ranseur 2014-12-08 13:52
Parallax made me feel a little uneasy, nice concept!
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD31 → Zoom
By chezpain
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Audio | 281 | 3.16 | ||
| Mood | 286 | 3.26 | ||
| Innovation | 384 | 3.36 | ||
| Humor | 520 | 2.53 | ||
| Fun | 521 | 3.11 | ||
| Overall | 578 | 3.18 | ||
| Theme | 965 | 3.22 | ||
| Graphics | 996 | 2.39 | ||
| Coolness | 1631 | 42 |
Parallax made me feel a little uneasy, nice concept!
Sometimes, when zoomed out, you couldn't read the text, so I didn't read a bit of the story.
Also, it was often a bit hard to determine why I was dying, a bit more feedback would've been nice.
And finally, necessary isn't spelled 'nessesary' ;) But I'll forgive you that one!
I love the idea! I think a little more could be done to communicate some of the zooming mechanics etc. but overall it's pretty cool ^_^
Good concept, would have been nice to see where the shape would be when you zoomed though, I died quite a lot accidentally zooming out into spikes.
Good concept, would have been nice to see where the shape would be when you zoomed though, I died quite a lot accidentally zooming out into spikes. I liked the ending.
Great game mechanics! I had some problems with not knowing where I would end up if i zoomed in/out. Maybe a continuous zoom animation would have helped.
I'm not even sure I know what mental level this game is on. Good job.
Nice concept but it need a lot of work. Many of the objects scrolling weren't perfect either (like the spikes) and the music restarting EVERY TIME I restarted a level got REALLY annoying... 3 stars
Thoroughly enjoyed it! It had quite the mood.
I like this concept. Good hard old school platformer with a twist
This game had a great Thomas Was Alone vibe to it. But it was incredibly frustrating at times because often when I pressed Z, I would just instantly die for no apparent reason.
I like it! Nice platformer with a unique twist. Music was nice as well!
I liked the mood of the game. The dark style, the music and the writing fit well together. I enjoyed it and it was challenging at times. I got stuck on the 3rd level (I think) with the two red squares between individual spikes, I could not figure out how to get past, but that is my problem.
It is a bit unclear at first how the zoom mechanic works and where the big square is placed when zooming out. At first I thought it would use the small square as the center for the big one, but after a few tries I realized that the position of the small square is used for the corner of the big one. It caused some confusion at first, maybe some type of transition would help?
It worked great on OSX and ran very smooth!
Thank you for your game!
// Written by Peter (ludumdare.com/compo/author/Macint/)
// Vidar's teammate in this Jam.
Seemed interesting. Why was there parallax on the spikes though? It seems like they should stay in one place.
I guess this is not parallax on spikes. This is just 1 frame lag because spikes was drawn before camera update call(I had a look into the code).
Overall good concept. I like the idea and enjoy puzzle elements. Also music is very nice. I like this game. Also I always surprised what people can do with libGDX. It is so lowlevel and require to write a lot of code that is usually should already exist in game engine(like game/render loop ). But anyway I see a lot of good entries made with it. ...I had some experience using it during ld29. Good lib, but too low level for LD.
...by the way you could assign properties to tiles in Tiled and analyze this properties dirung level startup to create spikes, spawn player and enimies, create physics and so on. Also you can move your game loop code to some base class and avoid repeating it in every scene. And maybe next time you will have a bit more levels :)
Good job.