FedIt! by zedutchgandalf

made by zedutchgandalf for LD29 (COMPO)

There's something lurking underground.
And you have been tasked with feeding It.
Combine little pieces of food into bigger chunks and feed them to "It", but be careful that It doesn't eat you.
There are others trying to steal your food. Stop them. And certainly don't let them eat you. Or It's food.

Please rate FedIt and leave a comment if you liked it! (and if you didn't!)

BEWARE: The Flash version is locked at 30fps and rotating has been disabled in the Windows downloadable version because of the engine's limitations.

EDIT: I just noticed the Flash target's window size was still set to 480, while it was meant to be 720. According to the Ludum Dare rules, I'm still allowed to change this after release, which I now did.

Controls:
WASD / ZQSD / Arrow Keys to move.
Left click to shoot.
+ and - to change the volume.

Check out my website: http://www.zedutchgandalf.be
And tweet me the link to your game! http://www.twitter.com/zedutchgandalf

- Zed.

Web (Flash)	http://www.kongregate.com/games/badcloudstudios/fedit
Windows	https://www.dropbox.com/s/88mro60yf8hgif8/FedIt_Win.zip
Mac	https://www.dropbox.com/s/9ytv4cch2temxpa/FedIt_Mac.zip
Linux	https://www.dropbox.com/s/x9ibo68of4brmxt/FedIt_Linux.zip
Source	https://www.dropbox.com/s/w5lmph4oc0ub9kf/FedIt_Source.zip
Original URL	https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-29/?action=preview&uid=18216

Ratings

Coolness	100%	1
Overall	2.72	989

Audio	2.29	786
Fun	2.65	873
Graphics	2.19	1131
Humor	2.37	606
Innovation	2.70	823
Mood	2.37	1061
Theme	2.47	1053

Feedback

donan

28. Apr 2014 · 08:07 UTC

Really hard game xD. It should have been a bit slower on the first minute :)

EnigmAraigne

28. Apr 2014 · 13:03 UTC

Preety good

Sam Oates Games

28. Apr 2014 · 13:24 UTC

Super hard, but really fun!

Zolkren

28. Apr 2014 · 13:27 UTC

Nice game.

Root

28. Apr 2014 · 13:31 UTC

Pretty cool idea. I got like 135 points. I like the game a lot :)

erdos

28. Apr 2014 · 13:31 UTC

This is really hard with a trackpad, fun though!

voxel

28. Apr 2014 · 13:33 UTC

Interesting and original :) I haven't played anything like this before, which is always a nice change in an LD entry. Tiny shots are tiny though, especially in the flash version.

Maek

28. Apr 2014 · 14:26 UTC

Cool game ,but everything is very small.

quill18

28. Apr 2014 · 15:01 UTC

Love the idea of feeding the beast below!

I think I would have liked all the graphics being a bit bigger to make the shooting less tricky.

cr2crstudios

28. Apr 2014 · 15:02 UTC

Really clever, unique!

Jellycakes

28. Apr 2014 · 15:05 UTC

Damn that got hard really quickly. Pretty good, Everything seemed a little too small though. Really nice job

🎤 zedutchgandalf

28. Apr 2014 · 15:21 UTC

If you play the downloadable version, you can resize the screen and play in fullscreen mode to make everything bigger :)

bzizizi

28. Apr 2014 · 15:34 UTC

Ok game, but the music is soooo.... bad :)

sknoslo

28. Apr 2014 · 15:36 UTC

Collision detection was kinda lacking, making it hard to push the food around. Fun game though, and it got hard really fast.

ezombort

28. Apr 2014 · 15:37 UTC

+ for having a "tutorial screen" in the beginning. Cool game :)

hexabeast

28. Apr 2014 · 15:38 UTC

My score: 116
Funny game!

Techblogogy

28. Apr 2014 · 15:39 UTC

So small, can't see

🎤 zedutchgandalf

28. Apr 2014 · 15:41 UTC

@bzizizi Haha :D Yeah, it was pretty late when I figured I should probably write some sort of "music" :P

PaperBlurt

28. Apr 2014 · 15:43 UTC

Nice going!

cageinabird

28. Apr 2014 · 16:05 UTC

Interesting that you can shoot the food itself if you're not careful. It sure was tricky to push it around though. :)

Elforama

28. Apr 2014 · 16:29 UTC

Hard but fun, nice job.

