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Fall is here, and a bunch of beetles need to stock up on juice for the coming winter! Will you help them make their way through a dense forest filled with delicious roots? But be careful, there are other hungry creatures lurking in the shadows, waiting for a tasty snack to wander by.
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The game's art style is really beautiful🎨✨✨☺
The game is really good! I want to keep playing but I already cleared out the entire map! The art style fits really well to the game, the only thing is that I ended up not having enough juice for the last stump (5 short), is it maybe the case that only the grubs produce juice?
Even with this minor "bug", this is such a good game! And the sound effects and the music tie it all together!
Awww thanks so much for playing and for the kind words!
You're not the first one running into this problem. There are 2 critters dropping juice, the Grubs are one of them. After this was pointed out to us I actually checked, and there should have been a third critter dropping juice, I simply forgot to enable it for them. Nonetheless, we actually didn't enable it for all critters, this was us trying to balance things a bit, and it always worked well when we playtested. That's also the main reason why only Grubs can reproduce, so you don't end up with only high tier critters.
Buuut this definitely needs some tweaking in the future, but it's crazy to know people are playing this long, I wasn't expecting that at all :D
The music isn't made by us, but the sounds are! Glad it tied together so well :)
I worked together with my partner on this game while we were in the same room, he made the sounds on the last day and it was extremely funny (and hard for me not to laugh into his recordings xD).
The art here is so striking and unique! Great colours and bug designs. I am not a fan of bugs, but these bugs were pretty darn cute.
Okay this has to be the cutest thing I have ever played. It blends the colony management with exportation really good. Great idea and really great execution with a lot of care and attention to details.
The one thing that bugged -pun not intended- me is that sometimes when I want to move a Stag to defend a line, it combines with a Grub and they all die together. Maybe an extra key for combining (like shift+drag) could’ve helped?
Congratulations to the team. I’d like to see the full game if further developed.
Ohh that's a good suggestion. We tried to keep the controls minimal, but that would actually improve the experience a bit more. I ran into this "issue" too while testing, and can definitely feel the frustration with it as well.
Thank you so much for testing out our game and for the kind words, that feedback will definitely help us improve it later on!
Really cute art!
This was really fun, I wiped the whole map out. Cute art and nice music!
The bugs are so cute and so well made for a 3 day jam! For me it felt like I didn't want to promote grubs at all because they are my primary workers. Because even if an enemy attacks, I can micro manage drag the grubs away and throw my 2 rusts in. Even if I lose 1-2 grub, it is still more efficent than giving up 4 grubs up-front. but then the micro management became overwhelming. I wished promoting grubs to soldiers didn't feel like sacrificing workers because I love maximum efficiency.... but then again if soldiers are free from grubs what is the blocker of not making 10000 soldiers?? I micromanaged the fun away :)
That aside the music, sfx and art is wonderful. game feels well polished overall, great work!
that was a lovely exsperince, so uwu and pretty. I felt so cool when i turned to catterpillar into a friend but a lil disapointed i could make the trantulas friends. damn that good art
Glad you liked it. We had sooo many more ideas for different combinations, but sadly run out of time and had to scrap a lot. Maybe we will add them in a future update.
That's a really fun game! And looks awesome. One comment is that I'd rather not have transparency on objects but make bugs move around them. Because other than that the game is quite beautiful.
Hey, great that you enjoyed it and thanks for the feedback.
I guess you are referring to the Den and Shelter. We had to implement the transparency because otherwise you would not be able to interact with anything that walks or spawns behind them. And blocking everything behind it did not feel right either, it felt to disconnected from the rest of the map. Might look into other solutions though.
Amazing level of polish for 3 days, really enjoyed it!
5 stars all around. fun concept, fun game play and low stress. My only suggestion is that It is not very clear what everything does at first
Hi, we are so happy you had fun. We tried to keep the tutorial as short as possible to encourage the player to just test out different combinations. Maybe we will add some checklist or achievement list in the future so you can track your progress and see what else there is to do (eg. showing that you found x/7 critters)
Some polish and quality of life improvement can make this into a full fledged release! Fantastic vibes and idea with a deceptively deep gameplay loop for 3 day game jam. Great job on the game!
Thank you very much! And thanks for seeing so much potential in the game, that really made my day :D
Yeah, there's a lot we wanted to polish and test a bit more, but I'm honestly impressed by how well the game has been received. Balancing it in just three days was definitely not easy
Really addictive gameplay loop ended up clearing out the whole map! Some small additions for QoL would be a little indicator where your guys are being attacked and being able to scroll the map while grabbing something. Super polished game and really fun!
Oh yes, this is very necessary for the game! We had the same thoughts while testing and tried to think of solutions, but didn't manage to add any of them in time.
But other than that, really glad to hear you enjoyed it so much and kept playing so long! :D
It's so hard to know if a game is fun while making it, especially without time to playtest with other people.
That's SOOO cute i love these little bugs!!!!
Thank you so much! Drawing them was a lot of fun too :D
I had so many ideas for other bugs that I couldn't finish in time though.
The art style is amazing and the juice is incredible! Everything just feels so polished and good! Amazing game!
Thank you so much! <3
We actually added the juice pretty late, after deciding on the name, so it's a relief it doesn't show haha :D
Really glad it feels polished, we spent a lot of time on the little details.
Great game, loved the visuals and style. Incredible all around. If you want a little bit of feedback my main complaint is that you cant merge past three to the yellow bug (to my knowledge)
Thank you so much! There are a few more combos to discover, but not all of them are obvious. There are 7 critters in total, but we had many more ideas we couldn't add in time :(
It's so clean! The controls are easy to understand, and combining it is really smooth too. After realising the merging can branch into different variants, I really got into it. The art is so cute too!
It would be nice if there were some kind of warning before combining your last grub. Losing progress to that was a little painful >.<
Probably my favourite game so far!
That's actually such a good suggestion, I don't know why we didn't think of it. We tested the game as much as we could while making it and this happened to us too, but for some reason it never occurred to me to add another popup for this exact case. Definitely something we're going to change after the jam.
Thanks for the feedback and all the kind words!
Love It!
Thanks! :D
Good game, but lots of bugs. Good bugs!
Thank you! <3 We'd love to say the bugs are all intentional, but only the ones with legs are :)
I loved watching my beetles prosper and multiply. The art and the gameplay are great!
Aww thank you!! Happy to hear you had fun with it :D