FoonLudum Dare ExplorerLD33 → Delicious Cortex

Delicious Cortex

By deepnight

View on Wayback Machine

CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall24.46
Fun94.30
Theme184.30
Graphics94.61
Audio94.22
Mood154.19
Coolness353
Humor264.08
Innovation413.97

Comments

oxysoft 2015-08-24 02:19

Very well made game, once again

watupdb 2015-08-24 02:48

Simply great. Great first impression, art is amazing (once again!), the game-play just works as expected.

dollarone 2015-08-24 03:06

Fantastic. Will re-play. Delicious graphics, excellent handling and innovative gameplay. All thumbs up!

shawn42 2015-08-24 04:09

Very fun and great art. The lag of zombies catching up to you really slows down the gameplay, but overall amazing game.

evergreen-games-ludum-dare 2015-08-24 04:29

Awesome, as always. A few nitpicks: i would like a health bar or something to tell how close i am to dying. also the crypt was a little too hard.

whalebot 2015-08-24 04:35

My only complaint would be that the gameplay got a little slow sometimes with the speeds of the characters. Everything else was amazing. Great work!

mklee 2015-08-24 04:41

Really great stuff, wished I had just a little more control over which enemies my zombies would attack (but then again they are zombies...). Awesome and fun!

notsu 2015-08-24 06:02

Génial :)

johnhackworth 2015-08-24 06:10

Best one I've played on this LD so far :)

nicotuason 2015-08-24 06:15

LIVEEEER! Haha this game is just... the best. Hat's off once again! Really catchy tune too.

nonentheless 2015-08-24 06:53

Beautiful and super fun. Another amazing entry. Every part works very well.

fuzzalicious 2015-08-24 07:32

Faaaaaantastic!

lubos 2015-08-24 08:11

It all comes together perfectly - music, art, gameplay.

split82 2015-08-24 08:13

Very nice. Love the movement animation of zombies.

adamwoolridge 2015-08-24 08:46

Awesome as usual. Great job!

dragonxvi 2015-08-24 09:02

Another fantastic one, this time it's very Overlord/Pikmin-esque. Great presentation, simple gameplay, very fun to play. Only gripe is the difficulty in the later levels. Fantastic job :D

scorched 2015-08-24 09:03

Amazing!
Consider adding WASD control!

scorched 2015-08-24 09:18

Stuck at the purgatory, it's very tough! :-)

goldplatedxplodingfist 2015-08-24 10:08

As always, your game has excelent graphics, inovative gamplay and funny dialog.
A joy to play your game.
:D

steve 2015-08-24 11:25

Brilliant as always, I love that the horde is a little uncontrollable and will run off on their own

sublustris 2015-08-24 12:15

Great, as usual :)

jorgemoag 2015-08-24 14:14

Awesome. Best of the bests.

dickpoelen 2015-08-24 14:47

Amazing work. Kinda like undead pikmin :)

ewchap 2015-08-24 14:50

Top notch. Really fun all around. Lovely style and feel. Perfect fit with the theme. Great mechanics. Well Done!

thomastc 2015-08-24 14:51

I love everything about this game. Even the sfxr sound effects aren't quite horrible :) The zombie mechanic is brilliant: you have to get close enough to the enemy for your minions to spot them, but far enough away not to suffer any damage yourself. Amazing job!

kewleus 2015-08-24 15:08

Great use of indirect control. Fun game.

keyboardcat 2015-08-24 17:38

Really great, even if I am stuck at the purgatory.

Good job !

rnlf 2015-08-24 18:11

I only get a black screen with music on Linux (Firefox/Iceweasel 38 + Flash 11). I will try again when I get a chance to run windows.

The music sounds great already!

cawrtz 2015-08-24 19:03

Terrific. Beautiful graphics, simple yet fun mechanics, and the 'deepnight humor'© is there as always.

anissen 2015-08-24 19:08

Quit outshining everybody with your inhuman talents! The game is absolutely awesome as always.

oldpeculier 2015-08-24 19:27

Incredible, simply incredible as always. Five stars all the way.

theholychicken 2015-08-24 20:01

Flawless! So much character and fun, the art and music are top notch, zombies screaming LuUduumm was funny as hell.
I think I need to find your games every Ludum from now on!

marudziik 2015-08-24 20:43

I really would like to find a flaw in one of your entries. Like, once. ;) Well, maybe next time. 5/5 all. :P

axoona 2015-08-24 21:32

This game is great!

general 2015-08-24 21:56

This is something really great! When I saw the 1st screenshot on twitter I couldn't imagine that such an awesome game will be created. Today I've rated 11 games, yours is the best (it's even better than mine, I must admit ;) )

I like how you combine the "Indirect control" with "You are the monster" here.

