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Monster Academy

By feiss

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall134.18
Fun54.39
Audio214.08
Humor114.41
Coolness277
Mood284.03
Graphics334.33
Theme394.18
Innovation1233.62

Comments

qkerguelen 2015-08-23 22:37

Great one! It was really fun :D

deity 2015-08-23 22:40

Can't rate it since I haven't submitted yet but I LOVE this game. (played to the end).

Love the dialog and the little dance before each mini-game starts. Nice work!

nickfrushour 2015-08-24 06:01

nice!

kcaze 2015-08-24 06:05

My score: 111.

Not sure if I'm a good monster or me so bad :P

This was obviously Warioware inspired but the graphics, sounds, and overall presentation was really well done. The monster is really cute and the minigames are good minigames. Well done!

daanvanyperen 2015-08-24 08:16

Always surprised at your talent at picking up any style and making it appealing. I'm in love with the monster cutscene.

feiss 2015-08-24 08:36

Thanks guys!
Kcaze: total score is 200, so you are not a bad monster :)
Daan: wow, thanks! ^^

chromebookbob 2015-08-24 10:27

hilarious, amamzing audio

pirate_shell 2015-08-24 11:10

Great art! Cool music and sounds and awesome and adorable take on the theme. It felt very polished although some of the mini games could have been explained better. Overall, very nice entry!

johnhackworth 2015-08-24 12:06

This is the most original take on the theme I've seen until now :)

techblogogy 2015-08-24 12:16

Neat little game. I loved it

spyboy 2015-08-24 13:25

111, Great work for only 48h!

mrdave 2015-08-24 13:27

I knew I was going to give this 5 stars for sound within the first 5 seconds. I found this game amazing everything just feels right from the drawing style to the sound to the games. Loads of fun and I hope this game rates really well!

terop 2015-08-24 13:27

This was pretty original. Nice music too, and many subgames in it.

nekusoul 2015-08-24 13:28

Wario-Ware-like minigame-mania? Count me in!
Nailed it in every category and that transition-scene is pure gold!

aden-manson 2015-08-24 13:29

My score 93. Really good game I loved it!

tomboogaart 2015-08-24 13:30

very cool, nice text effects

lubos 2015-08-24 13:32

Best use of theme:) Great game on all fronts.

kaev 2015-08-24 17:07

It was the funniest game i played on this site. It's like Wario Ware, just better (and funnier)!

jsmars 2015-08-24 18:45

Very nice little game! Great feel and very well polished, nice job! :)

axoona 2015-08-24 21:10

nice game, short and funny

conormn 2015-08-24 22:30

Great style!!

mechatofupirate 2015-08-25 02:01

Really cool WarioWare type game

foolmoron 2015-08-25 04:49

Got 126. Great graphics and presentation, minigames really had that snappy Warioware feel!

pierrec 2015-08-25 06:17

the custscene animation (btw 2 games) is the best

omaha 2015-08-25 06:25

This is wonderful in so may ways. Very nice work.

feiss 2015-08-25 09:31

Thanks people! :_)

amy742 2015-08-25 16:18

Lots of fun! HAd a big smile on my face!

benko 2015-08-25 17:56

Lots of fun, I love the animation before the start of each try!

manicthenobody 2015-08-25 19:54

Very fun. The firsts game is a bit buggy, in both the sense that that was a pun and in that the finger doesn't always squish like it should.

riadelva 2015-08-25 19:57

This was the most fun game I played so far from this ludum dare :D
Absolutely wonderful! ^^

tijmentio 2015-08-25 21:40

Looks super good and loved the audio! Plus a really original take on the theme, had a lot of fun :)

dancingmad 2015-08-26 00:20

Nice experience !
Difficulty is sometime not balanced.

And of course funny monster and voice =)

togimaro 2015-08-26 00:24

Really fun game! Beautiful graphism and cool gameplay.
Thanks to this game, I'm a good monster now!

mklee 2015-08-26 03:56

Very nice WarioWare-inspired game. The art fits the goofiness of the setup really nicely. Just wish the bug squashing game was a little easier! >_< Great job still!

uvwar 2015-08-26 04:13

I love warioware, and I love this. More games!

feiss 2015-08-26 09:23

Thank you!
The trick in the squashing game is to aim with the mouse, not the finger..

arche-san 2015-08-26 09:32

Great "Wario Ware" entry!
The minigames are good. The monster is very "cute" and funny. The difficulty curve is excellent.
Good job! :D

leafthief 2015-08-26 10:16

It's simply great. I love it!

jackrugile 2015-08-27 05:09

I can't handle how good this is. It brought me so much joy. I died laughing at the first dancing cutscene ;) Each minigame is super fun. You put together such a cohesive package in all areas of the game. Perfect score from me.

