sugarbyte 2014-04-29 02:02
Definitely needed some exposition on plot and connecting to the theme, but the art and animation look great!
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD29 → Dream of Depth
By cirrial
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coolness | 2 | 88 | ||
| Innovation | 96 | 3.69 | ||
| Graphics | 205 | 3.81 | ||
| Overall | 273 | 3.36 | ||
| Theme | 277 | 3.35 | ||
| Mood | 350 | 3.09 | ||
| Fun | 356 | 3.02 | ||
| Humor | 577 | 2.00 |
Definitely needed some exposition on plot and connecting to the theme, but the art and animation look great!
Really impressive job with the art and animations! Interesting idea for gameplay, too. Good work.
Does not really feel like a fully finished game (there seem to be signs you had more planned?), but it was still fun to play and it sure does have potential!
Yeah this game had a number of ideas (armory for ranged weapons, mutations for stat changes and new abilities, dedicated roles assigned to units instead of just a EVERYONE DO THIS button) I had to cut just to reach the deadline. I knew things were bad when I spent the entire second day debugging my terribly unstable unit AI. This was going to be a compo entry until I realised I'd rather spend a day making some graphics instead of submitting "coloured boxes fight, the game".
Nice game with great graphics. I made it to the end, but wasn't always sure what to do next. With some more work this could be really great.
Really neat, Im a sucker for these simulation-y games. I felt a bit overwhelmed at first as there were so many things to choose from right off the batt. The art style is great though :D
I see what you were saying about a lack of balance. Despite the gameplay being unpolished, however, the game appears to be visually and technically excellent. I liked the mechanic of arranging the base with platforms on tethers. The character animations are amusing. I'm getting the impression from both my own experience and games I've played that complex multi-player RTS-y type games aren't the most effective in these short development periods due to how carefully they need to be balanced to keep power levels and interactions fair.
Its strange, but this game has a lot of good ideas and good gameplay. Nice job!
is very hard for me =x but is amazing game!
The graphics are very nice! The game seems a bit unfinished but I'm sure it's due to the amount of graphics that would have been needed to be done in the small amount of time that was provided. Nice job!
Very interesting setting. It would be cool to see this game finished. I wasn't sure what was going on most of the time, but it looks like it would be fun once you understand it.
A very confusing game. Some tutorial would help a lot.
Love this! Some minor gripes, fish deplete beyond repair, and get stuck after a while (my units just hang around the heart and refuse to move). Not sure if I'm doing anything wrong. But love this!
@DaanVanYperen: When all fish are depleted and the units are starving they just go to the heart and try to not starve to death because of its regen. It's kind of a cruel aspect of the game that you can run out of fish; if I could have put a tutorial in on time, I'd have made a note to stress the importance of buying the krill-making building as early as possible.
Loved this game :) Though took me a while to figure out that my people were jumping around like crazy and not doing anything because they were all trying to fix my pods that were too high for them to jump to. Lost once, then figured out a strategy, then I won.
This game could use a proper tutorial, or at least more explainations in the description... without it I fear some people wouldn't take the time to understand what is going on and don't give this game the chance it deserves
@PapyGaragos: Great idea! Added some explanations to the description. Don't know why I didn't think of doing that until now, probably frazzled by the deadline when submitting.
Wow this seems like a deep game, too bad I felt overwhelmed with all the options. Maybe you could add all the build button progressively so the player can learn every mechanic one by one. Anyway good job, keep it up :D
That was pretty great! Had some of my people get stuck near the end but I was able to beat it.
Impressive! This has a lot of potential, I think :)
Love the art style!
I won! This game is really good. Took me a while to figure out what was going on but I love it. Could definitely use some sound.
Nice artwork. The game is already fun and I'd love to see the end result.
I love the complexity of this game, very interactive. Although, I feel like a bit too easy. I was able to simply win on my first try but pretty much spamming the attack button. I feel like the units do way too much damage; on another playthrough I amassed about 20 units and had them attack, and they destroyed all of the enemy structures and damaged the core on a single dive.
So yeah, some audio and balance tweaking, and fixing some minor bugs that you already know of, and you have a really great game on your hands!
Wow, pretty cool idea for a strategy game. I'd really like to see you go further with this! Pity about the lack of sound, but the graphics are awesome. It took a couple of minutes before I realized what I had to do (like pan the camera down, for instance) but once I did the game turned out pretty easy. A solid entry! :)
Very unique game. I had fun figuring it out.
Like it
Great gameplay idea.
Really great entry. Was very fun exploring the gameplay. Well done!