Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD25 → Bombit Bob
By triplefox
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 153 | 3.05 | ||
| Audio | 154 | 2.86 | ||
| Fun | 157 | 2.86 | ||
| Innovation | 171 | 2.81 | ||
| Humor | 174 | 2.53 | ||
| Mood | 179 | 2.76 | ||
| Graphics | 190 | 3.05 | ||
| Theme | 307 | 2.10 | ||
| Coolness | 898 | 36 |
I really enjoyed it. It was very fun to play, although it got very laggy after a while, which caused the timer to slow down and made the game much longer than it should have.
The graphics cube and very well made.
Although you are technically a villain, I really wish there was some sort of "good guy" to really illuminate the bad that you're causing.
Overall, very well done.
It's like a weird crossover between Bomberman and Notch's Minicraft. Nice job.
Fun! I liked blowing up everything, maybe if there were more concrete things to blow up, like buildings or people? Just so that spiteful destruction feels even more worth it :).
I really liked the visual style and the engine work on this one!
Little things: I thought this was better with WASD. I noticed a little thing where when you press a movement key while setting keys the camera actually moves. I like you left the ending "bomb glitch" in. The music seemed to have a *crazy* inconsistent BPM, like not referring to the speedup effect it just had a really wavery metronome on my machine… which might have been sorta interesting with a different song but with "The Saints Go Marching In" didn't have really any particular impact. I liked how subtle the thing was where Bob's movement gets faster and faster as you keep playing. I found it amusingly theme-fitting that your only metric of "score" was not how long you stayed alive, but how much you destroyed. I like that this is one of those games which, in concept at least, has a maximum possible score.
The main issue I had with this was it didn't feel like it had a lot of purpose. I feel like you could make something very cool about, you can destroy the landscape around you, and you must use this ability to collect clocks which barely extend your life. But this game didn't seem to do much with it beyond implementing the basic mechanics. My first playthrough was kind of aimless. Most of the way through the first playthrough I realized that the bomb-laying is in fact infinite and can be done infinitely fast and there is no reason to be worried about hurting either yourself or a clock by bombing "too much". I thus did another playthrough in which all i did was charge through the landscape, furiously clicking EVERYWHERE constantly. This was actually pretty fun, in a stupid way! :D However it hurt my hand, and also an interesting thing happened where the more bombs I laid, the slower and slower the game went. Like somehow there was a compounding speed penalty that got worse the more bombs had been laid since I started the game. I finally wound up with a score of 185980, a few seconds from death, and it was going like… ten seconds between frames. (The music stayed at its same tempo the entire time, although I think as stuff slowed down it began dropping notes).
Anyway, as an engine demo this is great. I would be interested to see a post-LD version that either imposes a bit more thought on the process of bombing/navigating, or just overall makes a more complex game with this art and mechanics concept. And maybe a different MIDI :)
The lag made it hard to play after a while.
I liked it! Especially cool how the music gets faster.
Nice use of software synth.
It worked nice on my really cheap laptop.
I love bomberman mechanics.
Nice game, simple but very entertaining.
I don't know how I managed to play a game about having 1 minute left to live, but damnit I managed it.
I can't believe how compelling it was to fight to prolong my existence as much as possible in the complete knowledge that I was completely doomed.
It felt like a bit of an allegory for the human condition by the end.
And I heard so many midi instruments. Got 337340 points eventually. Great game.
Fun mechanic. Develop it further and add some more things for the player to blow up (enemies or other blockers), etc.
The time thing gives a lot of fun stress. Nice touch with the music speed.
Fairly fun. Surprisingly you built your own game engine.
Nice little game ! The world is pretty huge. The chronometter works well.. i had fun. Congrats !