Hundreds & Thousands by willianfhs
H&T is a high-paced action game where you hammer a bunch of evil confetti and try to protect your donut hole (what?)
The culinary world is a dangerous one. Amid the chaos, the bakery stands alone as the most cutthroat and merciless battlefield of them all. It would certainly be impossible to innovate and carve out a niche in such a violent market, right?
Not anymore! With the recent development of the Sprinkmin, biogenetically engineered creatures who are delicious as they are cute, we believe we’ve found the next game-changer for the patisserie industry.
As a flavor consultant, your job is simple: On your workstation you will find one of our patented foodstuffs, ready to be enhanced. We shall then periodically release a shower of Sprinkmin who, following their manufactured instincts, will attempt to bond with the food. It’s up to you to then use the tools given to you to properly sort and herd the Sprinkmin who pair best with the desired flavor profile.
Use your Magnifier, with its space-age display, to find the unwanted Sprinkmin. Then use your Hammer, with its innovative solid and heavy headpiece, to crush the undesirables. Flavor is everything in the culinary world! Show no hesitation, know no mercy! Make all your sweet dreams come true!
Do not attempt to communicate with the Sprinkmin, they are all liars.
🕹️ Controls
- Aim: Mouse
- Smash: Left Mouse Click
- Pause: P or Escape
👑 Credits
- M. D. Salomon (Game Design & Audio)
- Rodolfo Salazar (Art)
- Willian Schneider (Programming)
| Play on Itch.io | https://willianfhs.itch.io/hundreds-and-thousands |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/56/hundreds-thousands |
Ratings
| Overall | 67th | 4.155⭐ | 44🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 92th | 4.024⭐ | 44🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 69th | 4.024⭐ | 44🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 54th | 4.357⭐ | 44🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 77th | 4.464⭐ | 44🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 37th | 4.207⭐ | 43🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 61th | 4.048⭐ | 44🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 140th | 4.063⭐ | 42🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 40🗳️ | 74🗨️ |
level with the burger was kind of impossible for me and sitting through the briefing every time to try again
Otherwise really nice!
Would be nice to be able to skip or speed up dialog displaying by hammering the table or something, even though the writing is funny.
The magnifying glass is neat but it doesn't do much, as the Sprinkmins can be identified by color. Would be interesting to have some slower levels where more types have the same color and you need the zoom to identify the sour ones before smashing.
I didn't notice that I needed to skip some germs.
The dead splash creates noise, so it's hard to see.
Please make it full screen for html.
Great work, I love the style and the gameplay. Super juicy.
In my first game I crushed all the bacteria. It was only afterwards that I realized I had to leave some of them alive.
hard, i mean hard: -12500 stock price
PS. What's up with all the bold words in your description? Makes the text a little hard to read.
Took a minute to realize that not all of the confetti is bad, so our company at one point was worth $300. Ah well, the FDA won't suspect a thing with such little evidence of meddling anyway. :doughnut:
I will say, the magnifying glass feels a little too tucked away for a UI element that's key to playing the game successfully; I found it hard to both look at the glass to identify if a Sprinkmin was a correct target and then look back in time to catch the next targets. But perhaps that's part of the challenge, idk.
Overall really well done! Adorable game!
I especially love your art style. 10/10 must be the best game this ld
Hammering feels satisfying and the sfx are just superb. It's a very cool interpretation of the theme! I'm a bit sad for the Sprinkmin - some of the good ones get crushed all the time, as they hang out too close to the bad ones. That has to violate some Sprinkmin rights! **Freedom for all Sprinkmin**! :candy:
I somehow missed the explanation at first and lost the company tons of money, oops. But after paying a bit more attention I finally beat the game. Humor was on point btw :D
Cute style and very fun to play :)