Daddy, Don't Explode Me by FiSilva

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made by FiSilva for LD33 (COMPO)
Inspired by Lemmings, Minions and Dumb Ways to Day

You're an evil lord who must control their minions on a mission that will not end well for some.

You can turn the minions into bomb, fire and ice.
Bomb can blow up some stuff (boulders), fire can burn other stuff (ice and grass), and ice just creates an obstacle.

Mouse control

I made a version where you can control the camera with the keyboard as well as mouse, but if you rate, rate the other one, the Windows Compo.

Ratings

Coolness 59% 3
Overall 4.16 16
Audio 3.41 165
Fun 4.00 31
Graphics 4.18 51
Humor 3.78 65
Innovation 3.55 149
Mood 3.63 107
Theme 4.00 95

Feedback

Deadeyejoe
24. Aug 2015 · 12:24 UTC
Awesome game , overall , audio, graphics and gameplay are cool !
Flygamer101
24. Aug 2015 · 12:35 UTC
Nice art style and camera movement, was pretty cool overall
rogual
24. Aug 2015 · 14:18 UTC
I had fun with this one. It's similar to Lemmings, but it's different enough to be interesting. Art is great.

That level where you have to pile up your own bodies to get down made me laugh.

Rock solid game.
AdenMansonGames
24. Aug 2015 · 15:15 UTC
LOVE the graphics and a very good platform game :D
Hamsternator
24. Aug 2015 · 19:12 UTC
DADDYYYYY!!! =D
I felt so bad for the little fellas '^^

Clever puzzles and adorable graphics.
jojocanard
24. Aug 2015 · 19:27 UTC
Excellent all around, very cute monsters
Saddest ending ever :(
mrjorts
25. Aug 2015 · 05:11 UTC
Very polished entry! The puzzles were all interesting to solve, although it took me quite a while to realize the trick of the second to last one. The game is too sad, though :(

Wish it had wasd control for the camera since the screen edge detection can be finicky.
JaytleBee
25. Aug 2015 · 09:25 UTC
Avira says it's a virus (TR/Dropper.Gen)
(VirusTotal test https://tinyurl.com/pkebwnk)
Anyways, a fast forward button and some hotkeys would have been nice. The camera movement was tedious (why can't I just use my arrow keys?) and some levels were really confusing (like the first one with spikes). Also, the music sounds like it's randomly generated (not nice) and is really repetitive.
commodoreKid
25. Aug 2015 · 14:19 UTC
Lemmings! Minions look like plankton from Spongebob. Very clean work with graphics and gameplay. Annoying thing is that 'daddy sound' playing 10 times at the end of every level :D
RockhopperGames
25. Aug 2015 · 14:24 UTC
Well, that title totally managed to catch my attention! Nice work putting the game together, you definitely managed to put in plenty of interesting mechanics. It would be nice if they were explained a little clearer though, the idea that you could cover pits by dropping minions from high enough up took a while to figure out, as did that the green spikes were grass (maybe brambles would be clearer).

Also, you can finish level three without clicking at all ; )
Twinters
25. Aug 2015 · 14:43 UTC
This game is so amazing! Really challenging puzzles, beautiful music, nice use of the theme, great art. Loved it!
iapc
25. Aug 2015 · 15:04 UTC
Great game. Last level felt a bit wrong, because you need to use an effect which, during the entirity of the game, felt as an unwelcome effect that cheats you out of a figure.
Team Klappermann
26. Aug 2015 · 12:24 UTC
Really great! Very polished. Sometimes it is hard to get the timing right so the minions do not get stuck. But apart from that very very good!
SecularBaron
26. Aug 2015 · 12:34 UTC
Best game since Lemmings! Good polish. I love how they yelled "Daddy!" But Daddy doesn't care. Get exploded.
DuzDuz
27. Aug 2015 · 20:49 UTC
Really nice entry!!
dickpoelen
28. Aug 2015 · 08:33 UTC
Very fun clever little game. Love that you have to use corpses!
anarbitrarymustache
28. Aug 2015 · 11:31 UTC
Great job! I played the compo entry and can see why you'd make keyboard camera control. The camera control was my only complaint.
tripleVisionGames
31. Aug 2015 · 08:16 UTC
Compo link doesn't seem to work? Just goes to a blank google drive?
KeyboardCat
31. Aug 2015 · 10:31 UTC
"Daaady ! Daaady ! Daaady !"
Really nice game !

Great work !
MrTwister
10. Sep 2015 · 19:21 UTC
One of the best Compo games I've seen. There's literally like 2 or 3 games I've rated with an almost a flawless score all across the categories, and this is one of them.

As it's been said before by others, the window "edge" detection for the camera doesn't work very well, so having a keyboard-controlled alternative (post-compo) was definitely a good move.

My only complaint would be that the first levels does not scale in difficulty very well. Level 2 and 3 are definitely "easier" than lv.1 mainly because they require less time-critical actions and there's more space between the places where you are required to act. Later levels had a steady increase in complexity and challenge that felt good. Timing the "fire" to melt ice platforms in last levels was really tricky, but workable.

Having said that, it's a REALLY well polished game, with a lot of interesting mechanics and interactions.

This is a truly wonderful game overall. 5/5. Congratulations.
careless
15. Sep 2015 · 00:03 UTC
Really nice game, always loved Lemmings.

Great pixel art, cute sounds and very well made. Had lots of fun trying this.

Excellent!