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Cosmic Smoothies

By tsedate and TayGoS

View on ldjam.com

CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall6153.4228
Fun7373.1528
Innovation4783.4827
Theme4963.7128
Graphics4083.7627
Audio3133.5027
Humor5282.9827
Mood6993.1427

Comments

gdort 2018-04-24 02:36

Couldn't play :( Bullets are not colliding with the UFOs

mau 2018-04-24 02:37

Fun game, it took me a bit to figure out how to put the fruits inside the blender, but then it was really easy to play.

tsedate 2018-04-24 02:42

@gdort -- Had that problem with the HTML5 version a couple of times -- refreshing fixed it for me, or downloading a version will work too!

gdort 2018-04-24 02:54

@tsedate nice, thanks! Ok, now I played and I gotta say: what a waste of good fruit! :slight_frown: If I don't kill the spaceships they mess up my game..

Really fun though! I wish it had an ending!

yene 2018-04-24 16:09

Wow, just made a similar game

weekend-panda 2018-04-24 16:13

Nice job! A lot of fun and a great concept. I must admit, it was a little on the hard side, ha ha. Trying to juggle so many buttons frazzled my brain a little. Maybe if the chef auto-caught the fruit instead of having to press C it would have helped. But overall, great work. And it's always neat to see another husband and wife team like we are, tackling game jams and making fun stuff! :D

michipantera 2018-04-24 16:15

Had some troubles opening. Had to download it. Funny game. Fresh graphics! A nice homage/iteration on space invaders! I missed an ugly boss.

maijauleberg 2018-04-24 16:19

I liked the game, just didt feel like there was a goal since there was no score

isopoly 2018-04-24 16:20

Cool Concept! love the music and art :smile: Great Work!

langotriel 2018-04-24 16:50

The concept is good, the art is fantastic and the music/sound is very fitting! I only wish the game worked properly for me to try it out. I could not seem to shoot the UFOs as bullets would not collide. Maybe I did something wrong. Still, I can see a lot of love went into it! good work!

tsedate 2018-04-25 14:38

Hey @Langotriel, I'm glad you liked it! Thanks for checking it out -- I'm sorry the HTML5 version wasn't working for you. It seems to have that bug in Chrome, but I've never had that happen in Firefox or if I downloaded it. If you want to give it another chance, either of those options should work for you! Let me know if you're still have trouble with it! Thanks!

diptoman 2018-04-26 03:50

Presentation is really nice. It's a bit confusing at the beginning to try and understand how the controls work (you mention what each button does, not what to do with them). But after figuring it out, went smoothly. Good stuff!

pparadigm 2018-04-26 05:39

My screen wasn't big enough to show everything, either in the browser or downloaded. :(

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I was super excited to play this game because the smoothies look mouthwatering, and I love games about making food (that's why I made one!). I really liked the music and looking at the art, but the controls were a bit difficult to get used to.

tsedate 2018-04-26 17:46

@pparadigm -- Sorry you were having trouble with the screen size. I went ahead and made a change to the HTML5 version that will make the size of the game depend on the size of your browser window -- so you should be able to play in the browser now without having to make changes! I hope you'll give it another shot, and let me know if you're still having trouble. Thanks!

pparadigm 2018-04-26 18:59

@tsedate Thank you so much for the follow-through. I've had a similar issue on other games and haven't heard back yet. The fix worked for me! I was better at the game this time around, even managed to make a smoothie. Mostly, I really enjoyed looking at the art and listening to the music. The screenshake from firing was a bit much for me, I think if I played for a while it would make me motion sick. But overall this game is very enjoyable!

frostbyte4k 2018-04-27 21:51

This game is super fun but there are some problems with colliders when you restart the game or if you go into how to play first. Besides that there is also to much screen shake you should only use that when you hit a space otherwise it's to overwhelming. But overall supper fun good job.

tsedate 2018-04-27 22:00

@frostByte4k - Thanks for checking it out! I noticed that same problem, but only when I was using Chrome -- using Firefox or the downloaded version kept the colliders after restarting the game. Thanks for the feedback!

tweedle 2018-04-27 23:40

i like how whacky it is! liked the pixel styling but i don't think i'll ever get used to these controls haha :smile:

vilix64 2018-04-28 06:40

Cute art style. :slight_smile: Took me a while to orient myself, but overall a nice entry.

sebbernery 2018-04-28 07:39

Art is very cool and game is pretty well polished. The gameplay can be a little frustrating sometimes (it needs some errors to correctly understand the mechanics). It would have been very cool if the score was displayed at the end.

erik-brunnstrom 2018-04-28 08:56

I took me a while to understand the gameplay mechanics especially throwing the fruit in the blender but after a few minites of struggling I started to really enjoy myselfe. The basic gameplay works really well for the most part and you have mixed space invanders with smoothie making without making one part feel tacked on the other and unnecessary wich is impressive. My only gripe with the gameplay is when one time when I lined up to catch a smoothie a fruit fell in my hands instead. I also feel like there should be some sort of time restiction or something else on the snoothie delivery but that wouldn't mix well with the random spawning of the fruit. Some enemy variation would be great but is a bit of an unreasonable expectation for a LD game. I really love the color choise, purple, turqoise and pink mix really well, but the ground texture is a bit disapointing and looks really bland next to the other textures. And I personally dislike having diffrent pixel scaling and especially the stretching..

Really great work!

bros 2018-04-28 10:51

So it's basically a mixture between Space Invaders and a cooking simulator ... **AND basketball**.

Nice

von-vista 2018-04-28 14:31

Very cool game and it took a while to get used to it. Although I could suggest more variation and more polished spawn systems but overall, a great concept and a fun one

beebo-studios 2018-04-28 15:27

Took a while to "get", but after that, a really good game! It feels like an old sports game mixed with an atari shooter. Perfect retro charm! The music really helps out, too.

Maybe a sort of timer or losing a tiny amount of health on fruit falling would help make the player prioritize making the smoothie. As it is, I automatically focused on shooting all the UFOs (gamer instinct) which made the game both a bit easy and repetitive in the long run.

But overall, I'm impressed! Have a fish <3 🐟

gamebuilder 2018-04-29 23:00

I liked this game.