themonsterfromthedeep 2014-12-09 02:41
This is a great idea and I love the game! It can be a little difficult to compare all the different stats, especially with the hero constantly selling things, but it is still a cool idea!
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD31 → Press i for inventory
By mr-tag
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Theme | 41 | 4.27 | ||
| Innovation | 42 | 4.04 | ||
| Overall | 289 | 3.46 | ||
| Graphics | 391 | 3.50 | ||
| Humor | 408 | 2.75 | ||
| Mood | 430 | 3.14 | ||
| Fun | 455 | 3.11 | ||
| Coolness | 1695 | 40 |
This is a great idea and I love the game! It can be a little difficult to compare all the different stats, especially with the hero constantly selling things, but it is still a cool idea!
Love it, brilliant idea! It's so frantic. :D Like Progress Quest, but interactive. Will definitely play more of this. Good stuff.
What a great idea, can't find the right words for it, thats how great it is!
Nice idea and, IMO, well executed. Are you thinking about to expand to another frames / skills ?
Nice idea, I always loved the inventory part of the game.
One of the best games so far! Great, funny concept and execution! My only complaint would be that the slots are not to obvious :) But still, the highest rated game so far!
The gameplay is like Progress Quest with an inventory system, but it lacks the humor of Progress Quest. Still a fun idea though.
a neat concept, fun to play in a pure min-maxing inventory scramble kind of way!
Looks fantastic. Great effort but balancing is one thing. My hero rarely took any damage.
The graphics and the concept are great. But it soundless and the GUI and item attachment system need some improvements, like to detect where the things are going.
Also, after some time, my character becomes immortal. He didn't recieve any damage at all xD
Anyway, I had fun with it xD
Thanks for the nice comments! That was a really good ludum dare, we got lots of stuff done but left too litle time for balancing and bugfixing.
And yeah, a late night bug made its way into the compo version... Critical hit chance and block chance will keep accumulating when you change something in your equipment. So sooner or later you hero will become an immortal killing machine :)
I fixed the bug in the bitbucket repository (source) and maybe I'll even do something about the balancing and add more dungeons/items/monsters over there!
I always love these kind of RPG simulators! Yours had also a lot better graphics and content than most of them I've seen, I'm impressed! Add music, a smoother story and some kind of story arc presentation and I'd say you got a hit! :)
Really inventive take of the genre! :) Fun to play!
Great presentation and a really cool idea. (I made an Inventory screen game too, haha!)
This really has the feel of playing an RPG, and with those balance tweaks you were talking about, I could see myself playing this for ages! Awesome job.
I loved this game, very hectic inventory management
Very nice, I had some problems with the drag, but stopped shortly after.
Nice graphics, and it looked very easy once I put the potion on the slots.
Keep up the nice work!
It's fun, but there were a couple frustrating points with equipping items. Most of the items had the same appearance, so you couldn't always tell if you had equipped something. Also, I had to guess to figure out which slot things went in... it took me a while to figure out where bracelets went, for example, and the hero would sell things out from under me too quickly.
I love the concept, though. A couple sound effects would go a long way.
I like this a lot! It's kind of like the fun parts of RPGs without the tedious stuff. ;) It has a few issues, though...First, it's really hard to tell where to equip stuff. Could you maybe add a 'glow' or something on the appropriate slot when you pick up an item? Also, when you drag an item over and equip it, you still see the old item tooltip until you move the mouse. (I don't know how easy that is to fix, but it's a little annoying...) Also, do the items in quick slots do anything? Bread, cheese...the "magic potion", what does it do? It says it gives bonuses to XP and attributes, are those one-time or when do they happen? What else...Music would be good, if you can find the time to include it. ;) And one more thing, the 'Metalshirt' seems to be equipped in the headband slot, which seems odd.
But! The fact that I played enough to find these issues should show that I enjoyed it. ;)
I caught this game and became interested in having my own shot at this, and I think I know a potential solution to any balancing issues you can encounter. I looked at the source code, and I am very certain the issue we have is that the end result of combat cannot be determined and you cannot know until either the hero or the enemy loses the battle. You can have much stricter control of the outcome of the battle if you work backwards, by calculating damage that the hero and the enemy deal to each other before hand. Once you know how much they'll do over time, you can randomly generate a HP value of the enemy to know for certain if you have an easy win, or barely graze death as close as you like.
I'll see where this approach to battle works. Thanks for the inspiration!