughing:. overall I think this is a great game with a really nice idea, you guys should try to play more games before the voting week is over if you want to get a score, I wish you luck on that!

amarokczukay18 May 2023, 23:39

"your livers get confiscated" this line got me laughing really hard
this was a really fun game, i loved the variety of items you can find in the corpses!

i thought i had no sound but nevermind i was on mute haha i've made a few more tries with the sound on, and it enhanced the experience a lot because sfx and music are really nice!

Robonaut12119 May 2023, 17:27

Wow, that was really good! Funny concept, although it took me a few nights of not getting anywhere to get the concept. A tutorial would have helped, but hey, I barely ever have time for tutorials too, so I don't mind :-)
I found myself not hearing the guards a lot - especially at first. Even when I did notice them, it was hard to spot the tiny HIDE button in the bottom right corner - some feedback when the button spawns would have been nice, like a pulse or scaling spawn animation. A lot of the UI and gameplay could have done with similar feedback, but in most areas the amazing art more than made up for it. One of my favourite games so far overall!

Sodoj19 May 2023, 17:37

Interesting premise, you don't see conscious zombies with personality everyday! I dig the idea behind the game as well, but unfortunately I kept getting caught by the security guard, I'm not sure what I was doing wrong. Nevertheless, this is a really good game, I enjoyed my time with it!