nessa 2018-08-14 10:12
Really fun idea! And congratz to finishing your first jam ever! You did a fantastic job.
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD42 → WearOut
By Zeusx212, Void Productions and abhis1kadian
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 1212 | 2.62 | 170 | |
| Fun | 1224 | 2.36 | 168 | |
| Innovation | 1216 | 2.31 | 166 | |
| Theme | 1037 | 2.83 | 169 | |
| Graphics | 1036 | 2.68 | 171 | |
| Humor | 341 | 3.07 | 164 | |
| Mood | 914 | 2.70 | 155 |
Really fun idea! And congratz to finishing your first jam ever! You did a fantastic job.
@nessa Thanks for playing our game. Glad you liked.
Awesome game! loved the graphics!
It's quite nice ! I can't always hit the ennemies, but when I finally got it, it was kinda nice :) Congrats !
Nice art style!
Maybe the character could have a longer attack range? It was hard to see when you would hit someone or if they would hit you.
Would also be nice with a restart button.
And awesome intro, really set the tone :)
Wow...….!!! Superb game for Timepass….Deserves 4.3/5
It's a cool concept. Would be nice if there was a little more content. Nonetheless congrats on your first jam :D
@raivk @ristoretto There are some bugs here and there and we r currently working on them. Glad U Liked It.😃
@zicboy @ltven0mi @crazycoder Thanks for your support. Appreciate that a lot...🙃
Hey, great game! I really liked the intro and the story idea you came up with. Regarding the gameplay, better feedback for hitting opponents would be helpful. But otherwise great game!
@plukers Hey, thanks man for ur kind feedback. Appreciate it... and u have to hold the left or right mouse buttons to hit the enemy better
Awesome game and great art style
Great entry, thank you for that ! I am glad I came to read the comments first and I knew about the mouse buttons though. Interesting game and very solid for a first jam !
A good game idea, the music should be improved. The graphics are good. Try our game too, maybe you'll like it)
I am a fan of the minimalist palette and art, nice work for your 1st jam. The combat felt a bit clunky. Concept works well, but i feel you could have portrayed the space running out a bit better.
Liked the art style, and the intro was really cool! However the game was too difficult for me, I couldn't figure out how to kill those people and usually died before I managed to kill the third one.
I took a couple of attempts with this (after a considerably long wait after hitting play :thinking: ) and couldn't get past my high score of 24. :stuck_out_tongue:
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I really enjoyed the setup of this game. You obviously tried to go for a more humourous approach, and I thought it was funny the way the story of the game was arranged. It worked well for this sort of concept, too. I like the idea of a survival defense game where you are trying to conserve space because it can only accommodate you.
The graphics, while simplistic, worked well with the sort of dark humour this game has. Nothing was super distracting or hard to tell apart from the others. A decent enough job was done here. Regarding the music, I'm assuming you didn't make it, considering you opted out of audio. Despite this, I still think it's worth thinking about how you could select music tracks that are more coherent with each other and perhaps more fitting to the type of game this is in general. The collection of tracks, even if they are not your own, can have a big impact on your game's mood regardless.
My biggest gripe with the game, unfortunately, is the gameplay itself. The controls for attacking were not desirable and would have been more suited to keys on the keyboard. There's also not really a whole lot of response within the game itself that shows clearly when your attacks affect the opponents and I didn't catch any significant differences between kicking and punching. As a result, I mostly just spam kicked until I died. It felt really inconsistent, since once you are actually within attacking distance (ie. close enough that when your character punches/kicks it could actually touch the opponent), you're more likely to lose health as you defeat them. Overall, I didn't have a great experience, which is a shame because almost everything else surrounding this game - the story, the minimalistic graphics - does have the potential to be a good basis for a fun game.
Congrats on your first game jam, and welcome to Ludum Dare. :) You managed to complete and submit a game for the first time in a game jam, so that's a pretty impressive feat. :thumbsup:
Humor is too good! For feedback I would recommend adding something that needs skill combos because I could just hold the LMB at the front of the platform and kill all the helpless people.
@romanmultan We're glad you enjoyed our game. Thanks for your feedback.
@javasaurus Thank you so much for appreciating. Cheers!
