bastienre4 2015-04-20 12:11
Good, but it's really hard to play :)
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD32 → Light Spirits
By eviltroopa
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Theme | 230 | 3.75 | ||
| Mood | 286 | 3.26 | ||
| Innovation | 362 | 3.38 | ||
| Audio | 375 | 3.04 | ||
| Graphics | 471 | 3.17 | ||
| Overall | 704 | 3.00 | ||
| Humor | 870 | 2.05 | ||
| Fun | 944 | 2.50 | ||
| Coolness | 1713 | 39 |
Good, but it's really hard to play :)
Really cool and creative!
Interesting idea, though the targets were pretty hard to hit. Definitely fit the theme. Looked great as well. Good job!
Very cool idea. I also like the black and white presentation.
The light spirits were a bit too fast for me.
The input setting felt strange to me so I changed the movement keys to WASD in the Settings.
Hard to play. Aiming is almost imposible.
Fun idea and nice music, but I got stuck several times and it was very hard to hit the lights
As noted, very difficult to play. If you work on this further I would really suggest a tutorial lesson. Something where you teach the player to combine colors (on the gun) correctly to match the intended complement of your target.
It doesn't help that the targets move very quickly and/or erratically. Perhaps moving to a "wave" system where it ramps up the difficulty would be helpful too. Either way, good job on getting this out there!
The painting, and mixing of colours is nice. The mouse is way to sensitive, so I could not hit anything, also I would've liked to steer with WASD so i could am with my right hand.
Looks beautiful! Very moody and atmospheric, although the cheerful chiptune runs contrary to that. There is definitely a learning curve, but it's a fair one. Is it just my computer, or is the mouse control super sensitive?
Awesome game! It is hard to learn the basics, but after it is is really impressive, and challenging.
thougths:
- music is really nice, sets the mood together w. mostly grey background (also makes the colourful ghotst nice'n-visible)
- mouse sensitivity was way too high, took some getting used too
- also, why are the balls of light affected by gravity? ;-)
mmm pretty nice game...
Thanks for the azerty keuboards like me ^^ (but hope you think about qwerty too...)
loved the idea/ innovation use of the theme.
Too bad there is no sensivity tweaking option and the level design is violent for the eyes :/
The game has lots of potential. good entry overall !
I like the mechanics but you just ask too much from your players :) I am pretty experienced when it comes to additive colors because of my day job and still I was overwhelmed shortly after the game started.
As a player I had to 1) walk around the room, 2) point my gun at 3) moving colored targets while 4) mentally assembling the correct complimentary color, and 5) operating the color switches accordingly. That's very challenging and for me it was just too much.
Interestingly your mechanics are similar as those of the compo entry Color Elementals which isn't a bad thing, but the freedom you give your players as compared to Color Elementals (fixed camera, only a few 'lanes' where enemies advance in a predictable fashion) works against it.
I have the same advice for your game: In the first levels/stages/waves, have the player mix the color s/he sees in the enemies in order to get a hang of the concept and become somewhat skilled at it, then add some complexity, e.g. by moving targets (somewhat predictably) and have them stick around long enough before they fade out.
Design-wise you can give of all the challenges for your player an individual "difficulty" level, e.g. moving around = 1, pointing & shooting = 2, switching colors = 5, thinking of the complementary color = 6 and so on. (Those values are very subjective, of course, but in general should do well). With that kind of "metric" you can design waves and levels in ascending difficulty, e.g. first level only stationary enemies (point-and-shoot difficulty of 2) of a single color (= not operating switches). The second level needs the player to move around (+ 1 difficulty), or to have targets of a second color, so the difficulty steadily increases.
Sorry for the wall of text, I guess that's becoming kinda my thing here! my point is: Interesting concept, nice execution for a prototype, you should look into building upon the mechanics and having the difficulty ramp up much slower. Nice work!
I really liked the idea... it is a bit hard to play due to the aiming / high mouse sensitivity though.
Loved the music :)
Its fun but aiming is kinda hard, may be because there is a lot of movement or I just suck at shooting.
Controls could use some improvement, but the concept of the game is very nice, good entry.
Really, really creative o _ o.