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Please Ignore The Dancing Llama

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Humor164.00
Coolness1100
Audio303.96
Fun343.88
Mood1563.48
Overall1713.63
Graphics3433.35
Theme5713.52
Innovation7132.93

Comments

matthias_zarzecki 2013-04-29 02:58

Holy Crap this is amazing.

Seriously, everything works. The Wario-Ware-Gameplay is easily grokkable. Music fits beautifully, especially with the dancin Llama (DO YOU KNOW HOW HARD IT IS TO IGNORE IT).

The color-changes in tune to the music work well, and make you forget it's in monochrome most of the time. What tools did you sue for the music? Turned out quite well.

I'd say the rapid flashing in the menu might be a bit too cepilepsy-inducing, the in-game-speed would probably suffice.

Also love how "condensed" the dialogue is. The speed makes it much more interesting, and doesn't feel like it could be wasting my time. Also I love stereotypical british gentlemen.

potato

nanolotl 2013-04-29 03:23

Simple and fun.
The voice acted cut-scenes were very enjoyable.
Not sure if ignoring the llama was meant to be a challenge, because I didn't find it to be one.

sestren 2013-04-29 03:34

Good use of humor with the dialogue and the artwork. The sound is really nice and the whole game plays pretty well. Excellent job!

josriley 2013-04-29 03:39

Loved the "cut scenes". Also the pace and look of the game was amazing. Great job!

wademcgillis 2013-04-29 03:42

This is what I have come to expect from a Zayne Black production.

Humorous, not very good graphics, and a third thing which I can't think of at the moment but I'm too tired to actually fix this sentence.

broxxar 2013-04-29 03:47

There is a bug in the top down minigame where you can straight up walk through walls, though it doesn't affect much since the game ends after ten seconds but alas.

mark_hildreth_ld 2013-04-29 03:57

I'll be honest, the first time I looked a the dancing Llama, I lost. Great music/sound effects, enjoyed the voice acting as well.

jerm 2013-04-29 05:12

Simple and fun game! Very polished, but still minimalist. Took me a while, but I finally got 20301 points.

grambler1 2013-04-29 05:30

The cutscenes were hilarious and the music was awesome.

I found it quite hard to properly control the character on level 1 though, I don't know if it was just too floaty or something of the like.

The Llama just adds something special, good job! ~

loren 2013-04-29 06:30

dude, this game is great! Awesome job!

unclejunkie 2013-04-29 13:58

I am not sure if I understood what I've just played but this has been amazing. The cutscenes were hilarious.

cogcomp 2013-04-29 17:16

That was great! Like the really high-paced feeling of it! Too bad the lama wasn't more of a distraction ;-)

deige101 2013-04-29 17:25

Great game. I think I had a seizure.

andrew-2 2013-04-29 17:52

Mmm..
mmm?
mmm!

bumpkinrich 2013-04-29 19:10

Oh! This is fab. That's my evening... gone.

McFunkypants 2013-04-29 21:50

Pretty damn amazing. Funny. Fast. Cool. Great work!

P.S. Remember, a COMPO entry has to include SOURCE CODE, which is missing here. This, therefore, is a JAM entry. Which is totally cool - no big deal. The game still rocks.

pierrec 2013-04-29 22:07

I'm drunk ha ha ha

dedhedzed 2013-04-29 22:17

Oops, hadn't added the Source link. It's there, now. :)

ming_tea 2013-04-30 00:33

I can easily see myself getting addicted to this. Great job!

tacograveyard 2013-04-30 03:00

Haha, smashing! There was a llama in the background, not sure if anyone noticed it.

coffeeonimal 2013-04-30 06:42

Splendiferous.
I really liked the rapid-fire switch between game modes.

pierrec 2013-04-30 13:31

What I meant by my previous comment was that I enjoyed this game a lot :)

d_durham 2013-04-30 14:11

Very enjoyable and felt like a complete experience. Love the idea of quickly swapping between equally twitchy game modes, and it was just the right length (you didn't over sell it). Good job!

ithildin 2013-04-30 16:19

Great game! Gameplay is fast and fun, you don't need to have things much more complicated than this to enjoy a game.

Music was amazing, the gentlemen intro was really funny and llamas are always a plus. Congratulations! :D

rxi 2013-04-30 16:41

Good lord.

