Lovely graphics and sound. The pet is a cute addition and I like the idea of combining a pet sim with a combat platformer. Well done.

Awesome Graphics and animations and smooth game-play!

I really love this game! I love the graphics and the art style of it; they remind me of Risk of Rain. Overall, I think this game is AMAZING, especially being made in 72 hours. With just a tiny bit of work, this could be a really good game, even better than it is before!

Amazing graphics, one of best I've ever seen in a LD. Funny mix os genres, very original. Congratulations!!

Awesome game! One of my favorites so far.

Gameplay is fun, I'm still not sure what I'm doing but I like it!

Great dubstep background music. Very professional.

Thanks! We was surprize by what we can achieve in 3 day, LD is such inspiring thing!

Nice game! Really like the intro scene. I thought that the dog became a little bit too much of a chore. It was cool to play a game where the point of killing the enemies was purely for the purpose of getting your pet food.

We licensed music from premuimbeat.com, it is artist info in credits

I Love It!

Really awesome graphics and audio. Gameplay was smooth and cute.

What an awesome game!

The pure epicness you feel, when the beat starts at the start is undescribeable :D. I really love the artstyle, the colors perfectly match and the animations area adorable.
The interactions with the dog are kinda punishing, but i guess thats what they're for.
The sword attack felt a little bit weak for the animation, and some kind of hit confirmation would've been nice, but after all we really loved this game!!

Wow! Amazing game! I don't know what else to say.

amazing graphics! jumping with W instead of spacebar would be nice

Wow this turned out amazing!! This is so polished and awesome for such a short time frame. You absolutely nailed it. Congrats!!

Great pixel art, especially the background incredible. The sound design is of the highest quality. I had a hard time understanding what the dog needed (he died :cry: several times), but after a while I just pressed all the buttons that hud showed and I managed to progress. It was a great experience. Congratulations.

Take a look on my pixelart game :smile: : https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/vector-rabbits-slayer

Thanks! Yeah, you can just keep pressing buttons : )

very very good idea! thanks for you work, it's very original gameplay!

Wow. Sound and Graphics are just out of this world. The platforming shooting part is so fun that I'm almost annoyed at the pet mechanism, but the theme was what it is and this game most certainly combines two incompatible game generes. thumbs up.

Amazing graphics, great job! I found the controls a little difficult and the music a bit loud but it was great overall!

Awesome game! Amazing graphics.. All I can say is WOW!!! Really love it :clap:

Really enjoyed the game, especially the graphics and the audio, although it took me a little while to understand what to do (and I'm still not sure I'm doing everything correct :)) - Well done!

Really nicely done!

Fantastic game just would have been nice to play more then one screen. Other then that great job.

Very nice graphics and a well made game, good job!

Great game ! The only thing I didn't like what the fact that to kill the crabs I had to feed the pet, then play with him etc etc It was kinda annoying :x

Nice game ! Really liked the graphics ^^ Maybe the character needs to be in front when she walks through a monster, but that's a really small detail.

Straight up 5/5 visuals. Whoever did the art, pat yourself on the back like the main character pets the dog! The music was decent, albeit, a little derivative. The SFX were good and generally, I liked the concept! solid entry!

Love your art and sound. Interesting game. Got distracted by the cat :)) Enjoyed it

Love it! Awesome 8 bit style loving the characters and solid mechanics. Struggled to progress but enjoyed playing! If you get chance check out our snake shooter Mechasnek https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/mechasnek :)

Man, that graphics! Pure awesomeness. Takign care about that dog while fightning aliens, incredible idea. If you have done it in 72 hours, I am curious what would you do in month or year? Have you done any long term projects? The only minus in your game are collsions, but considering everything you did there, it is nothing :D

Wow, just wow. Super cute, super fun. Nice OST too.
I definitely want more of this. Great job

Graphics are top notch, gameplay was decent also, the aesthetic of the game was super cool. I'm not sure if the button at the end is actually reachable, i game over'ed both times i played through, teased me right at the end.
My only real gripe is that I'm pretty certain i've heard the music in this before somewhere (can't place exactly where from,) which by itself is fine; but if it is, I would ask for you to consider opting out of the audio category. If you didn't make the music but made the sounds then i guess it's a little more complicated. If i'm wrong and you really did make the music, then very nice job with it. Nice job overall!

This is so great, loved the cat! The graphics and the music 10/10 !

@GameDevMumin we actualy made Happy Room in 6 month, and now we are doing new project for around a year. Development progress is not constant speed, id does not multiply by days for good or for bad I dont know but some things needs not only time but understanding in your head : )

I, just, rated, all 5 stars.
This is the best ludum dare 41 game I've played so far.

