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Boomerang

By deity

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Graphics3073.30
Innovation3173.17
Fun4662.90
Overall5542.95
Theme5702.73
Audio6442.13
Humor6781.85
Mood6892.48
Coolness99848

Comments

silentbunny 2013-12-16 03:16

poor boomerang didnt come back

mcgraw 2013-12-16 03:16

That was fun/interesting! Great work!

supremefist 2013-12-16 03:16

Hard to predict what the trajectory of the boomerang will be!

snail_man 2013-12-16 03:18

I really liked the clean, crisp graphical style. Sounds were okay, although they cot a bit annoying after a while. The boomerang's physics felt very weird and inconsistent though.

archaeometrician 2013-12-16 03:21

Cute game ! I lost my boomerang after level 6 :P Good job with the graphics I love the isometric view.

andrewkennedy 2013-12-16 03:28

Cool take on the theme, You've got a pretty fun game here!

ashen 2013-12-16 03:35

What a fun game! Well done! The graphic style is clean and the use of the theme very clever.

wojworks 2013-12-16 03:40

A fun, albeit simple game. Not sure how well this fits the theme though.

ehtd 2013-12-16 04:01

A nice but a little unpredictable boomerang. I played for 30 levels, did not know if the game had an end. Simple concept, but nice gameplay.

mcapraro 2013-12-16 04:49

nicely executed!

dcolgan 2013-12-16 06:44

Very fun! It's a video game boomerang simulator game.

primaerfunktion 2013-12-16 10:10

The boomerang is hard to predict, but it's fun to play.

nicotuason 2013-12-16 12:53

Nice crisp graphics! Bit hard to predict the boomerang's path, but still fun.

tonasz 2013-12-16 16:30

I love this minimalistic art style and enjoyed this idea for puzzle gameplay. :) The mechanics of boomerang could be explained better, but I think I got it. Are levels generated or preseted? And I'm not sure if that's bug, but few times the ball has moved around after failure, and once got inside a tree.

deity 2013-12-17 01:22

Thanks for all the feedback! Was my first entry to Ludum so I kept my plans simple so I could finish.

Boomerang is definitely a bit tricky. I wanted a fully elliptical path but that didn't work so well so I made it to where the boomerang first goes to where you click then does the full 180 degree semicircle before returning.

@Tonasz: levels are all randomized/generated. And yes I think on the return path, the boomerang can sometimes glitch through trees (collider fail due to the movement/rotation speed I think).

acheronstudio 2013-12-17 05:35

I quite like the graphics! It's quite cute. I made a boomerang game too! Quite different to yours which goes to show there's a lot you can do :D
Please check it out!
http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-28/?action=preview&uid=29328

danbo 2013-12-17 12:18

Cute game, though since you can just keep throwing it I dunno how much it adheres to the theme.

seconddimension 2013-12-17 12:31

When there were a few trees and you swung the boomerang between them it was supremely satisfying!

mventurelli 2013-12-17 16:42

Nice idea, but the boomerang trajectory is a little weird, I think! We made a boomerang game as well, nice to see the same idea generating games in completely different genres :D

zerkruemler 2013-12-17 20:42

Nice idea, good implementation. but unfortunately it is more luck than skill required. More different levels would also be nice.

somepx 2013-12-18 21:51

A good game. Stuck at level 6 tho ;)

jgpicatoste 2013-12-19 21:53

Pretty good, with clever level design and vibrant graphics. I found, though, that the boomerang mechanic behaved somewhat unreliable sometimes.

miltage 2013-12-20 13:12

I loved the concept, but the puzzles aren't very well thought out. If you hit the ball, but don't get the boomerang back, the level restarts with the ball in a new position. This makes me think that the levels are actually random and not puzzles at all, more a luck-based game as opposed to a skill/logical one which I hoped it was. Overall, an enjoyable game, nicely done.

diegomachado 2013-12-21 20:44

I like the minimal graphics style and gameplay! Could improve control (or lack of) the boomerang when it's comming back. Nice work!

rnlf 2013-12-22 02:15

Interesting idea. Is there a way to predict the direction the boomerang will turn? It's quite hard this way. Funky art style.

diptoman 2014-01-03 13:28

Simple and fun! It was hard to know if the boomerang would turn left or right, so too a lot of gambles. The spinning was weird. But other than that, great game, and a great way to kill time.

jupiter_hadley 2014-01-04 17:25

Really cute looking. Love the game :) I included this game in my Ludum Dare 28 compilation video series, if you'd like to take a look :) http://youtu.be/fUXvqevl8YI