blancohugo 2015-12-14 23:03
Very nice graphics and audio!
But it took me a while to understand the mechanics, it was not clear.
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD34 → The Climbers
By nirabazgames
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coolness | 1 | 100 | ||
| Theme | 100 | 4.19 | ||
| Fun | 106 | 3.75 | ||
| Innovation | 124 | 3.74 | ||
| Overall | 143 | 3.77 | ||
| Humor | 166 | 3.41 | ||
| Mood | 231 | 3.59 | ||
| Graphics | 286 | 3.86 | ||
| Audio | 290 | 3.42 |
Very nice graphics and audio!
But it took me a while to understand the mechanics, it was not clear.
found the mechanic very simple to understand and the game is very good.
Very nice job !
I really liked these fellows talk among themselves, and this charming graphics with great sound complemented atmosphere. Very cool when unknown objects appear everywhere and you must dodge them.
+ game for one and for two people
Really like the mechanic! Simple but so fun :)
Very interesting mechanic, well done !
Congratz! The Mechanic is very simple and the physics is fantastic!
Great graphics! A tad difficult to control the direction of the jump, but I was very pleased with the control in general.
is it Waley there?! o_O What a crazy one!
Great game. The graphics and audio are very well made and it was very intuitive to play. I found some of the events that kill you almost impossible to dodge but some were fair and added to the gameplay. Overall excellent entry!
Really a gem, something new i loved it, Super fun to play and art style looks great
Hmm...I like the idea but developers must work and polish more
Very nice little game. Good graphics and sweet audio.
It's very nicely put together and coherent. I think the gameplay in itself misses some comfort. I should try with a friend, but playing alone I had a hard time understanding what was the exact rules. Good job!
Really cool but it froze (ha!) a few times. Great use of two buttons.
Unusual and interesting mechanic. Good luck to developers!
Awesome mechanics! If the controls were refined a bit it would be an awesome mobile game!
Perfect^)
nice game!
Very interesting and lovely game. Unusual mechanic and it good.
Like it! Sweet game ^_^
Very neat ! maybe something for mobile?
You have a really good understanding about colors and mechanic! I really enjoyed your work! Keep the projects coming!
It takes some time to understand how to play, but well done overall.
As soon as I figured out the mechanic I was hooked, no pun intended. Really fun and clever, and great minimal style too!
Nice idea for two buttons (it actually reminds me of a section in the game Brothers, tales of two sons) it plays very well when you realize you have to hold each button every time, not just click.
One of my favorite jam entry, simple concept but very efficient. The game is very clean, no bug but some graphics assets are a bit blurred. It takes me several tries to get the gameplay but after that the game is very pleasant. Go publish your game on mobile store.
cool game, very fun and engaging, this is great to play with friends, well done :)
This was great. It was little confusing at first but I got the "hang" of it quickly...heh. My best score was 73. A plane hit me. Excellent job on this entry!
Love the graphics and the fact that it is simple enough to enjoy start enjoying it pretty quickly! Cool little game :D
There are ALWAYS falling whales every time I climb the mountains. -.-
Really nice game! I enjoyed playing it. Congrats to the team!
Thank you all for supporting comments we read all the comments and saw that you have a few suggestions and questions which we will try to answer:
@ Polith Games
We realized that many people do not understand from the first tutorial how to play, so the next update will allocate for that more time and do it step by step and easy to understand
@ teamross
physics of characters no ready to end in the future the future we revised it to a visually better
@ Leuthil
game system is not fully completed yet, some mechanics need to improve, maybe in the future we will introduce three lives for the game
@ Plauk
we will optimize the game in the furture development and hope that it will not lags
P.S.
And we will also soon mobile version of the game where the characters try to add a new, more kinds of obstacles and perhaps the game to four people
Love this game! i wish there was a windows version because the web version freezes, iiiittts cc-ccold, jk. the window does freeze and it really stinks.
@DracoLizardStudios
Try to play Web2 version ,we think the problem is on server of Web1
I feel I can conquer the Everest after playing this game, nice work guys!
