Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD29 → Sundiver
By kmakai
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coolness | 1 | 100 | ||
| Audio | 292 | 3.18 | ||
| Innovation | 498 | 3.14 | ||
| Mood | 505 | 3.04 | ||
| Graphics | 511 | 3.23 | ||
| Overall | 745 | 2.98 | ||
| Fun | 772 | 2.77 | ||
| Humor | 849 | 2.00 | ||
| Theme | 1118 | 2.31 |
Interesting ideas and graphics, but the game is too frustrating to play. The homing enemies are too fast, and when they get into your field of view it is too late and they hit you before you can do anything.
If you can balance that a little bit, this looks like an awesome game.
I like the graphics and audio, nice job
Nice idea, executed well. Only issue was the speed of the enemies was insanely difficult, and it's one of those games that isn't as fun with a trackpad :) Overall I enjoyed it
Graphics and audio are fine but the gameplay is frustrating. Anything to do with the theme?
Nice musix/sfx. I have trouble getting anywhere because I keep getting bombarded by the skull things. I can't figure out how to 'reseed' the fallen stars. I keep dying for no apparent reason (I don't understand the meter)
I like sounds. View distance mechanics is original.
Thanks everyone, I'm not sure why the second time playing always starts with more of the skulls... I spent my last half hour of the jam trying to fix that. I'm slowing them down though, and I might make the levels a little shorter to start with (the meter is a progress bar, your distance toward the core.)
I fixed the second level, which was basically a bugged win condition. For those interested, every time a glitch enemy was (trying to be) spawned, it tried to access a not-null-but-not-valid cached bitmap -- this caused the hitching, until some RNG condition was met and a skull was spawned instead. Thanks for dealing with that issue!
Pretty nice.
I think it looked beautiful and it had nice sound fx. Grats!
I really enjoy the visuals, and I like that getting hit had consequences beyond just losing health. I'm not entirely sure what was going on most of the time though :P The homing enemies are somewhat annoying, though
Is there any way at all to dodge those weird squid things? I started ignoring them after a few unsuccessful attempts. If those were friendlier, though, this would be excellent. Very simple and elegant in pretty much every way.
I uploaded an easier version in addition to the others, I feel like that level of balance is outside the scope of allowed bugfixes (the changes were only a constant variable, but regardless) so please judge based on the "Flash" link! Thanks everyone for the great feedback!
very interesting and fresh idea! I always end up the stage biting my nails off. Also loved the graphic and sounds =]
Wow the graphics on this game is great, and overall well done!
Well designed game with nice visuals and audio. Liked the glitchy feel to the star and rest of the objects and the black and white works really well. Also great font choice.
It's pretty fun! I found using the boost to be a bad idea as I usually just crash right away.
It's a nice game but with no explanation on what to do: I hit all the square asteroid and died before understanding I had to avoid them.
I was completely unable to avoid enemies, they were to fast and the vision range was to small.
I liked the overall game mechanics, sounds and art, but enemies and healing really needs a little work. The first ones are too quick, and the latter "heal" too little of your sight. Fix those things and release this game for phones. :<
Interesting game. The enemies that appear and dash towards you were super fast and seemed impossible to avoid. I wasn't really sure how to tell if I was winning or not, sometimes it said "Core cleansed" and sometimes not, I had no idea why.
Neat concept, the game gets difficult *very* fast if you take any damage, but maybe that's just because I'm bad at games.
I can't seem to run this above five frames a second, which is strange seeing as my computer was near top of the line two years ago. Passing on rating for this reason - it isn't fair to rate based on my inability to play this.
I really like the whole corruption being represented by corrupted/glitch graphics. Reminds me of Space Funeral a bit. I have a soft spot for that kind of stuff.
The jam game is really difficult. I don't think I got past the second level ever. The fading light mechanic when you get hit is really cool. The only thing is it becomes super small pretty quick and it really pushes you into death at that point. Maybe a regeneration of it (besides collecting the teeny tiny green squares) would make the game funner and less hopeless when you've gotten hurt.
Curse you, homing skull-asteroid things!
Nice style. I am going to assume the corruption graphics were inspired by the fabled "Missing NO." Pokemon.
So cool looking, great work! It feels really good to boost, but those skulls really sucker punch me :) I'll try the post-jam version!
I had similar problems as other posters--had a hard time avoiding the meteor things that try to collide with your star. Aesthetically it looks really nice.
nice gfx and sound.. found it alittle hard tho :)
The round enemies are so heavy duty. Never made it to the ground in ten rounds :-(
But it has a very unique style, liked this a lot!
Thanks for all the feedback everyone, this is the best/most I've gotten yet! I made some changes to the health pickups to make them slightly larger and restore more health (time.) I'm working on some changes to hopefully improve performance too, I had to do a bit of hacky stuff to make the glitches look the way they do and I don't know the internals of Flash well enough (this was made in Haxe and cross-compiled) to automatically catch all of the chokepoints in the code. I'll keep working though!
I really enjoyed the look of this game and also the game play itself. Nice use of theme! I included it in part 2 of my LD29 compilation video series, if you'd like to check it out :)
http://youtu.be/JHNjbQTDBuQ
Looks really good, I really like the idea.
Minimalist... but not in a good way! There's too little pixels, too little colors, too little gameplay there.
Found this game on accident because my nick is "Makai" on IRC. I am pleasantly surprised by Stardiver. I think the trick is to draft behind walls to avoid enemies!
Interest idea.
This is very laggy for me... Looks interesting though :)
Pretty cool. Good work.
Wow. Nice entry, remind me somehow of amazing Eliss by Steph Thirion. Congrats on a polished little game!
Gameplay is nice but too simple. Should be more complex. Otherwise good.
Also, your game isn't very related to the theme.
I like this, but yeah, the skulls in the compo version are way too hard. It felt like it was mostly up to luck if i'd be able to clear any particular level -- several times there'd be like three or four skulls coming at me in a row, each one almost impossible to dodge (specially with the field of vision reduced..). Just one skull wasn't too bad, but they had this habit of ganging up on you.
(The skulls in the post-compo version are a lot better, but they're almost too easy again.. not the skulls themselves, but i think they take off less health, or you get more health from the stardust, or maybe there's more dust? either way, you recover pretty quickly even after getting hit)
I wish there'd been more variety to the levels. Maybe i didn't play far enough, but they pretty much felt the same. I think there was a bit more debris in later ones, maybe? It was pretty subtle though, and as for skulls, i got a ton of them in level 1 a few times, and only one in later levels other times, so that seemed more up to the random number generator than the level.
I liked how some 1x1 corrupted blocks looked like corrupted skulls. I don't know if that was intentional or if i was just seeing things, but the first few times those went by i was wondering if they'd suddenly wake up and come after me. Would've been nice if some of them did! (Well, not *nice*, but, you know =))
Nice visual, although I couldn't tell easily who was my enemy and what was a bonus. Otherwise nice little game, good job :D
Loving the vibe going on and the mechanics have a lot of potential. Really great job :)
Cool. I liked old TV-like graphics how circle gets smaller as a punishment.
Like the idea. But no chance to miss asteroids. They always hit little start.
Quite a good entry, nice light mechanic, just too difficult
Nice look. It's a bit too difficult for my taste but good job!
I like the art, the game is challenging to play.
Really tight, like the simplicity.
There's something about the visibility shrinking that makes the gameplay of avoiding collision fun and interesting, for me. Also, thank you for turning me on to Bosca Ceoil.
Very nice. Not bad!