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Mad Princess

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall223.94
Graphics164.36
Coolness284
Audio323.66
Theme533.98
Fun743.53
Mood863.41
Humor1103.35
Innovation2353.15

Comments

apophenia 2012-12-17 03:31

Really solid game, very coherent aesthetic style.

Minor nitpick: I wish it weren't possible to set traps during transitional states between levels (I kept accidentally clicking on them/setting off bombs during the "you win/try again" phase).

Nimphomaniak 2012-12-17 03:32

Great game!

suese 2012-12-17 03:38

Solid

vrav 2012-12-17 03:46

Enjoyed it! The music is great. Love how the humor meshes with the dark atmosphere.

solidplasma 2012-12-17 04:29

Very well made, but I had trouble with the bombs.

rvmook 2012-12-17 05:47

Nice take on the theme. The levels are just hard enough to try a couple of times without getting frustrated. It would be nice if the princess could take at least one hit. Not really any room for errors now. Anyway, I liked the game

ripx 2012-12-17 09:21

Really like this game. Had some issues deploying weapons which made it a little frustrating but nice graphics, great sound and well polished.

tinytouchtales 2012-12-17 10:22

Bravo! Well Done!

blackarm 2012-12-17 12:17

The second wave was obnoxious.
Also, after killing an enemy pushing the princess, she is still pushed off the screen to death.

blackarm 2012-12-17 12:17

However, visually it is nice and the idea is good. Very much like how you used Peach as the villain.

wallmasterr 2012-12-17 13:55

soo addictive, and hard, and gltich at memnets u need it not to be , grr, :D

kickerua 2012-12-17 17:35

The best game I've played.

amidos2006 2012-12-17 17:51

Woooow nice its hard but new :)

blockbrains 2012-12-17 19:25

Very well executed. Lovely balance between fun and gruesomeness :)Pretty art!

gornova 2012-12-17 20:24

I love this game, well made and following creation is a plus. Well done!

nanofi 2012-12-17 21:53

This game is awesome :D Quite difficult (particularly the bombs are tricky to use) but the graphics and sounds are very amazing.

iandioch 2012-12-17 22:20

Really liked it. The bomb level was a pain (do you need to hit with every single bomb?) but the concept is nice and the graphics were great. The music wasn't too shabby either :P
I did find the ability to place traps during the win/lose screen a bit odd though.

jomomomo 2012-12-17 22:20

Great job!

sim 2012-12-17 23:13

Really fun game. Good graphics and music too, nothing to complain about.

kewry 2012-12-18 04:56

Awesome game

nickworks 2012-12-18 08:13

Nice aesthetics!

sience 2012-12-18 09:11

The pxeil graphics are great! The mouse handling is a bit too slow for the fast heroes. All in all Well Done!

colapsydo 2012-12-18 09:26

Nice work on the various characteristics of traps and enemies.

matthias_zarzecki 2012-12-18 09:45

This is lovely! Love the music and visuals. Gameplay is fun too, but ramps up way to hard in level 2.

shaneshanekavanagh 2012-12-18 12:09

Nice difficulty. It made me press R more than a few times!

kwl_tw 2012-12-18 15:24

Awesome pixel art!

pythong 2012-12-18 18:12

loooooooooved the art

finalmirage 2012-12-18 21:36

Very cool art style. Gameplay is addicting, nicely done.

seconddimension 2012-12-18 23:09

Definitely a cool idea and fits well with the theme. The art style is great

cakencode 2012-12-19 00:48

Great game!!! I love the attention to detail, like the Princess's face as she's being dragged out. I had the same thing happen that others commented on, where i killed the last hero during the dragging out phase and it was confused whether I won or lost. Awesome overall though, I had a lot of fun playing.

mscottmcbee 2012-12-19 05:34

Fantastic. Great all around. With more polish, bug fixing, and content, I'd pay for this game.

The second wave was overly difficult, but this is one of the few 5's I've rated so far.

hannardynamite 2012-12-19 09:42

Graphics - awesome. Music - awesome. This game - awesome.

Just to nitpick, the bombs felt a tad slow to detonate. But maybe that's just because I like insta-explosions.

