jk5000 2015-04-20 08:23
Camera movement is very strange. Otherwise a fun game.
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD32 → Floats
By horsed
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coolness | 1 | 100 | ||
| Mood | 148 | 3.55 | ||
| Graphics | 206 | 3.70 | ||
| Audio | 295 | 3.18 | ||
| Overall | 322 | 3.43 | ||
| Fun | 418 | 3.20 | ||
| Innovation | 440 | 3.26 | ||
| Humor | 795 | 2.25 | ||
| Theme | 955 | 2.68 |
Camera movement is very strange. Otherwise a fun game.
L.O.L! The most gamy part of this game is the camera movement!
5 points for mood since I was shouting at my monitor and bashed my keyboard on the table because of this camera :D :D. That was so emotional... it actually was fun ^^. 5 points fun as well for this and because of the gameplay itself. I failed so often because I simply forgot to move my square or I pushed it over the edge.
The "Perma-death" approach is a huge win for the mood and the fun since it tackles my ego ;)
The simplicity of the graphic fits as well as the sounds.
Good job! Keep it up!
Pat
Nice! I like your take on it and LOVE the hardmode no save.
The camera makes playing this frustrating and awkward. Having your movement tied to the mouse which is forcefully moved with the camera is just simply a bad idea.
Apart from the fact that the camera movement is a complete mindfuck, as the keys are all wrong, I really like these kinda games!! very nice! and yes...make savegame...haha :o
"Floats borrows its visual style from the famous rymdkapsel by Martin Jonasson" Ah, that's what I'm said to myself
However, very pleasant and good job :).
But the fact of restart from the beginning when you failed is a little hardcore :p, just a little :p
I like the visual style! But checkpoints would be nice.
Also, you should say in the description that people should run the game in the fullscreen mode, because only then camera works as expected.
Nice job. Checkpoints would be good. Also windowed mode was almost impossible to control the camera with.
I love the art style, and the game is really fun too, it's really polished! I wish there was a checkpoint system though.
It's a great game, packed with style but I'm afraid my stamina to complete the game ran out when I realized there's no checkpoints. I would've loved to play it more though.
Oh, and one neat little detail I really liked about the game is the typography. :)
Fun game. Very Rymdkapsel stylized. That camera tho... wow.
The game certainly is visually pleasing. I don't like how the fighting amounts to button mashing. I made it to the tenth level on my first try, but just couldn't click fast enough to beat that enemy, so I got sent back to the very beginning of the game. Very anger inducing, indeed.
Very nice game (I have played with the post-compo Linux version). My friend played the compo version on its iMac and the camera didn't work at all. For the moment, it's one of the best game I played for my LD32 tests.
@celisoft Thank you :-) Yeah, the camera was totally messed up. I don't know why I forgot about that.
Nice style, good mood. Also liked sound. Couldn't solve camera issues...
Played the post-compo Windows version. Really, really dig this game. I didn't get all the way to level 10 thanks to being generally clumsy with my mouse, but I had fun anyway!
Honestly, the right-click-drag camera controls didn't bother me at all and felt rather natural, but that may be because I am accustomed to working in 3D modeling/animation software, where middle-mouse or right-mouse buttons are typical for camera movement. Ah well!
The visuals, sound design and gameplay work very well off each other. The game really feels like a cohesive unit! Well done!
The camera control's where pretty difficult but it was fun ! The game it self is awesome so good job ;)
Clean visuals.
Nice concept, quite fun to play.
This is really cool, it plays well and the mood is perfect. I like the strangeness of the creatures :)
Like the game, could not get far due to the camera control issues.
Very nice concept yet 2 big issues with the game: first, the very uneasy and clunky camera movement between the different levels, second, getting back at the first level after a death (often because of the camera) is a bit frustrating.
Other than that, the minimalistic art style and sounds are very nice and it plays a lot on the atmosphere. Maybe a room-by-room system of levels would have worked greatly. Hope to see more of it!
@raisedmedia, @Tselmek Thanks you! Maybe you want to give the post-compo version a try, as I fixed the camera.
Really nice. I love your minimalistic design. The perspective is great, especially the text on the sides of the levels.
I made it to the last level, and it was quite enjoyable.
There's just a thing: What is happening with the camera ? :p I've been dezooming and moving with weird keys on the keyboard to make it work.
@rgehan Thank you, glad you enjoyed it :-) Yeah, the camera is totally messed up. I fixed it in the post-compo version so you can drag the camera using the RMB.
interesting and fun.
