Hamster Shelter by Doonutsaur

You are tiny hamsters surviving in a post-apocalyptic world.
Build roads to your home and transport as much food as you can!

- Drag/Drop: left mouse hold
- Road Rotate: left mouse click
- Upgrade: hold left mouse for 2 s
- Refund: double click right mouse
- Always refund when you don't have enough food! Hamsters do not lose food when refunding!
- This game works in the background!
Fun Jam you guys!
| Link | https://doonutsaur.itch.io/tiny-hamsters |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/56/hamster-shelter |
Ratings
| Overall | 73th | 4.143⭐ | 51🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 144th | 3.908⭐ | 51🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 210th | 3.724⭐ | 51🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 186th | 4.112⭐ | 51🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 130th | 4.357⭐ | 51🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 100th | 3.967⭐ | 47🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 282th | 3.524⭐ | 43🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 155th | 4.033⭐ | 48🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 3🗳️ | 0🗨️ |
As a hamster owner, this was an instant click for me.
I LOVE the tiny hamsters just strolling around, and when they turn, it's just lovely. :smile:
The game is great fun, and I can already see myself playing it more tomorrow—it's already bookmarked. Fits the theme really well. Good job!
I encountered a bug and got big money quick.



Also: did you know you can upgrade your main building? Didn't find out until I already had the money for the rockets, but was still funny to see the hamster snake move through my streets.
Oh, and I’m not sure if this is supposed to happen, but I encountered this 'bug' (image below).
Didn't take me long to get to Mars!! This was really fun though... tinker around with the numbers and it could have real longeivty. Nicely done.
Knowing about the Suburban bug, I decided to avoid it, so my playthrough took around 20 minutes, and felt neat and well.
As it was kinda difficult to figure if bank did anything after initial burst, I sold it after getting the money on final upgrade planning to rebuild it, but it covered the first shop slot instead, locking me out of grabbing it.
Overall, I like the concept, and I think it'd be possible to make it into a full game with enough content for 2-20 hours (probably insanely difficult to balance though).
10/10 would build hamster city again.
Also cool to see another hamster-based game with level editing features, just like our own haha