sun-wukong 2017-07-31 09:33
Билд-то собери.
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD39 → ANSWER ME!
By brolton, viliar, LaserFish and NeylaTL
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 380 | 3.42 | 47 | |
| Fun | 256 | 3.42 | 47 | |
| Innovation | 62 | 3.91 | 48 | |
| Theme | 280 | 3.70 | 46 | |
| Graphics | 531 | 3.22 | 46 | |
| Audio | 550 | 2.23 | 40 | |
| Humor | 70 | 3.75 | 47 | |
| Mood | 447 | 3.17 | 47 |
Билд-то собери.
@sun-wukong Все будет. Пока еще не готово, прост)
haha, I love it.
It has a unique mechanic. I've never seen typing games used like this - used to tell a story almost.
It's a really interesting take on the theme, and one that I can relate to; I have a crap phone myself.
I especially love how the main character switches their personality to accommodate the person; e.g. you're more professional with the boss. But you still have the choice to be blunt and rude (the short responses make me lol so hard).
My advice is to make the directions more clear. It took some time for me to understand how to play, but after I got it, I had a lot of fun. Maybe, after clicking a response, a prompt with "now type that response - quick!" appears. Overall, it's quite awesome :)
Thank you so much! We have a big plans for it. If we get enough ratings and feedback there is chance we will continue project with more contacts, different dialog themes for each contact and maybe even a separate game mode without a timer. It can still be useful as an exercise=)
Awesome game! Like it a lot :)
Funny ! I made so much bad choices ahah
Very good game! And clever design. I wish I had some penalty for a mistake instead of not being able to send message. And how to quit you game?
Nevertheless, great job guys!
Seems like a fun game but please provide a Linux build, I can't play it otherwise. Doesn't work using Wine because the text is not visible.
This was an interesting game. Purely one of a kind. I played it twice and I will admit I didn't know I needed to type the responses. I was just clicking them and a solid red box just went into the chat. Not sure if that was a bug or not.
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Good game, I played it twice! The first time I underestimated how much time I would actually have. Second time I went for the last answer every time and still finished with a bit of time left. I think the best things to add would be some music and sound effects (just light typing sound effects and like a ding when you get a message would be great). One thing that I would consider a bug is that it doesn't end once you've answered all the dialogue trees. I would recommend having the end screen once there is no actions the player can take.
@n-feofentov we've considered a score penalty for sending wrong message but it worked out as a timer instead. Thank you for your feedback! It's really nice to see a player considering smth that was actually discussed in the development process. Seems like we are heading the right way=)
@phlip45 yes, the end screen is needed ofc in your case. We will imnprove overall logic and balance if this project will seem interesting enough for players on ludum. Btw we couldn't imagine someone will actually beat all dialogs with longest answers in time 0_o Imo it's because english is not our native=) Thanks for the feedback! Also nice score, man =D
@kunonooni if we continue the project after ludum, we will definitely implement step-by-step tutorial. It's essential to make a game fair and challenging.
Big work on content on this game, well done ! I love the idea to take the phone as subject, is that based on a true story ? haha
@syl-whatsupdesign partially yes=) Especially the temporal paradox part if u saw that ending ;) Thank you for your feedback!
The interpretation of the LD39 is really unexpected. It is a fun concept that deserves to be developed. For the ambiance music and sound effect would be nice.
Mom - 100 Girlfriend - 140 Boss - 105 But at least 15% battery left to play some games! I had a lot of fun, that was innovative!
Wow, really fun game! The concept is great and is well executed. It's basically just a typing game but it tells a story which I love. I actually don't have anything big to complain about except that I like to see more of this in the future! Awesome work!
Cool, novel concept!
The graphics are pretty simple but fit very well. The writings pretty funny, although I have to say, I actually got tripped up by typos and weird smileys in the messages a few times.
At first I had NO idea you actually had to type, I thought the red circle was just how long it takes to input the message so I was just waiting and then an empty red box appeared. Once I had figured that out I got a lot more done. But nearing the end the timer got far too quick for some of the responses.
Well done overall, only improvement would be some music, maybe some light sound effects for new messages popping up etc.
Now that's a really funny, innovative game. Just sometimes the whole text gets selected when I press enter, even though I have written it correctly
Very original :-) It was fun. Only the lack of sound. And the score at the end has no meaning (I had no idea if it is a good result or not)
That is nice game. It relates to me well, since I take a lot of time to reply, but now there no time to waste :D
Very nice game, but needs some polishing. Amazing idea, it would be fun if the hamburger menu would actually do something.
Pretty nice game, but it could have used more juice to really get me to keep playing. I liked the dialogue options and the humor of the game was fun too. Also, I disagree with what @angela-he said, it was pretty simple to understand. I think you could have made the art assets a little more interesting too, all in all, polish would have done this typing game well. Nice work.
