creamsicle42 2023-01-09 21:59
11/10 game. Absolutely unhinged.
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD52 → Cute Baby Animal Organ Harvesting Simulator
By theothersamp, 919113 and Finn.S.
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 803 | 2.54 | 52 | |
| Fun | 735 | 2.61 | 50 | |
| Innovation | 768 | 2.44 | 51 | |
| Theme | 637 | 3.25 | 51 | |
| Graphics | 686 | 2.69 | 51 | |
| Audio | 378 | 3.09 | 51 | |
| Humor | 175 | 3.48 | 52 | |
| Mood | 724 | 2.78 | 49 |
11/10 game. Absolutely unhinged.
NAHHHHHHHHH THE BABY STEALING MY KIDNEY
Haha ridiculous and made me laugh. Would kill for a "Number of organs gathered" counter
what did I just play
haha i love the persistence of the screaming victims
You had me from the moment I saw the name of the game. This was a good laugh - cute retro music overlaid by a chorus of five unending Whilhelm screams could never get old!
How many drugs were you on when making this game? - Yes! Love it but also wtf.
@zonoxx Six coffees and one paracetamol. I'm glad you enjoyed the madness!
@alex-de-la-cour I had the cute retro music overlaid by a chorus of unending screams looping in my ear for about five hours straight during development yesterday. Weirdly, it actually didn't get old - but perhaps the mental impact explains the final product.
A refreshing take on the theme tbh, I love the idea and the humor. I would've loved to have more of an indicator that the organs were being harvested and that would be the cherry on top, but fun game nonetheless!
@tessahardin Thanks! Yeah, that's very fair feedback. We originally intended to have individual organs as well as the blood. I actually did have a version of that implemented, but it didn't feel great and it would have taken quite a lot of tuning to get right. As soon as we got the blood physics in, that was instantly more fun than the organs, so we cut them. If we'd had an extra few hours, squishy bouncy organs would have been in there for sure!
Definitely not my thing.
MUHAHAHHAHAHAHHA, now I can harvest the organs of cute forest animals while piloting a tiny human flesh suit and leave the hapless forest FOOLS screaming out in pain. Their pained cries fuel me. The flesh suit bobs its head to the chorus of destruction.
-cough- Ahem, anyway, hilarious entry. The lack of an real gameplay beyond harvesting organs makes it feel super incomplete, but still super hilarious.
@epb9000 You don't need "gameplay" if you put "simulator" in the title, everyone knows that - hah.
You're absolutely right of course, this is an objectively bad "game". But it actually wasn't incomplete in that way - that was a design decision we took early on. We didn't have any particularly compelling game design ideas within the first hour, so decided to go all in on the joke. And the joke felt funnier if there was literally zero gameplay.
I enjoyed the madness :smile:.
Maybe add some UI to see your progress and maybe add a spawner so the madness never ends :))
@christopher-hedge Hey, it's not my thing either, and I made it! I hope that it works as a two minute joke for some people, but beyond that it's pretty silly and unpleasant! Thanks for taking the time to try it, anyway.
Hah, who doesn't love some good old fashioned organ harvesting with a... vacuum cleaner gun? :D Game definitely placed a smile on my face which I'm sure was the purpose. The character actually feels extremely fun to control. Platformer controls often feel stiff but I loved how bouncy it felt and how easy it is to clear corners. Particle effects are really well made. Especially the gun. Very pretty! So overall art and presentation were excellent. Maybe better character animations would have made for great improvement.
Gameplay is of course very basic. Controlling the character feels satisfying enough and the madness/charm of the situation makes it engaging enough to play through to the end. At first I wasn't quite sure what I was supposed to do. Shooting was obvious but I felt like I had to do more than just drawing out blood. The fact that the bunnies were just standing there felt like they wanted me to do something more to them... Eventually I contented myself with letting the bunnies bleed and scream and called it a day. I think here the title might have negatively affected game perception, in that it feels like there's more to expect that isn't delivered (fresh organs). If you had called it blood harvester or something it would have immediately made more sense.
So overall, presentation is actually very good, and the setting/plot is original. But for this to become a properly entertaining game some extra mechanic might have been needed. Even something very basic like a hunger meter or money counter (or whatever else we were harvesting organs for) would have already added more purpose and madness.
@nyxkn Incredibly fair feedback, thanks!
Yeah individual organs should definitely be in the game. I actually had that implemented as a prototype, but the feel wasn't quite right and we were running out of time so I stripped them out because the blood was more fun. But squishy bouncy organs (that also spray their own blood particles) would definitely have made it better.
It's interesting that you say that about the title implying more gameplay! We viewed it the other way - "simulator" games often have very little actual gameplay in them, and we were making a joke of that by putting almost zero gameplay in ours. You're completely right though - the "organ" in the title doesn't match the final product we delivered. It was named before the organs were cut from the final version. That's a very good note about us creating a misleading perception there.
I completely agree that adding more mechanics would have made this a better "game". We didn't have any mechanical ideas that felt original or exciting, and we felt that adding standard mediocre gameplay wasn't very interesting, so decided to focus 100% on the "joke" of the game instead. In hindsight, we should have at least had a "blood gathered" counter that ticked up infinitely and gave the player stupid achievements, or something like that.
