tazdij 2015-12-14 20:22
was unable to figure out how to control the character.
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD34 → Stickman Sam in the High Fly Sky
By bazkur98
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coolness | 3 | 59 | ||
| Humor | 549 | 2.23 | ||
| Audio | 635 | 2.19 | ||
| Mood | 846 | 2.07 | ||
| Innovation | 852 | 2.40 | ||
| Graphics | 871 | 2.07 | ||
| Theme | 877 | 2.97 | ||
| Fun | 882 | 2.40 | ||
| Overall | 928 | 2.50 |
was unable to figure out how to control the character.
Definitely a nice job for your first jam/game! I found flying around in a circle made it quite easy, although the birds losing interest and flying off did mean you had to pay attention. Good job, and good look with jams in the future.
Fun game - quite simple but unique!
@tazdij: Sorry if controls were not clear. If you'd like to try again you can control the player by holding down the right mouse button and dragging the mouse on the screen. The player will move toward the mouse location. This uses his stamina, if you start to run out you'll need to fly into Heart bonuses or Booster bonuses. If in a pinch, release the right mouse button for a short period and you'll gain back stamina at twice the rate you lost it. Left click to use the Sonic Scream super power to kill all birds on screen.
@tayl1r & @PPiode, thanks! I enjoyed it but the 48 hours limit was definitely nerve racking. Next time think I'll stick to the normal Jam :)
I find it very hard (in the nice way). nice little game!
For the record my high score is 31,405. takes practice for sure
Cool game but the falling stars/hearts were far to quick for me to catch.
@Taffaz - Yeah I wondered about that after publishing. Not sure it would be within the rules for me to slow those down at this point.
Simple idea, but fun. I kept having to go back for another attempt. :-)
Could've used a small notification before the powerup appeared, felt like it was just up to pure chance whether or not you could grab them.
@Ace, totally agree and was going to go back and do that if I had time but I ran out. Right now it is basically up to pure chance, just randomly they spawn at a random location along the top of the screen. There is a timer that ensures one spawns at least every 20 seconds but I never had a chance to go back and do something differently. I was thinking about one occurring every X points and also have them fall at a much slower rate, possibly along some random wavy path to make it a little easier to get to them. Thanks for playing and for the feed back!
Quite fun. I had a lot of trouble fetching the pick ups while flying loops to avoid the birds.
The falling tumble reminded me a lot of my own game :) alternating that and flying was great.
Fun game. Managing stamina was rewarding. Slowing down the powerups and making health separate from stamina I think would add a lot.
would be nice to have any indication where the power ups are falling down. otherwise nice entry.
Nice game! The powerups are pretty hard to catch, but otherwise it's enjoyable, even with the not very easy controls.
Not bad for a first LD, game is working, gameplay is not so classic, and yeah, it's not very balanced (bonuses are falling too fast to be catched except by chance, and points are so easy to lose and so hard to win), but it's fun to play a little while, so, good job. :)
I really appreciate the feedback everyone. Please keep it coming, I plan to work on this game more for practice.
Pretty cool control scheme, I like the need to balance avoiding the birds and rebuilding your stamina. Fun game.
We got 1390 points, was a bit tricky on a macbook single click mousepad.
@samreid: Very good point. I hadn't considered Mac at all. I should recode it to look for the Fire buttons 1 & 2 so they can be remapped.
Simple and quite fun you got the dynamic between keeping flying and avoiding birds going well. Argh it was really hard to collect the powerups though :)
@Big Cow - Thanks, I've actually got the power-ups to fall much slower now and in a wavy pattern so I think that issue is taken care of. Not sure if I can have the other changes. Also, the star will make you invincible for 4 seconds. Not sure I can add these changes to the judgeable game but I'll update it after judging in case anyone wants to try it