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Balloon Cat

By cory-leach

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Graphics264.42
Mood453.94
Audio833.71
Overall1023.81
Humor1743.14
Innovation2783.47
Theme3463.89
Fun4073.25
Coolness188835

Comments

zesterer 2015-12-14 04:00

Awesome! Very cute. Although I wasn't really sure how to go about getting fuel.

nooner-bear 2015-12-14 05:31

This is adorable! I love your art style!

jcmonkey 2015-12-14 05:32

nice little game.

fanttum 2015-12-14 05:40

A cute game if a bit simple. Very relaxing however. Great visuals and sound.

ewchap 2015-12-14 05:48

Cute and enjoyable game. Love the music. Great work.

bemmu 2015-12-14 05:51

Fantastic work, adorable artwork and great use of color upping the overall mood.

dekart 2015-12-14 05:53

Very well done! I like the blurred background made of the same objects, it creates an awesome feeling of open space and real flight.

Few notes:
* controls doesn't give much control - it's nearly impossible to predict where the balloon will land so hitting the ground at a specific place is really challenging
* the goal of the flight is not clear, what should I do to win? Probably an arrow pointing where you need to land would help. There are signs on the ground, but which one is the one i need?
* moving the balloon backward (at least a little) is a must - the game doesn't give you a second chance to hit the target and with the current controls it feels like a fault of the game since I don't reall control anything

Hope that helps

guoboism 2015-12-14 06:06

Greate Game! I love those 3D pixels stuff!

bushmango3 2015-12-14 06:28

Very cute art, very hard to control!

sythe2o0 2015-12-14 06:33

It was pretty cute and had great graphics, but I had a hard time controlling where to land. As soon as I'd seen the landing spot I would already be too far gone to deflate to hit it.

jupiter_hadley 2015-12-14 13:03

Very cute, challenging game! I included it in my Ludum Dare 34 compilation video series, if you’d like to check it out :) https://youtu.be/rQfOYGAIpM0

wilsk 2015-12-14 20:31

A lot of nice relaxing games in this LD and this is certainly one of them. I liked the background too.

f7f5 2015-12-14 22:04

This is awesome, had a blast playing it. Found myself blowing at the screen to try to get some left-facing wind after I collected everything and missed the end(start) point just by a bit.

Nice inflate/deflate sound effects and great mood!

teamkawaiiju 2015-12-15 05:06

Very nice art style. After getting the item in the bubble though there didn't appear to be a way of getting back, just an infinite line of trees.

teamkawaiiju 2015-12-15 05:06

super cute art style

cory-leach 2015-12-15 07:46

@TeamKawaiiju The game world does loop around. It's probably a bit too far at the moment but if you keep going you will return to the start.

commodorekid 2015-12-15 09:54

I'm not a fan of voxel-like graphics and it was too hard for me (got a bottle of milk though!) however I like the idea for the controls. It feels like this old game where you were trying to land on a pod with spacecraft. You may consider using a color palette next time, it would look much better.

ky533541 2015-12-15 13:04

It’s got great music – this sort of percussion thing that reminds me of animal crossing. And an amazing art style. Really inspirational! Great work

slothmachine 2015-12-15 20:03

Nice Voxels. Great idea with the background! Makes it feel really wide and open space.

capitals 2015-12-16 01:16

Very cutesy art style which fits perfectly with the music. I could have done with a bit of clarity with the task and whether it was meant to be as difficult as it was.

cory-leach 2015-12-16 03:48

It kind of is meant to be difficult. In the end I decided the difficulty was acceptable just because in its current state it's so damn short haha.

drtizzle 2015-12-16 19:51

The presentation of this game is the best I've seen so far this LD! Slick menu, great graphics and music. The gameplay however is not superb. You have too little influence on the balloon to really feel in control.
- Good idea
- Great presentation
- Needs some work gameplay-wise

Good job!

mshopf 2015-12-18 00:04

Love the art design.

However, I have too little control over the balloon for my taste.

xanjos 2016-01-04 15:58

Controls were pretty hard to master but I loved the way they worked plus I really liked the voxel art style.