alwaysgeeky 2012-04-23 20:59
Nice story.
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD23 → Tondie and Zupe
By cosmologicon
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fun | 14 | 3.96 | ||
| Theme | 24 | 4.10 | ||
| Coolness | 1 | 100 | ||
| Overall | 30 | 3.94 | ||
| Mood | 61 | 3.54 | ||
| Innovation | 100 | 3.71 | ||
| Humor | 169 | 2.85 | ||
| Graphics | 186 | 3.47 | ||
| Audio | 670 | 1.78 |
Nice story.
Wow! The best LD23 I've played so far! Loved the graphics and the story, and the gameplay was simple yet fun. My only complaint is that it seemed a little too easy.
Yay! A good upgrade game, I love when you can upgrade EVERYTHING. real cool, though after a while i got dizzy from running circles ;p An awesome game!
Excellent piece (and I normally HATE jumping games). Good idea , nice fitting art and story.
It hanged after a while in chrome, I don't know why... Just stopped responding at all, like it would stop receiving timing.
Great controls and design. I liked how the camera zooms out the higher you go.
The story kept the game interesting. I really like the zoom as you get farther away from the planet, seemed perfect.
Every time I place a table, the controls die. No chrome for me here on linux though :/
@oldtopman: I think there's a problem with the focus changing in Firefox when you click a button. Either press 5 to place the tower instead of clicking, or click back on the gameplay area to restore the focus.
That game was flippy dippy amazing. And the story line was emo tastic :(
I wasn't expect heartwarming with a poignant ending, but that's what you delivered. Well done!
This is very well done! Excellent work on the little details like animations, and camera control. Ya! JUMPY!
I liked the characters you presented, and their relationship.
Very fun. It's good that the planet turns when you move, since some of the "run around the planet" games I've seen here make the character turn instead, which is disorienting.
Bubbler for the WIN! Best game ever...I played for an hour...I defiantly thing that you should win...Best game ever!!!!Five stars down the board! Even in firefox...
cool entry! the game feels really polished and the mechanics are fun to play with. It becomes a bit tedious after a while, though
Cute little game. Got a bit dizzy at times, but had fun. Only issue I had was the numerous 'walls of text'. Most players will probably skip right over these. Nice job though!
This was cool, I enjoyed it. It seems like Tondie can only take one hit though, then the whole thing just seizes.
@uberneen: that's not good! It locks up for me on Firefox, but I haven't had any problems on Chrome. If you can try on Chrome, I recommend that.
Awwesome game with a great control scheme. Got me hooked from the beinning and I played through the complete game. Great job!
Nicely done!
The bubble physics were really wonky. It took me several cycles to realize if you don't hit jump after contacting them, you go way further up. Then I noticed they reset your jump-counter and surrounded the planet in them. :D
Good game, though!
Chaining together jumps from enemy to enemy is addicting!
Nice game! I like the mechanics!
Wow, this game is brilliant! I'm really impressed you made something so long (especially that kept me hooked for so long) in two days. The progression is just about perfect, and I loved the story :)
The camera zooming is especially neat. It gave me a good sense of Tondie growing bigger.
It did feel a little easy to me. I think Tondie never dropped below 85 health (and I had placed / upgraded a lot of healers since they're pretty inexpensive), so the attackers never really gave me a sense of urgency.
Wow, super polished entry here. I had the same locking problem in Firefox. The main screen stopped redrawing, but the build/upgrade buttons still lit up as if I was moving around the surface of the planet. I was able to switch to Chrome to avoid that issue.
I'd never heard of the UFX library (I used CraftyJS), but it looks like you've put it to good use. The animations were nice & smooth, and the graphical style was consistent & cute. Great job on all the tower types and effects.
I do wish you'd been able to add a few sounds (sfxr!) for things like jumps and enemy deaths. And I really wanted the character's first jump to be higher--early in the game, you have to let enemies get uncomfortably close before you can hit them.
Nice story. The exposition seemed to trigger when I was in mid-air, though, which was a little jarring. That's where a sound cue would help, I think, to warn that gameplay's about to be interrupted.
