oxysoft 2015-12-15 02:33
very good pixel art as always, would be a cool game if it were to be finished
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD34 → Longbeard
By huruey
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Innovation | 12 | 4.24 | ||
| Graphics | 6 | 4.80 | ||
| Coolness | 2 | 78 | ||
| Fun | 29 | 4.06 | ||
| Overall | 30 | 4.17 | ||
| Theme | 38 | 4.32 | ||
| Audio | 51 | 4.07 | ||
| Humor | 52 | 3.93 | ||
| Mood | 81 | 3.93 |
very good pixel art as always, would be a cool game if it were to be finished
Great game, wish it went on longer. Music got a bit repetitive, but was good. And love the art style. Nice work, I've been waiting to play it.
Hilarious ending, that amped up your humor rating to 5. I loved it! Great pixel art as always. Music was sick too. Awesome game character animation, and the concept was great. It must be insane to develop a game like this in such a small amount of time. Great work and thanks for submitting even if it was unfinished!
WOW. I still can't believe people make this stuff so well. And really, stop being so good at pixel art, you'll make the rest of us feel bad. XD
As always! sick game! I loved the concept and the game with really fun. I'd like to see a post-jam version.
No comments. Absolutely incredible stuff.
I've been looking forward to this since the beginning. This has a lot of potential and I could see a full game with this if you plan on pursuing it further. I had a lot of fun and found it inspiring. Thanks for the game man and great job for what it is!
Very interesting concept! my only complaint is that it should be longer
Definitely, I haven't seen a better entry for this LD, even considering the game isn't complete and the time to upload the games just ended, because I've already played lots of entries.
You're a Pixel God and you know I think that, and the idea for this game is really promising!
You should make it a full one, or other's will "have the same idea" haha.
You're a genius folk, congrats!
Nicely done!
Absolutly amazing entry. Overall in all points!
10/10
Audiovisually a pretty damn impressive entry.
But you could've afforded to sacrifice some of that detail in favor of more content. LD is always a learning experience in time allocation.
so glad you submitted this! looks awesome, love the beard!
I really love the pixel art style, and the music was very fitting, it was fun swinging the beard around trying to hit all the switches! Great Job!
Really nice stuff, especially with the beard puzzles! I would have loved to see how this developers with the gameplay.
I'd encourage you to develop this into a more full IP later if you get the chance. The idea is really novel.
Pretty fantastic as usual. Hope you expand on this, can be a full release with some more work on levels and additional beard usages :D
Fantastic - I'd play this, particularly with some work on how you can use the beard for gameplay.
A little bit of work teaching the player how to get the beard swinging would be good, but sharp level design isn't expected in such a limited timeframe.
Amazing artwork and great concept. Has a lot of potential. Awesome job as always!
Very nice take on the theme. As usual, your graphics are amazing as well as your gameplay ideas. I just wish there was more to it, a bit more challenges and such.
Anyway, it was prettyyy cool!
Once again, gorgeous graphics! And a really cool concept, would love to see this continued! Awesome job, again! c:
This is a very good game.
I will love to see how you did the beard effect.
Very well done.
So cute, I love the pixel art.
Such a solid game all around. Amazing work! My favorite part is the coin graphic... so majestic.
Great idea, concept, implementation, everything. :D
Had serious performance issues, and I played it till the end anyway, brilliant.
This is amazing. 5/5 for all.
very well made!! great mechanic, just wish it could be longer~
This is hilarious the his beard swings around, you made the beard mechanic work really well and I could think of so many other things you could do with it, it would be amazing if you added more levels.
PS: you could've added in the 2 button theme as this only uses left right and jump.
:D
Really useful beard !! I want to play more!! :)
Art is super as usual! Nice music too :)
The concept is great, too bad it's so short :-P
Loving everything about it, took a bit to get used to the swinging of the beard but finally got the hang of it. Only complaint would be that I would love to heard some sounds and not just music, but great job overall!
And here comes Joe Williamson to claim his first prize in graphics per usual :P
Well, what can you say, it'g gorgeous!
Lovely beard, original!
