Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD39 → Energy Dash
By shell-pirate
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 97 | 3.91 | 64 | |
| Fun | 124 | 3.72 | 63 | |
| Innovation | 505 | 2.93 | 62 | |
| Theme | 291 | 3.69 | 64 | |
| Graphics | 77 | 4.38 | 64 | |
| Audio | 170 | 3.60 | 62 | |
| Mood | 231 | 3.56 | 60 |
Nice looking game! The sprites are decent, but the background and terrain tiles are absolutely gorgeous. Thankful for the ingame instructions as well. Having to balance restoring the worlds' power, and your own health, is a nice mechanic. I would've just liked a bit more variety with the enemies and the level. Good entry though!
Great work! I liked everything here: graphics, mechanics, sound and it's also fun. You have the base for a very good game.
Love the graphics, the gameplay is pretty fun for a while too I especially like the weighty feel of the weapon, great music and sound effects. Would've liked to have seen more enemies though, but a good game!
First off there is a bug where the music can play multiple copies after restarting the game. I played about 7 times in testing with a restart and by then the music was getting painful.
The game is fun and both the graphics and sound design are excellent. The flying enemies are very hard to dodge. I would suggest making more forgiving hit boxes. Also I would like to see some more variety as the game, despite how short a round is, I think some additional variations being brought after a few planet recharges would make things interesting. Then again it could be that I'm bad and didn't see any more content. The longest I lasted was 3 minutes.
Great GFX, very solid design!
Really good game, actually the best I've tried in this jam. The gameplay is fast and difficult, exactly what I like. The only thing I didn't like was the command layout
can't get enough of it. It was frustrating first because the fact that i collect the batteries but it is not in use until i press again. Good job, loved the recoil, it forces you to move and not staying in a safe point.
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I'm in love with this, it's so addictive
Great game, good job!
Good game. It is really hard and I kinda suck at it but that is okay. The graphics are well made and the gameplay is good. The game is a little bit repetitive. But then again, you didn't have much time. Well done!
sooo addictive to shoot, I cannot understand why shooting in this game feels so good haha. great entry!
this game really has that addictive Cave Story feel to it's shooting mechanics. and the art and sound design work really well! The whole thing seems really polished. I like it!
Absolutely loved it! just didn't like the controls kept mashing space-bar instead of X
It's really, really fun to play, the movement and tight controls - especially the shooting - it's so satisfying. Brilliant job with the graphics, background especially, gives a great atmosphere to the game along with the soundtrack. Level design could've been better, with enemies spawning on the top part and all, but it's good enough for the jam.
This was a great entry. Everything played together nicely. I agree with the earlier comments that the background and the music and the overall feel. The music was repetitive but not in a bad way. It just stayed out of your way and let you play. The screen freeze on getting hit is a nice touch also.
Suggestions: - Let you fire diagonally and upwards. I feel like the difficulty with the flying enemies should be that they are on a different level than the ground ones and require you to divide your attention and fire. I found they were more frustrating because of the combination of the very high jump speed and the many hits it took to beat them. I think it would still be frantic with the ability to shoot them from the ground, but maybe less frustrating. - Maybe decrease the sprite size so there is a little more room to see and react to enemies? Jumping was always a crap shoot because an enemy could just appear leaving you with very little options. - Some sort of feedback when your shots hit something. Shooting things was fun and felt good, but I think having a little hit animation on the bullet death would have added a lot.
Bugs: Nothing. Well done!
Really cool graphics! The general feel of the game great and the controls are solid. Really enjoyed it! Well done!
This game has really great game feel. It has just the right amount of screen shake and the knock back on your gun gives each shot a real kick. The game freezing effect when getting hit was also nice, if a bit too long. Plus the game has killer sound effects and music. I also like the tactical decisions you have to make about the energy pods. Since they hinder your ability to combat, players are tempted to use them for a brief upgrade, but at the cost of the objective. All of these little points of polish really elevate this game above the mundane game it could have been into something great. The game loop could get a bit repetitive, but it was overall very fun to play. Excellent work!
Very nice game ! Very strong graphics, gameplay, feel and mood. I'm just not fan of background music and the difficulty, I think the shoot should make more damage to the enemies. Congrats !
I really like the music and the shooting felt also very good. The little knock back and the screenshake make it powerfull. I also liked that the time stops for a short moment after you hit an enemy! The camera movement is a bit too fast and too much attached to the player.
The attacks have such a good "thump!" feeling to them! Specially when you're buffed. That's the first thing that i wanted to say, it feels super good to shoot and kill the baddies!
This looks like a, even if relatively simple, amazingly polished game! The gameplay's smooth, the art looks great and the music suits it so well. I mean... i try to say something "to improve" for each game, but i found it hard on this particular one. Any suggestions that passed through my mind were design choices, not improvements. I feel like you took a simple idea and made the absolute best out of it.