@awix Yes we didn't really have the time to work on music so we chose everything in a rush but you liked the game that means a lot for us Thank you. And we'd be happy to play your game ASAP
@disco That makes the two of us. Yes the combat/gameplay wasn't as we had expected it to be. I guess because it was our first time using unity and C# and we didn't really have time to learn anything let alone the syntax for it.We had so much in mind for the running out theme but couldn't put that to work. We're really sorry for that but it means a lot to us that you liked some parts of the game.Thanks for the feedback. Cheers!
@matank Thanks for the feedback.We should've mentioned the controls more clearly maybe then you would not have so much difficulty playing the game. But still thank you for playing our game.
@yamiog Thank you so much for feedback. Sure Will do next time. Kudos
@random-storykeeper Thank you for your detailed feedback will heed to ur advice and do our best next time and also we r currently working on all the bugs of the game.
The intro of the game was at least as good as the one from YourPcRunOutOfSpace. Had to laugh really loud. The art style is very neat too. Only thing that i did not like, as the others mentioned already, the unclear hitboxes. If you walk it is super small, but if you stand still you can kick the enemy like 5m aways and kill him easily
otherwise great game =)
@gilgusmaximus Thank you we're glad you liked our little creation and sorry about the hitbox bug we're working on that and some other bugs. We will be updating the working game pretty soon.
Very nice graphics, and a wonderful concept. Unfortunately, the controls don't seem to work very well, with constant mis-hits, causing lots of losses. Aside from that, loved the concept, music & art!
Hit boxes are off, there is not hit feedback, 2 frames animations are pretty bad. Overall the gamefeel is pretty bad.
Good idea. The intro was great, but unfortunately the collisions seem to be a little off so the guys were running past me even though i'd hit them. This makes the game a little frustrating. Sort this out and it will be playable. Great back story too.
@thebmxeur We're working on all the bugs, sorry you didn't like our game.
@renegadepunisher We're working on the collision box bug and some others.We'll update the game asap.
Seems just holding right mouse button down is god mode? Needs feedback on player taking damage. Keep working!
Hannes Rahlm is rigth just go 1199 points!
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Otherwise the intro and the plot was really good, but the gameplay needs improvements. Great first entry.
I see you banked on the Humor category :P
A very nice submission, especially for the first time. If I had to offer some advice, it'd be to calibrate the collisions. They seem wonky and unreliable.
Also, sometimes because I kept clicking, my guy would keep fighting even at zero health. Now THAT is willpower!
I'm digging this aesthetic - nice work in limitations!
Good work for a first entry! Story, intro, funny, audio! great stuff! :)
@hannes-rahm yea nice find! We'll try to fix that in the next update
@balka @squidly @designernap @sidewalksleeper actually we had something else in our mind for the gameplay.. Like a small platform on which number of enemies fills up a weight meter and if it's full, the platform sinks.. This completely eliminates the requirement of a life meter. Though because of time constraints we had to settle for this basic gameplay idea. We'll try to update the game with what we actually thought as soon as possible. Thanks for the feedback😁
Aside from the catastrophy that is collisions and hitboxes, a few features would have made your game a lot more fun to play: more ennemy types, the possibility to kill enneies without getting hit, make it so the dash doesn't make you take more damage than you inflict. Maybe it' just that I have no skill, but after playing 10 minutes, I found out that the only somewhat right way to play is to spam the punch putton without moving.
Nice game, I like the art :)
Nice game, I like the art :)
A cool concept, that's for sure! The humor was on point, the graphics were neat, and the music was cool! I did wish there were sound effects for punching/kicking enemies though. Stuff was a bit unclear at first, maybe have the tutorial in the game. Also, I found out that you could just hold down a mouse button and stand still and basically just live forever. Maybe this could be fixed by simply making enemies come from both sides, and/or making them fight back. It fit the theme ok, but maybe to make it fit better make it so that the platform is shrinking, meaning you are constantly running out of space. Overall well done, especially for a first time!
Very cool game for a first try. congrats. Loved the humor and graphics.
I wish the game was taking place on an actual platform as it was shown in the cutscene. Sorry but I really did not enjoy playing it :(
Cool game and idea. I struggled a bit with the controls but was still fun to play. The humor and graphics also set the mood very well.
@purrfexionator Thanks for ur advice really apreciate it.
