Was an interesting take on the Game Jam ! Felt really weird lol and felt like I had bugs crawling on me, 100% messing with my mental health. It was pretty cool, I wish you did not have to be super accurate tho and maybe the clicks could have like an area effect, but it was fun nonetheless!
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Sleep tight, don't let the bed bugs bite's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Simplicity | #91 | 3.721 | 3.721 |
| Topic | #111 | 3.186 | 3.186 |
| Sound | #149 | 2.884 | 2.884 |
| Visuals | #153 | 3.023 | 3.023 |
| WOWIE! (Overall) | #172 | 2.860 | 2.860 |
| Creativity | #188 | 2.930 | 2.930 |
| Fun | #227 | 2.442 | 2.442 |
Ranked from 43 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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Thanks for playing! And sorry for it messing with your mental health..(the realism of bed bugs ;)) haha. An area effect would indeed be cool and get around the accuracy problem.. also generally I feel it needs some kind of particle on click.. - and then maybe when you splat a bug then a splat stays there to show the splatted bug (though this might take away from the feeling of getting rid of the bugs). Thanks for the feedback! cheers :)
I like it! I thought it was fun.
But the timer stopped at 130? And the bugs got really easy there at 130 aswell? What's taht about?
Oh, and also, maybe put the "Mental health" in a healthbar instead, I think it's kinda weird to have mental health represented by a number. But that's just me!
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BugBot BeatdownYeah the colliders are the same size as the bugs.. but they are quite small (the bugs).. - could maybe have a zoom function and you can move the camera with the mouse.. and having it increase in difficulty would indeed be a good idea. Not sure if I'll go back and add more features later, but if I do will bare it in mind! Cheers
Glad you liked it! You're the first to notice that bug haha, it's really difficult to get that far so well done! (I still haven't haha) I decided to just use multiple instantiates in CoRoutines (I thought I'd put 120..oops!) instead of an InvokeRepeating, it's not a particularly amusing bug, but there you go!
I know what you mean about the mental health, I realised this after I'd submitted.. but if I update it in the future will definitely make that a slider instead of a number.. just makes more sense you're right.
Thanks for playing! :)
I'll give you a great tip right now:
If you're counting time in the game, don't do coroutines or invokes or anything, just put this in your Update function:
float timer; (not in update)
{
timer += Time.deltatime;
timerText.setText(timer);
}
By using Time.deltatime, every frame it adds the amount of time that frame took.
That's how you make a simple timer/counter!
Thanks Vel, though I normally use a timer function for timers, this one was on the theme Intentional bugs though so decided to do it like this to allow for a bug (though could have done that with a timer function). Like I say not a very amusing or inspired bug but by this stage it was 4am here in holland and decided to just leave it in (along with the timer continuing to count after the end screen comes up). Along with the bed bugs, they were two intentional bugs haha
lol okay - so I love how similar our gamejam submissions are in terms of theming; did you create that 3D model for the gamejam? The gameplay idea of clicking the bugs is an interesting approach that deviates from the direction I went. It might be interesting to combine ideas to explore more gameplay mechanics for something like this.
Sleep tight! ;D
Haha! Yeah didn't see yours on the list (though there are nearly 400 games lol). Just played yours, indeed almost the same idea! Great minds think alike! I didn't create the model, (it's credited in the credits) though I did go for a 2D game at first with my own art that looked even more like yours! I just went for a clicker in the end, but really like your idea of swatting the bugs with different limbs. Combining mechanics ideas could be fun :)
Two ideas I've thought of since the jam are:
1) A boss fight.. so that once you've swatted (or clicked) a certain amount of bugs away then there's a pause, maybe a bit of a screen-shake as an enormous human-sized bug comes into the room and you then have to fight it off while it's chasing you round the room.. (maybe you inexplicably get some kind of gun at this point, or pick one up that was hanging on the wall).. that would add a win condition (at least to my game which is basically just they always drive you mad, just a question of how long))
2) (This may only apply to 3D, though could be possible to reinterpret for 2D).. An option to either play as the human, or the bug (which would then be first person/first bug view), then you get spawned and have to bite the human before you get clicked/swatted. This could be really short (basically just an extra mini-game that it's possible to play for a laugh, you win if you bite the human)..
2nd idea is more daft, but could be amusing if it was an option (or indeed it unlocks as an option if you defeat the boss bug).
What are your thoughts on other mechanics?
Thanks for playing! :)
lol love the ideas; my ideas actually came to me from other commenters - the notion of a combo system where after so many successful swats you are able to do some special abilities; perhaps introducing a dodging mechanism where you gotta roll out of the way from certain unswattable bugs; if you bring the mouse as an input along with keyboard; maybe you have a spray can or something you can direct while swatting as well?
nice ideas! Spray can would indeed be a good idea while swatting. Maybe with a limit to the spray so that only use it for 'emergencies' when there are lots of bugs on the screen at once, so that you can't just spray the whole time? Would add a nice 'skill' element I reckon :) also a combo element could be really cool
i like the idea but it would be cool if there was some more variety in the gameplay. They come from the same spots and even when i didnt click on them i survived for like 10 seconds. I survived for 60.
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Sludge SpyAwww man I fucking hate bedbugs! I really liked the sound effects, the bugs were a bit too small and hard to click at times but that might just be me xD Also I'd be nice if they spawn randomly instead of 4 fixed directions! Good job though, over all I think this was super fun!
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Our Savior BeaverHaha sorry! Yeah had them once years ago and they are indeed horrible! I know what you mean about the randomized spawning, I originally had like 10 different spawn points but that was just too chaotic, but like you say I may have been better just randomizing spawn points along the edge of the bed instead of having fixed points. Thanks for your feedback! :) Cheers
Very original and fun, I was looking forward to more ;)
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Glitched Multiverse (jam game)Thanks! Yeah I cam to the jam quite late on sunday, so by 4AM monday I decided it would do haha.. but I would have liked to have maybe added more features, like bugs speeding up, bigger bugs that take more clicks to kill, and more actual game bugs (instead of just the one at the end where the counter keeps going after game over) but you get the idea :) glad you found it fun! Cheers
This is me trying to get rid of the bugs in my game hahahah
One of the few 3D games of the jam, at least that I saw it. Good job, his animation was fun to watch and at the same time I kind felt bed for him ahahah
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Bugoss FightThe bugs got me D: Check out my game if you get the chance I mean you are a Caterpillar with a handgun what's not to like!?!
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