I made videos of me playing LD entries: http://youtu.be/6Al6aF0oETA
Your game is at 13:37

ventura 2015-08-24 22:16

I love it! I love the mechanic, I love the music and these simple controls! I think because that, this game can be an amazing mobile game if you export it to these kind of platforms. I would play it.

aeai 2015-08-24 22:31

Simply awesome. I especially like the graphics.

kunonooni 2015-08-24 23:04

What can I say that hasn't already been said before. Simply an amazing game.

thomcc 2015-08-24 23:43

great as always.

the logic/mechanic for when your followers are standing vs attacking is a bit wonky, but probably something that can be worked out (making the radius of uhm, influence bigger could be all that's needed).

either way its a really cool concept for a game, and extremely well executed.

leom 2015-08-25 00:16

Great, as always ! ^^

realize2d 2015-08-25 00:20

Great game!

meat-us 2015-08-25 02:24

Really really cool game. Can't believe an only man can do that, great job !

conormn 2015-08-25 03:29

Geeez, this is crazy good. This mechanic works so well. Congrats!

omaha 2015-08-25 03:42

It's just crazy how much content you've managed to build in 48 hours. Your color selection is wonderful.

Nice work.

zatyka 2015-08-25 04:19

Seriously impressive.

lereveur 2015-08-25 04:23

A really enjoyed playing your game, as always !

radmars 2015-08-25 04:49

Nice! Really good gamefeel & graphics. Nicely challenging too, once it got going. Somehow we both had basically the same idea so bonus points for that :D Great work!

fullmontis 2015-08-25 07:52

Super fun game as usual!

thorig 2015-08-25 08:01

Can you please stop with making awesome entries? This is really fun to play. Those graphics are great and music is maybe a bit too happy. It is a nice Pikemin style of play. Too bad you don't add the killed people with their skills to you army. Still a great game.

perecil 2015-08-25 08:16

You're always one of the first games authors I check when a Ludum Dare contest happens. And I always like your games.

literal_games 2015-08-25 12:43

Very nice, turned out to be more tactical than it seemed at first!

psypol 2015-08-25 13:02

Bravo. Your like the LD's wizard to me Sebastien

donpastor 2015-08-25 13:55

Amazing. Or should I say a-maze-ing?

gammel 2015-08-25 14:02

Great game!!! The only thing lacking is story, or different monster types (and each one could have different skills, just to make it more strategic). You have seriously achieved something good here!

pietdagamer 2015-08-25 14:44

5/5 for everything, truly amazing.

triplevisiongames 2015-08-25 15:03

Neat graphic, looks almost cross-stitch! Chuckled at the dialogue and the zombies' shouts, fun gameplay too - great entry!

freaknarf 2015-08-25 15:05

Perfect gem once again !
I'm in love with the visuals and it feels really great to lead a crowd of hungry zombies... There's fun, music sounds nice, excellent graphics, an efficient and simple gameplay.
Awesome game. Great job.

yakka 2015-08-25 15:42

One more great Deepnight's game :)

legulysse 2015-08-25 16:32

As always, great entry. Polished and all stuff!

scorched 2015-08-25 17:46

Completed on second playthrough! A lot easier WASD-way :-)

deepnight 2015-08-25 21:48

Yes, thanks for the suggestion ;)

sanju 2015-08-25 22:32

Great game! 5/5

plusultra 2015-08-25 23:27

Amazing polish. This is a real accomplishment!

robotmeal 2015-08-25 23:40

Yet another amazing entry! Smooth artwork, solid set of audio, and fun gameplay. Awesome!

dancingmad 2015-08-26 00:11

Great game, very original on many ways !
One only problem : flash performances ...

