Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD35 → Photagogue
By chuigum
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Humor | 176 | 3.05 | ||
| Audio | 210 | 3.28 | ||
| Graphics | 279 | 3.46 | ||
| Mood | 481 | 2.92 | ||
| Fun | 569 | 2.99 | ||
| Overall | 661 | 2.99 | ||
| Innovation | 864 | 2.30 | ||
| Theme | 924 | 1.92 | ||
| Coolness | 1248 | 47 |
I've waited a long while and this just won't load for me. I get a blank screen forever. :( I hope it's just on my end and not something wrong.
I was rather looking forward to trying out the dino punching game after seeing the gif in your blog post, so I'll write this down so I can remember to check later if it's working.
Yep, I too saw the dino punching blog post and wanted to play. However, I'm just getting a blank screen or a link to google.
I'll try again later.
I couldn't play it but looks great
I also got a blank screen, but the screenshots look promising.
I can't see it either, but I'd love to give it a go.
it works for me.
nice funny little game!
It's loading now, but it won't take any input past the title screen. The Any key thing works to start the game, but then nothing. Tried clicking on it to force it to take focus, but it's just not working. The only thing I can manage to make it do is shift the game around in the window. WASD does nothing, IJKR does nothing, Arrow keys shift the game around in the window but the character just stands there in his idle animation. Space does nothing, Enter does nothing. L/R Shifts do nothing. Controller controls do nothing :( This applies both to the embedded window here, and the Web link.
Still planning to come back and take a look at it later, as it seems others have now been able to get it to play.
I got everything to work fine. I'm using Firefox on Windows 10.
I really like this game! The controls are clean (wall jumping is really tough though...). The music was nice, did you make it yourself? And the art was cute!
There's nothing better than punching dino's, and flip jumping!
Execution was great, good job :)
All works fine, the game is pretty sweety and funny
I like this fights with dinos :P
I like the soundtrack and general aesthetic c:
Fantastic game!!!! The graphics rocked and punching dinosaurs is kind of a big deal! I loved that you had a story to go with your game. It is evident that you put a lot of time and thought into your game! Nice job
Visuals and audio are fantastic.
Funny game, I liked the idea of punching dinosaurs. The jump controls are tough in the parts with spikes and walls.
Love the graphics, love fighting dinos, didn't love the jumpy bits with the spikes, made the game way too hard.
I was able to kill one dinosaur, but I can't really do anything after that. I'm blocked at both ends, I can't climb the tree... how do I proceed?
Interesting game, but my game got bugged out at the first dinosaur. It just disappeared and I couldn't progress. I had to restart the game, which fixed it, but I thought you should know.
The platforming controls felt reliable and solid and the graphics are clean and easy to ready. Already off to a good start in my eyes. It doesn't feel like it was made in such a short space of time which is great.
There's something quite satisfying about watching that final punch send a dino flying.
Loved the style, did not love the control layout. Dinos had a habit of walking of the ledges making for a lot of playground for the fights.
tried jumping off the walls and fell through the world.. :p
Punching dinosaurs? Sign me up!
Great soundtrack!
The controls are really nice. I see a lot of platformers with really bad controls here on LD. But you've nailed it!
Overall, fun!
Cool game! I love beat em ups, you got the controls to feel satisfying.
Auto Saves before and after certain parts would probably work - by the 4th time I die on the dinos after the spikes I'm pretty much "kool that was fun" and quit.
DEFINITELY go to itchi.io and find the embed link for the game to use instead, it will look a lot better on the Ludum Are site.
The dino in the third wave kinda got stuck in the air and I died trying to jump up and punch him :/
Music is really great!
Had difficulty getting up the wall jump section without losing a lot of health. Found it a little odd that all the story was posted in the description rather than in the game itself.
Everything seems to work though, good job. :)
Had a really fun time running around punching dinos. Those spikes though!
This is a really hard game, but the graphics, controls, and mood are very good. I'm sure there's something involving shapeshifting in there but unfortunately we are on a time crunch. Rock on.
I really enjoyed the game, the first wall jumping section is a bit frustrating but it's really fun!
