emmelineprufrock 2013-12-17 02:50
Really appreciate the original music and a fantastic concept. This game has a lot of potential and it would be really cool if you kept working on it post-jam.
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD28 → The Bombay Intervention
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coolness | 2 | 96 | ||
| Audio | 94 | 3.47 | ||
| Innovation | 181 | 3.11 | ||
| Humor | 265 | 2.37 | ||
| Mood | 326 | 2.75 | ||
| Overall | 374 | 2.83 | ||
| Fun | 408 | 2.49 | ||
| Graphics | 431 | 2.57 | ||
| Theme | 488 | 2.06 |
Really appreciate the original music and a fantastic concept. This game has a lot of potential and it would be really cool if you kept working on it post-jam.
Excellent audio. Getting rewarded with new layers to the music was a deeply satisfying experience. I really like the gameplay mechanic you have and look forward to seeing it intertwined with the time travling flavor text.
fun game, great sound and music too!
Love the music, love the premise, love the gameplay. My only issue is that the time indicators are misleading - at first, I honestly thought I had to be accurate to a tenth of a second!
I won! Great music and mood, though the game was a bit frustrating.
Fun AND educational. Now I have to go google "Lisbon Mischief."
Fun times, took me a little while to figure it out.
The web player doesn't work on my system (OS X Mavericks, both Firefox and Chrome), it just displays a flickering buffer. The music sounds pretty good so far though :) Will check back later!
@udo: Confirmed. =( Will look into a fix in a few hours. Thanks for letting us know!
@udo: Try refreshing the page a few times. Sometimes it loads properly, sometimes not.
The current OSX standalone build is broken, too, because Windows. Will fix.
The OS X standalone build should be fixed. I couldn't figure out why the web player sometimes glitches on load. It seemed to happen more often the first time I visited the page and less frequently on subsequent visits/reloads. I added a little popup note at the top of the page for OS X users recommending they refresh if the web player's busted.
i found it to be a very cool game and i enjoyed it, yes i beat it out.
Excellent coordination between music and gameplay. It's a fun game, I like the music, but so strange, I can't see the connection between the gameplay and Bombay.
@CatOnMars: Thank you! "The Bombay Intervention" was just a phrase in the form of our mission names (i.e. "The <place> <activity>"). An early working title was "The Helsinki Incident". We planned to shoehorn Bombay into the game by having the first mission always start there using Indian flags, but ran out of time. =)
To @emmelineprufrock, @OnlySlightly, @Ariake81, @Switchbreak, @Unept, @3rdclass, @olafsworld98: thanks so much for giving it a try! =)
@Ryusui: we wanted to leave some room for error. Initially, you could be +/- 0.5s and it would round to the integer value, so you were trying to click the timer when it neared a whole number. Truncating the tenths seemed less confusing.
Hey good work this was an interesting and unique game concept. Could be a great way to learn history if it had some info about the different events. Could definitely be developed further.
Great idea!
A mobile version would be nice, since it seems, this would be a nice filler for short breaks.
The graphics are nice so far, but some more eyecandy would be cool. Maybe you could show some pics of the disasters you prevent (or not) ;)
Keep on the good work!
Neat concept -- got waaay easier once i realized I didn't have to get the timer perfectly, just with the right second.
Great music. Interesting idea.
I also thought that the clocks had to be accurate to 1 tenth of a second. After I read in the comments that it isn't the case, I replayed and enjoyed it a lot more.
Nice job, I like the concept!
nice work making a good casual game, great mechanic
A cool matching game. Enjoyed it :)
With all those countdown timers, this game really starts to feel pretty tense.
This game was frustrating
I played it to the end but honestly I didn't get the game concept, sorry. The music was pretty.
I would have liked an increased difficulty the more you progress in the levels. Cool concept.
Very well done audio!
Love the music in this game. The layers work great, sound effects are spot on, and the quality of the music is impressive. The feedback: sound, visuals, etc., is really well done.
@StMatn: There's a downloadable Android version! It plays great on a touchscreen.
@LordHellMaX: Yeah, we ran out of time to add difficulty progression. I've got a post-compo version with a difficulty ramp--5 missions so far--but haven't uploaded it yet. Take a look at our postmortem to get an idea of what we'd envisioned: http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/2013/12/19/postmortem-the-bombay-intervention/
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Thanks for playing & giving feedback, everyone!
-mildmojo
Interesting, but in my opinion it lacks fun and continuity... After preventing a few events I had absolutelly no desire to continue playing.