plantleaf 2020-04-20 08:35
Very cool, reminds me of those old games. The music was very good but I didn't like the graphics very much. But this is a game jam so given the time constraints you still managed to make a great game. Congrats!
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD46 → Omiga Daycare
By wheffle
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 123 | 3.89 | 51 | |
| Fun | 136 | 3.81 | 51 | |
| Innovation | 223 | 3.68 | 51 | |
| Theme | 28 | 4.33 | 51 | |
| Graphics | 320 | 3.72 | 51 | |
| Audio | 68 | 3.92 | 50 | |
| Humor | 80 | 3.82 | 50 | |
| Mood | 166 | 3.69 | 50 |
Very cool, reminds me of those old games. The music was very good but I didn't like the graphics very much. But this is a game jam so given the time constraints you still managed to make a great game. Congrats!
I got $1603! Extremely stressful but fun! Felt easy in the beginning, but once they started to get really mad it all went downhill. I'm fond of the look and how it is not trying to take itself to seriously.
I liked it - I did kind of get overwhelmed there though and had to quite before any of the pets started dying. I like the rearrangement aspect of it, where the user places the pets in the fashion that works for them.
My score was 2443. I really liked all the different pet varieties and how they used different food/medicine. Especially the demon one who ate meat and got cold instead of sick.
Reached $1K, easy at first, gets harder at the end :D Sometimes I've got a creature sleeping, yet still desiring to be fed. Fun game, sound was nice
I'm proud I got my daycare until I had 15 Omigas, but it became too much and they died. Love that in addition to the usual pet sim tasks of the genre, you have to also manage the physical position of the devices. If you're too messy, that will probably affect your final score. There's some extra depth to such a simple thing.
I had fun! (Also, what's with the passive aggressive final message :joy: ? I did my best!)
I made $6000! Wow this got hectic very quickly. Cute and stressful. Those omigas poop so much. Great entry!
What a great idea! I really liked this. Eventually, I did consider franchising or at least hiring an employee.
Thanks for the feedback guys! As a person who has tested positive for ADHD, I think I accidentally made an ad-hoc ADHD test, and honestly it stressed me out so much to play test my own game :grimacing:
@sndr I was actually planning on making different end-game messages based on how well you did, but it ended up being one of those things that slipped through the cracks!
@kaleido That's a *way* higher score than I ever got, congrats! You're a multitasking god(ess)!
@pincushion If I had more time to iterate, franchising would have added a whole new level to the game :laughing:
i liked your tamagotchi concept , I also did a Tagotgotchi project, but your game is a lot of fun! If I have a problem with it, it is missing a mute button for the music.
:smile: Cute entry :thumbsup:
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I wrote off the tamagotchi/digimon idea of the theme because I thought it was low hanging fruit.
You ran with that idea and took it to a place I would never have thought to, and it's fantastic!
I love how quickly everything goes wrong when you have just a few too many to take care of.
I made $4150 on my first try! I have no idea if that's good or not hahaha.
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I love it. Starts easy, but gets nice and challenging (read: impossible)! The music was lovely. The poops were plenty. My favorite game so far. I don't have anything bad to say, sorry.
Oh man does this game get intense! Wow, great game!
Very nice game! One of the best! The music is really great (at the end, with all the alarm, it became crazy! but it's fun!)
Congratulation on doing this!
Great job on the UI design, it was readable and straightforward. I loved being able to move my ~~Tama~~ Omigas around on the table and watch the keychain jiggle around. I actually kinda wish I could grab them by the keychain and swing them around. And flip them upside down. That would be funny. Wouldn't it be cool if Omiga devices had accelerometers or step counters? Then you could shake the device and the Omiga might respond to that.
I really liked that there are negative consequences for taking incorrect actions. Seems obvious to say, but I think it's easy to overlook when you're designing a game. Almost expected the Omigas to express annoyance or unhappiness, but they were a little less expressive than I was hoping.
I kinda wish I could return the Omigas to their owners at some point, and perhaps that would impact the reputation of the business which would in turn adjust the intensity of the game, but I realize that this would have drastically increased the complexity of the game's design. Guess that's the reality of the compo for ya. It's fun to think about though, because it's one of those adaptive systems that makes a game more accessible for a wider range of skill levels.
Amazing that you made such a polished experience for the compo. Great job on managing your time well! The variety of Omiga really spices it up, nice touch!
Thanks again everyone!
