Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD29 → Game of Roots
By bubuiic
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Theme | 25 | 4.02 | ||
| Coolness | 2 | 91 | ||
| Innovation | 43 | 3.85 | ||
| Fun | 216 | 3.26 | ||
| Overall | 252 | 3.39 | ||
| Mood | 398 | 3.00 | ||
| Audio | 426 | 2.93 | ||
| Humor | 540 | 2.14 | ||
| Graphics | 544 | 2.91 |
Wow ! That was brilliant and innovative. Very fun to play.
Energy would deserve a bigger counter imho and also the darkening of the screen would be better if you encounter really darker dirt tiles instead of just darken the background.
Maybe, you should stop the bg music when your gameover sequence play.
Pretty innovative. UI was confusing to understand, however.
Cool game. Nice to see another one using pygame.
Good Game, Really fun and new.
Really great and innovative idea!
It was fun, the "can't go up" system is pretty nice. It lacks animation, but still, it's a fun game.
Very cool and strange idea! I liked it very much. Gut to Level 527. Good work!
You created too big screen.
nice idea! ...I don't see why you'd ever want to use the split function unless you were a masochist though
Depthscore: 399. And this game certainly has a lot more depth than I first expected - in several senses of the word.
It took me a little while to get used to judging what grid square my root end was in. A root that's just moved down one square looks a bit like it's only gone halfway down - which caught me out at first, I would occasionally overshoot and then find I was too low down and couldn't move back up again. But once I got used to that, I really enjoyed this game. Well done!
Ah, I had similar idea but I wasn't sure if it would work so I ditched it after few minutes of thinking about it - nice to see that someone made it and it works...
Good work (you're the first game in about 20 I've tried that makes me want to try another run)
Pretty innovative game. It's an interesting dilemma weighing up whether to go sideways to get the energy or continue travelling down in the hopes you'll find some more below.
Pretty cool, but a bit confusing with the gui.
Great idea! Nice realization of the theme
Cool mechanic, very innovative!
Really cool game :)
That was interesting to play. There's definitely a good tradeoff between the benefits and risks of splitting a bunch. If you're better at the game you can get away with splitting more and thus collecting more stuff with less cost. There wasn't an option to make the screen smaller, though, so I had to hide my taskbar to see the whole thing.
Great fun and pygame! Good times!
@Knowledge and VDOgamez: You can set the resolution in the settings.txt :-). We set the default resolution relatively high, because the game is more fun if you have more space.
Please play and rate my game again!
How did you play it firs time(it didn't work)?
I like the sensation of controlling many roots at once
Great game, thanks!
Really enjoyed this! The root splitting makes for some pretty strategic gameplay :)
Quite nice entry, very original. I like what you implemented root's behavior "interfering each other". Cool game :)
Nice little game, with cool concept.
Check my video about further explanation.
Really fun idea and nice game! Difficult to control so many roots at once!
This was really good! Nice concept, and really engaging.
I loved infinitely splitting my roots until the whole screen was filled with them. Also, I really enjoyed the music.
And a game about roots gets a bonus by default :D (I made one, too)
I managed to reach a depth level of 1755 by using only one root and collecting as many stone crushers and energy on the way as possible ;) Not sure if that's how it's intended, but you can really abuse the fact that the game always generates at least one passable path on deeper levels if you have enough energy left!
Pretty fun game. I liked the root splitting although for me there was no reason to split to more than two roots, as having too many roots made it nearly impossible to avoid all the radiactive trash (Who disposes all this trash anyway?). At the end, when you get so deep that nearly everything is rocks, there aren't enough rock breaker pickups so that you could avoid getting stuck.
Really cool mechanics, though it would be nice if there was more motivation to split roots, such as some mechanic or obstacle that forced the user to split the root.