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Galactic Petting Zoo!!!

By bonedaddy

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness287
Audio524.05
Humor583.86
Innovation3163.34
Mood3163.51
Theme5143.45
Fun5622.95
Overall6733.02
Graphics7282.71

Comments

djfariel 2016-12-13 02:03

Amusing! The sounds were right on point.

Oh, and regarding our entry - You CAN use the mouse to aim, but you have to pause the game to enable the feature. Try using enter or escape on the keyboard!

notexplosive 2016-12-13 02:13

When I hold down the mouse button my view freezes but the mouse doesn't move, it seemed to jitter a little bit the first time but after that, nothing.

darkavenger211 2016-12-13 02:33

Haha, Of all the things in the galaxy I could pet, I wasn't expecting that. Neat game.

parahunter 2016-12-13 02:48

Cute! I was a bit confused about only being able to pet one animal though, do more spawn in when you have petted the first one enough?

endingchaos 2016-12-13 03:05

Wow that was a whole lot of fun getting to pet that space alien creature! A+ :)

candycreep 2016-12-13 04:28

Simple and charming.

bonedaddy 2016-12-13 11:59

@NotExplosive: Holding down the mouse button should stop your movement, it should then allow you to move the hand with the mouse. Try going out in the open (don't be near any walls or creatures). Then move your mouse up and to the left (sometimes it can go offscreen on the bottom/right). As well use W/S to move it in/out of the screen.

If you're still having troubles, mind telling me what platform you're running it on?

bonedaddy 2016-12-13 12:00

@Birke: To pet more animals: Once you pet an animal enough (in the case of the first animal, you have to pet both its head and body to make it happy), the door you came through will re-open. Then you can leave the petting zoo. If you start again, there'll be a different animal.

obsessivenotion 2016-12-13 13:51

Lol the sounds

mrjoshuamclean 2016-12-13 16:03

Sound effects are absolutely hilarious and make this totally worth the play. xD

xenosns 2016-12-13 17:56

Wow, didn't expect that... haha! No, i'm not a singer actually, or a smoker. Those sound effects were amazing!

maffew 2016-12-13 17:57

If this game had more than one galactic creature to pet it would be a 10/10 game

drtizzle 2016-12-13 18:01

This was weird and I love it!
I had to pet the first animal very long to open the door, the others took only a couple of seconds. Audio was very good, especially the audio of the first one haha

Nice job!

bonedaddy 2016-12-13 18:25

To see other galactic animals, you have to pet the animals enough until the door opens. The first animal you have to pet both its head and belly to make it happy enough to open the door (that's why it takes longer than the others).

callym 2016-12-13 18:27

The sounds were great! The "ending" was also pretty funny, although I had to turn my sound up to hear what was being said because it was a lot quieter than the other sounds

doomdad 2016-12-14 01:22

Top notch entry. At the start i nearly fell of my chair as the intro yell was bit too loud. It was nice making weird galactic things happy.

simonhutchinson 2016-12-14 03:36

I touched a thing! Cool integration of the theme and definitely an original idea!

The sound design is really what makes it though.

More like this!

tomboogaart 2016-12-14 10:44

nice

rburema 2016-12-14 20:42

Ah, voiced sound effects, always nice :-)
I suggest reducing the time you 'need' to pet the first animal, I almost gave up.
Got a bit creepy there at the end(?) with the [spoiler]

invisible mumbling animal(?)

sundr0 2016-12-14 22:55

Okeym I didn't get anything... but your homemade SFX made me laugh so much :D

pajama-llama 2016-12-14 22:59

Cute! And those sound effects are extra amazing when you think of who made them and how.

zgragselus 2016-12-15 01:34

The sounds perfectly matched the petting. Cute game, yet kind of misses the goal.

tweedle 2016-12-15 02:26

I think the galactic pet really enjoyed my sweet and sensual caressing. -Tweedle

tilemapping 2016-12-15 15:47

This was probably the weirdest and funniest game I've seen so far

shivur 2016-12-16 16:21

This game is hilarious!

seleb 2016-12-16 20:25

That was certainly an interesting one, haha! The intro audio was a bit obnoxious the first time around, but the multiple "intro" screens and other sound effects were pretty hilarious.

In the room without an animal, I was kind of expecting that you had to progress by petting the room itself, and was a bit disappointed when I couldn't figure out if there was any way to progress.

Was there a reason for the second floating hand outside the room in space btw?

bonedaddy 2016-12-16 22:28

@Sean: My idea for the final room is that you're the one who is now the animal to be pet, trapped inside this room. It's really interesting to see how other people interpret (my dad had the same idea as you with petting the walls, and then tried petting himself). In case you didn't stick around long enough, the level will end eventually (just timer based). I was originally planning on having other ways to re-open the door (such as moving the animal onto a button) but decided due to time constraints and also to focus more on petting, I'd just make everything progress by petting except the last room. As for the floating hand, I wanted to add more stuff outside and just decided to re-use that model. Didn't think anyone would look at it hard enough to realize it was your hand!

I agree about the intro audio, wish I had at least turned the volume down on that one.

alexbrainbox 2016-12-17 13:33

I spent way to much time petting my strange blue bloop ball, I coudnt stop myself the sounds it made tickled me!

acuadoystudios 2016-12-18 22:12

Hey, I liked your game it was actually fun. You can improve the audio and the graphics at some point but overall not bad! And please go and try out my game!

pyokoanarogue 2016-12-19 10:37

that was weird ... good weird .

acuadoystudios 2016-12-24 15:28

Hey, I have made a .exe file out of the game! Mabey you can try my game now!

jk5000 2016-12-28 13:11

Sweet and really weird

jupiter_hadley 2017-01-20 16:51

Very neat game! I included it in my compilation video series of the Ludum Dare 37 games, if you’d like to take a look. :) https://youtu.be/hB0a6F4gCIk