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Dog Days

By ruthiepee

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall4342.8523
Fun4702.4223
Innovation3203.0023
Theme3942.9723
Graphics1523.6423
Audio1973.1722
Humor783.4523
Mood2053.2623

Comments

antti-tiihonen 2018-12-03 13:36

A pretty chilled out game with a lovely visual style. The town names were entertaining but the core gameplay was very one dimensional.

enrique-silvela 2018-12-05 00:23

Nice style, chill game but the gameplay is very repetitive.

wizard-exe 2018-12-05 00:26

It wasn't much of a game, and not a kind I would normally play. Graphics were nice enough. I would have enjoyed fun sound effects to go along with the silly theme.

quackingtonvi 2018-12-05 00:28

Was simple but also very fun. The concept of destroying towns just to steal hot dogs was the in my opinion the funniest thing.

tanis 2018-12-05 00:28

The game looks nice but it's a bit repetitive

limered 2018-12-05 00:28

A very simple Game, but its relaxing. There are no panalties and no loose state, if you have mins points. Whats the real sacifice, then?

eddie-li 2018-12-05 00:31

Nice job! The gameplay could've have had some more unique mechanics but other than that, well done!

loadsofmana 2018-12-05 00:36

A simple mechanic, but i found it enjoyably zen, specially with the chill music. It's fun to build a game with a single simple mechanic sometimes.

lenny-sirivong 2018-12-05 03:16

I loved the menu screen: "D DESTROY | H HOTDOG".

The music is absolutely lovely, and I think the do nothing strat is the best way to enjoy this game.

I had a great time, well done!

justwall-games 2018-12-05 04:24

I really love the chillness - Music is peaceful and calming. Throwing Hotdogs is one of my favorite past-times! Fun Game!

ale 2018-12-05 15:13

I felt guilty about sacrificing entire towns for hotdogs, but that's just life in the midwest for ya :shrug:

I really liked the aesthetic, the graphics, the music, it all worked together well.

Also, Go HaxeFlixel!

ruthiepee 2018-12-05 15:54

@wizard-exe Were you playing the HTML5 version in Chrome? I fixed a bug that was causing audio to not play. Sorry about that!

@lenny-sirivong You're absolutely right: "the do nothing strat is the best way to enjoy this game." If I expanded on the concept it would just be procedurally generated towns and scenery. No more hot dogs. B)

@limered Yeah, no goals or penalties are this game's fatal flaw. The sacrifice is that you have to destroy some towns in order to give other towns hot dogs, but when you can't 'lose' the game... you're right, it doesn't feel like a sacrifice at all. Oh well.

uvwar 2018-12-05 23:44

You do know this is a GAME Jam, right? :bub: I love generated names, so keep making more of that please! Also be sure to tell your mom that she's in your new game. Thank you.

mohrro 2018-12-07 01:35

Good retro artstyle! I love randomly generated stuff. Well done! :smile:

andrewl 2018-12-07 20:52

Pretty relaxed game. Love the town names :D

red 2018-12-07 22:22

Interesting idea, I'm always interested in random generation! How did you generate the names?

ruthiepee 2018-12-18 15:24

@red The names are combined from 3 arrays: the first array is just potty words (Poo, Fart, Booger, etc), the second array has joiner syllables (et, er, son, i, etc), and the last array has place suffixes (-ville, Town, -boro, -delphia, etc). There's a fourth array that has a 10% chance of adding a prefix (Neo, Fort, Olde, etc) but it doesn't work right, haha