That was fairly amazing. The game play was simple and solid, I didn't even get a chance to work out whether I was enjoying it or not, let alone get bored. Certainly makes a nice break from many of the slower paced entries this ludum dare. The visuals and music were as hyper as the game play, which was no doubt a good thing.

Nice work.

colapsydo 2013-04-30 17:41

Potato and Dancing LLama, Winning combo !

cmaster 2013-04-30 18:37

Awesome pumping music.

Rapid-fire action.

Have to say I was so focused on the dots that I never even noticed the LLama.

bytegrove 2013-04-30 19:18

I want to dance with the llama!!!
Really fun little wario ware-ish game, enjoyed the cut scenes and the awesome music!

jackspinoza 2013-04-30 19:33

funny fun, loved the intro and end cutscenes. I loved how the channel kept on changing, the first time it happened it really was a nice surprise. good stuff.

sparkleswirl 2013-04-30 20:31

Brilliant game! Loved the different modes and how the difficulty gradually went up. By the way I found your game through the IndieGames.com blog. =)

degtyarev 2013-04-30 22:44

Splendid! A very solid game complete experience. Loved it.

mrshoestore 2013-05-01 00:40

simple, or simply entertaining? love it.

2013-05-01 01:36

ARGH, I failed at 19146
http://ubuntuone.com/47oCZ0X1shhGRzbGRNv4W5

awesome game btw: minimalist, catchy, and good music

dualtagh 2013-05-01 19:00

Cool!

sharbelfs 2013-05-02 02:20

Addictive game, great voices and awesome lhama.

psenfilip 2013-05-02 20:44

I managed to score 14196. Splendifurous!

Dialogues are rather funny, so does the overall mood.
The controls are OK, except for the jump which takes way too much time to recover. That floating period is a pain.
Art and music are good and both fit the concept of this entry.

ragzouken 2013-05-02 22:06

Awesome. Everything felt great but I much preferred stage 2

georgebroussard 2013-05-03 06:28

Enjoyed the audio a lot. Always like games where you switch game modes on a time. Some small polish and collision issues but this would be worth extending and working on some more. Good job.

aquatic-games 2013-05-03 13:58

Great! Love the fast gameplay. People should play this, just for the title!

tanius 2013-05-03 16:37

uahahahahah great game & great music. Unfortunately I can't igonre Llamas but the game is crazy enough to meet my taste *-*

vgcharlienash 2013-05-06 14:53

Awesome game Zayne! 5 stars from me :) You should turn this into a full game after Ludum Dare

broxter 2013-05-06 17:31

Quite interesting and pretty fun to play, though there wasn't much to the gameplay. I appreciated the humour of the dialogue, although it wasn't easy on the ears, but that might have been intentional. The music was nice - its tempo definitely matched the speed of the gameplay.

realyuniquename 2013-05-07 08:50

OMG, it was hilarious :)

tentontoon 2013-05-08 05:25

Nice game, and a perfect fit for the theme, both in terms of visual design and game mechanics. The dialogue was ok, and the music is pretty cool.

The pace was too frantic for me, though, and it made avoiding the enemies on the first and third stages almost impossible, which moved the game into "I don't care I'll just get the bonus pieces" territory. Also, there's no sense of progression; it's full on from the get go.

BTW: you don't ignore dancing llamas; dancing llamas ignore you. Everyone knows that.

Congrats! :)

casimps1 2013-05-09 13:42

I managed about 12000. That third stage is the one that always gets me.

minionstudios 2013-05-09 15:30

Hilarious! An absolute riot! I could not ignore the dancing llama.

goerp 2013-05-09 20:12

A fun game. I like the minimal color palette. I also like the three different steering mechanisms which work quite intuitive.

But for me the drive to play again wasn't that big. Just getting a better score isn't enough for me. Maybe some sounds or effects if you achieve highscores or something.
What also might work (but that's just me) is if you could die. It would bring more tension.

finefin 2013-05-12 17:08

funny voice acting, I enjoyed it very much. the up/down minigame if my favourite of the three. great job!

beldarak 2013-05-13 04:00

Loooove it ! That just fucked up :D

sylvain-p 2013-05-15 15:35

Do you have steal a keygen music?

sebastian 2013-05-17 17:54

Awesome and funny! Skip doesn't seem to work on the end cutscene which is a bit annoying after you've watched already a few times.