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BeautyIsTheBeast

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall64.13
Fun253.78
Theme74.11
Graphics24.77
Humor223.94
Mood243.97
Coolness371
Audio583.67
Innovation593.63

Comments

sasoridama 2013-08-26 21:35

Wow! This is really impressive. It looks and plays like wii game or something! It is really fun and the strategy involved with the timer switching roles makes it really tense. What tools did you use to make this? I could totaly see people buying this if it had some more levels and what not.

nikkesen 2013-08-26 21:36

Fantastic game! I love the day-night cycle mechanic.

sasoridama 2013-08-26 23:33

I just came back to say I am still playing this game!

caporaltito 2013-08-27 10:54

Houston ? We've got a deltatime problem. http://imageshack.us/f/19/ue3x.png/

Amazing entry, though. I wish I could vote but I didn't add an entry in this LD. I would have ranked 5 everywhere !

villhest 2013-08-27 11:57

Really nice game. Awesome graphics!

foxtacy 2013-08-27 11:58

*claps*

no complaints whatsoever, this is incredible for a Ludum Dare :)

lesterpig 2013-08-27 11:58

Nice graphics but very hard ! :)

juaxix 2013-08-27 11:59

Oh, very good, a lot of productivity to get this finished!.
I love these lowpoly chars, the idea is pretty simple and it works nicely, you can see all the elements clearly and the comoposition is really polished, one of the best of my list.
Nothing really works better than a princess / wolf 10s curse :)
thanks!

tanser 2013-08-27 11:59

I love the idea behind the game but my fps is just dead.
The art is great and the music only enriches everything!

aglushakov 2013-08-27 12:03

Really nice game!

It remind me classic PacMan game :)

Graphics also good!

Nice work!

firezenk 2013-08-27 12:04

Wow! awesome game! I really like the 3D models! :D

atgaubatz 2013-08-27 14:36

Really fantastic!

cschwartz 2013-08-27 14:38

Like the graphics and sound as well as the asymmetric gameplay.

kimidori 2013-08-27 14:42

great game, a little too hard though since the AI is good at running away.

tobiasw 2013-08-27 15:01

The character and environment design is fantastic! I like the background story and the images explaining it at the beginning.

The music is pretty cool! The sound effects were fine, though sometimes they didn't fit entirely or were a bit hard on the ears.

I like the mechanic, but I am not too sure about the current gameplay. I like the basic idea, but I think it's there were three things that made it not too much fun for me:
- Searching for your counterpart sometimes takes forever at the beginning.
- Your counterpart sometimes seems awfully dumb. I mean, I see him, why doesn't he seem to see me? Ugh. It's pretty hard to get him to get to run into my castle without nearly touching him.
- There aren't enough book shelves/rose bushes for my taste. They are territorial advantages that should be used to trap your enemy, right? I found the few ones that are there often lacking the right positioning to do that.

Apart from that, your game is really polished, well made and as such enjoyable. Good job!

kill0u 2013-08-27 15:26

Amazing :D

carduus 2013-08-27 21:47

AWESOME BROS ! MORE MORE MORE :D

fgielow 2013-08-29 00:05

man! this was really creative, I must say. loved the duality and the way you managed to use the 10 seconds theme in a straight manner and still achieve an average duration game. really simple and solid mechanics, i liked it very much, congrats xD awesome music too, i must say

rezoner 2013-08-29 07:11

Awesome low-poly, great ideas - daytime/night and being forced to play one or the other character. Very professional execution level.

dookie 2013-08-29 16:44

Really impressive :)

codexus 2013-09-01 12:14

Awesome game, very polished and fun. Great idea to let us play both roles!

teamflare 2013-09-01 13:06

This was awesome!!! I love the style and the gameplay. And the theme is just great :) Sorry for repeating myself - AWESOME job!

xgor 2013-09-01 13:44

Great game. I can imagine this as a really fun multiplayer game.

loxo 2013-09-01 13:46

Incredible graphics and a great idea!

oajfh 2013-09-01 14:30

My character went through the walls quite a few times, and otherwise controls aren't quite responsive enough to my taste.
Other than that, great entry.

tifu 2013-09-01 15:21

This is so great XD

deepnight 2013-09-01 17:09

That was really impressive guys :)
One of the best entries I've seen in Jam, especially because of the excellent art and animations! The theme fits perfectly with your gameplay which is also a very good point. However, the music is a bit repetitive and sounds would require more polish, especially because they are scarce.

