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By jamestanm

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall1643.5330
Fun1303.4830
Innovation1903.2130
Theme2683.0330
Graphics2243.1730
Audio743.6630
Humor203.9630
Mood1763.3030

Comments

mmm1008fm 2024-10-07 17:47

Gore! I love gore :3

james-tanm 2024-10-07 23:57

Edit: Ignore this

hubol 2024-10-08 01:19

Inspirationally simple!

I won with 96% suspicion.

I appreciate the touch of the animals having different sprites for stages of growth. I love Tamagotchi. So this is a little like that but with butchery.

daflamingpotato 2024-10-08 01:20

bawk bawk bawk

osh-studio 2024-10-08 01:28

Hello! I played your game! Very morbid but funny, I managed to fill up the blood tank on my second run, I was a bit confused by the bar on the left and what made that go up, was it just time?

Anyway, good entry and impressive as a compo!

wazce 2024-10-08 01:31

I would play the hell out of this on my phone. Can I get an Android app??!! This was so much fun.

alxje 2024-10-08 02:54

YES! Drink their blood!

iaroslavik 2024-10-08 09:56

So fun, I like it

tomtomgome 2024-10-08 10:53

Very well rounded entry. Gotta love thoses mouth sound effect! It is veary easy to figure out that the best way to win is to use cow :) Since time is the biggest problem in regard to suspicion, the best way to win is to go fast!

tudvari 2024-10-08 11:20

Nice submission, managed to win it in the first run! Loved the sound effects and I enjoyed finding the balance between visibility and production. :) Good job!

sviborg 2024-10-08 11:55

The combination of dark humor and simple mechanics makes the game super fun. I love how the different animal sprites add depth to the gameplay - it's like a dark twist on Tamagotchi! 😄 The sound effects are hilarious and really enhance the experience. This game would be a blast as a mobile app - please make it!!!

imai-time 2024-10-08 12:31

However, there is not enough balance. I mostly raised chickens, but I don't see any point in buying other animals. Especially the last paddock. I bought one, and that's quite enough. but I liked the game

james-tanm 2024-10-08 14:54

@imai-time Balance is definitely something that I knew was an issue. By the time I got to sunday I was too exhausted to go back for it. I think next time I would start with balancing the game with 2 animals and giving them good pros and cons before adding in the third

brotherbrody 2024-10-08 18:00

Fun game with an interesting premise!

tsaot 2024-10-09 02:06

I haven't beat it yet, but it's a great challenge. I'm going to keep this one and try again later.

batisdark 2024-10-09 02:07

98% suspicion... But i made it :D I think pigs are trap animal!

wesel 2024-10-09 02:16

Would be such a nice game to play on my phone. Really liked the art work and the gameplay, kept me on my toes the entire time. Really nice game overall!

david-soriano 2024-10-09 03:22

A game with a complex system for such a short time. It's very well done!! The art and sound are very funny and make the whole atmosphere of the game fit together very well! Congratulations!!

sudocoffee 2024-10-09 18:05

I loved the sound effects, they were hilarious! Someone mentioned balance, but I wonder if it would help to have a score aside from just a win-lose condition? That way you could have a secondary condition where you have to find the best strategy to make the most points.

I tried playing through the game with chickens-only, pigs-only, cows-only (plus two pigs), and a mixed strategy:

- An all-chicken strategy doesn't work at all. The 2 net blood doesn't deliver nearly fast enough to keep up with the gradual suspicious increase. However, the Chickens seem potentially useful for maxing out the early game, when you can't fill all the pins with pigs or cows.

- The all-pig strategy just barely worked. I bought the two upgrades, and made sure not to replant my pigs when the suspicion got around 80%, and I won with about 96% suspicion.

- The all-cow strategy (plus two pigs to pay for the cow) worked a lot better than all-pigs. I bought all three upgrades, and ended the game with only around 75% suspicion.

- For the mixed strategy, I was able to get the suspicion level down to 68% for the win, by starting with a pair of pigs, then a second pair of pigs, then adding cows as fast as I could (and also buying one upgrade). Ended the game with one cow and a pig to just barely reach 500 blood.

Seems like the ideal strategy for lowest suspicion is to start with pigs, transition early to cows, and then use some mix at the very end to reach 100% blood with as little margin as possible. Not sure if there's a different strategy you'd use if you're going for speed rather than suspicion, maybe all-pigs?

I guess all that to say, the game was balanced enough to have possible reasons you'd use each of the animals (maybe excepting the chicken).

james-tanm 2024-10-10 00:28

@sudocoffee wow, thanks for putting in so much time and thought :) I tried to make sure no animal was completely useless, but definitely wanted there to be a reason to use more than just the chickens, so the all chicken strategy was definitely dev nerfed, haha. Glad to hear it did end up having multiple paths to victory though!

As for reasons to go with various strats, my original goal was to have periodic events which would alter the ratios of price, time, and suspicion which would encourage people to go down different paths. but the time crunch comes for us all :(

adrien-tremblay 2024-10-10 03:15

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Interesting concept! I managed to beat the game (barely) using a chickens (they kinda suck) then switching to cows ASAP, with two extra slots.

sutt00 2024-10-12 09:20

This was a fun game. I wish there was a little more you could do to mitigate suspicion.

henk 2024-10-12 18:12

I liked it. The play time was short, but the rules seemed well balanced. Not sure why people would find it suspicious for a farmer to slaughter pigs, though...

There should have been a particle effect when harvesting the animals. A shower of blood would have been both satisfying and hilarious, I think.

james-tanm 2024-10-14 15:56

@sutt00 noted :)

@henk its funny, if I do continue on and juice up this game that was the first thing I was thinking about adding. That and giving the sprites an idle animation to make them feel a bit more alive

scsdww 2024-10-15 08:42

my friend told me this,really fun

itstimothy999 2024-10-18 10:22

noice, a quick fun game :heart:

baturinsky 2024-10-20 22:12

Sounds are cute. Gameplay could use some depth. trying to optimize for the best final suspicion, like @sudocoffee did could be fun, though.

commanderstitch 2024-10-23 16:10

lost, lost, and lost again. Little did I know that only cow was the answer. Go cow, go cow. Go only cow and win.2024-10-23 12_09_06-gmO-.jpg