johngun 2017-08-02 00:35
Certainly a more creative take on the theme, but a fun one as well. Good job
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD39 → LittleBots
By joe-cowman and kali-mccord
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 626 | 3.05 | 22 | |
| Fun | 481 | 3.05 | 22 | |
| Innovation | 112 | 3.70 | 22 | |
| Theme | 726 | 2.90 | 22 | |
| Graphics | 464 | 3.40 | 22 | |
| Audio | 429 | 2.90 | 22 | |
| Humor | 173 | 3.15 | 22 | |
| Mood | 578 | 2.89 | 21 |
Certainly a more creative take on the theme, but a fun one as well. Good job
I had a lot of trouble with your physics: it would be nice to aim with the mouse. Your music was really good. Nice concept too.
A bit tricky to aim, also a bit hard to get to other platforms sometimes, but it's definitely unique, and I like the stacking mechanics.
BBC stole your idea bro, just looking out for the little man ya kno [Rusty the little robot, had a little red dongle. With that little dongle all the other robots said fuck off with that dongle its weird man comon think of the children](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2E3iVO3tfNs)
Funniest game I've played so far. I was very confused at first, but then figured out the OP strat of hopping under the trail of little bots, seeing just how fast I can point and spam right click, and then walking through the hoops. At one point, I managed to break the physics engine and all the little bots started fluttering about and pulled me straight down. It was hilarious.
I wasn't able to get the hang of the controls and movement, never seemed to be able to work with the rings to get the bots through. But fun to pick up the bots and flail them around :) Also, nice goofy looking bots, liked them.
Nice game! Didn't managed to shoot the bots through the hoops but had fun tossing them all around. Good jog.
Nice use of the theme and funny gameplay. Never really got the hang of the getting the bots in the hoops but had fun trying.
These wobbly bot physics feels funny. I like your game, but I guess it needs some practice to manage the controlling.
Very fun game, great idea, different than most thing I have seen so far, the gameplay is simple, easy and good, the music is so cool, I loved, the synths sound so good, the art is cute, I loved, I think that the characters are so well made that I would love to see this characters in another game, they have so much potential.
Summarizing, great gameplay and concept, cool song and an top notch art, a great game, I loved !
very original concept :smile: the gameplay is fun.
Definitely one of the most original LD games I've played in my gamejam career, not to mention one of my most highly rated now. At first I thought you could only pick up 1 bot, and even then I thought it was really creative. Once I started exploring and figuring out the pole vault, then I was just plain impressed. The emergent gameplay from the controls is fun to try to master, the graphics are unique and the sound is solid.
What a shame you currently don't have enough votes, please keep trying to bring up your vote count because this game is really one of my favorites!
The idea was neat and really liked it ! The art style was cute. I liked the story it was funny ! I was just like pressing ctrl a lot of times and there was a big tower of little bots on my head which made felt down in the whole ! Really funny (for another time)
Capture.PNG I got stuck.
I think you are going to have people complaining a lot about how difficult it is to shoot the little bots into the rings because they don't realize they can pick up more than one bot at a time. I was going to give this a low rating myself until I read on of the comments that mentioned you can pick up more than one bot at a time. Nowhere in your instructions do you say that you can stack the bots, so the first time I played I was just picking up one bot, trying to throw it in the hoop, picking up the next, trying to throw it in the hoop, etc.
Yes you have a screen shot that shows you can pick up multiple but it didn't register with me before the game because I didn't really know what I was looking at before playing. Having your core mechanic mentioned somewhere in the in-game instructions is a must.
That aside, graphics and music were great. Some simple sound effects would have been nice. The game is super fun once you realize you can stack a bunch of bots and then fly around all over the screen. It is pretty hard to control which would be an issue in a longer game, or one where you actually needed to complete more complicated tasks. As it is, a game doesn't last longer than a few minutes and the whole time it is just silly fun. Great job!
Bizarre and innovative, I like that.
Aiming is tough due to the loose physics and the fact that it is constantly raining little bots usually blocking your shots. That is a nice challenge, but I never quite got the hang of it to really feel good about the exercise.
The sudden ending is a bit aggravating. There should be some sort of an effect to show you that you are low on power and a small window of last moment opportunity before the power completely runs out (i.e. it should drain slightly slower when near 0).
Good work.
The gameplay is doable, but the physics are a little hard to work with. Also, I couldn't seem to get any effect from passing bots through the ring.
HELP! I'M STUCK! Screenshot_283.png
I really liked it! The graphics look nice, the physics are good, a jump button would be nice but overall very solid gameplay! The audio was fitting, the story is acceptable, and the whole controls thing just adds up to the challenge of the game!
Very nice game! Well done! :smile: