ddionisio 2013-04-30 00:48
Really cool visuals and levels. The only issue I have is the movement is a little slippery.
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD26 → hedraSeed
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coolness | 2 | 81 | ||
| Theme | 27 | 4.17 | ||
| Graphics | 154 | 3.67 | ||
| Mood | 169 | 3.29 | ||
| Overall | 236 | 3.24 | ||
| Innovation | 239 | 3.09 | ||
| Audio | 315 | 2.75 | ||
| Fun | 365 | 2.67 | ||
| Humor | 409 | 1.28 |
Really cool visuals and levels. The only issue I have is the movement is a little slippery.
This could be a really fun game, but the controls and game are very unforgiving. Maybe some mouse smoothing and a bigger fov could help.
Apart from that cool idea and nice realization of the theme!
Lovely visuals. Like the music, too. One of the coolest team logo openings I've seen, too! Loved it.
Movement felt a bit awkward, but part from that neat graphics and cool idea!
I really like the mood of this game.
Very cool graphics. The skill jumps are difficult. Frame rate was slow (about 10 fps), even at the fastest graphics settings. This made making the jumps a little too frustrating. I think that having the mouse cursor on screen is confusing.
Thank you all for you comments, we have tried to address the performance issues with the web build by downgrading the shaders, if you could let us know if it has had any effect it would be muchly appreciated. We have already begun planning for the post jam version, with more 'trees' and finer tuning to the movement tackling the issues of slippery and the awkward unforgivingness. Great idea with the FOV and we will experiment with that to see if it improves gameplay. Thanks again :D
The game has potential but the controls are hard, especially the web version is impossible to play with a laptop touchpad
My nimble fingers are not designed for this! I love the idea, but I just couldn't play it far enough to really get into it. Its too hard, and the controls are too slippery. Checkpoints would go a long way. Not big on your company name title screen thing, its totally pointless and lasts ages! Remember that the theme is minimalism ;)
Screen.lockCursor = true; ;) Just FYI.
Original !
Nice idea!
Movement is a bit wonky, and falling down every step is definitely not fun.
Also, I can move during the intro. Is that on purpose?
Fun and difficult. Couldn't get passed the first 'level'. I raged. Awesome game.
The movement does need tweaking but we also didnt want the game to be too easy. Yeah the intro sequence movement was intentional, thought it would be a nice twist. Thank you to 'sick' for the FYI about screen.lockCursor. Checkpoints idea is a good one but the falling aspect is the difficulty in the game, death has no meaning here, only starting again.
Holofire - Love that you raged! I totally did too during testing :D
i like the game concept. specially with the cubes being hidden until you get there. but the player seems to stand on, so you glide of the cubes pretty often.
I really did the graphics and gotta love the platforming. Unforgiving! :)
Ah, first-person platforming - always frustrating as hell, but rewarding when you pull it off :) Gave me flashbacks of Mirrors Edge in all the right (and wrong) ways ;) Awesome entry!
Cool game! Very pretty. I got past the red tree, but after trying the first difficult blue jump 20 times, finally making it, and then failing right after it, I had to give up. The most frustrating for me was the lack of precision in the controls. Too little friction.
Awesome to hear someone made it to the blue tree, Ive been working on the friction for the post jam version, Ive also concluded that friction is not the only culprit, upon landing the input keys needed to be nulled for approx 0.2 - 0.5 seconds to allow players to 'reset'
Simple and nice idea. As everyone already said, the controls are very unforgiving. You could have made the platforms bigger and the level more navigable. Good job!
Nice game! Very good graphics for this theme. =)
I agree with the others, the first person controls are difficult. I think it will be better with a 3ยบ person camera and a character (a cube?) so you can see better where is the character.
I kept falling after several attempts, so I got discouraged and quit. But other than that, it's an interesting game and I love the ambience and the visuals. :)
It's way too frustrating when you fall from a high place. Somekind of checkpoint or an "easy path" would have been great, cause i really don't want to climb that tower again.
Well I personally think if the challenge is in the move controls it's generally not a good design, and this doesn't appear to be an exception to that rule of thumb in my opinion. The controls really took away from the experience, I made it halfish? (I'm guessing) way up the blue tower thing before giving up when I hit ESC to break full screen and it restarted the level (very annoying !)
If the jumps were at the same level of difficulty but with tight controls I would have enjoyed myself much more. I also agree that a third person view would have helped make this enjoyable here. But, overall, love the concept and it wasn't a bad game, just infuriating and not in a good way. Great job!
Loved this. One of my favourite Minimalist games so far!
nice idea! The stage appearing as you go is a nice touch. The movement is a little slippery and that can be frustrating, specially when that makes you fall..
Great surreal atmosphere (and minimal). I find 3D platforming a little frustrating under ideal conditions - in this case the mouse seemed too sensitive and made it tricker than it should have been. Still enjoyed progressively 'building' the structure - looks great when you step back and survey it from a distance.