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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Visuals | #353 | 3.931 | 3.931 |
| Audio | #425 | 3.328 | 3.328 |
| Enjoyment | #467 | 3.500 | 3.500 |
| Gameplay | #478 | 3.328 | 3.328 |
| Overall | #514 | 3.336 | 3.336 |
| Innovation | #806 | 2.879 | 2.879 |
| Theme | #892 | 3.052 | 3.052 |
Ranked from 58 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
How does the game fit the theme?
Grumpy can nibble on yummy biscuits to increase the score as he defeats the disgusting genius rats.
What code and assets did you not make from scratch during the jam (if any)?
Icons, audio, and music from Kenney.nl
All other art and code was created just for this jam.
How many people worked on the game?2
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Really liked the art of this game and enjoyed the overall gameplay! There was so many rats and i was running for my life
Super fun and cool looking game! The art was amazing and the gameplay felt fast paced and hectic especially when you run out of bullets and have to run away looking for more. Hope you guys continue it, well done!
Thanks! I appreciate your kind words and feedback. Good luck in the jam!
Loved the art of this one! Also I appreciate this photo with all the sprites you attached. Good work with the basic tutorial in the main menu, felt easy to understand and jump right into it!
Thanks so much! I appreciate your feedback. You're a board game guy, so I'll tell you that if you look closely, this game is pretty much Space Hulk, the board game version, but with rats. Oleksandra's art is the best part of this game, for sure. She'll appreciate your kind words.
Loved grumpy! The art is great. It needs some variety of weapons tho and some more ammo for the amount of rats being sent grumpy's way
Thanks for taking the time to give us some feedback. I appreciate it. Good luck in the jam!
Loved the art style. It reminded me of online games I used to play as a kid. Making the bombs also do damage to the enemies was an incredibly strong choice.
Nice game, loved the art it has a unique charm! Love the characters and how it attacks using hot sauces, I just found a bug with the cat sprite, it sometimes was painted in red (as it had taken damage) but stays permanently until reseting the game, I don't know what causes this, but it happened frecuently during my playthrough.
Well thanks for that. I appreciate your time and feedback. Yep, a bug. It has been fixed along with several other things. I'm eager to push an update after the jam because this is just embarrassing. :) Thanks so much for checking it out, and good luck in the jam!
It's a nice game,the level designs are creative and the art is amazing
Good game :)
Groovy, thanks so much. I appreciate your time. Good luck in the jam!
great game
fun roguelite -- would have loved a little more animation, and a little more ammo! smooth controls and really cute characters.
Thank you! I agree with all your suggestions, except more ammo. ;)
Nice little run and gun! I lost my first round to spending too much time poking around and I eventually ran out of ammo. Seems like as long as you stay focused on gathering keys and heading to the exit, you should be fine. Getting multiple rat splats off of one missile felt good. Even better was getting the dynamite to go off right as some demolition rats passed by. Felt like justice.
Ha. Thanks so much. Yes, you've figure out the secret. The map starts off sparse, but the rats eventually seep into the map and swarm all over, and the Boomers will have block your routes and slowed you down. We're going to shake things up with Bruiser Rats, all muscles and commando with guns. And Brainey Rats that plant laser traps on walls and lay down turrets. Who knows, it might turn into a fun little game with some additional time and effort. I aprpeciate your giving it a shot
Good luck in the jam. I played and rated yours. High innovation score. I loved that mechanic.
I enjoyed a lot. Well done!
Thank you! I played and rated your game too, but couldn't comment. That was your first game? In a week? Great job. You made a fun playable level and a complete game with a cute controllable character, enemies that move around, collision and everything. I hope you had fun with it so that you'll make at least one iteration and post it. I'll play that sucker. Excellent work.
OMG thank you, you are so kind. Yes, I am working on polishing it as I need a portfolio piece by the end of this month. Your words are really encouraging!
It is a pretty good game, well done both of you!