Great game ^^ Great approach on the theme! Simple, objective, easy to use but has a challenge.
I just have had a small freeze moment.
Interesting concept. The controls were very nice once I got the hang of it.
It's so great having your feedback, guys! Thank you for playing our game!
Well done. Nice design. If you've never played GIRP check it out! http://www.foddy.net/GIRP.html
Brilliant little game, love the gameplay mechanics - it's also a lot of fun to play with a friend! Keep up the good work!
Awesome implementation of the theme
It took me a bit to work out how to control the guys properly, a bit more control information in the blurb would have been helpful I think.
Nice hard to find how to play, but fun after that
Neat! Talking characters and really unexpected stuff falling down =) I'm pretty sure the only thing you need to make controls totally clear is just putting a "press and HOLD" line where controls are shown. Took me a while.
Got a score of 35. Challenging game wish I had a friend to play with right now XD
Very cool game, great job guys!
Great fun! Wish it would get harder after a while. Clever use of theme, sounds and looks good. Well done!
I cracked when I saw the whale! Apple store would be a better place with this glowing game
Really thank you for all guys, your coments are very important for us!
@logon13 : oh, 35! not bad! Did you see the grampus? :))) Have a fun, guys! :)
@publicidadeba: thank you, it's good idea to do ios version! we have long laughed when making the whale :))
awesome game, pretty fun, execent use of theme, but i miss a background music.
Fun little game, nicely polished :)
I really liked the game mechanics, fun game, nice art and audio. Awesome game! :D
I got a 91, pretty good! It was a fun game :) I liked the graphics, although it was a little bit repetitive. good job! =D
that was pretty fun!
I didn't get the controls at first, but once I realized I was supposed to 'hold' the key to 'hold' onto the mountain, they started to feel really intuitive and easy to use.
I didn't like how the climbers would let go at random sometimes, kinda made it feel like the game wasn't registering my key-presses which was slightly annoying.
I loved the graphics, and overall 'feel' of the game, it really felt like a snowy landscape.
Good job for 48 hours! :)
*72 hours, haha my bad :)
Died two times until I got the mechanics.. It is not good the guys always swinging to the same side and having to wait to swing to the other side.. takes too long to climb.
It's a stylish, well-polished game! I wish I had a friend to play with - I'm sure it would be hilarious. Good job!
Very fun game. I really enjoyed playing it. The falling obstacles were a nice touch.
great game
The concept is quite cool!
Core gameplay and climbers chatting – very nice!
Smooth graphics and holy flying whale! :D
I see what you did here!
Yet I think you should add more interesting events and micro mechanics for even more fun.
Well done overall!
very clean graphics style and also cool sound effects, very nice game
Technically a one-button game if you play with two ;)
Once you understand the mechanics its pretty cool!
Nice job!
Solid entry. I love the climb mechanic!
Nice look to this game, loved it very much.
great controls, cute graphics!
Nice graphics and good idea ! I played on android and had some difficulties to master the controls. I believe it's pretty fun with a second player on computer.
It takes a while to master the controls ;) After that it's a really nice game!
Instructions would have been nice, but after a few fails it became pretty apparent how to play. Funny game, good graphics, fit the theme well, and the controls were tight. Good job.
Windows version plz!!!
You are wicked cool guys! Thanks for your comments! It makes us to work better.
@Dining Philosopher: hm, that’s right, bro ))
@vedmich: Thanks, hahaha we use only legal methods))you're right, we wanna make more fun for this game in future :)
@DracoLizardStudios: Please use Firefox to open Web1 or
Web2
For the time i was able to play it was interesting. It kept freezing while i was playing though
Nice game! I really liked the mechanics and the artstyle! Congrats!
I have a soft spot for mountain climbing games :D It's definitely fun to play! I loved swinging around and toggling between the two climbers. I think it's too easy to game the system right now, though, just by swinging and toggling and the height of the arc. Maybe adding a bit more variety into the level would help break that up.
It's a nice concept.
The controls were a bit too spaced, would have liked 'A' and 'D' but what really didn't work was it crashed Chrome when I hit '28'.
