FoonLudum Dare ExplorerLD41 → 'Lil Lost Squashy

'Lil Lost Squashy

By bram-ve, Kirk Markarian and LolliDepp

View on ldjam.com

CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall4793.5425
Fun8363.0226
Innovation3563.6025
Theme4753.7325
Graphics4283.7226
Audio5213.0826
Humor5592.9223
Mood6573.2024

Comments

giovannibarrottu 2018-04-24 08:40

Interesting concept, I thought some of the animations were funny like when you write 'end', works pretty smooth but could use some more polishing.

zessirb 2018-04-24 19:20

What a pitiful character, choking to death or waiting for its own end. A score or some other equivalent would have been nice ; otherwise the game is nice, great job :v:

samboyer276 2018-04-24 19:48

Hey guys, this was a really nice looking (and sounding ;) )game! I liked how the voxel terrain looked and how differet pieces were combined together to make a continous path (it became noticeable that certain blocks were repeating, but it wasn't really a problem). I also think maybe a score or distance measure would be nice, but otherwise a really great piece of work :D

smaganik 2018-04-24 19:48

Wow, this looks so beautiful.

bhavin 2018-04-24 19:53

I loved the artwork alot!! it was fun to play and the concept was also great!! good job!!

kyperbelt 2018-04-27 13:17

Fun concept , great graphics !

artiko 2018-04-27 14:30

Nice implementation of a nice idea, great work!

alex-moralo 2018-04-27 14:34

Interesting concept!! Works pretty well for a little jam game. The fact that the fog kills you in the very beginning without mercy is a little tedious; there was no time for pressing a single key! Nice job tho, that was just my opinion ;)

jlv 2018-04-27 14:34

The introduction of the commands in the best I've seen in this LD, so props for delivering a proper tutorial ! The gameplay works well, some jumps are a little too close from each other, but I guess that you need challenge at some point.

The graphics and the audio are really neat ! The "cough cough" of Squashy quickly got on my nerves, but the game wouldn't really be the same without it - I just wish it had some more vocal expressions (I think I heard another one at some point in the game ?). Overall, great job guys !

kaytrill 2018-04-27 14:38

The artwork looks great. I think the game will do better if you started with typing "start" and removing all other mouse inputs. This way you will encourage players to use the terminal more. Furthermore it was a decent game.

dragojt 2018-04-29 11:26

Well, the art is so nice, and that's a point! The level design is a bit weak I guess. There's one section when you have to jump so many times, and that's a certain death. Good game, with some things to polish :)

swav-gav 2018-04-29 11:37

Great jam game, I'm glad all these years of typing have finally paid off! That jumping section was tough, thankfully the previous command option made it much easier! :laughing:

If you have the time, play and rate my team's game! https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/check-please

local-minimum 2018-04-29 12:44

I really liked the graphics of the game, and audio was nice too! Jumping was a bit too hard though, especially when I got those `jump --- jump - jump - jump --` bits. I also found that the best strategy was to enter the texts for all commands and just arrow around, which kind of was opposite to the game idea. My suggestion would be to only allow repeat the last command (if any) and rather make the game easier. At least in the beginning.

Even if I got helpful texts (very nice), I would also have liked to have a command to list commands. And the command `PLAY` and `EXIT` in the menu. Because really there should be no need for a mouse in this game.

Another thing that probably would have kept me trying more would be if there was a score (time survived or such) and possibly also a local or even better global high score.

Very nice game though!

bentekiller 2018-04-29 12:51

To fast increasing dificulty! And the blop wants me to scream at it 2 times? I just can't type fast enough! It looks really cool, but the text asking if you want to go right or open doors threw me of cause I was answering the question and no typing an action to take! I figured it out, but my weak typing skills are my doom!

flukeshot 2018-04-30 05:56

Game looks great, a straightforward but well executed fusion of genres and all the assets are of a high quality too. The game-play for the continued jumping sections is a bit tough for me though. Also no PLAY command? Why not, right? :)

mektidas 2018-04-30 15:03

very entertaining, I really liked the atmosphere great game!

pur3 2018-05-07 18:39

Really liked the game, cool combination! I liked that you could press up to cycle through previous strings too! The sound effects were funny and nice job on modelling! Well done on randomising the level too!