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Bead on the moon
By hishicorne
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| Category | Rank | Score | Count |
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| Overall | 393 | 3.40 | 56 | |
| Fun | 562 | 2.92 | 56 | |
| Innovation | 339 | 3.18 | 56 | |
| Theme | 606 | 3.20 | 56 | |
| Graphics | 142 | 4.21 | 57 | |
| Audio | 287 | 3.31 | 56 | |
| Humor | 149 | 3.23 | 54 | |
| Mood | 371 | 3.31 | 56 | |
Comments
I love the art. Before I even began playing I knew it'd be good.
"little piece of deserter" haha. The capitalized caption for spicy is so funny. Actually all the humor is honestly golden - it's unique and quirky.
I also love the music! It's so chill and ambient. Combined with the pastel-ish color scheme, it makes for a really nice atmosphere.
My advice is to speed up the dialogue - it was too slow for me, even when pressing down - and fix the grammar. Also, maybe make the recipes more intuitive. Great work, it made me laugh :DD
Great art, nice dialogue and music, but on the html version I can't interact with the client :/
@angela-he Thank you soo much ! You made me smile when I woke up this morning ! Thank you for your advices, i'll probably check that for a posible post-jam version !
@MichaelTWG have you tried to right click on them ? I've just checked it and it works. Also make sure they don't move anymore - wich means they'r waiting. If it don't work, try playing it with google chrome maybe ?
I like the interaction with clients. And I also think the dialogue is too slow.
I love the art and music! The color combination is very appealing. I also found the dialogue to be too slow especially in the intro. but it's an amazing game for this jam.
yishalee
2017-08-01 09:08
Thinking about what's the meaning of selecting ingredients, why not just click on names on recepe and then let system bake it automatically. Yet actually that's just the key that makes up the fun and challenge of this game. You need to classify dishes according to tastes so that you can save much time. Time is a very important resourse in this game. I really like your game so that I tried many times even only bad ending is revealed... Good graphic and music, humorous dialogue,interesting gameplay and feedback. Suggestions: the bake button at bottom is actually recipe, which is confusing; hope I can skip dialogues.
@yishalee : Yeah that's what I was thinking since some people told me cooking was a bit weird. I'll change things I think with pre-made meal you just have to click on (and then you can personalize it with poison of great things). However I'm still thinking about it.
I'll definitely do something for dialogues so you can skip and make them faster.
Thank for your feedback ! :)
royoyo
2017-08-01 09:56
If you hold LMB in dialogue it'll go faster!
The most integral game I've seen so far! Thanks.
apace
2017-08-01 12:45
Really nice game, good job! I like the humor in the dialogues and in the client interactions. Great job on the art, it's awesome! Overall, very nice game!
toulou
2017-08-01 16:37
It's impressive how you managed to create a game with this much personnality in less than three days. I really like the presentation, and the gameplay is quite interesting ( not original, but still great). I think maybe it's too hard, the baking part should have been simplified or streamlined. There is so much things to watch out... Still, great game, good job !
sgt3v
2017-08-01 16:59
Good job! I server pepper cookies to everyone since I found it easy to remember but not everyone was satisfied :P
Thank you all for your reviews !
@toulou Thank you again ! I'm probably working on a post-jam version and i'm really trying to improve the gameplay - wich is, i think, not very good -. The cooking system is being modified and I like what I have in mind, it's more original and more fun. And it's going to be "simplified" (but with more parameter that you must take care of) ! Thank for your review, it's going to help me a lot.
Great Idea, I loved the game. It's a mix of Fun times and some time serious moment. I liked the graphics and the dialog system.
I would like an option to skip the cutscene if I fail. Recipes were fun, though I didnt see the menu first playthrough, id like more time when the people come in and leave because I'm not a very good chef :) fun game though
johngun
2017-08-01 19:19
Very nice, like the dialogs and the choices along, unfortunately I didn't do so well so I guess I'm stuck there. Great job
@elit3dgaming thank for your feedback ! I'm thinking about making the game more longer, barrely a real-time game wich I think could be fun - it was my main idea -.
@jogngun thank you for playing !
Haha love the universe it's in. Some recipes are not that intuitive i think (personally) so i was mostly giving them burnt stuff and hoping for the best xD
The graphics and audio are really well done and the concept is quite original! I had a bit of trouble following the recipies when all of the clients were lining up.. Guess the stress got to me :). Maybe showing the recipies with pictures would have been a bit better but overall its really good!
togis
2017-08-02 06:04
I uploaded my gameplay of this game on youtube, you can find it here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FR973bTTnk
Thanks for being part of the stream :)
rebtf
2017-08-02 06:11
Definitely great art, lots of fun conversing with customers.
I did find the recipe making kind of tedious and a bit uncertain, but it could be easily improved with proper pacing like starting with few and adding more ingredients over time or some other kind of learning system.
@wrexialmt , @rebtf : Thank you ! :) I'm already thinking about a new system for the recipes so if I make a post-jam version it'll be more fun. Your feedbacks on this point help me a lot ! :)
@togis thank you for playing and for the link ! It was fun seing you playing it !
