tommyflower 2017-05-02 13:07
Beautiful game! The execution is quite neat! So easy and fun to play. And you manage to go over the basics adding some cool physics. Love the strips of paper animation between the levels. God job man!
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD38 → Doodles
By lazzor
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 4.00 | 3 | ||
| Fun | 3.00 | 3 | ||
| Innovation | 4.00 | 3 | ||
| Theme | 3.00 | 3 | ||
| Graphics | 4.00 | 3 | ||
| Audio | 1 | |||
| Humor | 2 | |||
| Mood | 2 |
Beautiful game! The execution is quite neat! So easy and fun to play. And you manage to go over the basics adding some cool physics. Love the strips of paper animation between the levels. God job man!
I absolutely love the notebook aesthetics complete with scribbles on the paper. The transition animation was really great as well. My version didn't have any audio, I would have loved to hear some rustling paper or scratching of a pen for sound effects, and also music as well.
My biggest complaint would have to be the controls themselves. First of all I think it's consensus that the up-key is never a good idea for jumping. Instead using one hand for motion and one for action is generally preferred. Controlling the character feels a bit twiddly, for instance since you have to wait for a second after landing to jump again which often caused me to run into spikes or miss jumps. The physics need a little tweaking as well, especially on the last level where the boulders drop down but hiccup on the diagonal and just stay there.
The level design was well thought out, but I fell there could have been a little more as the more interesting levels that require actual through only come up towards the end.
All in all I had fun and the graphics reminded me of drawing trap-filled dungeons on squared paper in my childhood days.
Thanks! Yeah, jumping really is pretty buggy but I just wanted to make it work somehow and come back later, after I worked on the other stuff. Sadly I worked quite slowly and time ran out, which is also the reason for the small number of levels. I had more level ideas but as i wanted to finish in time, i wasn't able to get them in the game.
To be honest I couldn't really think of any audio that would match the style of the game and even if, I guess it would have been of a pretty poor quality. So I decided to leave it out pretty early. Maybe next time I can make some sounds/music!
Anyway, thanks for your feedback!
I really loved the look of this game, the whole style was really cool. The levels were fun too. The only problem was the jump mechanic being a little awkward but overall it was really enjoyable. I'd love the see more of a game in this style :)