justi 2013-08-26 18:33
Flash wolud be a little bigger, so hitting will be more preciseious. Sometimes user is spawned over enemies so was immediately killed. Nice stuff with multiplayer options:)
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD27 → Hungry People With Swords That Are Too Big
By norgg
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coolness | 3 | 64 | ||
| Humor | 306 | 2.71 | ||
| Fun | 393 | 3.11 | ||
| Innovation | 403 | 3.17 | ||
| Mood | 662 | 2.59 | ||
| Overall | 758 | 2.86 | ||
| Graphics | 813 | 2.47 | ||
| Theme | 890 | 2.76 |
Flash wolud be a little bigger, so hitting will be more preciseious. Sometimes user is spawned over enemies so was immediately killed. Nice stuff with multiplayer options:)
Interesting concept. Fighting the beasts proved to be much harder than I expected. Moving around is a bit weird, and dying by just touching the beasts feels a bit cheap...
What kind of small beasts are so greedy :)
Small eats fast...Oh noes! small fry approching! arghhhhhhh....
Guess it's a bit to much luck for me.
Thats was fun. And multiplayer was a big surprise for me. Not sure I understand the control of the sword as I always die. :)
But they look soooo cute.... why do they kill you so?! This game is minimalism embodied: so simple, but still rich - I couldn't stop! Wish there were some more players - I stuck around for quite some time hoping to dual.
Indeed manipulating a big sword is hard!
Quick bit a fun. Very difficult!
Manipulating the sword seems pretty hard, and I guess I didn't have much fun because there was no one on the server at the time I played it? Still, it was alright.
Really nice simple game! Only thing I didn't like is when you land on a beast... But you restart so fast it's really not that noticeable. Controls are quite hard, but I'm starting to get the hang of it. Overall, nice job!
i thought this was wonderful, so much fun!
Pretty awkward controls. Must be more fun with other players but sadly none connected.
Awkward controls ARE THE BEST BIT! Don't change ANYTHING! Don't make it bigger. It's perfect. I keep sneaking back for another round - it's so cool when there are two or three other peeps.
MULTIPLAYER?!?! AWESOME!!!! Oh, collision detection is off. Dayum.
This is chaos, I like it. xD
KILL TO SURVIVE AAHHH!!! Nope I'm dead :) Fun and frenzied game.
I hate die constantly but there is nothing to do when a bad gamer as me play this type of games. I liked the multiplayer, very good job on it :).
I loved it. I didn't bother reading so I thought it was only jumping that swung the sword which was fine by me. With other player it was a laugh. Spawning on things was a bit annoying however. Pretty cool little game. Also the world doesn't appear to loop which might be a good idea but I might be wrong on that.
I just keep dying and keep enjoying the game. I think the beasts are equally hungry as me :D
loved the minimal look to it! those little critters aren't scared enough of my giant sword... if only I could learn how to swing it properly!
Thanks for all the feedback everyone! For people finding the controls awkward, that is pretty intentional, but it's possible to get quite smooth with them.
If the collision detection seems off it's probably due to that being handled server-side for fairness and you getting some lag (the server is in Europe), it's not doing client-side prediction of hits.
I'm not totally happy with the collisions not being spot on because it can make the awkward controls tend towards frustrating rather than comedic, if I re-did this I'd probably do them client side for the beasts at least.
I liked that it's multiplayer. That was a good touch. I died on spawn a lot though, and the swinging of the sword was hard to get right.
Got a few of my friends playing it with me, it was great. The awkward controls... I know what you were going for, and it kind of works, but with a bit of tweaking I feel it could be both awkward but usable, if that makes sense.
I don't really get it, but I like (as many others) the minimalistic look.
I thought this was going to be one of those games that ends up being clever and fun because of the awkward controls... but it just ends up being frustrated because touching a beast makes you die. I think it'd be a much better game w/o that.