Bubble Pets by treenut

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made by treenut for Ludum Dare 54 (JAM)

Bubble Pets

Feed the little creatures, but be careful that they don't get too big!'

Quick tip: Click and move is enough, you don't have to drag the food the whole time!

Play on Itch.io: Bubble Pets

Mouse controls only, except ESC to pause.

  • Art and Music by Laki
  • Code by me

Made In Godot 3.5

Also try it on mobile (QR for itch.io) bubblepets.png

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Ratings

Overall 661th 3.471⭐ 37🧑‍⚖️
Fun 758th 3.186⭐ 37🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 764th 3.111⭐ 38🧑‍⚖️
Theme 821th 3.25⭐ 38🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 485th 3.75⭐ 38🧑‍⚖️
Audio 359th 3.543⭐ 37🧑‍⚖️
Humor 176th 3.757⭐ 37🧑‍⚖️
Mood 580th 3.514⭐ 37🧑‍⚖️
Given 65🗳️ 53🗨️

Feedback

LDJam user 377546
02. Oct 2023 · 22:51 UTC
Very nice! I think around day 6, one of the little guys just started flying all over the place, and that was game over for me ^^. Quite a wrist-intensive game - I think the difficulty could ramp up a bit faster.
vlad-r
03. Oct 2023 · 08:57 UTC
Such a fun game! I lol'd through the whole play session. Wrist-intensive for sure - it didn't help I was playing on a trackpad.
🎤 treenut
03. Oct 2023 · 10:19 UTC
Thanks a lot @kanagg and @vlad-r, glad you had fun!
You can save your wrists a bit by letting go of the click while dragging (and also increasing mouse sensitivity, mine is quite high by default lol)
jotson
03. Oct 2023 · 16:11 UTC
Cute game! Fun if hectic! The blood was a surprise. lol
Mealky
03. Oct 2023 · 16:29 UTC
Such a cute game ! make me hungry :stuck_out_tongue:
LDJam user 237945
03. Oct 2023 · 20:07 UTC
Very cute - nice concept and execution!
Felt like I was playing Tamoguchi all over agaion.
oller125
03. Oct 2023 · 20:09 UTC
Cute game. The pets rolling around and exploding gave me a laugh.
TheMaydayMan
03. Oct 2023 · 20:10 UTC
This gives me SumDog vibes
🎤 treenut
03. Oct 2023 · 20:15 UTC
@themaydayman SumDog sounds like an UpDog situation. Never heard of that but seems like a cool thing for learning.
zimny11
03. Oct 2023 · 20:35 UTC
Nice game! I love the art style. "be careful that they don’t get too big" why did you said that? of course first thing anyone would try is to do that (jk) :D Good job with the game!
Alexascher
03. Oct 2023 · 22:51 UTC
I liked the idea of the game and the artstyle is very nice. Gameplay itself was a bit repetative, but fun
MAR Zockmeister
03. Oct 2023 · 23:26 UTC
So the points are the 'life' of the animals? Caught me a while but for longer playing time there should be more variation in the level, maybe different food or creatures - but I know this is hard during the limited time. Can I play endless or is there a goal, e.g., survive 10 days? Finally, very nice graphics and cute art style.
cheesepencil
04. Oct 2023 · 00:29 UTC
I empathize completely with the bubble pets. They're just like me, sitting around waiting to be fed and getting mad and exploding when I'm not fed...
raassh23
04. Oct 2023 · 05:17 UTC
Really cute game, good job!
Kyle Farwell
04. Oct 2023 · 05:25 UTC
A masterpiece. Love these bubbles
KutaryouShinkoku
04. Oct 2023 · 05:40 UTC
Fun game! I like the gameplay, graphics and sound effects very much!

I spent a long time in the sixth level, and the bubbles floating in the air would block the demand icon below; and there were several times when the bubbles burst at the beginning, and I don’t know why. After the game fails, it will return to the previous level instead of the current level. Finally I gave up.

But I still like this game very much, nice job!
GreenPig
04. Oct 2023 · 05:53 UTC
Sooooo cute, great concentration type game, very simple but very good. Great work. Loved the art and the music as well.
LDJam user 280509
04. Oct 2023 · 07:03 UTC
Cute game!

Can get the concept that bubble pets will grow or bulge to take more spaces, so that things can get harder with limited space. But the attention on space was disttracted by the time limit, pushing the actual experience a liittle away from the theme.
zanagi
04. Oct 2023 · 11:58 UTC
That was funny :smile:
Good job and congrats on the submission!
Rentem
06. Oct 2023 · 19:09 UTC
Nice game! Solid submission. I like how you can change de audio volume, tough I was expecting the symbols to be swaped :sweat_smile:
fabula_rasa
06. Oct 2023 · 19:52 UTC
Very cute! And nice music as well.

I think the controls could be improved a bit. Now it's too easy to feed the wrong pet when they get a bit larger. I even had a setup when it was impossible to get food to a guy, as he was literally resting on another one, and that one on the bottom was always the one fed. Maybe a click to pick up and another click to feed? That would give the player more control.

Would be cool if there would be some summary screen after game over. With points or minutes you "survived". It would give more incentive to retry.

Really solid entry! Good work.
Dave Septian
08. Oct 2023 · 10:27 UTC
Cute art and nice music! I like the mood this game gives. I was doing okay until day 3 starts and suddenly I got game over, I think I need to play some more intense fps training XD
Ynnon
08. Oct 2023 · 18:21 UTC
interesting idea and cool cute animals, my record was day 6 ^^
Shaggy
11. Oct 2023 · 18:19 UTC
![Screenshot 2023-10-11 201841.png](///raw/fd1/f3/z/602e8.png) please.. have mercy!
SnekOfSpice
12. Oct 2023 · 15:13 UTC
A really cute game! There were a few minor issues like items not getting dropped when a day rolled over, so I sometimes still was grabbing stuff from the day before and immediately fed it when the new day started. Also, I the game never gave me any explicit overarching goal to tie the moment-to-moment gameplay together, which made it difficult to stay motivated. Overall tho, it's cute and the physics are fun!
🎤 treenut
13. Oct 2023 · 21:29 UTC
@shaggy cats don't know the concept of "mercy"