Very, very good game though.

monomanio 2012-12-19 13:13

Very nice! Loving the art, and the gameplay is familiar and coherent.

tifu 2012-12-19 13:28

The agile enemies seem a tad overpowered D:
That and no room for error made me just give up on the level where you have spikes and bombs to defeat those guys =/
Was enjoying up to that point, love the graphics.

muratcelik 2012-12-19 14:32

game idea and graphics are great.

dragonkn 2012-12-19 16:20

nice job

deepnight 2012-12-19 17:10

Ok you are definitely my fav in this LD °_°
I totally loved your game and played it through the end (which something I rarely do in LD).

Gameplay is great: it seems pretty simple & basic at first but every level has the perfect balance between frustration & reward.

Excellent job :)

bach 2012-12-19 19:51

Fantastic entry! Really don't have anything to criticise. Really well done for 48hrs.

hatscat 2012-12-19 19:52

Great art! love the music! but a little too hard for me ^^

yopsolo 2012-12-19 19:55

fun, challenging and really good gfx !

pitoum 2012-12-19 20:00

Very very cool entry! Spent a lot of time on it :) And the music is pretty cool too!
I'm really impressed!

awppy 2012-12-19 20:04

I actually found this to be a bit frustrating. Having to click at the top to change weapons is very inconvenient; being able to quickly switch traps via numbers on the keyboard would allow for better micromanaging. Placing a trap too close to another trap/the princess results in the trap being destroyed, and I did that by accident fairly often.

The agile characters are a bit much to deal with. Running by spike traps and crossbows is fine, but bypassing walls renders the wall pretty much pointless

A few minor tweaks and wider levels could really improve the game

bompo 2012-12-19 20:07

Great sprites and awesome music!

greenpixeldev 2012-12-19 21:11

Great art and music! A bit on the challenging side but there's nothing wrong with that :D Fantastic entry and with more features and levels, this could do well on touch devices!

christinaneofotistou 2012-12-19 21:18

Awesome, as expected. You rock :)

bneutral 2012-12-19 21:18

Quite fun. Timing the bombs was a pain though.

cjgammon 2012-12-19 22:54

awesome! really solid game for 48 hrs.

bitwise-constructs 2012-12-19 23:05

Really great game, played for longer than I should have.

soupy 2012-12-19 23:10

Very solid. Feels like a finished project with tons of polish. The scope of the game is just right. You didn't overextend yourself, but it still feels like there is a lot of game there. A wider variety of level designs would've made it perfect.

ahninniah 2012-12-20 00:33

You've done a great job indeed! I really like this game!

bereuge 2012-12-20 00:36

That was pretty much great! Good job :)

lucky-luddite 2012-12-20 01:02

That title screen is awesome.

codexus 2012-12-20 01:13

nice graphics, good gameplay but it relies a bit too much on precise timing.

atomic 2012-12-20 01:44

Great in every aspect! The only issue I found is with the try again and next wave screens. There's something odd about the way they respond, not sure exactly what.

Still might be the best I've played up to now :)

apradun 2012-12-20 02:16

Very nice game! I like the idea :)

cappagames 2012-12-20 02:32

Nice game. I liked the graphics, music and the gameplay. Had a little bit of trouble placing items, but overall a good game.

lukew23 2012-12-20 02:58

It was an original and well made game, and the only thing that killed the fun for me was the balancing of the traps and enemies, which is easily fixed. One tactic I found helpful against the agile enemies was to place a spiketrap and drop a bomb over it when the guy ran on top of it. This was a lot easier than timing the bomb. Extremely well made, good job.

zatyka 2012-12-20 03:33

I enjoyed it quite a bit. Very nice.

kato9 2012-12-20 04:23

Really fun, polished game. Provided a nice challenge without being overbearing. The only issue I noticed is that the bombs are so cheap and powerful they basically become the easiest solution to every level. Still, great work!

bigbadwofl 2012-12-20 06:44

Good entry and fun to play. Well done on a polished game.

lereveur 2012-12-20 06:48

Absolutely awesome !
Great job !
I loved this one ! :D

atraxgames 2012-12-20 08:45

Great concept and well realized!

delahee 2012-12-20 08:47

Very nice,
lack of a little tutorial in the beginning but the game is well polished.

evilseanbot 2012-12-20 09:03

The evil princess is an awesome character. I kept going "mwahahaha" between levels.

har_g 2012-12-20 13:10

nice nice nice game.