UnixXNova

28. Apr 2014 · 16:48 UTC

Fun and simple and gets hard nice idea

jtpup0

28. Apr 2014 · 17:38 UTC

Sweet game you've got here, interesting mechanics at work too

Wakka

28. Apr 2014 · 17:57 UTC

I thought that game is way to easy at first, but than it became reaaaalllyyy hard. Well balanced game :)

Cawrtz

28. Apr 2014 · 20:10 UTC

This game is hard ! But it's fun to play. I like it :D

stoo

28. Apr 2014 · 21:08 UTC

That gets really hard but is a lot of fun!

Belingo

28. Apr 2014 · 21:10 UTC

Hard and funny game. I like it.

terraco

28. Apr 2014 · 22:14 UTC

Pretty cool.

jomacel

28. Apr 2014 · 22:17 UTC

A bit hard to control but its fun

TowelKing

28. Apr 2014 · 22:27 UTC

Hard game, I liked the concept of grouping food together and feeding it to a monster. Might have been easier to play with larger bullets and enemies.

DarkMeatGames

28. Apr 2014 · 22:45 UTC

You have a decent start to a somewhat unique tower defense game. Needs some polish, but keep it up!

shuanDang

29. Apr 2014 · 00:12 UTC

Nice! I fed myself to the monster

Seraphic Media

29. Apr 2014 · 00:59 UTC

I had fun playing this game once I figured out the controls and everything. I played it for awhile. The intro was eery, creepy, and awesome! lol Liked the background you used and not bad pixelart.

pinkmonkeyhead

29. Apr 2014 · 04:31 UTC

Nice game.
A little slow paced for my taste. Maybe you could make it get harder faster or add more enemies.

Garris

29. Apr 2014 · 05:18 UTC

Well done on ramping up the difficulty curve. It really felt well-balanced.

sink_t

29. Apr 2014 · 06:23 UTC

A mostly-original idea and mostly fun, but the mechanism of
friendly fire against food made it a little too hard and finicky to play to be really fun.

Tweak

29. Apr 2014 · 07:00 UTC

It's very difficult to see what you are aiming at. I think the bullets should have been bigger! Well done, congratulations on finishing your game!

praporomsk

29. Apr 2014 · 07:13 UTC

cool game

Reinkout

29. Apr 2014 · 08:00 UTC

Fun game, thanks.

Integershift

29. Apr 2014 · 12:24 UTC

Pretty good, but also really challenging

Gaming_Ray

29. Apr 2014 · 12:53 UTC

Fun game, but I wish the graphics were bigger, was kind of hard to make out the bullets.

I like the idea that the reds would eat the fallen blue and get bigger.

Challenging and fun game, good work.

howieV (binarygirl)

29. Apr 2014 · 15:15 UTC

nice effort :)

Mandlebar

29. Apr 2014 · 15:47 UTC

Was really fun! Thought I was doing well until I managed to sacrifice myself :(

vigrid

29. Apr 2014 · 17:25 UTC

Everything seemed too small for me. I'm sorry, but the music was... truly bad :)

Ismei

29. Apr 2014 · 17:27 UTC

I liked the idea of this game, but found the little guys too hard to aim at (my aim is pretty bad though!). Still enjoyed it and kept playing.

ninjabit

29. Apr 2014 · 18:29 UTC

The bullets could have been bigger!

perfect victim

29. Apr 2014 · 18:51 UTC

nice game.

Maschinen-Mensch

29. Apr 2014 · 20:00 UTC

Grats on the game. I would increase the size of the entities. They are quite tiny, making it hard to relate to them.

Marcellus

29. Apr 2014 · 20:23 UTC

good entry, very challenging. Music becomes a bit boring after a while.

aaronjbaptiste

29. Apr 2014 · 20:36 UTC

Man I was confused, I wasn't sure if I was meant to let the blue guys reach the bottom (so they got ate) or kill them. I seemed to get points when he ate them, but heard a ding when I managed to feed it the brown pixels. Not sure if my scaling was off. Really like the concept though, well done buddy.

Osteoblast Labs

29. Apr 2014 · 21:15 UTC

this was really fun but the music became a bit annoying

tankete

29. Apr 2014 · 21:16 UTC

Unique. Fun. Hard!

IAmSpencer

29. Apr 2014 · 21:51 UTC

This was pretty fun, I liked the concept. good job :)

Lucio

29. Apr 2014 · 22:40 UTC

Good Job. Clever!

randoman

30. Apr 2014 · 11:01 UTC

Interesting concept. Pushing food around was tough though

Thorig

30. Apr 2014 · 11:36 UTC

A bit hard, but still a good game.

