Squeezlings
Web build is not great! Best experience with the downloaded version.
Note if you play in browser: the game will load for a while if you press "new game", with a black screen. Every time a new effect is shown, the game will lag. This will resolve itself while you play.
Your little Squeezlings need help!
Though cute and very diligent these tiny creatures always require a little “nudge” in the right direction.
Guide their Rapid Evolution™ and satisfy your hunger!
Watch them as they take care of themselves and your plants.
The next yummy Nellemon is ripe for the growing!
— Controls —
- WASD = move camera
- Left-click = pick up/drop
- Right-click = squash
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TEAM:
- René Habermann - Direction, game design, production, coding
- Anne Hecker - Art
- Raffaele Picca - Art, Coding, game design
- Luca Martinelli - Coding, game design
- Ste - Coding
- Shux - Cover art
- Ron Kaiser - Coding
- Martin Kvale - Sound design
- Cameron Paxton - Composing, music production, logo
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This game was originally made in 72 hours for Ludum Dare 56. The currently uploaded version is a post-jam version where we tuned the balance a bit, added some animations we could not get in, added another text hint when you hover the plants and added beards to old squeezlings. The experience is similar to the jam game, the looks are nearly identical, but it's just a bit nicer and smoother.
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Really cool game.
One niggle: I squished everyone I found with a cockroach symbol for the entire game, assuming it was an undesirable trait. Only at the very end did I learn it was supposed to be a positive trait...
Something like a tongue symbol would have communicated that a lot better.
okay this is annoying i had to restart it multiple times (still on web) just to not lag out. I'm playing this when i have more time... this prob will take an hour of restarting to get it to just NOT lag (not the owners fault or makers i mean, but this is AMAZING and PEAK and FIRE that has been LIT but its just that YES I KNOW THEY SAID AND GAVE A WARNING web version is so much worse and laggier. I can't get Downloaded stuff for my own reasons)
is it because im doing it on Web? Also if you need to ask which browser im using Chrome
can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong? So, I take the faceberries, put them in the big machine thingy (i think it makes them seeds) but when i get it (when its ready for harvesting), I squash it. The Faceberry comes out. This weird like wallish thingy (kind of like a little... thingy to hold it??) comes and takes it, and plants it in one of the bowls. it says "[name] is putting Faceberry into storage" and then he puts it in the bowls and it dissapears and i cant make it into a seed. Someone pls help me
Nevermind guys I guess it was glitching out for a second. It's working now, I don't get it. I think i was doing something wrong and it dissapeared but everything is fine now
I loved it. I literally had the PERFECT specimen (FIVE traits, not including the tusk) and was planning on curating a society that mainly consisted of that specimen, but I sadly beat the game and it doesn't let you continue playing after all goals are complete :(
Is it just for me that the squeezlings don't have a texture? They're just grey squares.
there gray squarte for me
I loved what parts of this worked, but they refused to harvest the plumkins and frequently they'd eat, stand there for the rest of the night, and then go back to work without having any babies
as usual bippinbits stands for quality. great game
super unsualy type of game = fantastic idea.
very cozy and ultracool interactions, planting, squashing, evolving.
i especially liked the "chopsticks" and "fingerplanting/squashing"
cool that the tiny creatures evolve and learn new skills etc.
super soundtrack and awesome visuals, colors and lighting
you wrote:
"Note if you play in browser: the game will load for a while if you press "new game", with a black screen. Every time a new effect is shown, the game will lag. This will resolve itself while you play. "
usually that is the worst in firefox, chrome is usally still relativly good.
you can try and look at that: (to fix shader/particle compilation stutter)
after that you have to emit all the particles, combined with a light, this can be done hidden ONCE at game start, combined with a light and have them active as a node at all times in the background (without emitting). to get rid of all the shader compilation stuff. Otherwise it can come back in different scenes
We ran into such issues with an older game of ourselfs.
I would guess that you know that already,
maybe you just had not enough time to fix that.
greetings from germany
50 minutes in, yet still can't get past those hand/arm stages -_-
You can get new creatures by squshing plants with a fruit. Sometimes your creatures evolve into "dead ends", which is when you need to squish them.
Then you cabbage is a catalyst for arm evolution, speeding that up. If you want to evolve the arms quickly, you can squish the other food or even the complete plants. For example, you might want to squish all the faceberry plants once you got the different heads.