FoonLudum Dare ExplorerLD29 → Save your tribe!

Save your tribe!

By framematt

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness280
Humor1643.26
Theme3993.44
Audio4352.95
Graphics4893.26
Overall7173.00
Mood7192.81
Fun9162.60
Innovation9952.46

Comments

sharpcoder 2014-04-28 03:30

Nice job!

mark-feaver 2014-04-28 05:46

Original idea. Nice looking in game, although the text labels and buttons kinda let down the graphics a bit, and the GM Midi sounding music is a little annoying. A lot of potential

slader16 2014-04-28 05:50

Great job, pretty fun!

oatsbarley 2014-04-28 11:02

The music is really nice, and I like the rising heat as you go deeper into the volcano.

alwaysinbeta 2014-04-28 13:30

Good idea and pretty fun to play. The dying seemed pretty random - a lot of times when something hit me I expected to die but didn't.

aske 2014-04-28 17:19

I had fun. That's the point right? :P

Lucariatias 2014-04-28 17:21

Fun, but repetitive

dooleus 2014-04-28 17:29

This is a lot of fun at first! You should be hurt by the obstacles to make it more challenging - is it even possible to die?

I love the art and the music ain't bad, but I don't think they really match each other, somehow.

sugarbyte 2014-04-29 02:44

This was really fun, and scores big on humor for me!

rnlf 2014-04-29 09:01

Nice little game!

Spotline 2014-04-29 10:57

Very good job for a first game ! It works well and it's fun to play. Is the whole thing level-designed or is there a bit of random for replayability ? By the way i like the idea of becoming tastier for a sacrifice very much :D

reidrac 2014-04-29 11:47

Very cool! :) I love the graphics, well done!

framematt 2014-04-30 00:45

Awww thank you guys :D

Yeah, i actually used other fonts, but i mess that up xD. I forget that i should put them onto images and not leave them just as pure text. Is ok to fix that? or i must wait until this three weeks are no more?

About the level, it goes 50-50, in each level of tastiness i told to Construct how many rocks or lava torrent it must spawn, but their location is set to be random.
Now talking about the lava torrents, they can either stop you, pull you down or throw you up. At first i didn't like it, i was trying just to trap the player for a short span of time, but while testing the game i realize that if the player gets pulled down and collisions with the detector (which is a sprite moving always upwards, that spawn the rocks or lava torrents) that you can get multiple spawns. So i make the decision to leave it as it was working because i love it. Obviously, since the game its quite easy, it's very difficult to see it, but i think that's okey, because its to much to evade.. that will kill you 90% for sure.... but makes it fun, doesn't it? :D ...(?)

Cheers! :D

*I'm not a natural english speaker, please excuse me for any typos D:

halbernacht 2014-04-30 03:53

Great job on the game and the booty. Your character's expression on the way down really brings the premise home.

pete_h 2014-05-01 06:45

Love the art style :) The little guys face cracks me up!

miwuc 2014-05-01 06:51

Love the graphics (especially the main character's expression) and backstory.
To people wondering if it's possible to die: yes it is, I actually died several times :)
Why do those shards like hiding underneath rocks so much?!

tomski 2014-05-02 01:25

Nice game. Like the music

voider 2014-05-02 01:29

Loved the art and the backstory. Proud to save my tribe!

mjau 2014-05-02 01:48

I got eaten! And i was tasty! Yay!

It's a bit weird that fireballs just.. stop you, instead of maybe bouncing you off or something. It's easy to get captured on top of a row of fireballs, and little you can do about it except shuffle a bit, wait and hope you pop back down.

The music is nice, but doesn't really fit the situation. I suppose you went for the humor category there =]

The menus are mouse only and ingame is keyboard only. It'd be nice if the menus could be controlled with a keyboard too.

I like the little comic in the instructions screen =)

benjamin-soule 2014-05-05 08:26

I could die achieving a lvl10 of tastiness ! I failes 3x 4x times to reach the bottom of the volcano before that. I would never have thought that volcana diving was so tricky :D

pitoum 2014-05-05 12:15

Nice simple game but try to match your buttons with the art of the game, it would be nicer :)

delfino 2014-05-05 23:39

Nice! I like the look/feel and the audio was quite good too

zyxer 2014-05-06 14:28

A cute and fun game! And nice graphics!

The background sound is a bit laggy for me though.

jupiter_hadley 2014-05-09 20:33

Simple, cool game! I included it in part 17 of my Ludum Dare compilation video series, if you want to check it out :) http://youtu.be/wBne0r55jPY

shadow64 2014-05-13 09:37

I think this is a great start and a really solid first entry for LD. I agree with some people that I wasn't sure what was killing me and I also had a lot of issues with the obstacles being right in the same path as the reward - literally no way for me to get them. That's a bug you'll need to work out.

Overall, I like the idea, but the execution isn't quite there in this version. If I can make one final suggestion, place the player a little bit further away (towards the top of the screen). Right now he's pretty close to the middle and by the time obstacles appear there's little that can be done to avoid them.

That's it. Just keep going! The more you do the better it'll get!

Thanks for sharing and thank you for playing/rating my entry! :)

framematt 2014-05-18 21:26

:D
Sorry for the shards hiding behind the fireballs, since the game only have 10 levels, i thought that by not fixing that it will become a bit longer and it will increase the chances to lose the game. Since it seems that everyone suffer with it, i will try to remove it :D

@shadow64
Wow, thank you so much for that feedback (:!

To everyone, thank you so much :D
..and please excuse my english (typos too)