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Happy Vegan Birthday

By huitre

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Graphics54.63
Coolness369
Humor533.10
Mood1062.91
Overall1492.95
Fun1702.65
Innovation1882.47
Audio2241.13
Theme2591.58

Comments

lord_fluffy 2012-08-28 03:40

I'm a big fan of adventure games, so I was glad to see an entry in that category. However, I can't tell if the game is unfinished, broken, or I just couldn't figure out what to do.

Part of the problem is the inventory seems to be broken, I can only pick up an item once in it, after that the items are still visible, but not interactable :s

On the plus side, the graphics are great and I thought it was pretty funny. I'm kind of sad I didn't get farther in the game.

*** Spoilers ***
Where I got in the game: The character went to sleep, got up, wanted breakfast with more protein, pretty sure tofu has a lot of protein though ;) and let the cat in. Picked the cat up and put it in my inventory... I tried to eat the pigeon but that didn't work XD. Anyways, I couldn't think of anything else to try and the inventory bug was annoying...

huitre 2012-08-28 09:01

Argh! Bug!
I'm trying to get the coder to fix it!
Panic!

imef 2012-08-28 22:49

Wow! This just blew my mind up! The graphics are really awesome!

dr_soda 2012-08-28 22:55

Poor kitty :(

dr_soda 2012-08-28 22:55

That said, this was really very well done. Great shaders, great models, funny writing.

devoreuk 2012-08-28 22:57

Really like the graphics, the ending was really funny, I'm normally not a fan of point and clicks but it wasn't too long kept me entertained and made me laugh. Good job.

lord_fluffy 2012-08-29 04:24

Now that the inventory bug was fixed, I was able to finish the game. Poor kitty indeed XD

r3d5 2012-08-29 05:47

Amazing art! Very well done production!

pierrec 2012-08-29 11:17

I didn't manage to finish the game...probably because of a bug or something because I couldn't use my breakfast out of my inventory (while I could use the cat).
Graphics are really impressing for 48h! I love the main character

capgrip 2012-08-30 00:05

Animation and graphics are awesome. Very good job!

hamster_mk_4 2012-09-01 01:37

I loved the environment and the animation. You did well in focusing on what you could accomplish in the time.

endermath 2012-09-01 01:53

really nice graphics!

matthias_zarzecki 2012-09-01 11:50

OMG this is amazing. The graphics are stupidly impressive, and the thing is quite well done. Love the day/night-cycle and the cat.

That being said, it does feel a bit buggy and unpolished. You do tend to get at a lot of things, objects clip through the character, lines that are supposed to be unique are repeated, and it's often not really clear what's supposed to be happening.

Still, it's great! :)

igor-silva 2012-09-01 16:34

this is a good game, art is beautiful, but the pathfinding need more work

goffmog 2012-09-01 20:48

Still seem to have a big problem with the inventory, I tried to use the egg and the breakfast together but broke it so that I can no longer pick up the egg. incredible that all these assets were created in 3 days, there's a good reason why the graphics in my game are all either procedurally generated or made out of primitives ;)

codexus 2012-09-01 21:26

Pretty nice graphics but the bugs made it difficult to play even though it was short I had to restart it 3 times. Also it's offensive to cats!

adventureislands 2012-09-02 19:38

Really nice graphics and animation, couldn't finish it, managed to get the egg but I couldn't use it or the breakfast to anything. Oh well.

cappelnord 2012-09-03 16:33

Great 3D art, some animations where quite sloppy and I didn't really manage to finish the game but well done!

marudziik 2012-09-04 23:42

Other comments pretty much sum it up: the game is insanely pretty, but also quite buggy. I ran into the same problem as @goffmog, unfortunately. It's a great piece of work, so I kinda hope there's some post-compo version on the way, with bugfixes, etc.

hgcummings 2012-09-08 15:28

Similar to other commenters: Lovely graphics but I had trouble actually playing it. I couldn't even open the inventory, as the button was absurdly tiny on my screen and I don't have a hard menu button on my phone.

darkshadow 2012-09-09 17:54

Pretty but buggy, couldn't get the breakfast to work and the character would walk through the fridge door! Path-finding is a little basic as well. Though fun game I just wish I could finish it!

robcozzens 2012-09-09 18:25

Looks great!
I couldn't really figure out what to do though.

kato9 2012-09-09 22:49

Really impressive character animation for 48 hrs. Like others I had some trouble understanding how to use the inventory. Not sure if it's bugged or what but I had to give up.

bemmu 2012-09-10 01:06

Would be really interested to see how the character was made for this one.

huitre 2012-09-11 23:25

Thanks for all the comments !
Concerning pathfinding and collisions, we chose not to work too much on it to concentrate on the essential stuff...
As for how a making of the character, I can try if I find the time. But nothing fancy, just the classic steps for a 3d character : drawing, modeling, rig, skin, animation, uvs, textures and shading!
Ok, put it that way that seems like a lot.

goerp 2012-09-12 19:49

Like everyone else I loved the graphics. The story was unexpected in a very good way. Now I'm curious how it will continu, I want to see more.

pardue 2012-09-18 00:39

Well done... graphics are really impressive.

thewiseguy99 2012-09-18 01:06

nice but misplaced