Nursery Slime

Story

Stranded in space, a giant mother slime lands on an unknown and uninhabited planet. Too weak to take care of itself, it sends forth one single, tiny slime. This slime is you.

Provided with the mother slimes' core, you need to take care of your mother. Serve her various savory resources to help her recover. But look out - she will get weaker as time continues, so make sure a constant supply of nutriment is established!

Luckily, you don't have to shoulder this burden alone - by using the powers of the mother slime core, you are able to generate duplicates of yourself for chopping down trees, picking reed for fibers and many other tasks that help to ensure survival of Mother Slime!

So what are you waiting for? Get out there, explore, harvest, mine - and, most importantly, make Mom proud!

Feature list

• Fits the GameJam theme ("Evolve!") due to having a tiny slime splitting up into more and more slimes. Becoming a horde - one slime at a time evolving into a slimy, but productive and hungry-for-resources workforce!

• Simple, but (hopefully) satisfying game loop - "Watch the numbers grow!"

• Unlock more resources and regions while you progress through the game!

• Slimes, of course (because who doesn't like those tiny blobs of big-eyed cuteness?)!

• Cute background story which doesn't get in the way of the gameplay!

Controls & supported input devices

• Input devices: PC keyboard, Gamepad

• Controls for PC keyboard:

Pause the game	ESC
Move up	W / ↑
Move left	A / ←
Move down	S / ↓
Move right	D / →
Interact	E

• Controls for Gamepad:

Pause the game	START button
Move up	Left Stick - Up
Move left	Left Stick - Left
Move down	Left Stick - Down
Move right	Left Stick - Right
Interact	South Button

Tutorial

Move around the environment using the movement controls mentioned above. If near to a resource like resin or an essence, use the "Interact" key to pick it up.

When you're near a resource POI (like a sawmill, a reed pond, a quarry or an iron mine), you can deploy tiny slimes to work there by using the "Interact" key. Those slimes will generate the assigned resource over time.

When near to Mother Slime, use the "Interact" key to feed her. This will increase her HP, preventing a game over.

Minimum / recommended system specifications

• Minimum specs: untested

• Recommended specs: untested

Use of external assets & tools

• Tools:
  • Unity Engine (game engine)
  • Blender (3D asset creation)
  • Substance Painter 3D (normal map generation)
  • Audacity (audio editing)
  • Google Translate (for writing this Itch.io page)

• Sounds
  • "Button select" sound: mixkit.co
    
  • "Menu Selection" sound: opengameart.org
  • "Low Slime HP" sound: mixkit.co
  • "Chirping Birds" sound: mixkit.co
  • "Building" sound: youtube.com
  • "Walking on grass" sound: bigsoundbank.com
  • "Cutting" sound: pixabay.com
  • "Mining" sound: pixabay.com
  • "Plop" sound: youtube.com
    

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Credits

Team name: "The_Rejects"

Felix Werner	as	Programming Lead, Team Lead
Nicolas Hentschel	as	Programmer
"NuriLa"	as	Engine & UI
"hanner"	as	Art Lead, 3D Artist, Concept Art
"Janik"	as	3D Artist, Rigging & Animation
Simon Lauckner	as	3D Artist, Itch.io Manager

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Contact information

For further information regarding the project, you may contact Steppenwolf#0335 on Discord. Please be advised that in case of spam or other malicious acts concerning this Discord account, appropriate countermeasures will be initiated.

Background Information

This game was developed as an entry for the "Summer alpha GameJam 2022", organized by the University of Applied Sciences Mittweida. The GameJam and all the games created there can be found here: https://itch.io/jam/summer-alpha-game-jam-22.

If you want to find out more about it and the course of studies called "Media Informatics & Interactive Entertainment", you might take a look at this: https://www.cb.hs-mittweida.de/studienangebote-der-fakultaet/medieninformatik-und-interaktives-entertainment-bachelor/.

For more information regarding the "alpha" organization and the initiative "Games Studieren" (translated "Study Games"), please refer to https://games-studieren.hs-mittweida.de/alpha/.