Nice game, especially for a 48 hour project. It's somewhat like spore, but you must plan ahead so that the amalgam is scalable. The graphic also reminds me of PS1 era. However, I feel like the swinging of the arms is a bit unclear at first. I thought it would swing left to right, instead of up and down. 2 playthroughs fixed this issue though
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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Creativity | #566 | 3.971 | 3.971 |
| Style | #650 | 4.059 | 4.059 |
| Overall | #889 | 3.706 | 3.706 |
| Enjoyment | #2254 | 3.088 | 3.088 |
Ranked from 34 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?
You have to build your creature in such a way that it can be scaled upwards once you acquire more pieces.
Development Time
48 hours
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Comments
110 days ago (+1)
The tutorial tells you to left click to swing your arm. Definitely worth giving another shot, the game doesn't really open up until you start getting a lot of body parts from the meatballs
110 days ago(+1)
fair enough, the idea is that if you place your eyes and arms in bad spots, then you're going to have a harder time in first person mode, at the end of the day I think it really just came down to preference, some people loved the first person and some people hated it, can't win em all i guess tho, thanks for playing! The editor definitely took up most of my time though, so I wish I had gotten to spend more time on the combat.
I had a really good time on this game ! At first, I thought there was a lack of visual feedback when attacking, until I realized that my arm wasn't aligned with my eye XD After that I started to wander through the dungeon like a crab :p A visual feedback for the new body parts would have been great ^^
Beware my terrible Cthulhu-like creature !
112 days ago(+1)
He's adorable! I had sooooo much more planned, but I should have known that custom creature creator was going to take up most of the time. I think I'll definitely manage my time better on the next one.
112 days ago(+1)
Awww he cute!!!! yeaaaaah, there's a bit of a safe zone at the beginning where you can hit them and they can't hit you, but I will admit that giving them the ability to wander makes the game sometimes waaaaay more difficult if they show up in groups, I was originally blocking off the rooms so the enemies couldn't travel between them, but I ran out of time and had to just make them spawn in and wander randomly.
113 days ago(+1)
Yeah, I actually had a lot more planned and 3d modeled, but it was such a buggy mess, that I decided that a smaller working game was better than a giant buggy one. I wanted to do a bit more with the legs and how they worked, but it ended up just being to confusing for people just picking up the game. Glad you had fun with it!
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