Deadlicious by Tomate_Salat
The Game
You play as a starving zombie "living" in a city. In order to survive you have to harvest humans. But in order to eat - eh - harvest them you have to kill first. But be careful: they will fight back.
Harvesting a human has some positive effects:
It will heal you It will reset the starving bar It will give you points So harvest as much as possible to raise your final score!
Starving System
If the starving bar runs out it will apply 1 damage-point to you. Also the starving rate will increase by a little. So you really want to avoid that the bar runs down to zero.
As mentioned above: you can reset the starving bar by harvesting (eating) humans. But you also can affect the system in negative way. Attack and running will let you starve more!
Humans
There are 4 different types of humans. They have individual health, damage, attack-speed and points. You can easily distinct them by there model.
If they are easy to kill then of course they give less points/health.
Hint: Friendly fire is ON. So humans can kill each other!
Controls
- W/A/S/D (or arrow keys) - Move
- E - Harvest (eat)
- Shift - Run
- Space - Attack
The game has an auto-aim-mechanic. So you only need to be close enough to an human. Hitting the attack-key will make you face the target before the actual attack triggers.
| Link | https://tomate-salat.itch.io/deadlicious |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/52/deadlicious |
Ratings
| Overall | 442th | 3.455⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 530th | 3.159⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 533th | 3.091⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 624th | 3.295⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 211th | 3.386⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 346th | 3.545⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 16🗳️ | 25🗨️ |
@adam-konig Yes powerup also came through my mind. I actually wanted to use them to also make the player trying to explore the town. But (due to the nature of jams) I run out time and decided to not implement them.
@nougato Cool :-). I'm not sure anymore whats my best (specially considering the latest changes were I added new humans. That made the game harder). But I think atm I would be below 37. But with that a new idea came through my mind. In future I should add a "you beat the message" in case if one was better than me. Because I guess you would have seen it ^^.
One thing I did not quite like is how starvation works and how useless it feels to reset it when eating a human. Not much to play with, and not very satisfying. Perhaps if it also increased the time it takes for the bar to deplete, it would've been better! (And that should also be visible to the player, because now that I think of it, it might work like that right now and I wouldn't notice it.)
In any case, good job! :slight_smile:
P.S. Here's my best score
It's nice to play a story from the opposite side :)