Derpmiffo's rescue mission

Category	Rank	Score
Fun	550	1.85
Humor	571	1.30
Mood	609	1.50
Overall	628	1.92
Graphics	630	1.77
Innovation	649	1.54
Coolness	685
Theme	697	1.31

joedev_net 2011-12-21 20:36

Were the levels randomly generated? I played for a while and noticed the same obstacles popping up back to back. My first thought was that this is a little repetitive, but them I thought that it might be random. If it wasn't randomly generated, then I would suggest trying to mix up various things so the player doesn't do the same thing over and over again.

Not being able to go backwards was a little annoying, also no real explanation that shooting the barrels several times will make them disappear. Those things seem to really be holding it back. Other than those, nice game for 48 hours.

slaeshjag 2011-12-21 23:34

Well, it's all a matter of underestimating the amount of time everything would take. First of all, there isn't any real random level generation. It has a set of "fragments" that it assembles in a "random" order, I had no time to test how random this really was. Also, I ran out of time to create enough of these fragments for it to really work, there's only about 20 of them available to the level generator, and for some reason it feels like half of them never shows up in the game.

The not being able to go backwards was first a quick hack to avoid refactoring the collision detecting code, and the idea was to cover it up with a "there's no going back" part of the "story".

The menu, gamestate and pretty much everything that isn't the core game mechanics was slapped on the last 90 or so minutes, There was no time either to add real explenations for how everything works, I was writing the menu system when I hit my coding deadline (as I needed to make the windows port as well...)

But yeah, for being my game ever (well, excluding the ones I did in game maker 9 or 10 years ago), it did turn out better than I expected considering the time limit.

wompus 2011-12-22 01:19

Lol weird shit but fun to play

stargoat 2011-12-27 11:09

Some good platforming - jumping feels nice. Inability to walk backwards annoying! A bit of trial and error...

Not sure if it fits the theme terribly well?

sonnybone 2011-12-27 12:35

I ran into several invisible walls while playing. Was this intentional? Also, the NO GOING BACK mechanic is pretty unique, but I eventually ran out of checkpoints. I went for a loooooong time without seeing another. I die and had to go back to a point waaaay before where I was and I had to stop playing.

summaky 2011-12-27 20:29

To me the player moves too slow and made me lost interest on the game. The theme also seems the be lacking from this entry or I can't feel it, anyway. Other than that, it is good.

caranha 2012-01-03 15:44

You put some lipstick on the monster. Lol :-P

Interesting choice to allow only forward movement. There are a few invisible walls in your game, you should check that.

Good luck next LD22!