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Boyd, P.I.

By ttftcuts

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness288
Audio553.97
Humor613.84
Theme1093.97
Graphics1544.07
Overall1563.70
Mood2323.54
Fun3603.34
Innovation5753.00

Comments

bitdare 2016-04-19 01:49

This game was amazing for being finished in 72 hours with great voice acting, which isn't often done for Jam games to this degree of greatness. The graphics were also spot on for 2D.

lanestp 2016-04-19 01:56

Great game! The voice acting really makes it! Reminds me of Iron Druid. The one and only annoyance is the jump sound effect talking over the narration. Other than that A+

gurkenlabs 2016-04-19 01:59

Nice graphics and hilarious voice acting! Good job!

ttftcuts 2016-04-19 02:05

@lanestp, ran out of time to implement individual sound effect volumes unfortunately.

paragonpawns 2016-04-19 03:48

I absolutely love the voice acting, well done!

f4kethis 2016-04-19 04:17

Really fun, love the voice acting and being a squirrel is surprisingly satisfying. Great job!

divineomega 2016-04-19 14:08

Great comical voice acting. Very funny stuff. Really nice graphics, and pretty good gameplay. Especially like the chameleon stealth element.

I struggled a little with the platforming stuff. I kept overshooting my jumps.

I really liked how you built the instructions into the game itself.

zerofaction 2016-04-19 14:35

The game is in the Android secrion, but I can't seem to get it to run. In browser it stays on the "getting things ready" screen forever. And I don't see an app I could use to install ut. Either it shouldn't be in the Android section or my device is incompatible. Samsung Galaxy Note 5. Will play at home on my comp later and provide you with some ratings then. Cheers!

obsessivenotion 2016-04-19 14:37

Nice game, controls a little bit hard especially jumping at the top of the castle

ttftcuts 2016-04-19 14:40

@ZeroFaction, it's a web game, and the only link I set was web - I didn't do anything to specifically mark it as Android compatible... I'll see if it's possible to prevent that.

zayron 2016-04-19 14:50

Loved the voice acting and the art looks nice. I did not like the controls that much. I fell off the platforms more times than I would like to count haha.

antglynn 2016-04-19 14:53

Great artwork, and the voice acting is entertaining. Platforming is quite difficult with the controls, but overall a strong entry. Well done!

arvydas 2016-04-19 15:38

nice game, the only thing is that i find hard to jump since you can't adjust your position while jumping, you can only stop the jump, is a little weird for a platformer, nice job overall :D

ployer 2016-04-19 16:14

the art is gorgeous, well played. the platforming at the begininng goes from simple to extreme really fast. should have ramped it up. other than that well done!

1qgl 2016-04-19 17:24

Great game! Very funny voice acting. The lack of air-control made platforming a bit weird but that's only a minor thing.

kestrelgames 2016-04-19 20:27

The voice acting and graphics on the main character are great. Platforming is frustrating though, the hang time on the jump is just too long and it's really hard to control.

le_sarus 2016-04-19 20:32

Voice acting made me want to keep playing, only real problem i had was the inertia while jumping was a little too powerful.

leftright92 2016-04-19 20:37

I'd love to keep playing this, but it crashes every time I try to restart. Good to hear some narrative in LD too.

skruffye 2016-04-19 20:51

Interesting. The main selling point was obviously the humour, so I found it a little odd that you stopped talking for a large chunk of the game! The animation was also notably well done.
The platforming was difficult, and not because it was challenging, more because the controls were overly floaty.
Anyway, it made me chuckle, so thank you! ^^ Good job overall. :)

larzan 2016-04-19 20:53

Gorgeous gfx, love it. My favourite thing is how the squirrel walks, very cute.
The jumping and hurting sounds are a bit anoying though ;)
And the kinetic movement took some getting used to.
But a great game, well done.

ttftcuts 2016-04-19 21:18

@Skruffye: that was mostly to do with team member availability. I was alone for the last 3 or 4 hours programming stuff - the guy who did the voice acting was unavailable while the level was being built proper and didn't quite know what was required!

arzi 2016-04-19 21:19

Impressive voice overs! Nice art too, too bad I hate these kind of platformers :D

casualcat 2016-04-19 21:55

Wow great art and animation! Story and voice acting!? That's some really good team work to be able to pull all that off and maintain quality and performance.

luquio 2016-04-20 00:58

strong design and gameplay!

teamscripta 2016-04-20 03:08

GREAT voice acting and perfect use of the theme! My only small complaint was the platforming puzzles were extra difficult because the forward momentum was hard to counteract. But that was small, and overall I really enjoyed it! I especially loved the art. I actually liked how it was a little eclectic due to four people contributing. Great work!

pythius 2016-04-20 21:18

This game sure has plenty of potential. I really enjoyed the atmosphere and the way the morphing mechanics were implemented, it reminded me a bit of The Lost Vikings (but with a single character if that makes any sense).
A few improvements on the level design front and this game would have been golden. Kudos!

fin_nolimit 2016-04-23 21:02

One of the top games in the JAM!!!! Fantastic job!!!! I love the voice sounds!!!

mrshoestore 2016-04-25 01:11

Great Game! I wish I didn't have to start from the beginning every time though!

talgautb 2016-04-25 07:51

cool, but hard to control him

odyssey 2016-04-25 11:09

Great game in the time limit. Except the sound was a bit annoying

thegunmaster 2016-04-25 14:53

Really good nice, simple mechanics but goes well with the theme. Only 2 problems I had is that the controls are too slippery in the air imo and the loading when restarting takes way too long, a problem that I had with my own game aswell.

malvern 2016-04-25 15:22

Unfortunately, this game crashed my browser after I died so I am unable to review it. (Firefox 45/Windows 10)

roland-m 2016-04-25 19:34

Great sound and voice acting. =]

rock-eaters 2016-04-28 22:33

classic paltformer but the main character and chameleon are really nice, i like the backround with rain too !