The Daily Life of a Hamster by Stealcase 2020-10-06T08:11:24Z
Thank you! 🐹
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → Users → Stealcase
| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 51 | Every 10 seconds | Water Drop | jam | 2.77 | 2.44 | 3.05 | 3.38 | 2.88 | |||||
| 2020 | 47 | Stuck in a loop | The Daily Life of a Hamster | jam | 3.25 | 3.75 | 2.50 | 3.25 | 3.25 | 3.50 | 4.50 | 4.25 |
Thank you! 🐹
Enjoyed the music, and had a better time playing when I realized that it was supposed to be a franctic "scrabble" for pieces.
Wasn't quite clear what the blue and green pieces were supposed to do/represent.
I think just moving the "People Saved" score to a much more visible position would help a LOT in playability: Make it bigger and more centered and the game is instantly a lot more understandable.
Really nice and polished! As others have said, very atmospheric.
There were some hiccups in the gameplay: I couldn't really tell smoothly what I was supposed to do initially: Both the window and the "lunch tray" (Not sure what it was) were not really understandable "solutions" to puzzles.
But you had great voice acting which was super helpful in telling me when I was going wrong, which smoothed over some of those pain points.
But overall a cool game!
Thanks for letting me know! I added an Itch.io link
Thanks for the feedback everyone! Really appreciate it! =D
Whoops, yeah that out of bounds bug seems to be a little problematic 🥴
Fun game! It's hard to make a satisfying puzzle game in a Game Jam, but I really think you did it!
I had some experiences I THINK were bugs (the voiceline "here's johny" plays when I open the locker, and the locker breaks when I open it with a key, despite me not holding an axe) but otherwise the gameplay was smooth.
This is definitely a case of "Doing a lot with very little": The only real mechanic is "you keep the item in your inventory when time runs out".
The style is cool, the sounds are good, the intro comic was good at explaining the mechanic.
Nice!
Fun game! And the astronaut has cute animations!
It's a LITTLE unforgiving after the second dome "upgrade" (when it starts to cost 3 food and 3 iron), because once you get to that point, you have to execute everything perfectly to survive, which can be a little fiddly with some of the controls, since most button presses cancel other actions.
And there's really never any point in going on the right side of the planet, you should always stay on the left side to be close to the dome.
If anyone comes to this page and wonders if you should try it, definitely download it. ^_^