dedhedzed 2012-12-20 13:49

Devilishly clever. I trust you'll be fleshing this out into something bigger?

triplevisiongames 2012-12-20 20:35

Great graphics and music :D I think the side scrolling tower defence type idea works really well, was kind of what I was going for but I didn't quite get there!

derosa 2012-12-20 23:54

Impressively well done!

adonaac 2012-12-21 01:43

Pretty nice graphics and decent music. It gets a bit frustrating at times (especially with the fast green dudes), but overall a solid nice game. Good job!

twotimingpete 2012-12-21 07:01

outstanding!

edocentrique 2012-12-21 16:42

A tiny little bit hard, but really nice game !

chribbe1 2012-12-22 17:13

Nice game, very good polish!

pereubu 2012-12-23 13:53

Damn this game is hard and frustrating x)
The gameplay is polished even if a bit repetitive, the aesthetic is great and feedbacks are great,I have nothing to say except i wanna use moar bombs D:

ncannasse 2012-12-23 20:56

Very good one, but quite frustrating : I wish the bomb timing was not that hard to get right !

beeglebug 2012-12-26 14:48

I think the walls shouldn't slide down slopes (one of them pushed me off the screen!)

coffeeonimal 2012-12-27 16:24

Took me a while to get to this one, glad I waited. Nice to play a complete well constructed game after a few imperfects or incompletes.
Looking forward to your post-compo version.

solkar 2012-12-28 17:35

I really liked it. Very well done. It's a pity because I can't vote in this entry.

naufr4g0 2013-01-01 23:38

Very challenging game. Nice art, too! :) Maybe bombs need to explode more quickly.

wally2069 2013-01-02 05:50

Second wave was just too obnoxious for my tastes.

lotusgame 2013-01-02 11:47

Nice game !! Really appreciate the differents gameplays, and graphics are cute. Well done !

arkadydracul 2013-01-02 11:51

Nice entry, really!

ltyrosine 2013-01-02 14:34

Nice game, a bit hard but very fun. Amazing music.

saguaro 2013-01-02 22:13

I love your princess! Great concept for the theme. The bombs were a little tricky.

darkhunter 2013-01-03 09:00

Very nice idea! I like the graphics. Quite addictive and challenging!

refreshcreations 2013-01-03 16:13

I had great fun playing through this game, great level design at play here, nicely judged with the addition of new weaponry through the players progress! Also, the graphics and audio are ace!

twilightflandre 2013-01-03 17:13

Hard to say something that hasn't been stated already. The graphics and music are incredible. While the concept itself isn't unique to this Ludum Dare it definitely plays the best out of the couple dozen others I've played. I've followed the development of your post-compo version and any complaints I really had were fixed at this point. A very, very solid entry!

fishbrain 2013-01-03 17:30

Would have liked more responsiveness - but brilliant work! Great fun, great graphics and great style... I WON :)

raptor85 2013-01-03 18:01

My only real nitpick is when placing the traps some of them are hard to place or don't react quite like you'd think, it would be nice for more feedback during the trap placement.

ddionisio 2013-01-03 19:59

Pretty damn awesome game, and the post-compo is even more awesome. The post-compo pretty much resolved the quirkiness I found. Great work! I see you used cgMusic ;)

jacic 2013-01-04 00:15

I finally got around to playing this. :p

Nice work! The original version gets quite hard!

azurenimbus 2013-01-05 03:44

Wow, really impressive effort, loved the game. Got really sucked in, even though this is not a type of game I generally play.

I was surprised that I got stuck in level 2, and had to do a little work to get the timing of the bombs right. But you have a very good eye for level design, and from your tweets I can tell the post-compo is even better. Can't wait to try it!

Great job!

paulsb 2013-01-05 21:17

Really solid, polished entry for sure; your pixel art is great as ever. The gameplay was solid but the difficulty in timing the bombs and such was pretty frustrating!

dragonfi 2013-01-06 17:39

And you made all this in 48h? The game is sufficiently long, fun and polished.

dragonfi 2013-01-06 17:49

Hehe, okay, almost rated the wrong version, but the LD entry is very good itself.

sonnybone 2013-01-07 00:29

Awesome little game with a rad art style and nice progression. It's not too easy and not too hard. Music is rad and the game controls perfectly. Very nice work... and not just for 48 hours. You should be happy!