Really cool! I thought the beard puzzling was interesting and original, and it worked very well mechanically (which surprised me). Needless to say the art is amazing, and I looooved the little intro sequence. Ok that might be enough praise. Oh, just one more thing - the music was great too, really set up the atmosphere. Ok, that's all :)
I'm cracking up, this is too funny! Your games never disappoint: Love the art, love the music! Keep it up!
Very clever utilisation of the theme. I really love the music! but a little too short!
Fantastic idea, too bad you didn't make it in time. But it's great already! Pixel-art is god-like!
I think it's obvious to say graphics are awesome. We know your games now, it's kind of expected. To be honest Fathom was much more than this even though it was also short. I think fun is missing a little bit. Still kind of an original idea with the mechanic. Pity you struggled with code and time. Expecting better next time! :)
This is, like, the third game in a row where I've been like "yeah, this is the best game I've played so far for LD34." Good lord man, that was fun. I love the art. It's SO GOOD. The audio is nice, the idea is both hilarious, fun, and unique for the theme. And I just cannot get over how much I enjoy the beard animation as you move and jump. Good work, 5/5.
Cool game and cool idea, wonderful graphics.
Awesome pixel-art and a cool idea! Well done :)
Best game so far :). I hope you are about to continue this after ld.
Really good game!
+ Awesome graphics
+ Awesome music
+ Great gameplay idea and execution
- Short (understandable)
- No sound effects
Hilarious! I love the idea. And the graphics are great! Sadly, there's only a single level...
NOOOO Don't shave Mr LongBeard.
What an amazing game that was made in the amount of time. I love the pixel art style. The liquidy physics beard is amazing and I have no idea how you made it looks so good in such a small amount of time and the music is amazing
Short, but has potential to grow.
This is a really great entry and it looks gorgeous. Sadly you didn't meet the Compo deadline but it's impressive either way. Sadly there is only one level - I'd like to continue playing ;)
Impressive entry again.
Very cool! So he keeps the gold in his beard that's why it's o heavy right? I'm amazed by the art, I already saw your animation cycle on twitter, nice very nice. Congrats!
Well done! Excellent game ^_^
That game is awesome ! I want to see an entire post LD version of that game ! Well done Sir !
Pretty cool! The beard growth is a really nice mechanic!
And I'd love to see it worked on some more.
Not sure if I got my bear-based platforming craving satisfied. But I enjoyed the short little game!
Great job!
Impressive!
LOL, 10/10 first perfect score i give
Great game in every way except its pretty short.
Excellent game, although it was a tad short!
Thank you for your kind words! It's a lot of fun seeing someone else play my game :)
Good thing you decided to finish your game after all, because it really turned out well. Graphics, music and gameplay are very good! The presentation is nice, it's a really smooth experience overall.
The only negatives I can think of are the lack of SFX, and that it is so short.
Well done!
I had your stream on in the background while I was playing and rating games yesterday and so it's great to finally have a go on this. Glad I didn't watch you finish so that a little bit of the level was a surprise. :)
Clearly beard physics are the future. As always your pixel art is incredible (I would still happily kill to experiment with your pixel art in my game engine) but honestly I feel like it's your music here that's exceptional.
Congrats, and thanks for the entertaining streaming yesterday! :)
Rah ! Nice puzzle game, very beautiful, as usual ! I want more, you got here a nice concept :) !
Lovely visuals as always - will be nice to see it finished
sick entry. Feels super complete. Thought at first the growing beard to be a bit of a gimmick but it turned into a clever mechanic later on!
Awesome and great game! Don't know what else I could say.
Hah Nice :D Gorgeous game, if a bit simple. Nice little set of puzzles. Music seemed a little too 'epic' for what was going on :p
Really liked. Great art, great mechanic, a little bit hard to understand at first. Shame it's really short, but you can make a lot more of this idea if you try it. Congrats!
Really nice and polished game, congratulations.
The music fits perfectly with the game but it would be great to have some SFX. Also the coins doesn't fit perfectly with the game's mood and the fact that the more you pick the more your beard growths, I think it would be much better with some kind of lotion or something like that instead of coins.
Anyway, the game is really polished, fun, innovative and the graphics are almost perfect. I hope you will continue the development and count me as a day one costumer if you release it.