georgebroussard 2015-08-26 00:40

Amazing game, Sebastien. I think this is your best Ludum Dare game to date. It's so good, and fun, that imo you could extend it and sell it. Pro level in every way. Put this on Steam. Get rich.

johnhattan 2015-08-26 01:04

Oh this one is lots of fun. High marks in all categories. I hope you'll keep working on this one, because it deserves a commercial release.

genericteamname 2015-08-26 01:24

Reminds me of pikmin. Great work on the level design.

mventurelli 2015-08-26 01:25

How do you do that, seriously? Congratulations on being awesome.

dydx 2015-08-26 01:57

Just awesome. I got stuck in Purgatory, but I appreciate the difficulty curve :)

raphix 2015-08-26 08:17

Wow !!!
I had great fun playing this game, and the "words" are truly funny ! Well done !

strike 2015-08-26 10:00

Simply perfect.
One of the best LD33 game I have played.

yamzho 2015-08-26 10:14

As usual, it's a masterpiece...

arche-san 2015-08-26 10:28

Wow!
This is impressive for a 48h game. The game mechanic is really fun and reminds me pikmin. The art are excellent and zombies messages are really really funny.

A small improvement will be a visual feedback when all humans are dead (like "Go to exit").

bender 2015-08-26 11:11

Always a good time with your games. Everything is perfectly executed, the difficulty curve is good, it's easy to play and you understand immediately how things work. Many thing to learn from it. Well done!

recursor 2015-08-26 13:26

Phenomenal as usual, and the zombie dialog is hilarious.

colmiyveul 2015-08-26 17:52

Annnnd another killer entry by Deepnight, how surprising :D
I'll always be amazed on how you can create such great things in so little time. Amazing concept, greats graphics.

tmalicet 2015-08-26 18:51

I love the pixel art which looks like voxel art! And I love the music too. Completely appropriate!

bombjack 2015-08-26 18:52

just amazing as always :)

ehtd 2015-08-27 01:07

A bit weak on the gameplay, very good on the rest. Good job.

mrcdk 2015-08-27 01:15

Awesome game as always, nothing else to say.

xvw 2015-08-27 03:24

Hmm, each deepnight's participation are awesome! Thanks for your exceptionnal job !

scriptorum 2015-08-27 06:50

Delightful.

grouflon 2015-08-27 09:42

A good idea for a great Game !

rein1 2015-08-27 09:58

Fantastic.

cbstegeman 2015-08-27 18:43

Really, truly fantastic. Just the right amount of difficulty for a short game. And hilarious too.

jmaggard62 2015-08-27 18:50

Absolutely beautiful as usual. Very interesting gameplay as well.

frederickk 2015-08-27 22:37

As always, great job sir!

suese 2015-08-28 00:17

The quality and content level of the graphics is exceptional with quality sensory feedback.

This one is really really buggy and it made it virtually impossible to play.

Also, I find it really annoying that you are consistently the least cool person in Ludum Dare. It's really quite a jerk move to be "the best" every time and not even take a few minutes to look at the hard work everyone else put in and give your opinions and ratings. It's a bit arrogant and self-centered don't you think?

All these people have time for your game and you're too important to even contribute? What's that all about?

aumni 2015-08-28 00:57

Very fun game! Awesome art/audio. Good work!! :)

spotco 2015-08-28 07:33

just like pikmin, love it :)
was hoping for some sort of boss though

leafthief 2015-08-28 14:26

Just wow

soulgame 2015-08-28 18:44

Super amazing entry :)

Everything is pretty much nailed as always. I only felt a bit annoyed by the movement of my character somehow a bit glitchy I felt. Nothing too serious tho.

rnlf 2015-08-28 19:06

Ahahaha, that ending! Plays really smooth, the last three levels required a lot of strategic planning.

I will not say anything about the art, we expected no less from you ;-)

inbetweengames 2015-08-29 06:45

Fun, spooky and cute! Couldn't make it past the purgatory.
Luuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuduuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuum! [¬º-°]¬

01101101 2015-08-29 10:06

Can't believe I hadn't rated yours yet :D
What more can I say anyway? Great art, fun and challenging gameplay, lots of polish, cool music... A really good game as usual :)

tanis 2015-08-29 11:33

Super as usual! Love your games fella!

someone 2015-08-29 12:38

I just get a black screen with music on Linux.

peyman 2015-08-29 16:45

Incredible! 5/5!

jhrrsn 2015-08-29 17:01

As always (!) this is a super fun, neatly contained idea that has been executed very well. Good job!

