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(You are the) monster gaiden

By christinaneofotistou

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Graphics234.64
Audio1263.70
Humor1643.55
Theme1773.90
Mood2343.52
Overall7093.02
Innovation7152.76
Fun9522.45
Coolness122649

Comments

oldpeculier 2015-08-25 01:43

Hard to beat the art. Gameplay... well it's a bit on the lean side. Delightful entry though.

jamestanm 2015-08-25 01:43

Great engine!

theziggy 2015-08-25 01:45

It's a real shame it's unfinished. The art is amazing, and it seemed like it could have been a potential winner. Amazing job though! I love what you have :)

secularbaron 2015-08-25 01:45

Awesome graphics and music!

saphyre1306 2015-08-25 01:45

This does not really look like a monster :-)

madcapacity 2015-08-25 01:45

Fantastic graphics! The game has a lot of potential.

marekkpie 2015-08-25 01:45

Absolutely gorgeous, but like you said so yourself, not much of a game.

landosystems 2015-08-25 01:45

I made it 60 days. And got a lot of intelligence.

petegrammarman 2015-08-25 01:46

Wow this game is beautiful! Looks like all you needed was some more time to add features.

dodechotomy 2015-08-25 01:47

Fantastic setting that I wish there were a game in.

jofra 2015-08-25 01:47

Really cool game!! For a second I thought you could only sleep xD Love the graphics

coumn 2015-08-25 01:48

I WANT A FULL GAME!
Loved the 4th wall breaking "joke" :P

downtown 2015-08-25 01:48

Obviously not really a game yet as you mention, but it looks fantastic. Could no doubt turn this in to something.

graebor 2015-08-25 01:48

Adorable! Even though it's simple I enjoyed scaring chickens :)

nic 2015-08-25 01:49

Amazing art, I'd love to see this taken a step further!

loggiant 2015-08-25 01:52

It's very cute. The gameplay walkthrough is very accurate!

ellian 2015-08-25 13:53

Oh goDAMN Christina I wanted to play this... Why is it unfinished ;A;
Awesome art and cool music <3 Wish there was more to it

justinj 2015-08-25 13:59

Such a cute monster, loved his little snoozing animation. Would love to see a complete game like this.

local-minimum 2015-08-25 14:19

It looks like a fantastic place to start building a monster sim from! The selector hand was a bit hard to see in the left-most toy-area dialog. It also seemed like the dialog was below some other UI elements, which made it partly shadowed in one case. Other than that, very cute animations, a nice fitting tune and something that deserves further development! If nothing else, if you make it public, you could always use it as a starting point for the next ludum...

hrd_games 2015-08-25 15:10

Really wanted more. Absolutely beautiful, but needed more "game". Please continue!

fisilva 2015-08-25 18:54

Awww too cute ^.^ I wish it was finished

commodorekid 2015-08-25 20:57

Nice art but there is nothing much to it, like my game.

mewnica 2015-08-25 21:03

gorgeous game! really great start, can see the potential clearly :) love scaring the chickens, heheh

gamecook 2015-08-25 23:18

I love the art style. I think you are onto something here if you keep adding more to the experience. Great foundation!

gfm 2015-08-26 00:17

This is so cute!! Graphics and animations are amazing!!
The song is really fitting to the game's atmosphere!

It's really a pity that you couldn't get the game itself developed further... =/

zatyka 2015-08-26 02:55

You have to love that adorable roar. Beautiful visuals as always. Not much to it, but I'm hoping the work will continue.

bsevers18 2015-08-26 03:06

Fun derpy creation :D love the Roar button! send them chickens flying! Love the things you create!

roosterkite 2015-08-26 03:32

This game is gorgeous! I loved "Monster Loves you!" as well, and I hope you finish this game at some point because it could really do well as a monster sim! My favorite part was scaring the chickens. :D

dydx 2015-08-26 04:29

The animations are sooo good. Would've loved to see more gameplay in there but I enjoyed it nonetheless.

leafthief 2015-08-26 10:05

<3 <3 <3 that sleep animation <3

rocketship 2015-08-26 14:23

For a sort of a prototype, this shows a lot of potential. The graphics and animations make it look like a game already. Would just need to add some deeper mechanics into it and it'd be a pretty fine game.

careless 2015-08-26 15:59

I know where you are coming from with writing an engine, I spent a few hours writing a level editor before deciding to just create lots of separate objects!

