Goat Milk by stoz

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made by stoz for LD21 (-)
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Many weeks ago, the Dow Jones Industrial Average suddenly plunged by 500 points. Jerry the dairy farmer's retirement savings were destroyed, and he went into a profit-driven frenzy to recoup the loss. Searching for new sources of milk, Farmer Jerry turned to the nearest thing he could find: Barry the mountain goat.

You play as Barry. Your goal: don't get milked!

All this running from Farmer Jerry makes you tired, though, so you must make the occasional stop to eat grass, goatberries, and coffee beans, all while avoiding bottomless pits, mud holes, tumbling boulders, high winds, and burning hot magma.

Goat Milk features six action-packed levels of Goatberry-munching glory.


Music generated at http://www.earslap.com/projectslab/otomata
Sounds made by voice and sfxr.
Created with Game Maker. Graphics and animations created using Inkscape.

SETUP:
Windows only. The zipped folder contains a .exe file. Extract the .exe file into its own folder -- this is where it will store your saved progress. Double-click the .exe file to begin! Controls are explained on the menu screen.

Ratings

Coolness 1% 311
Overall 3.82 18
Audio 3.73 32
Community 2.86 165
Fun 3.82 9
Graphics 4.08 29
Humor 4.36 2
Innovation 3.27 132
Theme 4.00 14

Feedback

GigaClon
22. Aug 2011 · 23:52 UTC
I love the interactive menu and the animation when you eat. Very well done
bach
23. Aug 2011 · 07:57 UTC
Awesome job! Good amount of polish in this one and a fun story line. Good graphics & audio as well.

Loved it.
KilledByAPixel
23. Aug 2011 · 14:07 UTC
Nice polish on this one and funny story. I was scared as hell of the old man. I didn't get very far though, got stuck on Level 2 after trying several times.
Make A Game
24. Aug 2011 · 16:04 UTC
I really loved this game! It has humor and very polished graphics.
The combination of the sound effects, the background music and the fact that our playable character is an adorable goat who cries when you lose made my day.
Jedi
25. Aug 2011 · 05:27 UTC
Can't Play. It told me "No sound device detected. Sounds might not play." in an infinite loop. I see this message from time to time (and sounds always do play) but never see it in a loop like that :(.
pdyxs
26. Aug 2011 · 06:12 UTC
Nice, an awesome platformer, with a nice difficulty/new mechanics curve.

Plus, funny. Especially loved the farmer's audio!
Andrew
28. Aug 2011 · 13:45 UTC
Funny, eye and ear pleasing, but maybe a wee bit too hard.
ippa
31. Aug 2011 · 16:12 UTC
Reached level 5. Simple, yet fun game with some strategy. If you planned your jumps you could reach the end faster and so on.

The "music" was truly horrendous though :). And the sounds the farmer made when he was getting closed creeped me out.
DrPetter
31. Aug 2011 · 21:20 UTC
Actually the music was sort of ambivalent enough to enhance the already somewhat inappropriate theme. I liked it ;)

Level 2 was way too hard. 3 and 4 were much easier by comparison, and the last one was pretty spot-on. The gameplay in general is fair though, and you always feel that there should be a way to optimize your movement through the level once you fail. Very charming graphics, and the audio is well executed. Although the munching sample is not played if I run and immediately hit the chomp button. I have to stop first, then eat.

Fun and funny!
Chaoslab
02. Sep 2011 · 01:24 UTC
Nice work. Very polished.
alexlarioza
06. Sep 2011 · 06:01 UTC
I couldn't move on the mini-map and the game eventually became non-responsive. =[ But from what I played, it had a really cool concept. I think this would do well on an iOS device.
kingblade
12. Sep 2011 · 20:40 UTC
nice, but i gave up in the las one XD
AyCe
13. Jan 2012 · 05:47 UTC
BEST GAME EVAR :D