timeshapers 2016-04-18 06:29
Nothing interesting happens with the mechanic, all levels are essentially exactly the same.
Maybe if you needed to alternate based on timing or something.
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD35 → Scooter Magrew: Escape From Somewhere In Space!
By angerfork
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coolness | 1 | 100 | ||
| Audio | 478 | 2.98 | ||
| Humor | 663 | 2.17 | ||
| Mood | 862 | 2.63 | ||
| Theme | 920 | 2.73 | ||
| Fun | 1056 | 2.34 | ||
| Innovation | 1062 | 2.20 | ||
| Overall | 1109 | 2.52 |
Nothing interesting happens with the mechanic, all levels are essentially exactly the same.
Maybe if you needed to alternate based on timing or something.
like timeshapers said. but you could also incorporate different skills (especially for the dark blue guy. he said he had muscles, right?)
the last level was a bit buggy, whenever i got to the white tiles, it showed the red avatar, even though i didn't get the soul yet
and the positioning of the buttons was kinda annoying. i accidentally quit once because my mouse hovered over a soul, but reaching the finish, my mouse was directly above the quit button :/
Thanks guys! I don't disagree at all...moreso, I'm just trying to figure out what all I want to actually add into this game, as it's current target demographic is elementary school children. Probably a good first step to that would be removing words such as "Turquoise", but I definitely need to make better levels and/or give the characters some unique sort of abilities in order to make it just a better game overall.
You've got a foundation you can build on, as the others have said. Even for children more mechanics than just the character swapping for walking would be good. Items, skills, things like that.
My biggest suggestion would be to change that rainbow text. It is very difficult to read, especially with multiple options right next to each other.
Your music selection is quite nice!
Kind of simple and a bit boring, but I love the graphics and the art style!
The art is great and the music fits the game very well. I think this is a very cool game for young kids (as you said in your description) Nice work!
Nice puzzle you have there. If it's targeted to kids I'd suggest to use characters only for primary colors and have them walk on any tile where the character color is a component of the tile's one. Would make for a great edugame.
Also, I'd recommend to have a hold button= keep walking.
A pretty simple mechanic, I think it should be fine for kids. But if it's for kids I would do the explanations a bit clearer and implement showing the helping dialogue again. Or put a question mark button there to help the player in case he doesn't get it. The color of the princess is not very good visible.
I liked the Audio and Art, but the gameplay was a bit too simple.
Nice characters! I included it in my video compilation series of Ludum Dare games, if you’d like to check them out :) https://youtu.be/KyB-5ZqWXwk
I had my 5 year old son play and I had to help him figure out what to do for the first three levels but then he got the hang of it and really enjoyed it. It was a little hard for him to see the different colors and when you transformed it seemed like you were always red which confused him and the text scrolled by way too fast for him to try to read it.
He really liked having to press the arrow keys a bunch to move him in the right direction it helped him control the characters but on touch controls I think it be a little more of a pain to control that way. I think making the levels like a colorful maze gradually getting bigger would keep him interested for a very long time.
Good concept, it can really grow from here. Add some sound effects and maybe some keyboard only controls. For your app, make the purple more discernible from the white for any colour blind ppl out there.
too simplistic - but spot on if made for kids - nice effort
I played through the whole thing hoping something new and/or interesting would happen, but it didn't. However, you did get me to play through all of what you had, which is worth something. If there had been one more element to gameplay, I would have thought much better if it. The best thing about it is at least something kind of different, which again, is very good.
Well, the puzzles here were very underwhelming. As in, "I've got a single red character that can cross red tiles, I can switch anytime when on neutral tiles, and I just need to cross red tiles after passing neutral tiles... what to do, what to do..." sort of underwhelming. Each character having distinct abilities works way better in games with character-switching, while this game's premise feels just too simple to me. >.<
(then again, I'm not a 5-years old kid)
Aside from that, I'd prefer if the graphics used consistent style, rather than realistic backgrounds and cartoony foreground. Also, you might want to make the tiles more distinct (it's a little tricky to tell gray, turquoise and purple apart; I didn't really have much trouble, but people with worse colour recognition could get confused...?). I guess the rest works well enough (or at least didn't stand out to me too much?).
It's a nice concept and it totally fits the target audience, but you have to add a bit more polish into it, specially controls and some of the base movement mechanic! ;)
I loved the graphics, the overall style of the game and the way you handled the shape shifting. :) As some said, the rainbow text might become difficult to read sometimes, so that's one thing I'd ask you to change, if possible. :P
Great work on the audio! It's brilliant, in my opinion, and it fits the style! :D
Like the mood in this game. You could add more player gameplay variations. Keep up the good work!
Good concept, but it was lacking in alternation later on, it became simply boring.
The UI is nice except for the rainbow text. There is never a situation where rainbow text should be used.
the graphics and audio complements the game well... good game :) a nice stuff u can work on to...
I feel that continued walking would be better (current walking is tiring after a few levels). Instead of the clickable pad, you could make your constrols: tap the top/bottom/left/right of screen if you plan to target mobile/tablet audience.