Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD27 → Willian's Dystopia
By jqcoding
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Humor | 411 | 2.52 | ||
| Audio | 718 | 2.23 | ||
| Mood | 913 | 2.23 | ||
| Innovation | 1114 | 2.00 | ||
| Graphics | 1124 | 1.83 | ||
| Overall | 1153 | 2.12 | ||
| Theme | 1157 | 1.88 | ||
| Fun | 1167 | 1.75 | ||
| Coolness | 1337 | 44 |
It definitely looks like you overscoped this one. Even creating one dungeon, or even one room of a dungeon, would be more than enough for 48 hours of work. For your first Ludum Dare, this isn't bad though. Producing enough content can be a big hurdle, and it looks like you covered that. For future jams though, maybe try aiming for more of a vertical slice of gameplay :)
The mechanics seem work and your voice acting gives it a pretty cool atmosphere, but after the introduction I have no idea what to look for, and exploring without clues or roads becomes tedious.
Perhaps it could be implemented as a picture based game with voice acting to tell the story rather than a top-down rpg, since the top-down engine as it is doesn't seem to be adding to the enjoyability of the story.
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I like the story in the background with the funny references.
Just wondering, why does the play button turn into the credits button on mouse over?
And I'm glad to see someone else using SFML!
Starting small and building up from there is never easy. Voice acting was a unique and very nice touch. I would love to see this expanded upon, it has a lot of potential! Nice job, and grats on finishing the First Dare!
Not bad, You really did overscope however - Not much reference to the theme and a lack of a story. The audio didn't work for me either, but that might've helped with the story. Not bad though
I was kind of lost. But I thought the narration was pretty cool! And nice amount of content you put in there.
Nice voice acting and music. Most areas seem underdeveloped.
<3 the audio
Agree with Mclogenog.
Turn down your scope dramatically. It feels like you were hoping to do a lot more than you realized.
Also, the very first thing you need to go do. Is learn how to fix your tilemap artifacts. This is happening beacuse of 'scaling', there are multiple ways to fix it. The easiest way is to pad your tiles with a 1 pixel buffer and fill that buffer in with the tile's last color
Or change it to nearest neighbor or some other variation.
Not having those simple artifacts will make the game polish improve a lot
Keep it up! Your next LD will be much better! Constant learning! Don't give up! Its a great start!
I like the voice acting telling the story, especially that it plays while I can walk around. There's a lot of exploring which is good and more stuff to do in a post-compo would be great.