01010111 2015-08-29 18:46

Super awesome entry!! Solid all the way around! Amazing work as usual :)

buffalophil 2015-08-29 19:15

Great design, art, music. A+ game

nightshadow0 2015-08-29 21:20

This is really impressive! The mechanic is great, i expected it to be mindless but it's surprisingly strategic as the levels become more complex. I'd suggest having regenerating health, since you already have the primary losing condition of losing all your minions and it's not very easy to gauge the range of the enemies. This didn't affect my enjoyment much, however, which was high throughout.
Amazing level of polish too, surprising length, great graphics, and a really catchy tune. It doesn't make sense to me how you made all of this in 48h. Brilliant work!

divillysausages 2015-08-29 21:23

Very polished game, and great job on the level layouts!

onionblitz 2015-08-30 05:57

Love the mechanics! Beautiful art also. Great job, as always. :D

togimaro 2015-08-30 12:11

Amazing game! Great graphics and musics!

gornova 2015-08-30 16:04

AWESOME!!! :d

skt 2015-08-30 19:09

Très fun à jouer et magnifique à regarder, comme d'hab :)

commanderstitch 2015-08-30 23:24

Great graphics, the bloom, pixels, detail, and shadows look very visually pleasing. Liked the theme of the game. I liked the music. soo fun! didn't care to much for the fact that i wasn't in control, but it was so much fun to watch them i didn't reeeeealy mind all that much. gj

gatechgrad 2015-08-30 23:31

Really not much to it aside from leading the monsters around. The sound effects and music feel like they're from an old Atari game. The game tries to be funny with the popup text over the monsters, but it just really doesn't work.

aprotasenya 2015-08-31 10:51

This is plain excellent. Thanks, I've had a good time playing this. :)

cjke-7777 2015-08-31 16:00

Wow, every ludum dare you kill it. Man, inspirational.

s0rax 2015-09-01 13:09

A very funny game, good job

miziziziz 2015-09-01 17:05

VERY impressive. Technical and gameplay-wise.
great pathfinding, no issues at all.
Level design was good: challenge gradually increased

drauthius 2015-09-01 19:17

Wow. Amazing work.

s0lll0s 2015-09-02 10:59

a lot of fun, a mechanic I havent seen before and one of the most polished games I've seen this LD.

jackrugile 2015-09-03 04:02

Blown away, great game!

vikingpotato 2015-09-03 07:23

Best. Entry. Ever.

niebule 2015-09-03 14:51

This game is amazing! all kudos to you sir!

wooltech 2015-09-04 01:09

Brilliant. It's a fun game which looks and sounds great. very well polished.

The levels are just long enough to be interesting, but short enough to think "I'll just try that again" when you die.

arzi 2015-09-04 12:24

Aaaargh :D :D The best game in this LD! The zombies are so awesome! Really good *everything*.

zephyr-raine 2015-09-06 22:30

Amazing, impressive and inspiring work, as always.

ethankennerly 2015-09-07 02:40

When I introduced myself as the evil lord returning to his property, I smiled and was subsequently enchanted by the consistent world you crafted. If you continue to develop this, when I died in the Family Cemetery, I didn't notice my life bar, and felt a little discouraged to reload and re-recruit each zombie.

techblogogy 2015-09-07 05:29

Great game! Very fun to play, looks nice and music is great. "Evil Lord My Ass"-cracked me up a bit. Well done!

zncatlaw 2015-09-07 19:56

Absolutely amazing. I had a hard time believe that this was made in 48 hours, but then I watched your timelapse. This was super fun, gorgeous, and the sound design was very pleasing. For me, this is the winner. ^o^//

gamepopper 2015-09-07 20:30

I found this really funny, controlling a hoard of zombies is really satisfying!

mach60kas 2015-09-07 22:27

Graphically stunning, but one of several zombie control games I've seen this dare. The soundtrack is pretty neat, and lines of flavour text from the zombies and hunters make the game funnier all around! :) Great work, keep it up!

