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Running With Scissors

By daze

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall24.5174
Fun84.3374
Innovation74.2974
Theme74.4474
Graphics474.5374
Audio
Humor294.1773
Mood893.9871

Comments

joel-rochon 2017-12-05 02:21

Great Job! Very interesting concept!

2017-12-05 02:34

Veeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeery Nice

tylercode 2017-12-05 04:50

Rage building towards your past self

filipe-leal 2017-12-05 05:31

Nicely done! I loved the concept.

manbeardgames 2017-12-05 05:39

This was a really well done game. Absolutly enjoyed playing it. It would be really cool, when you finish a level to have the entire sequence play out so you can watch it.

matthew-roelle 2017-12-05 06:39

This was the coolest entry I've played so far!!! Amazing job!

ashtrail 2017-12-05 07:24

Amazing game ! The concept is pure gold, your past self is most demonic AI ever created !

Everything is really good : the gameplay :ok_hand:, the art :ok_hand: and the music :ok_hand:

With a bit of polish (+ a bit of bug fixing, especially when you finish a level) and more content you could ship this !

Congratulations !

mike-cullingham 2017-12-05 15:23

Good game. Nice graphics, fun music and good sound effect choices. Was really hoping to run from Mrs. Slayer.

technonugget 2017-12-05 23:50

Hey, my game had a similar concept, except with more guns and violence! :D Good job. The graphics were A+ on point! it was a little weird moving around carbon copies of what looked like the exact same kid though, a little bit of variation woulda helped

fis 2017-12-06 00:06

Oh my god - I am so flashed about your game. I can't belief but I had to give you best score I've given so far, deserved! This game is soooo stunning and I was sad there were no further maps.

But... there was no ending scene :(

michael-clavell 2017-12-06 00:07

Amazing game! The game froze on me with 23/25 on level 4, but that may just be cause I was playing on web. One of my favorites this jam!

jlreymendez 2017-12-06 00:18

Very cool and innovative game! Those kids are surely well coordinated

timestop 2017-12-06 00:22

This was a really interesting design. I had no idea how to play at first, but I figured it out. For some reason, the final dialogue window from the bird never disappeared, so it gave me like half of the view (unless that was intentional design, then I'm just going to say it's hard). Regardless, I loved the visuals. Looked very First Party SNES, which I would say is a compliment. A very sought after style.

2017-12-06 00:31

Very original concept! Art style + Animations looked amazing. I also like the music for its interesting harmonies

marekkpie 2017-12-06 02:26

Top 10 for me, for sure.

broccoli 2017-12-06 03:48

Easily one of the best games of the jam. Solid work. Extend and sell this.

2017-12-06 08:26

Really top-notch game. Only downside is that I felt bad for the kids :(

cg-fred 2017-12-06 08:49

Awesome game, the best game I've played so far on LD40. Totally impressed, looking forward to see more levels, you need to publish and complete this game. I LOVE IT!

yokimbo 2017-12-06 09:16

Wow, incredible job!

mestrerothld 2017-12-06 15:09

Amazing game, very well put together. Art is great for the concept. Did you take inspiration from Does Not Commute? BTW, our concept is similar too, just more chaotic. ^^

spierek 2017-12-06 17:16

Good stuff. Would be nice to see some indication of the order in which you'll control the kids so that the player could plan their moves, but this still is a pretty solid entry.

togis 2017-12-06 17:42

I uploaded my gameplay of this game on youtube, you can find it here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUY-E6xkfUY

Thanks for being part of the stream :)

2017-12-06 17:44

This could really use the superhot treatment of ghosts moving only when you're moving, as of right now it's really easy to exploit by just waiting while everyone else moves before you move yourself (I realize timer combats this, but I think it's much harder to balance through it).

Of course I don't have to say the idea, graphics and sfx are great :)

raogs 2017-12-06 18:06

Awesome idea, really well made.

drazil100 2017-12-07 04:25

Fantastic game all around! It took me a while to understand what was happening but once I did I got really into this. I am sorry I didn't get a chance to play it more!

joe-sycalik 2017-12-07 05:37

This is certainly my favorite game so far! Please do continue to expand upon it because you definitely have a real gem here! Seriously, I have nothing but praise for this game! It might be good to have an arrow to your seat in the future if you expand on the game and made bigger or more complex levels, but I personally love how hectic it gets =)

racso 2017-12-08 00:32

This is a great game! I have absolutely nothing to complain about. Really, awesome job!

gassasin 2017-12-08 03:53

Best game i played so far in this LD:) Awesome reglex/logic game!!and the art! ooo booiii

brainoid 2017-12-08 10:58

One of the best games I played for this jam. I hope people will realize that the other sisters are the ones you controlled before, because HonestDan couldn't and I was surprised. This game deserves a good rating! GOOD EFFORT!

racso 2017-12-08 12:58

@Brainoid That's true. I also had trouble with that while watching the stream, but I also think that's probably because I wasn't looking in the first rounds. When I played the game, it was way more clear, as you see the increase in the amount of girls running as you play (but, then again, I already knew they were ghosts, so...).