I will tell you what....this game is HARD. I am not good at the traditional control scheme for PC platformers so it was that much more difficult for me. I did notice that sometimes the dinos would one shot me from full health. Other than that I really enjoyed the game. Great job!
Fun game, cute graphics and nice audio, but it's super hard to lead the character across those spikes :/
Also I couldn't see any shapeshifting elements
I got everything to work fine. I'm using Firefox on Windows 10. The aesthetic is polished. Controls smooth, but too rigid. A solid entry. Well done ++
The soundtrack and graphics are really good. And the movement of the character felt fluid. I also liked the level design for the most part, but in some cases I couldn't avoid taking damage from the dinos when they were covering the only path up to the platform.
Too hard for me, but still a good entry, well done !
This is one of the most polished games I've seen so far. Really nice graphics, and I love that you created your own music. While it seems unfitting for the gameplay, I found it quite enjoyable. Good job.
It's a nice little game. I enjoyed it.
Punching dinos in the face. What could possibly go wrong? :D Funny little entry, nice work :)
The bgm is awesome!
It needs a little polish in the jumping, mainly
But punching the dinos out of the screen feels really awesome
nice graphics. the music loop was a little repetitive, and I'm not seeing a use of the theme. seems to just be a dino punching game.
You can punch fucking dinosaurs! I LOVE THIS.
Besides that, it's a good platform game, with a great music. Funny and enjoyable.
I really liked the wall-sliding mechanic in this game, thought it was really cool when I got to punch dinosaurs. But, I couldn't figure out how there was a theme.
There aren't many ways to be cooler than punching a raptor in the face after doing a backflip while wearing shades and a well-fitting suit. The platforming was solid enough, though maybe just a tad more inertia would have made it feel even better. Love the music too.
All that being said, more frequent checkpoints or at least some way to recover health would be appreciated.
What really sets this game apart from all the other dino punching games is the included ability to headbutt.
Looks good, although I had no idea when the dinos would hurt me. It was hard to fight them because I would always take damage at each one because there was no way I could tell to avoid getting hurt. Maybe I'm just missing something...
Good game. I feel like the spike hitboxes are a bit too large. Also needs more animations on the dinos. Good so far though.
Controls are easy to use and the game works just fine. The graphics are outstanding.
The backstory, however, is WAAAAAY too long and confusing. The game is simplistic (with no way to heal health), and there's a game-breaking bug where I get stuck in the floor after a jump.
Overall, decent work.
Great graphics, wall jumping with spikes is a bit hard. In-game story telling would have been nice, but good job!
Good game! I couldn't beat it, add some healing?
The music and the art is awesome! Punching dinos is so much fun. I couldn't get too far because it's kinda hard, but you did a awesome job! Congratz!
I always dream of that since i saw the first jurassic park movie haha! awesome pixel art! I also saw the progression of the character and the game in a twitch stream. At that stream i try to play it but i couldnt, maybe cuz i was using safari on a mac. But on firefox worked just perfect! Great game!
Loved the rolling jump and platform controls were good. Absurdist time-travelling, dino-fighting theme was cool, even though I don't think it really fits the shapeshifting theme that well.
I had some collision bugs that led me inside the platform, and made me restart the game.
Congratulations! Your entry was good :) want to see more of it.
A bit too hard for me, I didn't manage to finish it.
Any way to heal yourself. :'(
Nothing like head butting a dinosaur! :-)
I haven't beat it yet, but it's fun! I like that you've got more than a single attack animation. That keeps things fluid in a game with lots of punching. All I'd really recommend is making the dinos' attack telegraph a little bit more obvious. I had trouble telling when to jump in for a hit or move away a couple of times. Punching dinosaurs though; always a good time.
Punching dinosaurs is all I needed.
Played briefly on stream @ 2:30:10 : http://www.hitbox.tv/video/991443
Really liked the graphics and the transformation mechanic was well implemented.
Nice one. Simple controls, but effective. Would like to see more :)
Cool entry! cool animations and mechanics and I must say the face of the dinosaur while taking damage is just the best thing on earth!
Congratulations with the care fixing the little bugs man!
