themonax 2017-07-31 10:04
Good game :smiley: Just a problem with hitboxes of rounds objects. The music and the sound effects go well.
I had fun. Good job
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD39 → MotherBoard
By nikrt
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 263 | 3.42 | 73 | |
| Fun | 214 | 3.39 | 73 | |
| Innovation | 245 | 3.28 | 72 | |
| Theme | 86 | 3.97 | 73 | |
| Graphics | 151 | 3.73 | 73 | |
| Audio | 170 | 3.30 | 62 | |
| Humor | 93 | 3.32 | 70 | |
| Mood | 216 | 3.23 | 70 |
Good game :smiley: Just a problem with hitboxes of rounds objects. The music and the sound effects go well.
I had fun. Good job
@themonax Thanks a lot for the review :D
That was fun but I'm not very good haha. Very creative!
@willdata Thanks a lot :D
Nice game, great idea and music, but I had some problems with the shooting.
@alejandrodlsp Thanks for the review, would you mind telling what were the problems you faced?
Nicely done! Had trouble figuring out how to kill anything, though.
Cool game, although sometimes I didn't know I hit the enemies because there is no indicator that tells you. But great game anyway :D
@supremefist Thanks :D just in case you didn't figure out: 1) Shoot with the LMB 2) Throw ctrl, alt, and del keys with RMB. If all three hit an enemy, it terminates it along with the enemies nearby
@falk-bruskeland Thanks :D. I thought I would put it but just managed to upload the game 1 minute before the deadline, so no chance for it
Cool game! help.png however I had some issues seeing the battery life indicator, probably you should change the color of the obstacles and issues with shooting such as lack of feedback maybe you can add bullet sparks effect. But in all, this game is excellent and fun!
Had fun playing! But controls not so intuitive. It's better if camera is fixed, and movement is based on camera-space, not on character-space. Sorry if it's not so clear what i'm about.
@mac-dragoness thanks a lot for the detailed feedback. :D I'll make the changes
@runuchok do you mean the camera should not be rotated according to the character's movement? I tried that, but sometimes the view was blocked by some obstacles. Hence, I had to do this
Nice idea, I really love the premise of you being the killer app! :-)
The music and graphics are very nice,
It is only 48 hours so there are a few shortcomings. The camera is hard to control, you have to figure out that the mouse position relative to the screen's x center rotates the character.
There are some graphical glitches, like seing the wooden plate through the walls, but those are not a big deal :-)
I like the color scheme you use throughout the world, it is consistent which is great for immersion. Nothing breaks immersion more than a high fidelity robot next to an 8-vertex flat box. So the overall feeling here is cool.
One bug I noticed: when I first started the game I was not able to kill anything, not even by throwing the keys at it. I thought you might not have finished in time but then on the second round it worked all of a sudden.
Nice idea, controls were a little wonky and couldn't tell if I was hitting something or not until it died :P Some kind of particle effect would have gone a long way, but overall not bad.
@gonutz Thanks a lot for the in depth review :D. I really appreciate it. All the bugs you said, I knew it exists. But by the time I knew, it was 15 minutes before submission 😅. Anyways, thanks a lot 😀
@lewn1e A lot of people pointed it 😅. I'll have to fix it now.
@nikrt I know the felling, I have created the shortest game in the world this time ;-)
Really fun game. Like it. But at the beginning I was clearly lost "What do I do??!!". But its ok ;-) Keep moving forward.
Great work! It's a fun and engaging game, with a great idea. And I love the visuals. For me, it wasn't quite clear why to shoot instead of using kills. Seems like the firepower is quite limited
i liked :)
Very cool! Loved the app icons overlay.
Fantastic entry! I love how when you jump you can see the screen; that paired with the music made it feel almost like an epic action movie. Awesome job!
Entered tron in a sci-fi cellphone and got the opportunity to kill Facebook. Take that Mark! 11/10 lol
Awesome game. Took me a while to get out the first screen (but was my fault -.-). The auto-rotating camera was a little bit nauseating for me.
Really creative idea, cool game.
At the start it was a bit annoying that there are so little apps and you had to search them. Also the Ctrl-Alt-Delete wasn't that useful as it was faster to just shoot the app instead of shooting three keys and you had to wait between them.
