Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD38 → iii
By yukonw
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 14 | 4.26 | 25 | |
| Fun | 113 | 3.73 | 25 | |
| Innovation | 164 | 3.60 | 25 | |
| Theme | 546 | 3.08 | 25 | |
| Graphics | 32 | 4.60 | 25 | |
| Audio | 1 | |||
| Humor | 302 | 2.81 | 24 | |
| Mood | 18 | 4.30 | 25 |
These graphics are incredible!I fell in love with this aesthetic and really ant to see more of it. Game play was solid and concise as a metroidvania should be. Reminds me of my forgotten project: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04j8nxyjqxY I would be down to collaborate with you on a project sometime.
Graphics and style are on point, was extremely fun for how short it is and kept me interested through the entire game.
Really loved the art style and the way you combined cute characters and visual aesthetics with dark and moody themes. That's a solid 5 for mood, and I'm a fan of your work from now on.
Great art style, and really nice level design for such a short time
I really liked the gameplay and the art style ! This little character is so cute.
Cute game, really nice looking! And it was challenging too. :]
yess!!!!! it's so good!!! I love it I want more. Really cool world switching ability, and awesome art and effects.
Give me a whole game please :grin:
A nice little game! controls and map perfectly calibrated, cute art and I liked the eye idea. Well done!
Very beautiful game !
I loved your general graphic direction, it is simple but very expressive. What pleased me also was the way all of your image moves and vibrates with this pixel art grain, it's very elegant. I felt a litle bit clumsy with the controls though and it discouraged me at some point, but as I'm not the most experienced player in the world (to say the least) you should not take this observation too rigorously. Your animations and gameplay concept make the whole game feel pretty complete and polished and you're right to be proud of your first jam submission. I hope you'll take it further (especially adding some music will be great)
It's rated <3
Very cool! I actually have one big gripe though -- please add some alternative keybindings! The keyboard that I tried this on first doesn't support pressing a horizontal direction, down, and space at the same time, making some sections of the game quite painful. I had to switch to another keyboard to play properly.
It was also curious how you cycled through the 3 eyes as 1->2->3->2->1 which was a bit awkward in terms of controlling -- I would have expected 1->2->3->1->2->3 or even separate keys to trigger each eye. But that was less of an issue since you didn't require much rapid switching. The slight bit of movement inertia threw me off from time to time, but it wasn't really a big deal either.
Overall I like the idea and the execution! Actually reminds me of Eversion a bit. Really nice job on the ending as well! Some music or even ambience would help set the tone a lot, but maybe that's not your cup of tea / you didn't have time for that.
The grainy shader-like effect as well as the limited light radius definitely led to a sense of caverny darkness / small unknown territory / danger, which I thought was cool, but I'm not sure if it 100% fit with the current gameplay? In it's current state, I feel like the game is more about exploration, jumping around, stomping on enemies, and meeting new people, and in that regard it feels like the limited visibility is more of a hindrance than anything. What I'm trying to say is that while I really dug the effect I think I would have enjoyed that gameplay more without it. Not really sure. I do wonder what it would be like if the light radius and graininess got worse with each new "eye".
WOW. Gorgeus, really original, well made, polished, really really good work there. Love it! Expecially the art style
Wow what a great entry! I love the style you have here. Please keep developing this! The only constructive criticism I have is the platforming could use a little tuning, especially with the jump. Amazing entry!
Flawless art style! I really loved the item collect animation. I would say that the gameplay was polished but quite basic for a jam platformer. ie/ run here, collect an item which gets you double jump, run here, collect an item which gets you a new power etc etc. Maybe some more lateral thinking puzzles would have been good. The platforms that are only visible with a certain eye were the hardest obstacle to overcome and even they were very easy to master.
But overall it was a very pro looking and feeling game! And quite moody!
Cheers! Rob
The graphics are outstandingly amazing, the pixelart, the shaders and the whole graphcis ambiance is really nice. I love the dimension switching mechanic and I feel like there was more potential to squeeze more puzzles or little mechanics out of it but jam time etc...
On the other hand, I didn't to the end (if there was one) because the experience started getting really frustrating, le me explain. First the platformer physics were very sensitive, I stopped counting how many times I failed the "staircase" puzzle. Second the enemies' hitbox are really messed up, those bats and those high speed snails coupled with the checkpoint popping you way back. And third the radius of the view, because of it bat and snails were a huge nuisance, even while taking my time.
All in all this is an amazing product, and despite my growing frustration as I kept playing, I still enjoyed it very much :D
Wow! This is awesome! I'm disappointed you're in the Jam and not the Compo, cuz I don't want to have to compete against you AND I wanna see your source code, haha.
The lack of audio is a little disappointing, because the mood would be ON POINT if you had more. And while I really dig the feel of the controls, I'm curious if slower movement would lend itself better to the kind of quiet exploration you're going for? Not sure on that one.
Seriously excellent entry though, best I've played so far.
Really love the style of your game :D And always like Metroidvenias so this is definitely one of my favorite games so far :) Congrats!
Really awesome game! I included it in my Ludum Dare 38 compilation video series, if you’d like to take a look :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmUpejMpTcM
I really enjoyed retro graphics and level design, great entry!
I shall be your 20th vote!
Wonderful entry! I really love the game. I guess iii mena 3 eyes?
The entire game was beautiful and cute, and the only thing I can complain is that probably her horizontal movement speed is too high. It make it quite hard to aim to land on an enemy. So many times I ended it overshoting the landing and got killed by a returning snail, or face-slaming into a flying bat because I moved forward too fast.
Still, it is only my personal wish-I-can. The game as a whole was 5/5. Great job!
I played this on Livestream Today at the request of the Developer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zCqO_O0iIo
Spent some time today with the developer, really great job. The game looks and feels cohesive, and "Sounds like how it looks". The dimension-shift ability was really great, very innovative. Really great job!
Great game! Clever title, awesome progression. The platforming was tuned very well, I also appreciate the level design. I only got frustrated after getting the present because of the few checkpoints. Other than that it's quite a gem! Well done :D
I had a a lot of fun playing! The shifting mechanic was interesting and the visual style was great. Some music would have been a nice final touch. I thought the jumping was a little off sometimes which made precision platforming a bit harder than it needed to be at times. Other than that, great work!
The graphics and mechanics were fantastic! The sound effects were effective (I especially liked the increase in pitch with every jump), but this would be much better with some music.
I also included your game in an article of my favorites here: http://fireside.gamejolt.com/post/jam-favorites-ludum-dare-38-vepwgamy