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Tumtrix

By Treehovah and ohjuliego

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall3863.6222
Fun3403.5022
Innovation1313.8522
Theme5963.4022
Humor1383.6522
Mood6623.1722

Comments

zeq 2025-04-08 00:15

That's enough food! THATS ENOUGH FOOD

I like the blackening of the food that's being digested, gave me some amusement dragging around my darkened stained pizza chunk around. Hot pepper mechanic is funny. The pixel art and the thumbnail for this game is really good! Would have loved some sound--was there any music/sfx? I didn't hear anything on my end.

treehovah 2025-04-08 00:18

Thanks @Zeq! Unfortunately no sound, had to work today so we ran out of time :'(

kenevil1 2025-04-08 01:08

Lasted for two minutes, great work, loved the gameplay. Relate hard with the not being able to add audio lol.

donutshoes 2025-04-08 04:51

The image on the cover art reminds me of the Homestar Runner "Eating 5 batteries gag" so that's a bonus for me!

tugaryn 2025-04-08 06:17

didn't realize my stomach was tetris lol.

Cool for this type of game, you need sound I'm sure.

Thanks well done.

marudziik 2025-04-08 07:01

I liked the concept, and the graphical effect for "digesting" looks very convincing! Thanks! Sound would make this entry even better.

butterflan 2025-04-08 17:49

ALWAYS MORE FOOOOOOD ! It was fun haha ! I didn't understand well when the combos was here (maybe I didn't understand the feedback) tho

a0405u 2025-04-08 19:29

I like how food slowly disappears! The game is either too hard or too easy.

treehovah 2025-04-08 20:02

@butterflan would love to hear your opinions on what would communicate it better for reference: Multipliers go up when food of the same type is actively being digested. We added a subtle colored pulse to food when you get start hitting the higher multipliers but really struggled with the visual feedback that would communicate the feature.

Pulsing can be seen here:

multipliers.gif

indiealesha 2025-04-09 07:01

Such a cool game! I had a similar idea, but ended up making a game about a swimmer instead. Good luck!

vladimperator 2025-04-09 14:56

Why does he eat so much lol. Fun game but I'm terrible at it, well done tho.

gerswick 2025-04-09 19:30

Firstly, thank you for the HTML embed, insanely convenient. Anyway, I LOVE IT! It's so simple yet so cool and fun. The real time movement of things I can perform with mouse feels extremely good and thanks to it the combos and rearranging of things feel meaningful and the right amount of strategic. The chilli pepper mechanic is a nice cherry on top of a fun game. And lastly, the digestion is sooooooo satisfying! Thank you!

broco 2025-04-12 03:30

Is this a Deep Throat reference on the theme? 😳

I liked the idea. I just missed sound and music 😥 My mind was constantly like "Barry OMG plz stop eating"

I wish there was some visual feedback to realize that food is chained (I hope I understood the rules correctly) having foods of the same type together makes them get digested faster, right?

Not much more to say, dragging stuff around feels good, it gets a little hard when there's too much food on screen!

Great entry! I hope there's a sequel to this, we all know how it continues right? 🚽

0x-void-x0 2025-04-12 10:36

I like your interpretation of the theme. The game is simple and fun, although I felt like the game didn't require my input half the time it was fun to suddenly realize that a pepper just spawned and quickly make room for it lol.

Nice work!

oadt 2025-04-12 14:41

The pepper was a very cool mechanic and the very the digestion works was very satisfiying to watch. Only wished the group mechanic is a bit clearer comunicated visually in the game. Cool game!

larsievl 2025-04-12 20:14

Really fun! The art is al very clear and colorfull, I did wish there was a way to digest food even quicker (apart from the red pepper) because I did not feel as if there was a way to survive after a few minutes. The combo system with the different types of food is also really cool!

mrdumpling 2025-04-18 11:20

Okay, Barry has a pretty big stomach :p

This reminds me of the game "Merge fellas", only instead of merging, we digest.

I like the "Chili pepper" system!

The style of the game and the pixel art itself are pretty cool! I like it! :)

The game, although it lasts only a couple of minutes, but it is worth your attention!

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dudum-lare 2025-04-23 18:43

Hahaha, what a unique and fun concept. Great entry- I had a good laugh from this! :-)