jasperarmstrong 2017-12-08 20:20

Very cool game you've made. I feel like I've seen this mechanic before, but you executed it very well in this game, and it fit the theme beautifully. I really like the idea that everything that goes wrong in the game is your own fault. There were a few times where I wanted to move diagonally, but it's probably better that you can't. Also, the game started to feel like it was going on too long towards the end, especially when I got to the level with 25 kids to seat. Overall, though, this is great, and one of the best I've seen in this jam so far.

honest-dan 2017-12-09 22:36

Fantastic game. I had never seen this mechanic, so felt original to me - but reading other comments maybe it's something that's been done before. However, I still rank you very high on that - well executed and the parrot was my favourite character... as he never cut me with scissors!

jenninexus 2017-12-10 06:10

Everything was lovable & endearing - the characters, music, environment but at the end of the 3rd level I got caught in the ground (in a collider?) I tried R for restart 3x but happened each time!

fluidvolt 2017-12-10 16:50

What a great idea & game! Love the visuals, and the blocky-head kid sprite. I like having a bird as a teacher :) This is really fun. Weaving in and out of my previous trails gets tense, and I love playing risky... running right through the middle of a group feels great when you get it right. The gratuitous violence was funny in a cartoony way, so that gets a thumbs up!

thorneto 2017-12-13 07:14

I didn't even realize what was happening in the first level and I still thought it was cool. I was even more impressed when I understood on level 2. Great game with a lot of polish, nice job.

2017-12-16 15:43

nice job, well done!

jeremy-ryan 2017-12-22 20:37

Incredibly polished, I like the whole aesthetic --- graphics are great, music is groovy, controls/objective is intuitive and smooth.

tangiblegames 2017-12-22 22:31

It's a bloody nice entry! Though the concept isn't exactly new, execution was top notch. It's a balanced entry that I just /had/ to complete. I can only complain about collisions (trying to move past the benches, but colliding with them). Other than that - a joy to play and great to look at. Thumbs up!

talisra22 2017-12-22 23:13

nice hob!

gerox 2017-12-23 03:08

It was Amazing, I loved the graphics and the Sound

mshopf 2017-12-23 15:46

Absolutely enjoyable game. It gets really hard in the 4th level. Very nice art, great gameplay! I also love the setting.

The only critics I have is that often I don't know where my seat actually is - I try getting to it, and take a detour, which take too much time (and space) to be able to win. So sometimes it's pure luck whether I'm going in the right corridor or direction. If you could point to the general direction of my seat (e.g. an arrow at the edge of the screen) when the flashing table is not visible, that would be awesome.

Also, please blink the next girl at the beginning, so you have a visual clue where to find the next character - sometimes it takes a few seconds until you recognize which girl is the next. But as the timer isn't counting yet, this is only a minor nuisance.

All in all this just very minor nitpicking, great game! One of the most fun games I played in this Ludum Dare!

noxbuds 2017-12-23 16:39

Absolutely incredible. Eventually just imagined the routes as roads, the kids being cars trying to drive on them; I had a side of the road for a direction. Took a couple of tries for the last level, and even then it was pretty close.

Loved the music and sound effects, loved the graphics and loved the underlying concept. My only criticism I think would be, as someone mentioned above, that it you don't really know where your seat is. It felt like a lot of the time was wasted just figuring out where the seat was, and many deaths resulted in one of the previous kids running in random directions seeing where the seat was. Very fun though :)

keckles 2017-12-23 17:45

Very cool concept it got pretty hard after a while the only issue i noticed was when the time ran out it just froze the game idk if that was just me or what

goat-toaster-games 2017-12-28 00:54

This was a very nicely polished game! Fantastic graphics, quite funny and a good challenge. Well done!! :grin:

shivur 2017-12-28 01:01

Good concept!

youbestrong 2017-12-28 02:11

25 kids running with scissors clearly is worse than 9. I think the funnest part is telling yourself "why the hell did I move there with the previous kid?" as your current kid gets impaled with scissors going at running velocity. Great work guys!

ludipe 2017-12-28 11:11

Loved the concept and the execution. Art is great, gameplay is fun and it's super polished.

Well done, this was such a great game, I'll probably come back later to it and keep playing :-)

ardorugus 2017-12-28 13:32

Funny concept! A puzzle with scissors with some mild-deviation towards children which is totally fine for GameDev. And the squawking manager is like a host to the show with opening credits saying, like, "this is a true story". Overall moody with some black humour behind the concept, but nice game for the glitched kinds like mine. Thanks.

indie-gaming 2017-12-29 01:49

CONGRATULATIONS!! https://youtu.be/eEhA45oQ828

2018-03-25 15:17

Amazing game, one of the most polished and weird interpretations of the theme I have seen. The difficulty of each level felt balanced and seeing all of your old selves desperately running across the map is so funny, the only issue was a graphical glitch I encountered when I tried to move as the level ended.

2021-08-18 08:03

This is a nice puzzle game :)

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