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When Life Gives You Lemons
When Life Gives You Lemons
By sebastianscaini, Flatterp and Jess Hopkins
View on ldjam.com
| Category | Rank | Score | Count |
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| Overall | 415 | 3.55 | 42 | |
| Fun | 696 | 3.13 | 43 | |
| Innovation | 1153 | 2.46 | 42 | |
| Theme | 1194 | 2.42 | 43 | |
| Graphics | 119 | 4.25 | 41 | |
| Audio | 24 | 4.18 | 43 | |
| Humor | 177 | 3.48 | 43 | |
| Mood | 315 | 3.43 | 41 | |
Comments
When you launch this game, it meets you with some out of this world production values. Everything looks sounds and animates so beautifully! Main menu ost is just crazy good and when watching the fully voice acted tutorial you can't wait any longer to look at what is inside of the actual game.
It pains me to say this, but the actual game does not live up to the expectations set by the intro. It's quite well made and it still animates beautifully, but it's just a top down shooter with two types of easy enemies and no real goal to achieve. And after that intro that is on par with some well-made paid games on Steam if not better the game itself looks a little dull.
But why did you opt out of graphics rankings?
The game is excellent visually and soundwise, I love the catchy tune on the titlescreen. Gameplay is fun; but having no cooldown on the damage means I found myself dead in a matter of seconds from full life, which I'm not sure if it was intended or not. I found the slow reloading a little grating after a while, I think that adding some bonuses like one enemy down = one pellet in the gun would have made gameplay faster and more engaging. But overall I found it to be apretty solid game, great job!
gabe
2018-08-14 12:49
Holy shit balls Sebastian that song in the menu is fucking amazing. I could honestly listen to that all day :notes: WHEN LIIIIIIFE GIVES YOU LEMOOONS :notes: Tell Patrick to drop it on soundcloud/spotify/youtube or something!
The game itself is fun as hell, specially evading the tall lemony bois. If I were to criticize anything, it'd be the shooting. Reloading didn't have anything to communicate it properly (at least not obviously) apart from the sound effect, which sounded very similar to the clicking when the gun was empty. That meant sometimes I forgot I wasn't reloading because I was pressing the left mouse button.
Either way, your jam production value is getting too damn high. We don't stand a chance. My menu wasn't even juicy :'(
Great work on this, congrats to the whole team!
This game is soooo good. Is soo funny, the only problem is recharging the gun.
Good job!
Patrick's song is still stuck in my head and who knows how long it'll take to disappear 😂 Great job on the game, you guys! 💖
barrier
2018-08-14 16:53
The art and audio is really good! The gameplay is ok but a bit slow, it might help if you actually have to defend your trees or houses, so that you would need to rush from one place to the other.
Beautiful graphics and music. Really. Overdone.
Also excellent voice over in the tutorial, i didnt see that in any other games.
The game works very well, with controls responding nicely. Simple mechanics but very fun to play.
Excellent job!
kimonoh
2018-08-14 17:21
Intro and tutorial graphics on point! The actual game graphics were also nice although not in the same league. The gameplay gets a bit tedious after a while, and I felt like a shrinking map or more enemy spawn had been more in tune with the theme. I did however enjoy myself running around shooting stuff.
2018-08-14 18:27
High quality OST and high quality graphics, with some silly characters. Sadly, generic gameplay does not live up to the high expectations from the first impression, and the theme didnt seem to be used at all.
Amazing Game. The art was stunning, the music was nice and added to the overall feeling and the Tutorial was very helpful. Overall really nice Game, but it would have been even nicer if the Gun would rotate towards the player.
tribbles
2018-08-14 20:44
Great graphics but the gameplay is lacking, but everything else is on point. If you had more time I'm sure this will be tons of fun !
wasd
2018-08-14 20:46
Thoughts, ideas, hints and stuff: - Add a shooting delay, you can fire of that rifle like a tommy gun :D - Maybe add a little knockback to the player after shooting - Tutorial was pretty good. - The graphics are knocking my socks off. Wow this looks amazing. Especially the Tutorial and MainPage. - Gameplay lacks a bit of depth. And gets repetitive pretty fast. - I dont see much of the theme implemented here
Soild entry. Good work guys!
It's so heartbreaking to have such a good intro (I want the lyrics of this intro song), with a such a poor gameplay (which is ok, but way too far from what the title screen announced) that's not even in the theme. I sincerely hope next time you will do something that matches the quality of this gorgeous intro
player-2
2018-08-14 20:59
I love the graphical and audio parts of this game, with the main menu song being on point. The animations and smoothness of the movement is also great. Also, the twist of the "When life gives you lemons" idea is inventive and makes for a great game. However i did feel like the game was a bit too easy as well as the theme not really being addressed fully. However i think if the spawn rate was increased slightly then it would feel like you were running out of space whereas currently you can easily avoid the lemons by moving around the map.
Holy, you really knocked it out of the park both art-wise and music-wise! You can really feel that a lot of love went into this. The main menu song is already stuck in my head :D
The gameplay is solid, but could be a bit more juicy -- I'd love to feel some more oomph. Maybe make the character respond more to firing and add more blood (lemonade?) splatters? Some kind of goal would be nice, too; I just kept playing until I accidentally got cornered, which was a little disappointing.
Also, being quite cheeky with the theme there ;)
sharks
2018-08-14 21:21
A super fun game, I got a score of 78, I only vaguely felt I was 'running out of space'. I downloaded and tested the Mac version and everything is working correctly! I did find thisScreen Shot 2018-08-14 at 5.13.11 PM.png Objects cut off the player.
kjetil
2018-08-14 21:41
Nice game!
Some issues I had were that the hit collider for the small lemons were larger than the actual graphic and the death of the large lemons had a few frames of idle before it die (so it's hard to tell if it's dead or not). I feel a few power ups would improve the game significantly. The spawn rate could increase even faster, as it feel quite slow in the beginning for this type of game.
crazym
2018-08-15 02:33
I loved this, it's got amazing art and a great concept. You should definitely take this further. It's got all the right bones, and only needs more content. Amazing!
Amazing intro, tutorial, and music! So much love in it! The accent from Ella is one-of-kind! I would like to play this on the controller! This game asks for frenetic action!
nerobius
2018-08-15 03:41
Amazing artwork and I'm loving your animated blogposts, they are what drew me to this page! As others have mentioned, the intro and tutorial are so good. We use a similar mechanic for shooting in our own game, let me know what you think. Well done.
My first thoughts were pretty shared by others here already so I won't go into that too much. Amazing intro/gfx but could use some more mechanics in gameplay. One thing I really want to highlight is the amount of personality you put into the characters. The scared/awkward main char, the wobbly small minions, and oh god the tall minions. I don't know how you guys even came up with that animation lol. Impressive entry and it really makes other artists want to step their game up.
eclahn
2018-08-15 12:33
Beautiful art and music! The voice acting isn't perfect but t's good and it's too rare in a jam not to love. Gameplay-wise I had fun, the animations are superb and it pushes the fun further. I had even more fun when I realized that emptying your mag on every lemon and reloading each time was more efficient.
Very good music, opening screen and graphics, but the gameplay is very basic and has little to nothing to do with the theme. Still had fun, so well done!
"Every Villain is Lemons... otherwise known as EVIL!" I thoroughly enjoyed this! The audio was great, the art was polish and it was all around hilarious. Well done!
Another polished game! Here's a video of me playing it :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLytdAQ0Ig4
Hoo boy, that screen flash really gets old fast. @_@ The gameplay really needed to ramp up faster, with either more enemies or perhaps just a smaller space. The artwork is pretty fun though, especially the animations of all those lemons!