Only other thing I would have to say is, the mountain needed a better texture, I couldn't tell what I was climbing for the first 20 seconds
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The game itself is a cool concept and I think if you make those changes you should continue to develop it!
Really great ! a good game jam game: simple but fun
Confusing at first, but very fun when you figure out. Actually, it makes sense to have to hold the button, I didn't just expected it. Nice idea, nice audio, cool illustration e good gameplay. Congratulations!
Nice game! Very fun idea, especially in a COOP with a friend! Could be a bit more to it and increased difficulty, it's a bit too forgiving for my taste if you let go etc.
This game was very fun (I played with with my 3 year old son after I tried it solo). The two button theme with two players is hard to pull off and I've seen alot of games suffer for trying to pull off something that can be two player or single player when they would have just been better off with the latter. This game does not suffer from that trap.
My only complaints: the host site kept crashing the game. Also, it would be nice if the appearance of the flying enemies (the ones the approach horizontally) was telegraphed as well as the falling enemies-- maybe some audio before they appear along with the same little caution sign you put for the falling enemies-- just put it on the side of the offscreen area they're approaching from?
A nice game !
Maybe the mechanics are a bit confusing, (i mean, at a time i realised that just spamming space and enter worked perfectly to climb slowly but surely xD) but the atmosphere were here, and i loved that !
Well played =)
took me a while to understand mechanics and as soon as i got it i started to climb to unbelievable height of 12 meters and got struck by airliner. good, fun game.
Once I got the timing down, it was a great little game
So funny thing =)
I had a blast, very fun game and excellent use of the theme! I loved it!
Fun little mechanic, nice art, but the game kept freezing my browser (chrome) whenever i got to 26/27 score :(
NOO XD i was hit by... an airplane LOL
That was fun! Like other people I had some trouble understanding what the right thing to do was - it seemed like since I couldn't control the swing direction I went back and forth and always risked falling. Then I found the easiest way to go up was by just using one of the climbers and letting the other one swing around :P
The game already looks great, with a little polishing on the gameplay I think you've got a winner here!
the controls were a bit ify but niciely done otherwise
A little wonky and buggy (it crashed on me once), but otherwise has a lot of potential!
very cool, this is the kind of game i like :) need a relaxing music and maybe another sound fx when you die (players are too cute to scream like that =p) well done !
The game is really well done I like the mechanics (Just a note though the player kept freezing for me not quite sure why though) , Overall really well done some background music would be nice but I think the ambient sounds also fit nice as well Great work!
Pretty nice entry. i wasn't expecting a whale.
This was aaaawesome!!!! Couldn't stop playing it :D nice! Great idea and it was truly fun to play with someone. Addictive!
A very solid entry, not much else I can say. :)
really charming graphics and the mechanic was good.
Thank you so much! We read all the comments.
@Weeping Rupee: thank for your comment, after we did little caution on the approach horizontally.
the gameplay is really fun, loved it!
Really fun gameplay :) Love it!
A fun game with pleasant graphics and sounds. I would love to try this with another person later.
Great little game, remind me off a fun mario party game.
Congrats for the cool entry!
It's ok but it gets boring pretty fast. I kinda wish the characters had something on them that designates which one as being space and enter. I kept getting confused on which one was which. A really great use of the theme though.
Awesome idea, behavior of characters can be a little unpredictable but other a solid entry. Great work guys!
Great game for playing with two people!
And we have a winner. Simple, fun, addicting, well executed.
Simple mechanic but highly entertaining ! Great entry !
Neat! Great game but it slowly gets repetitive.
was a blast to play and makes me wish I had someone to play with! Great theme tie in with two buttons. Humor and mood pleased me well.
Grammar Nazi: "relise buttons to fall." should be "release button to fall"
This is wonderful. The ambient audio is great.
I would like to see a bit more play in the rope physics, the swinging motions started to get a bit repetitive after a while.
I could just spam the space or enter key to make them climb, maybe that's intentional?
simple and great.
Nice job!
Thank you guys for all of your warm comments!
