Bevy Jam #3 - Side Effects

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Hen Rescue Hero (Bevy)View game page

A simple web game in which as a tiny robot you try to rescue as many falling hens as possible. Made for Bevy Jam #3.

Submitted by Beetroot Paul (@beetrootpaul) — 2 minutes, 8 seconds before the deadline

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Results

Criteria	Rank	Score*	Raw Score
Presentation	#19	3.686	3.686
Fun	#20	3.171	3.171
Overall	#30	3.114	3.114
Theme Interpretation	#43	2.486	2.486

Ranked from 35 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

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gibonus1 year ago(+1)

Nice gameplay. Despite the very simple controls and idea (you just go left and right to pickup chickens) It has a push and pull to it that makes it fun. You have to balance between picking up more hen and running the risk of overflowing, or caching them in at the cost of missing a few more hens.

Especially loved the robot's face change as the stack of hens grow and becomes more heavy. The fact the robot goes slower gives a good feel too. And the art when we get hen stack overflow! Didn't manage to beat Pyrious, my best score is 125 :V

Beetroot PaulDeveloper1 year ago

thanks for the detailed comment! 🙂

PyriousSubmitted1 year ago(+1)

129 :)

Nice pixel art.

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Beetroot PaulDeveloper1 year ago

thanks! And 129 is good!

CaptainOfCoitSubmitted1 year ago(+1)

obviously not my type of game, only managed to get 100 at the most :( Fun idea though and felt polished enough for the time we had available :) Would be great if there was some indication on when you got to close to the maximum, so it would have been easier to know when to drop of the hens, like the pile sways more or something. Overall, was a fun game :)

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Bacon Breakaway

Beetroot PaulDeveloper1 year ago(+1)

Thanks you for the feedback!

Regarding close-to-maximum indication: there is an exclamation mark shown on the robot’s face, but it’s just a static image, no animation, therefore not really visible, I understand. Also, that exclamation mark happens 2 chickens below the max, which means… really low margin of error. So… I get your point and agree 100% 🙂

michalvankodevSubmitted1 year ago(+1)

Very nice game. Simple goal and competitive nature. I got 120 points on my third run.

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The Grand Escape

Beetroot PaulDeveloper1 year ago

nice!

Rob StreetingSubmitted1 year ago(+1)

Very highly polished and fun to play! I enjoyed the effect when I picked up too many chickens :)

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Beetroot PaulDeveloper1 year ago

thx for the feedback! 😄

euclidean-whaleSubmitted1 year ago(+1)

It wasn't totally obvious what was happening when I was overheating. The background had the feel victory screen or something to me.

Otherwise a cute/fun little thing.

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Beetroot PaulDeveloper1 year ago

oh, an interesting point about the “victory” screen 🤔

Regarding things not being obvious: in general, I am aware game lacks in the area. For example, I planned to add an animation of chickens falling down from the robot’s head after overhearing animation ends. Also, wanted to add a “+ 12” score section about chickens on the top of the head, and then that number would get removed in the animated way so you will see that overheating made you lose it (when in contrary, placing chickens in the nest would trigger an animation of the number being added to the score)

Thanks for the feedback!

Michael RamirezSubmitted1 year ago(+1)

I liked the penalty of holding too many chickens and the art is really cute. I liked how the robot's face changed. Reminds me of game boy color games, pretty cool!

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Beetroot PaulDeveloper1 year ago

thanks for the feedback! 😄

MyWrongShoeSubmitted1 year ago(+1)

Really cute art!

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Cats Always Land on their Feet

Beetroot PaulDeveloper1 year ago

thanks! 😄

ServSubmitted1 year ago(+1)

My highscore was 99 (Pretty bad, I know)
Playing this I realized how greedy I truly am. Every time i want to minmax and collect as much as possible before depositing and then I LOSE THEM ALL, ~~SLIP AND FALL~~...
Loved the artstyle! Some sounds would be a nice addition though
But nevertheless, great game! Loved it!

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Mixity Concoction

Beetroot PaulDeveloper1 year ago

thanks for the feedback! And I think 99 is pretty OK 😄

SecretPocketCatSubmitted1 year ago (1 edit) (+1)

Mission accomplished (I actually still had 7 s left 🙂)

Neat game and the pixelart is just lovely. SFX would go a long way, but I'd assume that was on the todo list 😁

The punishment for catching too many feels too rough though, i'd either lose time or lose all the chickens (or maybe just half).

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Beetroot PaulDeveloper1 year ago

thx for the feedback! 🙂

GabeeeM1 year ago(+1)

! 😒

this	game	is
so	hard	mode

Beetroot PaulDeveloper1 year ago (1 edit)

oh, thanks for the feedback! 💯

I was not thinking about it as hard, because in my head it was like:

there are way too many chickens falling to catch them all, which means there is no need to catch them all
so there is no difficulty, just the more you catch the better. Or rather: the only difficulty is to beat your own score in the next play

My decision was only dictated by intention to remove a score ceiling that everyone would hit easily.

But good to know it was not perceived as that by you 🙂👍