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Damned Scouts!

By lama

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall94.25
Graphics74.70
Humor44.34
Coolness1100
Fun283.92
Audio324.07
Innovation363.88
Mood394.11
Theme1553.59

Comments

yetanother 2014-04-28 23:18

Beautiful graphics, was fun to play.

trvrsalom 2014-04-29 03:48

This is great. Loved the singing, but I couldn't figure out what to do with the last three scouts.

saintheiser 2014-04-29 06:03

Good game!
My neighbourds made some room repearing past night. So I wishing about something like that.
It was a good joke anyway =)

lama 2014-04-29 06:04

Hi and thanks for your comments. Some death could be difficult to found... you can look near the fishing rod perhaps, did you get the fork ?

kyatric 2014-04-29 06:46

Funny one.
Nice graphics/audio and gameplay.

The theme is a bit of a pretext here, but the general humor makes up for that.

It's a bit strange though that even when I possessed the last scout there were still sings.
Nevertheless a nice cute funny game.

Congrats on making a game during a week-end and submitting it.

mir007 2014-04-29 07:43

Nice one! Great graphics.

2014-04-29 11:15

Looks really nice! It was fun to play. I couldn't kill the last two scouts though. Got the fork and the fish.

tomski 2014-04-29 11:19

Very funny, love the art, and the idea is great. Congrats to you all!

bombjack 2014-04-29 11:20

my current favourite! great graphic and sound, fun gameplay => great game!

zeta 2014-04-29 11:21

Really well polished game, love the style of the graphics and a pretty neat idea for a game.

laker 2014-04-29 11:21

Really interesting concept. Beautiful graphics, really nice sound. I enjoyed it a lot.

raisedmedia 2014-04-29 11:22

Great entry. Unfortunately killed all my scouts.

nonentheless 2014-04-29 11:23

Amazing style and execution. Grats!

nizar89 2014-04-29 11:25

Nice Game. As some previous person said, some death are quite difficult, but the game is cool anyway. Graphics are very nice !

notnasiul 2014-04-29 11:25

I killed everyone but two scouts. Don't know what to do with the bee hive! This entry is great, congratulations. How did you come up with the idea?

ludipe 2014-04-29 11:28

This game made me laugh really hard, thinking about ways to kill happy little kids kids xD; but I wasn't able to figure out how to kill the last three scouts (o.o).

popogames 2014-04-29 11:28

The game is really fun to play. I laughed all the time and the graphics are really nice as well. The walking/ floating is a bit slow and it is too bad that after one time you know all the tricks.

karsyf 2014-04-29 11:28

Lots of fun =D

spotco 2014-04-29 11:28

Cannot for the life of me figure out what to do for the last scout (something with the beehive?) Please give some sort of hint :(

Really amazing graphics and sound otherwise!

hathol 2014-04-29 11:29

Wow, my favourite entry so far. Beautifully done! Only had troubles to find the stick (eventually got it by running around and constantly pressing E

tipyx 2014-04-29 11:30

Kawaiiiii ! Excellent ! Not "really" a game, but all the interactions have been fun to watch ! (And now I have your fuckin' music in my head :p)

spotco 2014-04-29 11:30

Just kidding, got it! (the stick...tricky!)

metanokid 2014-04-29 11:31

Pretty polished game, with nice humor and a great gameplay, audio (creepy after 5 minutes!) and graphics!
Awesome game, it even makes you laugh when you understand how to kill some of them!

popogames 2014-04-29 11:31

Very cool game, beautifully made. That singing was truly annoying so fun to kill them off one by one. Finished the game.

Only bug I was able to find (if you can even call it that) is using E in mid air will hover the character

bukaneerz 2014-04-29 11:31

Reaaallly cool game !
awesome work, i look forward to see more.
I hope you will continue your concept (:

manabreak 2014-04-29 11:31

Everything about this is really cool! I liked the humor all the way, nice "Happy Tree Friends"-esque deaths. Good job! :)

philip_sinclair 2014-04-29 11:33

Great game! And so polished for and LD game. I didn;t find any bugs...but you should make the 'better' version anyway..not sure how much better you could make it. maybe more complex puzzles involving a few different objects.

lama 2014-04-29 11:33

Thanks for all the comments ! We are glad you enjoyed the game :)

To @spotco you need something to "hit" the beehive...

balloonsfor600 2014-04-29 11:33

I really liked this one! I just couldn't figure out how to get those last two. I might have to come back to this one later and give it another go.