@hpearson2: Thanks, we corrected :)
I like the game quite a bit. The gameplay fits the two button theme very smoothly and as most LD games it is short and replayable.
Very simple and fun, I enjoyed this!
god damn it! why was there a plane flying so close to the mountain!
Cool and funny game - enjoyed it a lot.
And it's true - lot of fun with a friend.
Nice little climber although I found the guys randomly being blown around (seemingly random at least) which tended to just help me stay alive forever!
I love the little quotes from the dudes as you're swinging, nice touch :)
It's a really fun game, great job !
Wow! Nice game :D Controls feel good and it was fun to play. I only had a problem where Chrome would freeze every once in a while.
I LOVED the game mechanics. I thought the learning process was very well done. I had a lot of fun playing this game. I think I played it for over half an hour. It would have been nice to have had some sort of save point so that progressing wasn't quite as harsh. A very excellent game. I loved the audio. The wind was perfect and the screams as they fell a nice touch.
Best score after three tries: 163. This is a cute little game. I think that sometimes the physics and the collisions are a little ropey though. I'm fairly certain that I should have been hit by the obstacles many times before I actually was. Overall I found the game a little hard to grasp at first, just telling the player the two button may not be enough for those that haven't played QWOP or other keyboard twister games.
Very fun and enjoyable game to play. I liked the concept a lot, but I found it to be really laggy, though that may be my fault for playing on a poor computer.
Nice, i took a lot of pleasure ! Really nice work :)
I have no idea what these two guys were thinking, climbing up this huge-ass mountain. The game is fun and I love the ridiculousness in this game: Whales falling down, planes crashes right in to you and the best part is when they fall they have a photoshoot together as they are falling many meters above the surface. Amazing game :D
Great everything, though the fluidity of the swinging could be a bit smoother. Really enjoyed it, though! Reminds me of part of the game "Brothers: Tale of Two Sons". Didn't play with a second person, but that sounds like a good thing to do soon!
I love this idea! Easy to play and very fun!! There are some problems with physics engine i guess. When my characters get hit by snow or something, they are pushed up instead of going down. Besides, as long as I taps two key, there is little chance to fail. which make it a bit too easy. Nice work and wish to see more!
Hey! Liked this game a lot :)
Reminds me to one of the challenges on "Brothers: A tale of two sons".
Simple, yet polished and fun, well done!
Great! This is the kind of game that I'd love to play with my brother, constantly swearing at each other for messing up. Good job with this, it's always nice to find a fun game on here.
The controls and mechanics are a little hard to grasp, I'm not really sure what to do. More guidance from the beginning would probably help with that. I thought the graphics were nice, but the game would run slowly sometimes (on my pretty beefy computer).
Pretty hard if you play this on your own but I like the mechanics a lot. Also, the random stuff falling down was quite funny.
Well done ++
Good concept and very nice execution!! It feels a bit too easy though.
I didn't understand what space and enter really do ? Do you have to tap alternatively ? space is for left, enter for right ? do you have to hold down or just tap the buttons ?
One of the best games I played for now!
Love the look. Took a bit to figure out the controls but after figuring them out, I like it.
Pro:
+ Cool mechanics
+ Very nice audio and graphics
Con:
- Some hazards are really difficult to dodge (like the plane)
Obs:
o My best was 73
o I found a bit strange that when the partner swings to the other side the both fall, but I guess it's to avoid continuous swings
Great job!
I think this was the best incorporation of the two-button theme that I have seen. It was not a forced mechanic like most of the other game (i.e. able to do the game some other way - a better way - but forcing two-button controls). Your's flowed very nicely using two buttons. I definitely think that you should continue working on this post-comp.
Thank you guys for all your comments, it's really cool! I'll check out your entries soon! :)
Fun little game. Neat idea.
Nice game, really enjoyed it. I like the graphics and the sound helps the immersion in the game.
Good job!
[ETC from Creative Sectors]
It is a really great concept and sometimes I ran into rope-snatching situations sometimes it just takes time to climb back. I got 58 for the first try and 116 on the second run, while I falling a lot. A love the jokes that arrives with a warning sign.