spacedoubt 2017-05-01 03:59
The music is really cool. I'm not sure how well it fits the game, though. The mouse control is a bit awkward. I like the concept and the graphics a lot. Seems really difficult. I could never last very long.
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD38 → Little Wild Invasion
By titangea
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 386 | 3.37 | 37 | |
| Fun | 432 | 3.06 | 35 | |
| Innovation | 532 | 2.84 | 35 | |
| Theme | 266 | 3.65 | 37 | |
| Graphics | 181 | 4.05 | 37 | |
| Audio | 331 | 3.03 | 34 | |
| Humor | 238 | 3.03 | 28 | |
| Mood | 425 | 3.16 | 33 |
The music is really cool. I'm not sure how well it fits the game, though. The mouse control is a bit awkward. I like the concept and the graphics a lot. Seems really difficult. I could never last very long.
The game looks really good, audio is ok, I like the models especially the enemies with this wide mouths remind me of Globox from Rayman :D pretty challenging but good game.
Marvelous control of pace of tension!
I think it is a fast-paced survival game. Your speed is a bit lower than the enemies, so you must collect power-up items. In this process the distance of enemy decreased, so the tension increased.
The hazards and complex terrain make everythink more hurry. After collect enough power-ups, You can rush out immediately and get rid to the enemies (temporary).
It's a release of tension and that brings great enjoyment. That forms the emotion cycle. The music and unnatural rendering of environment emphasizes the feelings.
So although this game lacks clear goal like other games I reviewed, I donnot think it is a problem. Run! Run for your life and no time to think mooooorreeeeeeee!
Loving the models! The enemy is awesome looking. Fun stuff, good work!
Game looks great! The enemy especially. Difficulty is a bit high, seems like I went game over pretty quickly every time. Music is okay. Overall good game!
How the player character moves is really cute. The enemies are straight onto me though, I feel like a ramp up to that difficulty would be preferred instead of dropping the playing right into the midst of it.
Very nice art and shaders. Really gives the impression that you are a small plant running from predators. Would be nice to turn the tables on your pursuers with even larger predators higher up the food chain.
I liked the game, the animations are really cute, although sometimes I fell the enemies are Way too big and con sometimes block the screen.
I do feel that by walking diagonally you can go faster than walking in one simple direction. And sometimes it felt like the only way to actually escape the enemies before being hit. I tried to use the falling blobs to my advantage, and it usually worked but sometimes it felt a little too random to be able to use them properly.
In any case its a nice game and I enjoyed my time with it. Good work!
Extremely difficult. It took me a lot of tries to even get enough power-ups to use my power. Before I did, I wasn't sure if the game was bugged or not because nothing happened when I pressed space.
The game could be improved if the player had more feedback and control over the power-up mechanic. For instance, if you start the player with a small amount of energy, and instead of requiring the bar to be full, let the player dash when they're holding space, and have the energy decrease when the player is running.
Beautiful graphics! Best I've seen so far!
I like your shaders a lot, and the model style also stand out. There are some details and mechanics that I think could improve your game:
+ :pushpin: The wall collision boxes are larger than its models + :scroll: You usually want it smaller so it can give the player some break. And if its larger then the model/sprite you will run into **invisible wall** issues, which in this game means **instadeath**. :bulb: *Reducing the collision boxes to a size slightly smaller then the actual model may be a solution*. + :pushpin: Enemies are too fast and they seem to chase the player in strange ways + :scroll: It seems to me that every frame plants and balls calculate the current player's position and move to that point with a constant speed. Unless they are really close, in that case they move just enough which causes them to approach **faster** then your move speed but they remain right at your back in a jittery pattern when they finally "reach" you (they actually never do reach). This makes the player powerless and prevents almost any chance of counterplay, because the plants (and specially the bombs :bomb:) **will get you** it doesn't matter what you do. But at the same time it also makes **THE PLANTS** powerless, because *THEY REACH YOU, BUT DON'T HIT YOU*. :smiley: :bulb: *Suggestion: try to double the game speed, player speed, enemy speed everything aside from the invasion counter; make it a fast game and set the enemy speed to 90% of player speed (you actually have to tweek this value until it reads well). Also, as they are slower than you now, increase the penalty for being caught by a plant (like insta damage). If it is still slow, make the game even faster.* + :pushpin: Field of view is blocked by enemies in your neck + :scroll: As an art style choice, the models are cartoony with big large heads. This immediately influences camera design as it is blocked by these models. Those big heads get in front of camera, denying almost the whole vision. + :bulb: *Possible solutions:* 1. *Increase camera distance* 2. *Change the camera pitch angle or allow the player to change/control it* 3. *Play with shaders/render stuff to make enemies transparent when they are beetween camera and player*
Your game is indeed a nice job and I'm sure people liked the art style a lot. :grin: Good work, and let's keep improving! :clap:
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#### Btw, I noticed you like shaders and so do I. Maybe you want to see a crackable energy shield shader I made once (in Unity). I coded the shader and drew the cracked glass texture to apply to it (in Medibang Paint Pro, or was it Krita? I actually don't remember it anymore). It is in my team's [Global Game Jam page](http://globalgamejam.org/2017/games/lunar-tide) :smiley:
Nice, graphics but the gameplay was a bit too fast paced. It felt like you are chucked in the deep end, maybe you could start on a more empty planet and enemies rise from the ground / fall onto the planet? Also the music created the atmosphere of a fever dream and I'm not sure if that's what you were going for. Anyway, nice effort!