On another note, it was great looking at how you used Playground.js. I learned a lot from your code and some new tricks (both from you and from how to utilize Playground.js). Can't believe how little code was written for this. Nice work!

feiss 2015-08-27 06:24

Thanks! Hah, I don't think you can learn good things from my code.. I just try to keep it simple, going straight to the point. KISS philosophy plus some bad coding practices :D

dickpoelen 2015-08-27 17:20

This is awesome! Would be great if you can get it to work on phones/tablets

jk5000 2015-08-27 19:27

Great humor

nightshadow0 2015-08-27 20:58

Haha this is adorable! I could not for the life of me squash those bugs though, it felt like the finger should've hit a wider area, and the puzzles were not at all conductive to this gameplay style. Ended up with 91... It was a lot of fun though, nice work!

pietro-ferrantelli 2015-08-27 22:09

Greatest humor I've seen so far ! Audio is great, I definitely love your artstyle and it was tons of fun to play. The transition animation made me laugh everytime. One of my favourite solo games this LD. So many 5's ;D

feiss 2015-08-27 22:52

Thanks! Yup, I have to make it work on mobile.. It works on some androids already, buy the interaction has to be adjusted.

chuigum 2015-08-28 05:43

Awesome, one of my favorite so far. Awesome in humor and mood. Love the art style too!

guoboism 2015-08-29 01:04

Overall 5/5! Nice to see a Wario styled game! Everything is done to build a very lovely monster!

miwuc 2015-08-29 05:18

Fun and really impressive level of polish. I also considered doing a wario ware-like game at one point, but knew I couldn't produce enough content in 48h >_< I'm really impressed!

onionblitz 2015-08-29 06:59

I couldn't keep up, ahahah. Very fun!

foreverisbetter 2015-08-29 10:03

This was excellent! Congrats : )

dat_not_my_game 2015-08-29 12:36

Great! Very pretty monster and nice gameplay/replayability!

dracomagna 2015-08-29 13:03

Awesome game! I really liked the Wario Ware feeling, great job!

yellowlime 2015-08-29 15:02

Amazing; it looks and sounds good, and it all clicks nicely. 108 out of 200.

01010111 2015-08-29 20:35

Such an awesome entry! A few of the games were a little frustrating, but that's the beauty of minigames - onto something fun right away! Great work!!

crazyminnowstudio 2015-08-29 22:04

This is bonkers crazy and so fun. Nice job!

xvw 2015-08-30 12:24

My score... 88! (I'm terrible)

I LOVE this hyperactive monster! :D

Biruts 2015-08-30 14:04

Very nice project guys, i really love it, please check our game too and if you liked it give us a vote. Look for Road to hell and enjoy.

ithildin 2015-08-30 22:37

I LOVED it! :D
Great humour, polished minigames, and brilliant sound design.
Congrats!!

jupiter_hadley 2015-08-31 17:57

Such a cute, fun game. I included it in part 12 of my Ludum Dare 33 Compilation video series, if you would like to take a look :) https://youtu.be/mbmK1PaRvAU

chaoscult 2015-08-31 19:26

Great as always, mr. Goberna =) It was sad that you missed LD 32.

feiss 2015-08-31 21:57

Thanks again guys! :_)

Jupiter: that was very kind of you, thank you! :)

ChaosCult: yup, it's always difficult to have a whole weekend available, I usually plan it with 1 month in advance, but real life wins sometimes :_)
Nice words, thank you Mr. ChaosCult member :)

galanm 2015-08-31 22:55

Wow, everything in this game worked exactly right.

s0lll0s 2015-09-02 10:50

very cool. The graphics and sound effects are awesome, it is polished to the max and plays well. I think I kinda suck at it though, scored 99 in the end :D

roaringcatgames 2015-09-03 20:25

Me no good at this game! Me mad!

