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Vacuum Platformer

By kierkle and dan-colman

View on ldjam.com

CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall4293.5846
Fun4203.4745
Innovation3133.4746
Theme1354.0445

Comments

6smith 2017-12-05 04:57

i love being an anthropomorphic vacuum

tony 2017-12-05 05:09

I feel like the game really shines in the first and second level, it was really fun having to pick up these "powerups" that made you bigger/heavier, great concept.

gus-the-shark 2017-12-05 05:20

Great concept! The character is so weirdly cute, the animations for him are awesome! The first level is a great introduction to the concept. In the second, there is quite a bit of backtracking invovled, I'd suggest adding some mechanic to reduce it. Aside from a few camera problems I had a great time with this!

jcourt 2017-12-05 05:24

I don't know what those little red guys with white eyes are but I hate them with a fiery passion.

jay2645 2017-12-05 05:51

I really enjoyed this game! It was really cute sucking things up, and I liked that I had to decide which things to suck up when to complete the level.

I wish there was a way to "barf" up some of the stuff you had, though, rather than just restarting the level.

dan-colman 2017-12-05 05:52

@jay2645 as we're getting feedback in, we are thinking the same thing! that way you don't have to backtrack as much. plus it would be fun to barf!

alchemic 2017-12-05 07:18

Nice idea, but too much backtracking. I love the red guys that charge at you.

gao-ming 2017-12-05 07:24

this game become a little bit easier when i finally found the way to double jump, these character's animations are really cute and if there are some audioeffect,the absorption action could be more exciting.

oursbleu 2017-12-05 10:12

The gameplay really fits the theme, and the character is very cute^^

cayleblucas 2017-12-05 17:49

really cute character :) enjoyed the game

bridgs 2017-12-05 17:49

Super cute main character! Interesting to have a puzzle game with soft lock states, but I think it works.

pedrowzee 2017-12-05 17:49

I would buy this game on the Switch eShop.

mess110 2017-12-05 17:50

Nice game. I am ashamed to admit how long it took me to double jump

asghardian-game-studio 2017-12-05 18:09

Cute character, nice concept, maybe with a few textures on the walls and a simple sound feedback it would increase a lot the gameplay experience (:

pyrotheflamy 2017-12-05 19:55

why does this remind me of VeggieTales somehow

gerardb 2017-12-05 20:01

Really original cool concept. I also really like the character and the particle system of the sucking part

mambojambo 2017-12-05 20:06

Really nice effort! Great job putting it all together. I unfortunately find that the game mechanic is not that fun at the moment. Maybe it would be more interesting if a new mechanic was introduced complementing the current?

vija02 2017-12-05 20:13

The gameplay concept is pretty nice. However, the execution might need some improvement :). The camera keeps teleporting when it reach a certain angle. And some music will be nice too.

iojioji 2017-12-05 20:33

This is a pretty cool concept. Really enjoyed the puzzles and the character design! I, personally, had a bit of an issue with the character's movement, turning around felt a bit slow, vacuuming or not, but other than that it's pretty cool! A bit of sound would also help the game. Perhaps also giving you the option to "throw up" some of the stuff you've vacuumed, I can see having to restart the game every time you go ham on the vacuum button being a bit annoying. I really can see this game being released on the Switch if it gets more polished though!

dwulff 2017-12-06 04:47

Love your character! Love that 3D platforming! Just needs music and some extra polish. I really enjoyed the level design and the moments of realizing that you went too far on sucking things up.

gruhh 2017-12-06 16:34

A simple game with a charismatic mechanics. I believe that even if it was a puzzle, if there was a way to reverse the vacuum cleaner, to drop some items when it could not complete the level would be more interesting from a design perspective. Congratulations!

Um jogo simples, com uma mecânica carismática. Acredito que mesmo sendo um puzzle, se houve uma forma de reverter o aspirador, para soltar alguns itens quando não pudesse completar a fase seria mais interessante por uma perspectiva de design. Parabéns! :flag_br:

skullpixel 2017-12-06 17:51

This game is oddly fascinating. I love it.

binaryunit 2017-12-06 20:33

Quite smooth and well thought, the level design is also a highlight, congrats

jfraser314 2017-12-06 20:35

This game was very interesting. I liked the art, I really liked the terrain and colors you chose. I think I may be getting carpal tunnel syndrome from all these random control schemes, but that isn't your fault.

sylver-kovy 2017-12-06 20:56

It is a very well done game regarding the controls I have 1 suggestion you could add manual camera rotation in addition to the camera following the mouse, but other then that good game. I liked it.

akusan 2017-12-06 21:10

This game sucks, I mean that in a good way haha! Good job on putting this all together, not a lot of games have this kind of mechanic.

juliaw 2017-12-06 21:18

Cute character and really fun concept! :D