tbeakl 2018-08-13 18:23
Good Game, I found the green blob hard to beat, however I found that you could only shoot when not doing anything else to be confusing and made it a bit annoying to play.
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD42 → Running Out Of Space
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 708 | 2.42 | 29 | |
| Fun | 671 | 2.46 | 27 | |
| Innovation | 719 | 1.80 | 27 | |
| Theme | 708 | 2.22 | 26 | |
| Graphics | 503 | 2.90 | 29 | |
| Audio | 468 | 2.56 | 27 | |
| Humor | 460 | 1.91 | 25 | |
| Mood | 587 | 2.12 | 27 |
Good Game, I found the green blob hard to beat, however I found that you could only shoot when not doing anything else to be confusing and made it a bit annoying to play.
I can't download this game. But I like it's these screenshots :)
The music gives a cool serious mood to the game and the art fits it aswell. For your first game it doesn't have too many bugs :P The size of the game is pretty big for a 2D game ( 650MB unzipped :eyes: )
Simple, fun, aesthetic graphics that match the sound too. I really like it!
Good game for the first time. Got some problems on firing bullets to fast. Also confused on the situation on the image. Good luck!
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I saved the world! :smile: The music is good, gameplay is not perfect :no_mouth: In most cases it is better to just run away. Final boss would have been much easier if it had a sound cue for firing the gun. Overall this is a very good game for the first try. Great job!
Great graphics and the audio really helps you get into the game.
Really cool pixel art and sounds!
Nice little pixel art game ! :) It's fun and the music fits just right, great job !
The graphics are fantastic, but the rest of the game needs a lot of work. Controls are wonky (can't move and shoot, can't turn while in the air, needing to tap a key to shoot, and using the F key of all keys), the enemies are wonky (get stick behind things, the green ball boss gets stuck on the ground), and overall lack of polish.
My advice for you is to focus on polishing the game, polish makes a huge difference in how players feel while playing your game.
I really like the sound and artwork! The enemies and boss could use a health bar or some way to portray how much hp they have left(unless I just didn't see it?). The controls are a little too heavy for this, perhaps you could increase the acceleration to top velocity for the character and zoom the camera out. The shooting button should probably also be placed somewhere other than the F key. Other than that it is a good first game, well done! :)
Really nice for a first game. I liked your pixelart and the music is really neat. It has some room for improvement for example, it could use some sound effects. Also I would have liked to be able to shoot while moving, and some enemies are as fast as you which makes it hard to keep a good distance to avoid being hit. Great effort on making that game, well done!
Site the file is host on seems a little sketchy. Had 3 pop ups show and I clicked one by mistake due to the site not being in english thinking it was the download. If it wasn't for my AV software I might have installed something other than the game. I suggest next time hosting the files on something like itch.io, github, or just dropbox.
For some reason the game seems to want to load on my 2nd and 3rd monitor randomly. It doesn't seem to care about my primary and have yet to figure out how to fix this... might be unrelated to the game.
Last issue not sure why the game is over 600mb for a simple 2D game. I've noticed this with other unreal engine games. Wonder if this is a way to optimize download size as I'm not seeing this with other engines.
Out side of those issues the game is good. The art work and music are great. I would have liked to hear some sound effects for shooting and damage. As well the jump for forward motion felt to much. I did get a good laugh out of head bouncing enemies so you got some extra points for that :)Screenshot 2018-08-16 14.45.34.png
First of all, congrats on you first LD!
I'm going to start with some things I see not as good. Firstly try to use an more user friendly file host that don't open up several popups and preferably in English. Secondly, the size seems big for this kind of game but that seems to be Unreal Engine fault so... **shaking my fist at Epic studios**
Now to the game.
A simple platform shooter with cute graphics and nice music that was enjoyable to play. However I encountered a few bugs. I couldn't run and shoot so I had to stop and shoot, not a big problem but a bit strange. The other was a visual bug that enemies sometimes rotated and became just lines, but I thought that was just funny.
A last note was that both SteamVR och Oculus started for me when I started this game. Might wan't to check that it is not VR enabled in the engine.
Not bad for the first game! Graphics are great but I didn't like the music much. Obviously the controls can be improved but as I said, not bad for the first try.
I initially downloaded something called Disk-O from the link you gave us. Maybe consider putting the game elsewhere? For example on itch.io :)
I like this little space dude !! Nice game :)
Nice graphics! The bullets maybe are too slow and have not much contrast with the backgound (I barely see they). Great entry for your first LD.
Game is pretty laggy, bullets are pretty buggy. But not bad for the first time, I guess? Graphics is good.
Not bad for your first LD game. Next time you shoudl remove Unreal's default assets so that your download is much smaller. :)
Great game! Very cool and interesting! :D
Nice game, Love how everything is balanced! Good luck, Don't forget to take a look at ours if you don't mind and see what it's like when we just focused on graphics in this game jam! Game Link: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/spacelab-42a