THIS GAME REMIND ME OF
Cockroach Simulator
something on this game is strange its simple its fun!! idk why but
goodjob
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Risky Hamster's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Enjoyment | #112 | 3.976 | 3.976 |
| Gameplay | #243 | 3.595 | 3.595 |
| Innovation | #404 | 3.333 | 3.333 |
| Overall | #426 | 3.429 | 3.429 |
| Visuals | #720 | 3.476 | 3.476 |
| Audio | #738 | 3.024 | 3.024 |
| Theme | #782 | 3.167 | 3.167 |
Ranked from 42 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?
Hamster flies a plane. Takes on risky missions to earn biscuits.
You get biscuit for missions, lives and time remaining.
You can either fly slow and safe, but there is time limit and you will not be able to finish all missions, and will lose on time bonus biscuits, or you can fly fast and risk it all for the biscuit. But you lose biscuits when you crash and risk it all if it happens too many times.
So, will you risk it all for maximum biscuit?
What code and assets did you not make from scratch during the jam (if any)?
plane controls and plane from kidscancode
music and sfx from opengameart
3d models from itch
more details in description
How many people worked on the game?1
Comments
Woohoo!
Good job on your first game jam! Especially with a day job, it is very difficult to manage your time and create a full game in such a short time. Kudos to you.
The low poly art style is quite charming in my opinion. People like to clown on any model that doesn't use subsurf mod, but I like how you kept it consistent with every model. I've seen games that have low poly models next to ultra high-def models that look like they were pulled straight out of some asset store, which makes it quite jarring.
The plane is pretty fun to fly! Maybe some of the hitboxes need some finer tuning, but with some skill, it's probably possible to steer clear of every obstacle.
The theming isn't that good tbh. You really shouldn't try to shoehorn biscuits into this game (doesn't make much sense), however like 80% of people tried to either make their game around biscuits or just shoehorn it in, so it's quite understandable. There isn't that big of a risk factor, as flying slow is always the way to go (the time you get is good enough). Just some tidbits to keep in mind.
Overall pretty good game! Expanding this won't be that difficult, and would be a pretty fun challenge to add some unique missions! (like for example doing a loop-de-loop somehow)
81 days ago(+1)
I mostly made colliders same size or smaller. Except for celeing otherwise camera was clipping. One reason colliders might feel unfair is because the plane restart the same frame you hit something so there is no chance a player would see the actual crash.
Well, tbh I was trying to do the whole low poly vibe.
Yeah I plan to make a lot of suggestions on mission area.
I'm very bad at ui, but I'll try to get better.
81 days ago(+1)
Tbh, I wasn't sure if I should include objective boxes at all, because all of the yellow paint hate in modern games. So I consider to make it optional in the final game. But I guess if option is selected I could make them more visible.
Thank you for playing.
81 days ago(+1)
I am very happy to hear that.
Thank you for your suggestions, they sound solid.
Thank you for playing.
84 days ago(+1)
Thank you, this makes me very happy.
Some of my friends liked the crashing sound so much they crashed poor guy on purpose too many times TT__TT :D
Happy you liked it.
Yes after release I gave this to few friends and I saw that collisions is not obvious, I can assure you, colliders are correct and even smaller than some models (plane wings, hamster head has no collider)
But
1. Controls are a bit snappy
2. On death restart happens immediately and player can't see when collision happens, thus can't adapt to the plane size.
I will surely address this issue on a full version.
Thank you for playing.
85 days ago(+1)
I'm happy you liked it.
Yeah initially I wanted to make proper plane controls. I wasted few days writing it. Played some sky odyssey for inspiration.
But writing flysim controler is hard. It never worked properly and was very buggy. So I gaveup and adapted code from arcade plane tutorial.
I definitely wanted to comeback to my original controller. And make two control schemes, sim and arcade. But alas the jam was over. I'm really considering to make it a full game. And than I'll add it.
Thank you.
Thank you.
You are the second person to mention mouse control I guess I should look into it.
Yeah, I didn't test much, and somehow always was able to get unstuck. Only after release I realized there are cases when this is almost impossible. And adding restart was so easy, idk why I did not do it.
Yeah, I'm still learning UI, I'm a backend developer, and UI just never clicks for me. Took me several years to learn unity UI properly, and than I switched to godot. But I'll try to do my best.
I'll definitely look into shaders, that is something i totally forgot about.
Thank you a ton.
I'm so happy to hear that.
yes, when i gave some of my friends to play, i saw that they struggled with understanding key concept and controls that seamed natural to me (because i was the one who made it :D developer blindness)
but as you mentioned not much time for that.
I will certainly consider to making it into a full steam/itch game. you think some one might want to play 1-2 dollars for full version of this? with story, owner giving missions, many more rooms?
were you able to finish all missions? score?
I was able to beat the game on my first try, but with one life left. I don't remember the score though, sorry!
As far as pricing goes, I usually abide by the dollar per hour rule, so a game with 1-2 hours of content would be worth around 1-2 dollars.
But, of course, you have to take into account steams refund policy, where people can refund if they've played for under 2 hours.
I would just try to have fun making the game, and decide on price (if any) at the end once you know what you've got!
Best of luck!
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