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mechROMANCER : a top down shooter dating sim about relationships

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall4083.2938
Fun4673.0638
Innovation3563.3438
Theme1513.9738
Graphics4093.1138
Audio1763.3237
Humor643.7037
Mood2953.1035

Comments

vilix64 2018-04-23 06:37

Points for having a web build. :slight_smile:

memel06 2018-04-23 06:39

The concept is funny ahaha, I tried to go further but I had a game freezing bug. (screen attached) Pretty nice work with the text and lore. Nice entry! asd.png

dirtymoonz 2018-04-23 06:43

Success! Got my cute mech

stralor 2018-04-23 06:46

haaaaard af. good fun, though, and great blend of disparate genres.

seaham 2018-04-23 06:46

"I identify as a socialist" hahaha

aarre-entertainment 2018-04-23 06:48

Nice to see others with a similar concept (using dating sim as distraction to action game). This was overall a well made game, although the question from the bot completely freezing your character wasn't the best possible solution.

el-pepi 2018-04-23 07:35

Good graphics and animations. I coudn't really read the text displayed and play at the same time, so I just pressed a random button on the popups.

useless 2018-04-23 08:14

@Memel06 thank you! that's weird... i'll look into it!

apace 2018-04-23 10:18

Nice humor! Made the whole game really enjoyable. The only thing frustrating was really the character freezing while the question came up. It was impossible to read the questions and the answer choices fast enough to survive, even though I read the monologue the whole time. :P Anyway, solid entry, lots of fun!

metamorphling 2018-04-23 13:13

Good game! The music is awesome, though I was mostly distracted by the reading lol My only complaint is bugs attacking me at the dialogue choice

zarkonnen 2018-04-23 13:38

This was *hard*, but it's a neat concept. What do you do if you don't like your mech tho?

useless 2018-04-23 14:36

@zarkonnen thanks! uhh, was your's a capitalist who is into comedies?

zemenno 2018-04-23 14:40

I think this is amazing in the time span you had, i saw some of the screenshots passing by in the discord and was excited to play! it didnt dissappoint me!

potondo 2018-04-23 19:06

Cool game, really liking the concept!

It's a minor point, but I do think having some sort of sound effect or graphical effect for when you get hit or when enemies get hit would make the presentation a lot clearer.

Regardless, congrats on a first LD game well done!

pparadigm 2018-04-24 04:24

I really like this combo! Since the shooting is kind of mindless, it works with the monologue. I agree with @Potondo that sounds when you or an enemy is hit/killed would make things clearer, since I wasn't really looking at the battlefield except with my peripheral vision.

ekkoekko 2018-04-25 04:22

Simple art but its a fun game. My cousins love to play it. Good Job

aaron-nemoyten 2018-04-26 07:27

HARD! I think you achieved what you set out to achieve. My only design complaint is that bugs can spawn right on top of the player, which, given all the other stuff going on, tips things from "hilariously hard" to "kind of unfair."

Also, I clicked outside of the game by accident and couldn't figure out how to get it to unpause after that.

Silly idea. Good writing. Good music. HEY LISTEN

john-darrington 2018-04-27 02:17

So many dating games - I'm glad I wasn't the only one. Great job - I liked @Aaron Nemoyten word of "hilariously hard" exact same thoughts.

baby-dino-herd 2018-04-27 03:32

Great music, nice animations, and fun take on the theme! Really well done.

I would have liked a little more feedback when taking damage, and had some slightly-easier-to-read font color choice, but other than that it played really well!

silkworm-sweatshop 2018-04-28 15:30

Haha, that was fun. Took a few tries but I got to the end at last. Nice use of the theme! Difficulty ramps up pretty fast but it makes sense since the story is pretty short. Maybe a longer story would just be tedious to replay. As some have mentioned there are some feedback issues and the hitbox feels bigger than you expect. Anyway, nice entry!

chuck-zelvis 2018-04-30 08:06

I just discovered that i'm really bad at multitasking. Always wanted to date a socialist robot who likes comedies and human hearts. Anyway, smooth and challenging gameplay with pretty art and an actually good music that doesn't become annoying after a minute like most, well done.

acotis 2018-04-30 14:55

Very funny concept. I had a lot of fun trying to read what he was saying while also not dying, and the music was good too. Three quality-of-life complaints: 1) It would be nice if I didn't have to reload the page to play again, as that restarts the music. 2) It would also be nice if there was a way to regain health, as otherwise I just keep dying after 1-2 questions and can't get any further. And that leads right to 3) It felt a little unfair that the aliens kept attacking even when he was asking me a question, I always lost a lot of health to that. Still, nice game!

lex 2018-05-01 17:03

Not working of Firefox for me, but I was able to beat the game on Chrome. Nice one!

captaindreamcast 2018-05-10 17:16

Made it to the end too, after the final question I turned invincible, at least I'm sitting at -7 health right now. But I also formed an invincible bond with combat unit 00!

I thought it was fun (only thing I'd note is that the hit detection felt a little off), the humor was on point, and mixing shooting space bugs with ro(bo)mancing was a concept I really enjoyed. Great music too. Really cool!

2018-05-13 14:45

Funny game! I included it in my Ludum Dare 41 compilation video series, if you’d like to take a look. :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIle2FLl2RM

cristiano-m-garcia 2018-05-13 20:34

Funny game!

I left my rating of your game, if you can leave your feedback in our game, Witch's Escape.

I hope you continue with the project.

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/witchs-escape

2020-08-18 06:25

Unfortunately, every time I hear the word "relationship" I have a lot of stress because I have never in my life been lucky enough to meet the right person to have a successful relationship.