Critter Crawler

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.48

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.57

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.71

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.93

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.59

Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.79

Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.24

In Critter Crawler, you have to guide your critters through a series of dungeon levels!

Game mechanics:
- place up to 3 waypoints per level. Once you hit SPACE, your critters will spawn in and follow a path along these waypoints.
- free critters along the way to multiply your team on the next floor
- reach the staircase with at least one critter to successfully clear a level!

This version is a very early and immature version of what I desired it to be. I quite frankly miscalculated the available time span (I thought there was 1 day more haha). So most features are not used to their fullest and / or buggy still.

I hope you'll enjoy the game regardless!

Comments23

Rambar8 Oct 2024, 13:03

Cute game! I liked the art, and the onboarding is super simple. A bit hard (the turrets nearly exterminated me in almost all levels) but I managed to win! Congrats on your entry :)

zSharpFire8 Oct 2024, 13:34

nice game. the waypoint system is a bit wanky at times.

sketchbookbug8 Oct 2024, 14:13

The waypoint system is great and easy to get into. I liked the art, too. Nice little game 😊

Sasha208 Oct 2024, 23:33

Easy and tasteful. Good job!

Reyansh9 Oct 2024, 08:22

I liked the game and art style, albeit i feel the game is a bit too easy and short but i like the game overall

Planetary9 Oct 2024, 13:00

Nice!!

I like the idea of the game (placing some checkpoints and going to the end without getting too much damage). I manage to win every single level.

The graphics are cool (in general I love pixel art). Good entry!

Rentem9 Oct 2024, 14:21

Neat game. Removing and readding waypoints could use some improvement. Otherwise great job

Winter22779 Oct 2024, 20:42

Cool little game. It seemed a bit easy, I didn't really need to think much to win, just placing the way points at the end everytime makes you win, but it's a nice demonstration of a gameplay mechanic that could be expended futher. I love the little music. Well done!

CathelAleph9 Oct 2024, 20:47

The levels are very simple and it's easy for me to pass. I never expected to experience a tower defense game from the "enemy's" perspective hahaha. The art design of the environment and creatures are also very well done. I really love this design!

Phyrocast9 Oct 2024, 20:58

I like the "reverse tower defense" idea! I think there's good potential in this game, and a little more polish would greatly improve it!

mrspeaker10 Oct 2024, 02:20

Damn it! Sad you didn't realize the time constraint: everything you did was really polished and satisfying. You've got a great base to build on and make some more interesting levels and mechanics.

Ryuu11 Oct 2024, 03:20

The game is very fun! I was a bit confused by why my team multiplies so rapidly, but it's a pretty nice game, so much potential too! Congratz

t-pirozzini11 Oct 2024, 03:28

This game has potential! Took a bit of experimentation to determine how far to keep my critters away from turrets, but that's part of the fun. I got caught off guard by some turrets hiding off the side of the screen! I thought I had the perfect route 🕵

Mullenratteauthor11 Oct 2024, 05:48

@Rambar Thanks for the feedback! I didn't have time to balance any of the levels, so I'm really glad you still liked it! 😁

Mullenratteauthor11 Oct 2024, 05:53

@zsharpfire @sketchbookbug @rentem Thanks! Really appreciate the feedback here. The waypoint system really is a bit messy, definitely a victim of quick and dirty jam coding haha. I will work on it in the next version! 😄

Mullenratteauthor11 Oct 2024, 05:56

@sasha20 @reyansh @planetary Thank you for the lovely comments! I'm a bit unhappy with the art style in this, I think I could've made a lot more and cooler assets with a bit more time. But that's part of the fun in a jam, glad you guys liked the game and its visuals! 😁

Mullenratteauthor11 Oct 2024, 06:00

@winter2277 @cathelaleph @phyrocast @mrspeaker @t-pirozzini Yea the difficulty is an issue in this. Originally I intended to add 3 different turrets and 3 different creatures, which would've allowed for way more diversity in levels etc. Super happy about y'alls feedback! ✌

Mullenratteauthor11 Oct 2024, 06:02

@ryuu Glad you liked my game! 🙂 The multiplication was not intended like this, I only realized shortly before the deadline so I couldn't fix it, unfortunately. I even uncovered a bug that spawns infinite rats so you get a stream of them running from start to finish and the level would never end hahaha

Ryuu11 Oct 2024, 20:22

@mullenratte oh, that happened to me once! haha I was waiting until it finished for curiosity but it kept going hahaha

qwertyuiop13 Oct 2024, 03:50

good

Prismapunch13 Oct 2024, 03:56

Cute game and i like the pixel art, towers were annoying but i like the puzzle element

Synapse31623 Oct 2024, 07:34

The game is too simple, and there's no punishment for the death of creatures. Except this, everything is well done.

Transkuja23 Oct 2024, 11:08

Nice idea, would have been cool to have some ways to defend against the towers 😄