Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD26 → Hito
By lucas_gaspar
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coolness | 3 | 66 | ||
| Audio | 59 | 3.75 | ||
| Overall | 132 | 3.50 | ||
| Graphics | 138 | 3.72 | ||
| Mood | 138 | 3.40 | ||
| Fun | 187 | 3.12 | ||
| Innovation | 290 | 2.91 | ||
| Humor | 300 | 2.00 | ||
| Theme | 329 | 3.14 |
Lovely music and visuals.
You should've added a "how to" screen explaining the controls (especially noting the availability of double jumping) and the goal of the game (destroying blocks = opening doors isn't so obvious at the beginning).
Very fun game! Also, the ninja animation is awesome. The sleep deprivation made me unable to finish the fourth level, so I'll
Nice work, the music and art direction work really well together with the simple game mechanic. I agree with Spierek though, you should make the objective a bit more obvious.
I absolutely LOVED the runner's animation. It was so sharp and fluid and fantastic! It fit very well with the music, making me think of an Eastern rice paper painting.
Unfortunately, the rest of the game's graphics don't compliment that art style. The super-pixelated backgrounds and the tile-based blocks you're running on conflict with the runner's style. I wish it all would have kept that beautiful, bold look that the runner presents.
As for the gameplay, having to run over all platforms to get to the exit is a neat idea. However, I felt that there was a pretty big difficulty spike that made the game frustrating and took the fun out of the idea. It became too much about trying again and again and again to touch just the right blocks at the right time, only to fail and have to do it all over.
Lots of potential here, but the game needs the wrinkles ironed out. Still, if you focus on that sharp, smoothly-animated runner graphics style, keep the great Eastern music, and plan your puzzles to be less frustrating, it could be really great!
Very nice work. neat little concept and the art and audio worked well together.
We are very thankful for your opinions and will keep on working on this proyect to improve the whole experience. We really apreciate the comunity's insight, plus we are aware that a great product is not only created, but re-created time and time again with the hope of reaching new heights with each new delivery. Plus, we know that, at least here, everyone understands what "working for a deadline" means.
We have opened a Facebook page for the game so, if you want to keep in touch and see the project grow, be sure to like us @facebook.com/HitoGame
Jaime Name - Team Manager/Writer.
Very cool music and graphic design. The game got a little frustrating having to repeat such long sequences of jumps - maybe I just suck at it. Very cool idea; I love his flowing sash.
Wow. Excellent audiovisuals, guys. That zoom out upon level completion really sealed the deal for me.
One thing: I wasn't sure why touching the top of the picture frame killed me. It was a little awkward to try jumping when on the upper parts of the screen in fear of it. But aside from that, everything was great gameplay-wise.
Would love to see where you guys eventually take this title!
The visuals and sound were excellent (the animation in particular). The mechanic was clever and became difficult very quickly. There was a moment in level 2 where I created my own platforms to double-back on that I thought, if intentionally designed or not, was a fun and challenging experience. Glad to see you guys are going to continue working on it in the future, and good luck!
Very nice animations and fun gameplay. The jumps are too low though, meaning that it's quite frustrating to get a jump right.
Great game. Gets quite challenging after the first 'world'. Great work.
I really enjoyed this one. The graphics and animation were very cute, the music was great, and I really liked the zen-like mechanic; meticulously running over every block. And challenging. Very nice game!
Loved the ninja (??) animation. Good job.
Very awesome game. I liked everything about it. The music, the animations, the gameplay. It was great. I could see this becoming a successful game. Good work!
Good presentation. Game involves a bit too much trial and error and is a bit repetitive but otherwise fun. I played for a few screens but you really need to introduce new elements each level to keep players interested.
Great Mood, Great Theme! I love how the rocks don't tremble until you leave making it a much more thought provoking experience. However, it was too hard after a certain level. I spent a lot of time figuring it out, and almost won but after a short mistake and having to start all over again was too frustrating- I'd suggest to have some sort of save/load or checkpoint system. This is the kind of game that would be on phone, with short levels so that the player can always keep coming back on the hard levels
Once again, thanks for all the feedback, guys. Many of the suggestions that you've presented are already being worked on for the game (such as the new elements/mechanics to keep the players invested and we're considering some sort of time-trial or score sistem). We are finding ways to teach the player it's goals and capacities in an organic way that feels not like a tutorial (I, personally, find tutorials a little condescending... but that's just me, so I've got to run it by the team) and we'll have a meeting to see how we can integrate new modes or posibilities without sacrificing the whole mood and feelig.
Still, I want to thank you all on behalf of the whole team and invite you to follow us on Facebook.com/hitogame; we're bilingual so feel free to comment in english or spanish.
Jaime Name - Team Manager/Writer.
audio is superb great, also graphics are nice, animations are really great. Nice puzzle gameplay, but the levels were maybe too long if I made an error. I got stuck to the second level. Maybe the difficulty got too high too fast. And these kind of puzzle games require a lot of time to think and it's not something a lot of LD judges are willing to do when the goal is to rate a lot of entries. That's really a bit shame for every good puzzle game in here.
Interesting. I kinda like the desert/middle eastern theme you have going on there. I don't really like how it's made in Unity though, but whatever. :P
Very nice game, was mostly relaxing (except for the two levels that drove me crazy with how often I had to repeat them due to minor slip-ups--especially the final level. Having the level zoom out to reveal the kanji was really cool (not sure if every level made one, I only realized that on the final one). Looked great, music was perfect. Awesome stuff.
Cool game, liked the music and the animation especially. The words on the top distracted me, though, I guess you could use another font! :)
Really nice :) The first two were quite hard and then the third one was really easy :P Really fun.
Really fits the theme well! I personally enjoyed the player's animation a lot too :)
I love games that convey movement like this. I wish that the jump would be just a little higher, though, so there wasn't as much jumping and hitting the edges of platforms, only to fall down and die.
The difficulty of this game should come from bad planning, not from failing jumps that seem perfectly reachable.
Thumbs up! Enjoyed playing.
Good game, great graphics, and I liked the mechanic! Good job overall!
That was great. Lovely music and artwork and cool mechanic.
The levels were a bit frustrating though. I often destroyed the brick I was trying to land on. Also it seems you can still jump for a bit after dropping off a block.
Almost gave up on the final level but got there eventually after many, many tries.
Very good game! Maybe the levels are a bit too long, making each failure too frustrating. Loved the graphics and music... good job!
Cool idea, but needs some work. It's a bit too hard in the beginning, I kept on dying in level 3 until I quit... That may be because I'm a stupid noob, but I guess many others are, too !!! :)
Glad to know you plan to keep working on this. gonna keep my eye on it.
Nice :)
Really nice art. Well done. :)
Nice animation and music.