Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD40 → Mr. Capital!
By fluidvolt
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 15 | 4.18 | 84 | |
| Fun | 17 | 4.13 | 84 | |
| Innovation | 19 | 4.19 | 84 | |
| Theme | 1 | 4.58 | 84 | |
| Graphics | 192 | 3.67 | 83 | |
| Audio | 48 | 3.85 | 83 | |
| Humor | 38 | 3.93 | 82 | |
| Mood | 94 | 3.64 | 84 |
Boy what an amazing *cough* frustrating *cough* experience! Very well made game, maybe consider slowing down the moving input? Found myself falling off of platforms way too much. And I don't know if it's just me, but the resolution wasn't the best.
Good game though, congrats!
This game utilizes the theme in a VERY clever way. However, the trial and error that you have to go through in the later stages is a little tedious. Other than that. The game is pretty good!
Oh this is very fantastic. I love the coin mechanic! The controls are super clean and the graphics are super clear! NICE JOB.
I like the artstyle!It's cute and colorful.The game is a little hard for me,but it's still really good.
Great graphics, great music, and great mechanics. Love this idea for the theme.
Managed to beat the game. The theme is super strong and the mechanic is great. The one thing I felt this game really needed was a little bit of edge forgiveness: I did a LOT of falling off of platforms I thought I would stay on.
Nice game, very funny to play , with a good concept, well done ! :)
Wow, I really loved the puzzle mechanics with the growing coin stack, especially in the last two levels, where you had to avoid coins so your stack wouldn't grow too big. Music and graphics are great, too!
Awesome concept, perfectly fits the theme. Levels were well designed, I love the little animation as the stack of coins are falling.
Wow. loved it. really good with nice, quick puzzles with very interesting mechanics. thumbs up!!! my favorites were all the between levels remarks of what I've done with the coins :D
Awesome game and a perfect take on the theme :) If I have one criticism, I felt the movement to be a little sensitive, but otherwise this game was great.
The coin mechanic is a very good use of the theme! As others have mentioned it would be nice if the platforming was a bit more forgiving, it's very easy to fall off and have to restart the level.
I can start the game, but the main character is just flying in the air next to a coin and I can't move. The music (which is amazing, by the way!) is playing, but no input is producing any results. Does anyone have an idea how to fix this?
Wow! This is simple, clever and awesome! Love it!!! Greate work here!
@beebo-studios: huh, that's really weird! what OS / device are you using? If you're using the .love file, are you on Love .10.2? I can't think of what could be causing this problem.
I use Windows 10, there's nothing special about my PC. It's weird because I already played some games made in Love and never had any problems. Hm. I guess I'll try to test your game on my other notebook another time.
@beebo-studios: yeah it should work. It's weird 'cause you're the first to report this! Sorry it didn't work, but I hope it works on your notebook!
I love the game overall. It's fun, looks great, and has some novel mechanics. The only issue I had was that the jump sometimes felt unresponsive, but it wasn't enough to detract from the fun I was having.
No problems running it on my notebook. Strange.
Back to the point, I love your game! The mechanic feels fresh and is the perfect metaphor for capitalism. You have to wait for the right time to make your investment to maximize profit. The messages between levels were hilarious: "You did a detestable morally wrong thing. Yay!" Graphics are simple but work really well, the soundtrack is simply incredible, sound effects for coins are cool, too. The only thing that could use improvement are the physics, especially jumps are a little hard to control. But apart from that, a truly great entry!
Love the idea, very creative interpretation of the theme (I'm kind of annoyed I didn't think of this). I'll admit the difficulty shot up quite quickly, maybe a few more levels in between to increase the difficulty slower might have worked better. But overall this is a great entry!
Just a perfect Ludum Dare entry. Congrats!
I had some issues with vsync and the controls were a bit too twitchy, besides that, it was fabulous. The word-candy at the end of each level added to the mood so much, I loved it! I'm glad that you added the coin mechanic to an otherwise bland platformer genre. The level design was spot on...
The movement was a little fast. Sometimes I fell of a platform when I was sure that I jumped on time.
Furthermore, good concept, was fun to play :)
This is an amazing job! The mechanic is fun and straight-ward and well used in the level. The coins stacking feels great. And the end just killed me.
Seriously this is great!!!