Thanks so much. I played and rated yours, but could not comment (a malicious false report was made because someone didn't like an aspect of my profile picture). I loved Mr. Biscuit the character. I like imaginative whacky stuff like that. My brain went off wondering who would take a cookie prisoner just to torment the player instead of eating him. It was put together well and controlled nicely.
Thank you for playing, I really appreciate it!
This was cute, loved the art and the theme!
Man I like how the lightings are placed in the game, to me that was a great touch. Pretty simple and fun game overall!
Thanks so much. I played and rated your game, but some a-hole doesn't like my profile image and made false reports on my account, blocking me from commenting temporarily. (I've asked asked for the warning to be reviewed since I've been nothing but positive and violated no terms.) Here is what I tried to post on your review page:
Adorable and tight. I liked the attention to detail. Little things like the smooth transitions and the tweening animation of the buttons made it feel polished. I wish I could give some criticisms for you, but you simply did a great job on everything. Good luck in the jam!
YOOO I LOVE THISS!!
First of all the art is absolutely AWESOME!!
LOVED the chara des sheet the designs are so cool and cute!
i absolutely love the level designs and i love the rat holes closing system that was clever!
In love with how well constructed the atmosphere of the game is! the sfx, the visuals, the music and colors, they all go so well together!
One of my fave entries!
and it's INSANE that it was done by only 2 ppl!!
Thank you for your hard work!
~Marilyne
Thank you so much. That's really nice to hear and I appreciate it. Two people is the sweet spot for this jam, imo.
Funny little shooter, beautiful artwork. Well done!
Well thank you for that. I appreciate your time.
Love the visuals of this game. Cute and simple. Shooting was also very satisfying. I have two recommendations though. First is to have some visual and audio feedback when a bullet hits but doesn't kill the bomb rats. Just to give it a more satisfying feeling. Second, if this was made in Godot, go to project settings, look up physics interpolation, and enable that. And set the process callback property on the camera node to physics. This will smooth out the player's movement, so the player doesn't visually stutter while moving. There are some things to consider, so I recommend you look into it, but I believe it should work out perfectly fine for your game. Great work!
Thanks for that. I appreciate your checking it out and sharing your valuable insights. I've worked in Unreal since the early 2000s, and evaluating Godot was the entire point of my doing this jam at all, so your feedback is greatly appreciated. One serious problem is Godot's webgl performance tanking with a sub viewport, even one that has zero draws. And I'm not thrilled with tilemap nav performance either.
But, I've already made a build with some changes to how I'm doing the minimap, cat-sense blips on the edge of the screen, and navigation recalc. I'm going to ping you after the jam to see if I nailed them.
Hell yeah! Please do!!
Cute and simple game. I like the visuals and the effects overall. Would have likes to have music though.
Biggest problem for this entry was the choppy, laggy frame rate. Which is very surprising considering this was a relatively simple 2D game. There's probably some optimization you should be looking into in your code base.
Other than that I think this entry utilizes a lot of cool things from the Godot engine, which I like. Good job on that!
Thanks so much for checking it out and sharing your thoughts. Evaluating Godot was the entire point of my doing this jam, so I appreciate your feedback.
cute game :) love the sound effects. easy play. was fun to try. needs some music :)
Thanks for checking it out and sharing your thoughts. I appreciate it. Good luck in the jam!
Thank you 😊 like wise
This game actually made my fear of rats even bigger :D. Btw, I really liked the art and the sound ,the shooting effects were really satisfying. Honestly, nothing to complain about for a game made in just 7 days. Hope to see you in the comments of our game too.
Well thanks for that. I'm glad you enjoyed our work, and I appreciate your giving it a try and taking the time to give us your thoughts.
I did play, rate, and comment a few days ago. I'm buried in your stack of comment somewhere. :) I liked it. I liked that creepy take on bingo. The backstory was creative, and I can see how the game could get more intense and moody as the days I'm alive drain away. The red tie guy was effective. I hope you do well in the jam!