@suchista @mammabouter @jcwelgemoed Thanks for ur support guys really appreciate it.
@pnghasemi We have the same in our mind at time of conception of the idea but found it rather time consuming and also it was our first time in the game jam so didn't have any idea how much time different things r gonna take, thats why. Well, thanks for ur feedback we are working on the game.
Hi there, this looks very interesting but, unfortunately, I can't play it because I have a Linux OS. If you decided to export a web or Linux build, let me know and I will be sure to play it. And thanks for rating my game :)
I used to play stick games a child, brings back old memories! Brutality is key! :laughing:
@furiouswitch We'll be exporting a web version very soon.
@reax Yes stickman games are awesome, glad you liked.
NIce game, but it really made the game alive if you added the screen shake and sounds for punching and killing the stick figure...
@biebras Please check the latest update of the game.It has got everything that you mentioned. I was kind of skeptical about the screenshake and in the end I discarded it but maybe we'll add it in another update very soon.
I'm writing an review of the post jam version because the original version was bugged to the point of me not being able to even hit enemies (and also the keybinds weren't right). I like the game, the soundeffects make your attacks seem pretty strong and everything seems solid. Only problem being that it doesn't feel like there is a challenge yet: you can win by not looking at the screen and pressing W continuously. I've played up until the score 300 and there doesn't seem to be any difficulty progression yet. I think this is a huge opportunity for this game though, if the enemies get harder, have special abilities and you let the player also jump, perhaps, you can give the experience a bit more complexity. Anyway, good job on finishing this game! Keep working if you like :)
I loved the game! For your fist LD is quite impressive! Nice job! loved it
Hi there, I tried your game on request. Here's what I have experienced:
1. The description is incorrect. You don't use W to kick or Space to punch. It's left and right click, at least for me. 2. I started kicking enemies when it seemed appropriate, say at 0.5 meters distance, but that would get me hurt all the time. Also, some enemies would be impervious to any and all of my attacks. 3. At that point I started simply continuously clicking both the left and right mouse buttons and I started defeating all of the enemies without any trouble. When I got to score 100 I was bored, and I gave up playing, as it didn't look like the game would get any harder. 4. I saw your clouds in game teleport. It seems to me that you are moving their transform. You should have scrolled the x axis on the UV of the texture instead. Something like material.mainTextureOffset = new Vector2(Time.deltaTime, 0f); would probably have worked.
All in all, unfortunately, you have a broken game that is easily exploitable with very little incentive to keep playing it.
I played the game, introduction is good, the art is simple but effective.
I dont understand why i die after 5 punchs and my hearts get black ?
Nice graphics and very smooth animations. After fooling around with it for a while I figured out I could spam the kick and for a couple of minutes just racked up points without moving around or doing anything else. Still, with such a nice graphics set I think this has potential.
@sdrrv @johnnwfs Thanks for ur support man. Really appreciate it.
@tontonpizza I think u didn't read the notepad file about the game attached with the game in the link, thatswhy. But i have updated the description of the game with the same, kindly read it and u will get ur answers. BTW thanks for ur feedback, really appreciate it.
@mike-inprinciple Thanks for ur amazing feedback, the answer for the first 3 points raised by u is that previously at the time of u playing there were two files of the game one with the bugs and the other one with issues resolved , i think u tried the first one, but now i deleted the file with bugs and only the updated version is available. And for the last point really appreciate that we didn't know how to do that, so thanks for helping us out. I do hope that u play our game again and rerate it again and leave ur feedback about ur experience with it.
@sdrrv @johnnwfs @tontonpizza @mike-inprinciple And forgot to tell u that I'll surely play out ur games too and remember to leave my feedback too. Thanks again for ur amazing support.:)
Hey just played the game and got a very nice looking score xD
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I really like the programmer art of the game, the music was lovely too. I wish I could have done some simple animation like that in my game LMAO. The introduction was very strong in humor, that I built up my expectation for the game. However, the gameplay was too simply and didnt quite match up with the strong introduction you gave. I was basically standing near the spawning point and spamming W until I get a nice looking score LOL. I think you guys have a very good start. Making a game more challenging is always easier to do than making it less challenging. Great job on putting it all together!
@abhis1kadian OK, i read the .txt but still, i doest not make sense to lose 1 life when you give someone a punch in the face
nice game nice art and nice intro. Good job
Nice Game I liked the art Style.
Interesting idea with really fun gameplay! Audio is really good, as well as the overall mood! Keep up the good work! :smiley:
The graphics is simple, but I really like it. The controls is intuitive and pretty easy. Overall, it plays good. Good job.
Congrats on completing your first jam ever! And with a game that doesn't break at all! That's great :slight_smile: Keep up the good work!
I enjoyed the story and graphics. Having in game rules would always be nice. The rules state I regenerate health but I was not seeing it and it just seemed like my health would always go down even if I was attacking. I had fun, though.
I thought the story was funny and it goes with the theme perfectly! I liked the audio too. Nice game!
Funny idea, especially because I hate Titanic. Anyways, kinda endless since you can simply spam "W" or the mous button and you´ll be fine. Still a grad idea, a slider to change the volume would be very useful. Graphics reminded me of the "stickmen" series which was present in many browsergames some time ago.
I don't know, maybe something is wrong with HTML5 build, but I just moved a bit to the right and kept pressing W key, killing one enemy after another, without any difficulties or space running out. Maybe something happens later, but then the pace is too slow. Unfortunately, I can't try the Windows build, because I'm on Mac. But I like the idea and theme match!
Brilliant Intro! The art and music paired very nicely with bringing life to this game! As for the game play, I couldn't see a reason not to just spam 'W'. That said, Great job! Can't wait to see more!
@tlcoc @c0nst4ntin @firehawk @coatline Thanks for playing our little game, glad you liked it.
@stefan-jovanovic Thanks man, so happy you like it.
@jazmin-giolito Thank you for the feedback.
@dk5000p When you use punch you lose 1 health but after a while it regenrates back but if you get hit by the enemy it won't regenerate, I think you kinda got mixed between the two.
@coatline Thanks for the feedback glad you enjoyed our game.
@major-sauce Got ya, sound options will be there in the next update and we're currently working on some gameplay mechanics so in the meantime we just left it as it was(with spamming W) but it'll be changed in the future.
@roman-petrov We’re currently working on some gameplay mechanics so in the meantime we just left it as it was(with spamming W) but it’ll be changed in the future.
@ratherjolly Thanks man for the feedback really appreciate it, we’re currently working on some gameplay mechanics so in the meantime we just left it as it was(with spamming W) but it’ll be changed in the future.
Congratz on your first LD game. I feel it's necessary though to give some constructive but blunt feedback here. Overall, I personally have churned out some Ludum Dare games that are far, far worse than this game. The difference was that people told me at the time, and ultimately I learned more from those than I did from the "amazing game!" comments.
I dug the graphics and the general mood of the intro, good job on that! If you made the music (description doesn't say), then good job on that, too. Heck, even if you didn't, good job on choosing it.
The game, however, is beyond basic, to the point where I wondered if maybe that was part of the joke. You shoe-horned the actual theme of this Ludum Dare onto it by displaying that "ran out of space" message, but that's not really the same as making a game about the theme. To be fair, there are countless entries that consciously decided not to follow the theme, that's perfectly fine. It did feel a bit dishonest in this case though.
This puts people who want to rate the game into a tough spot. On the one hand, you want to welcome and encourage people who clearly put effort and thought into this. On the other hand, in an atmosphere where even Compo games are judged exactly as harshly as Jam games, one has to reflect the reality that this is in fact a Jam game, and a Jam game that has already been silently patched no less (with no comment from the maker about this) post-Jam.
Finally, what brought me here, is you @abhis1kadian - or rather your review style. I know for a fact that you didn't play my game, yet you rated it and commented on it. Looking at your tremendous but ultimately content-less engagement style on other games and blog posts, I suspect this may have happened more than once. I want to remind you that other people invested time and effort into their games as well, so not only is it ethically appropriate to actually look at their work, it will enable you to make better comments (and may even ultimately broaden your own gamedev horizon).
Again, I'm sorry to put it this bluntly, especially since all the comments in this thread are more positive. Please don't take this as a discouragement.
@anonymous I would have appreciated ur feedback more if u would have came forward with ur original handle rather than doing it anonymously.
@anonymous Well, I think i do want to answer ur so called blunt yet constructive feedback on my games. First of all on what u said about us not being honest about the so called post jam tinkering in our game and consciously not mentioning that, I myself, @abhis1kadian mentioned that in my blog posts not one but two times.
