droqen 2010-08-22 21:53
The concept sounds cool, but I'm getting a ridiculous amount of lag ):
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD18 → Graphell
By zombuster
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Theme | 29 | 3.86 | ||
| Fun | 57 | 3.00 | ||
| Overall | 76 | 2.93 | ||
| Innovation | 78 | 3.07 | ||
| Coolness | 91 | 6 | ||
| Graphics | 117 | 2.43 | ||
| Audio | 132 | 1.38 | ||
| Community | 134 | 1.89 | ||
| Humor | 147 | 1.40 |
The concept sounds cool, but I'm getting a ridiculous amount of lag ):
Sorry for that, optimization is not one of my strong points
that's too bad, causes it's otherwise a very enjoyable game :)
First impressions:
- java freezes firefox completely for 10 seconds while loading the game :( (it does that all the time apparently, not just for your game)
- wasd is not okay with an azerty keymap :-
- big input lag
Nice game! It shares a lot of the gameplay with my entry, just more focused on pure gameplay while mine is more focused on graphics and stuff.
Great minds think alike. :]
It's hard to tell if the concept was working out or not due to the performance problems.
I thought this was really cool, but it was really hard to see what was going on when everything is a circle. I also wasn't sure if I was taking damage from touching enemies so I didn't really feel like I was in any danger. Some sound effects and a clearer health bar would probably help there.
I think this could be a really cool game if polished up a bit.
Man, the cover art is NOTHING like the game!!
Needs work. I'd like to play a future version of this game.
So after patching my Linux kernel to improve interactivity (zen patchset) and writing a tiny script to switch my keymap from azerty to qwerty, I tried again :) ... and now the game is actually fun and works reasonnably well!
Obviously it would be nice to some (explosion) sounds and maybe some levels with different enemies... The graphics are simple but have a nice retro look.
Oh, after reading the description I see there are different enemy types... I can't say it was obvious ingame. Introducing them one after the other could help.
Good fun to play. I liked the graphical style though it got very busy later on and it was hard to tell what was dangerous and what was just particles.
Ran very slowly on my Mac, worked just fine on Windows though.
Link isn't working for me =(