themisfit25 2012-08-28 00:55
Cool game! :)
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD24 → Bot-Volution
By gornova
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mood | 178 | 2.46 | ||
| Audio | 193 | 1.75 | ||
| Graphics | 197 | 2.60 | ||
| Humor | 210 | 1.44 | ||
| Theme | 234 | 1.92 | ||
| Overall | 246 | 2.27 | ||
| Innovation | 256 | 1.85 | ||
| Fun | 258 | 1.85 | ||
| Coolness | 582 | 48 |
Cool game! :)
Nice, I like the sprites and the animations. The bullets only seem to fire every third click or so. I would have liked some way to make peace with the robots!
It's okay, the story was pretty hard to follow because the text kept disappearing very quickly and the bullets could have been a bit more rapid.
Fun game to play. Definitely off to a good start with this one. Hopefully you develop it some more to work out the kinks and polish. Had a very classic game feel and sound. Well done!
Good game! There's a little bug: if you aproach those pikachu rock things sometimes you get stuck.
There are some cool ideas in here.
However some little technical issues are holding it back - the text disappearing too quickly, the slow rate of fire and the way you can get stuck.
I enjoyed finding and reading the notes. I found one ending, where you touch something blue - I'm not sure what it was. I tried collecting all the skulls but got stuck on a wall and stopped.
Technical issue kind of spoil the game for me. I collected all the carrots but the text still said 1/5 - I collected something else, about which the game had nothing to say, then got stuck on a wall tile :( Played it another time, now slow pointy things seem to fly out of me at random and I occasionally teleport back to the middle... I have no idea what's going on!
Good start! Definitely needs more interaction and gameplay, but I like the mood and can imagine a good game emerging out of this. Keep going! :)
One cool thing I noticed, not sure if it was on purpose or not: despite my ability to kill the robots, I don't WANT to do that because they seem very pacific to me! I still need to kill them because that's what all the years playing videogames tell me that is what I must do to win in the game, so I kinda do that against my will, but it almost reminds me of the horrible sensation of executing prisoners in Blackthorn (oooold stuff, remember that one?)... And then the ending has a message exactly about that. Nice little touch. ;)
The graphics felt sluggish, and the framerate was pretty choppy, which got annoying. Also, the enemies didn't even move, so it was super easy. i got all the carrots and shot a few robots, and nothing happened.
I really did like the graphics style though, and the notes and opening "where am I" put a really good mood to it.
Hey this is a really good start! Work on the technical side of things and get the movement and controls feeling good and you'll have the start of a great game. The game has a really good retro style that I think could be brilliant if you add more enemy types and add in some behaviours for them. Great work so far though in just 72 hours!