greasemonkey 2011-12-19 06:27
I may need to either hold back or forfeit voting for this as it runs like arse on my computer.
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD22 → Holdout
By k4orta
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Graphics | 58 | 3.75 | ||
| Humor | 299 | 1.92 | ||
| Mood | 472 | 1.94 | ||
| Overall | 479 | 2.40 | ||
| Theme | 487 | 2.25 | ||
| Fun | 491 | 2.05 | ||
| Innovation | 501 | 2.05 | ||
| Community | 519 | 2.00 | ||
| Audio | 538 | 1.18 | ||
| Coolness | 685 |
I may need to either hold back or forfeit voting for this as it runs like arse on my computer.
I couldn't play for long, the jerking of the screen really made it disorienting. Lovely art though.
Beautiful, but unplayably difficult, fixed to WASD (using ZQSD or arrows here), and not a sound in the world.
Very difficult and buggy, but lovely art and story
Hahaha, pretty cool! I like that big octopus.
Hm. I had a lot of trouble with this. The art was *amazing* and I did really like the story/premise, but I couldn't really get the game itself to work. The performance went to unplayable nothing when the camera moved (i.e. when you aim or shoot, i.e. all the time) and the strange jerking when you fire made it hard to do anything. There didn't seem to be any strategy beyond "click repeatedly until overwhelmed", since there didn't seem to be a good way either for you to dodge pitchforks or for invaders to avoid being shot by you-- but it's hard to tell since I couldn't get the game to work well enough to experiment (I never figured out what the third item does). Other odd bugs: You can't move until you shoot; if you are standing with your back to a wall and an invader walks into you, you get pushed inside the wall; the mousewheel to item select interacts very badly with Macbook trackpads.
This game made me feel like whatever it was you were <i>aiming</i> for would have been really cool, I found myself wanting to play what it was you intended this game to be. Have you considered making a "completed" post-LD version?
Is it possible to interact with the purple octopus thing?
Very pretty, love the artwork, however the game is very awkward to play due to the screen jumping about all over the place.