Jeffalisk

30. Apr 2014 · 12:31 UTC

The graphics seemed tiny in the web player! But good work, nice and playable.

mrexcessive

30. Apr 2014 · 15:01 UTC

Hi. Strange game ! I like the soundtrack particuarly

Xeke_Death

30. Apr 2014 · 16:42 UTC

Pretty fun, but getting the food together was difficult when it is really small...

Gins

30. Apr 2014 · 16:50 UTC

Very hard, but cool idea :)

LandoSystems

30. Apr 2014 · 17:27 UTC

Cute little game, sort of trance-inducing.

hanoth

30. Apr 2014 · 18:39 UTC

I really like the idea behind this one. Very innovative.

stvr

30. Apr 2014 · 19:15 UTC

Really unforgiving! I kept shooting the food on accident, but it didn't seem like there was a point to stockpiling food?

🎤 zedutchgandalf

30. Apr 2014 · 21:42 UTC

@stvr There is. Living monsters are worth very, very little (regardless of their size). Food is always worth more. And everytime you combine two pieces of food, their combined value is more than their separate values added together :)
So if you want to get a lot of points, it's always best to stockpile as much food as you can. Downside to that is that it's easier to shoot the food by accident and it's an easier target for the evil guys...

metkis

30. Apr 2014 · 23:06 UTC

A surprising amount of depth to this game, it's also really difficult. Those red dudes are so aggravating! I enjoyed it a lot.

sudorossy

01. May 2014 · 01:04 UTC

I found it quite easy, but unique game!

hyouko

01. May 2014 · 02:50 UTC

Rather hard to play with a touchpad, as it turns out. I feel like it would be good to start out with larger blocks and then work down to the smaller ones as time wears on.

MunkeeBacon

01. May 2014 · 03:15 UTC

Pretty good! Had fun playing it, nice job.

Kuchalu

01. May 2014 · 11:20 UTC

Fun, addictive and difficult. Well done.

Oddly Shaped Pixels

01. May 2014 · 11:21 UTC

Nice idea! A bit hard though...

EpiphanyG

01. May 2014 · 12:53 UTC

Cute little game! My first instinct was to run around destroying everything but then moving the food was quite tough. Was much better when I stood near the beast hole and destroyed stuff close by. Quite interesting that it forces you to play different to what you'd normally expect to do.

It gets hectic very quickly though. :D

SzRaPnEL

01. May 2014 · 15:40 UTC

Enemies evolving is a nice feature :)

Pinktreeleaf

01. May 2014 · 18:49 UTC

Never got how to combine the food.

Grafter

01. May 2014 · 20:05 UTC

Fun Game! Well done!

javifugitivo

01. May 2014 · 23:38 UTC

Nice game!

GamerTaters

02. May 2014 · 07:51 UTC

Challenging game. Simple and fun.

atombrot

02. May 2014 · 11:36 UTC

Very funny idea but it's rather hard. Could imagine that this would be very fun to play with a twin stick shooter control scheme on the gamepad.

0Creds

02. May 2014 · 14:03 UTC

Pretty cool, but quite difficult :D I enjoyed it. Good job.

noom

03. May 2014 · 01:50 UTC

Tough!

jsspiegel

03. May 2014 · 03:20 UTC

Nice concept, very challenging!

TeamPurpleDolphins

03. May 2014 · 20:50 UTC

Cool idea but it's really hard. I think it could benefit from an easy mode where the game speed was halved or something

littleball

03. May 2014 · 21:53 UTC

Good, but I think I needed a proper mouse rather than a trackpad to really enjoy it. Well done.

Katamori

04. May 2014 · 01:39 UTC

Annoying after a point, but I love it overall.

DDRKirby(ISQ)

04. May 2014 · 03:52 UTC

hahaha

Tuism

04. May 2014 · 10:10 UTC

Mechanically interesting, I really like the idea, but a few implementation problems leave it difficult and unfun to play.
1. The fact that you can shoot the food to diminish disincentivises you to shoot the red guys (or the blue guys)
2. The tinyness of the targets (food and creatures) makes it REALLY hard to get a hit or to roll them around.
3. I ended up just letting the blue guys through and killing the red guys, which got really boring after a while.
4. Needs more feedback on behaviours you want to encourage - like getting food to roll into a big one should make you feel WOOO! By providing visual feedback (juice). Maybe some kind of combo indicator.

Overall great idea that can use some polish :)

JaJ

04. May 2014 · 12:29 UTC

I have to agree that everything was a bit too small, it was really hard to get anything done in terms of merging food. The concept is really nice, though!

