wolfie 2017-08-05 18:56
This is an awesome game, well done!
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD39 → Your Friend Is Lost In The Woods
By pilly
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 55 | 4.05 | 40 | |
| Fun | 194 | 3.55 | 40 | |
| Innovation | 34 | 4.07 | 40 | |
| Theme | 3 | 4.55 | 40 | |
| Graphics | 452 | 3.44 | 40 | |
| Audio | 133 | 3.70 | 39 | |
| Humor | 120 | 3.40 | 39 | |
| Mood | 46 | 4.13 | 40 |
This is an awesome game, well done!
Well.. I never found my friend but at least I had a blast!
This is amazing. I love love love it. Great music, great theme, great level design.
I want to dye my hair blue and make friends who have adventures in the forest!
I even thought to myself while playing: "The mechanic is cool, but I can just ignore it and still solve the maze. Better save my battery even though I'm seeing super distinctive tree patterns." NOPE. Doesn't work that way! Gotta play the game.
You're a madman!
That was fun! I liked how the two friends are apparently completely unphased by this life or death situation and are texting back and forth instead of using the remaining battery life to call for help and get an actually competent search and rescue party together. I never found my friend, but not for lack of trying.
Also, you suck for making me waste my batteries to get directions at the diamond which ended up being wrong :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:
Suggestions: - Maybe as an emotional punch make the texts more frantic as the power in the phone gets low. - Break up the trees with some other graphics. It kind of felt like they were lost in an orchard with all the identical trees in rows
Bugs: - None. Nicely done!
Fantastic mood, I was not really into it but as I walked deeper into the woods and my battery was getting lower, I was enjoying it more and more.
Thank you for making this :3
Nice work, this fits together pretty well :)
This game shows that a great idea and good gameplay is way more important than HD graphics. Well done! This is one of the best games i've played so far, it's really good. And the end, WOW! very well executed.
Some suggestions: - The game is a bit too long so it becomes repetitive, I can imagine many people giving up before reaching the end, and missing the punch line. - The best idea is the cellphone. The way the messages appear and are contextual to where you are is amazing. So it's a shame that if you are not careful with the energy you will be missing this feature, which makes this game so unique.
Nothing more to say, excellent job!
Ah man, everything about that was great. Strangely enough I think the walking animation of the player character was my favourite thing - it just looked so cute. I simply had to find my friend!
If @elmismopancho didn't say there was an ending I was ready to give up on this game. We spent entirely too much time on this game, I refused to let it beat me once I knew it was actually winable.
AWESOME job!
Wow! I can't remember the last time I had so much trouble solving a puzzle! Every dead end was heart breaking (or infuriating) and so many of the text messages made me smile. Such a well made game! I had a blast playing and absolutely refused to stop until I found my friend!!
The gameplay is poor but I like the color palette
This is easily the best use of the theme I've seen so far. I'm really glad I didn't let the phone run out and start trying to brute force the solution.
The only thing that bugs me is the control scheme - WASD + mouse (or arrow keys + space) would have made more sense to me.
Great idea, great execution!
Simple gameplay, but fun :) Well done! :)
Great "story" on teh side in the phone and i loved that you had to navigate the forest with the sometimes help from the friend and slowly your battery is running low. Also the background music very atmospherice
The audio and art are great IMO. They add a certain quiet (yet desperate) ambience to the game.
I loved the texting sequences. I'm sad I didn't get to keep the phone on to see all of them. :-)
The only suggestion I have is perhaps to reduce the amount of backtracking involved. I felt like a lot of time was spent mindlessly returning to where I was before.
Otherwise, it's a really nice entry, good job! :-)
I love this game! I'm such a fan of simple, fun mechanics enlivened by character interactions. This is a great use of the theme and the texts were so much fun. (I'm glad I got to see one about this is the most they've ever talked! I hope they hang out more after this. :relaxed:) I appreciate how tricky it was, since that means you have to rely on your friend to make it through. Wonderful!
Nice tree placement and game level design. Like the last where you must push the tree to go.
Tried 3 times.
Awesome level design. I got lost in the woods too since both me and my friend were bad at knowing where we are, but still a good game :)
I finally found my friend. Now how do we get home, I think we both are lost xD
Very cool. Your game is similar to mine, but your concept is so much better. The game is a little boring at the beginning, but after that it's really cool. I love how you use your phone to get hints from your friend where you should go. Good job!
A simple concept that proves to be quite fun. The theme is very well exploited. The story is simple but captivated me enough so I would try again after the first game over. Very good job!
Nice little game. I really like the level design and the music.
Great game! This is a really clever use of the theme and really interesting. It's a bit hard to know when to use your phone and when to conserve, kind of necessitating multiple playthroughs. I love the overall style and how the graphics and sound work together with the loneliness of the story. Really nice entry.
Great game ! The mecanics are really easy to understand, but the narrative part is clearly a big plus !
Good job :)
Really cool use of the theme. The slow loss of power makes this really urgent rush and amplifies the whole 'lost' atmosphere. The dialogue is fun and cheeky.
I loved playing through this a few times and writing notes down on a piece of paper each time. The game is a really clever use of the theme and has a lot of character in spite of its simple gameplay. This has already been mentioned, but WASD is probably better if players are going to use the mouse. Fantastic entry overall.