adrien-dittrick 2017-12-05 13:43
Woah this looks great! Had a hard time aiming with those controls though.
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD40 → Dashing Delivery
By mars
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 425 | 3.22 | 31 | |
| Fun | 354 | 3.24 | 31 | |
| Innovation | 417 | 2.98 | 31 | |
| Theme | 511 | 3.00 | 31 | |
| Graphics | 316 | 3.34 | 31 | |
| Audio | 190 | 3.33 | 29 | |
| Humor | 110 | 3.46 | 31 | |
| Mood | 268 | 3.22 | 31 |
Woah this looks great! Had a hard time aiming with those controls though.
Great graphics! I liked how the aiming worked, taking into accont the falling presents worked out good for me.
Good fun! Harder than it looks :D Also, I felt that I was delivering to Gollum-town. But that is ok, he needs presentses too.
Funny game! The graphics are nice and the music is fitting. However, I felt like the trajectory of the presents was weird; it made the aiming feel kind of unnatural.
Graphics are nice, music and sound (voice) effects fits very well! XD
As @adrien-dittrick said, there's something wrong with the mouse aiming control, I can't get if it moves too fast or too accelerated, but this together with exaggerated motion blur and presents' falling curve, made aiming really difficult. It was impossible for me to not waste too many presenst. Like, I'm able to slip in 1 out of 10 :)
The aiming feels a little bit off because you are moving and its a slow projectile, so it doesn't feel like it goes straight. However, it does actually go straight (albeit in an arc). If you aim directly at the chimney, or somewhere above depending on how far away you are, you are going to hit. If your crosshair is to the right or left of the chimney when you fire, you will 100% certainly miss.
I like the idea, but its a little tough to break even. Way too easy to waste presents, and the comparative punishment is pretty harsh. That said, it's probably a good xmas for any orphans living on the street in my santa's world!
@eerongal Seems a lot of people struggle, so I updated the game info with some tips. The first two or three runs should be easy if you play it right. It's supposed to get ridiculously, maybe even impossibly difficult after that though. The moral of the story is that mass production does bad and not good, so don't do it.
The aiming feels weird as others pointed out but it's fun! Funny sounds when the presents gets delivered
@nekoballs Could you explain how it feels weird to you? I fear I suffer from being too used to it, because it feels just fine to me :P
@mars I guess it's because the velocity of cart doesn't affect the presents you throw. It kinda creates a weird feeling in my head if it makes sense :P I tried it again and it feels better this time, I guess you get used to it!
Pretty good job! Looks amazing, but the controls don't feel really smooth. A bit more tweak could do the job.
@nekoballs Yeah, that makes sense. When I first made the cannon, I felt like their trajectory was off too, but once I tried putting on a crosshair and aimed at the targets I realized it was all in my head. I guess it only makes sense that everyone who's playing for the first time goes through that same feeling of the controls being off. Something to consider for next time, I guess :D
My laptop had some troubles with framerate, but it didn't stop the game from being fun. Especially enjoyed the voice over work :). Thanks for the game!
Fun idea, but the "you get minus points for wasted presents" doesn't feel very impactful. Maybe it would be cooler to have something more concrete happen when you missed, like damaging the houses or wrecking cars. Also, the motion blur really recked my FPS for some reason, so maybe tone that down or make it an option.
Very fun idea :) The aiming was quite hard at first, but I always fired a hand full of presents to make sure at least one would hit the chimney. At the end I thought it would be fun to fill the sleigh with presents, which actually was qute fun, before I realized that wasting presents would cost points. So my final score was -5780 :D
Maybe you could make the sleigh go slower so the player has more time to aim. I think the speed makes you quite franticly fire bursts of presents to not completely miss one chimney.
All in all nice work
@stmatn Yeah, firing off multiple presents is my go-to tactic as well! And I made a proper hitbox for the sleigh solely because I thought it'd be fun to fill it with presents :P
As for the speed, it's supposed to get a little frantic. It's because of the whole "the more you have, the worse it is" thing :)
@wheffle Honestly I didn't realize I had motion blur on at all, so that's a mistake on my part. As for the idea of making wasted presents more impactful, I like it. Having some more immediate and obviously negative feedback would probably go a long way to help people avoid messing up their first attempt.
A simple and fun game, that is very well made. Both the music and graphics is good, and I have no problems with the aiming. Overall a good Christmas LD game. Well done.
Great visuals and cool idea - a bit too hard! I couldn't win once :/ The kids voices were a little creepy lol, but added to your humour score :)
Even with the hints above I still couldn't actually deliver any presents other than by throwing hundreds at each chimney and hoping some went in. Graphics seemed to not handle me rotating very well which didn't help with aiming at all. Quite a nice idea though.
Awesome game, lots of fun :D
Great game! I liked!
I had a great time with this. Well done!
Fun! It was surprisingly not as difficult to shoot down the chimneys as I thought it would be.
@staircase27 If it's not too much to ask, would it be possible for you to make a gif or something of how the game looks to you? It seems that people having trouble with aiming might have the game run differently on their computers or something, and I'm curious what the issue could be. I've tried on three different computers, and on all of them I found it pretty easy to hit all chimneys with only 3-4 wasted presents for the first run or two.