bredera 2017-12-05 12:07
Neat concept, love the art style of the games and the sound effects and the music! but I do not see a connection with the theme (but maybe i am wrong :sweat_smile:)
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD40 → Aquariumus - Too Many Fishes !
By gozz, himeija, Raoul, Xahell and GrattMannn
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 203 | 3.81 | 74 | |
| Fun | 347 | 3.55 | 75 | |
| Innovation | 230 | 3.61 | 74 | |
| Theme | 217 | 3.90 | 74 | |
| Graphics | 158 | 4.21 | 75 | |
| Audio | 76 | 3.97 | 72 | |
| Humor | 212 | 3.62 | 73 | |
| Mood | 373 | 3.52 | 71 |
Neat concept, love the art style of the games and the sound effects and the music! but I do not see a connection with the theme (but maybe i am wrong :sweat_smile:)
9 days ! Nice looking art, and a cool sound ambiance (the "reproduction spell" sound made me laugh as it was so unexpected). The mechanism are well fitting the theme. I lacked of feedback about where I am regarding the fail conditions, it just happened at some point :( It could have helped and add a lot of pressure if I knew that I was about to loose.
Well done!
@bredera : The connection to the theme is that the more you have the harder it will be to manager and too much of a species (or resource) is bad and will kill you fishes
@ekilibr : haha thanks buddy, it is a little hard but the circles around the species gives ou feedback about the ideal condition of a species (if it goes red the fish have a great chance to die). By the way I hope you loved my voice (modified of course) for the reproduction spell :p
Oh ok, didn't get it at first look. I'll give the game another couple of tries knowing it then :)
Some tips about the game, as it is challenging:
Browse the "Help" menu (maybe renamed in "How to play" in the last relase) to have a good understanding of the interface.
In game, the "pause" key is part of the gameplay, use it to stop the game while being able to browse the interface to gather informations about your current game's status. it gives you time to think, abuse it.
Also, you can zoom out with the scroll button to have a better view.
Nice art and music! Great game! It's a bit hard to see where I am and what needs to be fixed but otherwise a nice game!
Thanks!
Don't forget to zoom out with the scroll button to have a clear view of the game, we forgot to indicate it in-game ^_^"
Cool graphics and sound design, interresting, very nice work :) !
Good sound design!
Really nice game ! Nice graphics, audio and no bugs, nicely polished. Quite addictive, didn't get past 8 days ! I'll try again.
Really fun concept! I had a bit of a hard time understanding how to do certain things since the poop for example hides it's info under the screen when you hover over it. It was also pretty hard to see the arrow in the Help thingy, so I didn't get the game at all at first.
Oh boy, this graphics are amazing! Nice work guys!
Nice game, fits the theme and has a nice gameplay. Loved the music and the SFX, especially the reproduce spell hahahaha
Great job guys!
@cibbler Yep, the tooltip are a little bit bugged when not playing on full screen. You can maximize the view when playing it in WebGL (bottom right), if you do the tooltips are fine.
Thanks for all the comments guys :)
Really nice game, love the graphics and sound design, a bit hard which is nice
Entertaining game. A little hard to understand why sometimes some species just get annihilated, but yet a really interesting mechanic. Love the art, sound track and sound effects. The Love Berserk art and sound effect and all the pooping made me laugh a lot.
Appropriate skill icon for reproduction. :scream:
Cool art style and fun idea, but in my opinion maybe too simple. :grinning:
This game is adorable. Your graphics and audio were on point and worked together to create an atmosphere that randomly reminded me of the Zen Garden in PVZ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKBjKPWrbLs) which is probably the mood you're going for?
The concept is really original for the theme (happy to see a good management game on a jam !).
It's very well polished, and the sound effects for the reproduction or the hand of death are as unexpected as fun x). To be perfect, the game could have a little more feedbacks on defeat condition or actual state of the aquarium, but at this state, the game still very good ! :)
Great little game ! Graphics and concept are cool :thumbsup:
Cute game. :) I felt overwhelmed at the beginning... and throughout... and at the end - but I enjoyed watching the fish do their thing. Perhaps a more gradual start, or a tutorial, would have helped.
I managed to reach day 12, really good game, a bit hard though. The only missing feature is color (red, green) on text for species requirements to make it easier to know what is wrong with a species
Graphics are great and it's very fun to play, good job ! :D
Great game! The Love Berserk icon/sound is extremely awesome
This game is pretty difficult! But it's adorable, the sound effects are great, the art is perfect, and everything seems to function really smoothly! It seems like when the fish start dying off they all sort of follow very quickly, maybe a little bit of warning that they're struggling first? Either way awesome game!! Hand of death is probably my favorite thing ever. Great stuff!!
Your sound effects are exceptional!.. And packed in a fun game to play :)
So funny and cute, and fine quality in all domains. "Oh yeah" :D
A cool concept for the theme, good job.
Um conceito legal para o tema, bom trabalho.
Sensational game, is just slightly more difficult than handling a real-life aquarium, but still easier than keeping a fern alive. Good balance.