And finally coming to ur criticism about, me fraudulently rating and reviewing games without playing them, I just want to say that if u do read each and every one of the feedback's of mine that I've given on any game, u'll find that i'm 100% forthcoming in my experiences about the games.
Honestly, I do hope that u come forward with ur real handle and reply to me.
@anubhav-kashyap Good concept, and I liked the humour. :thumbsup:
Start was funny, I'll give you that.
I had no idea what I was doing, I spammed buttons and eventually learned the controls, I stood there and spammed W and it seemed to work :joy:
Overall: Strange yet funny game, I recommend giving it a try.
Funny intro, nice graphics and sound but the gameplay was a bit lacking. You could maybe have the level be sloped so you slide towards them, .. something like that. Also I didn't really feel muy blows connecting and didn't even see them hitting me.
Funny intro, nice graphics and sound but the gameplay was a bit lacking. You could maybe have the level be sloped so you slide towards them, .. something like that. Also I didn't really feel muy blows connecting and didn't even see them hitting me.
Graphics and audio feel great! I would suggest next time work more on the gameplay aspect though. I can spam W and kill all enemies without taking damage. Also, adding 1/2 enemy types can make this game a lot more fun.
@anubhav-kashyap Thanks man @bigjigglyproductions @daniel-mak We’re currently working on some gameplay mechanic. Thanks again for playing our game. @shakedimus Thanks for playing, the game is under development there is plenty more to come.
Congratulations on finishing the jam! I found the only way I could win was to spam W. There wasn't much in the way of gameplay.
Hey nice job for a first shot. I really liked playing with stickman =), graphics and animations were great, music too, a little loud by the way. the hitbox was not accurate enough for me, i had to do 2 tries to understand how it worked. i would like to see the ennemies coming faster and faster during the game. But it was a really cool idea =). The introduction was a little long for me, but i'm just lazy ahah, but it was a nice idea to implement a plot =)
Good job guys, keep it up
Congrats on finishing your first game jam! Good job! The music was great and the graphics were special, good decision on going with black and white. I also figured out that you can just go to the far right and spam kick and basically get an infinite score, you can probably fix that somehow :) I really liked the intro! To be honsest I didn't really understand what the space button did and why it didn't reduce from the SPACE counter.
I really liked the music in the main menu, it reminded me a little bit of Fallout & Cup Head :smiley: The introduction was also nicely done. I enjoyed the graphical style throughout the game. However, the sprite of the enemies seemed kind of odd, like it didn't fit into this world.
And unfortunately, I have to say that the game lacked a lot in terms of gameplay. This aspect of the game really requires some advancements and polishing. I just kept spamming **W key** and got bored after a while :slight_frown:
After all, congratulations on finishing your first Ludum Dare game! No one said it will be easy to create a game in 72 hours, but you managed to do this, so good job! :smile:
I liked the introduction and story-telling, even though I was not able to make myself comfortable for the actual gameplay because 1. your controls lack something to prevent the player from spamming only one attack and 2. the graphics of enemies and player don't seem to fit the astonishing background.
Because of that I have to criticize your game in terms of mood and graphics but still, the rest and especially the interpretation of the theme was really good!
You did great for your first jam. The history and theme were really well done, the initial cutscene was really fun. The gameplay needs more polishing, it is hard to understand the results of our attacks, but it is a jam afterall, every game needs more polishing. Nice entry, congrats!
Funny dialogue during the cutscene "running out of space" lol. Good job on a first jam but the balance could've used some tuning since I mostly spammed w on the right edge of the screen and did fine.
This game is too hard for my fingers :) After 300+ score I am tired. May be better to add some different controls for changing fingers during play.
Well done. All previous comments did a good job of portraying the pros and cons of this game, so I don't have much else to add to that.
Hi! As promised, I played your game. In terms of theme, I enjoyed the idea and I'd like to see what kinds of improvements could be made to make it even better. The art was better than anything I could have produced, so you definitely have that going for you! Music is pretty good, could use some flavoring. Humor is decently on point, I'd like to see a version that really hits the funny bone though. My only concern about your game is the mechanics. All I did was mash the W key, and it was virtually impossible for me to lose. Having some sort of variety to the combat would make this one of my favorite entries. Congratulations on completing your first entry, I look forward to seeing what you'll present to the world in the future! (Alex of CCGD)
Fun little game! Nice style and quite humorous!
