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LIGHTNING FARMView game page

Build lightning rods and farm lightning as a S.H.R.I.M.P. Drone while trying your best to stay alive

Submitted by SicoSiber — 10 hours, 37 minutes before the deadline

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Criteria	Rank	Score*	Raw Score
Originality	#102	4.037	4.037
Theme	#122	3.852	3.852
Presentation	#251	3.481	3.481
Fun	#253	3.148	3.148

Ranked from 27 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

How does your game represent "Power"?
you are farming lightning as a source of electrical power

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Chimp PeenSubmitted26 days ago(+1)

Worm?!?! Lightning?!?! DRONE?!?!

Perfect.

Great job! :)

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GoldShotsSubmitted26 days ago

The art is great! (Voxel art is awesome) But I think a lot could have been done with gameplay mechanics to actually help you survive (like defensive towers that also require power or something). The movement of the little shrimp drone is really smooth as well. Great job on the game!

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Aether Core Industries

SicoSiberDeveloper26 days ago(+1)

Thanks! I had plans to make a bunch of other buildings, but got COVID day 1 so I only had a few days I could work on it without throwing up :/

GoldShotsSubmitted24 days ago

Awe, that sucks!

TeejSubmitted27 days ago(+1)

Going off the title art alone, I was NOT expecting this game to be about playing a silly little worm fighting robots and collecting scrap. Great concept!

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1nkFalconSubmitted27 days ago(+1)

movement is a little floaty, very silly little game tho. very cool, great presentation.

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NoNumbersGamesSubmitted28 days ago(+1)

Cute centipede, it has nice movement algorithm, controlling it feels smooth! Well, at least until I was grabbed. Getting enemies to get hit by lightning was harder than I thought it would be.

Anyway, thank you for your game <3

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Preeminent_BunnySubmitted28 days ago (1 edit) (+1)

May not have shown up on the leaderboard but I needed proof of my success.

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SicoSiberDeveloper28 days ago(+1)

yeah, sometimes the URL thing I'm using bugs out, I'll put it up there!

nickymonkeySubmitted29 days ago(+1)

Really like the concept, I could totally see there being more building types that could defend against drones. Honestly super cool!

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SicoSiberDeveloper29 days ago

Yeah, there were plans for that but I got bad COVID day 1 and could only work on it for a few days :/

Glad you liked it!

aeilbmealxSubmitted29 days ago(+1)

Great art style and presntation, love the little shrimp guy. For some reason the WASD controls on the diagonal grid combined with the way he turns around confuses my brain a little bit, but I think this kind of movement would feel great on a controller

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Charlieyoung87Submitted30 days ago(+1)

This is a deceptively simple game. The lightning pole has a lot of intricacies that make the game quite deep. Realizing you can use the poles to kill the drones because you know lightning is gong to spawn there was a cool moment. Then realizing that placing more poles meant that I couldn't predict where the lightning was going to land and therefore making it harder to hit the drones as well as making it more likely that the lightning would hit me. It makes you put a lot more thought about whether you want to place a pole or not. Had to play until I could get top 10.

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TunaheadSubmitted30 days ago(+1)

Nice and fine little Game :)

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Cow House GamesSubmitted30 days ago(+1)

This a krilliant little game that reels you in with the seariously shrimpressive art style and hooks you with the great gameplay. I'm not shore how you tackled crayting a game this fun, but it bassically has me hooked. I've got a sinking feeling that I'll be playing this for an eely long time. Whale done!

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Horti's Rapid RoBotany

Cow House GamesSubmitted30 days ago(+1)

FUCK I SAID HOOK TWICE

SicoSiberDeveloper30 days ago(+1)

These aquatic puns are fin-tastic! You truly krilled it on this one!

Cow House GamesSubmitted30 days ago(+1)

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Matt YoungSubmitted30 days ago(+1)

Oh damn I'm a sucker for a leaderboard. There goes my evening!

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SozanekSubmitted30 days ago (1 edit) (+1)

Okay, I made it to top 5 with 930 points, not too shabby (probably won't be there long tho).

Cute game!

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Ded-ReflectionSubmitted30 days ago(+1)

Shrimp so funny and cute! Small and intresting concept, cool game for jam.

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justchiiilllllllSubmitted30 days ago(+1)

This was so cool. The lightning is terrifying haha!

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Return to Office: Money is Power Edition

FaraggoSubmitted30 days ago(+1)

I will be keeping this and becoming #1.

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Ninjas In Paris

SicoSiberDeveloper30 days ago

Bro you're cooked, you're already off the leaderboard

FaraggoSubmitted30 days ago

Pff. Is the tiger "cooked" when the gazelle runs far away from him? No! The wise tiger allows his prey to expend its energy, watching shrewdly from a great distance.

I'm not just going to win; you gazelles will be an endangered species by the time my hunt is over.

jonah-srgSubmitted30 days ago(+1)

Interesting little game, the shrimp is very fun to pilot. I managed to get out of the drone's grip pretty much by holding all the keys down, and it would give up on me. I got over 600 points and by then the lightning was coming fast.

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SicoSiberDeveloper30 days ago

yeah, the best way to get out of the grip is mashing, but if you wait a while and don't get dragged off the edge, you'll be fine a lot of the time and he'll let you go

cupoSubmitted30 days ago(+1)

Made it to the top 10! I liked the presentation and the theme, the lil shrimp bot is v cute :)

I wonder if it could be interesting to try and use lighting to your advantage in order to defend yourself against the drones?

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ORBLORGO COMMAND

SicoSiberDeveloper30 days ago

yep, if you kite the drones into a lightning strike they do explode and give you a ton of point

cupoSubmitted30 days ago

Nice! I I tried but must've messed up, will give it another shot :)

SicoSiberDeveloper30 days ago(+1)

yeah, just make sure you aren't grabbed by one when it gets hit because you'll both go flying!

kallichSubmitted31 days ago (2 edits) (+1)

I had a lot of fun with this! Yes, the shrimp hitbox is a little sus and I would appreciate a highlight of where im about to place a pylon, but i genuinely liked every minute I spent playing (aka trying to be number 1 on the leaderboards)

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SicoSiberDeveloper30 days ago(+1)

yeah, the only hitbox on the shrimp is the head because I didn't want players getting screwed by the funny wiggle physics

RakudajinSubmitted31 days ago(+1)

Interesting idea!

I didn't quite get why shrimp - but I totally loved the shrimp movement animation :) Although death from lighting is a bit weird, especially at first - it's counter-intuitive that the shrimp gets shoved off the building when it gets a lighting hit :) Also the enemies are a bit too hard to manage - I never managed to get one killed while it was grabbing me. Maybe they should be introduced a bit later, when you have at least a few towers?

That said - great submission, and a quite unique game mechanic!

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SicoSiberDeveloper30 days ago(+1)

yeah, they are a bit rough to deal with at first, I had COVID the whole game jam so I couldn't get a better spawning system implemented in time. Had to spend most of the competition either passed out or puking, so I really didn't get as much done as I would have liked.

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