Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD38 → A Small World
By 0as0
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 2 | |||
| Fun | 2 | |||
| Innovation | 2 | |||
| Theme | 2 | |||
| Graphics | 2 | |||
| Audio | 2 | |||
| Humor | 2 | |||
| Mood | 2 |
BUG: I just had a friend test this on Mac, and for some reason the window would lose focus every few seconds. I'm not sure if this is on his end, or it's a bug with the program. If anyone else experiences something like this, let me know.
Several good things here. I really like the random pathing on the characters. It's nice and random, not too chaotic, but still feels like genuine game-character wandering. The art on the world tiles is good too. It tiles well and doesn't hurt the eyes. the flower patterns were nice too. The world is suitably small, you do get a tiny bit of that deja vu feeling of wandering around the same place, meeting the same people over and over. Being thankful when a new person comes a long. I was real glad when new characters entered the scene. That feeling is there, well done for capturing it! That's a challenging thing to do.
Some feedback for improvement. While the world is nice and small, it can feel a bit bare. Some things that could of improved that is to re-colour some tiles in an area to give the feeling of 'biomes' or regions as it were. Perhaps scaling the flower down and adding more of them could of made it feel a bit fuller, too. Secondly, and this is art related again, using the same character art for all the characters meant the best strategy was to just watch the score counter in the top left instead of the characters themselves. I feel like that does a diservice to the rest of the hard work you've put in.
All in all, very good for 20 hours work!
PS, minor bug. when I access the About page, I can't come back to the game menu. Hitting enter won't select the Back option. Can be fixed easily by restarting.
@jlewis yeah about the characters, I tried randomizing the color of their shirts, but I got a weird but with it, and I was running out of time, I do wish I could have implemented that though. And the about page, that's not a bug, hitting backspace will take you back to the main menu. Guess I should've mentioned that.