Cool premise for a game! I found that it didn't fit with the theme that well, but the humor and visuals made up for it. Can you also check out my game as well? Thanks
Very nice game! As several other mentioned there is something with the scoring system. But I like the mood of the game. And the narrative (especially saying that the iceberg struck the ship) - awesome!
The game was good and fun but felt a little easy. Could be improved by enemies comming from both sides or something. Other than that it was really fun running around kicking people :D. The artstyle is great and I really love the humor, the intro cutscene was hilarious lol. The music was good too and it fits well with the style and the gameplay. Good job!
Game was a lot of fun but also very difficult(for me atleast), maybe try and add more moves to attack with like adding a shop where you can buy like a bow,or just other weapons.
The story was very funny. Does the quit button on the start menu not do anything?
At first, I kept running out of health too fast, but I realized that's cuz I tried moving. If you stand in place and keep kicking, your score just keeps going up, even without hitting a red guy, and it becomes like a clicker game. kick.PNG
I really appreciated that the water and clouds were animated, and the storyline. Good game!
Hey nice entry! Cute / funny intro. I like the simple animations. I think that something that could have made the combat more engaging would have been to add in a stamina meter. Right now spamming 'w' seems to be the best strategy to get a high score. A stamina meter where kicks cost more and punches cost less would have encouraged the use of punches. That said I think the range on the punches was a little to short maybe? Anytime I tried to use a punch I pretty much died because you can't kill the enemy before it damages you. Which leads into my last critique of the combat which is that the bad guys would be significantly improved if they had an actual attack instead of just they kill you if they touch you. At that point you can get in close to the enemy and as long as you are fast you can kill them before they damage you. As it is right now you just can't do that. Again, all of this basically leads to, why bother moving, just stand here and press 'w'. Outside of specifically combat, having enemies come from the other side would have also at least provided a reason to turn around and justify your movement options.
Cool visual style, distinctive! Sets the mood. Gameplay wise I was able to just stand in one spot an kick infinitely and succeed, so that needs some tweaking.
Ideas for improvement: - Add some 'good guys' to the enemies, so you cannot spam kicks - Add some diversity to the opponents, some that need to be kicked, others punched. - It was mentioned I was on a small thing, yet my playground is the full screen width? Perhaps do something with that idea
@outlife @sn4pi @marcelo92 @jonasz999 @coal-creek-game-devs Thanks for playing our game.Really appreciate your feedback.Currently working on the gameplay and other bugs as well.
@peachtreeoath @eric-kulbiej @king-kujito @dangogamedev Thanks a lot for playing our game and liking it.
@joror @norris-eldridge Thanks for your constructive feedback. Really appreciate your ideas and suggestions and will try to work on them.
@meschdog17 @albin Thanks man for playing our game.Your feedback keeps us motivating and giving new ideas to the game.
@jerripo Thanks man for appreciating our work. Sorry there's some problem with the quit button but will try to remove it soon.
I couldn't believe i lost live while punching. I just became a juziciziqu freak and went to the right side and kicked them all to death. I believe i floated all the way to new york like that. Win. :D music was a tad loud.
I'm pretty sure you're all aware of how repetitive this gameplay is, that's probably my only issue. This dark humor made me laugh, good job. The story here is unforgettable.
Not really following the rules... You kick with w and punch with space, but when you punch - you actually loose life... And what does counter named "space" do on the right? That's going down when they get off the screen?
Game as such is very repetitive and kinda boring after 60s of playing, although with few smart design decisions it can change dramaticaly i.e: - remove punch and add ability to jump - while you not kicking - your health goes up but 'space' goes down - randomize more enemies occurence
by doing that you give player an interesting choice - lose life or lose space and lose game?
Of course this is small change and change gameplay completely, and there is plenty of such changes that can improve your game here :)
Overall story was pretty nice and i really liked simplicity of your art and black & white color choice :)
Keep it up - next entry will for sure be better!