@nimphious I actually wrote off the virtual pet idea at first as well and stayed up pretty late the first night working on another idea. I woke up the next day, realized what I had started on was *way* out of scope, and changed gears. Sometimes it's nice to do something really simple and be able to polish it up decently. Also, I'm actually surprised I haven't seen *that* many tomagochi knock-offs!
@turncoda Great feedback! I actually spent a good hour or so trying to get keychain physics to work, then realized it wasn't a core feature and moved on. The first passes left me with a chain that shook itself apart and launched itself out of the screen. Never got back to it unfortunately. Step counters, accelerometers, annoyed animations (frowny faces and shaking their head at food when they aren't hungry perhaps?) are all *excellent* ideas I wish I had thought of, I might have been able to squeeze at least one or two of those features in.
I made $3125... definitely enough to retire ;)
The premise for this game was hilarious, and the little virtual pet interactions were great (my pixel rabbits kept getting poo on themselves!) While the concept was simple, you introduced plenty of variation, both in graphics and in the audio, which really added to the experience. Really great entry - clean, simple, and fun. Excellent work!
As a side note, some little brat dropped his pet off with me with 1/3rd of its health missing! I need an option to call Child Protective Services on him! XD
$4590 here, this game is tough! I've seen a lot of tamagotchi games on LD but this one shakes up the formula in a much needed way. Usually they're pretty simple, but simply multiplying them added a whole new level of multitasking to the gameplay. I liked that you threw in a monster as a twist to it. Are there any other unique ones further out that I didn't reach?
Neat twist on the Tamagotchi genre! The fun, hectic gameplay was complemented really well by the music and sound effects. Great job!
Good job! builds up nicely and gets quite challenging!
This was really fun! Got to $3229. I LOVED THE MUSIC, great job on that one! The graphics could've been better but honestly it didn't bother me at all. This kinda reminded me of my game, just a lot more balanced, lol
Great job! This shows that a game doesn't have to be big in order to be fun :)
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I like the idea of having a game within a game. Very cool. The mood was a bit too stressful for me - maybe the difficulty ramp was too steep? Maybe the omigas should ask for one thing at a time, or the player could do several actions at a time?
Overal very clear and fun game, I don't mind the rapid difficulty curve since there aren't any new complex rules to learn, you just have to click faster!
This is a great take on the virtual pet idea! (which I also did) I love how simple each game is, but how frantic the gameplay gets. Really good humor, fun, mood. :clap:
This is honestly brilliant - both as a business idea and as a game! It ramps up at a nice speed - and it's the sort of game where everything goes to crap (literally!) before you lose, which makes the losing just as fun as the winning. Also, the music is so good, I love it!
The background photos added a really great tough! The UI was nice and clean, with helpful notifications, and the ability to drag and drop the Omigas. Fantastic concept for a 'clicker' game!
Really clever idea! This could be expanded into something great!
@peachtreeoath Thanks for trying it out! If you got to the red monster, that was the last one I made, so you've seen them all! Wishing I had thrown in just one more weird as a small reward for those that got *really* deep.
@emmanuel-gaillot Thanks for playing! It does seem to get hectic very quickly, I find it interesting that at some point adding one more Omiga makes your brain go "nope, too many" and it just falls apart! Limiting the Omigas to taking turns needing something, or letting the player do multiple things at once, would kind of defeated the purpose of a multi-tasking game don't you think? I think an "outsource" mechanic might have been cool where you paid X dollars to push an Omiga onto a a hired employee, but I only thought about that after the jam unfortunately.
Thanks again for all the feedback! I have been going down the list and playing all of y'alls games!
Made $2852 and had fun while doing it. Felt like I can't blink otherwise I might kill a pet :)
My sister was go around and now she play it around 1 hour :smiley: so i think its very fine fit on theme and its very fun game
Man this is really cool. To be honest I thought of making a Tomagotchi thing for this theme as well, but I couldn't figure out how to make it fun... but it looks like you did! I was shocked by how addicted I got managing all these virtual pets. This is really excellent. It would be neat if this game was broken up into rounds to get a break, but it work very well in this infinite format as well.
Sound design and graphics are spot on. Very very good work. Congrats on getting this all done in such a short amount of time!