SevenKingdomsSurvivors

04. May 2014 · 16:15 UTC

Very tough game. I wish you could right-click move haha

Rick Hoppmann

04. May 2014 · 22:55 UTC

It needs bigger bullets, better graphics, screen shake, recoil and better sounds. I like the idea, though!
Good thing to destroy the food when shooting on it and the enemies going to it! That allows some tactics.
As many of my arcade games this soon gets repetitive.
What helps is adding levels/waves (with upgrades, stronger enemies etc.) so you've a feeling of progress as player.

All in all this idea has great potential, but you still got a lot to learn when it comes to implementation.

Calvin Pacheco

05. May 2014 · 00:00 UTC

Some enemies are so little and hard to shoot. But is a great game!

wschorn

05. May 2014 · 12:28 UTC

wow squinty but fun

ALobker

05. May 2014 · 16:20 UTC

Totally frustrating but fun!

Snoother

05. May 2014 · 16:29 UTC

Shooting is a bit slow when you consider how small both the bullets and enemies are, but it nevertheless was fun. Audio works really well too.

jsmars

06. May 2014 · 06:14 UTC

Nice game but music got annoying quick :)

Toby Pinder

06. May 2014 · 19:13 UTC

I like the concept, I think it could use a bit of polishing though. It'd be nice if there were powerups or something. I'd prefer if the enemies were larger and tankier though, which would add incentive for weapon upgrades etc.

badlydrawnrod

06. May 2014 · 20:09 UTC

Simple but effective. Starts easy but ramps up the difficulty nicely after a few minutes. Good game.

mustaine

07. May 2014 · 05:29 UTC

So tiny. I think these sprites could be much bigger.

ChuiGum

07. May 2014 · 05:34 UTC

Like the innovation!

romandtom

07. May 2014 · 21:14 UTC

Cool idea :D
It was a little too hard for me.
But yet it was quite fun ;)

fullmontis

08. May 2014 · 13:34 UTC

The concept is great, I wish the sprites were a little bigger cause it's quite hard to have fine control when you have a hard time even seeing stuff.

Jupiter_Hadley

08. May 2014 · 21:44 UTC

Could not quite figure out the game in a min. but I liked it. I included it in part 15 of my Ludum Dare Compilation video series :) http://youtu.be/f3WpQDAZRnI

hbocao

08. May 2014 · 23:33 UTC

I got 222 :D
Congrats on finishing the game! Simple and kinda addictive. Good job!

Martin Ysa

09. May 2014 · 12:13 UTC

nice game.

alvivar

09. May 2014 · 19:40 UTC

I like the idea. Feed something by dragging food (?) from killing things. If you add some fx, it could be an interesting arcade.

Two recommendations:
+ Make the bullet bigger.
+ Screen shake when you shoot/hit something.

BadPaul34

10. May 2014 · 10:32 UTC

Funny little game! Would have like different levels. But it's a nice try for a 48h compo ;)

Sheepolution

10. May 2014 · 13:34 UTC

I like the idea, but not the execution. Everything is really small, so it's very hard to see and hit stuff. The idea of pushing food in the hole is also annoying.

mark.goetz

10. May 2014 · 14:48 UTC

I like the combination of mechanics! There's a lot of interesting tradeoffs for what you should try to do. I did think the movement for pushing food was a little clunky, and I thought it was a little too hard to kill things, but the idea is great.

XenosNS

10. May 2014 · 16:36 UTC

Cute game, liked the controls

JoshOS

10. May 2014 · 22:26 UTC

Nice game, music is a little bit repetitive though.

elefantopia

11. May 2014 · 02:53 UTC

Cute fun game! The objects may be a bit too small to aim for or to combine food, but adds to the challenge.

ninjacharlie

11. May 2014 · 18:40 UTC

It could have used a little bit of a steeper difficulty ramp (it was pretty easy at the beginning), but I liked the sharpshooting-in-the-crowd thing. Pretty cool. Good job :)

foodzilla

13. May 2014 · 04:01 UTC

Really hard... but kind of fun.

Meedoc

13. May 2014 · 11:59 UTC

Nice game! Slow at the beginning but in the end, it becomes quite challenging!

IL_yoshioka

14. May 2014 · 08:40 UTC

Hard game, but I enjoyed playing!

soy_yuma

14. May 2014 · 19:52 UTC

Good game! I found pushing the food around a bit hard. Maybe because the game plays in a small screen? But the idea is original :-)