Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD39 → BUG SQUASHER 9000
By alwaysinbeta
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 397 | 3.40 | 37 | |
| Fun | 222 | 3.48 | 37 | |
| Innovation | 400 | 3.08 | 37 | |
| Theme | 273 | 3.72 | 38 | |
| Graphics | 543 | 3.19 | 38 | |
| Audio | 337 | 3.17 | 37 | |
| Humor | 292 | 2.70 | 32 | |
| Mood | 501 | 3.06 | 34 |
Hahaha! That game is really fun to play! haha! Great job! \o/ The graphics, the sound, the mood everything fits well together. The only thing I had to learn were the controls! But after a little testing I got used to it. :0) Very well done! Thank you for this game! :0)
Wow, the music and graphics in this game are really well done! They both match up for that "exploring a computer" fell quite nicely. As for gameplay, I thought the BUGSQUASHER9000 handled nicely. The only other thing I would like to see in this game is an instant restart option once you are out of fuel and/or weapons instead of needing to die. Other than that, good job!
[whoops button hit twice]
The biggest suggestion I have is to maybe make weapons deplete less -- it's awfully punishing if you miss. I usually ended up without any weapon power and just had to die to try again, but I didn't feel like I was that terrible at aiming. Great job with the aesthetic, loved the atmosphere.
I liked the premise of this game. I could play this for quite a while if I had more time and weren't trying to rate a lot of games to increase visibility. Even though you said that some of it was made badly. I thought everything meshed fairly well, and I enjoyed the game. Perhaps one of the best I have played so far.
Very nice game ! I think it would be better if we control our angle with mouse. Feels good to shoot some bugs.
Great game! The graphics are amazing. The weapons deplete a bit too fast, I had to kill the bugs with the shield in the last level, but maybe that was intentional. The game didn't seem to load on Firefox for some reason.
Awsome music and nice work! The controlls tho are pretty hard to master esp with the lowamount of ammo you have, but maybe thats a good thing!
I think it's a good game! :) Maybe you need to tweak a little bit the controls (as suggested above), nut overall it is enjoyable! A love the graphics and effetcs!
Making the scenery dangerous was a nice twist, and I liked the way you could squash bugs by running over them. In fact, it took me a minute to notice there are weapons - once I started playing correctly, it was much more of a standard shooter.
Never been a fan of the rotation-relative controls.
Hey man, great game! I had fun playing up to the end. The concept, controls, gameplay, and especially sound is very nice. I felt motivated to figure out how to beat every level.
The biggest thing thing that bothered me was that the game is very unforgiving for how much speed it gives you. It's super easy to go to fast, and slightly bumping the walls or an enemy can quickly end you, perhaps leading to a more conservative play style than you intended.
Overall though, very fun and entertaining! Great job!
Great job, thanks for the web version. Cool idea, like graphics and sounds!
Nice game! I like the music and the overall feeling of this game.
I loved the game except for the controls (tank mode). I think the art is quite fresh and the mechanics are nice. I didn't beat the game because of the controls, but it made me want to play until the end. Quite challenging without being overwhelming :relaxed:
Fun game! I loved the particle effects!
Nice idea ! Overall cool game, art is cool, sounds works well with the game and the concept is quite fun. The only thing a little rough is the fact that we can not finish the level if we do not have destroy all the bugs. Problem : we can not refuel weapons otherwise than with loots, and we can get loots by killing bugs, and we can kill bugs only if weapons is over 0 % ... That is just the negative point of the game. The rest is quite cool :)
Really clean game, I really thought that the graphics and sound went well together! I thought the gameplay was pretty fun as well, I did run into the same problem as @mathiouza but I feel like maybe that was intentional to make the game harder? anyway good job!
Look nice, fun to play. The way the car was controlled and camera was very good. Sound and music is also fits nicely. If I am going to complain about anything it would be that the game was a bit simple. But very good overall
You know, I actually had low expectations after you said "I made all the code etc, badly!" and also that you ran out of time. That was way off, it was actually a really fun game. First off, this is the only game I played this LD that had multiple resources running out. Every other game just had power counting down but you had 3 which was really cool cuz I had to make sure my playstyle covered all 3. The gfx and sound also exceeded my expectations, especially the fact that you snuck in so many nice special effects and shake. The main downside was the walls were quite scary and unforgiving in how they bounced you. If you ran recklessly into narrow corridors that was pretty much gg. Fun game nonetheless!
I was utterly disappointed when I realized the mechanic was not about squashing bugs but only shooting them. You probably should replace the gun by a sticky gun so you can roll over them nicely. Apart from that, the game is overall OK. I enjoyed the sound effect and graphic. Found the rotation control a little imprecise. Quite classic, correct execution. Congrats on your almost compo game.
This was fun to play, interesting concept about defeating the bugs will not running out of the multiple resources. The art was good, with sound effects that did really match. Maybe just the movement was a bit hard to control and get right. But overall great game.
Nice concept and well done project. I would put an arrow to show the direction of the bug squasher, it's a bit confusing.
Fun to play, graphics are adorable, and easy to pick up. Great submission!
The movement is a little sluggish. In order to shoot at the bugs I would usually come to a full stop, and I completely stopped trying to time out the electric barriers because my shields become fully charged in the next level. One thing that I think would combat both of these problems would be a dash, like something that uses up a chunk of movement energy but it pushes your character forward quickly. Maybe it can squash bugs while dashing at the cost of some shield too!
Overall good game!
Nice game! Using left and right to rotate rather than each directional key moving the player in the direction made it harder to control and more challenging which was cool
Nice game, in first time i think the controls a little confused but after play more times i adapted. I liked of idea of this game. Good Job.
Surprisingly fun and interesting! Good job.
Fun to play. Nice :)