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Ultimate Booter

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness1100
Audio1273.67
Graphics1943.95
Overall3463.41
Fun3553.27
Mood3873.24
Humor4183.07
Theme6543.16
Innovation6662.84

Comments

dylanigan 2015-04-20 23:07

Loved the graphics. Nice job!

napoleon 2015-04-20 23:14

Very fun game !

bpvelloso 2015-04-20 23:18

Great game, I don't like the controls, and this compromise the fun, but the final result is awesome!

mcburrobit 2015-04-21 09:30

Man I LOVE mega man!

domicuc 2015-04-21 09:31

I enjoy this old school style :-). Games from u are my favorite.. so good work again!

tides 2015-04-21 10:36

5 for graphics!

pohycz 2015-04-21 10:39

I really like everything about your game, apart from the difficulty. I wasn't able to get past the second level...

ThijsTak 2015-04-21 10:40

Love the old curved TV effect.

ruslanakhmetsharipov 2015-04-21 10:43

Great game! Im a child again, thank you!

mjaawa 2015-04-21 10:44

Nice one, especially liked the graphics and music!

jk5000 2015-04-21 10:59

Graphics 5++.

druid 2015-04-21 11:53

Thank you guys! I am really glad you like it!!!

rgehan 2015-04-21 12:37

I really think your game is gonna be well ranked. It's so awesome. There's not a single flaw.

The graphics are magnificent, the music is perfect, the ambiance is so "i-don't-know-what". Well, it's a 5/5 for me.

Really really good job. Keep doing this !

chikoness 2015-04-21 14:25

So much nostalgia, thank you!! Love the floppy disc idea

ps: lol sticky hands....

electroyak 2015-04-21 19:55

I really enjoyed it. Anything that's like mega man is good to me

firaa 2015-04-22 09:39

The floppy disk idea was pretty cool, as was the screen effect. The only thing that really bothered me was the jumping seemed iffy while standing on the ledge of something.

Overall, this was a pretty good entry.

ruka 2015-04-22 11:44

pretty fun game~! cool retro art style, neat !

guigrillo13 2015-04-22 15:48

Love the game and graphics!!

ithildin 2015-04-22 20:37

I loved the retro vibe of the whole game, from the graphics to the music AND the difficulty, even if some part of it was caused by the controls, that felt a bit awkward.

Also, there's this minor bug that I found: playing on fullscreen at a widescreen resolution, the detection area for the floppies was offset, so you had to hover around the second floppy to select the first one, and so on.

Despite this, the entry is very solid. Great job!

solifuge 2015-04-22 21:08

Fun, challenging platformer with an interesting powerup mechanic, a solid level worth of content, and a look lifted straight from Mega Man (I'm fond of the style, so you get a pass :P). The tutorial level didn't prepare me at all for the difficulty of the gameplay, though; it wasn't a difficulty curve so much as a difficulty cliff... particularly the gauntlet-run at the start of the second level. It got easier after the first checkpoint, but MAN what a sudden change.

Gameplay wise, I think it would have been nice to have more safe spaces to pause and get your bearings between jumps and plan what to do next to deal with turrets or spikes, (again, particularly the blind drops into spikes or point-blank turret fire at the start of the second level) and maybe some passive puzzles using specific disk powerups like the block-breaking one. Also, I'm not as fond of the blind leaps onto spike pits when I have no ability to see what I'm jumping toward until I do; it's unfair to the player, who doesn't know the level layout like you do. As bus go, the CRT effect seems to have distorted the hitbox on the disk-selection menu, since in order to click on the 4th and 5th slots I was clicking on empty space.

All that said, nice work on your entry, and thanks for the fun! Good luck carrying this idea forward too.

kabutakogames 2015-04-23 09:23

I like the screen shader, would love to see more story and original graphics

oberynmartell 2015-04-24 03:27

The graphics and gameplay really resembles a lot the old games. The second stage was very difficult to me, but it wasn't frustrating because I was making progress bit by bit. Very well done!

tommyno222 2015-04-24 16:51

Awesome game! I love the screen effect, after going fullscreen it really feels like a good old game. Music is also pleasing. I understand that second level was intended to be hard but I spent a lot of time in it and weren't able to get far. It'd be great if there was one more level between first and second with lower difficulty but still requiring to use the powers and also possibility to control the game without using mouse would made the controls more user friendly. Anyway really good job!

mouch 2015-04-24 19:57

Still have sticky hands!
10/10

Keep it up mate!

rnlf 2015-04-24 20:52

Sticky hands porn program :D And it looks cool. Very good entry!

deadfragment 2015-04-24 22:21

Love the art style to this game and would love to see this developed further.

-Neith

aevek 2015-04-24 22:37

Really cool game. Nailed that retro gameplay vibe.

ermrk 2015-04-25 10:40

Great graphic!

plams 2015-04-25 11:18

Sorry couldn't play your game in Wine - got a vertex shader compilation error.

ointment 2015-04-27 10:55

Textboxes are wonky and written in lackluster English, which doesn't help with the first impression. I'm conflicted because the design is generally amateurish with some fake difficulty and things like jumps into unknown, but the floppy system is kind of creative, and the production is surprisingly good. It's weird, but I can't tell whether this is somehow fundamentally crude or a solid but rushed game.

skiddings 2015-04-29 18:27

This was good, it looked great too, although I found the jumping controls on the second level too frustrating and didn't finish it.