And I'll explain why I putted 5 everywhere.

## 1 -> FUN
I had TONS of fun, the game is dynamic, fast and really good balanced. It's rewarding and the little text on the doggo shoot are super funny.

** 5 stars. **

## 2 -> INNOVATION
Tamagotchi + Run&Gun + Platformer. Nuff said.

** 5 stars. **

## 3-> THEME
You nailed the jam theme. You managed to fuse together two incompatible genres, and you did in a beautiful way.

** 5 stars. **

## 4-> GRAPHICS
I followed your twitch stream, and looked at your pixelart making. The results are incredible, well polished and colorful.

** 5 stars. **

## 5-> AUDIO
SONDTRACK WAS ABSOLUTELY PERFECT. Also sound effects, the right choice.

** 5 stars. **

## 6-> HUMOR
The Doge-meme related strips and the tentacles with dumb looking are humoristic and hilarious, and even if you don't thought it about, also the dog-death animation is tragic but hilarious at the same time because you fed it with LOADS OF FOOD.
you game is really humoristic and well balanced!

** 5 stars. **

## 7-> MOOD
Not even a single aspect of your game breaks the mood. Everything is well orchestrated, balanced and well-choosed.
The mood is incredible "uptempo" and funny, and I loved it.

** 5 stars. **

## Overall? 5 STARS. don't you say?

# THANKS FOR MAKING THIS, AND FOR YOU HARD WORK!

And, if you want, check my game out, I'll be very happy!



Great game! I love the art style and the animations. I died on purpose several times to see again how the hero falls. Very fun to play! Congrats

Awesome, polishing level is so damn high!

Great game!

Nicely done. I'd like to give some feedback, but honestly can't think of how to make it better.

can you build 32bit version i can't play on html don't know way

@memel06 Wow thanks for such detailed review, also hey, you was on our Stream, it is awesome! : ) Thanks for watching it, it was first time we did any streaming. Cheking your game now!

@bhavesh-tiwari here you go: http://manapotionstudios.com/Ultimate Hero Simulator_x32.zip

Hey this is a very solid game! Thanks for having me play it! ;) The concept of taking care of your pet as you progress as an awesome action hero is great... apparently I suck at the game though, I didn't get very far, but the mechanics are solid... really the only thing that bothered me in this game was the loop got a bit repetetive, and some of the enemy graphics being just rescaled and super big looked out of place! Otherwise great submission! ;)

Well, it's one of those jam games that makes you think "damn, there are some really talented people out there". Everything in this game is great. Top marks for innovation, theme, graphics, fun, and mood. Stylistically, even though it's 2d Ultimate Hero Simulator game me strong MDK vibe. Oh, and the game was hard but fair and it doesn't take that long to get good at it. Amazing entry. Good job guys!

@antvelm link gives me error link expired

@bhavesh-tiwari ah, it's spacec in link, whole link is: http://manapotionstudios.com/Ultimate%20Hero%20Simulator_x32.zip

love your art style good job

Very slick. Didn't understand what was going on with the dog at first, but I got there in the end. This is really impressive for a jam entry. Looks great, the humour works. Well done!

It's beautiful! The art, the sound, the cute little story... Incredibly difficult I find though and some instructions wouldn't have gone amiss.

Jesus man, How. This is so awesome. I wish you luck. This is best entry so far. Art 7/10 overall Where can I buy it ? :cd:

@baski Thanks! 3 days of hardcore gamedev and 7+ years of expirience : )

Game is free, but if you whant to support us you can get our another game at Steam http://store.steampowered.com/app/550010 : )

Impressive work, everything is there and done with love.
Congrats

Love the pixel art !!!

I loved it. And almost finished it....

Nice! I kept trying to figure out why I kept dying, and then I noticed the other bars. Well done overall!

Wow that's a tough game. Great job! Very polished

Really good work.
The gameover comes quite easily (STAY BACK DOGGO PLZ) but it keeps things entertaining.
And those graphics and audio are just so awesome!

Haha, this is such a great idea. I love the combining of platformer with pet simulator. Similar to what my team had done. Great concept, lovely graphics and sound. I don't know if it was the browsers, but I would move forward, and left go of the key but the player would keep moving forward. Stuff like that made it hard to control. Overall great addition to the theme. Great job!

Awesome game, I just finished it. I loved the graphics and the music, very well done. The storyboard conveyed the story well and was a nice way of setting the scene and a great thing to end the game with. The little pupper was a great addition and the beam was a nice little bonus for when you take good care of him. I loved how the pup was the only way to get your health back, an interesting feature for sure.