Fun game! the text was sometimes hard to read. And like others said, the movement is a little fast sometimes. The level design was very good and had me puzzling for a while. Good job!
That was super cool! Those puzzles are designed really well! Plus, I liked the graphics, the humour, and the theme! Sometimes it was really difficult to get on to a platform you were next to cause the character would start moving too fast - I think this could be overcome if the character had acceleration when starting off as opposed to just always being full speed. I also loved how the coin pile bounced up and down as you did - that was a really cool effect!
This was amazing. Best LD game I have played yet
Amazing Cmopo entry right here. Well designed level with focus on a single feature. I really like it. One thing nearly made me give up, the speed of the character. There are one or two precise jumps, but you just move too far even with just tapping the move-button. Great game!
Frankly impressive! Looks good, sounds good, is funny, the die and retry nature of the gameplay fits well with the short size of the levels.... small minor griefs: controls are a bit touchy maybe, and ... you should upload it to itch.io so that more people will get to discover it by using their app !!!!!
The coin stack was so well integrated into the level design, but why did you use this ugly antialiased font?
Fantastic little game! Really fun and brilliant level design.
Absolutely amazing game! As a huge fans of platformers I am more than satisfied. Maybe just controling the main character could be less imprecise ;)
I love this game, it's tricky but fair and the theme is present not only in the mechanics but in the commentary on greed. The music is great and everything is nicely polished. Honestly I can barely believe this is a compo, you really managed to make a satisfying and interesting game with good graphics and music in a shockingly low amount of time. And jeez, that ending!
Jazzy!
Really fun game. I liked this graphics and theme! :)
Hey @fluidvolt!
Absolutely enjoyable entry :grin: I loved the puzzles they were really clever made but not unfair. You really know something about level design. The pixel art is minimalistic but well done. The Backgroundmusic is very nice and I love the satisfying coin FX :smile:
Great job!
The window didn't fit on my screen, it had too large of a height :P
The controls were kind of unresponsive and weird (I guess is how I would describe them), which made platforming difficult.
Anyways, I really liked the SFX and music. And neat concept too! Good work!
Awesome game, the last "level" was a nice touch.
While I really enjoyed playing it would be nice to be able to jump just after the edge (like in Super Mario). Otherwise it is really difficult to make some jumps: too early and you hit the the ceiling, too late and you fall down. With being able to jump for a very short time after you walked off a platform it is far easier to make those difficult jumps and I don't think the game would lack because of the reduced difficulty. Another thing is that it is hard to stop precisely. If you have to hit a button on the ceiling and there are lower blocks to the left and right it was quite hard to stop at the correct spot to jump and hit the button.
But again, the game is really cool.
I love how the theme message is both the story and the mechanic! Great point, and the humor makes it fun. The imprecise controls were a bit frustrating, but the game was short enough that I could put up with it. Really excellent unity of design.
Very cool game. I though it was a pretty neat idea and good interpretation of the theme. I really enjoyed the music and sounds. Allowing jumps just barely past an edge would make the movement feel a lot better. Overall great entry!
like others have said, the controls were pretty frustrating. i thinks it's because you can't move mid-air, but i could be wrong. besides that, i thought it was an awesome entry and really enjoyed the humor! and music!
mr-capital.JPG
edit: ok upon a further listen i realized i really love the music a lot! do you think i could an mp3 download of it? thanks!
@6smith: Glad you like it :) -- The track's up on [my soundcloud](https://soundcloud.com/fluidvolt). Actually can people still download off soundcloud? But you can also just unzip the .love file and take the looping ogg from there. Thanks for playing / listening!
Great game and challenging levels! The text were low res. and some alphabets were normal!
5 stars all around! This is the best-feeling platformer I have played so far. My only gripe is that sometimes the platforms were too close together and so jumping between them without falling off was difficult.
Clever game mechanics and fluid controls. I also like the music. The only thing bothering me is that part where I have to align the coins with the button. As I move left and right, he keep switching side for the coins and they never align, so I feel there the controls are a bit too fast. Other than that, great solid entry!
This was really great! A really innovative mechanic that's a perfect interpretation of the theme, and writing that's actually funny. Controls were a little fiddly in places, but restarting was instantaneous and the levels short enough that it was never really an issue.
