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Would be nice if the game made it more clear what is needed to win and when you've won =) Yes, it's small text on the top, but it could be made more obvious.. Yes, I played it through.
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD13 → Buffalo Road LD13
By greencow
| Percentile | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | LD13 | Ever | |
| Fun | 11 | 3.64 | 14 | |||
| Overall | 15 | 3.57 | 14 | |||
| Theme | 17 | 4.00 | 14 | |||
| Innovation | 21 | 3.36 | 14 | |||
| Humor | 11 | 3.33 | 9 | |||
| Polish | 17 | 3.36 | 14 | |||
| Audio | 23 | 2.71 | 14 | |||
| Graphics | 35 | 2.86 | 14 | |||
| Technical | 23 | 3.00 | 14 | |||
| Journal | 36 | 2.18 | 11 | |||
| Towlr | 38 | 2.50 | 6 | |||
| Food | 1 | |||||
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Would be nice if the game made it more clear what is needed to win and when you've won =) Yes, it's small text on the top, but it could be made more obvious.. Yes, I played it through.
I liked: nice approach
Could be improved: ui, consistency in presentation e.g is the speech thing necessary?, replay value, difficulty
I like the looping mechanic -- reminds me of Jezzball and such, only more interesting.
I'd improve the graphics a bit, maybe make the buffalos a little more intelligent (read: evil), and record some better audio. Probably not in that order (grin).
I played this for quite awhile actually and I'm not sure I could really say why for certain. I enjoyed trying out some different circling strategies, both of the buffalos and the resources like trees and mountains. I laughed out load the first time I heard the buffalo capture noise, that was hilarious! Seems like a fun idea. Also seems entirely sureal in that it doesn't make much sense at all to be capturing bufallos and resources with road circles, but whatever! ;) Congrats on your college news too!
Very neat use of the mouse for capturing the buffalo. It would be nice if the buffalo were more intelligent, but as is it was very fun!
I like it! Occasionally the road collision seemed off, and sometimes I won without getting any buffalo at all, but it was quite cool!
This is a nifty game. It took me a while to comprehend buffalo catching. They weren't terribly threatening all around. Well, nothing was... it's an EASY game! But it's cool and fun. Really too easy though. In every level, you can just whip a line out and enwrap everything you need to win in one line with ease. Yes, I'm calling enwrap a word.
The audio needed some serious boost (except the crunch of road failure). It took about 5 levels before I realized there was speech hiding deep down under there! It's funny when you can hear it.
Liked the buffalos :D. Pretty fun, although the building material restrictions got really tight at the end.
It took me a little while to figure out that you had to circle the trees or the mountains, but once I understood that, it was a good game. Nice job.
Totally awesome. One of the best entries I've played thus far. Yes, it's easy, but I think of LD games as more of a proof-of-concept, and what you've shown here is a really, really fun game.
Really enjoyed playing this one.
It's quite easy to beat, especially if you're fast with mouse. The buffaloes don't really stand a chance.
I'm looking forward to buffaloes in space :)