FoonLudum Dare ExplorerLD31 → Not Making It

Not Making It

By mattias-wargren

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness286
Humor753.61
Audio1023.58
Graphics3263.47
Theme4823.65
Mood5032.98
Overall6443.12
Fun7432.89
Innovation8472.70

Comments

muffinhat 2014-12-08 04:13

This basically explains developer procrastination. Can't get to my computer without arbitrary QTE's. Neat idea!

anikki 2014-12-08 14:03

Nice mood.

iaknihs 2014-12-08 14:08

I mildly hate you for making a game all about Quicktime events. Then again, looking at some of the more recent Resident Evil games, you might make it into Capcom if you send them a copy of your game!

jepster 2014-12-08 14:14

Great music, great art style. His dance moves are infectious!
The placement of the buttons in the logo don't match their placement on a QWERTY keyboard, so it really messed up my brain!

mattias-wargren 2014-12-08 14:22

@Iak Mild hate is my favourite hate.

mattias-wargren 2014-12-08 14:23

@jepster Thanks. And ... it is supposed to mess with your brain :)

tonypai 2014-12-08 16:13

I'm reach to level 12, and I can't handle it anymore. I was wondering maybe some surprise showing until I reach level 10, but it didn't. A little sad. :(

designernap 2014-12-08 16:28

heheh, this made me chuckle. A nice idea and well implemented. Good job.

mattias-wargren 2014-12-08 17:22

@tonypai The suprise is at level 999

dream-of-sleeping 2014-12-08 18:10

I got to level 31. I kept thinking it was going to get harder but it didn't. I'm not even sure what quick time events are so maybe the easy gameplay is some kind of in joke that I don't get. I thought overall presentation was really good though. The music suited the mood of the game, and it drive me to crazy even after hearing the same bar about a 1000 times!

dream-of-sleeping 2014-12-08 19:17

that was meant to say DIDN'T drive me crazy after hearing it about 1000 times.

mrexcessive 2014-12-08 19:42

Hi there. Like the control scheme. Amusing how little time spent at computer... Like the music.

tasteslikefuture 2014-12-08 20:59

love the 8 bit feel! Gameplay is a bit simple, but this game oozes character!

jthistle 2014-12-08 21:01

Quite short, but great music and good graphics :)

ponk 2014-12-08 21:10

CoooOoooollLL ... !

oldpeculier 2014-12-08 21:44

That's funny. Bizarre. But funny.

ossi 2014-12-08 21:45

Nice use of the theme and that's a really good song loop! The positioning of the keys was the biggest challenge and made the game really fun and interesting. I managed to get to level 21 before seeing what the lose state was even though I made a lot of mistakes. It perhaps felt a bit too easy. Well done!

thedreik 2014-12-08 21:47

Why coder are topless? It would be fun if in the next levels we developed some game using QTE or something like that. But in another hand theme...

anokta 2014-12-08 21:50

neat art style! felt like there was no point on passing levels after the first couple of them though.

apiotrw 2014-12-08 23:19

A pretty funny take on QTEs

tonbery 2014-12-08 23:23

hahahah! nice idea!
level 12 is my maximum!

jupitron 2014-12-08 23:35

Awesome style overall! Nice art.

andrewkennedy 2014-12-08 23:52

Music is actually pretty cool! My only complaint is that I had to twist my fingers kinda weird to be able to hit LD31 keys quickly enough haha.

That's a pretty hardcore punishment for not reaching the computer though...

quexd 2014-12-09 02:44

Great! how did you come up with the amazing controls!

mattias-wargren 2014-12-09 07:40

@QuexD Plain luck I guess!

drtizzle 2014-12-09 11:42

The guy's smile made me smile :)

Nice audio and pixel art!

Gets a bit repetitive, but hey, thats what QTE's are about right?! :D

mattias-wargren 2014-12-09 21:25

Thanks for the comments!

bio-bob 2014-12-10 23:13

This was cool, I like the peculiar yet relevant choice of keys. The music loop is pretty catchy too!

kitch 2014-12-12 06:25

I personally resent the way you portray coders as shirtless grinning idiots, dancing around, wanting nothing more than to get to their computer...
wait a minute...
*puts shirt back on, stops smiling and dancing, and gets to computer*
Hey, nice game! Good work!

thopis 2014-12-12 18:21

Very good!Liked the mechanics with letters and beautiful music too!

boxedmeatrevolution 2014-12-13 01:31

It got pretty fun when things got fast!

ruthiepee 2014-12-13 01:37

Put a shirt on! Here's a list of things I liked: the simple style, the goofy music, the cactus, the completely un-intuitive controls, the particle effects and the Wilhelm scream. The gameplay would be repetitive if not for the quickly increasing difficulty (I made it to 13). Man, that guy has a really tall ceiling!

panda 2014-12-13 03:36

I love the dancing guy graphics! Simple game, but well executed! This is fun!

2014-12-13 03:48

I really admired how you messed with my brain.

pixlexia 2014-12-13 11:40

Nice game, very polished and the music is really catchy too!

flickta 2014-12-25 15:10

Great choice of controls makes it sooooo difficult! :) LD31! It would not be as fun with ordinary arrows or something. Placement of keys on the keyboard turns this QTE into a mind-breaking masterpiece ;)

jupiter_hadley 2014-12-28 13:30

Simple game, very well made. I Included it in part 18 of my Ludum Dare 31 compilation video series, if you would like to check it out :) http://youtu.be/fGRz-9CpOIg