FoonLudum Dare ExplorerLD30 → Off-World Creature Rancher

Off-World Creature Rancher

By robbiehunt

View on Wayback Machine

CategoryRankScoreCount
Innovation3693.41
Audio7982.21
Overall9502.79
Mood9822.43
Theme10262.41
Fun10322.44
Graphics11302.07
Coolness131947

Comments

superpokeunicorn 2014-08-25 04:56

I like the breeding mechanics. I did, however, I'm not sure that the "you did it" screen is working as intended.

jas7229 2014-08-25 05:00

Although I wasn't a huge fan of the graphics or sounds, I really loved the breeding/changing out system! It challenged the way I thought about navigating a typical game map, which was really cool! c:

vinhuman 2014-08-25 09:46

They see me breeding, they hatin'...

I was breeding for so long before I realized you could explore the game map. Really cool idea. I haven't really seen breeding in any game before.

robbiehunt 2014-08-25 10:33

SuperPokeunicorn - ah. I'll look at that!

Very glad to hear everyone likes the breeding! As far as I can tell it's the only entry with breeding as the main mechanic!

mess110 2014-08-25 11:37

breeding mechanics rule

rookmage 2014-08-25 18:19

Fun game. Did notice some bugs with crystals being in kinda unreachable places and the "you did it" screen showed up randomly. The breeding mechanic panned out very well, I liked the character models a lot. Good luck!

serena 2014-08-27 01:10

Ohhh, awesome a breeding game, I love these! Great concept, I like that it's got some random generation elements, but you also have a puzzle element where you have to go around and make sure you have the right creature to get to each Crystal. I think you could make more levels and it's be a unique game!

gafblizzard 2014-08-27 05:35

Thanks for your very kind comment! I'm glad you ended up happier than you expected playing my game, even though my game is very simple and silly.

I like your vector graphics. What did you use to make them?

I'm not sure if it was a bug on my system, but it happened twice: In Firefox, performance starts out great, but after I have explored the map a few times, everything slows to a crawl and it is not really playable.

The ideas of breeding and using creatures to navigate different map areas and collect items are good!

oxyoxspring 2014-08-28 00:05

I really loved the breeding system!

mrexcessive 2014-08-30 17:41

Hi there. Interesting idea. Liked the idea of breeding/mutations. Unfortunately the defence towers were too annoying... I would have preferred a 'toy' type approach, rather than toy mixed with arcade game. Would have liked to seen more of the mixtures. Good job!

badlydrawnrod 2014-08-31 17:59

That's a clever concept. With a bit of time and polish you could be onto something. Nicely done.

atkinssj 2014-09-06 11:44

There's a good start here. I can see it being really cool with more traits for the monsters, so you build-up a collection of them, and different worlds to explore.

robbiehunt 2014-09-07 13:26

woohoo! Thanks for the comments everyone!

Obviously I am still working on my graphics abilities. I'm not as quick as I'd like with Adobe Illustrator, so I think I tended towards the coding during the compo.

I'm hoping to build on this concept, this was just a little prototype to hopefully see what people liked/wanted out of something like this!

There are a few of you with games I haven't not gotten to but I promise I will in the coming days!

kyru 2014-09-07 19:36

Neat idea for a puzzle game, I really like what you did here.