teesquared 2015-09-08 01:26

The music and humor reminded me of "Shaun of the Dead." Great all around entry. Surprising amount of strategy. Enjoy cleaning up your piles of gold :)

crucknuk 2015-09-09 16:53

Just... wow! I am amazed that you managed to do all this in a compo! The game is really fun to play! Excellent entry!

egor-idiot 2015-09-10 14:01

Perfectly done, one more time.
Grat job!

afenda 2015-09-10 14:05

Fantastic !!! i like very well your game !

landosystems 2015-09-11 00:11

Magnificent... you had me at the very first scene. Great art style and animation, solid mechanic and implementation, excellent audio and music. Fantastic work!

geckoo1337 2015-09-11 04:37

As usual, you did something great. I like aesthetic and gameplay. Nice entry ++

bloomingbuds 2015-09-11 07:30

Great, great, great...

ibai-aizpurua 2015-09-11 11:14

Really nice and polished game!!! Amazing

dcolgan 2015-09-11 23:09

My overall mark for judging games is how long it can keep me playing without me feeling like I need to keep playing. Every time I resurrected, it was because I wanted to, not because of a sense of obligation. It was easy to learn, but got difficult fast. I spent a long time on the purgatory alone and I thought for sure that would be the last level, but there was at least one more and I could not get past it.

handkor 2015-09-12 02:11

Your pixel art is so nice. Game is fun too. Very good job. In my top 5 so far.

patomkin 2015-09-12 07:10

A fantastic game, undoubtedly one of the best in this LD

retrogradeorbit 2015-09-12 09:38

One of the greats.

madmaw 2015-09-12 11:56

So polished. It's depressing competing in the same category as you

ddrkirbyisq 2015-09-12 15:46

Awesome job as always. Didn't know you were using Haxe too! Apparently you're rolling your own haxe framework as well? Sheesh! @_@

insality 2015-09-12 16:07

The beautyful graphics and so sweety gameplay! Very enjoyable, great entry! 5+

sparrow 2015-09-12 18:46

Great fun and well polished. Awesome entry!

pat-aftermoon 2015-09-12 21:17

Nice and fun... Impressive !

cyrixd 2015-09-13 02:14

Wonderful game, so much polish and attention to detail. Great stuff.

vladirien 2015-09-13 08:37

Really good game on every aspect! Fantastic job!

chromebookbob 2015-09-13 10:56

Hilarious dialog, really polished

local-minimum 2015-09-13 12:20

Very well executed game indeed. My only wish would be that it had a fullscreen mode or adjustable hight. Playing on my TV (which claims to be 720p), I can't fit it fully so I couldn't see the healthbar if I wanted to see all the way down. I think the gameplay worked very well and minion management while not having any cool abilities yourself... it was very nice. I didn't notice, but if killed enemies became minions, that might be nice. The one thing that would make this game even better is to work on level design more so that it becomes harder to figure out which was is best/optimal to go. In part this can be solved by having the optimal way needing some backtracking or having forks in the road where both ways seem equally good at start. But more importantly, a dynamic world. Having some enemies walk around, give enemies a visual field. Stuff like that. Very good game though. Hope you do continue working on it.

uheartbeast 2015-09-13 15:49

Top scores for innovation, theme, and humor. This is one of my favorite games so far. Great job.

puppetmaster 2015-09-13 17:20

Amazing art and fitting sound effects and music. Love how you introduce new game elements. Very cool entry!

walsh9 2015-09-14 06:21

I wish there was a polish category so I could give this game 5 stars in it.

larzan 2015-09-14 07:59

Great game, beautiful and extremely well polished!

erkberg 2015-09-14 13:15

Your games are always awesome and this one is no exception. Very nice gameplay mechanics combined with beautiful visuals and good sounds and music make for simply a great game.

stahlmandesign 2015-09-15 15:37

This really is a great game. Discovered after LD33 and I played until the end. Simple but good challenges, good sound, graphics, humour... not too long. Worthy of #2

oldpeculier 2015-09-19 14:23

You've still got "Source (soon)." How soon?

aiursrage2k 2015-12-05 01:22

Holy shit this guy is a golden god