I really liked the game! I think the mechanic is pretty fun. The beard is a little hard to control though, which can lead to some frustrating moments. Graphics are gorgeus as usual.
Glad to see you managed to submit the game on time! The beard mechanics work really well and looks really funny seeing it in action. Using the beard to solve door puzzles is really clever indeed! Great job!
Excellent game! Got my beard stock, it's a bug, haha.
Gorgeous pixel art and very polished presentation over all. Gameplay is well done, and it has great beard physics. I don't think I've ever praised a game on its beard physics before, that's a new one.
Love it! I wish it went longer :)
Love the beard mechanics. So short though :( lol
Wow, it's another level! The idea and execution are really great! Everything is perfect, it's almost as if I've played a finished game. Too bad there's no sound and the game is short but I can definitely see a lot of potential in this one. Well done!
Awesome mechanic ! Could be for sure a real finished game
I'm a little skeptic that this was done from scratch during the 2 or 3 days for LD. Great game idea nonetheless.
Just amazing. Incredible amount of polish. Good job! Also I love how you implemented mechanics and set up the puzzles to support them.
Cool game!
This is an amazing game! Only thing would be to make it a tad longer, as it is very short, other than that, Amazing!
Your art and music always amaze me! I wish the game were longer, and I think you could probably come up with a few more mechanics to help with that. Still, really remarkable stuff - I am always bummed when you don't submit to the compo so I can peep dat source :P
Very good though sometimes the player does not stop moving for a second when the keys are released.
There was a part the my beard got stuck and I couldn't progress. :\
Other than that, incredible in every aspect!
Great job!
Very well made with nice mechanics.
Beardeful.
it's short but quite fun! nice idea with the growing beard.
the last switch is pretty tricky..
Haha, that was fun! :-)
Really neat idea which has been well executed. Nice simple but challenging game. Love the pixel art.
The music helped build up a nice atmosphere.
The look and feel was quite similar to your previous entry "Fathom".
Over all great work though well done buddy!
What a neat idea for a game mechanic. Great art style and the music set the mood nicely. The game play was fun and felt polished. I want more levels and maybe some hazards and enemies to deal with. Nice job!
Amazing game, nothing else to say.
Really, the graphics, the mecanics are awesome, even the music is cool. Too sad the level is this short but it's part of the LD ...
Good job ;)
Lot of potential here! As always, awesome pixel art!
Very nice game, love the graphics, nice music also!
Too bad it's so short, would have loved more!
Amazing,I wanted to know how to create a pixel art as fluid, and especially not unduly distort (as you usually do in their games, like the effect of the beard).
5 stars easy :)
nice game, i really like it
Sooo pretty! Plays amazingly well and I love the concept.
Very refined entry, as always ! Thank you for that smile you put on my face ! :D
But I probably miss something somewhere, because I'm stucked where the beard reached 2/3 on level 8, unable to touch the button, whatever I try to throw the beard under the half-opened door...
Truly awesome game. I wish I had your graphic skills! To bad you didn't finish in time. Like so many other I would love to see additional levels!
Great game, really loved it. Nice art
This is fantastic Joe, you never cease to amaze. Best I've played this LD so far. Wish the game were longer and easier to control the Beard.
Really funny idea! Again, you nailed it. Even if it's just one level. Graphics, gameplay, music, everything is just great! I would play definitely more levels!
Noooo. It was so short... >__<
I'm pretty happy that you were able to finish something. Your games are always great, and I wanted to play it from the moment I saw the first pictures, on twitter! XD
The song was really fitting and the graphics were gorgeous! Even if with some rough spots... like the trees. XD It made for a nice contrast in the background!
The idea in this one is really solid! I could easily see this made into a full game, with mechanics like having to use your beard to swing to get to newer areas and stuff.
Great job!
That music! Super mega awesome. Tried to give you 6 stars for that, but it didn't work :)
As always, Brilliant art. The beard growing is a neat mechanic if not a little frustrating like some physics is :P Great job!
This was a really cool mechanic, and the game is beautiful. Great job!