Also I wonder why you guys decided to use a round-handled dowsing rod for the love berserk icon (ak ak ak).
HAND OF DEATH, then peace. Very very well done, congratulations.
Nice art, nice music :3 good job!
WOW really good game about management! There are lots of min/max values I need to remember and I need to discover each species' feature! After a few times of losing I think I know more about those species and I start feeling I am really managing this small world! Thanks for giving me a great time!
The Sound design is hilarious. The game is a little bit difficult but I love the concept of the game. Equilibre is hard to found but the game stay fun. Bravo
Really relaxing game ! A management game is rare in the ludum dare and it's very courageous and hard to build one ! Great Work guys ! See you at the Ludum Dare 41 !
nice art!
It was a little slow for me. I didn't play it very long. Highly polished, and good music, too!
Nice game ! Beautiful graphics and I enjoy sounds and music.
(Some sounds and the reproduction icon made me laugth ^^)
I reached 11 days.
Zen and cute :) i love it !
Could only seem to last 5 days on several tries.... those little pink orbs just bred too fast! The graphics were great! It was very well done :-) I enjoyed it
Hmmm, I used the penis power a lot! That didn't do it though xD
Beautiful art, chill happy music, overall great entry!
Great game with simple but perfect idea! :)
Sound, graphics and theme connection are very good, however the game was complicated right from the start. I literally failed immediately on my first try. Otherwise a good game.
Good job ! Very interesting to play :)
Really cool game! Theme connects well. I'm not too fond of the art style but the gameplay is really good. I like the complexity you were able to put into it, as a 1 man team I was unable to put too much complexity in my game. I think the game is a little daunting to beginners though with all the spells and buttons and stuff, but it is a management game so.. GOOD WORK!
@jack-maxwell Oh, you made a strategy game!
I'm gonna try that!
Sweeeeeet graphics, really cleaned, polished and all, gg ! Sound goes pretty well too, the music made me smile :) (The reproduction icon too but that's because i'm a child)
+ holded 12 days, am a fish papa :P
21 days On the first try, so I think I did good!
This is an interesting concept, I played the web version and most of the tooltips on the right weren't fitting the screen size so I lost a lot of information.
It wasn't quite easy to understand some of the measurements on the top and how one could affect them, with a bit more explaining I think you can have a lot more engagement.
Congrats on this entry!
I updated the scores :)
**This is a very crazy aquarium simulator**
very crazy fish aquarium
Smooth graphics, game just works, and play very weirdly. It took me quite a while to figure out what to do and how it worked. But once that, it's very cool. I liked the love magic! :D
11 days! Haha neat little game. I loved the icon for the reproduction spell :joy:
12 days one first try ! Then, never more than 3 ..... I really akwardly suck... But the game is really good and addictive ! When one species start to increase without limit, the panic come, it's really fun !
Great job on your game! I reached day 14 or 18 I don't remember but it certainly wasn't easy. The game certainly has a learning curve but I like this style so I played it for some time until I understood the jest of it.
I enjoyed playing it very much, the graphics and the audio are great. The game looks very polished and it is obvious a lot of effort has been poured into it. If I have one addition is that some introduction or tutorial is needed so that players don't get frustrated easily.
But even without a tutorial, I enjoyed it very much. Congratulations :)
I really like the graphics, the sprites are really cute. I never really figured out how to influence most of the stats at the top. I'm sure with more time I could have, but it wasn't very clear and for a jam game that is not so good. Other than that though, the game feels very well polished and very solid. Great Job.
@furitouswitch : thanks for your feedback, really apreciate it. It certainly lacks a tutorial but we ran out of time. We are going to do a quick update (leaving the Jam version online) to guide the player through it first game so he can learn the basics of the gameplay
@archimagus : thanks, as said just before we ran ouf of time to prepare a tutorial to explain how to play clearly. In fact it is quite easy to learn but hard to master. One species is carnivorous (green fish), one is herbivorous (eats plants and seed : the red fish), one eats wastes (seeds and poop : the rabbit-slug), one consume pollution and creates acidity (cells) and plants creates oxygen and consume some pollution. They all consume some stats (oxygen, acidity or pollution) to create another resource. All can be checked on the right.
By the way, thanks everybody for your feedback and support ! We'll try to update it a little to make it more enjoyable post LD :)
This game felt slick and well loved. The sound and graphics felt particularly refined. I enjoyed my 12 days in charge of the aquarium. Everything is now dead so in that respect pretty true to my real life attempts. If you fancy running your friends into trees then my game is just for you. Also I still need some ratings. I would love to get over the 20 mark. https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/40/run-guys
A very good management game! The graphic rendering is awesome. Really impressed by the work in 72 hours. I did not manage to exceed 8 days for my part :p
This was challenging- you have to keep a lot of plates spinning, and balance is key. It's easy to lose quickly if you forget just one thing, like the temperature being too high. The sound effects were funny, especially some of the spells. I like the clean art, and how all the creatures look unique, and cute.