rantt 2015-12-14 17:50
Nice, pixel art. Congrats on your fist ludum dare. Fun game, nicely done!
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD34 → Spinny Whale
By burntcustard
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Humor | 69 | 3.67 | ||
| Graphics | 315 | 3.41 | ||
| Innovation | 512 | 3.12 | ||
| Overall | 528 | 3.18 | ||
| Fun | 639 | 2.94 | ||
| Theme | 677 | 3.47 | ||
| Coolness | 2210 | 20 |
Nice, pixel art. Congrats on your fist ludum dare. Fun game, nicely done!
It took me awhile to realize I was moving left and right from the air-drag. There should be a better background that lets you know you're moving horizontally.
Best use of Douglas Adams reference :) Enjoyed this!
Love the improbable concept. Movement system is really fun, but also bit difficult to get a handle on (pianoman373's comment about air drag helped understand what was happening).
@pianoman373 Yeah you're right it's not obvious enough. To deal with that there were plans to add many clouds, and stars, and some little "whoosh-lines" pointing behind your direction of travel so it's more obvious which way you're going. Ran into trouble trying to figure out a good way to do a parallax effect, but hopefully I can add all those things one day!
Very fun, weird game and unique controls.
Congrats on your first game. We both had a somewhat similar idea — and we both used Phaser.io — except yours was a whale going down, and mine was a seed going up. :)
I couldn't get the hang of how the petunias were affected by my button pushing...
I found it highly improbable that I would collect anything...
The art looked cool, though...
It took me a while to realize, that i could controll where the wale was moving instead of just controll the rotation. A background with more going on would help...
The air resistance was a nice touch. Man I love flying my whale in the sky.
lol, loved the physics and graphics, good use of theme. great work!
cannot believe no one has picked up on the hitchikers reference yet - nice one!
Cute art and the gameplay definitely has potential - the one thing that'd really help would be some more background content (clouds maybe?) so you could tell which way you're actually moving. Still, nice work; great first entry!