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Hearty's Quest

By lmt

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Graphics674.15
Overall2443.55
Mood4053.06
Humor4132.50
Fun4633.17
Innovation5123.12
Theme5233.68
Coolness167941

Comments

gornova 2015-12-13 22:23

Nice and fun, cool graphics, good animations and nice music.
I like the style, not sure about theme (hearty collect gold stuff and avoid green monsters?).

And why heart can go in only one direction ?

graceavery 2015-12-14 02:48

Cool use of the the theme, lovely music and graphics as well! :-)

ceosol 2015-12-14 05:08

I really liked the game, but it seemed very slow. I know you were trying to maintain the theme by using two button controls, yet the having to constantly turn around seriously cut into the gameplay. I think it would have been better with mouse click as an automatic turner (i.e. making three spin moves instantly). That still would have been two buttons (Z and mouse).

Concept was great. The art really suited it well.

jupiter_hadley 2015-12-14 13:03

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

melusine 2015-12-14 21:54

A cool game. Love the music

cinnamonmelonpig 2015-12-14 21:58

The animations and sound really makes this game come to life, great work!

shiny 2015-12-14 22:01

Creative graphics, great sounds and music. However I couldn't find the game fun enough. I caught on easily though, the controls and such.

yamzho 2015-12-14 22:15

Very nice, polished game. Well done.

cake_catastrophe 2015-12-14 22:19

Nicely presented, but it seems like you tried to compress four button controls down to two button for the sake of meeting the theme limitation and it suffers for it. I could see it working if there was some mechanic around constantly spinning on the spot, but here it just feels like a work-around.

Well done regardless. Strange that you took out the audio rating - I was gonna rate this a 4. As far as I'm aware using content generation tools is totally allowed and, hey, you had to pick this out of all the crap CG music usually comes out with, and set the instrumentation so you can still get credit for that!

lmt 2015-12-14 22:24

@Cake_Catastrophe It appears you didn't play far enough into the game. On level four, when enemies appear, turning takes a move, so it actually participates with making the game and becomes a mechanic.

radstar 2015-12-14 22:38

Really nice game, I liked it instantly as it feel really polished!

shadowforce768 2015-12-14 22:38

Very smooth and well made game. Controls make the game a little slow at times, but make sense with the theme.

All in all great game!

d_0o_d 2015-12-14 22:48

Since I tested the beta in IRC, I obiously had to test your game as well. It's still super cute, the animations and graphics are top notch :)
I feel though, that the theme brought a tough constrain to your game, for example I feel like the skip a turn should be a separate key ( and you might have already felt that way as well ). But I can understand the struggle, make it separate -> Fail theme and you can't just leave it out, since it's a core mechanic.

Good job though, I still liked it :)

dodormeur 2015-12-14 23:10

Nice game well polished and good idea, but the movement and the gameplay are too rigid, so it's more laborious than fun..
Nice graphics and music though

spotlightor 2015-12-15 01:36

I really like this game, but I pressed the wrong key

dustyroom 2015-12-15 11:03

I'd made rotation with different button, maybe up arrow. I think, it would be easier to move. Also, if you face the edge tile, why does to allow to select outside grid? Beautiful game.

slothmachine 2015-12-15 12:37

I love the minimalistic graphic style. Very interesting way to use two-button controls. Great game.

daandruff 2015-12-15 12:41

Adorable game! Simple but brilliant :)

ingon 2015-12-15 21:24

Really like the polish of this game. Good work!

dustoutgames 2015-12-15 23:54

Really fun game! It's just challenging enough, and the graphics and music are nice! I really enjoyed playing!

capitals 2015-12-16 01:07

A fun and difficult puzzler that has been really thought out. It looks charming and the music is great. It's very difficult to play - or i'm just rubbish ;) Good Luck! Oh, and you could improve by tightening up the controls as it feels a bit slow.

bitdecaygames 2015-12-16 15:45

Cute little puzzler. It progressed nicely and felt good overall.

silkworm_sweatshop 2015-12-16 19:49

Cool little puzzle game!

knason 2015-12-16 20:10

Really cute, I liked the music and graphics was nice. A nice and polished game! Well done!

shellbot 2015-12-16 20:20

Really well done. Nice graphics and animation. The music is also enjoyable. The game felt a bit too slow paced for my liking however

kgs0142 2015-12-17 08:38

I love the aesthetic graphics! it's really cute.

littlethor 2015-12-17 12:25

Wow!
What a polished game! Great work!
The animation and the level design are very nice!

reheated 2015-12-17 13:23

Excellent puzzle design and it looks beautiful! A clever way to make the 2 button theme a really core part of the puzzle.

ittaimanero 2015-12-17 21:32

This game is pretty neat :D Cool graphics, everything is so well done! Congrats!

orion_black 2015-12-18 03:43

I can totally see how simply "fixing" the controls by allowing to move in whichever direction you want would break the game. At the same time, I also found the controls cumbersome and, at some points, got the feel that I was waiting instead of actively solving the puzzle(which wasn't the case).

If you were to build upon this I would suggest to allow four-way movement but having it "cost" turns instead(and showing it explicitly). So that for example moving up, when looking up costs you one turn, two when looking left, three when looking down and so on...

justinooncx 2015-12-18 08:22

Pretty cool puzzle game with well thought out level design.

phoenix849 2015-12-18 16:40

It's cute, but I don't think that 2 button controls in this type of game add any particular interest or unusual situation to gameplay. Mostly feels like it just cripples player's movement for no reason.

miwuc 2015-12-21 14:09

I liked how being able to turn in only one direction actually makes the puzzles more difficult. The game was a bit boring at first, but later levels get more interesting. However, "skip turn" should be a separate button, so using long press to make it fit is kind of stretching the theme. Presentation is very good, solid entry.

axoona 2016-01-01 17:40

this game is really complete and fun to play game.
I really like it!