scornz 2017-05-02 12:15
Awesome game and the visuals are great for a Jam! Played for at least 30 minutes before I realized I had other things to do... nice work!
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD38 → Rift World
By lenon-kramer and JBarros
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 575 | 3.05 | 21 | |
| Fun | 600 | 2.73 | 21 | |
| Innovation | 606 | 2.68 | 21 | |
| Theme | 606 | 2.89 | 21 | |
| Graphics | 444 | 3.33 | 20 | |
| Humor | 423 | 2.47 | 21 | |
| Mood | 596 | 2.78 | 21 |
Awesome game and the visuals are great for a Jam! Played for at least 30 minutes before I realized I had other things to do... nice work!
The game looks very nice and I think there may be good gameplay, but the experience for new players like me is rough.
The game is pretty hard to understand. I read the instructions and backstory but it was still hard to know what to do. The game also started immediately at a quick pace. Even when I did know what to do I was clicking around frantically and didn't know how well I was doing until the You Failed screen. The graphics look good, although I think the user interface could have been prettier. Also, it could have been a bit easier to use. The clickboxes of the actions are pretty small, while you want to switch actions really quickly. The theme has been used okay.
To end a bit more positively, I think that if you improve the interface and tutorial a bit, I think this may be a really good game!
Quite a interesting game but it really lacked sounds. And I would recommend putting some images on this page and as a cover so that people can see the game before they download it. Because it really got nice artwork, its just a shame you don't show it on the site. At firs I didn't really understand what to do, because if you don't immediately start defending the rifts you lose in about 15 sec or something. But once you understood the game it started to get fun.
A problem in the game was that I really didn't know which rift was which when they looked identical and they were not even in order. The furthest away was number 2 which was a little odd. You could also have shown some hp bars of your defenders, now you just had to rely on the small boxes on the sides on the screen. Almost the whole game depended on those boxes and the rest of the screen wasn't really necessary for the gameplay.
Was it intentional that the researcher was able to cure and research at the same time or was it just a bug?
But all in all a good idea that could have had some last polishing to make the gameplay more fun and easier to play.
@scornz, @florian-van-strien, and @svarttand. Thank you very much for your feedback!
About having screenshots on the page, unfortunately I haven't been able to upload images, as the "upload" button doesn't work. I think maybe it's the browser, so later on today I'll try to install a more mainstream one just for that (I use Palemoon).
Also, there aren't health bars for the defenders because I didn't managed to do with the positioning, as they come back and forth (the enemy's health bars are anchored on a general "Rift Canvas" and only get visibility on/off when there are or aren't enemies on the rifts). But I guess I just figured out how to do it. Yes, this is the second jam game I program all by myself on my life, and the first one I got something near playability, as I'm not a full programmer, just a Game Designer who like to try to code. :)
I'll improve the rest of the UI on an "off-jam update" and leave it for the ones who want to try it. Expect something tonight (Brazilian time...).
I'll also try, on that update, to make some form of ingame tutorial to ease the start of first-timers. :D
EDIT: The researcher being able to cure and research at the same time is a bug. Nobody is supposed to multitask here. I'll adress that, also.
Very nice game! First I had no idea how to gather resources and how to use them, but as time passed and one of my interns was wiped out I got the hang of it. With one down it was quite a struggle to get to 100% but I did it! :smile:.
Graphics are very very good, there are some glitches in task assigning it seems (check box is checked but Nick is not curing for example, but I got around it just by disabling and enabling it again). Too bad you didn't manage to do the sounds and music. This game would definitely be much better with them. But overall I think you did an impressive work for such short time. Keep it up!!!
I died right at the start because I didn't understood it right away :D
But after you get into it it's quite fun, still not so easy to understand everything you can do imo.
With sounds the game would feel much better.
Was still worth trying it out, nice entry :)
I enjoyed it after I got into the swing of things! It was a little confusing making sure I was sending everyone to the correct place so I think it would really benefit from having hotkeys for different actions and selecting specific units.
I was able to get over 50% research completed before I accidentally got one of my workers killed. I enjoyed it though, I think a little bit more progression during a run such as researching or building various upgrades could be really nice, good job!
@cvetk0, @sneakydeagle, @kantieno, Thank you very much for your feedback! It was awesome and very important.
I'm glad you enjoyed the game. I adressed some of your feedbacks on an off-jam update I just released - including the glitches on Nick's checkboxes. Still without sounds, sadly, maybe I'll come up with something on the weekend.
I wanted to have some things added, like different resources, weapon and defenses upgrading, and char progression, but that wasn't possible on the Jam. But I built up the code with that in mind so there are variables which weren't useful on the jam (like the weapon and skill ones), but leave the field open for expanding. Do you people who played the game (and that question is for @scornz, @florian-van-strien, and @svarttand also) think that this is worth expanding and maybe bringing up to steam (or other selling platform, whatever)?
I could not figure out how to play it after 2 attempts :'(
Some really sweet graphics on display here, I had some issued reading the black text due to contrast and I would really have liked to click the person I wanted to reassign instead of having to find it in the left sidebar(that I had problem reading anyway, maybe I'm just old). I do really like the idea and the execution + style is really nice. Also some sound to indicate different events would have been really helpful + made it a better experience. I did enjoy this and is one of the few entries I look forward to a postjam version, lots of potential.
The game looks good. But theres no sound which doesn't allow a good mood to come up. The controls are very unsatisfying. I really couldn't control the game as i wanted to. Other then that. I think the game would be really fiun to play. I like the multiple things you got to do in order to win.. Mine, defend, etc..
I died as I started playing but with some work I started to catch what to do. It could be more intuitive with some sounds and the font is not easy to read fast in the UI. But the main problems with the game is the lack of polish. Keep working on it and you can have a funny game here.
Looks really good aesthetically but it's very overwhelming to start off with. Feel like the tutorial didn't really say too much but maybe that was just me.
It looks like chaos at the first sight. But after a while it looks like nice, but complicated game with micro management. Keyboard shortcuts would be great. But game is playable and quite interesting. Good luck!
Unfortunately I did not understand what to do (
As others have said, it's a very overwhelming game at first. I died a few times before figuring things out, but it seems like there's a lot of potential for strategic nuance here.