captainkraft 2014-04-28 02:29
The art isn't bad and it seems pretty complete. Not too bad.
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD29 → Strawberry in the Underworld
By armanky
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coolness | 3 | 69 | ||
| Theme | 56 | 3.96 | ||
| Audio | 138 | 3.53 | ||
| Graphics | 192 | 3.80 | ||
| Humor | 199 | 3.12 | ||
| Mood | 260 | 3.38 | ||
| Overall | 425 | 3.31 | ||
| Fun | 427 | 3.16 | ||
| Innovation | 487 | 3.15 |
The art isn't bad and it seems pretty complete. Not too bad.
Great use of the theme and nice art. The controls made it a little frustrating for platforming sections.
Interesting level design and great audio/sfx.
Cool idea with the over- and underworld. It took me a while to get that the goal is to find 3 carrots. Nice puzzle game. Only thing that bugged me is that the controls are a bit floaty.
It was all bright and cute - then I dug in the ground :(
I like the world swapping mechanic--I tried to do that with my game as well, but you used it much better than I did.
This is really nice.
I found the controls a bit floaty, and it was frustratuing to lose my progress when i died. Hoever, the puzzle aspect was really well done and it looks great.
I wish there was more than one level!
Great take on the theme. It was cool to have two distinct levels line up like they did. I liked the graphics as well, it gave the game an overall cutesy tone.
Excellent art, amazing music, but wow I got frustrated with the platforming. If it was a little less floaty this would probably be my favorite game so far.
I thought I'll fail to complete this entry but I tried to dig not only where plant grows. And it works. :)
Art and music are like fun old-school console. Enjoyed it.
Also, it's not very comfortable to move with left hand and jump with space. So I attached gamepad. But may be it'll be good idea to duplicate WASD to arrows.
Good entry!
Great job man! The only complaint I have is that the jumping is a bit loose, makes those pesky platforms frustrating. Other than that, the art is good, the music is good, the use of theme is great! Very well rounded entry, good job!
really cute game, I like the double worlds, and I love that your game is html5. I sometimes had trouble with the underground world going in black though.
Got stuck, but I like the idea, nicely executed.
I liked the contrast between the Strawberry world and underground. Cute graphics. Like others have said I found the movement controls a bit tricky too.
Like the art and the music. the sound effect stopping when he's digging remind me the good old games
My complaints are that the camera does a poor job following the player and the input keys feel really unnatural. Aside from that, fine job, the contrast between the overworld and underworld is humorous.
Appreciate the feedback, guys! It would seem the universal grief with my game is the floaty platforming, and the real tragedy is that fixing most of your problems (including the camera) involves nothing more than tweaking a few variables. I've gotta stick to the rules and leave it the way it is, unfortunately.
I wish the keyboard was more suited to platformers, but it's really hard for it not to feel awkward, which is why I recommended using a gamepad. Even so, giving the option to use arrow keys is a pretty stupid miss on my part.
I'll definitely get a post-compo version out that feels a little nicer to play and relies less on strict platforming. Again though, thank you for playing and possibly enjoying! This was definitely a fun one to make! :)
Lovely music, really adds to the feel of the game.
Really enjoyed it. It's a bit glitchy here and there (once fell through the floor in the underground, jumped out of the top screen of the screen -> window turns black), but really cute character, really love how happy she looks when she's running.
Good job!
This is beautiful! The mood's great and it's truly adorable. That said, the platforming controls were so slidy and floaty that I pretty much couldn't get anywhere with it... and, if you'd had any more time, I would have really appreciated an animation of the pooch going up the vines in the underworld. As-is, the transitions were really harsh and kind of disorienting.
Very, very solid entry. Took me a while to realise I could dig anywhere and not just on a vine, and there's too much momentum in the controls, but very, very good thing you've got here!
Amazing art, good sound/music.
That's really hard ! But fun :D
The game is super polished, given that you made it in forty eight hours. That being said, the physics are really really wonky, and the platforming felt artificially difficult due to the weird lack of traction.
Sort of reminded me of Eversion, but stylized and much better than Eversion.
Love, love, love the graphics! I included it in part 9 of my Ludum Dare compilation video series if you'd like to take a look http://youtu.be/ln7f84GPnPg
Nice game, I liked the concept, the music was pretty cool too! Unfortunately, the player was really hard to control, but I enjoyed the game! :)
Cute and fun! Great job!
I like the graphics.
The dig idea is interesting but in this case doesn't really seem to add anything other than complicating the gameplay for no gain.
The game camera seems to work in an odd way and is in the wrong place most of the time.
The amount of momentum the character can build up make the controls feel bad for a platformer which is something you seem to have noticed considering you don't need to do a single difficult jump to complete the game. There are plenty of platformers where you can have good control of your character even with a keyboard I don't think that works as an excuse.
When you notice yourself redesigning the levels to fit your controls and camera you should probably take a step back and think about what you really want from your game.
Overall a pretty nice looking platformer. Some depth and difficulty would be nice.
This is like playing NES Metroid again. Really good graphics and music.
I love the above/below ground puzzle style. Agree with all the other comments though about the floatiness of the jump mechanic.
Great and unique idea! Nice graphics, audio and gameplay. The game fits the theme very well and it's fun to play.
I love Ludum Dare games like yours which have took the "Beneath the Surface"+"Two world" approach. Only a few of you :)
About the controls, I think you should support arrows next time, and also maybe just holding one second the down key is ok (no need of shift).
Really cool concept and nice execution.
I enjoyed it. The controls were definitely frustratingly floaty, but I really liked the two different worlds. having them merely touch instead of being almost exactly the same doubled the explorable world, which I liked.
Wow. Very nice! I really liked the graphics and sounds! It took some time to ge used to controls but I got hang of it. Good job!