robber 2014-04-29 11:36

very enjoyable, got them all! nice curve in difficulty!

soupwithbits 2014-04-29 11:36

So freaking awesome! I love murdering boy scouts in weird and wonderful ways

pixlwalkr 2014-04-29 11:43

Enjoyed playing it. Nice graphics also.

monaarc 2014-04-29 11:53

The best game i have played !!! Great job, so much fun :P

fox_in_sox 2014-04-29 12:08

Cute little game.:) The graphics are very nice and I am fond of adventure styled games, so this was my cup of tea.:D I didn't figure everything out yet, but the puzzles are sweet.

bubuiic 2014-04-29 13:00

Beautiful game, absolutely fantastic graphics and sound!
But as some of the others, I'm stuck at the last two scouts. I can't interact with the bee hive and I still have the fork left...

mandlebar 2014-04-29 13:43

Looks great, plays great and was really interesting! Really disturbing though! Great job!

kbm0 2014-04-29 15:56

Really weird, crrreeepy sounds and art. Very polished. I loved it! <3

kepamun 2014-04-29 16:39

I've played over 40 now and this is one of the best. Great job!
Fun, funny, and great animation.
Reminds me of Happy Tree Friends.

njvas 2014-04-29 18:55

Oh man, that's adorable! I never knew I could do so much damage with a fork! Great job guys. Really enjoyed it :)

seconddimension 2014-04-29 20:33

Wow, that was great. The graphics and animations are amazing. Good job. Really wanted those anouying singing scouts to die as well

travislucia 2014-04-29 22:07

Overall great game experience, beautiful graphics and a great piece of work.

degtyarev 2014-04-29 23:36

Fantasic! Congratulations!

conormn 2014-04-30 00:58

Very polished, well done! Don't remember the singing part when I was a boy scout tho :)

taocayo 2014-04-30 03:06

One of my favorite games in this ludum dare! Beautiful art, the style is amazing! I like the attention to little details, especially the way the characters seem to glide in the air when going up hills. I really liked that the sounds are very repetitive, and towards the end you really want to finish the game so the scouts can stop singing! Very enjoyable. Not too hard, not too easy. Overall, c'est génial!!

javadocmd 2014-04-30 03:21

Brilliant and beautiful! And deviously hilarious.

benmcnelly 2014-04-30 06:09

I just knew that was going to happen. Well done.

adamwoolridge 2014-04-30 09:32

What an awesome game!! Best yet

sam101 2014-04-30 10:37

I'm a big fan. Big up for the graphics, the french singing and the fun behind !

therrato 2014-04-30 10:48

Amazing game, Had a lot of fun, sadly enough it doesnt have much replay ability , but i don't know where you could improve that. a bit more guidance would be usefull in the beginning. looks like a finished product

crefossus 2014-04-30 11:11

Cute graphics, satisfying level design.

crooksister 2014-04-30 12:11

Awesome art! Great idea. Puzzle is a bit obscure.

abajur 2014-04-30 12:18

Amazing piece of art. The singing drives me crazy! Graphics and humor are top!

gre 2014-04-30 22:20

This game is cruel, I like it!
Your graphics are awesome. Audio is great and gets a bit annoying^^ I liked the home made sung song :D

jorgemoag 2014-05-01 00:24

hahahahahahahahahahaha
it's amazing! xD
thank you so much!

musket 2014-05-01 05:35

Hilarious and just too cute!

christinaneofotistou 2014-05-01 05:58

Lama this is amazing!!!! Lots of love and high marks for this awesome game <3333

cakencode 2014-05-01 06:10

I loved this game! It was simple, fun, and really engaging. The art and music were spot on, and I had so much fun figuring out how to kill off all the kids.

lama 2014-05-01 07:51

Thanks you very much everyone for the comments, they make us really glad to see you liked the game :).

solifuge 2014-05-01 08:49

This is beautiful! As a concept it's great, but in practice it's more like an interactive story (building anticipation as you wonder how you're going to kill the next scout) than a game. There wasn't a failure mode other than "inefficient play," and wandering back and forth over the distance was pretty tedious.

