shmarah 2012-08-28 04:05
Kind of hard to play; I don't entirely understand how to win. It's a fantastic concept, though!
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD24 → Booster
By fhoenig
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coolness | 3 | 72 | ||
| Innovation | 47 | 3.38 | ||
| Mood | 82 | 3.09 | ||
| Graphics | 86 | 3.62 | ||
| Humor | 97 | 2.56 | ||
| Audio | 110 | 2.94 | ||
| Theme | 191 | 2.29 | ||
| Overall | 194 | 2.69 | ||
| Fun | 240 | 2.06 |
Kind of hard to play; I don't entirely understand how to win. It's a fantastic concept, though!
The loading bar stops at about 70%. And, well, the versions have all the same link. Can’t download a mac-version. Schade, klingt sehr spannend.
wlad: thanks for commenting. It's a browser game we only tested it on Chrome and FF. Any chance you could have a look at the javascript console of your browser to see what error it throws?
Firefox issue is fixed. The hosting webserver did not have a mime type for OGG, which was used in firefox.
Hey! Hey! Hey! Dude! Check this out! Yo! Hey! Check this out! Hey! Yo! Check this out! Check this out! Hey! Yo! Hey! Hey! Check this out!
In other words, it was weird and interesting but kind of hard to understand. The rapid fire sound effects were brain melting so I had to quit.
@kato9: Thanks! :) I appreciate that comment very much.
It is a bit hard, admittedly.
You just keep walking around picking up the right ideas for the citizens?
In paper the concept looks great, but in execution the game felt really boring. Don't want to look too negative, the game is very polished, looks good and sounds good... but the gameplay is very "meh".
Interesting concept for sure, but a bit unclear as to how exactly to progress. I didnt see what looked like a progress bar at the top move despite motivating tons of citizens.
I like the pixel art a lot and the sound effects + music were definitely enjoyable as well.
What Shmarah said.
Cool graphics, but on the web it seemed to slow down to a crawl
I've been, I've seen, I've played...(firefox)
I've been, I've seen, I've played...(firefox)
Nothing more to add.
Yeah thanks for fixing the bug (if it was the one you mention). I'm really enjoying Booster. The citizens should stop walking or give direct feedback. The idea spreading becomes uncontrollable and from a certain point on I do not understand how to influence the whole thing. Nice graphics and colour application. The sound is improvable :)
Cheers wlad!
Actually they should stop and give feedback. Maybe you need to clear the cache. We had some issues with the mime types in the web server config and some filenames has case problems. When we submitted the game, we did not take into account that the webserver is running FreeBSD and we developed on OSX (case-insensitive FS). I always keep forgetting that part about the mac :)
The graphics are top notch. It was hard to figure out. Love the idea.
@nseward Thanks! We're continuing on a post-compo version to iron out the game play
A fellow impactjs entry :)
Very cool graphics, could say downright beautiful.
The concept is also interesting and would probably flesh out if pursued further.
Also your visual effect is really impressive, I'm guessing it uses webgl?
@gnx: Thank you.
I think we'll post a more finished version as a separate link soon (outside of ratings).
As for the visual effect, this is canvas, plain vanilla impactjs.
I figured out a way to do a desaturation map with pixel operations that are fast enough. Basically draw into an offscreen canvas (circles around the people), then let the engine render cycle draw tiles and entities. After that go through each pixel and apply a simple desaturation "shader" based on the offscreen canvas. Then put it back into the visible canvas. Done.
Are there any webGL plugins for Impact? I thought of writing one.
Idea was good but I didn't really understand what I was supposed to do, I walk around, give people ideas and uhh, they continue their merry way? This could perhaps be a good game with bit more polishing.
I like the concept, but I didn't get good enough performance to play it (Chrome)
Cool idea, coll graphics and sound but really slow and quickly becomes boring.
Weird, I don't understand, but great visual and the music remind me Dr.Mario!
Great presentation (sound, graphics) but a bit hard to understand - needs more feedback as to whether I'm doing things right or wrong. Also saw some z-order issues (Windows, Firefox 15.0.1)