Really fun idea which is well executed, as always the art is cute, colourful and awesome.

Sometimes jams are just about experimenting and not making a game as such.

Great effort, has lots of potential if you decide to work on it more.

pirate_shell 2015-08-26 18:29

The graphics and music were extremely charming. So was the game as a whole. The gameplay was pretty much non-existant but it is the most well made fluffy monster sim with pointless stats out there so 10/10.

warlorddreadful 2015-08-26 18:29

This is adorable, and the graphics are fantastic! The animation might be my favorite part of this. What a nice visual style. Love the interaction. And the humor was great (especially that last option with the jam reference!).

sararycow 2015-08-26 18:34

Cute graphics! A bit empty of gameplay but I see this wasn't your point for this entry. Overall this could be interesting if is extended to an actual game.

datamosh 2015-08-26 18:45

I really want more of this. Cuteness overload.

backlashblues 2015-08-26 18:59

Love the color palette and the art style. Animations are great. 48 hours is always too short... I would continue playing if there was more to do, hope you keep at it.

crucknuk 2015-08-26 19:10

One of the most beautiful game of the Jam I think. The music is cool, and the art are so cute ^^

otrorainteractivo 2015-08-26 19:11

The art belongs to another level. But you already know that. Great idea and will love to see it finished

balticseamonster 2015-08-26 19:18

Finally a game where you can just growl at things!

plusultra 2015-08-26 19:21

Really nice art!

kunonooni 2015-08-26 22:07

You really need to make this a full game. No, really you do. This game is awesome, just like all your entries are. So stop ready this comment and get back to making this a full game! <3

cake_catastrophe 2015-08-26 22:48

Most adorable game I've played this LD! Art and animations were great. All you'd need to expand on this is a few more activities and some incentive/reward tied to the stats. Looks far more polished than your average LD game.

01010111 2015-08-27 00:32

I'm sad there wasn't more, but I hope what you made makes your next game a lot easier to build! Amazing art as usual, it's almost weird seeing your art at such a high resolution :)

andrei313 2015-08-27 01:33

Cutest monster I've seen so far in LD33 :)
You should make a game with this.

solifuge 2015-08-27 01:34

In response to those villagers complaining about your game: There's a lot of ways people have fun. You don't need crunchy gameplay or long-running content to bring players some joy. I always appreciate the aesthetics behind your games, and the music, colors, and character design were delightful.

I don't know how attached you are to solo entries, but if you wanted to do more than you had time for, you could trawl for some like-minded folks to collab with. Many hands make light work, and it might help you more-fully realize your inspiration. If you prefer to keep flying solo, you could try to structure your time or pare things down, or even build a flexible generic framework or code-base for the games you like to make ahead of time (it's in the Jam rules), with the knowledge that you're going to want to put energy into making things all stylish and charming during the competition.

Most of all, I hope you had fun making this. It certainly made me smile! Thank you for putting this together, and for sharing it.

patacorow 2015-08-27 09:15

+100 intelligent
-1 kindness

daydreamcorgigames 2015-08-27 10:00

Nice art but the game managed to feel empty. It needs a goal. Kill people or make friend or something.

mase 2015-08-27 14:55

The graphics are very charming.
You've done the hard engine-building part... it just needs like 4 encounters or so and a couple endings based on the monster's stats. And maybe some legs on the jumping sprite. So close. Alas.

ithildin 2015-08-27 19:07

As a proof of concept it certainly looks promising. Gameplay-wise...not so much, as you said yourself.

Still, you've done an awesome job. Good luck with it! :D

colludium 2015-08-29 12:56

Beautiful artwork - awesome. You could make this into something big!

ehtd 2015-08-29 17:52

Very high quality, but no gameplay. Looking forward for something more complex using your engine.

onionblitz 2015-08-30 07:41

So pretty! I love the art of this so much. I wanted to take care of him more ;0;

hthomson 2015-09-02 12:32

Graphics are adorably cute. As you mentioned the game play is rather lacking but I reckon with a couple of tweaks you could turn it into a decent monster role-playing experience.

bombjack 2015-09-02 18:08

I loved the graphics.

dianouille 2015-09-04 14:15

Really nice game ! Love the idea and the graphics are so cute <3 I'd love to see the finished version :D

arzi 2015-09-05 08:12

Great art but not much to do in the game...