@lancescaterpie in fact, every enemy fall into the planet in something like an "asteroid", it has a blue color, when the asteroid collide with the planet a blue lighting color appeared. I wanted to show some type of cinematic to appreciate it but the time was not enough, but you can see it if you put attention when the game starts and after a enemy's dead.
Your art is beautiful! Great work!
Really nice shading and art, the models look unique and very good. The game feels quite complete, with the main menu, gui, music, sounds ect. In window mode the mouse isn't locked inside the window and will drift off the screen(This might be a unity problem though). Nice game overall!!!
Very vivid use of colours, nice shaders. Fits the theme. I would've made the death fade out quicker, so it's faster to get back into the action.
Music is nice.
Bit unforgiving in that I can only take one hit, but it's reasonably fair. Also, mouse should be centrally locked ideally.
All around, cool title!
Awesome game. Love the art and music!~ It's pretty intense when escaping from those monsters~
Very challenging game - loved the 3D models! Overall a very nice submisison! :smile:
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Really nice graphically but ran really really slowly on my laptop so I couldn't play all the way through. Impressed with the colours you ended up with and seems like a nice outline shader.
I really loved the cartoon-ish shading and art style. The tiny planet felt like it was a good size for the length of time that you needed to survive for. I didn't really understand the mechanic of the bubbles ("purple meteors"); I think making their falling trajectory more obvious would make them more understandable, perhaps by moving them to a higher altitude so that it is easier to see where they are falling towards. The way they are right now felt like homing missiles aiming at any players who got too close.
Other than that, I'm bad at reading directions and didn't realize at first that the bubbles are the way to kill the monster and tried using a power up. Maybe adding some other kinds of power-ups that give different abilities beyond speed would be interesting -- shield and attack power ups could change the gameplay dynamics in an interesting way. It would probably be a little bit less running away, though the frequency of when different power up types spawn could be changed to make the game feel more offensive or defensive.
@Max-Cahill Ohh, sorry for that, could be good to know your pc specs, Did you try it in differente resolutions and different graphic qualities?, I always work on optimization, but sometimes maybe is not enought or maybe is not possible. I developed this game on a computer with 12gigas of ram, Intel Core i7, I have a Nvdia GForce with 2gigas of video, but the game runs fine with the Intel integrated HD graphics video card.
@ryan time time time xD I think this little game will be the base for a bigger game, a lot of interesting stuff could be improved in a full game.
Very unforgiving gameplay! It took me quite a few deaths before I felt like I had much of an idea as to what was going on. But very good graphics, and it fits the theme nicely!
I liked the gameplay idea and the graphics. I feel that the Audio was a weird choice, it lacked tension in a game that you have to run and survive. The enemies were cool but they really weren't a threat if you don't take unnecesary turns while you move. The thing I really disliked were those giant bubbles, as they just fell without a warning and just killed me time to time. I tried to use them to kill the enemies but more often than not I died more than them.
I found pretty excesive that you had to fill the whole bar just to run faster. I would really liked if you could use it as a stamina for running more than a single use run. I think that it could add more depth to your game. Overall It's a very nice idea and I really liked the visuals, Nice job!
-cute animations -great Graphics -music was ok -difficult gameplay -nice controls -nice game atmosphere Overall a nice game.
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Ohh nooooo!! Just available to Windows. I really would like to play it. The graphics looks pretty awesome. Congratulations for the work.
Holy cow your graphics are impressive. Pretty awkward asking LD-ers that are rating your game for a donation though... Suffered from alot of slow down(on a pretty beefy machine) to the point that audio got choppy. Nice entry overall.
Pretty awesome game!
Nice graphics, challenging 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=DciCZPQtLy8
@Jupiter-hadley great, Thank you :)