* Quite unique interpretation of theme * My favorite artstyle! Minimalistic + stickman, really enjoy it! * Why you opt-out music? Its great for first jam game! * Cool intro. Firstly I think that you will miss Humor, but intro change my opinion. * Gameplay pretty simple, but cazual players should like it. * Great font, can you share .ttf file?
Cool setting and a different take on running of out space. Mechanics are a tad temprimental, sometimes the attack works and sometimes it doesn't. Maybe it's just hard to tell when to attack, not sure. Good jam anyways!
Funny and entertaining game. The one thing, I wish the intro cinematic has some "skip/speed up" button. The intro is really interesting but only the first time : D Well done!
A fun little game which works perfectly. Controls are smooth as expected. Many humor in the intro. Well done ++
Nice idea and nice use of the theme ! the music work perfectly with the game. You said that the platform can't carry more than3 enemies but sometimes there were 4 or 5 and nothing happened. More, the health should regenerate after a time but never happen too. Did I miss something ? ^^'
I think you improve the difficulty, we can stay in a position and just spam W to win without using space or lose lives.
Concerning lives, I love the concept of losing lives either on enemies and by using space, quite unique use of the theme/life system.
I like your minimalistic art style, Great job overall :)
I like the story, feels like a titanic sort of thing (at least at first), the only complain i have (and i see this mentioned above me) is that you can simply turret and spam W without any repercussion, thus making space/a/d honestly useless which is a shame because I liked the balance between space and lives. One other nitpick, is on the animation side, make the "extended kick" model the same as the hit box, even if the character would deform for that 1-2 frames imo it would've given the hits way more "umph" and feel more powerful. Good job as your first completed jam, i hope to see more of your games :D
I like the audio! Gameplay concept is not too shabby, but could have a little more to it! Fun game, thanks guys, and congrats!
pretty cool game. i liked the story and intro. the background art is also great. the gameplay could be more enjoyable if you added more mechanics. i kinda just spammed the kick button. but great job on finishing your game!
bro this is actually nice game. the graphics are good. I had rated rated this game before you rated my game. but i forget to leave the comment
Descent idea for a game but poorly executed. My advice is to focus on the core game mechanics over everything else. The only mechanic in this game is hitting the enemy, which is fine, but it is unbalanced. I could just stand there and kick constantly forever racking up points- not exactly fun :/ . The page says the platform can only hold 3 enemies but that's not in the game. That's a shame because that could have made this game a little more interesting. Also I noticed a bug: You can't hit enemies if you are to the far left of the platform (Happens in html5 & Windows versions).
Hi @Abhis1Kadian I really liked the Storytelling at the beginning and the great music! The graphics weren't bad at all and gave a great mix of retro but simplistic art style. The game on the other side lacked a bit in gameplay, I was a bit disappointed. Nevertheless great game and solid 4 stars.
The intro is great. I loved the humour, and the graphics weren't too bad either. Sadly, it's the actual gameplay that's the problem. After a little initial confusion, during which I lost three of my five hearts somehow, I realised that I could just stand near the right-hand side of the screen and just hammer the W key until I got bored.
There's not much of a game here at the moment, to be honest. I can see what you were going for: a beat-em-up game where you're frantically knocking enemies off a platform to keep it from overcrowding and collapsing. But at the moment, it's too basic and a little unintuitive - I believe I saw you mention in a response that you could click the left or right mouse buttons to increase your attack range, which isn't listed in the controls.
From reading the reviews, though, it looks like you're aware of the gameplay issues and you're planning to update it at some point to improve the experience. Don't let the negative feedback get you down: this game has good potential, it just needs more work than you were able to get done in 72 hours. No shame in that! Keep working on it, take people's feedback into consideration, and I hope to see you back next game jam with an even better (and equally-funny) entry!
got a 72 score :) couldnt get higher. nice game for a first one :) got comedy, music and everything! given its a jam I would expect a little bit better graphics. but hey - the beauty is in the eye of the beholder) have some high points!!
