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LS-MAN

By lonestranger

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Theme773.71
Humor963.04
Audio1253.09
Overall1762.96
Innovation1902.71
Mood2092.65
Graphics2182.87
Fun2232.54
Coolness83141

Comments

komradus 2012-12-18 06:58

Really like the concept but it gets really hard to select the ghosts, maybe add a press numbers keys 1-4 to select associated ghost?

dmitrix 2012-12-18 06:59

I like the sound effects!

caranha 2012-12-19 05:05

Oh man, if we merged your pacman and my pacman, we would have the best reversed pacman ever :-)

I loved the idea of clicking the ghosts to select them. I think a mix of your control scheme and mine (click the ghost to select them, click for the destination, or control with the arrows) would be great.

Also, those voice sounds were just too adorable. The "nam nam nam" had me lolling at my chair!

Thanks for all the motivational posters!

cakencode 2012-12-19 05:57

Haha, I had a list of games I knew people would role-reverse, and Pacman was most definitely on it!

I agree with Komradus, adding a button shortcut to select ghost would have been really great, it is hard to click them when they're moving. More often that not I won by accident while trying to direct a particular ghosty.

I hope you keep developing this!

faust 2012-12-19 05:59

Wow, excellent reverse pacman.

mezzomatto 2012-12-19 05:59

Nicely executed. Were it slightly easier to select the ghosts you could have put in the pill that makes LS man dangerous too. Perfect look and feel and idle movements of unselected ghosts is great.

bushmango3 2012-12-19 06:00

I had the same idea but you actually executed it :D

mase 2012-12-19 06:03

LS-Man needs power pellets.

dagamesta 2012-12-19 06:03

Very nice idea. A bit too easy, but I enjoyed it.

seanatr0n 2012-12-19 06:11

Cool idea, it'd be fun if you could randomly match player vs player.

arkadydracul 2012-12-19 10:17

Good job, I like the sounds make with mouth!

madball 2012-12-19 14:04

An interesting idea, but uncomfortable to play. Ghosts are too little to hit; they automatically deselect when I direct them and get directed when I click another ghost. But I liked the controls.
I remember playing a game where you control 3 police cars and have to capture the criminal. It shows that if you make a strategy game that relies on speed, you should make selecting and targeting as obvious and simple as possible.

teamtibbles 2012-12-20 00:50

Not nearly as much fun as pacman. The ghosts were had to select and control. Not really sure how it fits the theme. The graphics were the default pacman graphics, so I have to give you a low rating for graphics and innovation.

deril 2012-12-20 01:21

Hm... it was a bit laggy for me. :(
For selecting - in many cases you could calculate distance to nearest item and "guess" that user wants to click on it... if mouse is not too far...

boxerbomb 2012-12-21 02:16

A little easy and laggy. I like how you control the ghosts though

csanyk 2012-12-22 05:21

The ghosts are too hard to click on in order to control them. Really liked the concept, just needs to have larger ghosts so you can select them, or easier click-targeting or something.

csanyk 2012-12-22 05:22

Oh and the music was great, too.

puzzlem00n 2012-12-23 03:57

Ah, definitely the answer to what Carahna's reverse Pacman lacks. Far better controls on this one.

Bad:
-It feels like there isn't too much reward for completing your goal.
-It seems a bit lacking in polish.

Good:
+Very nice control method.
+Epic opening whistle!
+Superb A.I.

philip-wagner 2012-12-23 17:37

Cool sfx :) And nice concept, was pretty hard to control, but I didn't have a mouse at hand and just used the trackpad of my laptop.

mistakoo 2012-12-25 14:51

The sound effects are great, so is the strategic component of choosing where each ghost should go.

Choosing the ghosts with the mouse is hard but you already fixed that. The only thing left is a really hard opponent so that the game requires some thinking (or just power pellets).

bugninja 2013-01-06 21:48

For the compo version, grabbing the ghosts was really tough, but I thought it was fun.