great game
this game was really good. it was very original, the sound was great, gameplay and controls were smooth. it was easy* but i know it was meant to be. this game couldn't have been better.
* first time i play and i won without losing a piece of cake.
Yeah, that sounds about right. :P
Nice
wooo! i did it! nobody got my cake! YEAH! >:O eat that! lol great game.
You know, that's about the reaction I got out of the kids I tested it on.
Which I suppose means it gets its message across about as well as any other edutainment game out there...
Shoot the damn kids
I loved it, I forgot I was shooting them with vegetables. It was like DIE DIE DIE!!!
haha, not really. Don't you think some kids will get the wrong idea, that its wrong to share your cake, and its okay to throw your vegetables at others and yell various things such as "eat your vegetables" I liked it though, I hope it wins.
Ehh, the health angle is underplayed in this game. But I honestly couldn't see it any other way.
Luring kids to a health fair with the promise of free cake, and then force-feeding them health foods until they're too full for desert is a ridiculous play mechanic at best, but no more so than jumping on turtles or breaking bricks with your head.
When I set out to design this game, I wanted to make the funnest game I could. So I looked at the existing games on Newgrounds, and the most popular ones seemed to be Defense games. So I kicked that idea around a bit, combined with the list of virtues Wiggi World wanted their games to embody. Health seemed to mesh well with the Defense game paradigm. Unhealthy food in the middle of the screen which everyone wants to eat. Healthy food to fill them up before they do that.
Fortunately for me, kids aren't retarded. They've already been told a billion times to eat their vegetables, and they already know junk food is bad for them. They also know cake tastes good, and given a choice, they'll almost always take the cake.
Is it possible to make a video game so responsible that anyone who plays it will only eat vegetables from now on? OF COURSE NOT. Video games don't control behavior like that. Everyone knows that. (Except Jack Thompson, of course.)
So instead of trying to invent a video game that magically reprograms kids' brains to always do the responsible thing instead of the fun thing, I'm just trying to make a fun game that contains dietary health elements. I figure, if kids can sit down and play my game, have a good time, giggle at the chaos, and maybe associate that fun with vegetables in some subtle way, that's probably the best I can hope for.
BoMToons even said in the forum, after the first wave of Wiggi World submissions hit a few weeks ago, that they were looking for fun games first and foremost, and he thought the moral aspect got over-emphasized somehow. Which I can tell you was a relief to me when I read it, cuz I knew no one would mistake this game for an after-school special.
If I'm lucky, though, they just might mistake it for a fun video game. :)
Eat your vegetables!
Oh hey, I remembered my NG login XD
But anywho, I'm so happy this made it to the front page! I feel awesome for being able to help out, even just a little, with this charming little game. It's almost hard to believe you were able to improve it this much within such a short amount of time. Sure, its still got its little kinks, but what game doesn't? The finished product came out great regardless. Who would have though shooting little purple blobs with vegetables would be so fun? :D
Lol, thanks Erica. :)
Let's all have a big round of applause for Erica Mendez, who provided the voice of Stigg. :)
You did awesome work, Erica. :)
Was very easy
but i have to admit my jaw dropped when i saw the hord of those things that looked like jujubes xD i was like WFT CLICKLCLICKCLICKLCLIK AAAAAAAA!