Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD42 → Beat These Games!
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 79 | 3.98 | 38 | |
| Fun | 28 | 4.12 | 39 | |
| Innovation | 394 | 3.37 | 39 | |
| Theme | 542 | 3.55 | 39 | |
| Graphics | 374 | 3.75 | 39 | |
| Audio | 183 | 3.63 | 39 | |
| Humor | 44 | 4.00 | 37 | |
| Mood | 179 | 3.66 | 36 |
Really fun game and I'm impressed you pulled it off over the weekend! I'm always down for a Wario Ware style game and this was a very solid one! Art was great, music was fun, minigames had a lot of variety and were all fun! Really great work!
This game could be describing my own pile of shame T_T
A very clever take on the theme, well done! (I laughed the first time I failed). You packed a lot of content here with a decently sized collection of micro games, although I got the impression that a couple of them were reskins of the same mechanic. Also, if you let the pile of games grow larger as I did it could end up feeling a bit repetitive.
Despite these minor issues, I really liked the game, it felt really solid. Congrats!!
Fun game! I appreciate how the music sped up with the games. It upped the pressure and made things nice and hectic. I start with 20 games, lowered it to 12, but then the games sped up so fast that I couldn't get lower than that!
Really well done, some of the mini games were quite challenging. Failed on the last one multiple times. Art is great, music is great, only bugs I found were jumping past the end of the acid levels and spawning trapped in the safe space levels. Great job!
Neat idea. Love microgame collections like this. I did run into an issue where on the acid level, I jumped over the flag and the acid continued to rise forever so I had to quit the game.
Really fun collection of mini-games here. I think the difficulty was just right, and the graphics were cute and cohesive. Nice job!
Pretty cool, I attempted the normal mode, which ended up in around 40 gamelads before I went over to the easy mode, but it's really cool that you managed to make so many mini games in such short amount of time :)
Fun, realistic, polished and very impressive that you go so much work done in such a small time. Loved playing this, very well done!
Very inventive take on the theme. I'm impressed that you were able to get so many mini games in. Great job! I was really hard though, even on easy! :)
definitely an a for effort, many different games in one so to say. graphics look real nice, sound quality is awesome and as i said the sheer amount of content here is crazy for a game jam. good job!
haha cool entry x) nice music. Game seems pretty complete. And very hard ^^
That's one of my favorite entries! I really love it.
Graphics is very cool. The minigames are very addictive. Amazing Job!
Very addictive game. Cool looking mini games. You did a great job. ;)
I love the WarioWare inspiration and game style! The fast pacing keeps things engaging even with the small mini-game pool, and the overall progression of difficulty is just enough to match the frantic desire to beat all the games!! The graphical styling is cohesive outside of the menu buttons and the game's setup is perfect to build upon by adding more gamelad variations! Super cool!
James what the hell... No way you pulled this one off on your own, I am sure you had that "new dad" energy ;) VERY well done, absolutely love it. It just all fits together ! If this one isn't a top contender, then I don't know either ;) Thank you for the jem !
A great, fast paced and fun game! Came from Elysia!
Awesome! The bombs really tripped me up, because usually touching bombs is bad.
The game is fun to play, except that the amount of games added in for each failure is too many, I think you should go slow, like 1 and then more if you have many failures in a row. The mini games are definitely tied to the game, but the main game doesnt seem to have any shrinking of any kind, you just have more and more games to play, so that's a bit short in the theme category for me. I like the music and the humor in the game though, good job!
Edit: saw it in a stream, and now I know why it feels farmilar: it reminds me of dumb ways to die haha
While I really like and enjoy the game, I think there are some fundamental flaws.
First, the wrapping game design. I didn't like the system of penalties for failing games. It is frustrating. That may be the point, and it makes it more thematic, but it takes the fun away from the game. There comes a point (after 21 completed games) where the speed is so fast it is impossible to keep up.
I don't think it is a good design decision to make things harder when dying. Penalty for dying too much should be game over, not making the game impossible to actually complete.
Maybe if the game speed was based not on games complete, but games remaining? Meaning when you die and get GLs into your drawer, it gets slower again? That way, it would be always possible to complete even on the first run.
Minigames sometimes were impossible, particularly breakout, where the ball went directly into one of the lower corners. That's pretty frustrating when it is one of your last games.
Also, I didn't like the transition between instructions and minigames. I had no idea when the switch happens. Especially when the instructions last different amount of time for different minigames. This was frustrating particularly in the acid minigame. I would like for example if there were instructions with a countdown timer in form of a bar or a circle, and the initial minigame state would be visible in the background.
Fun mini games, the art style reminded me of those 5 games in 1 mini handheld devices in the 90s. Great entry
I'm surprised you could pull that off in just a weekend, that's awesome! the first time you try the mini-games they can be unexpected but once you replay them it's much easier, so I'd say it's balanced :)
Really liked the game and made me immediately think of Warioware. I loved the mood with your mum buying you new games. The audio was really on point, simple and in theme. The simple beats keeping your pumped with the higher tempo. Awesome game overall !
A well-crafted game. the mini-games are cool too. It has a warioware vibe to it too. Graphics are on point too. Animations are smooth too.
This game was so much fun! I feel like I probably could have beaten it on normal with a second attempt. The minigames were all fun! Some of them got impossibly challenging as the difficulty went up, but it added to the stress of trying to get through your drawer of games. Thank you for sharing your game with my stream! Also, I knew your name sounded familiar, I've watched a bunch of your tutorials! Huge honor to have you stop by my chat!
A very fun collection of minigames! Loved the variety and the art style changes between in-game and out-of-game. You make enough mistakes, lose enough games, and it feels super hopeless. Maybe the Warioware style of 'lose 5 games = gameover' would be a bit more fair?
Always love your stuff!
Nice game! I included it in my compilation video series of the Ludum Dare 42 compilation video series, if you’d like to take a look. :) https://youtu.be/tG45WDfIQds