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The Dictater

By don-fouts, Neighbro, Korgo and Nillard

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall6003.0934
Fun6942.7134
Innovation5982.7534
Theme4443.4533
Graphics3223.7834
Audio3063.2823
Humor593.8333
Mood4733.1332

Comments

don-fouts 2017-08-01 03:55

Really happy that we finished our first Ludum Dare!!!

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sgt3v 2017-08-01 04:05

This was a fun and very nicely done game, visuals and music are very good. Now I have to take care of my finger.

chimadan 2017-08-01 04:09

looks are clean and smooth, nice

elit3dgaming 2017-08-01 04:11

Fun game and challenging. Finger gets tired after a few playthroughs

ramou 2017-08-01 17:20

my finger and my mouse doesn't like, but me, its fine :) And... i don't win ?? screen_didactor.jpg

skyward 2017-08-01 19:29

Very fun! But my hand is dead... the_dictater_victory.PNG

don-fouts 2017-08-01 23:56

So many fingers were harmed in the making of these reviews (haha). Thanks everyone for trying our game out! @ramou sorry our game cheated you out of a win screen :c

capitals 2017-08-02 01:02

"You're just mashing it now" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7_P2ygkAwU?t=7s

zgragselus 2017-08-02 01:15

My finger... oh.... The game is great!

After 5 minutes of hard trying, I had to make a click script - just to save my finger from certain death in next 5 minutes.

farhan-qureshi 2017-08-02 01:23

Cool style and visuals, but unfortunately not the best idea to make a clicker game where you have to spam your mouse, since we've all been mashing to finish our games already. I think if the clicks did more healing for the states it would be bearable, but my hand hurt after 30 seconds :/

littlelegend 2017-08-02 01:23

Looks cool and is nicely done, but that Mouse "Mashing" is not my thing really ;)

branquelo 2017-08-02 01:40

It's a nice idea, but the "button smash" makes the game not very funny, but it's still a great game

don-fouts 2017-08-02 02:19

@farhan-qureshi Thanks for your feedback, reducing the number of clicks players has to make is going to be one of the first things we look at when we continue this project. Based on all the feedback (and sore fingers) we've been getting, I think it's a good starting point!

red-fan-games 2017-08-02 03:41

Awesome conect and art direction! Loved the potato puns and artistic coherence!

brendan-engelman 2017-08-02 03:48

Fun game, cool take on the "running out of power" theme. I think the click mashing gameplay works for this type of game, but the addition of more mechanics would've made the clicking a little less unbearable.

martintristan 2017-08-02 04:09

I love the art style! Nice and bright colors. The game is very in line with the theme. The only problem is... I think I broke my mouse.

ohmaigawd 2017-08-02 11:26

Cool game and nice art, but my finger hurts now and my blood pressure is higher!

kapricorn-media 2017-08-02 17:36

Love the art direction! Specially how the map is laid out! Very good pacing and smoothness overall!

sampointoh 2017-08-03 02:12

I thought this game was simple but fun!

deanard 2017-08-03 02:37

I can't handle this much clicking, lemmie go get my turbo mouse. But in all seriousness this was a fun little game with simple mechanics and a cool art style.

stormforce02 2017-08-03 02:39

Ooof, my hand really hurts after that. Good game though!

sebastian-m 2017-08-03 02:46

The game looks so nice, the menu and everything si really polished. So Props for that. The humor of it is nice.

Positive:

- It looks really nice - It plays nicely - Has a great humor

Negaive:

- Poor mouse - There's not much gameplay - It doesn't fit the theme really

But great job guys.

jsmcag 2017-08-03 12:01

A really interesting take on the theme! This game really stands out with its quirky look and quality music. The gameplay, however, doesn't have a lot of depth, and left my finger begging for forgiveness... It'd be nice if we could place the police where we wanted (with cooldown so we can't place it again and again without waiting), and some other gameplay mechanics would make for a very compelling game. As it stands,it has the looks,but not really the substance.

Still, it was a very well done game! Great entry!

joskineide 2017-08-03 17:45

I see what you did there, a game about potatoes that you have the "mash" the mouse. Anyways, as many people have said before, it looks and sounds nice, but there isn't much to do, after a little while I just used a macro to see the end.

don-fouts 2017-08-03 21:45

(@sebastian-m @jsmcag @joskineide ... Thanks for your feedback! We plan on going in and adding some of the features we wanted but ultimately cut, due to the time constraints, after the contest. @jsmcag, I like that idea. We'll have to look into possibly doing something like that as we continue the development!

theonethatneverwas 2017-08-04 13:13

Very funny game. The artstyle is incredible. Congratulations to the team!

prettylucky 2017-08-04 15:42

Great graphics, music is fitting, potatoes are always good for a laugh (xD). But I started clicking for about a minute, then took one look at how much MORE I'd have to click and was like "Nope." Clickers aren't my thing, but I think it would feel better to scale the action in some way, so it doesn't just become a click-fest, like let us take smaller territories and keep them without having to click to much and then move up to bigger territories once we've established enough 'power points', someting like that.

Also consider "...and trying to uproot your regime!" XP You're welcomeee

arnage 2017-08-04 15:57

I had the same issue as @Ramou, but other than that a very funny and polished (if a little shallow gameplay-wise) take on the theme!

don-fouts 2017-08-04 21:08

@prettylucky thanks for your feedback, your puns are spot on haha!

kubenexion 2017-08-07 12:06

My mouse now hate me but it was really funny :D

Nice graphics and audio, congrats.

pio 2017-08-07 16:13

Windows only, shame. I really wanted to play it :(. Please make builds for other platforms too next time.

badly-drawn-rod 2017-08-12 13:34

Fantastic presentation and graphics. My arthritic finger hates me even more now.