We embraced the fact that the game is meant to give 30 seconds to 2 minutes of confused fun and then be forgotten until the music and cacophony of screams haunts your dreams.
My play-through may have ended, but the screams. The screams will stay with me. I had a hard time trying to find out how to bounce to the right places, but it was fun overall!
The background music is fantastic, it has a nice sardonic fit with the rest of the game's tone XD
*Willhelm scream* *ᵂᶦˡˡʰᵉˡᵐ ˢᶜʳᵉᵃᵐ* *Willhelm scream* *ᵂᶦˡˡʰᵉˡᵐ ˢᶜʳᵉᵃᵐ*
This game is off the rails lol. It's hilarious to play, but I must say having the screams play nonstop was just really grating and became too hard for me to keep playing. It seems a little hard to pick up the blood, I still can't tell if I got any or not.
Having the blood never end seems a little much as well. The game could go on forever with endless screams and blood particles.
I think the joke of the game is pretty hilarious though. Thanks for making this game!
I successfully harvested all the organs and enjoyed every second of it. You all definitely have something interesting here. I think I personally would have leaned into the gore a little more, like heads rolling or exploding. Overall though, I think you accomplished what you set out to do.
@pyspher9 This is great feedback that takes the game far more seriously than we did.
The game doesn't actually measure blood collected in any way, all it does is vanish the particles when they reach the gun. We were going for a joke about Simulator games where basically nothing actually happens, but in hindsight we should have taken the blood collection a little more seriously and associated silly achievements with it - that would have been a better joke.
Yeah the screams are obviously too much, but we weren't anticipating anybody playing for longer than two minutes, so the joke of how grating they are seemed more important than creating a pleasant experience. That said, I had them looping for about five hours during development, and I only went partially insane.
Thanks for playing, we will not be refunding the time you wasted.
Thanks @jesseww, "interesting" is a tactfully polite adjective for the horrors we unleashed.
We originally intended more gore in the form of individual squishy organs that squirted their own blood everywhere, but with a few hours left they didn't feel as good as the blood so I made the - perhaps wrong - decision to cut them. I wish I'd invested an extra 20 minutes into tuning them to feel good instead.
Rolling heads is a great idea! Still screaming of course, but rolling back and forth with strong directional audio and with exaggerated Doppler effect when the screams pass by the player. Damn, I wish we'd thought of that! That feature will definitely be in the £69.99 120 hour console release of Cute Baby Animal Organ Harvesting Simulator.
wtf did i play xD... thankyou for dragging me back into the spirit of ldjam... that was... memorable
Lol :joy:
Truly crazy game XD At the beggining i was like.. WHAT?! And kinda stayed back but... couldn't help and had to harvest every bunny XD Funniest game for me so far, I only wish there would be smth like "harvested organs" or smth like that
While I STRONGLY disagree with the premise of the game, it's quite well made with the sound effects and the happy music creating an interesting contrast to the evil things you are doing. Not necessarily my type of humor, but humorous non the less. A little bit more gameplay and some way to win the game would have been great though.
Oh, and there is so much blood, my poor little laptop started lagging ... ^.^
@likirus
> I STRONGLY disagree with the premise of the game
We at the Cute Baby Animal Organ Harvesting Company believe that brutally harvesting the organs of Cute Baby Animals is not only acceptable, but in fact a moral imperative. Every organ allowed to remain inside of a Cute Baby Animal is a brief moment of joy DENIED to a maniacal baby with a vacuum gun. It is our divine mission in life to never allow that to happen ever again.
> Not necessarily my type of humor, but humorous non the less.
Yep, ours neither really! Somehow "What's the worst thing we could do?" won out and this abomination was ripped from the land of nightmares into our poor unfortunate reality.
> A little bit more gameplay and some way to win the game would have been great though.
Yep, absolutely. At the time we were going for a joke about "simulator" games having no actual gameplay, but in hindsight some type of progress indicator with achievements would have been a better joke. I do however stand by it going infinitely with no win condition - I just think it's funny. The game's only designed to provide two minutes of entertainment anyway - once the joke is done, the blood physics is only fun for a minute or so.
> Oh, and there is so much blood, my poor little laptop started lagging … ^.^
Sorry about that! I tested on a fairly weak laptop and it seemed okay, but there're more particles than there needs to be so I should have tuned that down further to optimize. It's just using Unity's inbuilt particles - if this were a more serious release I would build my own system for more speed.
Not really my type of humor.
really i loved it....lol..when i started playing went like "wtf is going on? aren't those babies? aren't they supposed to drink milk? are these titans??!! "
hahaha what a concept!
Nice little organ harvesting mechanic. Music and sound effects fitted what your game really well. Think just a few things that you probably didn't have time to add in the jam that would have really helped elevate things a bit like instructions, win condition, health. Awesome jam entry.
What?
The heck?!Surely not a game but i love the self-awareness...and the screams...
The gore effects are low key rly good bruh