stracker 2017-07-31 23:55
The basic gameplay is pretty satisfying, I enjoyed my 5 minutes with it !
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD39 → Drainor
By thatrumme, seanarooni, rainbowkappagames and aguakev
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 256 | 3.60 | 25 | |
| Fun | 75 | 3.87 | 25 | |
| Innovation | 762 | 2.39 | 25 | |
| Theme | 376 | 3.56 | 25 | |
| Graphics | 488 | 3.34 | 25 | |
| Audio | 187 | 3.54 | 24 | |
| Humor | 250 | 2.85 | 22 | |
| Mood | 601 | 2.85 | 23 |
The basic gameplay is pretty satisfying, I enjoyed my 5 minutes with it !
Great submission! Great style and really fun. I love the little touches on the movement like the small amount of acceleration when you first start moving and how you move faster when not firing.
There's a few small issues, though. First one is that you move faster diagonally than cardinally. Probably just need to normalize a vector.
There doesn't seem to be any real reason to stop firing (unless you have nothing to fire at). If you moved slower than some of the enemies when firing and faster than them when not firing, I think that would give you a reason to not fire.
Aiming can be a little awkward when enemies close in on you. I think this is because the robot's front aims at the mouse instead of the gun aiming at it.
There's some blockiness on some of the graphics, and I can't tell if it's intentional or not. The walls are smooth, the projectiles look pretty smooth while moving, but the player and especially the rats look like they should be smoother.
Last couple of things are super small. It wasn't immediately obvious that you can hold down the left mouse button to fire automatically. That's probably common sense to more genre savvy players.
Why is the shield key on V? Q, E, and F would all be easier to reach, and they don't seem to serve any other function. At least there's the option of using the right mouse button.
Again, this was really great.
Very fun and simple gameplay! I really enjoy these types of games. Everything else was done nicely, except for maybe the aiming (the gun should shoot where the cursor is, but it just shoots forward and you look towards the cursor). I felt the game was a bit too easy though, so you maybe could've made it more difficult, or put an option for a hard mode where you can't even get hit once or the spawn rate of enemies is double.
Also, I really loved that you put some story in. Not only outside of the game on the submission page, but also in the game itself as an intro.
Either way, really nice entry! Well done!
Hello there... I hope your participation at LD was satisfactory...
Here is my rating:
Overall: 4
Fun: 4
Innovation: 3
Theme: 4
Graphics: 3
Audio: 4
Humor: 3
Mood: 4
Jajajaja... Good job... keep it going :D The history is... really interesting :v I mean... if there was a "virus" bot created from you to consume all electricity... damn what a nightmare xD Jajajaja Funny and interesting... that reminds me to "Alien shooter" game... I want to make something like "Alien shooter" someday Good sounds, good music... but there is an little bug when the boss appear... the enemies don't stop moving, and when the scene ends, I was hit by you of them...
It's fun, but... too short :c
Here is my entry: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/39/runoutofenergy-the-game rating me please! :D There my game link for Windows… enjoy https://www.dropbox.com/s/dpapwuoscuiu9eq/RunOutOfPower.zip?dl=0
Oh man, that description sure was confusing, before playing the game. Anyway, the little story bit in the beginning was nice, but then story is my weak spot. The game itself was pretty satisfying. The gameplay was tight and it felt like an overall polished and completed game. Innovation-wise it might've been a bit lacking but overall the game was fun to play and isnt that what its all about?
Also the boss fight was fun but waaay too easy! Gimme more! Great job, guyos.
Pretty cool, but i have problem with the spray shot, maybe a little bit too cheaty, slow down the player is not enough to reduce the power of it, maybe add some scaterring increasing/decreasing with time ?
Wow :D In one word it is AMAZING !!! :D 5/5
Really fun game!! It's so satisfying to shoot the guys and the final boss in it it's a nice touch. The humor you got in the "plot" is nice.
Good points:
- Satisfying gameplay - Nice movement feeling - Graphics looks alright - The boss is fun
Bad points:
- The shooting sound gets annoying - The shooting direction is confusing since it doesn't aim where you click.
