Protect your picnic from the onslaught of snails! Go bowling with their shells. Pick up the snails and throw them in your jar to get powerful upgrades.
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I helped develop the published version. I am turning it into a full game solo, so I need feedback on the game so I can improve upon it. Any help is greatly appreciated, but if you want to go out of your way to help me in a big way, taking the survey below will help me more than you know! Please answer thoughtfully. Thank you!
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Really good. I loved throwing snails at the other snails. That was a lovely mechanic. I must admit that I don’t like games where you inevitably just get overwhelmed. Also the mechanic may not be enough to create replay-ability. However I did feel involved when the little snails were munching on my lunch! What I really wanted to do was splat them somehow. I also really enjoyed how the morsels of my lunch decreased as they were eaten. I found myself defending the tiniest last morsel at the end. Good fun but to be honest, I didn’t really want to play it again. Sorry.
To make this a more developed game, I think you would need to increase the scale of the gameplay scene. Perhaps my picnic is in the middle of the screen, and the snails come from all directions. Perhaps I could lay slug pellets, or get a snail eating friend to help me.
Perhaps I could attract hedgehogs that eat the smaller snails, but as the snails get bigger the hedgehogs get put off and also start attacking my lunch. So then I could attract birds with bread so scarifice some of my own lunch to get the birds to swoop in and remove the snails while I deal with the hedgehogs. Then perhaps I could attract foxes (with sausages perhaps) that eat the hedgehogs, but when the hedgehogs are getting under control they start eating my lunch. You could have a whole ecosystem of animals that at first help and then become the thing trying to eat my lunch! Lol, might need some thought but it sounds fun.
Anyway, great game jam entry, I hope you did well. Thank you for sharing it here.
Thank you for your thoughtful feedback!