Ludum Dare #56compo

Oddball Assembly

by daniel-alhadeff

Overall★★★★★★★★★★4.05

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.90

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★4.35

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.35

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.92

Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.62

Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.02

Mood★★★★★★★★★★4.05

This game requires a dedicated GPU and a good CPU -- The 3D giveth and the 3D taketh away

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- -> 🟢 - - > 🔵 - -> 🟡 - -> 🔴 - -> ⚪

> ## Create, Trade, and Automate Production of *Egg Creatures*.

- -> 🟢 - - > 🔵 - -> 🟡 - -> 🔴 - -> ⚪

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An Organic Factory

Automate *creature production* using a slew of "friendly" hatched contraptions and other marvels of modern day meat engineering.

Place tiny creatures, build an assembly line, and operate somewhere below 100% efficiency.
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What is this?

> ### The long awaited lovechild of Mousetrap & Factorio.

> ### A playable fever dream.

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Gameplay Walkthrough

There are multiple solutions to all the puzzles, but spoiler warning nonetheless

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Also, I’m making a real game!

It’s a deckbuilding roguelike with a unique, geometry-based resource system I'm making with @jeremy-ryan based his 2nd Place LD52 Winner, Fallowtide! There’s not a Steam page up quite yet, but you can join the Discord server for updates and playtests by clicking the banner below.
![6923d.jpg()](https://discord.gg/6YSSnVF2ns)

Tags: #automation, #physics

Genres: simulation

Comments17

William Corrin7 Oct 2024, 00:12

This was a really cool idea and the graphics and feel of the game were incredibly unique!

Daniel Alhadeffauthor7 Oct 2024, 00:14

Thanks @william-corrin! Really sleep deprived right now, but I'll check your game out tomorrow!

Vipaka8 Oct 2024, 03:13

The music in this game was so odd! Especially for the aesthetic, which reminded me of the nether. I thought the entire game premise was creative and clever, and the puzzle elements were a lot of fun to solve.

TomPendergrass8 Oct 2024, 03:17

You achieved fever dream status! Neat effect with the pulsating walls. Everything having eyes felt... familiar. Good job :D

Codeman10108 Oct 2024, 06:08

I had to force myself to stop playing

Renier18 Oct 2024, 02:50

WOW this was insanely fun and well done!! great job!! :D

ITSTIMOTHY99918 Oct 2024, 10:20

like many assembly type game, very addicting :skull:

Gamayun.Games19 Oct 2024, 21:56

Have no idea how you managed to do that in 48 ours alone.
Very good take on factory game, like a satisfactory, but with physics!
Can't image what work needs to be done to optimise this if this would be a big game
Liked it, spend a lot of time in it, 11/10

Daniel Alhadeffauthor19 Oct 2024, 23:43

Thank you everyone for the kind words, I'll be checking out all your games over the next couple days!

@gamayun-games I actually did some *very basic* optimization during the 48 hours. Just simple things like changing Unity's physics settings and accuracy but it did help a ton. But yeah, if this was turned into a full game it would be a nightmare to optimize!

vfqd21 Oct 2024, 08:18

This is crazy ambitious, I feel like with some more polish, I think this could be really cool! I struggled a bunch with getting things precise, but it's super promising, and building a (living) machine is very satisfying, congrats!

Daniel Alhadeffauthor21 Oct 2024, 15:22

Thanks @vfqd! You're 100% right about the polish, I added as much as I could in the 48 hours but the last room especially could use some more QOL improvements. I had some hints (i.e. geometry part of a potential solution were green) but in future Ludum Dares I plan to add even more stuff like this to my games.

I'm very happy with how much I managed to do, but next Jam I think I'll go back to the vertical slice approach.

Anyway, the feedback is very, very much appreciated! I'll check out your game later tonight!

deadroach22 Oct 2024, 02:29

Really impressive, great work!

Langotriel22 Oct 2024, 02:29

Fantastic work for a 48 compo game. Insanely impressive.

Googoobachoo22 Oct 2024, 18:20

Fantastic. Reminds me a bit of Infinifactory. The last level gets really messy, balls everywhere. a nice challenge. Psychedelic graphics, don't look at the walls, makes you woozy.

Empyreans23 Oct 2024, 20:28

Amazing, interesting concept and incredibly impressive achievement for one person in 48 hours! :sunglasses:

I only wish my PC wasn't such a potato to be able to thoroughly enjoy it on stream :)

~XpMonster

Jeremy Ryan25 Oct 2024, 03:33

A lovely game with absolutely nothing sinister, unnerving, or otherwise deeply unsettling in an aesthetic way at all!

I̶̮̓ ̷̖̚c̸͚̔a̷̙̿ñ̸͈ ̵̰̈́f̴̮͊e̵̩̾é̶͜l̷̛͓ ̸̙́ṭ̵̈́h̴̟͘ẹ̴̋i̴͓̒r̷͉̈ ̷͇̓e̸͖͋y̵̮̔ē̶̡s̵̗͝

Gameplay-wise, this was a fun twist on the typical automation game, because it also had 3D physics --- this led to some fun contraptions and interactions that let you solve the puzzles in unintended ways. I liked the variety of little creatures you could build and the fact that everything in the game seemed vaguely sentient. The only hitch I ran into was that the vertical shooters would sometimes clog if you tried to route too many eggs through them, but that's probably my fault for making the biggest mess of a rube-goldberg monstrosity possible.

I drew the little springy guy:

Ategon25 Oct 2024, 21:52

Thanks for submitting your game to the stream! If you wanted to watch it again in the future heres the vod of the stream (with a chapter for your game)