Great entry!

-Loi LeMix

lukezaz 2015-09-04 03:15

Some parts were a bit difficult, others a bit too easy. Other than that this game is really well made. Loved all the effects and transitions.

hexagore 2015-09-05 13:36

Whoa. Solid 5 stars for everything. Just wonderful. Everything about it. Oh my god.

larzan 2015-09-05 14:24

I can't stop grinning!
What a blast to play, love the art style, the animations, the colors, the way it starts easy and gets more difficult, just a big fat WOW!
Awesome game!

slothmachine 2015-09-05 14:28

Great fun! I really enjoy these WarioWare style minigames. Graphics are really well made. Great minimalistic style and colors!

creamybacon1 2015-09-05 15:57

Fun game, really liked the biting one, but that bug one was hard! Great Job!

wekid 2015-09-05 16:08

Awesome Game!

walsh9 2015-09-05 17:37

I love everything about this.

mutt 2015-09-05 19:37

Fantastic audio / visual presentation. Really entertaining little waste of time :)

chuckeles 2015-09-05 19:40

My score: 95. I had a blast playing this game! Perfect!

mathmadlen 2015-09-05 20:29

This is probably the most insane game I've played this ld... and I absolutely adore it!

drauthius 2015-09-05 21:33

Hehe, that was adorable.

feiss 2015-09-05 22:29

Wow wow woww! Thank you guys! I really appreciate it. I had a lot of fun making it hoping some people get the same fun and sense of humor, and many of you did, which makes me very happy! :D

galvesmash 2015-09-05 22:31

One of the best games I played in this LD. If you release a mobile version with a timer indicator in each mini-game tell me so I can download it!

burgerdare 2015-09-08 00:12

Well I'm certainly not the first person to say that this is like WarioWare, haha. As much as I enjoyed this collection of minigames, I feel like they were lacking in two key areas relative to something that you might find in other rapid-fire minigame collections.
1)WarioWare games have clearly defined and easily visible timers which make the end-point of a minigame easy to predict. In this game, the ending of a minigame feels kind of abrupt and unexpected.
2)WarioWare minigames are generally all-or-nothing. You either complete a minigame or you don't. You're told, in no uncertain terms, whether you did well or not. These minigames have kind of victory gradients which feel less satisfying. If I smash three bugs on the first minigame, should I feel good about that? Was I expected to smash that many? Was I expected to perform better than that? It's difficult to tell, which leads to a less rewarding experience overall.
I hope I don't sound overly negative towards your game - I actually really enjoyed it. The presentation is wonderful and charming, and really helps make this a fun and memorable game.

feiss 2015-09-08 13:31

Wow!! Thanks, your tips are very good, and I agree with you. The timer would be very easy to add, I just didn't think of it. The difficult curve is done in minutes, procedurally, and not very good at all, it would need to be adjusted. Also, the binary result (pass or no pass) or at least a much more clear scoring system would definitively help. Now it's quite obscure.

Thanks a lot! :)

daydreamcorgigames 2015-09-11 05:29

GREAT FUN!!!!!!!!

manimal 2015-09-11 15:25

AAAAAAAAAAAAA. Madnes. Its very funny. When i was collecting picture, i was completely laugh explode.

duzduz 2015-09-11 17:00

Really fun! The idea is good

pixzleone 2015-09-11 17:58

Good game!!!

pusty 2015-09-11 23:47

115. Haha nice graphics, love the sounds!

humanatee_studios 2015-09-12 00:40

Really Funny!

dunin 2015-09-12 08:28

100. I'm not a great monster. But it was really fun!

bombjack 2015-09-12 15:05

tried twice but the game hanged.

feiss 2015-09-12 15:24

@bombjack what browser?

gfm 2015-09-12 15:49

Really funny and cute graphics! The character's mumbling remind a lot of Banjo Kazooie and it made the cutscenes quite funny (together with the great graphics!).

Great job!

ellian 2015-09-14 22:09

113! This is great, really well done in such a short time. Lots of fun

jupiter_hadley 2015-11-14 16:55

I included your game in an article of my favorites and added a trophy to your profile! http://fireside.gamejolt.com/post/jam-favorites-ludum-dare-33-part-1-uzbzpjci