Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD39 → Don't Let the Light Go Out
By beamkirby
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 188 | 3.55 | 22 | |
| Fun | 208 | 3.40 | 22 | |
| Innovation | 363 | 3.00 | 22 | |
| Theme | 222 | 3.70 | 22 | |
| Graphics | 182 | 3.65 | 22 | |
| Audio | 315 | 2.85 | 22 | |
| Mood | 231 | 3.20 | 22 |
Great game, fun and challenging ! May be the gameplay is a little classic, but the ambiance and controls are good. It is nice to have various enemies as it forces the player to use different strategy to kill them and make the jetpack useful.
Really nice work. Great screen effects and with the text (wish I knew how to do that!). I felt the difficulty spiked at a point. It seemed I became overrun all of a sudden.
Really cool game, nice variety of enemies. Good character movement, I really like the jetpack and how you have to really take advantage of it to kill enemies like snakes.
One recommendation I have is ending the level when the player dies. I died mid-wave and the only enemy left alive was the one that shoots rockets. So I just sat there with static on my screen for a good 15-20 seconds while the robot just lobbed rockets slowly at the light in the middle.
@connor-hagan Yeah, I realized how annoying it is to die with only the shooter enemies left, so I just released a patch that makes the game over happen much faster.
Thanks for the comments so far!
this game was blocked by my antivirus and came up as a threat. just fyi
Fun game! I echo the comment above about the difficulty spikes... I didn't realize that you could shoot down for awhile once the snakes appeared, and it felt like I died really fast once those guys and the rocket dudes appeared.
On the controls, although I get why you used space bar to pick up the batteries, I found myself constantly pressing space to jump. It felt pretty awkward pressing x to jump. I think I would have preferred space to be jump and x to be picking up the battery.
This is a pretty decent entry. Sounds were decent, the graphics worked for the style. The speed of the guy plus the choice of control keys made controlling the player a bit awkward. Nice work!
That was one of the first games that I've tried out that was fun enough to play for a while. The different robots and their different attacks were pretty cool, the first time I saw a snake I had no idea how to deal with it, I had to figure out that I was able to shoot beneath me, which was a fun discovery. The art was good in game, but the font/that strange effect was rather annoying to read. I liked the evil chuckle, although the rest of the sound effects felt too jarring to listen to for a long time since they kept on playing on repeat. Try pitch shifting them to make it a little less repetitive perhaps? Over all, a really fun game. Good work!
This game looks really nice, I also really like all the particles and effects! The hovering mechanics is interesting, otherwise it's pretty standard, but great job!
Nice art, some impressive effects, and a clean well-realised concept. Audio does get a bit repetitive, and the choice of controls was slightly awkward. Personally I found the gameplay a bit on the difficult side -- but then I'm not very good at these sorts of games, so don't take that as a criticism. :P
Solid work overall.
The effects are cool, but the gameplay is actually kinda lame. Not much to say.
I loved being android, it is not something i can be everyday!
-m
This was pretty fun to play. I personally didn't enjoy the title pages, it was annoying to read and kinda conflicted with the cartoony robots. Other than that, great job!