Gobble Ghost! by Zymphe

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made by Zymphe for Ludum Dare 45 (JAM)

Description

You are an adorable (and hungry) little ghost in this Halloween world! Eat things smaller than you to absorb their powers, but watch out! Creatures larger than you may be eyeing you in the same hungry way...

Controls

  • Mouse to move
  • Space/left-click for special ability

Screenshots

gobbleghost_earlymunch.png

gobbleghost_earlymunch.png

Ratings

Overall 171th 3.886⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Fun 168th 3.773⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 755th 2.932⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Theme 536th 3.333⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 112th 4.25⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Audio 22th 4.214⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Humor 97th 3.841⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Mood 84th 4.045⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Given 24🗳️ 11🗨️

Feedback

NachtWitch
07. Oct 2019 · 20:35 UTC
really cool idea for october!
NachtWitch
07. Oct 2019 · 20:35 UTC
really cool idea for october!
SnufkinsHat
07. Oct 2019 · 20:37 UTC
The music, sound effects, and atmospheric lighting are charming. I'm not sure it went with the theme, but it definitely went with the season!
Swordishmage
07. Oct 2019 · 20:57 UTC
What a great game to play before Halloween! It's a fun game but I found that the endgame is a little boring as once I was a certain size I just flew in one direction and mashed the space key until I won.
NiKaDra
07. Oct 2019 · 20:59 UTC
The perfect game to get your halloween spirit up and running once more! It's a fun thematic take on the "Fishy Game" idea, where you eat stuff that's smaller than you. I usually really love these kinds of dark seasonal games, no matter the gameplay, and this is no exception!

The artwork is cute and very charming, I love the little details on some of the other sentient things when you get a little too close for comfort, as well as the reaction of the ghost when you try to eat something too big. The darkness works really well too, and all the sprites for the creatures as well as the other things are nice!

When it comes to audio, the music was obviously fitting, and certainly added to the atmosphere. The sound effects were also quite nice, although I didn't notice too many of them. Notably, I felt the game ended a bit abruptly when you died, without any sound effects or animations, but that's a very minor issue given many other things, especially the graphics, were actually pretty detailed!

I really enjoyed the game's spooky feeling, and although it didn't quite fit the theme it was certainly a good game to play now in October, and I'm happy you decided to go with the halloween game idea! Nice work!
TongueEnvy
08. Oct 2019 · 19:40 UTC
That brought a smile to my face!

The artwork was adorable, the sounds were great (although if I wanted to nitpick I'd say they were a bit loud), and the the gameplay was solid.

One other small gripe: it would have been nice to have some feedback for then the player "dies". A puff of spooky vapors, a moan, that kinda stuff.
revx
08. Oct 2019 · 20:40 UTC
Fun mood and totally playable. The hitboxes seemed a little off. Sometimes I could get closer to things and sometimes I felt like I was really far away but died...
ghost-in-the-toast
09. Oct 2019 · 00:50 UTC
Oooh I love the face the ghost makes when it can't eat something just a little bit bigger than it. Plus you has ghost which earns brownie points with us! (lol) I loved this one! Great job!
Ojwk
09. Oct 2019 · 01:12 UTC
Immensely cute.
Taylor Reynolds
09. Oct 2019 · 04:42 UTC
Such a cute art style!! Sweet and halloween-y <3
BoxedMeatRevolution
10. Oct 2019 · 23:35 UTC
Everything worked together really well! You nailed the halloween music, and the emotions were cute and funny :)
Evepto
15. Oct 2019 · 13:35 UTC
I like it really much. Plz play and rate my game too
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/45/the-slime-slayer
afendar
15. Oct 2019 · 20:23 UTC
Really a very nice job at the game and also graphics. I loved playing this game. Congratulations
GigaHood
17. Oct 2019 · 11:22 UTC
Wow that was a really cute game, super fitting spoops for the season. the art is great and the music is great, the gameplay is fun but the slurp sound effects are a bit loud for me... otherwise perfect. i don't ususally try to like link my team and such but we also made a very spooptober game that i think you guys might enjoy, you can just look through my profile i'm not gonna link it but ya.

it rate it OwO soops/10 very good game.