FoonLudum Dare ExplorerLD38 → Crustal

Crustal

By kiasaki, coffee-bland and Dagothig

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall2733.5522
Fun2803.3522
Innovation3693.1522
Theme4293.3522
Graphics764.4022
Mood1153.8320

Comments

cheesymoo 2017-05-03 21:37

This was a good one!

Congrats on your game.

The only thing missing is some great music and SFX... would love to make some one day

rpmoura 2017-05-06 20:19

Good game, great graphics. I personally would prefer to move with the keyboard and shoot with the mouse. Also not sure about the connection with the theme...

spyispie120 2017-05-07 07:45

This game looks fantastic and really fun to play.

I really like your take on the theme with the small area of space, and you have to fight through the horde of musterds. Definitely created a lot of challenges. I just wish that there were some music and sound effect to make the game feel more full.

Overall, great entry!

rodobodolfo 2017-05-13 03:06

love it!! its super smooth and the visuals are awesome!! its really challenging in a good way. I wish it had at least some basic sfx and music it would be really nice.

Great job!!

blushine 2017-05-13 03:53

Very challenging, although it seemed like the game might have been running too fast? Not sure if that's intentional. I played the windows executable. After watching the gameplay video, I think it might be a bug. Still, I kind of liked it, it was a bit like Devil Daggers. Also, I figured out that you can just mash all the WASD keys and shoot rapidly in all directions, which was pretty fun.

I really liked the art. Even with such a small number of assets, the animations and colors had a really cool feel. And the effects were amazing, I loved the beams and the tiny green area within the purple wasteland.

I agree with the other comments that some sounds would have made it even better. The art was already so weird and evocative that I found myself wondering what kinds of sounds these strange crystal beings would make as they walked around.

phaze0 2017-05-13 05:12

Interesting control scheme and the graphics are done well, but wow does that get difficult fast!

ptsnoop 2017-05-13 09:20

Good graphics, and good gameplay. The difficulty level does ramp up very quickly, though!

demyhallar 2017-05-13 12:22

Beautiful graphics.

yoanndeplo 2017-05-13 12:27

Nice graphics, too bad there isn't sounds :(. I think using the mouse to aim and fire would be better than using wasd. My best score is 94.

coffee-bland 2017-05-13 16:37

@blushine: as far as I'm aware the speed is what it was intended to be; I've tested both the windows version on wine and on my windows 10 and it worked fine for both.

Overall indeed it was very much a shame we couldn't get sound in, there is a post-ludum version in the works however...

@yoanndeplo: Agreed, it would've benefited the game to support both controllers, mouse aim and the keyboard and that's among the additions of the post-ludum version.

remco 2017-05-17 16:46

Lovely concept, good execution :smile:

I'd have liked some more explanation; it's *there*, but it's so small people can easily ignore it, and the blue boxes only give a 'press space to release wave' *during gameplay*. You could file that last bit under 'well its fun to have some mysteries', but I'm very tired from work right now, and it took me quite a while until I read that you should use WASD to shoot :sweat:

ashdnazg 2017-05-17 19:21

The game is fun and the graphics are nothing short of astonishing!

However, as said before, the lack of audio is almost audible :P

Recording sounds or using bfxr could really make the game better without investing too much time.