greasemonkey 2010-08-22 19:46
Uh, where's the source?
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD18 → This End Up
By jamesgecko
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Community | 74 | 2.91 | ||
| Theme | 92 | 3.20 | ||
| Humor | 94 | 2.00 | ||
| Coolness | 102 | 5 | ||
| Fun | 106 | 2.50 | ||
| Graphics | 116 | 2.45 | ||
| Innovation | 120 | 2.70 | ||
| Overall | 133 | 2.35 | ||
| Audio | 149 | 1.00 |
Uh, where's the source?
That was pretty fun. I think it needs to be a more forgiving though (or at least have an easier difficulty).
A list of suggestions:
-Allow the player to take more than one hit (have health).
-Make attacks on enemies right next to you more successful.
-When an enemy gets up after being attacked, it shouldn't start moving at full speed right away.
-Variable jump height? (by holding the jump key less long)
-Respawn vital enemies (ones needed to activate platforms, etc)
-Fix those glitches :-)
I liked the rhinos. They kept getting away from me though :-(
@GreaseMonkey Looks like the source is zipped in with the windows download.
Yeah, I didn't actually everything working to the point of playability until the last hour or so. I'll hack on a slightly more polished post-compo version soon.
I didn't notice that there was a separate source code category; I'll break up the download accordingly.
I thought the platforms and how they interacted with the enemies were neat.
I liked that "bouncing" enemies also affected the environment (such as turning the platforms over so you could stand on them, which was a step ahead of some games I've seen that followed the same formula).
Glitchiness didn't help; it might have been nice to have been able to see more of this game. Even without improving the sprites, it would have been nice to show direction of facing, since the attacks were directional.
I really enjoyed playing this, though I wished for extra lives or maybe less sensitive collision with the enemies (possibly making the player immune to the little flying guys, they were always where I needed to be).
The graphics style was very cool, the enemies are cute but malicious and well drawn and the backgrounds are simple but striking. The only thing that didn't really fit in was the player character.
It's a bit dissapointing that many platformers don't get the controlling right with some inertia, acceleration, jumping etc. There were couple of neat ideas but there wasn't enough to play and what was there was watered down by glitches and untuned controls.
You had some cool ideas here. I didn't really care for the instant deaths though. The graphics have a nice style to them.
I missed sounds. Sfxr would be great for this kind of game..
After the description warned about the glitchiness so much, I was surprised by how much fun this game is. It works really well, and the art style is great. It's too fast by half and the collision detection goes all to hell when you are against a wall, but with some work on the underlying code this game could be super fun.