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Hamster Bowling

By tfendall

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Innovation183.84
Audio54.20
Humor34.36
Coolness364
Mood293.60
Overall473.58
Graphics504.02
Fun673.15
Theme783.28

Comments

peaveyj 2012-04-24 01:24

Stick around for the whole ending!

thegamingproject 2012-04-24 03:42

Give me this song! I love this game I was so surprised that all I did was dry off the hand. Can you put up a link to download the song?

peaveyj 2012-04-24 19:28

Here's the mp3 file for the credits song.

https://www.box.com/s/4760c664c016df1a8aa7

Cheers!

strega 2012-04-25 16:58

LOL! That was amazing! I'm glad I got to the end.

cakencode 2012-04-25 17:30

Haha, what an adorable game. I love the style you chose to make this game in. It's very much unlike most other games, and the opening little cinematic is a great touch. (Did you guys make that yourself? In the hamster cage??) Music was good, and the sound effects were nice. The drying part was a departure from what I was expecting, but the originality of this game made me enjoy it a lot.

CroMagnonPictures 2012-04-25 20:19

Thanks! Yes, the opening cinematic was hand-made. The hamster cage was just three sheets of glass hot-glued together, with the camera moving through the open side. The letters in the sign were just cut out of the cardboard box and we put a light inside it.

tfendall 2012-04-26 04:21

@TheGamingProject, strega and Cake&Code - Thanks for playing and commenting! We certainly were trying for something that had no one would expect, and had a lot of fun adding all the non-gameplay stuff (e.g. the rap song and the video). The gameplay was pretty much done the first night :). Hope you had fun with it!

tfendall 2012-04-26 04:24

(edit for the above comment) - that should have read "... that no one would expect".

ahm99 2012-04-29 03:28

That was, interesting. I did not expect that. Good job.

hazematman 2012-04-29 03:29

Very funny! I have to say I really loved the opening cinematic and, it fit the tiny world theme great!

dokidoki 2012-04-29 04:35

My compliments to the rappers. :) Limited gameplay, but very funny entry.

funkydelpueblo 2012-04-29 04:38

This was by far the funniest game I have ever played. The visuals, the audio....GAH, this is awesome!!! Probably the most fun I've had playing any game so far!

jomomomo 2012-04-29 05:23

So impressed... thanks for making this..

waynetron 2012-04-29 07:28

So do I mash they keys? It didn't seem to work properly, or maybe I wasn't doing it properly

geekygenius 2012-04-30 05:40

I think 4 was the number to shoot for. Very interesting. Good job!

mikesoylu 2012-04-30 11:44

Hilarious ending, Great visual style.. Good job!

kevinworkman 2012-05-01 02:01

What the.. I don't even? I think I love this game. This is my new favorite Ludum Dare entry. First perfect score I've ever given out. I love the ridiculous blend of animation, video, simple gameplay, humor, everything. Well done.

fireblend 2012-05-01 02:09

Wow. Just wow. That was uhh... yeah. Good job.

jigxor 2012-05-01 02:46

That was amazing! I absolutely love the intro and the gameplay was fun too. The audio also complimented the game very well.

Overall, I really had a lot of fun with this entry, it was unique and awesome. Great job! :)

jrasmussen24 2012-05-02 01:32

Pretty funny-- the gameplay could use some spicing up, but it was fun to the see the content anyhow.

johnfn 2012-05-02 02:15

This was certainly the most original game I've played so far.

chambers 2012-05-02 02:23

I wish I could rate 6 stars for so many categories...

I'm really impressed, congratulations!

machinas 2012-05-03 06:49

so funny. clearly more time spent on 'not the game' than 'the game' haha, but it almost doesn't even matter. great job. fun and got a laugh out of me

birchmountain 2012-05-03 07:09

Awesome! A really original idea, fun and simple gameplay, bravo!

hybridmind 2012-05-04 03:54

What was this? Haha, so great! I hamster bowled a 257. Sweet. This is a game with personality to spare. Love the integration of the live video and puppets. Fun credits song too.

paveldlouhy 2012-05-04 16:19

It is really original game! I scored a 200! ;) Cool song! ;)

davidllanos22 2012-05-07 11:01

Awesome idea! :p Well done :)

dr-pingu 2012-05-07 13:49

Holy sheep !
You have made from a basic game a really funny universe.

Great work :)

garethjenkins 2012-05-07 16:33

Awesome.

summaky 2012-05-08 07:32

It was so unexpected! Once you have the hang of it, it is quite easy, but fun nonetheless. Extremely awesome credits song!

edbadiux 2012-05-08 22:25

Very funny and interesting game. For sure the best hamster bowling I have ever played. Nice job! =)

iximeow 2012-05-11 17:46

That was beautiful. I didn't know it was such a rough thug life being a hamster bowler.

nightsjester 2012-05-11 17:52

That was perfect, utterly.

ehtd 2012-05-12 18:51

Who knew hamsters could bowl

kylerhoades 2012-05-13 07:27

That blew my mind!

johanp 2012-05-13 07:52

Amazing stuff. Can't praise it enough.

tomalla 2012-05-13 20:44

This ... is ... awesome! Gorgeous! Marvelous! Magnificent! And I'm not ironic! Especially the song at the very end!

@tfendall, could you please, please please make a ***transcription of the lyrics*** of the credits song? I gave it a try, here it is:

=== http://pastebin.com/r2a0kkm6 ===

Could someone help me with correcting the text? I'm pretty sure everyone will surely appreciate that as well! I will not get rid of this tune out of my head for a long time ...

sonnybone 2012-05-13 21:30

OH LAWD. This was great!

jeffz 2012-05-14 00:44

Overall: 5/5!
Innovation: 5/5!
Fun: 5/5!
Theme: 5/5!
Graphics: 5/5!
Audio: 5/5!
Humor: 5/5!
Mood: 5/5!

murrayl 2012-05-14 00:49

Lost it at the rap.

brighterorange 2012-05-14 01:50

hahaha! :)

tfendall 2012-05-14 02:50

Thanks everyone for all the awesome comments! We're so glad you guys enjoyed it.

@Tomalla - I updated your paste on pastebin with the lyrics. Have fun: http://pastebin.com/6tJXeUTY.

tomalla 2012-05-14 17:49

@tfendall - I don't know how many exclamation marks I should put to visualize my appreciation to you. I hope three of them will do, more would look a bit more ... 'suspicious', so to speak: thank you so much!!! And surely I will have a lot of fun with it. Cheers!

mildmojo 2012-05-15 22:13

This is hilarious. Ludum Dare needs more FMV games. Really nice work.

I hit 'R' to restart the game, and the second playthrough seemed buggy. The video didn't match the score on a number of frames and one time the video just went all corrupt and blocky. The first playthrough was fine.