Good idea and execution! The gameplay was good too, but it was too easy for too long before it became utter chaos :laughing: Great punchy music, it's the thing that kept my attention before the gameplay became demanding. And cute 1-bit tamagotchis and sounds as well :slight_smile:
Really excellent game. The graphics, the mood, and the music, very nice. I thought it was too easy at the beginning, I was wrong, there was more and more and they started freeking out at the same time :) Really lovely. Bonus point for using Godot3 :) Cheers
Everything was fine while they fit on the screen ... :sweat_smile: Well I have earned 2131$ Nice game)
I made around $2000 haha! This is very creative and fun. It really gets crazy later on. If you plan to continue development on this game (which you should), I would recommend having a shop where the user can spend the money on stuff that makes the work easier, such as an automatic feeder or something. But, for jam purposes, this is one of the better ones I've played :D
Nice variety on the animals. It felt good to see a new one slide in that I hadn't seen before, and stopped it from feeling too monotonous. It's also a good difficulty curve. You start out thinking "huh, this is pretty easy" and end up thinking...not that.
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Análise...
1 - Mecânicas, Aprendizado e Fluxo: Muito interessante a mecânica de colocar diversos pets (estilo Tamagotchi) lado a lado para que sejam cuidados enquanto se gerencia (também) o posicionamento de cada um. Começa em ritmo adequado ao aprendizado da mecânica individual (alimentação, limpeza e medicação), para então começar a trabalhar o aprendizado do gerenciamento da mesa. O fluxo começa tranquilo, avança sem maiores dificuldades, até que alcança um ritmo frenético e muito complicado (hahahahah). Gostaria que o jogo tivesse um fim (uma condição de vitória), mas está trabalhando mais como um arcade (da forma como está). Digo isso por querer ter a sensação de progresso (ainda mais que não há (diretamente implementado) um sistema unificado de pontuação). Em tempo de Ludum Dare, está tudo muito bacana em termos de jogabilidade (ao meu ver).
2 - Gráficos, Áudio, Narrativa e Polimento: Os gráficos são simples (e cada criatura possui variantes em sua apresentação visual (e vai além)). O áudio pode se tornar repetitivo/enjoativo (principalmente para quem não está jogando (ficar ouvindo a música repetidamente)), para quem joga também é repetitivo (mas bem menos e demora bastante para ter o efeito negativo). A narrativa é simples e direta (não há muito o que falar sobre ela). Polimentos podem ser feitos (fora do tempo de game jam). :)
3 - Cultura: Faz referência ao cuidado de pets, pessoas e Tamagotchi (envolvendo também jogos como Digimon World e (em partes) Pokémon). Tudo isso permitiria (caso o projeto fosse continuado, polido e incrementado) ir atrás de um nicho (para entregar o jogo a eles) e, através disso, o jogo contribuir para o fortalecimento do próprio nicho.
4 - Monetização: Se for bem trabalhado, pode se tornar um bom e divertido jogo em stores como itch.io ou (se possível), alterado para um formato para smartphones (onde teria como ver no máximo 3–5 por tela e ficar alternando entre as telas).
Analysis...
1 - Mechanics, Learning and Flow: Very interesting the mechanics of placing several pets (Tamagotchi style) side by side so that they are cared for while managing (also) the positioning of each one. It starts at an appropriate pace to learn the individual mechanics (food, cleaning and medication), and then begins to work on learning to manage the table. The flow starts smoothly, progresses without major difficulties, until it reaches a frantic and very complicated rhythm (hahahahah). I would like the game to end (a condition of victory), but it is working more like an arcade (as it is). I say this because I want to have a sense of progress (especially since there is no (directly implemented) unified scoring system). In Ludum Dare's time, everything is very cool in terms of gameplay (in my opinion).
2 - Graphics, Audio, Narrative and Polishment: The graphics are simple (and each creature has variants in its visual presentation (and beyond)). The audio can become repetitive / sickening (mainly for those who are not playing (listening to the music repeatedly)), for those who play it is also repetitive (but much less and takes a long time to have the negative effect). The narrative is simple and straightforward (there is not much to talk about). Polishments can be done (outside of game jam time). :)
3 - Culture: It refers to the care of pets, people and Tamagotchi (also involving games like Digimon World and (in parts) Pokémon). All of this would allow (if the project were continued, polished and increased) to go after a niche (to deliver the game to them) and, through this, the game contribute to the strengthening of the niche itself.
4 - Monetization: If done well, it can become a good and fun game in stores like itch.io or (if possible) changed to a format for smartphones (where you would see a maximum of 3–5 per screen and switch between screens) .
This game gets crazy late in the process! I liked that some Omigas went to sleep allowing to relax for some time. Great job!
Thought it'd be quite easy for me - childhood tamagotchi master, but my inner OCD got the best of me and I spent a little bit too much time arranging the Omigas in nice straight rows and columns. But the second try...! ...didn't go well either! Really challenging and stressful and fun, good job!