Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD46 → Feedback comment stats → smilewood
Feedback comments for LD46
smilewood's games and stats for all events →
| Timestamp | Since previous | Game | smilewood's comment | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 21 01:34:14 | Vaccinator | ♥ 1 | Quite a fun little shooter. I liked the concept of defending the organs, and I thought the design of the whole area was well done, and the aesthetic of the game was great. I personally found the controls to be unintuitive, I kept hitting Q and E expecting to roll, at least the beginning. Overall I did not find move up and down to be that helpful as controls, my instinct was always to just aim up and move forward. Once I got the hang of the controls moving around felt nicely fluid. Nicely Done! | |
| Apr 23 00:21:07 | 46h 46m | Cable Guy | ♥ 2 | Fun puzzle platformer. The physics of the cables was great, and worked quite well with the overall theme you had. I loved some of the graphics, especially the server overloading explosion. The controls were fairly good overall, jumping could use some work but is always difficult in a platformer. I felt like I ended up running off of ledges quite often when I expected to jump, and the jump height/velocity curve felt off, probably because I have been playing too many games (real world physics are a curse). I liked the speedrunning style of the puzzles, the first few levels really got me into the game, but the hidden passages really did not do it for me, especially drops that I could not see coming and fell into dozens of times as I could not tell where they were. Perhaps some subtle visual cue that was easy to miss but when noticed gave some reference would have helped. Great concept and good execution, not everything can be tuned to perfection in a game jam. Well done! |
| Apr 23 00:21:45 | 38s | BrewMancy | ♥ 4 | Fantastic design work here, the visuals of the house were stunning and the music fit right in with the game’s vibe. I think that ion that alone this is a unique entry into a jam like this. The gameplay itself did not do it for me as much, the endless quest to find a random item in a house with no clues that I saw as to where the item was got a bit grating and caused me to loose a couple of times. I think that the controls may have had something to do with that; I found the sensitivity of the mouse to be unbearably slow and would have loved an option to adjust it. Each time that I launched the game it did not hide my mouse cursor in first person and so I was also stuck with the arrow in the middle of the crosshair. I thought that the potion system was interesting, although with the time limit I did not get to experience it as much as I would have liked to. Overall I would call this a very interesting game, knocking it out of the park on environmental design and just needing a bit more to fully pull me in on the gameplay itself. Well done! |
| Apr 23 00:22:29 | 44s | Root Mania | ♥ 1 | Cool concept, a combo of pipe connecting puzzle and Tetris. I liked the style of the game, the little sparkles that followed pipe pieces around was a good touch. The music was nice and calming, although the sound effect of pieces sliding was quite loud and jarring. As you said, the gameplay did not go anywhere, but as a beginning it was quite fun. I was surprised when I grew a tree and a bulldozer came out of nowhere and flattened it. I think that this is a great little concept piece, well done! |
| Apr 23 00:23:07 | 38s | Keep the Party Alive! | ♥ 3 | This is a fun take on the theme! I think that it was well executed, the environment was interesting to move through and the quests showed up at about the right speed to keep me interested. It was interesting that you could pick up and move guests at will, I ended up stacking some of the ones in the further away rooms right by the kitchen after one requested a drink just as I brought one to the person they were talking with. I found the camera to be quite floaty for my taste, when I was just starting it was a little nauseating. You did a great job designing around using outside character models, they did not look out of place at all in the rest of the house. Overall very well done! |
| Apr 23 00:23:42 | 35s | Social Distancing For LadyBugs | ♥ 2 | Very nice game. There is something very fun about games that involve clicking on things, and this one has enough of a twist that it works really well. The swarming behavior of the bugs is great and provides enough space for some strategy that when combined with the interestingly shaped and large swatter made me think a couple of times about the strategy that I approached with. The music was fun and fit the game well, and the jingle when I accidently hit a ladybug was quite good. Great work, especially for a first jam entry! |
| Apr 23 02:36:07 | 2h 12m | Sunlit | ♥ 3 | An outstanding implementation of a zen game. The way that the tree grows is fantastic and training it to avoid the shadows provides the perfect amount of engagement that kept me playing all the way to the top. I thought that the color changes that propagated all the way through the tree when branches started or stopped growing were a great touch. The only issue that I saw was that the tree could, and often did, grow through the black areas casting shadows, but for a game jam this game had extraordinary levels of polish. The inclusion of small creatures was great, it kept me looking up for more things to get to. The soundtrack fit well with the game, although it did get a bit repetitive after a while. Overall I think this was a great entry to the jam, well done! |
| Apr 23 03:01:04 | 24m 57s | It's Just Human | ♥ 0 | A fun and challenging take on this style of game. I think that the addition of elements was quite well passed, and the increase in challenge felt pretty good. I thought that the intro was a bit long, and the voiceover was difficult to understand for me, so I ended up feeling like I was sitting in near silence for a while at the start of each attempt. I thought that the music was quite good, and I loved the way that it ramped up the tempo and added more elements as the game elements were added. The gameplay itself was not the most effective for me, some of the added elements were rather confusing the first time they showed up and by the time I figured out what was going on they had dropped low enough that it was difficult to recover. Overall an interesting game, well done for a jam! |