Hehe, fun. A few things:
- I finished with plenty of battery life to spare even after choosing the most difficult option and couldn't be bothered to wait for the battery counter to slooowwwwlllyyy tick down to get the game ending. The game should either continue until the battery meter depletes (more content or randomized conversation) or end when you finish all of the dialogue trees. - Needs sounds! Also, if you don't have any audio, please opt-out of the Audio category. - Having to switch back between mouse and keyboard over and over and over was a pain. - Pressing enter on an incorrectly-typed line of text ends up selecting all of the text you've typed. Which...means if you press backspace to correct a mistake you made at the end, you end up erasing everything you typed =( You also can't undo this via Ctrl-Z. =(
@ddrkirbyisq one of the most useful comments so far! Thank you a lot. First two points are WIP and will be ready soon. We will consider your feedback and work on the other two parts.
Hi, funny game this one! It was really hard trying to write that fast, but somehow I didn't miss too many. Just lacked some sound effects, cellphone related, like typing, message received and batery depleting. It would also be nice to know in the how much from the total I scored, I don't know if my score was good or not. But I did have fun playing it :)
Nice little game! I tried my best to type fast, but with a Norwegian keyboard all the damn symbols took too much time. I needed to switch between alt and shift clicking all the time, it made things take so much more time than necessary for me.
I think the sound was a little bit lacking, but otherwise the presentation was fine. The graphics were alright, your take on the Running out of Power theme was interesting too. I also realize you probably didn't account for the fact that keyboard layouts are different all over the world, so I won't hold it against you. Programming with a Norwegian keyboard is a pain too, because all the symbols used in programming were used because they were easy and accessible keys. Not so much on our keyboards, where pretty much anything outside of letters and numbers has us hold shit or alt =P
**First of all:** Thank you for your feedback and for checking out my game. Appreciate it! (p.s. Не ожидал русских тут увидеть, хотя чего удивляться. Но коммент оставлю на анг чтоб народ мог нормально прочитать.)
**Overall game impression:** Took me a bit of time to realize what the filling up circle was all about. Overall pretty fun game. Very simple and entertaining, reminds me of texting my boss, gf and mother as well...except I also ended up sending messages that were meant for my gf to my boss..... lol :D I enjoyed the game, good job!
**Suggestions and comments on improvement:** Add sound effects of some kind. And maybe add some kind of hint for the red filling circle, something like- "Sending" so it's more obvious what it does. I thought that's how long it'd take to receive a reply at first.
I liked it a lot! The idea is nice, and you made it very well! The music is great, the game mechanic is well made, and there are a lot of different outcomes that can happen just by typing different things! I really liked it!
The only thing that I would like changing, is at the end. You don't have enough time to properly read all of the text that one person sends, so you just start typing! I don't suggest giving more time, but instead, at the end of the game, make it possible to see the text dialoge that you send with each person, and maybe add a scoreboard system? Even a local one that just remembers my previous score would be nice!
Overall, Very nice game, the story is rich, the music is great, and the game is fun **and** rewarding as well! Well done!
Always happy to see narrative games here. And in this one you have to type half of the story! The gameplay is nice and the story is funny. I didn't want a girlfriend anyway :D
Graphics look good and there's not many bugs, I think I got stuck at a message for a few seconds because there was a space after the final dot that I immediately guessed right with the battery pressure coming on me haha.
Good job! ;)
It's funny we had a really similar idea ! :D But you executed it differently ! It was nice anyway, i totally loved the neatness of your game, it really looked like a Facebook conversation. Maybe i would have shorten up the answering time still proportionnally to the length of message of course ! I liked the music, and the cover image too ! Well done guys ! :)
- good idea, I won't think about theme just like you :D - innovative gameplay - cons:without reading your description I didn't know what to do, no audio :/ - overall: nice :)
You did a great game congratulations.
The idea of the game is very interesting, loved it!
Good job :) some good art from you cover in the game would have been a plus :)
The typing stuff is great and increase the stress :)
Nice take on the theme, very innovative game !
I liked it very much! Different approach to the theme. It would be better if I could read the entire conversation, with a scrollbar or something like that.
@carlosvvk we're considering it as a separate mode=)
I loved the concept! Dialogue was engaging and I wanted to see what happened next. Some context for the relationships before playing would maybe have been nice? Really enjoyed what you did with this!
Fun entries. I like the suspense of picking what to say, although I don't understand how the waiting system work. I definitely enjoyed the music and the fun dialogue though.
First thank you for your feedback. So i played your game and i really love it. It reminds me to "SMS Race" on a browsergame called Jobfight which exists in 2008.
It is really funny to answer as fast as you can lol.