The garphics and the music of your game are really good! I like them a lot. For me it was hard with the recipes in the beginning because I couldn't remember what to put in and always have to look twice or more to the recipes book. I think it would be better to have a kind of learning system like @rebtf mentioned. But overall a good game. Well done!
cmlsc
2017-08-04 07:22
The graphics were clean and you got the palette right even though you didn't get the form the best. Interactions were kind of glitchy. I like the overall idea of the game. :P
I feel like the theme was kind of forced into the game though. Usually it's a good idea to think: Would the game be good if I pulled out the concept related to the theme? If your answer is yes, then in most cases you didn't tie the theme in very well to the core of the game(it depends on the theme though).
Anyways, good job!
@cmlsc thank for your feedback ! About the interactions that are "kind of glitchy", what are you talking about ? I'm currently - at the moment - making the new cooking system so it would be less hard, less "strange".
The concept around the theme is not at 100% what I wanted at the begining, because I wanted to do too much thing, I couldn't implement everything wich is a bit a deception for me. So yeah, at the verry begining the concept around the power was more interesting, but as it needed to work with a good client/monster system, I couldn't program it a 100% :( That's one of the "what went wrong" with my game, and I take your advice as a rule for my next ludum dare ! :)
Thank you again for your feedback and for having played the game. Have a good day !
Solid graphics, and I love a good story-based game. I'm not too familiar with Sailor Moon's plot but I love CLAMP in general so that's always a plus. It took me a while to realize I could open the recipe list while baking but after that, the gameplay went smoothly.
Got 4 of the 5 endings so far! So CLAMP, so cute! The idea of fighting monsters with tastes they don't like is so, so brilliant. I don't think I've ever seen it in a game, ever.
Also amazing how you managed to code (and write) so much story exposition.
Congrats, a great entry!
Very fun game! The narrative is good and kept me interested till the end. Congratulations to the team for the great work!
@TheOneThatNeverWas thank you ! It was not a team but only a single person - me - doing everything :)
oab
2017-08-09 05:18
Nice graphics, It will be great If I can select menu and it show what ingredients that I need to use for bake. I always bake "Ugly things". :')
like the game, should introduce recipes along the way i guess, i was kinda lost in the begginning
cttfow
2017-08-09 15:44
Good art here, nice idea and pretty good execution as well. The only problem I would have is the actual recipes. I was trying to figure the right ingredients out by myself, but I couldn't see a single bitter or sour ingredient so it didn't make a lot of sense. Apart from that, the system worked well (although I'm not exactly sure how the timer worked, since it seemed to go back to -10 every time it got to 0) and this is a pretty neat game!
@oab Yes, you can see a list of recipes by clicking on "recipe list", at the bottom of the game :) However the book of recipes is being remaked in something way better at this moment for the post-jam version !
@indiemaniac Haha yes, I've introduced some kind of a learning-system combined with a "quest" to unlock new recipes for the post-jam version :)
@cttfow thank for the feebback too - yeah, the recipes weren't very intuitive - it'll change with the post-jam version :) The timer show you in how many seconds the new client will come. In the post-jam version, it works a bit differently but the purpose is the same :)
Thoughts: I've played the web jam version(i think) for about 10 times now and sadly i must stop.Its a great game seriously I love it!!!Amazing art,dialogues and i love these kind of games so its a 10/10, it's just sad that i found only 2 endings but i found the cookie carrot ice cream recipe YAY!
Technical: Honey and Strawberry Ice Cream and Spicy Carrot cake recipes give a failed ugly thing You can win by just talking and not baking at all so a small tweak there? You can bake as much as you want without using the redo it button Maybe make it so the intro is skippable after the 1st watch
Final thoughts: Hope you keep working on it because:I LOVE IT!!!
Hey @sonicgrey, thank you a lot ! Yay, this is many problems that are (normaly) corrected with the futur post-jam version :) Your feedback make me soooo happy ! If you want you can follow @beadonthemoon to know more about the post-jam version :)
Really nice game with interesting concept of gameplay. Baking mechanics are simple, but fun. Graphics looks nice. Great Job!
lereveur
2017-08-11 18:09
I really like the concept, but I can't memorize the recipes enough fast to contempt everyone so I only got one end each play. Well done anyway, the idea deserves to be developed :)
I Recently played your game during a live stream at your request. [here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEKsM8vugRs) .
I am sorry that I couldn't memorize the recipes fast enough and had to move on in the live stream. I really liked your art, the dialog system, and the crafting system... They must have taken awhile to make! I only wish maybe you could flip through a cookbook while the crafting window was up. Great entry!
if you haven't already please give my game a try [Zombie Power Station](https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/39/zombie-power-station) HTML5 Thanks
A little bit depressive game, but baking is really ok, when you do it with love ;) Nice graphics, cool sound that goes well by. The concept of baking task is a lot of fun!
belga54
2017-08-16 11:07
I liked the art style a lot ! Also talking to people was so funny. I played it a couple times but, I didnt found the five endings. Liked the music also. You'd to make the font also pixeled, so it fits the art style.
To sum up, everything in this game was great ! Good entry !
Thank for your feedbacks !
@belga54 Yeah, I wanted to do a personalised font but haven't had the time, but for the post-jam version, I promise ! :)