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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Creativity | #495 | 4.000 | 4.000 |
| Overall | #1199 | 3.591 | 3.591 |
| Style | #1627 | 3.591 | 3.591 |
| Enjoyment | #1973 | 3.182 | 3.182 |
Ranked from 22 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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You are a giant alien and you build a terrarium for your pet human, Gus.
Development Time
96 hours
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Gus doesn't seem motivated, but who would not in a cage ?
Still managed to extract the floorp
Yeah, Gus is a bit lazy and not great at maintaining his own needs, but he's happy at least!
Love watching Gus interact with all the different furniture. Great work!
Thanks! We're glad you liked watching Gus live his life :D
Nicely done! Gus is soooo slow (hard worker but still slow), but this game is hilarious! Very lovable game, and I hope you are able to do some more balancing after the jam is complete. Great job! :)
Thanks! Definitely need some work to balance everything, but we're glad Gus won over your heart!
We must protect Gus from the daily grind! A really wholesome sim/pet like game!
Thanks! We're glad you kept Gus safe!
Nice game. Though it felt like a long time to get the human's stamina back to earn more money!
Thanks! We struggled to get the balance right in the time limit, and there's not enough to do while waiting for things to fill up :(
How I wish for a speed up button... It felt like I was hamstrung by the health/stamina the entire time, while Mood was constantly at max so the gameplay was me just waiting for Gus to drop the floop so I could click it.
Still, really cute and a chill time.
Thanks! Getting that balance right was tricky in 4 days.
Although I’m not a fan of sim games, this one was pretty enjoyable! Overall, it’s very relaxing, but sometimes the music suddenly gets louder, which made me a bit tense.
Thanks! Sorry about the music, I know exactly the bit you mean :(
It's very strange, but I like it a lot! At one point I bugged the menu half way off screen o.o
Thank you! It might seem strange to us but Gus thinks it's all very normal.
I wish my pet produced florp when it was happy, the game is so cute and I LOVE how you made gus just a lil guy. what a lad. loved giving him head pats.
Do wish the game had a bit more you could do while waiting for Gus to rest up and recover his stamina/health, or if it worked running in the background (idt it does at the moment?)[edit: realized you can click florps that he's leaving behind oops lol] either way you should feel very proud for making a middle aged salary man the cutest thing I saw today :3Thanks so much! We're very proud of our little Gus!
We planned to have spidery creatures drop in and threaten him, so you'd have to deal with those while waiting, but ran out of time to code their AI :(
revisited the game and didn't even notice, you can click on the florps in the terrarium!!! i retract my original nitpick this is all i needed hehe :> great work again!
Hehe thanks! He will also drop more florp if you give him head pats :)
what a guy this gus is :>
My parents never got me a Gus when I was little :( Fun game :D
We saw the ads as kids and wanted a Gus so badly too ;)
Thanks!
I love Gus! Such a hardworking lad. But I wish he gave more florp faster!!! Great game, keep it up!
Thanks! We'll let him know!
Playing this Sim game was a nice break from playing more intense fast-paced games, and I enjoyed it! I had a bit of a hard time understanding the controls at first, but as soon as I saw a screenshot from your itch page, I was able to understand what them. Overall, the mechanics were done well and I didn't see a single bug from my end! I beat the game by just extracting a lot of florp when I got GUS's stamina meter pretty high up.
The only thing I'd have to nitpick at is how the music ramps up in volume at one point in the song, so I had to turn down the music entirely to play because it just got too loud, but the music was very nice!
Overall, great job to the both of y'all and I'm glad GUS got to live happily ever after on his beach vacation!
Thanks so much, we're super glad you got to see the happy ending! We did a lot of play testing just trying to iron out bugs, so I know exactly which part of the music you mean haha
We never got the balance of stamina/mood/health right, tuning a sim game was even trickier than we expected!
Took a bit to understand but damn that was a nice game
Thanks! We got a bit deep into the sim mechanics and spent no time trying to explain them
hey i liked it a lot ! I just wish Gus was more intelligent! the mf would keep going to the exercise wheel and he ahd no stamina! there is no way of contrling what he does right? anyways, nice concept and vibe!
Thanks! Yeah, Gus is not very bright haha