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Puppy Loop

By cubiclaw and Whimsicat

View on ldjam.com

CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall14682.9236
Fun14702.6137
Innovation13992.7036
Theme7003.7236
Graphics2464.1837
Humor4213.2336
Mood12842.8836

Comments

bobparis75 2020-10-05 17:22

nice game !

aimainiac 2020-10-05 17:33

Pretty good, loved the art style. However, there could have been more incentive to play, like an end goal, fail condition, or high score.

nardandas 2020-10-06 03:38

Very pretty little game :). I think my puppy counter was broken, stuck on 5. I also want a little bit more to do, but I'd be lying if I didn't stay to rescue a bunch of puppies.

gabriel-dias-oliveira-de-almeida 2020-10-06 03:42

So good the graphics, congrats! :D Look at my game too :D

dizzy 2020-10-06 03:45

Lovely graphics, really enjoy haha

cubiclaw 2020-10-06 06:04

Thanks for all the comments and suggestions!

@nardandas The puppy count is there to let a player know the total number of puppies in the loop, in the current version of the game it is set to the static value of five, because there are only ever five puppies. I thought that adding the puppy count will help make it clear that puppies do not disappear or multiply, but looks like it's having an opposite effect of causing confusion. :smile:

ruruie 2020-10-06 10:37

This game has caused me to question the core of my moral foundations. Am I truly the hero here??

louiejams 2020-10-06 10:40

Cute little game, not much of an incentive to carry on playing after a few rescues as the puppies seem to almost immeditaley escape and there is no reward and no lose condition either; I think a score would of been a nice touch maybe. c:

flawed 2020-10-06 10:47

The graphics look great! I actually didn't care about it not having an end goal, it seems like a nice game to de-stress :)

redunca 2020-10-06 10:51

I can't seem to load the game, can you add a download version ?

nocity 2020-10-06 10:56

Really cool art ^^

tamail 2020-10-06 15:20

This is the most adorable game ever :smile: I had problems getting the dog move but once it started working, it was fine. This is literally like trying to put panda babies in a row for a picture / gather all your kittens to a circle - an impossible task. And that's the best. :laughing:

stratcat66 2020-10-06 15:25

The game looks really nice!

cubiclaw 2020-10-07 07:07

Wow, more comments, thanks everyone!

@redunca I've noticed that the game won't load when the browser cache is disabled, for example when using a private browsing mode, could it be the reason why the game isn't loading for you? I've uploaded a Windows version of the game, I hope you are on Windows, because I don't think I can build for Linux or Mac, sorry :cry:

@tamail I wonder why the the dog wasn't moving at first :thinking: I've had to click on the game screen before to get the game running properly, I believe Unity iframe doesn't always get focused by the web browser, could it be the cause?

etrealjunior 2020-10-07 10:16

I liked your game my congratulations, I also did one if you want to know, and give me your feedback I am very grateful, this is the link https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/47/resurrection

tamail 2020-10-07 10:59

@cubiclaw I for sure clicked into the game window, several times. :) Then I reset it, clicked into it, tried the controls, nothing, I smashed all the keys and all of sudden, it started moving. I have no idea what happened.

nefeli 2020-10-07 15:35

The game is so nice! I am so sad I can't save them all though ~ xD

mycosil 2020-10-07 15:35

Cute game, but I have the feeling I missed the goal of it, is there any ending? or I'm just stuck in a loop ;D?

rangoiv 2020-10-07 15:55

Cute game! You should add some sound effects, it would be much better. The graphics is great, but IMO you should add some sort of a goal to the game. It would be more interesting and keep people playing, not just checking itout.

helen 2020-10-07 16:20

Especially liked the graphics. Music would have been nice :) The puppies are really cute.

redunca 2020-10-07 19:03

Finally some cute doggos instead of cats ! The animations are very good (as is the art in general) it just needs some sounds to help feel imemrsed

vphyre 2020-10-07 20:41

The game is very cute. I really liked it, congratulations.

hyblis 2020-10-09 18:41

Very cute and lovely, but too bad there's no music nor real goal :(

sarafilipa 2020-10-11 10:37

What a wholesome game! Who doesn't love saving cute puppies, right? :D Incredibly cute, and I appreciate the simple mechanic. The graphics are definitely the highlight for me. I don't know if this is a bug or not, but sometimes puppies would get stuck before sliding down the conveyor belt. If you want to bring this game to the next level (which you absolutely should if you want my opinion), some audio effects and an end goal (like others have said) would elevate this a lot. Other than that, solid effort and great game. :D

cubiclaw 2020-10-11 11:01

@mycosil hey, thanks for playing our game! This is a tiny game so there is no end goal and the original idea was to make an infinite loop game to fit the theme well. We imagined that from the dog's perspective - it doesn't really understand how the puppies are stolen from the kennel or why they end up on one of the conveyor belts, it just sees a misplaced puppy and carries it back home, hence no real progress is made :slight_smile:

Several people suggested adding audio and incentive to play - thanks and we totally agree! If we were to expand the game, some nice music and barking sounds would be the first items on the to-do list, with some gameplay enhancements following shortly after. This was our first jam and we didn't have any prior game development experience so we decided to keep the scope of our first game very small to make sure we do release a game in time. We'll try to deliver something a little bit more feature rich for the next jam! :slight_smile:

iker-diaz 2020-10-11 11:39

Cute graphics but at first I didn't understand what was the goal of the game until I read the description below the game. I think you should make it clearer in the game, and adding a goal other than trying to maintain the pup/sec ratio.

salier 2020-10-11 11:43

A nice pixel style that make the game very cute! Gameplay would need some more depth. A nice game nonetheless!

feraligatr 2020-10-11 13:53

Nice Graphics and good implementation of the theme. After 20-30 seconds it is just repetitive and no real motivation to play it longer. But as I see you intend to work post jam on it and it is a very solid base to work on :)

bocchi-dev 2020-10-13 09:12

Cute game! A bit repetitive, though. Also not sure if it's a bug but I was able to pick up puppies at the lower conveyor belt so once I camped there it wasn't too hard to get puppies since they eventually pass there. Maybe some sound would have kept my attention more and a score system to make me want to do better. Overall, not bad!

croped 2020-10-16 18:56

super cute graphics, very nice pixel art, and funny loop idea. i missed some music

teto 2020-10-22 17:42

Really cute game and loved the detail of the little light at the top flashing qhen puppies go by! It's little details like that that make a game feel so much more complete! However, I would agree with previous comments that it is a little repetitive with no goal. Possibly just adding some variation into speeds would make it more interesting as well. Nice entry though! Well done!