Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD39 → This Is Not A Drill!
By llamaq
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 746 | 2.84 | 21 | |
| Fun | 726 | 2.63 | 21 | |
| Innovation | 359 | 3.15 | 21 | |
| Theme | 367 | 3.57 | 21 | |
| Graphics | 646 | 2.89 | 21 | |
| Audio | 562 | 2.05 | 20 | |
| Humor | 443 | 2.33 | 20 |
Congratulations on your first Dare! The hand drawn graphics are nice, though they could have used some simple animation to make it look like more of an artstyle than a practical choice.
Unfortunately, I just wasn't able to find the enemies. Even after 4 minutes on my second playthrough, nothing had spawned, and the drill just reached it's destination regardless. Hopefully you'll be able to fix that without too much trouble though!
@rockhoppergames Whoops! I disabled the spawners while testing and forgot to re-enable them before building.:face_palm: I've added a new version with them re-enabled.
There are a couple small animations related to the enemies, but of course they won't play if they never spawn. You're right that I could have added more; even just some twinkling stars would probably have helped a lot.
Fun graphics, and surprisingly fun gameplay for such a simple game. I found that maxing out the drill in-between cars was an effective strategy. I also couldn't figure out what the Support thing does. Good job!
I would recommend adding some screenshots and a cover image, that should help to get more people to actually play your game. Usually games that don't have those tend to be mostly unfinished as well, so I ended up pleasantly surprised that was not the case here. However, others might just skip it because of that.
Next time, don't forget to use Git ;-), you would have been able to revert your changes or at least see the changes you did since the last time it worked.
I love your graphic style, it is awesome! :) The idea seems very nice, it is interesting to manage multiple resources to reach the goal. I wish you had more time to make it a bit more difficult, but other than that I like it!
Not bad. The slider system is interesting. Oddly reminds me of the taxation mechanic in older civilization games. The sounds were a bit hard on the ears though.
While it is interesting and innovative, it was very easy to win. Maybe, should change constants a little, it would be more fun to play
I like the core gameplay behind the idea. The art is quite original! :smile: As others have pointed out it is quite easy to beat. I'm pretty sure if you re-balance the game it would be more fun to play. In any case I had a good time with it