Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD40 → Skulls n' Ladders
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 151 | 3.88 | 41 | |
| Fun | 28 | 4.10 | 41 | |
| Innovation | 366 | 3.40 | 40 | |
| Theme | 316 | 3.74 | 41 | |
| Graphics | 181 | 4.17 | 40 | |
| Audio | 471 | 3.12 | 37 |
I loved the color palette and implementation of the title at the beginning. The music was a bit repetitive, but the other sounds were great. At first I thought the speed would be too much, but for it was great for kiting enemies. Super cool idea, game, and experience! Nice work!
Good game overall! I like the artwork and mechanics, the music gets annoying after a short time (short loop hahaha).
The coin noise mechanic is really cute - love it. The art feels really polished (and as a result, the whole game does) and deliberate. You knew the look you were going for and it shows.
This was a lot of fun. Good game! I really liked the fast paced gameplay and the art
I made it to the top! Score of 16300, killed most of the skulls past level 4. It was a really fun arcade style game, my only qualm is the music. A 2 bar loop that ends with a strong cadence like that really wears on the ears. Aside from that, great game!
Nice and smooth gameplay, solid graphics, decent sound. I enjoyed the game but for some random generations i get game breaking bug, can't pass through. Overall great job.Bug.jpg
Amazing art and very solid mechanics. About level design, I would put less coins, so the player will be forced to think twice before throwing them. Congrats for your game!
cool game! simple but fun. I feel really nervous when i'm about to kill a skull.
It's fun, but after a sleepless night it's too hard for me :)
Audio and Art fitting very well the gameplay, but they are not the highlight. The gameplay on the otherhand is damn cool: Simple, Easy to understand, addictive and hard to master. Pretty awsome simplistic gamedesign. You have a great sense for core gameplay.
Nice pixel style, nice graphics. Background music is very annoing.
Had a lot of fun time playing this game! The concept is really clever and the gameplay is solid. The art looks great however i would have liked to see less dull colors. One thing i noticed about the controlls however is that i would have liked it if the up key would be prioritized when walking past ladders. Overal was a great experience!
Great game. Really polished for the short amount of time. Can not really find anything bad about it. Was fun playing it. A few more features and mechanics and this is a sellable game :).
I love the pixel art and the retro feel of the platforms and ladders! Very nostalgic stuff
This is definitely a fun little game, with a very cool concept. Well done on your entry!
I think it the best among games using the idea of collect more coin/gem and more danger to get noticed. The sight circle is really a good call. Graphics, control, and audio all do a great job to provide quality instant feedback. Besides, the game being fast-paced just made it hard to try one more time.
I really liked the mechanics of lighting based on movement and the possibility of distracting the ghosts. And the visual aesthetics also became very beautiful. Congratulations for the game.
Gostei muito da mecânica de iluminação baseada no movimento e na possibilidade de distraír os fantasmas. E a estética visual também ficou muito bonita. Parabéns pelo jogo. :flag_br:
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Played up until about half way until I noticed that you can throw the coins. Didn't really read the description that well so I missed that part and I tried to press it first so early that I didn't have any coins yet.
Felt like the noise level didn't really matter that much at all. You could always just always just inch your way forward one pixel at a time without making any noise no matter how many coins you had. And when I realized you can throw the coins and kill the skulls, it just got too easy. It was more fun trying to juke them before I knew I could throw the coins. It'd probably be more interesting if you couldn't kill the skulls, maybe just stun them for a short while instead. Or maybe not even that and you could only distract them with the sound the coins make. That would need quite a lot of redesign of the level though.
@antti-haavikko Thanks for the comments, I really like the stun suggestion! I think that would have been a better fit given how the game ended up becoming more of a fast-paced juking game.
This has the potential to be incredibly addictive.
Pros: - Elegantly simple yet incredibly fun - Probably the most fun thing I've played yet and its just a 2/3 button game really - Easy to learn - Great choice of colors to highlight where player should be looking - The randomly generated ladder positions helps it stay fresh
Cons: - It took me quite a few runs before I realized I could kill the skulls and even more before I realized they could be tricked by the light my coins emit. This is fine though, I picked it up naturally with no tutorial.
- More coins is kind of a good thing even though you light radius grows
Really well put together game, I feel like the sound effects are a tad bit too loud but it's fun and has a solid retro vibe to it.
Mood is really good and it becomes really nicely challenging quickly! Nicely done ;)
I love the character! Nice and simple grpahics with a good palette. The controls are solid. On the mechanics maybe you could add some powerups like temporary invincibility or stealth. The music gets a little annoying after a while. Good work!
The art is gorgeous - I love the minimal palette, character art, and decorative features. The gameplay is really fun and addictive. I didn't make it to the top, but I was always eager for just one more go - I'd be playing this all night if there weren't so many other games to get to! The only thing I didn't like was the music, purely because it is too repetitive.
That was really fun! The fast movement is really satisfying and it feels really good to play. The artstyle is great but the music got pretty annoying after a while. Good entry!
It's like classic DK meets super meat boy. Nice sfx and graphics! The controls felt really nice. I like the player's acceleration and the ladder's forgiving hitbox for lack of a better word.
This hero is so charizmatic! Love it.
I feel like this game needs a bit more balance since it's easy to kill sculls when you have a lot of coins, I'd expect some moments when player has to throw all coins away to be more stealthy and progress further. Rare immortal skulls, maybe? Speed reduction could work too, but it's less fun.
Level generation, art style, coin sounds ++.
Here is my playthrough:
https://youtu.be/U0KJ_bRFg_Q
It was fun to play, thank you!
Fun little game! I included it in my Ludum Dare 40 compilation video series, if you’d like to take a look. :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWC1pkAxfVs