FoonLudum Dare ExplorerLD38 → Flerth

Flerth

By parahunter, Daisy and JLewis

View on ldjam.com

CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall444.0650
Fun903.8350
Innovation913.8150
Theme74.5250
Graphics584.4750
Audio4.504
Humor64.4150
Mood1423.7648

Comments

jojocanard 2017-04-25 16:25

Very cute, easy to understand and interesting idea. But extremely hard very quickly (for me anyway) and I didn't undestand how to score. I only scored 60 but it stayed on the screen for a long while. Also, there were so many peeps that the game was ramming at the end.

la-mecanique-du-plastique 2017-05-01 10:44

Really cool, made me laugh

crazi456 2017-05-01 15:54

Haha, this game is adorable! Enjoyed every bit of it, great job!

howardcs 2017-05-03 08:36

Me like. Me smash. Game good.

parkdraws 2017-05-03 09:45

This is the best game I've played so far. The Peep's expressions are perfect, presentation is elegant, mechanics are engaging and easy to understand, interactions are juiced, humor is on point.

Great work!! ∑d(°∀°d)

sachos345 2017-05-03 16:05

LMAO this is amazing 5/5 in every category ahahah it really made me laugh the first time i smashed my first scared out Peep haha. 330 final score.

@jojocanard you have to keep the Peeps in happy in your city once they start to get away drag them again to your city.

jlewis 2017-05-03 16:49

A lot of love for Flerth, thank you!

arcticmattekar 2017-05-05 13:08

Haha, very nice game. Lovely graphics and an awesome take on the theme.

Very well done! Had fun playing! :heart_eyes:

foya 2017-05-05 20:05

I'm not sure I really understood how to score...but I enjoyed this little game! Art is polished and cute ( as the sounds), and the concept and interactions are very fun! Good job! :)

failedstarfish 2017-05-05 20:35

Really liked the art work and style, music was fun and really suited the style of game. Simple and satisfying gameplay, a really polished entry.

boriky 2017-05-06 08:45

Really cute game, very polished and fun. Sound and music are on spot. The graphic style is great! I enjoyed it :) gz!

dev-dennis 2017-05-06 10:34

Hi Guys,

Again you made a great game. Actually I'm not sure you are the same team, but I played your game @parahunter from last LD. The style, gameplay and everything is nicely put together. Maybe the gameplay could use something to make it more challenging. I'm really impressed by your entry again, gratz.

citsua 2017-05-06 10:50

My experience with this game: smashing all them damn peeps before slowly giving up on life upon seeing the swarms of panicked peeps running around. In all seriousness, really great and polished game, especially since it was made in 72h. I have nothing to criticize, except maybe that the game is HARD. A bit too hard.

r8berto 2017-05-06 10:53

Boy, that escalated quickly :joy: I ended up beating everybody

invader 2017-05-06 11:02

Wow, that's intense! Great art and music, fun gameplay.

spinaljack 2017-05-06 11:03

Nice, guess the flat earthers knew too much. Top score was 260. Near the end I started preemptively smashing ones that look a bit too fast lol

dennyrocketdev 2017-05-06 11:42

Wow, this game surprised me in best way possible. Everything was so polished, cute, professional and awesome. Smashing those poor flat earthers feels super satisfying.

blackrose 2017-05-06 12:46

hahaha thas so fun concept and so fun game! I like the idea, but at the star it was a little bit hard to understand what to do. I spend a good time and i have fun playing it

nwestninja1 2017-05-07 01:29

That was great! I loved crushing the flat earthers but even better was seeing the others run away. I think this is a great game! Loads of polish!

chaseplays 2017-05-07 02:32

Oh my gosh yes. I liked the simple mechanic, and everything was actually really polished and fun. The music was a good choice, even if you didn't make it yourself, and the graphics were perfect. Keep up the good work!

for-science 2017-05-07 13:20

This is a very nice concept. I love the squeeeking sound effects and the graphics. At some point I had to smash the village ... which was fun ^^

I had fun playing! Nice work! :joy:

philomory 2017-05-08 16:33

This was really adorable! I love the art style, the audio worked well (I know you didn't make it, but you choose well, Kevin MacLeod is a great resource), and the core gameplay idea was well-executed. I'm not exactly sure how you could expand this mechanic into a larger game, but for what you've made, it's pretty great. My only real complaint is that the difficulty scales up pretty dramatically all at once.

for-science 2017-05-08 19:13

I just replayed this for a bit, and I think stumbled on a bug?

