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Fappy Bat Cave Edition

By laker

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness288
Humor5152.19
Theme5922.66
Fun6222.43
Audio6561.64
Graphics6962.31
Mood6962.20
Overall7112.40
Innovation7651.38

Comments

boltz-game-studios 2014-04-29 10:04

That's a great game for your first shot. Keep it up!

chipcaramel 2014-04-29 10:04

Cute Flappy Bird clone. I'd suggest perhaps making the 'hop' Spacebar action stronger. Part of the challenge in Flappy Bird is balancing falling and flying, which makes it difficult. Good job and good luck in the future!

pitoum 2014-04-29 10:25

Nice first entry :) try harder, work, you'll do your own concept soon enough!

laker 2014-04-29 10:26

Thank you guys. It's not my first game, I started in January and it's my fifth game. But most of them took me whole month, so I'm glad I did it "so fast".

I asked for feedback for my friends while I was doing it, and for some it was too easy, for some it was too hard, so I did something in the middle. I know it's not much of a challenge, so this one is a relaxing flappy bird, not a frustrating one:P

I still need to figure out what are the relations between time and rendering loop because I had a lot of problems with figuring out the proper values.

barkingcat 2014-04-29 11:15

.....Fappy? not FLAPPY?

zeta 2014-04-29 11:15

Sometimes it does not register a point when passing through a hole! Can always rely on a good old flappy clone, good work!

laker 2014-04-29 11:46

@BarkingCat fappy is nicer word:P @Zeta really?:/ Will look into that, thank you for the feedback.

oal 2014-04-29 13:14

Not bad for someone learning to code. Keep going, and code, code, code. That's the only way to improve. Good luck!

laker 2014-04-29 15:10

@oal aaawww, thank you very muchestest :) I have two great mentors who can survive (more or less) my stupid questions so they were huge help when I was trying to comprehend the incomprehensible. So because of their amazing help I can now slowly deal with the problems by myself. I love them <3

garethiw 2014-04-30 09:14

Pretty good for a beginner! Keep doing the one game a month thing!

laker 2014-04-30 17:44

Thank you:)

daanvanyperen 2014-04-30 18:35

Got 5 points! There's nothing harder than actually getting something together and finished in a weekend, especially when still learning a new skill. Good job!

laker 2014-05-01 00:12

Thank you very much:) I've met some friends today and they saw the game on facebook and few of them told me that they played it in work with their co-workers and really liked it. It was great feeling, I hope it will give me a lot of energy:P

jellymann 2014-05-01 10:11

Very good for a first LD attempt (and success, too!) I got 83 points, it's not very challenging (have you played Flappy Goat?). Speed programming is a skill earned with practice. I'm trying to make a game every weekend.

laker 2014-05-01 12:44

I know it's not challenging but I didn't want it to be, at least not that much. No I didn't, I didn't even play the Flappy Bird:) Thank you for the kind words:P I'm participating #1GAM since January and I managed to make it for each month. Now I want to take it up a notch, and make one game every week.

conno1234 2014-05-01 14:48

I like this flappy bird knock off. It still carries the addiction to play that flappy bird once did. Nice job!

laker 2014-05-01 15:23

Thank you very much:)

raisedmedia 2014-05-02 11:14

Nice entry, plays as expected :)

caridorc 2014-05-02 11:44

I'm sorry but this game is bad, it is very similar to flappy bird, it is not original. Thank you for joining this competition!

laker 2014-05-02 12:05

@Caridoc of course it's not original, it's in the description of the game:) @raisedmedia thank you:)

nizar89 2014-05-02 13:31

I don't think I would have done anything close to that my first time (or even my 5th) in 48h :). Keep going!

laker 2014-05-02 16:25

@Nizar89 you are too kinds! Thank you very much!:)

wdebowicz 2014-05-03 16:53

Nice first entry!

laker 2014-05-03 16:56

Thank you:))

voxel 2014-05-07 09:48

Fantastic first entry. The bat sprite is cool but looks like it's clipped to a square in some frames? Nice work

laker 2014-05-07 20:46

Thank you voxel. The collision detection is calculated based on a square, so I wanted to communicate boundaries of said square to players. That's why I draw the wings and legs in all kinds of stupid shapes just so they show how wide and tall it is.

I realise that it's stupid but that's because in my mind, when I was thinking about the flight animation, everything looked great both from graphics and collision detection stand point. But when I started to draw second frame, I realised that there will be a gap at the bottom of the square and it will take a long time till the wings will get there. So I changed it to this form because by that point I was maybe 2 hours from the deadline and didn't have any art assets yet.

I want to get back to it and I would like to make better animation and better collision detection.

The other problem is that it doesn't look fluid because I don't call it fast enough I guess. I made it like that because the game was really slow after all the optimizations I could think off (which wasn't many, because I've never done that before).

So that's the other thing I want to change.

And I want to make it a little bit more challenging and add a global score for players. But now I'm trying to learn angular so it will have to wait a few days:/

badpaul34 2014-05-10 09:22

Nice try, good graphics. Better than flappy bird ;)

laker 2014-05-10 12:24

Awwww, thank you very much Paul:)

khopa 2014-05-10 12:52

Nice graphics !
Got 15 pts :)

georgebroussard 2014-05-10 13:24

Solid effort for your first LD. I scored about 10. The way you learn is doing what you did here...clone another game. Keep going, polish this up some more and then on to the nest game. This was fun.

laker 2014-05-10 13:36

Thank you very much guys. All of my games so far are clones of something else, because I'm trying to learn how to code first. When I'll feel like I can code properly, I will start to make games which I really want to make.

If you want to check them out then here is the link: http://www.onegameamonth.com/laker_faker

Snake has some new stuff in it, so it's not a complete clone:D

_waterman7_ 2014-05-14 12:46

Nice work for your first entry, congrats on finishing in time! :)

laker 2014-05-16 15:34

thank you:)