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Hungry Hungry Spiders

By bendmorris

View on ldjam.com

CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall2393.4439
Fun1743.4139
Innovation3522.9439
Theme3902.9339
Graphics2013.4439
Audio3172.6936
Humor1842.8037
Mood1873.3338

Comments

ixchow 2019-10-07 03:08

Surprisingly engrossing. The spider-spider combat is tricky -- once three spiders get into it, a sort of feeding frenzy can emerge. (Also, great domain name.)

marcel-oyuela-bonzani 2019-10-07 03:09

Pretty neat! The hitbox on the mouth is a little strange feeling but the whole mood of it is great. Also, nice url.

burnedkirby 2019-10-07 03:14

Kind of gross, with blood, flies, and spiders everywhere. Impressive how well the multiplayer works, as well as the mechanics. It feels balanced because big spiders are slower than smaller ones, so it is easy to flee when you don't have much blood, and you can steal blood from bigger spiders that way too. Pretty fun game, well done!

himegized 2019-10-07 03:16

hitboxes can be abit wonky but honestly the giant fights that break out where people change by the 10,000's is fun . maybe add a way to back up is the best suggestion i can give.

voxelv 2019-10-07 03:50

I also approve of the domain name. Great job on the multiplayer! The background is a bit bright for night-time viewing.

appoxgames 2019-10-07 06:40

Goodjob for creating a multiplayer game for LD! The combat felt wierd but was fun.

lamossus 2019-10-07 06:49

Cool game, reminds me of .io games. As others mentioned the colliders seem to be kinda weird which makes it hard to kill bigger spiders. Also the camera should probably be a bit more zoomed out when you are small, so you can be a more aware of bigger spiders around you.

tero-pulkkinen 2019-10-07 09:12

oh this was pretty neat. The paper on the background and the game taking whole browser window is nice. It also had scrolling support, and proper collision detection with some blood on the paper. Sounds were basic, but working anyway.

adrien-dittrick 2019-10-07 12:40

why is your domain name tacobell.pizza ? X)

marcin-j 2019-10-07 13:30

Nice take on the theme and a very functional online game. Controlls and movement could use some work, but overall fun experience!

nachtwitch 2019-10-07 15:16

Really cool concept, would you make this into a mobile game later?

ssstormy 2019-10-07 21:10

I didn't get a chance to play against other spiders so my game only consisted of walking around and gathering blood which wasn't very interesting :(. Maybe something could be done to make the solo play interesting?

idontknow 2019-10-07 22:08

Seems like it might be a fun game, but when the only other spider online is AFK...

slimabob 2019-10-08 02:48

Very fun idea for a game. Ran into a couple other players online and had a blast!

2019-10-08 10:59

Neat game! I included it in my Ludum Dare 45 compilation video series, if you’d like to take a look :) https://youtu.be/aEgrmplySyU

velvetlobster 2019-10-09 02:40

oh first time I played a ludum dare online game I think, this could be very addictive with more players, however I could not find more when I played

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bendmorris 2019-10-09 17:43

Thanks for the feedback everyone. Yes it's a multiplayer game, so no it's not very fun on your own - if there's no one online grab a friend :)

someone 2019-10-13 23:02

That was fun. Not quite sure how the spider combat works. I initially thought it was a whoever is bigger thing so got eaten by a tiny spider who I assumed was no threat. Before that it was quite exhilarating knowing there was a huge spider around and thinking all I could do was try to get bigger. The game was quite different after that realisation. I totally didn't read the explanation above of course. It also seemed to get a bit choppy and unresponsive at large sizes, though maybe it was just less noticable when moving faster. Well done for making a multiplayer game. I would like to play it with more players.

wekaj 2019-10-15 04:16

Neat game, nice work making a multiplayer submission! Unfortunately there was only me and one other humongous spider, but I can see it being more fun with lots of people.

d3garcia 2019-10-15 04:51

I love the idea of multiplayer, this could be very fun with a bunch of people. I little background sound would've been nice.

ddrkirbyisq 2019-10-15 09:58

Great...this is **not** the game I needed to play right before bed...

There was nobody else online so what better to do than to open up 10 browser tabs and feed all of the souls to one spider? Yes yes yes...

Feels like writing a simple bot script for this would be a fun little side project.

bendmorris 2019-10-15 18:23

@ddrkirbyisq this is a completely valid way to enjoy the game :grin:

If you log in and there are two other players online, it might be me in two tabs trying to bait you over to my giant spider.

bip 2019-10-16 21:02

Very cool game, and I love how you were able to incorporate multiplayer in such little time.