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Goobers

By alopar, Faust_Mi and Forshley

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall3553.6649
Fun2503.6449
Innovation3403.5149
Theme5093.5849
Graphics3363.9149
Humor1443.6747
Mood4453.5948

Comments

orjan 2026-04-21 07:28

Had a lot of fun with this one. The presentation is very polished, love the art!

kabura 2026-04-21 10:02

wow the art is amazing, I love it! cool idea and overall very fun :)

xarina777 2026-04-21 20:48

This game have a lot of replayabuility. At first I was very confused of what is going on. After the first try I noticed a leaderboard I goy intention to try again. The game showed full potential after I replayed with different approach and tactic.

!> Stalking all the flyes into the group to serve them later

I had a lot of fun. Really underrated game with simple core and some tension in players choice. Well done! I wonder how they made 3400 points though :D

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pavel-cherepanov 2026-04-22 06:29

I really enjoyed this game! The visual style is awesome, and the music and sound effects are excellent - they really pull you into the atmosphere.

I'm not sure if this was the intended strategy, but I just attracted all the spiders to myself and walked them around in circles! The repulsion mechanic felt a bit weak - I think it would be cooler if you could actually destroy spiders with it, that would add more gameplay depth.

Also, I couldn't quite figure out how the plate works - maybe I missed something?

Having a leaderboard is a great touch! I managed to score 285 points!

Overall, solid entry with great presentation. Nice work!

flx 2026-04-23 10:55

Cool art/design, well polished !

The flies seemed to have no effect, not sure if it's a bug of if I misunderstood something

verttixpertti 2026-04-23 10:56

Fun game and leaderboard is a good addition. I'm not sure how the scoring worked though. I "won" but got like 300 points. I guess I lost points from letting the monsters get to the chick. I think the sucking could have been stronger and maybe there should have been some way to kill the spiders other than sucking them in when they go blue. I felt very powerless for most of the game, inevitably letting spiders get to the chick, but then I would get the powerup and go up like 10 levels suddenly, not so balanced maybe. Anyways an enjoyable time!

planetary 2026-04-23 10:58

I liked the gameplay, challenging but fun! :)

2026-04-23 11:00

very fun to play and love the concept, good job!

oxnh 2026-04-23 11:07

Simple but fun, and everything is well polished. The leader board adds good replayability too, nice job.

daliamha 2026-04-23 11:10

I found nice tactic. While it's defasult i trap enemies into pit and then while blue i can get a lot of points and upgrade levels fast. Cool)))

cupofmilk7 2026-04-23 11:11

cool game!! I really liked the art style

faust-mi 2026-04-23 11:18

@flx If the enemy is in the "plate with a fly" zone, they do not leave it and try to stay in the center of that zone. This helps to gather enemies into a single point, preventing them from stretching out into a tail.

Thx for playing!

faust-mi 2026-04-23 11:26

@verttixpertti The more blue enemies in a row the chick absorbs while they are blue, the more points they will bring. Unfortunately, we didn't have time to properly implement the graphic display of combo absorption messages.

Yes, you're right — the imbalance in leveling is obvious( we couldn't make the difficulty curve smooth.

Thank you for your comment and for playing!

2026-04-23 11:35

Great game. The art style is great, the gameplay is quite simple but it's very well created. <3

indiepanda 2026-04-23 11:49

Cool game! I really liked the animations and sound.

fifut 2026-04-23 18:42

The artwork featuring the animals and insects is really lovely. Well done!

pocketdog 2026-04-23 21:19

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very cool game! I love animation style and idea ❤

jpat 2026-04-23 21:22

cute artwork and idea! the gameplay did get a little repetitive for me and i wasn't sure how to get a higher score but I really enjoy the herding concept!

hurp 2026-04-23 21:24

Neat concept! Was fun to try and huddle and juggle the creatures coming for my baby :D

camden-obertop 2026-04-23 23:12

i would never let an evil buge harm my child. good stuff, the game loop was fun. I think i would have liked to see a few more upgrade options

agent-p 2026-04-24 01:00

Fun game! Very nice gameplay loops as well! It's pretty smart to do the turn enemies into resources things at one point as well! Two critiques though would be that the music is good, but it loops the same three seconds over and over again though, which can kind of get annoying for some people. Plus during during the upgrade abilities moment, your character doesn't freeze along with the rest of the screen. Overall very fun game though! I'm excited to see what comes of it!

link270 2026-04-24 01:57

Fun little game, the best part with the animation giving the little chick a kiss. lol I liked the idea a lot and had fun with it. It would have been nice to have additional upgrade choices, but other than that nice work. Also, I am playing from my MacBook and using Safari the player character would disappear when the game started. It worked fine on Chrome though.

echo-team 2026-04-24 20:40

That was fun!

arjenous 2026-04-24 20:43

Honestly amazed by what you achieved with this. The game has its charm, replayability, and the leaderboard is a nice Touch.

oller125 2026-04-24 20:58

Well polished game in all aspects. Maybe I just didn't get far enough but it would have been cool to see more variety with gradually bigger enemies.

dissonance-generator 2026-04-24 21:03

Your graphics and animations are adorable! I wish your music was as much fun. Bird powers feel a little underwhelming against bugs (can't a bird just eat the spider?) but it ends up being balanced enough to make it to a victory screen - felt like I wasn't keeping up at all until suddenly I'd won.

yorsh 2026-04-24 22:08

Nice game! It's well complete, even has a leaderboard. Gameplay, graphics and audio are all good. What's a bit lacking and could be your focus next time is to make everything feel great by working on the game feel and adding juice. Well done!

nexusasx10 2026-04-25 09:29

Nice game! I like the artstyle. Gameplay is simple and fun. I also love when game has liderboard and you can compete with other players.

yuriscat 2026-04-25 10:51

The bird is drawn so adorably, and you even gave the enemy bugs little bags! The most fashionable enemies I've ever seen!

catanus 2026-04-25 12:29

Funny idea and amazing art style!Screenshot 2026-04-25 152857.png

sobigdrasil 2026-04-25 13:02

I really like the art and animations! Especially sassy spuderos with red birkin's bag!

The one thing I find a bit tidius is a fact that spiders never die (except the moment of level uping I guess) and traps work a bit not as I would prefer (they slower them just for a bit and being destroyed quite fast). It's just me but at the end I won so I anjoyed the game :D

technicalitycreations 2026-04-25 14:21

Quirky little game with good visuals. I like the attract/repel mechanic, but a way to kill enemies (other than levelling up) would be nice

venomousmouse 2026-04-25 18:31

Funny little game, i like how you did the animation and overall fill.

2026-04-25 21:35

Love the sound and art style! Well done!

sinemual 2026-04-26 08:28

Great idea! Cute graphics! The music fits perfectly! If there were a hole instead of the initial puddle, the gameplay would probably be more fun. And if there were oil instead of mud—which would actually make everyone go faster—it would be a completely different game, haha!

marks 2026-04-27 13:28

A solid, fun mini-game. Nice work! Was a bit surprised by the sudden ending screen as I thought it was endless survival.

I found myself ignoring the pull ability as it didn't seem necessary, could be an interesting area to expand mechanics (maybe enemy types you can only pull or only repel).

I liked the funny intro, great job on the animations!

pipetto 2026-04-30 08:25

A good idea and an interesting interpretation of the theme