philomory 2010-12-20 10:37
Clever game. The controls could be a little finnicky at times, but that may be due to my machine's poor relationship with Flash than with the game itself. I liked the twist, it'd be neat to see it developed further.
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD19 → The Dreamer
By johnfn
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fun | 17 | 3.72 | 18 | |
| Audio | 19 | 3.72 | 18 | |
| Overall | 14 | 3.78 | 18 | |
| Innovation | 51 | 3.33 | 18 | |
| Theme | 32 | 3.78 | 18 | |
| Graphics | 66 | 3.28 | 18 | |
| Humor | 29 | 3.18 | 17 | |
| Community | 51 | 3.50 | 16 | |
| Coolness | 46 | 12 |
Clever game. The controls could be a little finnicky at times, but that may be due to my machine's poor relationship with Flash than with the game itself. I liked the twist, it'd be neat to see it developed further.
Thanks. The main issue I noticed (not sure if this is what you're experiencing?) is pressing 3 buttons at once (i.e. jumping up and left while holding shift). As you suspected, this is more Flash than me; I figured out a bit too late that Flash sometimes can't deal with 3 simultaneous key presses. It's really strange though, and in fact I didn't notice because it depends on where the keys are on your keyboard (for me, right shift didn't work, but left shift did).
Really good game. I like explory games like this. The "jump" feels floaty until you realise it's more of a float power and needs to be treated as such.
Took me a while to talk to the guys on the dark side as well (instead I tried to get to the top right corner of the bottom right screen).
Haha, lots of losing focus. Nice sort of dream-like music too. Getting used to the controls took a while, I think it responds a little too quickly. Overall it was satisfying to play.
I really enojoyed the game. Movement speed is fast ;P
I couldn't find the last one :(
Also, it reminds me of Knytt, which is cool!
Thanks guys. Do you think I should turn down the speed a little? I made it pretty fast because I always got frustrated with games when the movement speed was too slow.
@Sos: Cool! I really like Knytt :) I think in my final version of this game I'll give some sort of indicator to see if there is a guy in this room - because I really dislike games where you have to do endless searching.
As for now, a hint to anyone who is still searching: there are TWO guys in the dark world.
Fun game, and the music was really fitting. I like the quick responsive controls.
I really loved this game. I had played something very similar on Kongregate not too long ago with the same kinda of basic mechanic minus the shift key. I really enjoyed this game although I was annoyed that I couldn't find where the last guy was hiding.
Twitchy controls, but I like the dual-world thing very much.
Talking pie sidekick? That is just awesome. At least you made the dream come true.
Nice game. I played it till the end. I really wanted to find all guys. The ending was amazing. Really nice game, great concept, good theme fulfillment. Great humor, overall a really really fun little game.
Thanks for the comments guys. I guess I kinda messed up on the controls. I'll be sure to improve on them next time around, (assuming I end up making a platformer again).
Also, @Starspell, wouldn't my game without the shift mechanic just be a normal game? :)
I initially found the controls quite floaty but I later realized that's on purpose, good job with the theme and the level design.
Wow, thanks for the nice votes guys! I was just hoping to get in the top 10%. 'Course, I plan to do even better next LD. ;)
Also I think it's funny that I was the only one in the top 10 to not get any other rewards. Apparently although I suck at innovating, being fun, theming, making graphics, making audio and being funny, I'm a decent game maker. :P