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My Little Monster by cdunham

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made by cdunham for Ludum Dare 49 (JAM)

Keep your monster alive!

Manage the 5 status bars on the bottom of the screen

The arrow keys or A/D will take you to different rooms in the facility

Interact with buttons by left clicking on them. Some buttons must be held down for several seconds

Drag items to the inventory on the bottom right to store them Ciick and drag on the inventory to remove the last item you placed in there

The 5 stats that must be maintained are: Hunger - grab food from the food room and drop it in front of your monster Thirst - Fill its water bowl with water from the vending machine Cleanliness - Use the shower in the leftmost room to make your monster squeeky clean Fun - Keep your monster entertained with toys Radiation - Your monster needs radiation so survive. Grab uranium from the right most room by holding the button on the machineMLM.pngMLM3.pngMLM4.pngMLM5.pngMLM6.pngMLM7.png

Link https://cdunham.itch.io/mlm
Link https://cdunham.itch.io/mlm
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/49/my-little-monster

Ratings

Overall 999th 3.328⭐ 31🧑‍⚖️
Fun 1096th 3.086⭐ 31🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 990th 3.086⭐ 31🧑‍⚖️
Theme 709th 3.586⭐ 31🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 768th 3.583⭐ 32🧑‍⚖️
Audio 712th 3.196⭐ 30🧑‍⚖️
Humor 391th 3.5⭐ 31🧑‍⚖️
Mood 679th 3.483⭐ 31🧑‍⚖️
Given 34🗳️ 39🗨️

Feedback

Nillard
05. Oct 2021 · 00:46 UTC
Had trouble getting the shower to work. Things start to tick down quite quickly! Loved the "Kaijuice"!
🎤 cdunham
08. Oct 2021 · 18:33 UTC
@nillard Thanks for playing! I patched some stuff that didn't work quite right, like the shower. Should be easier to play and understand now.
ThatANoNoWord
09. Oct 2021 · 07:51 UTC
It's quite a fun game! The cute little monster makes so many expressions, so taking care of it is so satisfying. The controls/goals are easy to understand (except for electricity, which should have been stated that you only charge after a blackout). The only gripes are that radiation is painfully slow, and only recover a small amount of radiation. If getting the uranium used a small minigame that you can be fast in, it would be more satisfying to play. Still, great game!
WeaselsWithYourMoney
11. Oct 2021 · 23:50 UTC
Surprisingly fun. I would say to maybe make the power able to be recharged even if there is no blackout, and also if you give the monster anything with a blackout the game's audio will bug out until the power is back on. I also personally just don't like the sound effects. Other than that, good job!
Chasen Nesbitt
12. Oct 2021 · 01:26 UTC
Really enjoyed the game and your art style, keep it up!
defectivemelon
12. Oct 2021 · 01:30 UTC
Fun and really cute! I had a couple problems getting him to actually eat, I think I almost fed him the wrong food and then put it away. But this was lovely, and the graphics and music were nice
Sarah
12. Oct 2021 · 04:19 UTC
Cute concept, and the main character is adorable! I liked the animations when it was eating or drinking.

Overall, well done \o/
🎤 cdunham
13. Oct 2021 · 03:49 UTC
@thatanonoword @weaselswithyourmoney Thanks for playing! We were planning on doing a minigame to turn the electricity back on but there wasn't time to put that in. Also the blackout would stop the player from performing certain actions, but we also didn't have time for that.
🎤 cdunham
13. Oct 2021 · 03:50 UTC
@chasen-nesbitt @defectivemelon @sarah Glad you liked it! Thanks for playing!
Rose
18. Oct 2021 · 05:30 UTC
Really cute idea! I liked how you had to manage a variety of different factors/inputs to take care of the monster - my favorite was picking out food for it. I also liked how it had a different name each time! I did run into a bug where the sound effects started repeating constantly.
dcrdro
18. Oct 2021 · 12:34 UTC
Pretty entertaining game! Simple concept, easy understandable control & play style. And a biiig variety of content.
Liked monster's animations ;) And generally it's very good polished entry. Very well done!
Tori
18. Oct 2021 · 16:25 UTC
Very nice entry, i'm impressed by the number of asset, i think it give a very nice mood
i love what you did, the gameplay work well and you don't get bored, always something to do, you found a good balance, well done !
ache games
18. Oct 2021 · 19:40 UTC
cute game!!
FireSlash
19. Oct 2021 · 03:50 UTC
Cute little bugger.

Lots of varied mechanics here to keep things mixed up.

Nice work!
bloodyaugust
19. Oct 2021 · 08:36 UTC
Nice entry here! The humor really came thru in the graphics, which were really nicely done overall. The mechanics were simple and easy to understand, but pretty brutal in practice. I think some more diversity in how you retrieve items and otherwise bump up the needs bars would have done a lot for the fun factor, but that's real hard to do in a jam timeframe. Great job! :smile:
oillen
20. Oct 2021 · 00:08 UTC
(+) many different interactions

(+) cute grafics expressing the creatures emotions

(o) does the monster demand special food and what are the effects of it?

(o) when fullfilling a creature's demand, other demands gets worse, why?

(-) using the shower button is still quite tricky, the player needs to hit it quite precisely

(+) there are Audio settings

(+) Music & sounds can be configurated seperatly
🎤 cdunham
20. Oct 2021 · 00:38 UTC
@oillen The monster demands random foods and it takes away more hunger if you give it to him. Other demands get worse because you have to balance his different needs and not just spam food or other things at him. The shower button was changed at the last second to be more like a lever and its not perfect, but it does its job.
Samuel Fine
20. Oct 2021 · 14:53 UTC
It's like a Tamagotchi from hell! Love the concept, nailed the "unstable" theme. My only issue is that some of the click targets were a little finicky; the Shower handle, for example, was hard to click reliably. Besides that though, :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
LDJam user 261242
20. Oct 2021 · 15:40 UTC
Nice concept of the theme! Great job!
Rengo
21. Oct 2021 · 17:47 UTC
the good ol pet games. nostalgic i have to say. interesting take! i can't say this game is bad