filip 2015-05-03 20:52

Wow, very nice art and music! I'm too soft for the second level though. :(

puppetmaster 2015-05-04 23:24

+ tutorial
+ stylish music
+ retro art
- activating help with jump
- for me jump is to high
Very, well done!! congraz!!

minibobbo 2015-05-07 00:24

This was a fun entry with a lot of good parts. I do feel that everything played a little too quickly and the assets were a little too large to really get a good grasp of what is going on. If the gameplay was slowed down and everything shrunk by about 50% I personally would have enjoyed it more.

sputnik 2015-05-07 00:32

Ahhhhh good old time...

tommislav 2015-05-07 09:06

Great graphics and awesome entry! Only thing that really bothered me was that interact and jump was on the same button =D

adamw 2015-05-07 18:31

Fun and professionally made game! My only complaint is that space is used for both jumping and interacting.

yoon 2015-05-08 09:59

Dat TV screen effect. The floppy disk mechanics is a cool idea.

One thing that I didn't like was that the character itself felt too much like Mega-Man. I think (personally) you should have made a character that feels 100% yours. Of course I'm taking into account that this was the desired effect.

I'm not gonna nitpick any further because the graphics are great, the game is polished, challenging, the controls feel right and there are a lot of floppy disks to try out !

tiago-ling 2015-05-08 13:57

Wow, really polished game - i love the mega man style graphics and audio! Lots os features and a hard last level. One of the best entries i played in this LD. Congrats! :)

ajopart 2015-05-08 19:49

Waow ! Well done. I like the humor !

jlauener 2015-05-08 20:23

Nice entry. I think the floppy mechanic has lot of potential and could lead to very interesting puzzles. 2nd stage wasn't using so much of them (I gave up after dying 30 times trying to avoid the spikes though).

Oh yeah liked that retro feel :)

deadbodyoutline 2015-05-08 20:30

Man, loved this game! The audio is awesome too! Pretty funny and entertaining :)

Just one annoyance: spacebar to activate the helper system. Sometimes had to jump near the helper, but when over it, the same key activate it, so I tried to jump, but already had read the message... so maybe using E for activate these things, and using spacebar only for jumping could be cool!

Want to see more games from you, see ya!

druid 2015-05-08 20:46

Thank you so much guys! I writing down all yours tips :)

os_reboot 2015-05-08 21:19

Very fun game, surprisingly well polished. Music is incredible, game play is very smooth. You might want to bind the dialog to a key other than the jump key. Overall very, very well done!

thingostudios 2015-05-09 00:29

There's a lot to like about this game-- the score, the curved screen effect, the core concept and the kind of funny powerups (porn gives you sticky hands! hahaha)

But there are two problems with this game that really suck given the genre: your physics are kind of weird, and your level design is kind of bad. You have a lot of leaps of faith where you have to die a million times before you can progress because you have no idea where the platforms are.

Still, I'd like to see this turned into a full game.

hypp 2015-05-09 05:41

Nice idea with the floppies

urbanhelsing 2015-05-09 15:22

Very good! What to improve: To fast movement for that small screen. Mouse was not at the right pos at fullscreen.

dejvo 2015-05-09 15:40

the controls are a bit weird and there would have to be a lot of polish done. but pretty neat game.

xanjos 2015-05-09 18:23

I loved the CRT style effects and the MegaMan inspired gameplay but the game speed is probably a bit too high (especially when the player character jumps)

zeriver 2015-05-09 22:21

I really like retro games like this, good job on recreating this style. Graphics are the strongest side on this game but gameplay is solid and entertaining, nice mechanics.

nameoftheuser 2015-05-10 01:19

Very very nice job!

jakob37 2015-05-10 09:06

Nice game :) Could maybe make initial instructions briefer? Really enjoyed visuals and music!

oadt 2015-05-10 10:29

The game seems a bit unfair to me. It fells like you need to know the level to complete it, because you don't see some platforms before you jump. So maybe increase the field of view, so that the game is fair even it is quite difficult.
Apart from that it's a great Game, nice art, sound, funny idea! Also it made a lot of fun. It has a lot potential if you do some fine tuning

nomys_tempar 2015-05-10 14:40

Sweet !

spin-down 2015-05-10 19:13

Fantastic graphics and a nice idea with the floppy powerups. I wasn't a fan of the blind jumping and it seemed alot of trial and error was needed to progress, but apart from this it was a good solid entry.

sorlok 2015-05-11 01:45

Cool idea, and fun mechanic! Really fits the theme, and the graphics/audio are great! Controls are a bit off sometimes (esp. mouse in fullscreen mode) and gravity seems a bit high. Otherwise, lots of fun!

ltyrosine 2015-05-11 03:30

Nice graphics, amazing music! Good work.

plustech 2015-05-11 17:58

Great entry, nice art, nice sound, nice scanlines effect. Not a big fan of the messaging system to teach features. it felt off for me at the 5th message box. Also, jump and interaction same button made it really hard to overcome the first message box. Besides that, good experience overall, good job mate!
BTW the fullscreen button is not activating the Fullscreen.

kyyrma 2015-05-11 18:17

Now this was really sweet. A fantastic throwback that still manages to feel fresh. This one is destined for the top 100!

I did have some issues with the last line of text being lost while playing windowed, but that is a minor complaint.

Also, if you are looking to exchange votes:

http://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-32/?action=preview&uid=8424

ryannielson 2015-05-11 18:55

I like the graphics and it seems like a nice throwback to the NES. It did seem unfair though with the spikes you couldn't avoid unless you knew they were already there. The jump physics could also use some work, and perhaps consider making interact and jump different buttons. Well done overall though.