mutuware 2014-08-25 10:00
Theme music is pretty good.
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD30 → Alma
By vallar
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coolness | 2 | 79 | ||
| Audio | 465 | 2.83 | ||
| Humor | 498 | 2.41 | ||
| Mood | 823 | 2.68 | ||
| Theme | 1014 | 2.44 | ||
| Innovation | 1022 | 2.44 | ||
| Overall | 1131 | 2.45 | ||
| Fun | 1157 | 2.02 | ||
| Graphics | 1164 | 1.95 |
Theme music is pretty good.
Shows a lot of potential! Needs some polish and could be a really fun game.
Despite graphics being silly and stuff, I actually enjoyed this game. It has a story behind it :)
P.S. Is Mr. Nomo a deer or..?
A very imaginative adventure. Is the game over when I sleep? Its gone very dark... And yes, thats a catchy tune :)
Enjoyed your post mortem too - sounds like you learnt a lot (which is a big part of LD).
That was a bit weird - in a good way.
This was very ambitious! You have managed to pack it full of features :) However, a little more polish would go really far!
I liked the theme and music, however the text was hard to read at times. Very good considering this is your LD!
Oh boy ...
Woha, feedback now that is something I didn't expect :O
First thank you very much!
Now, let's see...
@Mutuware -- part ways thanks to another LD contestant that helped me out with a hint. :D Thank you very much.
@simileinchen -- Thank you very much. Sorry about the art, I am a bad artist.
@42IsCoding -- Haha, yes, Mr. Nomo is definitely a deer. Sorry for my mad art skeels. Thank you very much. :)
@Bazld -- Thank you very much. Yes, the game ends when you sleep there were big plans but as you read, I couldn't meet them all. Sorry for being cryptic with the ending.
@Techblogogy -- I'll take that as a compliment? Thank you very much. Hope you enjoyed it :)
@Zoomyzoom -- Thank you very much. Yes, it was something different completely but I had to work on it to reduce it to what it is now. I am sorry for the art but definitely worth thinking about polishing it.
@jab -- I am sorry about the text, I honestly ran out of "quick to achieve" ideas so I just went by changing font colors. I hope it didn't force you to strain your eyes and squint. I am truly sorry.
@Bendix -- I hope that is a good oh boy? :O
Enjoyed the game. I didn't think art is that bad, very likeable infact.
Not bad! Reading text was hard until i figured out i could keep it up longer by holding the button down. Ending was kinda dark.
Thank you very much for the boost of confidence! Glad it didn't irritate you :D
@SaxonRah Sorry about the text really. I didn't know what to do to make it better with little time available. Thank you for sticking around and playing nonetheless.
As for the ending, yes. It wasn't supposed to end like that, but that is kind of like mid game in the grand scheme of my design (which I had to scrap a lot of). :)
Pretty good game. I liked the music a lot.
I got stuck at the rat/cheese, I don't know what I was doing wrong. If you want to get better at making pixel art in particular you should check out http://www.pixeljoint.com/. They've got a bunch of great pixel art you can look at, admire and learn from and there is a bunch of great people on the forums who are willing to help anyone learn the art.
@KevinAlbs I am glad you liked the game. Thank you very much, sir!
@BillToWin, thank you very much for the link. Definitely will check it out. I definitely want to try and get better at this -- it is fun.
As for you being stuck with the rat/cheese. After you get the cheese get as close as possible to the rat and talk to him :). If you are stuck there, let me know and I can explain more.
I couldn't get the rat and cheese part either, I got as close as I could to the rat, but nothing really happened when I clicked on the rat, cheese, or spoon.
Also, the text would sometimes go away before I had time to finish reading it, perhaps it was registering mouseup as a way to make the text go away?
Hard to figure out, and I don't think it worked quite right but idk
@WetDesertRock -- I am sorry at both problems. I have fixed both and they should now wait till you click again for the text to change. The rat and cheese should be solveable now as well (not sure why you got stuck when others didn't but I made another version for anyone that might have gotten stuck). Again, I am sorry for the frustrations caused.
@Fanttum -- Sorry about any frustration caused. Is there a part in particular that you found hard?
Could not stop laughing at how bad the art is, other than that I enjoy the game.
@rd127p77 -- Well I am glad you enjoyed the game and had a laugh from it. :)
That was pretty unique.
There are quite a few things that could need improvement:
It was hard to read the text, it kept resetting it seemed, and it wasn't clear what exactly happened upon clicking objects.
I have attempted the game some 4 times (2 times unfixed, 2 times fixed version), On the first playthrough the prison door just opened without having done the puzzle. The second one I completed the puzzle, but couldn't get the door to open.
The third the same deal, the fourth I got to the darkness part, but then I ended up in the prison again.
Music or sound didn't work for me (tried in firefox and chrome). I was able to find the music in the source however, so played that in the background.
Aside from those downsides, it's not bad for a first entry! Especially considering how ambitious it is. It was quite funny and entertaining because of the silly bugs, the music was not bad at all.
I hope it was the end (the fadeout part, which also happened multiple times as I was clicking randomly), as I try to give every game a fair shot at completion :). Good job!
I really like the concept and the actual dialog was good, but even the fixed version was buggy to the point that I don't think that I am able to progress. Sequences don't seem to work properly and tend to go out of order. Also, I'm not sure that the skeleton sprite is imported properly.
It also might have been good to have multiple areas to show dialog, so a conversation could happen while the "inspect" text was displaying somewhere else.
@Rahazan -- Thank you very much for playing. I am sorry for the buggy state of the game. I didn't have time to fix everything and now that I go back to the "code" I finally discovered that this is about the worst engine to use for something like this.
To fix the bugs I'll have to redo the entire "back end" which is out of the competition's rules.
Though it is strange with the music. In that case, I guess the game wasn't fully loaded by the time you tried to play multiple times. Since I have experienced that a few times when trying to play from the website rather than test the game. The only solution is to wait (since the music file is 7 megs).
@nintendoets -- I am terribly sorry about that. It is a bug done completely as I overlooked the fact to "pause" the game in conversations. Again, I apologize for the weirdness.
The skeleton was actually imported correctly, that is my bad drawing skills though.
Thank you for trying the game out and I am sorry for any inconvenience.
I'll just call it... unpolished :) Keep practising, the graphics aren't very pleasing and the game play feels a bit harsh, clicking and forcing conversations.
I tried out both regular and fixed versions, couldn't complete either. Also, I don't like the detached text being displayed somewhere in the middle; additionally, it had a tendency to disappear more quickly than I'd expect it to...
It could definitely use much more polish, yes. >.<
Mr. Nomo! Great work, congrats on your first LD. And your art is not that bad, keep it up!
on chrome the music randomly starts and stops, I could find a relation between my actions and the music behavior.
The art could indeed be a bit better but I have seen way worth out there.
Really good to have some features; not often we get entries with NPCs and stuff :) So on your first outing you eclipse many other less-adventurous Darers; but you've got a lot of little polishing to do. I found it hard to get immersed :(