I played a round in which the Peeps would only very rarely venture all the way to the edge. I had garnered around 5000 points when their city suddenly began to warp and slowly ascended to the heavens to be never seen again...

at that point the Peeps didn't really have any place to return to, so this happened:

bug.jpg

:rofl:

jlewis 2017-05-09 10:17

@for-science Oh wow, hell of a ~~bug~~ secret ending you've found! Love the screenshot, thanks for submitting!

meenners 2017-05-12 05:34

LOL that was amazing! It was fun and enjoyable to smash little guys! My only feedback is that it got really hard really quick! For future development, have you thought about different type of citizens with possibly different actions? That would be awesome! Otherwise, the "everything" was amazing! Keep it up!

brotherst 2017-05-13 14:11

Haha, oh my! This was very fun, but I think some balancing is in order, at a certain point failure is all but inevitable because of the limited speed you can perform actions compared to how fast the little guys are spawning. Maybe if there was no delay on picking up and dropping, since there is a man-made delay anyway based on you own reactions. I really like the art, animation and sound! Cute character designs!

If you fancy trying out our game, we'd love your feedback! https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/e-at

seconddimension 2017-05-13 18:36

That was... pretty dark actually. Scary how quickly I changed from a benevolent god trying to keep them safe, to just smashing everyone to death to cover up the truth :punch:

Graphics were nice and the controls worked well, good level of polish for a jam game!

2017-05-14 18:01

Cute graphics, funny 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=rDPVuoHG3u8

ponywolf 2017-05-15 21:36

Very nice execution. I love LD games that discover a new mechanic and can also make me giggle. Good work!

thristhart 2017-05-15 22:05

Lovely! I love how the game progresses in terms of strategies, at first just keeping your lovely friends safe and then slowly becoming a wrathful god keeping the truth hidden. Adorable art style and the music fits it fantastically!

mar3k 2017-05-15 22:32

This is such a cool idea! The graphics are nice, the music and sfx as well, and just smashing the people by itself is so satisfying

davision 2017-05-15 22:59

Funny, maybe except for the fact that I have to smash them once the know the truth. Gameplay is too simple for my taste but it has the potential to be more

krunoslav 2017-05-15 23:08

Cute graphics, a very nice game. Cool mechanics Even if it is simply, it is funny to play.

One of the best graphics in all the Ludum, congrats!

fran-segura 2017-05-16 08:01

Great game! I love the idea and execution, very polished. Maybe it's a bit hard, but that's not really a flaw.

Congrats!

lolilith 2017-05-16 21:55

This game is probably my favorite LD game I have played yet <3 It's really cute and funny, I'm quite proud of my high score of 550.

At first I felt so sorry I had to smash the non believers, but when there were too many I panicked and killed them all

mathijs750 2017-05-16 22:33

I love how I want to take care of the little peeps while simultaneously smashing them to pulp. The game gets hectic fast, but at some point the tension was lost and I smashed them all to pulp. Really endearing art-style and music choice.

shillingburg 2017-05-17 21:27

WOW this was amazing, i was literally laughing the whole time all while panicking that my civilians were learning too much. Having to kill them was brutal but extremely entertaining. Definitely the funniest game i've played, well polished, with really charming sound design! Great job!! I dont have much feedback other than having some variations in behavior/different people types.

yetikatt 2017-05-17 22:55

One word.

Perfection.

Seriously though, I loved every thing about this game, the art style is AMAZING, the humor was great, the game-play was quick and responsive. I realized the second time round that you're meant to stop them getting back to town to tell the others about the planets edge by killing them D:

... which was funny though so I stopped feeling bad after my first homicide and quickly proceeded to mass murder all those adorable little... bird people?

The music was absolutely spot on and the sound effects(and animations) were hilarious. I honestly can't think of any constructive feedback to give you. Great job and hope to see more in the future!

jlewis 2017-05-18 12:51

Thank you all for the really great comments!

flying-cat-of-the-pepes 2017-05-20 18:07

Cute little game, gets challenging the longer you play, so its kind of fun. Could use some more content, though. Maybe different species of creatures in the city that behave differently, or a mode with more cities that the creatures build over time. A quit button and a pause button would be useful, too. Overall, it was fun, and the graphics and sound where good and went well with the arcade-like, cute game-play. Great work!

joshykc 2017-05-23 11:04

Great theme. Really humorous. Funny little game =).