Congratulations on it! Keep it up!
Very well elaborated game! Good game feel.
Really simple, but very solid entry. Graphics looks just awesome, mechanics are fun(I really enjoyed, when after shot recoil was so big, that it pushed player backwards). Sound effects are simple, but fit the game. I think that adding upward and diagonal shoting mechanics would be fun, especially for killing flying enemies. Great Job!
Cool game. I had some problems because EU keyboards have QWERTZ instead of QWERTY, so I had to reach to the Z button every time to pick something up and that was really annoying.
The graphics are really well done. The music is pretty good as well.
So the gameplay is very simple, but quite some fun. I didn't enjoy the knockback very much, because it made the screen shake the entire time when you're firing a lot. It did feel satisfying, but also disorienting. Other than that it was a lot of fun though.
Overall very good entry. Great job.
Reminds me of old megaman games, nice job!
Overall a fun game yet quite challenging (haven't been able to last more than 2 minutes...). Graphics look great and the recoil of the gun as well as the screen shake makes the character feel satisfying.
Great graphics, great gameplay, great sounds! Overall it's a very good game you brought here! It's kinda addictive too. Well done! :)
Beautiful art style, tight controls and fun gameplay, one of the best I've played so far. My only gripe is that it would be good to be able to control jump height with longer button presses to help shoot flying enemies and time jumps better.
very well made game! There is not much to complain here. Maybe the jumping sound is a bit too sharp but other than that I can't come up with any complaints. The pixel art especially is amazing!
For some reason I can't seem to download the game... I'll try again later :)
This game is awesome! Is has everything i would have wanted in a game. The gameplay is great and art is sleek and the sounds are crisp. The polish is also done very well in the game. Though as a new player, the only i would say is that it starts off too quickly and it is a little difficult to catch on. Maybe a more effective tutorial, something other than just text. All in all, Great work and Congratulations! :smiley:
Disliked the music, I'd have liked something a little more lively, or even epic. But according to me this one just doesn't fit. Tutorial is VERY bad. For a game that simple, you could have explained with more a synthetic and easy-to-understand text. The animations and movements are very fluid and make the game soooooo confortable to play. But the design of the characters (player or ennemies) are boring: no emphasizing color, no shape, no life. What a shame! With this quality of animation, the game could have easily bean so pleasant to watch! Excellent work, very clean and very fun to play!
Very nice game! The gameplay is very easy to learn and very fun. Good job!
The Artstyle and music work well together with the game. The animations look nice.
The music is a bit simple however, and the characters attack seems to have the least impactful sound design.
The movement feels great! You can control the heights of your jump and it's very fluid. It would have been nice to be able to shoot downwards too, especially when the ships fly up from underneath you.
You could also show how long the player survived in more detail, also telling the seconds.
It's nice to have the option between getting more power or regaining health + a significant combat boost.
Shooting stuff feels nice, also because of recoil and explosions.
Overall, it's fun to play :)
The core gameplay is really fun! and the graphics are absolutely amazing, though it took a while to get used to the controls.
Visuals are nice, fit the theme. Controls were a bit odd -- should really use 'up' button for jump.
The game graphic got me. It was nicely done as well as game physics. It was really comfortable to play. However, it feels like this game is missing something. Something like a dodge mechanic. You kind of need more dynamic Also, why I can't get any batteries from annoying flying fuckers? If I get something from one enemy, I expect to get whatever from another on.
Very cool! I love the main character :) The art direction is coherent, maybe the music could be a bit less repetitive, altough it gives a rushing feel to the game. I like the screen transitions, the start screen parallax effect, the clear contrast between the background and the foreground. I hope to see more games from you! Cheers
Everything in this game has a high level of polish which is surprising for a 72 hour jam game. My main issue is with the controls and how they could be a lot more intuitive. I don't really see a reason to use (Z) to pick up items instead of just colliding with them. Also, mapping the jump function to the (up arrow) is more comfortable than pressing (X).
What to say after everything have been said? Well, at least I can say that it was fun to play, and that I'm too bad to outpass 2 minutes, but I had the time to see how much details you made on the polish : art and little effects, sounds, sprites… Even the music, as repetitive it is, fits completly the whole mood of this game. With a little more content and variation, you could have a solid game out of this LD! Good job :)
Great game, i really liked your game, it is pretty solid! Good job!
Great game! the graphics were great, and the gameplay too :). However sometimes the fps would dip pretty hard, and in a fast game like this was very annoying (but since this is a jam i won't take it into account :P). Also i personally find the game a bit easy (but other people are saying that it was hard, so it's just an opinion), i think the invincibility window was too long and it was easy to recover after that. But really, overall a great game! I enjoyed it. Good job!