Ludum Dare #59compo
Eat. Poop. Love.
You are a newborn baby. The only way to communicate is to cry. Hungry? Cry. Diaper? Cry. Need a hug? Also cry. Your parent scrambles to figure out what you want, and to lull you to sleep. Accumulate 60 seconds of nap time before your needs bottom out.
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Tap, click, or press the spacebar to cry — and keep crying until your parent offers the right thing. And then, stop crying. The absence of the signal is also a signal.
I became a dad 3 months ago. As you can guess, the game is heavily inspired by my recent experience as a parent. I built this game during the short nap windows over the weekend. I used Claude Code to speed up the development, and also as an input method while I was holding my son in both arms.
800 lines of vanilla JavaScript. Works on mobile and desktop.
Playing on mobile?
ldjam's embed iframe is too wide on mobile. Play here instead: https://piesku.com/eat.poop.love/
Controls
Tap, click, or press the spacebar to cry — and keep crying until your parent offers the right thing. And then, stop crying. The absence of the signal is also a signal.
Inspiration
I became a dad 3 months ago. As you can guess, the game is heavily inspired by my recent experience as a parent. I built this game during the short nap windows over the weekend. I used Claude Code to speed up the development, and also as an input method while I was holding my son in both arms.
Technical
800 lines of vanilla JavaScript. Works on mobile and desktop.
Screenshots
Tools: Claude
Comments15
Game 1
Very clever, and quite challenging for a game played with a single button! The RNG would sometimes screw me over but the game otherwise felt pretty fair, and a little bit of caution/patience was enough to beat. I giggled at the mother's smile instantly vanishing when you refuse what was offered :P.
Game 2
Also a clever use of a one-button game mechanic. I thought I'd get something special for making it past a minute since the first game made a big deal of it, but it indeed just seems to be a high-score thing. The game could use some sound effects!
@henk I really thought no-one would ever find that easter-egg. I'm impressed that you found it so quickly! It wasn't meant as a complete second game, just a tiny prototype I developed on Saturday morning when brainstorming ideas with my wife. Thank you for being gentle and for your thoughtful comments :) To anyone interested in how to play it:
!> Wait 25 seconds on the win or lose screen; the "tap to play again" becomes "tap to play something else" which links to a Gameboyesque flappy bird clone.
A Very good game idea well made !
Love this submission. Me and my girlfriend died laughing the first time I held down the spacebar :laughing:
I love that you added a secret mini game, not enough people do this.
Im re-born