This is my first Solo LD Jam! There is so much more I wanted to add, but we probably all feel this way, right? :laughing:

So, here's my game:

Game: Ludum Dare

Lemme Stash! :hamster:

(bonus points if you get the reference)

You play as a hamster, who needs to collect food for the upcoming winter. Since the days are short, the hamster only has a limited amount of time to collect as much food as possible (the hamster carries it in it's cheek pouch). Before going to bed, they empty it's cheek pouch into the stash in the burrow.

The hamster can spend food (nom nom) to gain energy and dig up a whole new chamber. When all the storage chambers are filled with food, you've made it!

Things I wanted to add, but didn't made it:

• add deco to emphasize the amount of food inside a storage chamber
• animations
• music
• make cheek pouches bigger as the hamster collects food
• add challenges while collecting food (other animals?)
• add items that can boost the hamster

I also sneaked our lovely (real!) hamster in the game :hamster:

A little recap of my LD this time: I made a decryption game with a little story! I did everything solo by myself (except the music that I opted out of). So if you love puzzles and translating, this might be for you :spy:

:warning: While playing the game I noticed an encryption mistake I made in the 7th puzzle (which appears to be bade64 code). So if you’re stuck at this puzzle, here’s the solution: Spoiler: !> I don’t know if I can trust you.

My vision of this game was to tell a little story about space inspired my Project Hail Mary :stars: I wanted to add some more scenes to polish the story but of course didn’t have the time haha. If you want to know what I imagined, you can read it here:

Story Spoiler: !> After the decrypting the 7th message, the player sees a scene where the plant on the left of the computer called „Dotti“ is sent away with the moon rover. The mysterious stranger collects the plant and now trusts him. At the end I imagined to be a scene where the scientist from earth travels to the GPS data they received and actually meets the lost astronaut in a cave, the cave is pretty and humans can somehow live inside this cage (its habitable) and there are a few small and friendly moon creatures and Dotti!

Thanks so much for reading and checking out my game! I’ll try to play as much games as I can in the limited time that’s left.

Kaddi