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Pamago

By roronoacherry and Naked Kiwi

View on ldjam.com

CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall6943.2933
Fun8003.0133
Innovation9112.8632
Theme1893.9833
Graphics2873.9033
Humor4802.8030
Mood3633.3731

Comments

bar0net 2018-08-14 09:22

The game looks amazing!! Both the drawings and animations are really good! The idea is simple but is fits the theme to a tee. Quite a solid entry. Congratulations!

gaweringo 2018-08-14 13:41

Nice graphics style and fun animations, but it's over really fast.

juanj7 2018-08-14 13:41

The character design is great and the idea is simple but effective and funny. Good job!

skyrex 2018-08-14 13:43

This game is simple and amazing, kind of that I like

gudval 2018-08-14 13:51

Love the character so much ! The graphics are great !! It was nice to play and it fits the theme. Congrats !

keldy 2018-08-14 13:52

The game is so amazing, looks fluid and the animations and mechanics are so good! Great job!

michael-oliveira 2018-08-14 13:52

Very nice! Simple and Very Cool :smile:

leandro-dotta 2018-08-14 14:00

Loved the art style! And, as already said by @bar0net , the game fits the theme perfectly.

antti-haavikko 2018-08-14 14:07

Normal was super easy, hard seemed too hard.

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The differently colored first letters (as seen on the pic above) on menu items was kinda misleading. At least I thought it would be a keyboard shortcut, but nope.

Some kind of level progression would have been nice instead of just being one offs. Start off with easy ones and increase the difficulty a bit with each new level. Would have resulted in a more lengthy gameplay experience.

I've written this next "complaint" so many times that I probably should save it for later instead of just writing it again and again. Arrow keys as alternative would be nice (ie. use Unity's input manager instead of manually checking keys). Well they were for the second player but could as well use both when playing solo. I bet I'm not to only person to prefer not playing with just their non-dominant hand when no mouse usage is needed.

The depth calculations could use some more work. For example when the bird is carrying an object, use the same depth (the bird one) for them both instead of using their y coordinate. It also felt kinda weird that the overhead carried items dropped at that same position instead of dropping the item on the feet of the bird.

The character and its animation looked nice. I also liked the edge animation of the purple void quite a bit, I guess it was sprite animation? i'm guessing so because it looked a bit choppy and repeated quite fast. Could have done the same effect with particle effects for a smoother result.

Managed to get stuck once. Even esc didn't work at this point anymore... pamago-stuck.gif

Anyways, good job!

naked-kiwi 2018-08-14 14:21

@antti-haavikko We noticed some of the things you tell us. We take this as a learning proccess so there are many things that if we did them again, we would did it different. Thank you for your time playing it and posting the comment, we take note!

mosaic 2018-08-14 15:00

Awesome art and music! It's just over so fast :(. I like it really much. Good Job!

senokos 2018-08-14 15:42

The graphics are gorgeous, and I really enjoyed the concept. I wish there were more levels, though, with more variety. Also, it would be nice if the game could somehow indicate when an object can be grabbed (I sometimes pressed space only to realize I wasn't close enough to an object to carry it). It would be cool if you would keep working on this.

naru-kennedy 2018-08-14 18:48

It fits perfectly with the ludum dare theme! I also loved the music and the art. A simple but awesome game!

carlosvvk 2018-08-15 09:05

HI THERE :boom:

The game idea was interesting, the art is so great (GJ there) and the animations of the bird while carrying the objects were great too!

As other people said, there were some things that could have been better like collisions and level progression, that takes you out of the game (at least for me), but in general lines good entry!

Keep working! :smile:

0nironauta 2018-08-15 18:34

This game it's simple but fits the theme very well. I can't play 2 players (because I don't have friends) but looks more promising than the solo mode. Also music it's nice. Congrats :)

jcwelgemoed 2018-08-16 07:16

Nice game and a good take on the theme. I loved the small little details like different weight for objects and the accompanying facial expression changes depending on how much a struggle the move is. well done

corqi 2018-08-17 12:01

Really nice game! I like Your graphics style and all the details You've into Your game. The only thing I didn't understand is attacking other player in 1v1 mode. I don't know if it wasn't working/or I have done something wrong using it, but it semeed doing nothing. Despite that little thing nice job!

anna-petrova 2018-08-17 12:05

Nice art and fun animations:)

naked-kiwi 2018-08-17 13:24

@corqi hello Corqi, thanks for your comment! Attacking on 1vs1 is supposed to stun the other player for almost a second preventing him from moving for almost a second so you can take his object. It is supposed to be working but we didn't have time to test it much.

corqi 2018-08-17 14:28

@naked-kiwi That make more sense now :P

superqgs 2018-08-18 00:27

Unique artstyle, and the gameplay is okay. Fit's the theme well, overall it's a solid game

vulture-42 2018-08-18 12:41

This game looks great and I like the idea, but when I played it in two-player mode I got a bit confused. It wasn't very obvious which cauldron I was meant to be putting stuff in. I assumed it was the one I was standing next to, but then one of them flashed when I was near it and I got confused. I've since realised the outline colour of the cauldron matches the highlights on the characters, but it was subtle enough that I didn't notice when focussing elsewhere. It's a lot easier in singleplayer! I liked the fact that heavy objects are slower to move, by the way.

beta 2018-08-18 17:00

I think the art is pretty cool and I like the game idea, simple but effective. Nice entry my friends! :heart:

2018-09-03 11:25

Cute 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/KKcNeeBfE6w