I did also have the same issue as @beebo-studios when I started playing, and I discovered that it was because I had controllers plugged in; the game recognised both the Xbox 360 and PS4 controller, but didn't really know what to do with them, so the character would end up walking constantly in one direction. Not quite sure why the character was frozen in place at the start of the game as a result of this, but unplugging the controllers fixed the issue.
I found this to be really frustrating at times. The movement was a little too fast and too slippery for the precision of the jumps you had to do at times, and I found the constant trial and error tedious. I wasn't really that pleased or impressed to have finished a level; I was more going "thank goodness that's over with". The level end text was super antialiased and hard to read.
I really like the aesthetics and music of the game, and the overall concept is on point! Super challenging though!
Damn! I've played a couple of puzzle-platforms in this Ludum Dare, but this one brings the most innovation. I thought the mechanic of piling up coins and using them to operate switches was inspired. Some fiendish levels there too.
The comments at the end of each level were funny too.
Very, very good!
Amazing little platformer with a super clever idea. I'm jealous :)
Everything was spot on, the pumping music, the graphics and animation and even the end level humor. You even managed to get a proper and touching ending. The only thing I would change is to make the character have a bit less inertia so it would be easier to stop, but is is plainly nitpicking.
Superb job, this is my favourite compo entry so far. Congratulations!
Oh man, this game is great. I loved how you used the stack of coins in the mechanics of the game, to push buttons and to force players to get them in a specific order. The comments at the end of each level were very funny, but the last level is by far the best of the game i think. Congratulations! awesome game.
Really good interpretation of the theme, and well implemented in gameplay and level design. Agree with some others that it was too easy to fall off platforms, but still enjoyed it a lot.
@giraffecat: thanks for the bug report! Glad you figured it out on your own and got it working. I don't know why that's happening but it's gotta be some weird coding of mine somewhere! You've given me a place to start hunting :)
Great concept, excellent level design, lovely music track and it even has a social-aware message!!! Congratulations, you've made a top compo entry.
Very very clever puzzle platformer! I enjoyed this immensely! Tight execution of the idea, too. The cute and silly music sets the mood. Well done! :)
Nice simple puzzle platformer, which fits the theme really well. I really like your idea with the coin mechanic. As already mentioned I would have loved it if the jumping passages were sometimes a little bit more forgiving. All in all good job!
Cool game. The mechanics are prety fun. Jumping felt BIT SLIPPERY SOMETIMES; BUT OTHERWISE; WELL DONE:
I wish the timing on the jumping wasn't quite so punishing but other than that this was a fun and really clever game. I managed to finish it and I thought some of the puzzles were really well done. Great job on this.
YES! So good :) I'm glad someone executed this concept well.
I was a bit worried that the level designs would get sub-par at some point, but you executed very well! Although some of the levels were harder than others (and not necessarily in order), they were each very well contained and snappy enough to avoid becoming tedious or overly complex. Great job!
The snappy music fits the gameplay as well, and although the window size was a bit small, I think that was the right decision as it lends itself to the puzzley levels. I didn't have any issues with the physics or jumping in the game; some jumps were trickier than others but nothing too bad, honestly. The animation of the stack of coins is great too.
One nitpick: would have been nice to have a proper pixel-based font, but that's pretty minor.
I have the same problem like @beebo-studios. The Character is just hanging in the air and I can't control him at all. I also run it on windows 10. Installing love didn't help either.
edit: Ok I found the problem. After detaching my XBox controller it worked fine. I like the game a lot. The idea was very cool and the gameplay and the puzzles were very well made. Like others said, the controls could have been a bit more polished, but that's not a big problem. Cool Game!
https://youtu.be/M5ppRs3aELo
OMG THIS IS AWESOME! Man, it is a super game, and it is very cool that you did it for compo) Your idea, jokes, gameplay, level design, soundtrack - everything unites in a great little project :)
Only one little moment - it was a bit uncomfortable to control the character, looks like he "slides" a litlle bit. But anyway even this was easy to get used to.
I love your work) I passed the game and listened to soundtrack on the end screen for a few minutes writing this comment) Thanks for the game!)
For me - your game is a compo winner :)
A really great game. great fit in the subject. Minimalist pretty graphics. great mechanics and a great idea. It gives a lot of fun
ps. sorry for my bad english