But why are apps shooting at me? Should this the symbolize the draining of the battery?
The graphics are really nice.
@smbe19 Thanks for the review :)
I fixed the issue with the time it was taking for launching buttons, its much better now.
And now to answer you question, I guess it would be because they want to stay alive and eat ram, but you are out there killing them, so they attack you..That was my idea :p
Nice atmosphere, and good concept! The gameplay was solid as well. Regarding what other people were saying about the camera/controls, it would have helped me is if the camera continued rotating the way it was, but if the controls were relative to the world instead of the direction the character was facing. So, when I press left, it always brings me towards the left side of the map? And I could just adjust as the camera rotates? I don't know for sure if that would work, but the tank controls made it a little difficult to evade enemies. Also, nice design and good mood.
@ianburnette thanks a lot for the input. I shall try and see how that pans out 😀
Overall, very good job! The controls were very, very difficult to get used to, but once you did this game was very fun. Absolutely loved the music, the game was enhanced by it dramatically. Loved the theme and idea. I liked this entry very much!
Nice game and a very creative concept! The controls are nice, but the spinning camera makes it confusing because it rotates the character too.
Nice game :) maybe some feedback for the gameplay: it gets pretty repetitive after a while (+ enemies getting stuck in tight spaces). Some feedback for the graphics: in a motherboard cg kinda environment you could do a lot more with some fancy shaders and particle effects :) Don't be afraid to layer those a little more.
@moosalicious Thanks for the advice :D I'll try that out
Hey! I love the idea of the game! It made me smile! There was some confusing with camera rotation, but I get used to it. Thanks for the game :)
"Die Facebook !!" "Die Snapchat !!" It was a really fun entry ! Nice title screen, super cool environment (seeing the phone screen as the ceiling is kinda cool), and gosh, that epic music get you involved instantly ! I've got an hard time the firts games figuring out the controls, but when you get it it's really enjoyable, even if sometimes I still don't go where I wanted to go by mistake. Nice job too for animate the apps avatars and put some graphical and sound feedbacks (even if I don't get the purpose of some particles like in the screen below, is the phone suffering ? Or it's an app avatar shooting but there is a collision problem and the particles effect is not at the right place ?). Pretty solid entry overall, gj ! particles.png
Very nice! Had a good laugh with some of those huge robots coming out with little snapchat icons on their chest. Hit them with the keys made me laugh too. Jokes aside, the graphics for this were awesome. It's got a cool backlit feel that helps emphasize the fact that you are in a phone fighting to save power. Awesome theme interpretation. A+
Amazing! The idea is awesome, the visuals are great. Just the movement is a little weird but overall a really good game. Keep it up!
I thought the graphics were almost perfect. It was mostly clean, but with a little things that didn't quite fit the rest. The camera was almost perfect in my oppinion. Original angle and way of moving, albeit a tad too slow.
Loved the music though! It sounds very bombastic and epic-like!
Wasn't keen on the sounds, they didn't seem appropriate for the dramatic looking and sounding game.
The enemies seemed a little cheety. They found me from across the map and converged like an angry mob. This made the game a bit unfair.
The Ctrl-Alt-Del weapon was original! I loved it! It was hard to use, but it came with a great reward. Could use a bit more splash damage for crowd control.
One last minor gripe. I couldn't properly shut down the game. So I had to use Ctrl-Alt-Del for real haha!
A wel deserved pass!
@olowynd Thanks a lot for the review 😀. Yes those particles were intended to show that the phone was "suffering" from within. Great to see you liked it.
Being able to see through the screen was sweet!! I really liked that effect and the graphics in general.
One thing, on my second playthrough, I moved and jumped in slow-mo, and so did the enemies, but I could shoot at a regular rate. Not sure what was up with that, but maybe you do. Otherwise, the gaming was more-or-less smooth.
Really creative take on the theme! Although I think the if movement speed & turn rate were increased the game would be a lot more fun. Nice work nonetheless!
Fun idea! Took me a while to find some apps, then they started to show immidiately. I didn't like the camera, it could've been it the lower angle and when app was coming from the bottom of the screen it took a long time to flip the view. Also I'd add some progress lvl, like the phone user is running to the charger, and when he run, the level would be complete. That would give a game a nice progress. Have a nice day!
