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A jam submission

Fly SwattahView game page

Swat flies, buy upgrades, and defend your cake! But be careful to not use up all of your points!
Submitted by Team Zandt (@TeamZandt) — 1 hour, 12 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Audio#1054.1184.118
Artwork#6734.1764.176
Enjoyment#21013.4713.471
Creativity#32533.5293.529
Narrative#35472.6472.647

Ranked from 17 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

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Submitted

The buzzing music is really charming! I think this is way more entertaining than any tower defense. I don’t know if I ran into a bug or this was intended, but I purchased the first permanent item twice expecting to have two on screen. Alas there was only one on screen :c I also feel like there could’ve been a really satisfying squish sfx with the finger. Definitely not something as punchy as the flip flop, but something.

overall a fun little game!

Submitted

Fun little game! I like the fly-based audio beat lol, and the visuals work well with what you're going for. My only complaint is the connection to the theme feels pretty tenuous and feels more like it was added just to appease the jam than as the basis of the game itself.

Feel free to rate my game too if you get the chance!

Submitted

Swatted too much in my penultimate phase and finished on 143 points before dying the next phase 🤬. Enjoyed it though, and loved that the music was fly-based.

Observations:

  • The permanent upgrades (specifically the frogs and flypaper) seem much more powerful than the weapons.
  • The enemies take a bit too long to enter the screen from the start of each phase
  • I still have no idea what the wasps do
  • Took me a bit of time to understand that the shielded flies were protected by their surrounding flies - perhaps if the shield generators were a different colour?
  • Flypapered flies should count as defeated for wave end purposes (I often had to click around the edge of the screen to kill the one that was stopping the game from progressing). Also one time after popping a cluster fly last the game switched to the shop while its children were popping out.
  •  After restarting from my game over, I kept my frog army and then immediately got 500 points (presumably from the defeated flies from the last run?)
Submitted

I was screaming at my screen "JUST PUT A LID ON IT! WHY DON'T YOU CLEAN UP THE FLIES ON THE FLOOR???"

Overall, really solid gameplay loop. The music is a bop and the art is cute. I think the game glitched early and locked me out of buying the swatter. 

Submitted

the music is a banger. unfortunately after wave 2, it just froze

Submitted (1 edit)

That music was so good that I didn't realize until I was well into wave 4 that it was composed of fly sounds. Also the fly's pathfinding is so good how did you even do that? Incredible work.

Submitted

this is cool, i had a lot of fun playing! i really enjoyed how the fly sounds were incorporated into the music haha. as others have said the beginning of waves felt slow but that was my only note on it!

Submitted (1 edit)

Man, even in game, those flies kept trying to ate my cake. Btw, i really like tha way your bgm incorporate the flies sounds in there. 

Submitted(+1)

Love the art and I enjoyed playing the game, only suggestion would be that during the beginning when the flies came in, they came in a bit slow, but other than that nice work :)