I enjoyed that a lot for some reason
Nice game cute anmations and really nice background music
Good game man, love the background music. =]
Nice graphics, but I didn't know how to stop the falling in the start. Sometimes the character turned into invisible man :(
Update: Now I know, that the falling is a bug :) . Nice game :)
Wonderful music and some of the most fluid and fun movement in any game in this jam.
Took a while - partially due to difficulty fighting the dinos, partially due to collision bugs (fell into the floor many times), but I did make it to the end. Could do with making it more obvious when the enemies are attacking, as well as when you get hit, as it took me a while to notice when I took damage since the blood particles were the same for the enemies as they were for me. Was also a hard to know how many hits I could take, though I could guess.
Music and graphics were very nice though - the background in particular added a lot to the game's aesthetic, and the character animations also worked well - the mid-air animation was fun to watch.
Definitely a fun game though - would stream again!
INTERESTING GRAPHICSSSSSSSSSSSAZXZADZ! :)
nice game... .funny too xD the controls could use a better layout... other than that, great game, nice job!
This game is very confusing, the gameplay does not match or have any sense.
I am getting a megaman and river city ransom feel from this game. I didn't really see the theme. Good humor.
die dinosawrus
Art is nice, punching dinos is fun. Not sure what it has to do with theme. I didn't beat it, but I think gameplay could read stronger with some more feedback.
I thought I would be ok punching dinos in the butt, but sometimes I would still get hurt so I would either make it more clear the dino can still hit you, or have it so you only get hurt when near the head/claws.
Climbing walls felt a bit awkward to me, usually I expect the player to already jump in the opposite direction when wall jumping.
Restricting player movement if they didn't kill a dino is ok, but doesn't make much sense world-wise, wouldn't the player be able to still move past that area? Maybe if there was a barrier or something that appeared to let you know you couldn't proceed.
Overall good job!
Nice graphics, but I think the control is really weird, especially the jump.
Fun game! I love the look on the dino faces when you punch them. Good work on the music, too! :)
Very funny game
I dont get it how you can jump the walls. I lose half life every time at the first wall. Maybe im to bad! :D
+1 for dino-bashing :D
Very solid entry. Everything runs super smoothly. Aesthetics were good, your pixel art is pretty eyecandy and Audio totally fits the litlle experience. I had great fun playing it, it is challenging in a good way and the mechanics feels polished. I enjoyed a lot the funny details you put like the character rotation on jump, the dino that are ejected when you beat them and the Insert Time Machine was just hilarious.
This'll be harsh, but honest. The only thing I liked about it was the few dinosaur sprites/frames it has. Those look good.
The music got annoying very quickly and didn't fit the scene/action.
Sound effects were minimal, tired out very quickly as well and didn't telegraph any extra information. So fortunately I could mute the game after hearing everything once.
Controls were extremely clunky. Both holding attack and jump only worked if I didn't hit anything else in between and seemed more of an accident than deliberate design feature (?). The wall jump chimney was particularly frustrating as naturally you'd try to jump over the lowest spike wall and start to wall jump from there. Since you barely cannot jump high enough you have to jump onto the left wall first and then carefully slide the not spiked sections up and down between wall jumps. At some point I just started to jump tap up the left wall. Invincibility frames make the penalty for going past spikes quickly so low that there is little reason to put up with this. Also wall jumps generally feel a lot better if you take away x control from the player for a bit and auto push away from the wall (better for a dedicated button instead of up direction though). Naturally that wouldn't allow for yo-yo wall slide sections, but those are awkward anyway.
As you can see at the end of my recorded run (https://youtu.be/NRTTJFzBJfk) spikes also don't do anything to prevent me from jumping into walls ...
The worst offender on the whole game however were the dinosaur attacks. I still don't know how or when they are active. Sometimes I even seem to get them stuck inside an attack action and thus take as many hits as I dish out. You've put some effort into giving them walking and getting hit frames, but absolutely nothing telegraphs when they are attacking (apart from the fact that they sometimes animate faster and rush towards you - but that never correlated with actually getting attacked). And this is way more important than the other animations. Walking animation could've been scrapped for the purposes of this game and getting hit could've been indicated by blinking much like the player.
