The adventure of Dotty

edmond00 2017-07-31 12:04

The idea around meditation is interresting and it is nice to have a progressive difficulty that let the player learn the basis. The controls are not very intuitive but I suppose it is a part of the game. Still, I wonder if it will not be better to remove the run mode that is not very usefull and always decrease energy when you walk instead. In my opinion, the narrative phases was a little too long. Also you need to chose between the humoristic and cute cartoon and the dark music from the eighties.

matkubik 2017-08-02 20:05

I like the fact that meditate recharge your power and that you have to meditate with random keys. It gives a typing-game aspect to your game and it's fun. I had fun on it and the voices make me laugh ;) Great game !

supremefist 2017-08-02 20:09

Nice! Had fun while playing it and managed to finish it. The game mechanic used to meditate is new to me! Thanks for showing it to me, very interesting! Good work!

supercrunchy 2017-08-02 22:33

Simple, innovative and fun. I liked it!

I particularly liked the typing minigame that you could do while trying to move and avoid obstacles. Really put up a challenge to multitask between all of this. I died 2 times after the third fragment, and none from the fourth to the village.

I would probably rebalance either the damage of the bullets (need to be increased), or the power consumption of the rush (needs to be reduced). Right now rushing is almost useless (except in rare cases to avoid some bullets by a bit).

By the way, I loved the voice-over audio, especially the evil guy voice! :grinning:

guckstift 2017-08-04 22:24

Fine game, fella. The voice over is really awesome as already said. It's true! Believe me! And the zenpassana meditation (TM) ... I already use it successfully in my every day life ^v^ Helped me learning to type even more faster. Thanks for that! My gf likes your game too, but she sucked up at the gameplay. The music kinda electro dance music reminded me of a special track from Haken ;) Also I like the story of your game, as always with a lot of fantasy and humor! Please never let us stop to jam together! Its always fun

cakemonitor 2017-08-05 13:13

Nice work! I scored 22,940 in endless mode. I think it would be interesting if the bullets did more damage while dotty is not meditating but only a small amount when she is, and for meditation to take a little longer - perhaps typing whole words or phrases.

simonhutchinson 2017-08-07 21:14

This is deceptively sophisticated in both visuals and gameplay. I was really pleasantly surprised. I really like the world you set up here, and your screenshots don't do justice to your visuals! Perhaps it's because a lot of the polish here is in the movement. Really nice compo entry!

pandakipu 2017-08-07 21:31

MOTHER !!! :'(

Good job, it's was really interresting. I didn't really understand what the letters were about at first :)

capitals 2017-08-11 12:03

This was really interesting to play. I really enjoyed the game, I felt like the game was complete - something rare in Ludum Dare. I enjoyed the meditation mechanic and the difficulty scales appropriatly. If I was to say an area in which this game could improve - it would be, a more varied options for control scheme, I felt a bit uncomfortable using the arrows and control, however thats a minor gripe. Keep it up, I'd like to see more of this. You could possibly add a boss fight at the end - that'll round it off nice :)

huvaakoodia 2017-08-11 15:14

The absurd, tongue-in-cheek plot and presentation are marvelous. The dialog and voices are very funny too.

The typing meditation mechanic is less to my liking. Having to take my eyes off the screen and look at the keyboard (as my hands were not in their proper typing positions due to having to use the arrow keys for moving) makes dodging bullets nigh on impossible. Not that you need to dodge them all, but that is what I always strive for in any *bullet hell'ish* type of deal.

I would have enjoyed the controls more if it was all typing (quick time events basically) or if it was all bulled dodging. Now that I think about it maybe if the key prompts were only WASD and QEZXC then it would be possible to press them without having to take a peek. You should test that at least.

Good job otherwise.

mat4dor 2017-08-14 21:07

Love everything about this game! OMG the sound is hilarious. Love how it turns into a endless game at the end!

josehzz 2017-08-14 21:31

The voice acting got me, so funny :). I found a bug where if you press 2 arrow key at the same time you can't press a letter key.

mspawa 2017-08-14 22:29

I love the voice acting xD it makes me laugh every time Dotty and her (SPOILER ALERT) father talk. (/SPOILER) I like the fact that at the end you can enter the endless mode. But it is a little hard to look at the screen and the keyboard at the same time, I received a lot of punchs because of this, but I understand that this is the difficult of the game so, nice job!!!

lereveur 2017-08-15 00:24

I was not so positive just judging on the screenshots, but I'm happy I gave it a try! It was fun, and that idea with the narrative sounds is genius! The story is fun too, and it was just enough challenging to be fun without being too easy nor too hard. Oh, and last but not least : the charging method. I would never think about melting a search/move/avoiding game with a "hit the good key" one, that's really unexpected. Well done, and I think I give you the last votes you need to reach the 20 (while writing that, I'm reading exactly 19.875 :D).

furiouswitch 2017-08-22 06:06

Amazing game, Erk! As always you make such a moving story and the music was fantastic. I loved playing it. The voice-over was a great idea and very well done too. Congratulations :)