Very slick! I love playing the other HTML5 entries.
This is a fun game :-) My only suggestion would be to work on those graphics! The gameplay and everything else was simple, fun, and polished. Good work.
Very fun indeed! I love the jump/bounce/kick mechanics. Very satisfying to keep afloat. Is there a sort of combo system going on in the background? If so, you should emphasize it with a nice big arcadey combo-counter. :p
And yeah, you should add sound! The game is already pretty damn fun, but with even the simplest "bounce" and "pop" sounds of the enemies, you'd be surprised how much more cathartic the whole experience becomes!
Oh and I actually like the procedural animation. Maybe some different color choices, but the graphics were mostly charming in my view.
Keep it up!
I don't usually care much for planet defense games. But you've blended it with platforming action in a way that is very inspiring and fun.
The game is a bit easy and it doesn't really progress much, but the basic action is so fun it makes up for that.
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Pretty fun and addictive but a little rough in places. The frame rate dropped considerably at later levels which really decreased my enjoyment. The only other complaint I have is that it was very annoying stopping you doing anything everytime you made a building. Very cool concept and very enjoyable though. Was especially fun to chain combos together.
@Evil Cult: just curious, what browser were you on when you saw the performance drop? I got much better performance out of Chrome than Firefox.
Wow! really nice work in only 48 hours! polished and fun to play! super cool!
I enjoyed it too much, reading the description I thought it was going to be more difficult.
nice job :)
This game is amazing! It's really fun, but it could be harder.
Cute story and graphics, nice progression but waaay to easy. Would like some sound, the jump felt a little to weak.
Love it. One of the best ones I've played. Keep up the good work!
Fantastic! I love the concept.
Love how you can make nice jump/kill chains :)
You got all my fives dude. Give me 'em back, I need to rate other games!
really fun. creative. i got the superjump before i'd beaten the final ship, not sure if you intended that. seems like healing machines are too strong. with a single healing machine there weren't really any threats to the planet as long as I was passively playing. I like that the money payouts increase as you progress, but it seems like you get a higher payout for killing enemies closer to the surface. should it be the opposite of that to reward people for climbing? also, the height of the jumping is tuned to make it pretty tough to use platforms. once i got to the point where i'd unlocked the spring boards and bubblers, the platforms didnt seem to have much value. the bubblers don't seem to put out enough bubbles at level 1. for a while I was confused if they even did anything at all, but eventually saw a bubble. the bubbles may fade out a bit early too. anyway, hope this is useful feedback. game was fun. oh, and the number controls take a bit of getting used to for purchasing, but it's much preferable to using the mouse. also, thanks for making both wasd and arrow keys work. i have a weird keyboard, so a lot of these games are hard to play without alternate mappings. nice job.
Just an excellent game - tons of complexity, engaging gameplay, smooth operation and logical controls, plus all the upgrading! Man. Nice work.
This is my winner!
Absolutely fantastic. Almost made me cry in the end :)
Gameplay is great, some tweaking is necessary though such as the jump that is way to good at maximum upgrade.
One of my favorites.
I really wish this had sound or music, but other than that it's excellent. Great fun, a nice mechanic + upgrade systems, and even a nice (if a little sad) story.
A true 5-star performance. One of the most fun games I've played yet. Awesome job.
Great little game; it has everything: action, a bit of strategy, and upgrades!
After a while the game stopped the display and I could see that it received input because the buttons to place towers would switch from on to off depending on what keys I pressed, but the canvas was frozen. I use Firefox, so it might be the cause...
Loved it! Really loved it!
Cute, addictive, entertaining. Loved it! The powerups and difficulty ramp really make the game stay fun over time too. Excellent work.
Nice work :)
Wow... that was amazing. Great job!
This is perfect. I want to give a more useful comment, but I don't think you should change a thing. Perfect score, except n/a audio.
Holy crap. With audio, this would be so perfect. It's already the most fun I've had with a Ludum Dare game in forever. Some rad music and sfx would put it over the top. Great, great, great, great, GREEEAAAT job!