I went into the end with too little health left and didn't know what to do when the tons of bullets headed my way, I figured it was part of the game and waited until I saw a shield. I kept walking and then died when the shield gave out, just mere centimeters away from the button! So frustrating!

I encountered one small bug where I got stuck after using a sword attack and I kept walking into the direction I had been facing, unable to move back, though I after using the sword attack again I got my movement back, I have only been able to replicate it once, but I'm still unsure as to why it happened.

Is standing on the sushi intentional? It's a little annoying when you want to pick it up and you just stand on it, having to walk to the side and then back to pick it up, especially when it's on a platform and you have to make your jump exactly right to be able to get the sushi.

Also.. what's the deal with the dog poop? Could you explain that bit to me?

All in all though, really good job and very enjoyable! You should think about expanding it, I'm quite sure there's a whole lot more you could do with it and I know for a fact that you could sell this! I'm looking forward to seeing a more expanded post jam version (gimme a big story with different levels, environments and weapons!)

@densin dog poop is for score, that you can see after the final comics. Just a number in the corner of the screen

@Ruslana Ahh, yes, I did notice that, I thought it was a "negative" score like a "You stood in dogpoop, lol idiot". Or that maybe you could use them against your enemies, lol. Thanks for your answer though!

Really good

Really love the graphics on this one. You did a really good job. Although its is quite hard and takes player to get to used to the needs of the dog, it comes up as well combined and balanced game. Good job!

ps. sometimes after restart I have lost the dog for some reason, so the game ended quite soon as I was not able to feed anyone. Happened to me like 2 times across 10 attempts. Have you experienced this as well?

Really cool game!

This is my personal winner so far.

What I loved
* I had tons of fun, balanced, fast, run & gun, platformer combined. I love it
* You nailed the jam theme
* Artwork is on point!!

My Thoughts
* It’s so cool how nothing breaks the flow / mood of the game
* The strip animated way of the story telling is great!!
* no Azerty mode :confused:

Thanks for making this & for all the effort you put into making this! I’d love for you to review my submission as well.
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/keyboard-warrior

This really cool! I loved the concept :P Also, art is great and it's pretty polished! Congrats!

Nice work there ! I like the concept !

@jin9310 did not noticed that, game scene is reloading each time so it is weird

All fives for this game!

Wow, that's the most impressive entry I've seen for the moment ! The theme is perfectly used and the overall just look so professional, well done !

really well done! This game was engaging and creative. The artwork was fantastic too!

The only thing I would fix is the problem with standing ontop of food pickups.

Sliiiiiiiick. Loved the styling, music was great. Solid solid game.

Awesome game all around. I really loved the presentation, the comic strip and then the intro sequence with the music building up. It didn't feel like the pet sim was just a side mechanic because it actually helped in the gameplay! Very nice melding of the two genres.

Well polished, very nice animation and love that intro, a tad too long imo I would've preferred a quicker "get back to game" after you die but it's fine. Love the tamagochi feel of brutality on that part of the mechanics. Good job!

Wow, this is way too stressful for me :astonished:

So far the best game I played on this LD. Astonishing graphics, I really like the comic style introduction. Sound kicks ass. The theme is thoroughly matched, I find this very innovative. And I like the subtle humour (tentacles and all).

Flufsky is a very good boy, so I instantly love this game.

Okay, seriously this game is incredible. The graphics are super pretty, the platformer gameplay is great, and I love the idea of taking care of a pet during apocalyptic events. Only downside is the control scheme on the keyboard a bit weird, took me a while to get used to it.

But anyway, this is an incredible game for being made in 3 days. Congratulation !

Great graphics and music!

The idea is great as well, and the core gameplay is good, however there is a bit of a lack of feedback when filling or running out of bars so - having the bar light up and some animations for the characters when certain bars got filled up would increase the playability a lot.

Very impressive!

Wonderful idea, and very well executed. I struggled to understand the impact of the interactions with Flufsky for a few minutes - giving me the game over screen quite a few times. It would have been helpful to see +- numbers next to each bar when you give him food, pet him etc. But otherwise this is an excellent interpretation of the theme and a blast to play :) great work!

I included your game in my Best of Ludum Dare 41 video. Enjoy!
https://youtu.be/tRl137ouArw

Interesting. However for me it was more an action platformer with some QTE. I didn't quite get everything that was happening. Maybe a little tutorial could help. The graphics and the music were good. Good work!