All of the assets here are wonderful. The story is cute, the slowly quieting scouts are adorable, the deaths fun to watch... but rather than expanding this particular gameplay concept, it might be better to invent a new one that invites more exploration and innovation on the part of the player.

lama 2014-05-01 09:30

Well, the core gameplay is very similar to a point&clic so there is failure you will find in a point&clic game I think. At first the gameplay was more complex, but we had to keep it simple in order to complete the game in 3 days.

lerc 2014-05-01 11:01

Not so much a game as a metaphor for life itself :-)

Loved it.

flavio 2014-05-01 11:11

Beautiful visuals ! A great job. The game is fun to play, it would be great to have other levels with even funnier deaths !

papygaragos 2014-05-01 11:11

Fantastic entry, very unusual. I kept searching but couldn't figure how to get rid of the last 3 scouts.

Bookmarked, will come back to it

xaychru04 2014-05-01 13:32

Haha really fun game, the graphics were cute, and the gameplay really original. Good job! :)

jward 2014-05-01 14:14

Wow, the graphics and sound are awesome, the humor is great, and the discovery aspect is super fun. Really great job!

HINTS for those having trouble finishing: Some objects need to be used with other objects, you can use some objects more than once, some things you interact with are not obvious. =)

cavf88 2014-05-01 14:15

Song was annoying after a while. Damn Scouts! Really fun to play. Great job!

derosa 2014-05-01 14:19

Brilliant! I loved the graphics, the "music", animations, everything! The last scout was difficult to kill because I barely saw the last item, but overall an amazing experience. Thanks for making it!

teamflare 2014-05-01 15:00

Hahaha, very beautiful :) Nice idea , good atmosphere.
Great entry.

aaronjbaptiste 2014-05-01 18:35

This is brilliant, the mood is perfect. Such a simple idea that's bursting with character.

foobraco 2014-05-01 21:06

Love the sounds, love the graphics, good game! :)

nickzangus 2014-05-01 22:15

Excellent game... Good job!

joe40001 2014-05-02 08:58

All around very good game. Virtually flawless for what it wanted to be art/sound/humor/gameplay/etc all great.

zeal 2014-05-02 14:16

This is absolutely wonderful in every aspect! I can only imagine where you got the idea for this game. Poor scouts, but it's their own fault anyway, am I right?

guimonpa 2014-05-02 17:00

Fantastic game, I loved the graphics and the humor!
It took me a while to find a way to kill the last scout, but it was worth it.

ehtd 2014-05-03 14:57

Really nice entry

ddrkirbyisq 2014-05-03 21:36

Cute ^^; You might have wanted to make some of the objects a bit more discoverable, but it's not too bad :)

donovanwu 2014-05-04 00:57

The most creative game I've seen (lol)! Nice graphics and music!

ithildin 2014-05-04 15:08

This, dear sirs, is the first game so far that I give all fives. Funny, fun and visually amazing (oh, and I loved the ending, it was hilarious XD)

Awesome!

lightsoda 2014-05-04 20:54

If I had to critique something I guess it's that some deaths are really straight-forward while others are not apparent at all, very black and white in that sense.

Graphics are great, I especially dug the little flying ghost, the audio fits well, good job.

ceosol 2014-05-05 01:32

Great entry. The high pitched singing was annoying, but it evened out after killing a few :)

davidb 2014-05-05 14:44

one of my favorite game, mood, humor, graphics,...

ariake81 2014-05-05 20:33

stella effort, quality all round, got stuck on the last two but would love to finish it. very engrossing.

actionremix 2014-05-09 03:28

I got the ghost octet! Lots of murder in LD 29 ;)

hexagore 2014-05-09 12:59

I so nearly gave up but that singing.. they had to be stopped. Wonderful!

mortus 2014-05-09 13:14

Great entry! Very humorous and beautiful! Not very hard too, but I liked the different, sometimes very sudden ways to die!

kill0u 2014-05-09 13:17

Perfect! Loved it :)

ilo 2014-05-09 13:58

Very cute and funny.

Perhaps the gameplay could be developed further, if you so choose, by allowing the player to switch between scouts. You could then set up puzzles which require more than one scout to be in a certain place or performing an action at the same time.

Jeremias 2014-05-09 14:31

These graphics are just awesome. Nice puzzle game. Had a lot of fun and what you did here is just amazing. As you already said, the controls need to be in the game... I had a hard time to figure out how to pick up objects :D I killed every scout and the ending just fits!

larzan 2014-05-09 14:58

Haha, wow, such a nice mood, very freaky ;)

mase 2014-05-09 15:33

Pretty amusing... couldn't figure out the last two though... not sure how to use the beehive.

Also the "reset" button is too close to the other controls.

