muramasa 2014-12-09 03:59
I hope my boss doesn't find out I'm playing this!
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD31 → Kaiser
By oscarabraham
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coolness | 1 | 100 | ||
| Mood | 353 | 3.25 | ||
| Humor | 366 | 2.85 | ||
| Fun | 449 | 3.12 | ||
| Overall | 524 | 3.19 | ||
| Graphics | 579 | 3.11 | ||
| Innovation | 630 | 2.84 | ||
| Theme | 875 | 3.00 |
I hope my boss doesn't find out I'm playing this!
Background music was nice, and the game was enjoyable, but when I, personally, pressed down, it would force the webpage to scroll downwards with the game. The sprites were really adorable.
Hey that was fun. It took me a while to find the crack but I liked trying to blow it open. Damn those kaisers are always on my face.
The core game mechanic for this is hard to pick up, frustrating, and seemingly very random. With the enemies seemingly impossibly to kill and nearly impossible to avoid, it quickly becomes almost solely about avoidance and not about fighting back. The art style is really promising and it seems like there's an engaging mood and narrative under the surface wanting to break free, but the basic mechanics get in the way and stop it from surfacing.
(: Thank you.
That's weird, I cannot replicate what happened to you, Ryan. Maybe I'll look into it a little more. Anyway, you can solve it by playing it fullscreen, or playing in another tab.
You seem to have opted out of sounds, but the way some visuals were synced to the music was really awesome! I couldn't last through even one song, sadly, I wanted to see what the next song was, or what happened after the first one.
It doesn't have sound if you are playing in a browser that doesn't support audio API. Try it on Chrome! or at least on Firefox, it is much more cooler.
Interesting setting. Controls were a bit awkward on PC. BG song during game was sick but it and sfx were not the greatest fit for me.
Great game, I enjoyed it. I've played this with my laptop's touchscreen monitor. :D
The music sometimes repeat when I am playing a new game, but other than that, nice.
I really enjoy when a game like this has smooth controlls, and you pulled it off very well!
I didn't really understand what was happening, but I like the style.
Like the words shows on the screen. You managed to make me feel angry because of the unkillable enemies.
very nice thing with the song text ;)
This was fun and pretty challenging. I liked the mechanic. But I feel like I was missing some of the game, and I wasn't able to plant enough bombs to win. The blurring and negative effects were cool though.
I liked style and mood but I felt like it didn't match with the gameplay. The backstory was thought-provoking and introspective, but the gameplay was much more arcadey. I think that got in the way a little bit, a lighter theme would have fit the gameplay better, or slower, more puzzle based gameplay if you want to keep the theme.
Also not sure about the "game fits on one screen" theme, since it was scrolling, so it seemed like you were falling through a space much larger than one screen.
I think some other measure to avoid the kaisers would be good, as I very often found myself trapped by them with either no escape, or needing to fall off the map to escape, losing a large portion of HP... This almost always happened directly after using a bomb to save myself, so I had a cooldown to wait for...
Thank you. It doesn't scroll, the platforms move up, that's why the player falls down with normal progression of gravity acceleration, although I supose it's all relative. If you get out of the screen, you are hurt and returned. It plays on the fact that everything can leave the screen but you and dares you to break it.
I want to play more, but the game is just too hard. Nonetheless, it was fun.
Really enjoyed this. The graphics and music are great and the gameplay feels fluid. Wish I didn't have to wait so long in between bombs though.
I had to go fullscreen so the page didn't scroll down. Anyway, it was good work
Great music, an a fun game. Nice job! I found the keyboard controls easier than the touch controls on my mobile, but I bet there's a way to fix that.
Yeah, the touch controls suck. I didn't have time to implement a touch stick. I wonder, if I implement a touch stick would that be some kind of porting, or would that be cheating?
stack in the middle whe loading. and nothing I can do with that
wow that was cool and fun. I think it would be better to add browser support for controls, instead of clicking on the screen add the arrow keys to move and the space bar to drop the bomb. I really think you should deploy this to mobile markets, its really fun. The crack is a cool and innovate touch to the game. Loved the music.
Good one :) Reminds me of some tower falling game I played a lot 20 years ago.
like it, nice graphic work.
Yeah, as someone said above, this would look nice if polished a bit more and released to mobiles! Keep up the good work ;)
The music is awesome and the gameplay is fun, I liked it!
Page also scrolls down for me whenever you drop a bomb. It eventually stops, but the top of the window is cut off. This is playing "on Chrome, on a nice computer" but not in fullscreen mode.
:/ some few people are having this problem. It shouldn't do that if you have clicked the game screen with the mouse, it should capture the keyboard. :(. It has nothing to do with your system. I don't know why this bug happens, I cannot replicate it. I beg you to bear with me and try it in full screen or in another window. I really hope it is not of such importance that you cannot enjoy the game.
If someone has an idea of how I can replicate this bug in order to solve it, please tell me, I'll be really glad. If it is easey enough to not interfere with the rules of the jam, I'll solve it.
It was a bit too hard for me, trying to escape was already leaving me without bombs and couldn't break the screen. Nice idea anyways, maybe it needs a bit more polish and testing :)
@Psycho null, you move with arrows, the arrows that appear at first meant the arrow keys. (: Thank you.
This a rather cool game. I like the screen effect and the animations of the player character were very well done. And yes, there is some similarity to my game but you've done animation that I could only dream of.
My wife did a "Mum plays..." video of your game: http://youtu.be/7hIPc3eOxoQ
Also, the Kaiser music is rather good and adds a lot to the mood.
Thank you! I really loved the video. I will share it on our facebook page, if that's okay.
@oscarabraham by all means go ahead.
Amazing on so many levels.. Didn't seem to be able to kill any kaisers. Want a cd now.
Got a cd.. I didn't mention it, but adding the lyrics to the game was brilliant, as was having the game breaking mechanic, though I couldn't manage it.
cool concept
nice graphics, and good idea. But it's too hard to get the enemies off, plus I think words should come earlier. Your game really fit in the theme good job.
hey, a pretty good entry! no clue what it had to do with the theme, but good job...
oh yeah, and add keyboard controls or something... it's too hard to click on the screen!
Wow, the art is really beautiful
Thank you
@twelveplusplus The theme is honored in that it is a one screen game (it might seem that the scree scrolls down, but actually the platforms move up. Look at how everything else moves). Also, try the hint, explode around 15-20 bombs in the middle; then the theme will really shine.
It has keyboard controls, they are explained in the first moment: you move with the arrow keys, leave bombs with the down key.
Interesting concept, a little bit hard though. Nice graphics and soundtrack, would be interesting for mobile and tilting, I think. Nice game.
Tilting sounds like a good idea, I hadn't thought about it, thanks.
Fun but hard... I'll try it again to see what happen if I can make this crack in the screen explode...
Very hard. Maybe I'm just not good at it, but this game was insanely difficult for me (I didn't finish it, I just watched the playthrough =P).
However, it is a good game. I especially like the artwork. Well done.
Surprised at how addicting it is, and more importantly, how I felt playing game changed over time. It was a very bizarre experience, and I think you guys are on the cusp of something special. Great work!
5/5 for mood. One of the best games I've played, congratulations. I'd love to see how it ends, but I just can't make it :(
Oh there's a playthrough. Never mimd!
Nice entertaining game! :) Seems best on mobile, we're the same there. Cheers
Thank you all that took time to comment, I know that most of you are trying to not waste time to play the most games possible, so if you gave our game the time it needed to be understood and even made time to comment, I am really glad, very thankful. I think I have played all your games finally. Most of them were pretty fun; it was really nice to play them, thank you for them.