Cool take on the theme. Also the funniest entry I've seen thus far, and in a compo, not even jam, haha. The gameplay is simple, but in a satisfying way; ctrl+alt+del combo-bomb idea is pretty innovative as well. Good job!
Wow that was epic! I'm very impressed with the music and the mood you were able to capture. Who knew the inside of an iPhone was that intense! Very cool game. Great work.
Really funny game, and music is so dramatic! We can't let battery die, charger is whole 10 feet away! Really clever main menu scene that takes you straight inside the phone. Graphics are pretty good and it is interesting to fight inside the phone and see phone screen above. Gameplay is pretty neat, it's fun to ctr+alt+del your enemies. In overall really cool game.
@zeriver Thanks a lot for the review :D
I love this theme, very inventive. If you made a full version of this I'm sure Apple would feature it :)
Epic effort. Only complaints are that the camera controls (camera rotation to mouse position) make the character movement a little confusing. I didn't know what the CTRL ALT DEL stuff did. They seemed to stick to the enemies without doing anything.
Fun 10 minutes. Will look out for this one becoming a full game in the future!
Very creative idea. graphics were awesome and really contributed to the awesome looking environment. Gameplay was simple and fluid and I didn't encounter any glitches or game crashing bugs.
One thing I would change is the camera angles. I would keep the camera without rotation following the player around in the XZ axis. The camera rotating around made the moving controls a bit weird.
Great job overall!
The graphics and sound effects were great! I wish the gameplay was sped up, higher movement speed and a less floaty jump. The camera movement was very disorienting. I think also speeding up the camera rotation would have helped with this. Overall great job!
@richard-bunn Thanks a lot 😁. The ctrl+alt+del does not work if you do not throw them in succession. All three ctrl, alt, del must be thrown in this order and on the same enemy. Otherwise, it wouldn't do the trick.
Fun concept and nice level design. I ctrl+alt+deleted the first enemy and went flying up to walk on top of the screen! I feel like the controls would feel more tight if WASD moved the character based on the camera's forward direction rather than the character's
@tompendergrass thanks for the tip. I'll try it out 😀
Fun Game nice use of the theme. I actually got blasted out of the phone with a Ctl Alt Del blast then figured out that I could climb the walls by jumping and moving toward the walls. I enjoyed hanging out on the screen and dropping down to ctr alt del everything. The music is excellent as well
Nice excuse (as a story) to make a 3rd person shooter. The chrome app is wasting so much battery! hehe. Nice overall experience. I would recommend you making the character a little bit faster, to give some dynamism to the game. JW (Vlambeer's cocretor) speech about game feel is so useful to this kind of games. Well done, good luck!
@mr-houdini thanks a lot for the tip 😀
Wow.. Very creative and amusing. I love it. The idea and graphics are all very cool (even though I wasn't very good at it). Oh.. After looking at the screen a little while, everything else also starts turning, dizzy dizzy dizzy ;)
Strong and interesting concept ! Congrats
@damoy Thanks 😀
Really nice concept of gameplay, but needs more polishing: - camera movement could be better (now it can make some people sick or give a headache), - steering is a littl bit too floaty.
I enjoyed the opening little scene very much.
5 stars! When I threw Ctrl Alt and finally Del to blow up a big bot, I felt amazed! If you continue to develop this, when I moved on my trackpad I felt a little awkward. Since the motion is only on a horizontal plane, I could imagine feeling comfortable with keyboard input for all movement, shooting and throwing.
Nice graphical theme on this game. It sort of reminded me of Tron. The robots were animated well. I couldn't figure out what the overall object was aside from shooting the robots. I think it was supposed to be a wave shooter, but it doesn't have any objectives aside from just staying alive. The controls were frustrating at times and the camera seemed to rotate too slowly. I would lock the camera behind the player. I also had the problem with the mouse leaving the window which unfocuses the game window when you click, so I would lock the mouse to the center of the screen to prevent that from happening.
A fun idea, who doesn't love destroying certain apps? Maybe the controls need a little bit more polishing but overall I think this is a really good entry in every level. Congrats!
gorgeous colors and design! Animation was cool, I had fun shooting everything up :D
played again today, I got mauled by huge machinegun blasting Chrome browsers. Revenge will be mine.
@christina-antoinette-neofotistou Do let me know when you get your revenge 😂