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• peace.on.earth - Feb 02 2007 | bug, game, bug game, chriss

  try it
• X - Jan 08 2007 | flash, me, games, video games, web games

  I changed it so the bugs come from both directions, but dont eat flowers quite as fast. Try it and tell me what you think.

  • ljc - Jan 08 2007
    

    hey, i just played it for the first time and it rocks. is there any way to pause the game? i was on level 5 or so and the phone rang, and i lost all my flowers while answering it. since then i realized that (in firefox) you can make it pause by right-clicking and selecting "print...", but if there is (or could be) an actual pause button that would be a more elegant solution...

  • X - Jan 08 2007
    

    Awesome. I am glad you like it.
    Pausing- i think i can throw that in. I will be implementing something similar as an in game power up. Speaking of which -lee (or anyone else), I am going to be adding in other kinds of bugs that do novel things when you click them So far ideas are:

    Click a bug and it:
    -Slows down all other bugs
    -All bugs flip upside down (stop moving) for a short period of time.
    -Explodes, taking out other bugs in blast radius
    -Squishes into a sticky puddle which stops/ slows down other bugs
    -Explodes onto your screen, temporarily blinding you with bug guts.

    or just faster, sneakier, cool looking types of bugs.

    Well, which of these sound cool? any other ideas?

  • One - Jan 08 2007
    

    make one of the bugs hallucinogenic so that when you click it your mouse controls go all crazy

  • X - Jan 08 2007
    

    I was thinking something like that, maybe i could just turn all the bugs into little faces for a moment.

  • mike - Jan 09 2007
    

    I like the idea of a bug with a little bomb on his back - killing other bugs within a blast radius (I would wait until there are a bunch around him before killing him).

  • ljc - Jan 09 2007
    

    the bomber bug sounds like a cool idea. the only issue is, presumably the flowers wouldn't be affected, which would be a little weird. messing up the mouse control sounds horrible (and tricky to program?) to me. i'm having enough trouble already with my %#^*(! laptop touchpad thing... a bug that slows down the others would be most welcome.

  • ljc - Jan 10 2007
    

    level 30, 367,160 points: http://f3.yahoofs.com/users/42ec21f2z2c2a7d0a/ee9b/__sr_/79f3scd.jpg?phwRLpFB0m13a37C

  • X - Jan 10 2007
    

    wow. well thats definitely a high score
• X - Jan 07 2007 | flash, me, games, video games, web games

  Small update:
  -added flower graphics
  -made shoe 33% faster. (not sure if this is enough)

  -EDIT: turned a debug setting off (the shit was activated)

  • chris - Jan 07 2007
    

    i tried this game out, i like the idea, its kind of addictively fun :) one thing I did notice though is that the bugs always seem to come from the left side. this makes it incredibly easy to play because i just look to the left. i was expecting them to come from everywhere, but then they didn't, and after about level 3 I was bored...

  • X - Jan 07 2007
    

    Thanks for your input! yeah, i think i will probably make a harder difficulty version where bugs come from all sides. I have a few other things to put in which will effect gameplay pretty drastically, and then ill start tweaking difficulty, prices, etc.

  • One - Jan 07 2007
    

    woohoo level 22 and 109000 points..but the buy new flower seed option stopped working when it cost 7500, I could still pay but I wouldnt get a flower.

    shoe speed is very good

  • X - Jan 08 2007
    

    oh well i just changed some things...
• X - Jan 06 2007 | flash, me, games, video games, web games

  Updated with better graphics: I would love feedback on what you think about graphics/gameplay etc.

  Known problems:
  -Need graphics for titlepage, upgrade store and flower
  -the screen flashes for a moment when you first load it.

  • Jester - Jan 06 2007
    

    pretty neat...some things i noticed...

    the shoe seems buggy...i have to wait for it to come back up and end up missing a bunch of bugs i would have killed without it. also if you try to kill bugs that are eating your flowers with the shoe it won't work...plus if you lose the game with the shoe, you can't hit the start game button afterwards with it

    i think it'd be neat if you could throw in different kinds of bugs...some that move faster than others just to switch it up a bit

    if i have too many flowers on teh screen, the score window will appear behind them

    i always setup my flowers to the right because i know the bugs are always going to come from the left...maybe allow bugs to come in from any side? and allow me to reposition flowers at each level?

    when i buy a seed i'm told how many seed i own but it just applies to the current purchase session...seemed a little weird to me since i already bought a bunch from previous levels

    nitpicking here, but any sounds you could add would be awesome...like stress music in the background to make the player nervous...

    all around nice job though...neat idea!

  • Roooabit - Jan 06 2007
    

    cool. my brother says that it is very cool, he easily understood that he couldn't place flowers in some spots and all that good stuff that i didn't figure out.

    so i'm the cuteness judge:
    the bugs, not so cute, but i actually like them better! they make me fell like i'm squishing something disgusting and i'm very proud of myself :) i like it. don't change that. that is perfect the way it is. it is kinda gross, but it makes the game 100times better. for real. the grass is very cute!!!!! omg! i love it!!

    it's getting there! now those flowers just need to be pretty! hehe

  • X - Jan 06 2007
    

    @ jester: thanks for all the feedback! wow this is great.
    -Shoe: Yeah, i am kind of fiddling with it. If you can click as fast as you want, the game gets way to easy, but now it feels a little glitchy. Do you think i should make it faster and/or smaller?
    Didnt remember lose game bug- thanks

    -Different kinds of bugs are coming once all graphics are finished.

    -flowers over score: known bug, i will have to learn some new stuff in flash before i can fix it.

    -I might make a "bugs from all directions" mode once i get the game working from the left. Some of my other friends requested this too.

    -repositioning is an interesting idea. Ill put some thought into that.

    -Sounds are coming. I am taking a 'sound design in games' class this semester though, so I though i would put it off till later once I am an expert on it. but yeah i think that sound could add a lot.

    Seems like you enjoyed it, seeing as how you played it long enough to come up with all this feedback. Glad you like it.

  • X - Jan 06 2007
    

    @ roz:
    -Cool, yeah flowers are coming soon, just wanted to take a break. I will start making beautiful flowers as soon as I defeat Sagat in Street Fighter II: The World Warrior. haha.

    Flowers will take a little bit longer because i am going to make a sprouting graphic, then a full flower graphic, and then a different one for the pink flowers. But its coming soon.
• X - Dec 28 2006

  my flash game is improving.
  -added point system
  -you can now buy upgrades (which dont yet do anything)
  -level system
  -lose state works mostly

  comment this dot about any bugs found. (please, i mean bugs, not bad puns)