dysleixc 2024-10-07 16:33
Fantastic concept, loved it
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD56 → World's Tiniest Desktop Pets
By Caeden117, plusonerabbit and lulu.dev
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 85 | 4.11 | 28 | |
| Fun | 174 | 3.84 | 28 | |
| Innovation | 2 | 4.51 | 28 | |
| Theme | 2 | 4.63 | 28 | |
| Graphics | 331 | 3.98 | 28 | |
| Audio | 307 | 3.57 | 28 | |
| Humor | 53 | 4.08 | 27 | |
| Mood | 143 | 4.05 | 27 |
Fantastic concept, loved it
hahaha you guys must be shader genius
Oh no!
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I feel like my computer could explode at any moment, but besides the many creatures there was no lag at all. It was funny to see them eat the images, and how fast that went as I got more and more pets. A bit more interaction would've been nice, but for a jam game this is already really cool!
Wow! This is..... So much *fun*! I certainly didn't even know that you could do this with Unity? What?? That is super cool! Not much in the way of a game, but certainly a great toy! <3 - The dithering transparency is rad, is that for performance or a limitation of using the desktop as background? - Reminds me of the Gnorp Apologue, which is good :) - I guess my laptop is burning to a crisp as I write this, I should turn it off... 200,000 friends and I can barely see anything anymore lol
@tuism I think there are other ways of turning a window transparent which allow for alpha blending, but for the method we're using to wrangle Unity into supporting it, it's essentially acting like a chroma key effect - counting any pixel matching #FF00FF as purely transparent. So yeah, in this case the dither was our only option for blending with the desktop. As for on *everything*, like blending text over an opaque background panel, not necessary there, but changing the default shader was the easiest course of action, and it was just a gamejam concession. Looks kinda interesting in the end, can't tell if I love it or hate it.
Little update 1.1.0 while it's still before the deadline - merged a feature from a friend which saves partially-eaten food images back to the food folder. Their eating progress will now persist between game restarts, and you can also watch its thumbnail update in file explorer with the destruction. Thank you, @lulu-dev! Besides that, just a handful more faces and meows brought in to the project.
Cool game/run while working distraction. 😉 I like the eating images concept. They seem to interfere with the taskbar by going behind it, so I had to autohide my taskbar.
nice idea, I couldn't make my 10,000,000 little friends happy, that makes me sad :(
I never would have thought I would say this about tiny little cubes, but WOOWW THEY ARE SO CUTE. Somehow they feel like they're alive and with emotions. Great job.
So cute!! I had issues with keeping the game on top though, was there a setting for that I missed? >.<
This is a fun little idea! Sometimes I forget that desktop pets aren't all viruses! Also, I can't believe this is possible within Unity!!! Wish there was a little more to do with them, but watching them eat images is fun. Good work!
What a fun 'little' idea! Loved to see them eat away at my image food. Great audio, great vibe. Hard to be much tinier!
haha, I never expected to see that at a jam! innovative :)
@rsheepdv It's supposed to just work, no setting, but it seems like there's some inconsistencies between systems :/ Guess that's what we get for trying to use the Windows API on the window created by Unity. Support seems all-around much spottier on Windows 11, if that's what you were using, but there's a few weird edge cases on 10 too.
Soooo adorable :))))
This is awesome and a really fun take on the theme. Super impressive you've managed to pull this off. Congratz to you and the team! :)
Amazing concept and execution! I wish they move a bit more vertically than being "grounded to the bottom of the screen cause they're a little hard to see. still super cute and cool
Brilliant, and absurdly well executed. :clap: I lost my cursor.
OK. I clearly didn't expect something like this in a JAM. It's fabulous ! Maybe you could add thing to buy with the coin, like a toy or a preset picture from the game itself. Is there a maximum number of them you can have on the screen ?
@infernaton A shop would be a great feature for a post-jam version! Maybe a beach ball for them to bounce around your screen or something. The maximum in the jam version is 10 million, and they spawn in a special animation when you reach it. The technical limit with 1 compute buffer is around 59 million, but it was very laggy and required 2GB of VRAM up-front. Staggering updates is probably the first optimization I'd try if we were to increase the cap.
A very cool implementation of the Jam theme)
Damn this is really cool! Gonna run this next Ludum lmao
Fantastic concept and execution! Loved the creativity behind it.
This was really fun! They ate my last math exams results, so thanks little friends :)