burquitlambadgers 2014-04-29 01:07
Interesting game. Love the audio, but it would be better if the music didn't restart every time you die.
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD29 → Search for hope
By agmcleod
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Audio | 677 | 2.54 | ||
| Mood | 687 | 2.86 | ||
| Graphics | 941 | 2.56 | ||
| Theme | 967 | 2.68 | ||
| Overall | 1111 | 2.54 | ||
| Fun | 1213 | 1.92 | ||
| Innovation | 1214 | 1.96 | ||
| Coolness | 1669 | 41 |
Interesting game. Love the audio, but it would be better if the music didn't restart every time you die.
:D the art in this game is awesome :D i like the main character little blue guy. Great job!
This guy really can jump. Nice art style.
I loved the art style and the audio. Everything really worked to set the mood of a dystopian world moving to a bright future.
I didn't enjoy the music restarting at the beginning of each room. Needs quite a bit of work but you're building towards a nice aesthetic.
Crooksister yeah that was a very late bug. I had to rename the files when I deployed it to lowercase, however my dictionary on tracks for maps still had the uppercase values.
Game controls are clever, I like the idea of the mouse dash. However the music is a little bit repetitive.
I think I can kind of see what you were trying to do here, but it needs a little more work. The audio in particular was a little grating in my opinion. The game works and has a certain mood to it, but a little more fleshing out could go a long way.
I really like your character's walk cycle. It's smooth and kind of fussy, which helps with characterization.
Dashing and jumping sent me through the roof, and I couldn't get down. There were also a few times when I ended up in a loop based on whether I platformed up or not--seemed a bit cheap. You could put a wall there and get the same result.
And then... I thought that dashing through enemies would kill them, but instead it just drained my health, and there seemed to be no reason for the dash other than being able to move quickly (which wasn't necessary since the game was so short and the character moved fast enough). Since it wasn't one-hit-kill, though, it would have really helped to have had a health bar.
I got to the end, though. It was interesting that the player character moves from one anonymous city to another, and I actually walked up to monsters a few times, wondering if they were the friends I was supposed to find ._. This was a nice effect, and a nice driving premise! Good job.
I immediately loved the game. The gray image,
"I Feel Alone" and the sad keyboard tones gave
me chills like no other LD entry has.
But the feeling faded away quite quickly.
Please take the following as critiques, not
complaints:
- At first, I jumped and the user went through
the roof.
- The music kept restarting at each scene change;
It's kinda irritating, specially for people who
like to rush through a platformer.
...but the music was so awesome I decided to chill
around.
- Completely static enemies - come on, it's very easy
to add animations on melonJS. It would've made
a huge difference.
- I like how the lifebar is a counter that follows the
character.
- The ending was great; little fade out with good song.
Overall I think you put a lot of emotion on this game,
but it don't deserve to be given 48h only.
I really think you should work on it whenever you have
time - it's a great work of art and expression.
P.S.: High five from a fellow melonJS user! Thanks
a lot for contributing to it. :)
some potential but there was no heart here - the enemies never move - frustrating when you hit things and I guess I was taking damage? overall it was fun - nice job
music was kindof annoying as it started over a every new "level". but nice short game.. some movement might have been nice.. but i probably just don't understand the whole concept ^^
Nice setting but it needed more of a challenge.