This is excellent, even though it was short. He sure has a heavy beard! If you continue making this, sound effects would enhance this already great experience.
Superb art and platform-controls, love the growing beard gameplay! Definitively missing sounds, but well... still a great game!
Really good idea could even be a whole game just by expanding the number of levels.
First of all I can´t stop looking at this atonishing graphics and the controls are also awesome cause they respond really well.
Maybe the physics could be some better but they are good enough to not result unfair
Top marks! Loved it!
Interesting concept, fantastic graphics and music, I love it!
Man, great work as always, even though the game just wasn't very good, that you took on the eccentric challenge was commendable :)
The core mechanics are a bit shaky, using the bouncy beard as an extension of yourself, while sounding novel, is a bit frustrating in practice for anything other than really simplistic actions. I think maybe if you got more mechanics and variations in, like sticky beard or something, it might be interesting.
Who knows! But the platforming is solid as always. And gorgeous. So gorgeous :)
Nice game, good production values and a good idea, I would have liked to see it explored a bit more.
What can I say.
There's growing beard in your game.
And it's awesome!
Really cool graphics!!!
This is a great entry, love to see your experiments with mechanics and solid pixel art again. 5/5 =)
Really pretty! Amazing art and music!
Some sound effects and fighting I think could make it more fun, but the base game feels very solid, and the beard puzzles were clever :)
such a GREAT IDEA and it works very well!
Great job!
Awesome!
The only problem is that actually you can't grow your beard by paying to it =P
Cool idea and in general interesting concept. I enjoyed playing through the game. Graphics and music worked flawlessly together. My one concern would be that the beard and character controls weren't very easy to get right. I'm not sure what exactly felt lacking there, but I couldn't really get the feel. Then of course it would have been great if the game had been longer. But given that it must have been rather tricky to implement that beard mechanics, it is very understandable. Hope you find time to continue work on it.
Incredible as usual! :D Obviously the game was short with the frantically-put-together level, but it's really obvious how much skill and hard work you put into things like this. I really hope you make a post-compo version of this. <3
Very very cool :D I wasn't fond of the last button, I tried for a few minutes, then realized I don't just have to run back and forth, I have to press both arrows at the same time while running back and forth. But lovely job
nice, level graphics, art, jump animations. dat beard though!
It ended right as I was really getting engaged in the mechanic. I would be very interested inf seeing what you can do with this idea if you had the time to expand the game.
Only part that made me sad (and it's a minor point) was not having any sound when I collected the coins.
Great Idea, very creative. Enjoyed watching you make this on stream.
Good music, great art, great concept, everything fits together really well. Some sound effects would be nice, and a few of the buttons were difficult to press.
A pity that some features cost you too much time to put more content into this game. Hopefully there's a post-comp version coming?
Amazing game! Yes, it's short, but I played it twice. Really liked the art style (the pirate reminded me of Eric from The Lost Vikings) and then music kicked in and I was taken aback. Fantastic work!
Very good game! One of the best of this ludum dare. Very creative gameplay. But the game was too short.
That entry was awsome! Rather than small, very cool!
Nice game with good graphics an music. A few sound effects would have been great though. The idea with the growing beard as a tools is very innovative to me and is fun to use. I played in chrome and couldn't notice any problems.
Best beard physics so far in this Ludum Dare! Too bad you couldn't make more content for the game.
I want moar! :)
superb game, very creative concept, stunning visuals, awesome audio, 5 stars ;)
Really love the music. Would be curious to know what tools you used. Graphics were excellent. First time through I couldn't get the beard to do what I knew it had to do to get by the last 2 puzzles and I nearly rage quit, but I gave it a second chance and it worked. Pretty fun little game.
If there is a 6 star for graphics I would give it that! There is so much I could learn from how you did your art. Very simple design but pops right out of the screen.
And the beard gymnastics is incredibly creative! Awesome work!
Wish the level was longer but overall very clever idea and fun to play, and of course the art style is amazing, as is all of your art.
Visuals are amazing, and the music was cool and unobtrusive...
I had some problems with the last button, possibly due to the framerate being a little low for me...
not easy to play but great idea !
