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Food chain Game (GMTK 2024)'s itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Style | #4112 | 2.684 | 2.684 |
| Overall | #5182 | 2.351 | 2.351 |
| Creativity | #5380 | 2.368 | 2.368 |
| Enjoyment | #5692 | 2.000 | 2.000 |
Ranked from 19 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
How does your game fit the theme?
In the food chain, you start off as the smallest organism until you get to be the apex predator!
Development Time
48 hours
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not bad for a first game jam! it took me a few tries before I understood what was going on. I thought the point was to avoid the predators while trying to get food (which was pretty fun). but getting caught by the predators moves you up the food chain. so it's actually a good thing to get eaten?
I'm not sure how always getting eaten has got me to the top of the chain, but ok :D And there's no way to run away from the enemies, since they're always faster than you
Kinda hard to get. Had 3 tries and always failed with 0 as the score.
Great concept! Loved the art and atmosphere of the game. So big applause for that.
Since it is your first game jam, I would like to give few pointers for the future. I suggest lowering difficulty, like spawning animals at lower rate and making them slower and gradually increase game pace from there. The thing is that currently you need to run from enemies and eat at the same time to survive and it gets really complicated when enemies are that fast. You pretty much just run away without having time to eat and die from hunger. So this improvement would help a lot.
Other thing you could add is indication of what you can eat. Like white outline for animals/plants that can be eaten by you and red outlines for animals that are your enemies. Colors would help to guide player where to go and what to do and what is the danger you should run from.
Overall, congratulations on your first game jam. Good luck on your journey and keep creating games!
Thanks for the feedback! I’ll keep that in mind for next time.
A little hard to get. Did i eat the pandas even tho i was a dog? I like the Artstyle tho :)
The idea was that you go up the food chain like carrot > skunk > wolf > bear > human, but then when you’re a human, all of the animals are attacking you, so you’ll need to survive on carrots. There are probably some bugs here and there since I was learning a lot of stuff on the fly 😅. The Godot navigation stuff really knocked me out lol. I linked all of the assets used in the game, most you can find here on itch, so shout out to those artists for making some really cute things.
Nice concept and fun interpretation of the theme!
Thanks!!!
Interesting.
Thanks for the comment! Like dually said, this was our first game jam, and the very first time we created and published anything outside of playing around with the engine.
I enjoyed scaling the food chain. Well done.
Thank you! I’m glad you enjoyed it. This was mine and my co-dev’s first game/game jam, so your comment means a lot. ^.^