Very lovely art style! And the gameplay is very innovative. Good idea! Having to start from the beginning when failing a level was a bit hard though. I didn't make it through :(
But with some minor improvements, this could be a really fun game!
Good looking game. The camera movement still feels strange for a desktop game, it is more what I would expect of a mobile game.
For a compo entry it is really impressive.
Camera was strange for me too :/ but i liked the simple and clean graphics, and I had fun fighting the camera
holy heck that gets hard. I actually liked it a bit more than rymdkapsel.
The style is awesome and levels are interesting. Great game.
Erm...
Nowhere in the game does it say anything about how to use the camera. It could and should have been automated. Right clicking is not something people usually use for camera movement in a "puzzle" game.
It's pretty. That's definitely a plus.
The gameplay is really quite lacking, though. "Operation" style drag and avoid isn't interesting, maybe with touch, but not with a mouse. Click on enemies to do damage? The mechanics are very desperate and doesn't make sense together. The way you call things doesn't make sense either. "artefacts" and "sockets"... none of them look like that and doesn't need to be called weird names to make it even more difficult to understand.
Is it a puzzle game? Action game? Avoid-em-up? I don't know, I can't tell.
I found this great. It is really a nice concept and pretty enjoyable.
Lack of save points was a bit annoying but other than that, I really liked the concept plus I think it would definitely work as a mobile game. Also I don't know if it's me but on both web and desktop builds, I couldn't see my key and artefact properly i.e. it didn't look like how it was in the screenshots (it could be a graphics card problem since I was playing this on my Surface Pro but I'll try and run this on my regular desktop and let you know if it occurs on there as well).
Ok I've tried it on my desktop and it worked perfectly fine so it's definitely a problem with machines running Intel HD Graphics
I had some issues moving the camera too, but the game is fun. On my Mac is was a little slow, but on my windows machine it runs well!
In most games I just give up annoyed. This however made me curse loudly and try again. It seems so simple, yet takes a a lot of discipline to play well, which in turn made me try again. So in my book that makes it a great game.
@Tuism: Thanks for you feedback! I have to admit, I didn't expect this hole camera thing to be a problem for a lot of the nice people testing floats. I thought moving the camera using the mouse would be sort of natural for any mouse user. You either move the curser towards the edges of the screen or you drag the map around using the middle mouse button or the RMB, like in a RTS. I decided for to implement the latter. The feedback so far proved me wrong about this assumption :-) I will have to try something different here. About the gameplay: For me it's all about the drag'n'drop. I wanted to make a game where you'd have to drag things, maybe combine and order stuff. When I saw this game in my mind, I also wanted it to have some kind of action elemts. So I thought I'd put in some drag'n'drop puzzles and maybe mix those with "action" elements, like fighting enemies. Whether the game offers a good mix of puzzles and action is up to the player. Personally though, I think that both can be improved a lot.
@Xanjos: Thank you for testing a second time! I really appreciate your help. I guess I will have to take a look at my code's performance.
@all other testers until now: Thank you for playing floats and giving me feedback :-)
Looks very nice and plays pretty smooth. Could use a checkpoint after each room, very frustrating not to beat the first big enemy and then having to start all over. That's why I quit in this level. But I made the same mistake (to few checkpoints) so who am I to complain :-)
Besides that it's a great game!
Love the concept of making a game from what you thought of a screenshots of another game- this would be a fun basis for a jam.
Wish there could have been a smart camera system here, as often I found the camera controls cumbersome and got in the way of my next daring manoeuvre. The design works well with the graphical style though, and the way you've integrated the tutorial and links is a wonderful touch.
Nice gameplay i although it would be better to move "cubes" with keyboard instead of dragging them with mouse. I enjoyed the mood (because of minimalistic, pretty graphics and fitting audio). Really solid game in overall.
About the camera, it might be not intuitive for all people to use right click to move camera, some instructions would be nice.
Really nice concept; pretty inventive style of play and well polished. Didn't have any issue with the camera control. The complete restart was harsh, but then... um, I'm guilty of that one too.
Btw, I uploaded a webplayer version of Sling, you may have more luck with it than the download? (its a longshot, but I'm not sure what the problem was caused by)
Good dungeon.
Nice art, I feel the potential.
I love the visuals, very stylish! I also like that it looks like a relaxing game at first and then once faces the increasing difficulty + no check points! +1 for this too!