My favourite part is definitely the story. as for gameplay, it seems a bit monotonous :/ and too easy well, my video will be up either today or tomorrow morning : ) should be part 9 here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCG--XwkRpPBAHBinS7hsRQg?view_as=subscriber
Neat game! I really liked the black / white / red art style and the stickmen characters. Some more "power" could have been added to the punches and kicks, as they felt quite weak. This can be done through better sound effects or visual effects such as screenshake. It was also a bit too easy and repetitive, perhaps it would be better if enemies came from both sides instead of just one? Story was very humorous and creative. Music was great and overall I really liked the game, good work! :)
It is very nice for the first ludum dare. You made a basic game with story included and you got to finish it in time. :). Nice graphics and sound, I hope to see your next ludum dare :) add me on twitter. @retrometron
I like how the drawing looks bad and good at the same time, and loved the humor. Like the others said, the gameplay has some issues (for me it turned into "just press W until you get tired"), but it has some potential. I hope your team is enjoying your first jam and keep participating in the next ones.
Very funny :) I really like the graphics and i just couldn't stop playing it! WEll done
Fun game!
Graphics were solid, and the humour was alright, but the gameplay is a bit lacking. I'm not sure if it's a webGL-specific thing or not, but the enemies basically just came in a solid stream, were incredibly easy to dispatch, and didn't seem to weigh down the platform any unless they reached the left side of the screen, which only appeared to be possible once I was dead. The winning technique was to sit in one place and mash W the entire time, which was...rather boring.
Still, neat idea and take on the theme!
this game's got a unique visual flair to it that i haven't quite seen in other ldjam games, and the story was solid and wonderfully fit with the theme. good job!
most of my thoughts about the game are pretty much what's already been said; since there wasn't really any diversity with how enemies showed up, you can cheese a big high score by sitting in one place and mashing the attack key constantly.
I loved the storytelling at the beginning of the adventure! The atmosphere is very immersive and successful although I think the gameplay of the game deserves to be enriched with new actions to make the experience even better! Great job! :)
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This game has a pretty good concept and some good game design. I like the intro as well- thought it was funny.
However, I feel like you could improve the player's attacks. There seems to be no reason to use a punch since all the enemies take two kicks to kill. My strategy was just to spam kick- which gets old quick. You might want to make enemies get stronger over time, or add more ways to play besides just kicking repeatedly.
yup, nice attacks. Slightly titanic-themed.
cool concept
funny intro and, as other guys said, maybe a problem is that you only need to spam W hehe
nice work for ur first ludum dare!
The concept is nice, however i managed to reach 200 points without losing any hearts just by hammering W. The soundwork in the game is very interesting and fits the theme as well, but i found the graphics a little to simple. Maybe if the game went in the direction of some kind of beat em up in a raft it would be more interesting. However, i understand that with the time limitation of the jam, too many features may result in not being able to deliver the game in time.
cool!
The concept and the idea are pretty good. The graphics and music are enjoyable as well. However I could not have a lot of fun with this game since simply hammering W is enough. Simply making enemies spawn from both sides of the platform would have made the game much more enjoyable, while still be logical with the context of people trying to board the platform...
However do not be discouraged by what I just said ! I don't want people to feel bad, I just try to make comments that suggest some improvements with constructive critisism (I think they are much more interesting than just "this is fun !"). Anyway, keep practicing, keep participating to game jams, you can only get better this way ! Have a happy gamedev carreer !
I love it! Very simple one button game, but a GREAT presentation, VERY polished, the intro with the different tableaus, then the fighting stage with animated background and everything, a morbid theme, good music, crude stick figure drawings, very well done!!!
The only thing that you should improve is the actual game mechanics, i could basically survive without end because i could just kick so fast that noone could ever touch me. So you should send the others in in a kind of waves to make it more difficult and to give a sense of progression, and to have some ppl that need more than two kicks.
It looks very solid overall. HAs a very tight graphical presentation, fluid animations and even a little intro video with some humor that sets up the game very well. I do have to say however, I didnt figure out how to lose space until I just let a few guys pass, so perhaps this needs some incentive for the guys to actually pass as more often then not, I just die. Overall, solid and easy to grasp, well done!
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nice game ! :thumbsup:
The humorous approach was fun, but the game itself is pretty repetitive: I just stood on the right spamming the W key and felt like I could have gone on forever. I also didn't see the life replenishement you talked about, if it is there, it's not fast enough.
It got a high score of 150+ spamming W for 1-2 minutes, not sure if theres' more... I like the stick figure animations and music though, they're great!
What a unique theme interpretation !
Amazing entry, well polished, graphics are great and the gameplay is quite perfect for a LD game! Great job :)