A colour (brightness/hue/...) change to indicate when dinosaurs damage you would've already done the job. Better would've been at least a single distinct frame that has a different shape to all the other frames (walking/getting hit and so on are just variations of the same shape). Anything that can be recognized very quickly.
Also that story ... tl;dr
Is the shapeshift theme hidden in there?
Goofy little game. I like the art for the dinosaurs. Music was a little repetitive. The combat was a little frustrating, but punching dinosaurs made me laugh.
Nice little game, I like the graphics :)
The game was pretty to look at, but too difficult to play at the firts level. The wall of text is tl/dr. I couldn't get far enough in th game to find any shape shifting. It may be there i just didn't se it.
i like the dinosaur !
Oh! A dinosaur game! :D
Pretty sweet music! The controls felt a little untight and the fighting mechanic lacked feedback.
I didn't really see how it connected to the theme either.
The platforming mechanics felt pretty good, but could probably use some polish.
Cool sunglasses! :]
A fun little beat em up / jump 'n' run. Graphics are really well done, and the music is quite catchy. Nice.
The controls are a weak point though. Wall jumping feels a little sluggish and the punches lack a bit of oomph. Maybe with better/more sound effects this could be remedied.
Anyway, I played a dino punching game, that was worth the time spent.
Plays well but it doesn't really fit the theme.
Fun, but the lack of health regen made it too hard, as I didn't find any check points. My only other complaint is the story, which was not over the top enough. For a game about punching dinosaurs flipping across the screen, the story didn't seem the right levels of ridiculous. Maybe if Cycle was actually a dinosaur trying to save his kind from extinction, or maybe add robots. Needed to be more crazy. Great Job.
Nicely done art and the character has a fun outfit. I liked the flips too. Pretty hard. After a few deaths I cheated a little with dev console to get to the end. I tool off dino damage and still almost died from spikes :D.
I didn't feel like I could consistently plan how to not take damage from the dinos. Because it lunges forward sometimes the punch would land me in the spikes accidentally, whoops.
The audio worked fine for me and the loop was even a little catchy. The jump sfx may be the weakest part but didn't hurt the ears so it was ok.
Nice. Maybe less spikes and tuning spike placement would make the game a little less difficult.
Dinosaur punching. I'm not sure what else to say.
The dino graphics are great! And so is the blood splatter :)
The soundtrack is awesome and great visual.
I like the jumping animation quite a lot, it made hopping around pretty fun. The graphics overall are pretty nice in general, I particularly like the dinosaurs and the background. I also dig the camera stopping before you finish beating up the dinosaur, but I do think you could've taken it a bit further to really emphasize the "OH DANG TIME TO MESS UP THIS DINOSAUR" aspect. In my first playthrough I didn't even notice the effect and thought I'd just reached the end of the level.
It's been mentioned in a couple of other comments but I also thought the spike placement was a bit "off" sometimes. With the floaty and controls I couldn't really time my jumps right so I didn't have much incentive to avoid the spikes so much as to just roll with getting damage. I think overall the controls could stand to be tightened up, and if the floaty movement is important then maybe the level design and dinosaur behavior could be tweaked to focus less on jumping puzzles and more on close combat.
Silly and pretty funny.
Nice little Game:)
Didn't rate it. Tried to play on the web and the commands lagged about three seconds until I closed the game. In fact, every command on the windows is lagging because I didn't close it yet. It seems very cool, though.
I don't feel this really fits into the jam theme, but, well, punching dinosaurs is always a valid alternative. Combat is pretty hard, but rewarding. I thought the platformer elements were sort of unnecessary.
The jump animation and the polish on the graphics, what a fantastic game. Might want to shorten the story in the description so people are more likely to read it.
Nice graphics. I miss the shapeshift theme.
It looks like MIB vs Dinos :)
Well I suck at platformers, but its a nice game and i had fun punching dinos in their face...
Nice music and graphic. I miss some animation of dinosaur's attack. I couldn't recognize when he hits me.
Props for making this in MS Paint :)
hit box and jump control are strange.
this game has nice music and graphics. Keep up the good work :)
One day I'll beat it...one day...
Good work!