Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD22 → Diamond Darkness
By sr101
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Audio | 176 | 2.82 | ||
| Graphics | 278 | 2.83 | ||
| Innovation | 291 | 2.58 | ||
| Mood | 320 | 2.40 | ||
| Fun | 429 | 2.17 | ||
| Overall | 435 | 2.50 | ||
| Theme | 487 | 2.25 | ||
| Humor | 545 | 1.33 | ||
| Community | 632 | 1.71 | ||
| Coolness | 685 |
Looks pretty good, I like the shadow effect, but it would have been nice to be able to see a small radius around you, because its hard to get a sense of where you are. Otherwise, theres not much to this game, sometimes the randomly generated maps can be a little unbalanced.
Who sent this poor thing into a cave without any diamonds? That's just mean. (There seems to be a bug where there aren't diamonds for me)
This is a very cool idea, and the shadow effects are nice. But at the moment, the game is too frustrating to play.
As CPO said, I couldn't find any diamonds, and as CplMustard said, without a small area of light around the player, we just can't see where the fast monsters are coming from.
An alternative would be to have the sillouette of the monsters appear (no color), when not under the flashlight, so you know you need to run, but you don't know what color to use to kill them.
Also, changing colors to match the monsters using the scroll wheel is a bit too hard at the moment. Maybe use the right button instead? Or make the scrool wheel a tad lass sensitive? Or use less colors?
Hope you keep working on the cool concept!
Nice lighting. The controls are really awkward though. WASD to move would be way nicer. Also the color thing doesn't really add a lot.
runs under WINE better than most gamemaker games do, but i cant tell if the glitchy graphics are from the game itself or the d3d->opengl translation, so i cant properly rate. cool idea though.
The color switching as it is detracts from the fun and the mood, since I'm mad at the controls moreso than mechanical difficulty. I wish you could either pick the colors by hitting the numbers keys, or that there were only two to three colors to choose from. It would still be difficult and interesting, but I could flip colors by gut reaction and enjoy surviving instead of constantly scrolling to the wrong color and dying.
Lighting effects are great and really fit the mood. You could maybe do a radius of twilight, but if enemies moved more slowly, I don't think it would be necessary for players to see them coming. Fast moving and invisible makes for a frustrating combination.