h_double 2013-08-25 23:20
I don't have a clue how to beat the harder levels, but this is a great theme and window dressing for a simple game idea.
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD27 → Download Simulator 2013
By purefloat
| Percentile | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | LD27 | Ever | |
| Humor | 132 | 3.27 | ||||
| Theme | 213 | 3.54 | ||||
| Fun | 389 | 3.12 | ||||
| Innovation | 612 | 2.88 | ||||
| Overall | 784 | 2.83 | ||||
| Mood | 885 | 2.28 | ||||
| Graphics | 1049 | 2.02 | ||||
| Coolness | 3 | 71 | ||||
I don't have a clue how to beat the harder levels, but this is a great theme and window dressing for a simple game idea.
Thanks! The last couple require some tricky wall jumps, and I can only beat them like 10% of the time. I didn't want to make it too easy.
Simple game yet very hard (The one with a very long file name is nearly impossible for me xD). Good execution with the theme though.
Much too jumpy on the controls for me to find enjoyable. Plus, hitting space caused the page view to jump to the bottome of the page. And then you die. Also, maybe name the files different? They had me worried.
Haha, sorry about that. There's a minor bug where pressing the spacebar will cause the screen to scroll. For now, W can be used instead. Today I'll be fixing it so spacebar scrolling on the page is disabled.
Spacebar doesn't scroll any more. Sorry about that :)
Oh god the insane movement made this fun
It's not just "oh go over there" it's "Control this out-of-control piece!"
Found the premise really funny. Controls are a bit slippery though.
Holy crap the wall jumps are hard. Well done.
Felt a lot like playing Super Meat Boy -- great!
At least the long wall jumps seem a little flatter than in SMB and it took me a few tries to consciously override my habits to hit that goal in the last level, hehe...
Love the theme, but extremely floaty controls! Maybe that's standard for this kind of platformer and I'm just bad at it, though :)
Nice SMBish platformer, fun, last level was fantastic, nice 10 second theme.
Very neat idea! :) Controls are crazy though and even after finishing SMB this seems really hard.
Never thought of file downloading that way :)
Also works fine in IE.
Really tough controls.
Pretty nice work. I really like the concept, it could have been executed better. Would have liked some sounds. Collision detection seems a bit off. And I could never get to the goal! (I made it to the goal, fell through the floor. -,-) Keep on working.
That was fun. Very difficult, but my super meat boy experience prepared me. It would be very nice with a bit more polish and graphics.
I liked it! But I will have to retry those harder levels with a better keyboard.
HAHA! Great humorous and fast-paced platformer!
Nice work! A few times the game lagged out (garbage collection?) and I went through a wall, but other than that it was pretty well constructed! My only gripe is that the first jump on the last level seems to be chance (or i'm just not very good at this :P) then the second part... I haven't got there but it doesn't look possible.
Could use some audio as well! The Web Audio API is the best candidate, but it's only working in chrome right now. Using <audio> elements would also work, though I only use it as a fallback because you can only play one of a sound at a time with it...
@RHY3756547 Thanks for the advice! The going-through-walls thing has more to do with background applications you're running reducing the framerate. I need to incorporate better collision detection to get around this. At the moment, it's checking for collisions every frame, which is bad for the reasons you already know of. I agree about the first jump on the last level (and the second part requires a bit of trial and error as well), but the end is the easiest part.
Cool idea. Pretty hard, but I had fun with it.
Pretty hard game, but I really love the "backstory".
I finally got an idea of how to get through the last one, but it's impossible to me :D
Blitzplatformer! Well done :D
Oh my, it's so hard !! I have completed the 4 first level but that last one, impossible ;) Very hard, really fun game ! Good job!
Nice story and game concept. It's rather hard, but fun to play. Some audio and fixed collision detection would be nice.
Fun idea, challenging levels, smooth controls (people seem to complain about it but they seem ok to me). spotted the xkcd reference.
Cute little platformer, the difficulty curve was kind of frustrating though.
Hilarious take on the theme. Manages to mix being great fun with being impossibly hard, which is not an easy trick. Impressive stuff.
It's good, it's just really hard. Maybe that's the point :P