But good job over all!!
I sat in the middle just killing the guys that came at me for a while. I thought it was pretty satisfying (particularly the shooting audio and controls) and then I realized I had an actual objective when they didn't stop spawning. Overall an enjoyable experience! Nice work.
Just going to leave this here: [Gods Way](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RD8i4GICuyw)
Good job. I enojyed the concept of recharging. I felt the physic was weird though. Still, I still killed the boss!
The game play was pretty fun and the controls felt nice and tight. The game was overall pretty easy in terms of the waves of enemies... even if I got hit a bunch I could recharge to full without an issue.
I see comments here saying the story was great and what-not, but I honestly didn't have the patience to sit through the really slow scrolling text on the intro screen, and didn't realize that was a backstory for the game. I think that needed faster text or something to make me not want to instantly skip it. Also, I thought the game was a score attack game, so I purposely died and was disappointed when there was no score there. Perhaps the story hinted that there was a boss? The game itself didn't really give any hint of that, and I think that was needed.
I really enjoyed this one! The controls felt tight and responsive which I think is important. The graphics and audio also weren't half bad. Good job!
Hey, this was great fun!
The gameplayy worked very well, the sound was fittable. I liked the good hitting feedback and some small details: Shots came out where the gun is, not straight of the middle of the player and rounds fall an the floor and there is a boss fight.
A very round and fun entry. Good job!
Nice glowing effect! I included it in my Ludum Dare 39 compilation video series, if you’d like to take a look :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvWeoxTQbD4
I played on stream, _(VOD: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/164456874)_ so you were able to watch a lot of thoughts live as I played. However I _**promised**_ I would come back to rate and give feedback. Any questions/comments use [@timbeaudet on twitter](https://www.twitter.com/timbeaudet). And **finally** a link to _my_ game if you wanted to check it out: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/39/edrive
Right off the bat the initial feeling was that the cutscene typing was far too slow. Good likely for debugging/checking but really slow to watch after, and I feel I have a slower than normal reading pace. Usually things disappear before I read it, which is also quite annoying - perhaps more so than too slow. The Main menu is interesting, but doesn't bring me very deep into the feel of the game, just some text for title, simple menu and tutorial in the left. I do like when games show 72 or 48hrs. I think the tutorial was a bit odd, but that is always hit and miss. The best experiences don't need a tutorial. But then when they don't exist and it isn't clear what to do, that is worse so good middle ground, but if the controls can be *super obvious* or taught in first moments of play, that is best. Though the black is nice minimalistic effect.
The credits felt a little weird where everyone was founding member, and the text sort of ran on a bit. Then I jumped into the game and wasn't sure if I had unlimited ammo at first, quickly learned I did, and just started killing the little mice? that came at me. I saw the spawners fairly quickly - play arena wasn't TOO large to make that difficult but it had seemed that it would be a "survive as long as possible" game. But then I couldn't find the score and finally figured out that the spawn location was able to die - luckily it flashed when I was shooting it so I did keep at it, but nearly gave up before it exploded.
The glow of some of the graphics, the energy, enemies and projectiles was quite nice. and the arena very simplistic. I was super happy to have infinite ammo. The energy/power didn't really seem to be running out terribly much, so it wasn't too hard to stay alive, once I figured things out. It also appeared that the game got easier and easier as time went on as spawn points were closed.
Maybe a different approach would be to have waves, make the spawn points easier to close/kill but when the first wave of spawn points were killed open new ones at different locations and more numbers. Just a **random** thought, maybe it is _bad_.
It was neat to have a boss, and he had different abilities which was neat. I didn't seem to have too much challenge in beating him, but was neat to have the change in pace. That said when I beat it, it said I won the level, and I guess there was supposed to be another level, but it was a little anti-climatic / not rewarding to have just been finished and tossed to main menu. That said, it is a weekend game effort, so not everything gets done.
Good entry!
Unable to actually play because of the Windows only build, but I like the aesthetic and arcade-y feel from the video.