mattv 2015-04-20 05:18
the design of the game is cool! i like how the chalk 'lives' are arranged in a little box. very cute.
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD32 → Blackboard Wars
By kedume
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coolness | 1 | 100 | ||
| Audio | 281 | 3.20 | ||
| Mood | 309 | 3.23 | ||
| Graphics | 324 | 3.44 | ||
| Theme | 490 | 3.42 | ||
| Overall | 548 | 3.18 | ||
| Humor | 639 | 2.56 | ||
| Fun | 719 | 2.86 | ||
| Innovation | 835 | 2.68 |
the design of the game is cool! i like how the chalk 'lives' are arranged in a little box. very cute.
Nice menu!!
Very sweet and creative spin on shooters. I like how you can hear kids playing in the background: it really puts you there, in the classroom, just doodling on the board in your own world. Good job.
Nice game. The combination of the graphics and ambient sounds really makes it great
Unique design, maybe you add more enemies type it would be better.
Sweet idea. I liked the sound effects, very evocative. Wish it had an autofire rather than making me rattle the space bar like a fiend :)
This game is awesome and fits well with the theme.
I love the mood! It feels very lively, the voices of the kids in the background are nice! The menu is also very nice!
In the game itself it could be nice if the speed increased after a while to make it more challenging
A very original take on the standard shooter. Ambient sound is perfect as well as the cute touches like transitions. Overall a fun game with an interesting design!
That old good times when chalk was unconventional weapon in hands of profesor that was ready to shoot at student if they didn't pay attention :D Anyways, very nice concept making blackboard a battleground and kill the creatures with power of chulk. Well done!
I got 382 points!!!
Very well drawn graphics, a game theme that immediately gets you intrested from one picture. Unfortunately, the game part doesn't have much depth or fun to it.
I did 404 points kkkkk. Pretty good game, I loved the graphics style =D
The Audio is good! that's the first thing i noticed. it was quite fun, the chalk is so slippery tho.
Cool game
This is a very charming take on the space shooter! Fits the theme really nicely. The chalk movement slides just a little bit, which can make it tricky to control, but otherwise this is a really cute game.
Great game! I loved the atmosphere it had being in the early years where kid screamed instead of talked. ;D
A simple, but fun game. Interesting graphics and mechanics.
I like the take on a side scrolling shooter. Its a challenging game. Good job!
Nice visual design, and cool use of sound, it works really well!
very cool idea!
Good score attack game, needed some more difficulty to it. I like the art style, it fits the theme quite nicely. It needed some background music. Would've liked to see another mechanic or something in there.
A simple an original idea, presented in a fantastically innovative way. Loved the mood here.
I like the concept, but the children noises starting irking my after a bit.
What an original idea!
It's a pretty fun game, though hitboxes feel a bit unfair.
I really liked your take on the theme and how you put together art and sounds, by the way, the sounds add A LOT to this game, I loved them.
Nice entry, I love the general feeling - it reminds me of school :)
The graphics are superb, but the gameplay can easily be fooled: I kept firing at random height, and I sometime were able to kill enemies before they even show up on the screen ;)
1. I'm not sure if you can use that sound as an ambient
2. Space as controll - not best idea cause when I hold it - it scrolls page.
I really liked this, the sound effects were nice and the kids chattering in the background added a lot to the setting. I would've loved to hear some kind of "whoosh" sound when using the eraser, especially since the chalk sound was so satisfying. Sometimes it got kinda tricky navigating in the small space and the controls felt kinda slippery which made it hard dodging bullets sometimes, but I got the hang of it eventually. The lives counter was pretty clever! Overall I liked it, great work!
thanks for the game!
Neat idea; yeah I felt like I was back in school again :)
Really ,really nice game. Five stars on almost everything from me.
Nice graphics and ambiant noise. I find it hard to avoid the yellow projectiles, maybe the eraser could erase them. I enjoyed the game
i love the idea, but hearing children constantly in the background complaining gets old REALLY fast.
I really dug the aesthetic for this. A small note: The chalk seems to be firing from its top left position... would be better if it fired from the center.
Aside from that, gameplay was a bit repetitive. With some powerups or different chalk behavior I tihnk this would have been addicting xD
Good job overall, good luck.
Really well polished shooter. Everything felt great, and looked fantastic. I didn't rate on audio, as technically... it should be created as well for the compo. But it was used really well.
Thanks.
Fun game, and love the art. Prob a bit easy cause you can just fire all the time if you want, but a really neat idea.
Really cool design!
Amazing graphics, not so amazing gameplay.
The sound is my favorite part about this game. I love a good atmospheric soundscape. And the game is solid too. Nothing groundbreaking, but effective.
I felt that the movement of the chalk was a bit too slippery, which is frustrating when the main mechanic is dodging enemy fire, and then you accidentally slide into one.
I also happened to wind up in a situation where there were so many yellow shots that there was literally nowhere to dodge. I don't know if the enemies are random or what, but you could maybe do something to prevent no-win situations like that.
Cool game. It was very charming you the graphics where good, and well done. However the audio could have been improved, but I know it was a compo game, so it's not a negative for me.
Not a bad looking game mate, well done :)
Very neat and well executed. Love the eraser effects, very nice touch.
Fun, but a little repetitive.
I got 428pt. Pretty good art works!
Fun aesthetics, nice control feel. Scrolling shooters are fun!
Very cool game! I love the graphics and the dedication to the chalkboard theme, as well as it being the unconventional weapon. The sound effects really added to the atmosphere as well. I really like this!
Great game, perfect school atmosphere and awesome concept. Congrats!
Great game, really liked the thematic audio and the menu animations, really made it feel like a consistent world.
Could make the chalk "lives" indicator more clear (perhaps flash it when dying, or animate the chalk being pulled out of it).
Nice art.
Nice take on the theme and very well designed GUI. My highest score was 354 points. Maybe you could add different enemies and mechanics, but for a Ludum Dare it is enough as is. Fun to play, would be a good fit for mobile. Good job!
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GTA LUDUM V: Yes, more enemies and final bosses would be great. Not enought time.
ManicMiner: I changed it from autofire. I throught the sound of the chalk is better with normal fire.
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Very nice sound fx
Hahahaha Your idea is one of the best! Great Entry! :D
really awesome idea. you sure did a great job for the mood category :)
This game has got a really nice concept.
It does play a bit to easy for my taste, however all in all decent game.
really liked the UI, graphics and sound effects. great job!
Funny idea :)
Nice entry! The graphics look great, and the gameplay is smooth. The one problem I had was that whenever a few spaceships got on screen at once, it resulted in an almost unavoidable flood of bullets. Other than that, a really nice game! 4/5
Great audio. I like that the eraser is the bomb.
Easy 5 for audio. Easy. Difficulty could use tweaking, but the kids really kept me there.
I like the background audio, and your menu system is very clean. I felt like there should have been a penalty on the amount of chalk you have when you fire, I fired all the time with no consequences that I could see.
Cool little game.
Thanks for sharing.
If you havent made the audio yourself and want to be in the compo you need to opt out of audio.
bitslap: Ok, i forgot to uncheck it. Thanks for the advice.
Cute and polished presentation, but otherwise not that unconventional.