Cool game once you understood all the mechanics! Very cool for a first LD jam. It was an interesting mix of genres, but it was somewhat hard to understand what was going on because there were no instructions in the game description. I understand that you have to feed the cat but I was confused whether you could also eat to heal.

The different types of enemies had different behaviour but this was something you had to discover by yourself, which was not always so easy because you also needed to figure out all the other mechanics at the same time. It took some getting used to, therefore having a tutorial or instructions would help a lot, but after a while I think I got the hang of it. Still, quite a difficult game but I did enjoy it.

Overall, well done game. Cool mix of genres :smiley:

@ramza cool, thanks! You can actualy do melee attack with right mouse :D

@linus yeah, we did not thought about tutorial at that moment but he will be helpful for sure

@antvelm Oh snap, a melee attack would have been helpful. My bad. It was one of my favorites either way. Great job ya'll.

Very impressive for a game made in 3 days, good job!

awesome game!

Hell yes, one of the most fun games I've played. Please just make controller support! It'll take no time in unity! I will play this forever if I can play with gamepad. Awesome job! I love the taking care of a pet idea, it's very original and adds depth to the platforming. I would love to see where this idea evolves!!

@linkwin Hey, mb. Looks like it can be done quickly, I'll check.

Insane level of polish! Also, the idea is gold! Just the thought of it makes me giggle, but you nailed it with your implementation! Great entry, that succeeds in every regard!

Have a fish <3 🐟

WOW, the art and sound of the game are fantastic well polished :D it's cool saw this kind of professionalism on a jam \o props!

Sushi made of alien tentacles, GODDAMMIT THIS IS HILARIOUS! Comics-cutscene, epic soundtrack, a doggie and lack of support for 4:3 monitors! I love this game! =D

@yngvarr :D

@linkwin I've added gamepad support (xBox) and it feels cool : ) Enjoy

Cute graphics and style but I find the controls a bit frustrating even with gamepad, I think the doggy just gets in the way as it is. Perhaps the eating could be a little more automated, maybe just press UP key to throw stocked food at him and he chases it around?

Cool game, music is awesome, graphics are cool. Pretty hard to control, what makes the game really hard. But for a 72hours work, very well done!

Really neat idea! I liked having to think about when to pause to take care of the pet between moments of action. I think if the character could duck and shoot, it would have helped a lot, mainly with dodging bullets and shooting the shorter tentacle enemies. I'm not sure if it was only an issue with the Web build, but the game seemed to keep running slower each time I got a game over.

Really cool game! Reminds me a lot of risk of rain with your art. I had fun playing it, feeding my dog in an endangered planet. Well done on the game :)

Fun game, looked really nice as well!
The art was superb, it set the mood really well and there was quite a bit of visual feedback.
Felt rather polished and well designed even with the cat dragging the player down haha.

I just felt hindered by not being able to jump with the W key as space didnt feel natural to me. And the melee attack was difficult to hit on the smaller enemies resulting in the cat or me dying time after time, a bit of a leeway against the enemies wouldve been nice. But still I really like the game and loved the cat!

Nice guys, really well done in such a short amount!

interesting idea but too hard for me XD good graphic style.

what engine you use?

@rs11s21n Yeah it is hardcore game. We are using Unity

Love the love for micro here. I can't keep up, but everything lines up just right. Maybe gimme the melee tutorial earlier? Love the companion play- hate the aliens (with a mindless fervor) and the music works well- is it procedural? The art and animations are fantastic- like Risk of Rain meets Day of the Tentacle. Can't wait to see where this goes next! Thanks for the fabulous game!

Art is great, and the idea is really interesting and executed pretty well. It could make for a good companion system in a fully fledged game, perhaps with a slower decline in needs.

@caleblewis yeah companion actualy can be very interesting/usfull if implimented mainly for combat and not for distraction

Very good!!! Very fun and challenging. Taking care of this cat during an epic battle was not easy. I had problems with the collision of the projetis, but nothing that disrupts my experience with the game. The art is spectacular. The music and effects are great. Congratulations!

I left my rating of your game, if you can leave your feedback in our game, Witch's Escape.

I hope you continue with the project.

Really great take on the theme! The art style is stunning and it's a pretty fun game. Good job!

graphics and sound are great, why can't I vote the music? tahat's sad

When I shot the tentacle, I felt awesome! If you continue to develop this, when I saw the chicken leg meter, I didn't know how to make that meter increase.

@hisfantor Music was not made by us

@ethan-kennerly press Q to feed a dog (increase checken meter :) ) but you will need some food