FoonLudum Dare ExplorerLD44 → Biomass

Biomass

By jobus and flavoredpickle

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall913.9748
Fun2033.6849
Innovation2933.4248
Theme933.9749
Graphics284.5750
Audio933.9142
Humor6022.7441
Mood1233.9049

Comments

arman-dot-com 2019-04-30 02:17

Awesome Game! I love the graphics and the audio.

digitalwizard 2019-04-30 02:19

The graphics are absolutely gorgeous!

jasond 2019-04-30 02:39

Disgusting! In an awesome, Cthulu-esque way.

Looks really great - although the framerate did chug quite a bit for me

michaelsonbritt 2019-04-30 02:39

Spent way longer playing this than I should have. Gorgeously beautiful, the large purple structures in space are amazing. The costs and payoffs are well balanced, which I know is hard from my own game. Favorite aspect is that, you need to eat to survive, but once you're too large it's impossible to chase the smaller prey, perfect analogy to the natural world, genius.

flavoredpickle 2019-04-30 02:59

Easily the best project I've ever worked on.

jobus 2019-04-30 03:09

Thank you for the very kind comments!

tero-pulkkinen 2019-04-30 05:17

very good looking graphics. mouse+wasd combination works fine and the asteroids and so nice looking.

philarmon 2019-04-30 08:48

Love it. At a first look at the screenshot I thought I am gonna play for some easter bunny sitting in an easter basket. I like the mood and the graphics (did you make them by yourself?) - reminds me a bit of the first Machinarium

jobus 2019-04-30 09:47

@philarmon Easter bunny? Oh god, I can see it too now. :smile:

Yes, the visual style and models were all made by @flavoredpickle. There were even a few more models that sadly went unused.

zax 2019-04-30 11:45

5/5 for the graphic ! well done

shard 2019-04-30 11:46

Very unique visuals :thumbsup:

vanleiden 2019-04-30 11:48

Wow! Graphics and sound are incredible. The controls also feel very polished. Great job! :D

bojkott 2019-04-30 11:48

Very cool graphics! Like the movement and drift of the thrusters.

tomasmunro 2019-04-30 11:55

really like the sci-fi look, and the gameplay goes well with it

arimie 2019-04-30 12:02

Amazing graphics and that's fun because you are an abomination but the music so se relaxing. I like the gameplay.

wolderado 2019-04-30 12:04

It's great! Graphics and sounds fits just right. Reminded of me of Spore. I loved every second of farting arround the universe, looking for some fatty meatball to eat :D But enemies weren't really that challenging. I didn't really escaped from anyone. And I mostly used my mouth to damage them.

roidz 2019-04-30 12:06

WOW.

A-M-A-Z-I-N-G!

If this game doesn't score really high then i don't know shit!

EXCELLENT JOB !!!

pablotitan 2019-04-30 12:09

For me, best game so far, amazing graphics, lighting, mechanics - very addictive game! :D

skylark721 2019-04-30 12:14

Space Munching Simulator 2019! Haha, this is great! Amazing visuals, it looks really polished. I had some minor framerate issues. I also ran out of things to munch on pretty quickly. The only remaining grey dots were pointing to tiny aliens, not enough to sustain yourself. I don't quite know what the purpose of the guns were, since I just munched on everything instead of shooting it, haha!

daggett 2019-04-30 12:14

Great work, i played it for quite some time. With some more work towards replayability i can easily see me playing this for hours.

sebity 2019-04-30 12:20

This is a fantastic game. Great graphics, lighting, mood, sound and use of the theme.

Excellent Job! Well Done!

kaiomoi 2019-04-30 12:33

Great work, amazing graphics and mode is very cool!

justcamh 2019-04-30 12:39

Awesome game. I managed to get to a point that nothing else was showing on the map, so I guess stuff doesn't respawn? Sad. I could've sunk hours into that.

gamepopper 2019-04-30 12:47

Nice take on the theme, and it's incredibly rare to see such detailed and well-lit 3D models in a 72-hour jam entry. I didn't find much challenge but I had fun flying around munching on other alien creatures and shooting at them. Great work I'll have to say, will need to play more of this later.

jobus 2019-04-30 12:48

Thank you all for the awesome comments!

As some of you have mentioned, yes, the game does run out of enemies. I wanted to add a dynamic spawning system, but ran out of time. :disappointed:

enver-arco 2019-04-30 14:48

Cool beginning for a bigger game

5n1p3r-4r73m1s 2019-04-30 14:57

this is the best game i've came across so far, i was playing this for more than a hour...the AAA-esque graphics, pbr materials, emissions, models etc are so gorgeous.

It doesn't run well on browser, so please build a standalone windows version(which will run better, ofc), i would love to have a icon of this game on my desktop

and yeah this game has a potential to become "Indie Commercial Success"

zarkonnen 2019-04-30 16:44

Very beautiful. Reminds me a bit of my LD40 game https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/40/earth-blossom - but yours has much better graphics.

2019-04-30 19:31

Great game! Graphics kinda reminds me of claymation! Really enjoy that i can upgrade the parts of control i feel like! Feels a bit like an idle/comfy game! Great job guys :)

ursagames 2019-05-01 05:30

Thank you for submitting your game to be played on my stream!

Once the stream is finished you can find the video here: https://www.twitch.tv/ursagames/videos If you want to know when it was played you can find your game in the queue here: https://tinyurl.com/y5rdokvp

youbestrong 2019-05-01 17:41

This looks great! It's strangely relaxing despite the monstrous look of the creatures.

The only thing I wasn't too sure about is that I didn't really have a use for the fire button? Maybe eating is just that more efficient of a weapon.

jobus 2019-05-02 20:05

Added a Windows build to the downloads as requested. Both builds have also gotten a few bugs fixed (notably the broken direction indicators).

@youbestrong Yeah, the acid guns are a bit useless. There are many balance and mechanical changes I would have made if the jam wasn't over.

tony-redmer 2019-05-02 20:44

This game is so atmospheric! Beautiful art, and the music creates a very dense world. I wish the world was a bit more populated, but at the same time the empty space is nice as well.

zoneoutapps 2019-05-02 20:56

Excellent! I saw you already were answering the questions on the acid guns. I actually found it really relaxing to just cruise around and throw out a green blob every now and then! :) Really fun concept!

flying-dog-fish 2019-05-02 21:32

This game is absolutely gorgeous and also fun to play and themetastic.

You fail at elementary physics though: there is no drag in space.

atmospherium 2019-05-02 22:44

Great work. The graphics were great - all the pieces from lighting to post-processing to texturing felt really satisfying. Gameplay was good and I like the upgrade system although, as other have mentioned, chomping away at enemies felt more useful than shooting them. Although shooting still looked cool so I kept firing anyways.

jobus 2019-05-03 00:02

@flying-dog-fish Haha, we had an argument over that, but realism had to be sacrificed.

mharring 2019-05-03 01:24

Great game. Visually stunning and chomping the enemies was super satisfying. As others have mentioned, shooting didn't seem necessary since it was usually more effective to eat everything. Well done!

dina 2019-05-03 19:28

Graphics is very good! Game is fun, but i think shootng/eating should be more ballanced to upgrade the gameplay.

seizethedia 2019-05-04 23:01

Cool lighting and great atmosphere. A very relaxing experience for me actually. Would eat again.

icxon 2019-05-09 06:09

I was too voracious and too close to victory so I lost >_<. I feel like pew-pew is less effective since nom-nom gives the mass, and shooting enemies just reduces that mass (on both sides).

Great sandbox with a great potential. Here is my playtest:

https://youtu.be/xeMVwIA2VsU