Shell Smash!
Help Henri the Hermit Crab
You play as Henri the Hermit crab (a Rust-acean), and must defend your shell from unfriendly sea creatures. While a Hermit Crab's shell is a house, it does not offer sufficient storage for all of your crustacean needs.
Control your shell space
Click on the arrow-shaped gizmos to move and rotate your collected items to help you fit them in your shell.
This can also be controlled with the following keys: W/A/S/D (move item), Q/E/R/F (rotate item), Arrow Keys (rotate grid).
A Hermit is reclusive
Henri lives alone and fights alone, you will meet ill-natured sea creatures that desire nothing more than break your shell.You can cycle to the next weapon by clicking on it on the top left corner, or by pressing Tab. Make sure to
hold down the left mouse button for weapons that can auto-attack.
Game made in Rust
Shell Smash! is written in Rust using Bevy
Comments21
LDJam user 3725253 Oct 2023, 02:00
I like the unusual mechanics of the game. It looks cool!
StvUP3 Oct 2023, 02:15
Took me a bit to understand the item fitting mechanic, after that it works well!
foreyes3 Oct 2023, 04:19
I like the backpack management gameplay,it expresses the theme well!
TFL4 Oct 2023, 03:30
The backpack mechanic is cool, but it was somewhat hard to tell which item I was messing with at each moment and how to best move things around. Once I got the hang of it it worked better.
Phillips Albright4 Oct 2023, 03:33
Inventory management was definetely a neat way to incorporate the theme. My team did something similar. Nice work!
floppynub4 Oct 2023, 03:45
We've got a rust/bevy enthusiast on our team, so I know enough about bevy to be incredibly impressed by this lol. Great work all around! Ran great in browser. Didn't have a single bug. The 3d tetris was a really cool touch, though it would have been nice to have full orbit camera control for that.
Overall a super impressive entry, wave 5 was my favorite.
Overall a super impressive entry, wave 5 was my favorite.
floppynub4 Oct 2023, 03:45
We've got a rust/bevy enthusiast on our team, so I know enough about bevy to be incredibly impressed by this lol. Great work all around! Ran great in browser. Didn't have a single bug. The 3d tetris was a really cool touch, though it would have been nice to have full orbit camera control for that.
Overall a super impressive entry, wave 5 was my favorite.
Overall a super impressive entry, wave 5 was my favorite.
aevek4 Oct 2023, 04:23
As an apparent rust/bevy enthusiast, I am into this one. Ran great and the core combat was fun. It did feel like a pretty intense difficulty spike once I got the third weapon, but in a fun way. The inventory management was a fun interpretation of the theme and was a nice relaxing break while I tried to optimize, but arranging things wasn't really a challenge for quite a while because of all the extra space, so maybe starting it out smaller and increasing it with each item could help make it more involved earlier? Game looked great, sounds were good and communicated state well (did you use built-in Bevy audio? If so I'm even more impressed), and the core loops were fun. Great work!
Raaph5 Oct 2023, 08:17
I found myself switching weapons mostly so I didn't have to listen to the repetitive sound effects as opposed to suit the situation as there was very little variety between waves. The RE4 type inventory management is always fun but I didn't reach the point where stuff didn't fit because I wasn't being challenged. I also feel like the bigger gun and sword just make the others obsolete, although even the starting sword was more than enough to survive until boredom finally beat me. Great atmosphere and graphics, love the underwater vibe.
zanagi5 Oct 2023, 15:51
Interesting action game, having both melee and ranged weapons was nice and the ouch sound was kinda funny; would've been nice if there were sound effects when hitting enemies as well. The inventory management for removing items could've been clearer as I was having hard time seeing which piece I had selected. I also think I encountered some sort of max HP bug where I could tank ~10 hits from enemies without health going down.
Still this was a nice game, congrats on submission!
Still this was a nice game, congrats on submission!
Winter22775 Oct 2023, 16:37
Jinbu7 Oct 2023, 07:21
Interesting concept, had some hard times timing the attack
Marcel_18 Oct 2023, 18:08
Interesting game!
DeadByDeath9 Oct 2023, 10:07
Chill and calm game. Nice idea and very good implementation of the theme! The controls was a little bit clunky thoough and I was not very sure even when I was attacking the enemies that I will do damage to them, because it seemed like that sometimes it worked as expected but some others times it was doing its things! Anyway, very nice game! Good job! Keep up!
Meo-benderson10 Oct 2023, 13:43
Not sure how to change the weapon, but I liked the concept :-)
Winter227710 Oct 2023, 19:33
@meo-benderson when you picked up more than 1 weapon, click on the other weapon in the UI (top left) to shift to it
knexator12 Oct 2023, 15:28
Good mix of mechanics, and nice work on using Bevy engine
Haste0613 Oct 2023, 07:47
Very nice concept! Attacking is a little bit hard but it's a game I'd like to play more if it were expanded on.
fatEmperor14 Oct 2023, 15:56
Very interesting. Clear and convenient combat system. I did not understand why the stage with the collection of weapons is needed.
Vodzik19 Oct 2023, 10:40
Cool game. Nice art.
I think that sotrage space could be smaller, since it is easy to stack everything.
I think that sotrage space could be smaller, since it is easy to stack everything.
Great idea for keeping and losing items .I enjoyed it. The ouch sounds was really funny too.