Good job!
Let's have a beer!

jlauener 2013-09-01 17:39

Very nicely done, lot of work went into this entry. Neat idea.

nsadie 2013-09-01 18:12

Excellent graphics, nice gameplay!

nezzhil 2013-09-01 18:17

Awesome graphics. I love the idea but the IA would be a bit better. :)

klianc09 2013-09-01 21:00

Looks and sounds great, but finding your enemy/victim can take a long time on this large map, maybe make the view larger or have a minimap. And it would be cool if there were more rose bushes/book shelves, as they could give the game more depth.

coderdozer 2013-09-01 21:57

That was fun. Well done.

gabriel 2013-09-01 22:34

Here, take these dozens of stars in my rating!

I am totally in love with the princess! This is one of the cutest characters I've seen in a while (not talking only about LD here). The way she stands really tense looking around when she's stopped is amazing, gives her a lot of character! Seriously, this is one of the most charming games I've seen here, complete cuteness overload!

About the gameplay it is sweet as well, and the bookshelf/vine twist is nice. It gives rise to some dominant strategies that can make the game very easy though - basically, you can keep lurking around a spot where you have the wall cross advantage and keep atracting your 'enemy' so that he is always around. If he gets too close you cross the bookshelf and he'll instantly start running to some alternative path, then you just cross back and it is usually enough to stall the 10 seconds you need to run away while keeping the adversary close enough to be an easy prey when the cycle changes. One possible approach would be to make vines or bookshelfs instantly disappear after used so that the same passage can't be used twice in a row, and maybe making other spots turning into bookshelfs, vines or normal walls randomly - this would make the playfield less subject to exploits and overall a little more unpredictable.

Anyway, if you guys end up making something out of this game, let me know! I'll play any game that has this princess. I totally love her. :D

otus 2013-09-02 16:51

Very pretty and detailed graphics!
I also like how the gameplay changes :)

Very nice work!

purplescape 2013-09-03 16:33

So polished! I feel anxious and like I want to laugh at the same time. Excellent game

jd557 2013-09-05 22:26

Really polished game, congrats.

I'll only give it 4 stars though, because I found a lot of bugs that were game breaking, like passing through solid walls (really solid walls, not roses/bookshelfs) and really weird pathfinding behaviour.

It's a shame though. If it weren't for that, this would be a sure 5-star game.

phocker 2013-09-06 00:54

it was really fun -- very simple and the artwork was perfect

capro 2013-09-06 10:11

Great game. Really good job!

juniorus 2013-09-06 20:49

Great low-poly 3D art! The charac-design is excellent too!

porglezomp 2013-09-06 21:53

Beautiful game, nice music (although a bit repetitive). The art reminded me of nintendo game, and the controls of pac-man. (I think it would be even more fun with a joystick) One thing that I would change, is maybe make the viewpoint a bit higher up.

urth 2013-09-08 01:39

Lovely work. Hope to see more in the future.

almax27 2013-09-08 09:58

Purdy!

Really nice game mechanic and art is awesome. Really could see this being played with friends on the WiiU.

Great job. :)

zyxer 2013-09-08 15:25

Wow! Amazing artwork and graphics! I also really like the game idea of switching the hunter/hunted every 10 seconds. And the characters are very funny. The controls are a bit hard to master though, which makes the game frustratingly hard.

jason 2013-09-09 13:48

Nice job, not only is the game fun, but I really loved the mechanic! And being able to play both characters at the start was a nice touch. Really cool idea overall and you guys did a great job polishing it.

withoutpillow 2013-09-11 15:49

too freaking advanced for my computer, so i can only judge the sound and graphics, but these are great. the premise seems interesting, wish i could play it!

2016-06-15 02:32

This looks cool can wate to try it out ^_^, I saw this on a top ten list of best Luduma dare games :D