Feed Mother by Clabbage

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made by Clabbage for LD34 (JAM)
Do your Mother's bidding in this small game, Feed Mother. You are an obedient child monster who must go about, eating smaller, less fortunate creatures in order to feed your Mother who has grown too large to feed her self. Grow your horrendous body as you gorge yourself and fill your stomach with pre-digested food. If Mother's tentacles grow long enough, perhaps she might reward you.

Controls
Left or "A" - Turn left
Right or "D" - Turn right
Left+Right or "A"+"D" - Vacuum

To feed your Mother, simply press your mouth against her.

We tried to incorporate both themes in this game.

Ratings

Coolness 54% 3
Overall(Jam) 3.44 390
Audio(Jam) 3.32 346
Fun(Jam) 3.54 224
Graphics(Jam) 3.42 537
Humor(Jam) 2.96 333
Innovation(Jam) 3.40 321
Mood(Jam) 3.50 286
Theme(Jam) 4.23 83

Feedback

kerneltt
16. Dec 2015 · 01:03 UTC
nice game
sP0CkEr2
18. Dec 2015 · 05:47 UTC
pretty neat idea - i like the fact that you need to keep going back to mother - would have been nice to have a score and level prgression - goo job
A Flat Miner Studios
29. Dec 2015 · 06:44 UTC
Neat idea. Love the satisfaction of getting humongous and hoovering up a giant swarm of green bugs just as they pop up on the screen. Great use of flocking. (Were some of the stinkbugs trying to flock with my face when they couldn't find a big enough stinkbug swarm? Brilliant and frustrating in a good "how can I beat this?" kind of way!)
Some way to manage the stinkbugs in the late game would have helped me, though figuring out how to dodge them until they group up was a feeling of accomplishment.
nucleartide
29. Dec 2015 · 06:47 UTC
Excellent game. I love trying to go for bunches of little green things that dissipate once I get to them. :D
kirbytails7
29. Dec 2015 · 07:11 UTC
Nice. I enjoyed the flocking behaviors and the player movement. It took a while to understand what to do, though; I didn't know what was good or bad for a while.
Smirnov48
29. Dec 2015 · 07:16 UTC
It's fun and very interesting game. Good idea, good realization. Good job!
EternalCastleStudio
29. Dec 2015 · 10:44 UTC
Ey, I like the control implementation and the mechanic. It's done in Game Maker, a +1 for me and it's very fun. I have grown my monster a lot and I really enjoyed it. Good job!
ZpeedTube
29. Dec 2015 · 11:12 UTC
Fun game and everything is really well made! This game probably got one of my highest raitings! ^^
Gordy
29. Dec 2015 · 13:06 UTC
Nice game ! ;)
Japes
29. Dec 2015 · 13:21 UTC
Great game! Nice spin on the classic agar.io mechanic. As others mentioned, the flocking behaviour is awesome and really adds another element to the gameplay.
A bit more info explain what the parasites/stinkbugs are and what they do would be nice. But I figured it out pretty quickly.
Markus Brand
29. Dec 2015 · 13:43 UTC
its nice, but im missing a tutorial or something. are the purple ones bad for me? But i like the concept :)
cilerba
29. Dec 2015 · 16:00 UTC
My god this game is scary lol.
scorched
29. Dec 2015 · 16:30 UTC
Didn't see challenge here, but graphics and mood are in place :-)
themadknights
29. Dec 2015 · 18:56 UTC
Pretty neat! I think the idea and the execution is nice. I miss some kind of hud and score. Nice use of both themes!
Franklin's Ghost
02. Jan 2016 · 11:42 UTC
This was a fun game. Liked the movement of the player and thought it was nice and smooth. Also the feeding and growing aspect was satisfying.