Nice animations.

oye-beto 2014-05-09 16:06

I beat the game, I liked the story :)

Gameplay feels a little tedious to me. At the end I liked it but wandering around too long is not fun. What if the underground skeleton had some kind of vision to know where the dangerous stuff is? Maybe just some aura, not a whole spoiler.

Loved the graphics.

lama 2014-05-09 16:27

Thanks you for all the comments !

Most of the issues will be fixed in the post compo version :
- A hint for the beehive
- The reload level button will be moved to backspace
- Controls will be displayed directly ingame

Again, thanks you it's cool to see people enjoying the game :).

gwa 2014-05-09 19:17

damn cool but the stick is a little to hard to find :) love the end!

belva1234 2014-05-09 19:52

I HAVE DECREASED ALL PREVIUS VOTE TO PUT THE BEST RATING ON THIS GAME... LOVE THAT GAME <3

zebi24 2014-05-09 21:00

A masterpiece! Love it!

framematt 2014-05-09 22:39

Good looking and fun!

rowdyghosts 2014-05-10 04:24

Haha, oh man that was really great *except that R restarts* gahhhh! Awesome job!

diptoman 2014-05-10 09:30

That was a great little game! Superb graphics. The sounds and evens are really funny. There's an issue with the character stopping in midair if you press E, but other than that it's pretty polished. One of the best looking games here.

striwx 2014-05-10 11:43

Very cool and funny !

loxo 2014-05-10 12:19

Unique game concept with nice graphics and audio. I had to start over after unintentionally pressing r, luckily the game is short and really easy. Humor at the end is good and shows clearly that killing isn't the answer. So I would like to see some challenging puzzles to improve the game, maybe even without killing the scouts.

georgebroussard 2014-05-10 12:50

Neat game. Great art and sounds, and cool idea. Reminds me of Pocket God on iOS. Was fun discovering all the different ways to kill them. Perhaps a little too much walking?

nightshadow0 2014-05-10 18:55

Fun! Took me forever to find out how to interact with the beehive, it's not obvious at all.

2014-05-10 22:16

Very funny game with cure graphics!

mcapraro 2014-05-10 22:40

wow, this is definitely one of my favorites. the artwork is just superb, really well done. congrats on a really great entry!

lekochen 2014-05-11 02:19

Brilliant! I loved everything here!

crowbeak 2014-05-11 11:01

I am so glad I stuck through trying to kill the last two scouts. The ending is fantastic.

markusfisch 2014-05-11 19:27

Wow. This is the most funny game I've ever seen in Ludum Dare! Beautiful graphics, beautiful gameplay, just WOW!

brmassa 2014-05-11 22:08

They guys, very very good work! amazing idea and great graphics

jupiter_hadley 2014-05-12 01:56

Great story, kind of morbid. Love the graphics! I included it in part 25 of my Ludum Dare compilation video series, if you'd like to check it out :) http://youtu.be/06U_lc3kLp4

curiousexpedition 2014-05-12 10:43

Really funny take on the theme, and very lovely graphics. I felt the walking distances were a bit tiresome, and some of the solutions felt really random (e.g. why can I only shake one of the trees?) Overall a funny and nice entry.

monsterkillu 2014-05-12 12:19

Lovely .. Beautiful ... Funny :)

azzar 2014-05-12 16:15

Excellent! I like this game! I have killed all guys! :-)

madflame991 2014-05-13 08:21

Great game with a funny premise. It's really rewarding to possess all those little scouts and drive them to their doom

frankd0331 2014-05-14 06:31

Great graphics. Very fun and funny.

anoarith 2014-05-15 11:06

That was the best use of the theme xD

Really nice game, congratulations !

Nana nana nananaaa ! Na nanananaaaaa !

pinkmonkeyhead 2014-05-15 23:22

Best GFX

gfm 2014-05-15 23:39

I was actually expecting that ending. Funny and beautiful game!

rnlf 2014-05-17 17:09

Cool game. Couldn't finish the last one off though. Guess it's something to do with the bees, but couldn't find out how :-(

But really cool looks and sound!

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klianc09 2014-05-19 18:09

Really beautiful and funny game. I especially liked how the singing got quieter and quieter the more scouts I finished off.

iamspencer 2014-05-19 20:27

That was really clever. The deaths were well hidden and tricky to find, the tree design was really great (along with the rest of the graphics) and the sound was excellent as well. Super fun to play and loved the ending lol, I would like to see a more developed version, maybe with randomly generated levels/deaths? I would probably pay for that, really great job!

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