zappi 2013-08-26 19:41
Good core mechanic, I enjoyed flying around the planet!
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD27 → BIRTH
By grayhaze
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coolness | 3 | 62 | ||
| Humor | 677 | 2.04 | ||
| Innovation | 702 | 2.77 | ||
| Fun | 978 | 2.36 | ||
| Overall | 994 | 2.56 | ||
| Mood | 1016 | 1.97 | ||
| Graphics | 1026 | 2.08 | ||
| Theme | 1116 | 2.21 |
Good core mechanic, I enjoyed flying around the planet!
Dig the concept and the visual of circling the planet looks great. I was a little confused on what I needed to do to win. I liked being able to fly up away from the planet. It would be neat if there were other planets with spores you could fly to. Good job!
Flight control is good, but not sure how to progress. Some sounds could improve the experience too.
Nice base mechanic, but the game was a bit too easy I think.
It took a long time before it started being challenging.
Nice fluid controls though, and I enjoyed soaring through the sky and bombing red "mothers" :D
Thanks for the comments everyone. Unfortunately I ran out of time and was rapidly falling asleep! When you kill the last mother on a globe, you actually move on to the next level - easier to spot when the random planet colour actually changes. Each level has a slightly quicker spawn time than the last. Once you get up to level eight, it starts to get very difficult to kill all the mothers before they spawn.
God Job!
The gameplay is neat and involves lots of strategy, although it may be just a bit to simple.
Nice with the flying around the planet!
I liked the quote at the beginning, it was a nice way to set up the game and gave a nice connection to the theme.
Fucked up idea :D haha
Took a little too long for the game to pick up pace, but when it did it was quite challenging! Also flying around felt nice :)
A shame you didn't include any sound! Could have upped the experience.
Quite a fun play!
Cool concept although quite repetitive. Also really need more feedback with sound and something that shows that the level as changed.
Was very easy at first, and then it suddenly was too hard to even avoid all the small spheres flying around.
I somehow like the clean artstyle. ;)
I loved flying around the planet, it took me a second to realize what was going on, and it got hard pretty quickly after that, but I still enjoyed carpet bombing all the moms. The simple graphics really lent themselves to the game, I feel like simplifying the "mothers" would make the game even more visually striking. Great work!
Solid game with an interesting way of moving around the planet
Interesting use of that quote to get the game
Working smoothly, but to easy at the beginning
Getting challenging after a while
Nice :)
it felt really awesome to speed around the planet!
Very nice idea, and the graphics are simple, yet fitting. However, it was quite confusing when you hit a birth (the red ones) and you are suddenly on another planet? But the circling around the planet was really nice, I see potential.
Thanks SneManden. Proper level transitions are on the to-do list for the final version. I ran out of time after losing the first day to a failed idea, so my main focus was to get the game engine and mechanic working to the point where it was playable.
Overall I had a lot of fun playing this. A little more to do, especially at the beginning, would have been good. Minimal sound effects would have made this even better. Great concept, well executed considering the time constraint. Excellent! :)
Sounds would have made it awesome: never forget them ;)
I like the circular vision you chose, and also the design of the spore mothers.
It could have been interesting to have some indications on the position of the nearest mother, like an arrow on the side of the screen.
Took me a bit to figure out, and then I came back here for the instructions. I think in-game instructions are a must, but just my opinion. I like the rotating world.
Interesting flying mechanic.
I like the circling planet mechanic, I think it would have been more fun with a lot more action. It was too easy.