Al Own is Alone with A Loan

Category	Rank	Score
Humor	48	3.25
Fun	159	2.85
Graphics	191	3.08
Theme	225	3.00
Audio	231	2.58
Overall	273	2.85
Innovation	334	2.46
Mood	479	1.91
Community	519	2.00
Coolness	685

maverickprogrammer 2011-12-19 03:03

Real quick, I'd like to state that the map's tiles are a little quirky and I wish I had more time to fix that and include some other form of enemy, but I had a GREAT time participating in my first Ludum Dare comp and I hope to participate in many more to come!

TIP: You can press Escape during the intro to skip it. It's a timed intro for instructions and what-not.

cleggy 2011-12-20 15:29

Fairly good, except I found the game a little too easy.
If you had more time, I would recommend adding more levels.
Other than that - a pretty good game.

shigor 2011-12-20 16:41

Good (ab)use of theme, otherwise too simple and short without any real challenge.
And it doesn't terminate itself correctly, but stays as process.

maverickprogrammer 2011-12-21 02:54

@Cleggy:
Originally it was too hard and so last minutes I changed the rates of the enemy infliction towards the credit. Bad call on my part. I would have rather had it stress-fully challenging than too easy, in my opinion. And yes, I ran out of time before submitting. If I had known there was an extra submission hour, I probably would have abused that and made more levels, but it was my first time. I definitely know what to work on the most next time.

@Shigor:
Thanks for the compliment on my theme abuse! Yes, I'm aware of the easiness factor. I'm bummed myself about it.

All-in-all it was a fun experience and I definitely learned my strengths and weaknesses so I can do much better in the next comp. Thanks for the feedback, both of you!

summaky 2011-12-25 13:32

I concur: it is too easy. And that's the only fault I can find :-)

odra 2012-01-04 07:42

There is money on the ground! But I cant get it! Very interesting "plot" for the entry. Also GRADE: AWESOME

pythong 2012-01-07 12:10

also had the same problem as shigor, the game didn't want to close. other than that: really nice music, funny graphics, and too simple

maverickprogrammer 2012-01-07 22:51

@pythong:

Turns out the library I was using had a bug on windows to lock up and not exit. I'm sorry about that.

Thanks for the compliments! I wish I never changed the difficulty factor last-minute.

I'm more than prepared for next ludum dare though. Looking forward to it.