It's very cute! Love the pico-8 jams everytime I see one, and you did well here.

Was a bit easy in terms of being able to spam x and hit the red guy before he got to your creatures. Maybe adding a movement penalty when you're walking through your own creatures would've been a good addition? Feels very easy to get to where the red guy is.

Cute little Pico-8 game. My only wish is that I got a break between monsters so I could round up the little ones better.

The game is simple but the ball throwing mechanics are engaging and the cute art adds to the charm. 🌟 The game does feel a bit easy though - being able to spam the attack button makes it too easy. Overall, a great first time Ludum Dare experience! 💪

Thanks for your kind words! At some point we realised that we had more ideas than time (which I guess is not that uncommon), so we had to cut off a bunch of dead ends and just keep moving.

One thing that would have made the grab mechanic shine is if the little creatures tried to escape more aggressively and the Baddie would only go for the ones that are outside but, sadly, this will have to be implemented in the possible next iteration.

the art is so effective, i love the lively color and the pallete is adorable. it did took me some time to realize that's a letter for "x"... but overall, i enjoyed the gameplay-- it's fast paced enough to keep me engaged. cheers!

cute audio design

i save them all ! cute game :)


Nice little game, I love the graphics style!

I know this is unfinished, but in case you didn't notice, when the monster does eat all the green creature, there is no "game over" screen, the game keep playing but nothing happens.

Regarding gameplay, I had a lot of fun try to save them all, it took me several tries! I love how you can grab the creatures, even it can become dangerous as the red monster could eat many of them at once if they touch you while you are holding a lot of creatures!

I hope you keep working on it, it's a cute game with a lot of charm.

Wow! The game is so wonderful! Keep making games!

Nice defense game! The grabbing ability leaves much to be desired but the shooting is really reliable making it easy to kill invaders and save all of the creatures.

So exciting to see a pico-8 game! I honestly didn't even realize you could grab the creatures, I just ran around shooting the red guys haha. I think there's a lot of opportunity here to modulate the difficulty if you wanted to build on this, maybe with having more red guys come out at once, or having the little green ones wander farther afield. But a great start!