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You Only Get One Gift (for christmas)

By bw2801

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness1100
Humor1863.11
Overall2053.39
Fun2563.24
Theme3563.14
Mood3982.91
Graphics4273.06
Audio5782.35
Innovation7662.47

Comments

kookoon 2013-12-16 10:18

I am error guy made me feel a bit unconfortable. Then Santa with socks made me cry!
Cool game. :D

pebkac 2013-12-16 14:48

Nice job, lot of content!

zorfmorf 2013-12-16 14:52

I am error guy was a nice touch (binding of isaac?)

Your game is finished, solid and obviously playtested. Maybe a little bit easy (although I got stuck once in a toilet). Well done!

sknoslo 2013-12-16 14:53

Fun game. I was really confused after the first round, because it said "To be continued" so I thought the game was over and then it said "Esc to reset" but Esc didn't do anything. Then I realized it was just a tip screen lol.

background_nose 2013-12-16 14:58

I'm not one for puzzle games, but this seemed very competent and I played it through to the end. Mechanics wise I felt like I was winning through brute force and ignorance, losing to gotchas, but if that's your thing then this is great. You do a good job of building up the mechanics and difficulty step wise though.

Graphics and audio are nicely done and solid. Controls are nice enough for the job. Played it through to the end and was left feeling complete. Good job!

marcellus 2013-12-16 15:00

Lot of content, I like the graphics and the mood. Good game.

linuus 2013-12-16 15:11

Love the graphics and the puzzles.. Controls were a bit annoying, when walking through doors I alway hit the wall at least twice XD

Anyaway, great game! :)

windwalkerranger 2013-12-16 15:47

It's nice game but couldn't get the connection with the theme :)

bw2801 2013-12-16 17:18

@windwalkerranger It's in the story. The guy "only gets one" gift for Christmas ;D

bw2801 2013-12-16 17:21

@zorfmorf originally it was an easter egg in "Zelda II" but Binding of Isaac has it as well.

rnlf 2013-12-16 22:58

Nice one! Nice play on the theme and nice visuals. The sounds are a bit "simple" but they match the overall style. One suggestion though, allow movement in diagonals if two direction keys are pressed at once, this would make it quite a bit more playable.

capitals 2013-12-16 23:08

Great Fun, I could play this for hours.

zebi24 2013-12-16 23:17

Wow, the length of this one... All those gifts i've got... :3

abeing 2013-12-16 23:21

wow so much levels. great game. "i am error" nice cameo ;)

venks 2013-12-17 16:11

Great use of the theme for this one. I really like this game and the art, though not the best, does a good job at setting everything.

mekuri 2013-12-17 17:30

Nice game. I liked the style of the graphics. Good job.

d_0o_d 2013-12-17 17:37

This game is very long. I don't think I found any bugs. But a challenge would have been nice, something like the kids looking around in the room and you have to sneak in to get the presents without them noticing. But You have made a solid game!

bw2801 2013-12-17 17:44

@d_0o_d I really wanted to do that but I had no time left...
Thank you! :)

jerrre 2013-12-17 18:59

Fun game, Too bad there was no music

landosystems 2013-12-17 19:54

Not bad at all. The game runs very smoothly, and the graphics are simple yet effective. Graphically speaking, the only thing I would look into is making the standard wooden doors "pop out" from the floor - I generally only saw them after I bounded off of them a time or two.

It would be nice to have a visual inventory showing which keys/cards that you have. Strafing would also be a nice touch :)

Thanks for putting this together, and good work!

coblynau 2013-12-17 19:56

Well done on your first LD! This is mine too. :) Good use of the theme!

thalikoth 2013-12-17 20:52

Nice game, pretty funny.

zerkruemler 2013-12-17 20:52

Nicely, done. I got stuck in level 10 or so when I found no further keys in the toilet where i used a key for.
Very good work for the short time.

javifugitivo 2013-12-17 20:55

Very simple and nice game, but a little short. Keep working to achieve something bigger next time! ;-)

badlydrawnrod 2013-12-17 20:59

The controls are a little fiddly, but otherwise the execution is good. Needs sound though.

nichii 2013-12-18 15:30

Very well done especially with the puzzles ;)

tex-killer 2013-12-18 16:40

This one was fun... lol

goerp 2013-12-18 17:40

Pretty solid entry for your first one.
You really got into the spirit of christmas I see ;)
I agree that there is a lot of content. It just needs a bit of sound.
At first I thought that you couldn't do anything wrong, but later on I found out that you could and I did.
The thing I would change next time: it looks like the character can't fit through the doors, movement was a bit hard. Like other people who commented on my game: if you have to walk around a lot, better make it fast.

nelien 2013-12-18 21:21

Actually really great! Played it with a smile all the way.

f7f5 2013-12-18 21:59

Ahh, my wrist... Somehow the set of keys you chose felt very uncomfortable. Diagonals would also have been nice.
Otherwise lots of content and humour. Good use of the theme.

danbo 2013-12-19 15:18

Pretty well-polished, if somewhat easy.

mortl8324 2013-12-19 15:27

I loved this game. So simple, but a lot of content in it. I didn't like the character art, but all the other art was great.

bw2801 2013-12-19 15:32

@Custard Games yep, characters are pretty hard to draw for me.
I always get problems with that.

tombofry 2013-12-19 20:30

Wow, this is actually quite an impressive game! I really like the puzzle aspect of the game and I actually messed up levels a few times. It was a little bit easy though, and the controls could have been improved slightly, but for your first Ludum Dare it's very good, congrats :D

dsoft20 2013-12-20 13:17

Nice gane ;D I like how the theme is applyed :D

cakemonitor 2014-01-05 12:57

Nice puzzle game - and great work on your first Ludum Dare! :)

It was good how your started simple and introduced more elements as the game proceeded.

I sometimes found the wooden doors looked too similar to the floor so a couple of times I thought the corridor was clear and suspected your collision detection was bugged but then I realised I just couldn't see the brown-on-brown door!

Also it would be nice to have a HUD telling me how many keys I have, which coloured cards, etc.

Overall though, very well done!

loxo 2014-01-05 13:06

Nice first entry, I like the game very much. Sometimes the doors are a bit hard to see, because of the similarity to the floor. Some music would have been nice. But overall a nice game.