I love what was here! Would love to see more done with this, I'm a fan of using physics to solve otherwise simple problems.
Awesome game! Sadly it bugged out as my beard got stuck to the ground! Amazingly well made music and art! Good work!
Beautiful art. Silly idea (in a nice way) and nice implementation for the beard.
The lack of sound effects is a bummer, and the interactions feel a bit light (button seems to press itself behind the character instead of by his standing on it, the coin picking effects isn't great either,...) but when the main complain on a game is "it's too short" you know you didn't do that bad ;)
Good job!
The moment when I found out that you need use your beard to do things, it was WOW.
Excellent art and really fluid responsive controls! The music is nice and the quick level was a lot of fun. Wish it was a bit longer!
Fantastic job!
despite it being very short it was pretty awesome - the idea with the beard was wonderful - i suspect you spent a lot of time perfecting that part - great job
It's a shame you didn't get to finish. Great interpretation of the theme though, and a beautiful looking game
AMAZING !
Love it, I don't know what to say !
Cool music , beatiful graphics, interresting gameplay... Please make a full game out of it :)
I had some difficulty to activate the button on the roof, and my beard got stuck under a door and i could'nt open it. Except from that this game is perfect.
good job!
Incredible graphics and fun concept. Well done!
Very nice concept ! Too bad for us that you didn't have time to develop it more :O
The game mechanic and artwork stand out a lot in this game. The beard growth is a clever riff on the theme. Particularly great is that I am able to "accidentally" discover that waving the beard around triggers buttons -- but that doesn't mean I don't have to put in a small amount of effort to make it happen. Great gameplay experience. While I would love for there to be more levels and game content (and I hope it will come!), it's a solid and promising start.
Very excellent, let me know if you make a full game from this!
In a perfect world beard length would be proportionate to wealth...but alas we have no such luck.
I was playing this game, and just before I reached the end, I thought to myself: "I need to shave." A few seconds later, that was shown in the game. This game resonates. This is one of the more original entries. Very well done.
I always love seeing your Ludum Dare entries! The mechanic in this game is really cool! I love swinging the beard around to hit switches and such. The music and art is fabulous and I am just totally impressed. Awesome work!!! Thanks for being an inspiration. :)
such a great idea, and fantastic art. 11/10
I'm growing my beard too. But it's not blue. It doesn't have super power then, does it?
Haha fun concept! Shame you didn't have time for a longer level. Looks absolutely gorgeous, as usual. Nice work!
Too bad you didn't have enough time to fully finish this but based on what you've managed to throw together during those last two hours, this is a pretty well polished entry. Absolutely loved the art and sound and the beard growing mechanic was really cool.
Great use of the growing theme! I love your beautiful palette and how the gameplay matches the look of the game. However, some things were lacking as far as game feel. The music was lovely, but I felt that some foley and sound effects would have solidified the experience. Opening chests and collecting coins felt very shallow and meaningless as there was no audio feedback from these events. That being said, that's a minor complaint on an excellent entry. Great work as always, Joe!
The impression was great. Nice graphics and music (which reminded me of Abundant Music). I don't mind that the game is so short.
The beard seems glitchy indeed. It didn't get stuck for me (I made it stuck after), but physics are weird and unobvious. Works well, but not perfect.
I'm amazed that you got such a unique and tricksy mechanic working so well in such a short space of time, and with polished graphics to go with it. Fair play.
Awesome game Joe! It's not finished but you were damn close! The only thing I really missed were some SFX.
AMAIZING!!!
Metroidvania with only one "skill". :D Game looks and plays amazing. Level of polish here is impressive.
Very lovely game - love the art style and the sea shanty soundtrack. Game is very short and abrupt though, I liked the concept but I don't really feel it was developed enough. I think this would be great if you had the time to work a little bit more on it, keep it up in future!
OMG. Fantastic music and art! And the level is actually really fun. It took a while until I understood what to do with the beard, but then it was hilarious.
Haha, great work! Loved the idea, and it was enjoyable while it lasted
Beautiful graphics, great concept! I included it in my Ludum Dare 34 compilation video series, if you’d like to check it out :) https://youtu.be/qJFJJ6gq7Ak