Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD42 → Globulator
By corbak
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 576 | 3.40 | 88 | |
| Fun | 567 | 3.25 | 87 | |
| Innovation | 357 | 3.41 | 87 | |
| Theme | 565 | 3.53 | 87 | |
| Graphics | 529 | 3.53 | 87 | |
| Mood | 439 | 3.27 | 81 |
Congrats on completing the game. It looks really good. I love the graphics and colour theme ,music UI. One thing that I stumbled upon is the gameply i.e. goal of the game. There are no strikes to correct your play behavior.
Wow that's a really unique game. I loved the art end level design. Well done!
-Thank you @vivek.sharma20, well we didn't want to make it to obvious and let the players find out strategies on their own :-)
-Thank you @juke-games !
The game looks great and the concept is awesome. A truly Great Game!
This is a pretty unique concept. It took me a little while to figure out how everything worked, but, once I figured it out, I had a lot of fun. I like how you can kill enemies by ramming into them, but doing so creates harmful waste, creating a sort of risk vs reward mechanic. I enjoyed the crowd control gameplay, although it could get a bit out of hand when the crowds of enemies get big enough. Overall, this is a solid game. Nice work!
This is definitely one of the more unique takes on the theme I've seen so far -- awesome work!
This was quite good, and I actually played quite a lot. The mechanics are smooth, however the tutorial tips act buggy at times. Overall great game!
A great game! I love the concept and level design. Good job!
Great concept. I had a little problem figuring out if I should shoot the pathogens or just eat them. Loved the music!
Yo that game seems so polished. Great game, it's fun in it's own genre ! Overall a super entry !
Very nice game with really good graphics.
Great idea, fits the theme well!
Nice idea, simple yet polished graphics, smooth gameplay. However I'd make the toxic waste a little more hurtfull so the theme shines through more.
Really clever risk-reward mechanic with the the toxic waste. A little complicated to figure out, but definitely fun. I might come back to this one later to see if I can get past stage 4.
Game fits the theme really well and the idea is really innovative. I had a little trouble on the WebGL build for Mac (my guy would keep getting stuck after shooting a bunch). I really liked the concept and mood. Nicely done.
I like the concept!
The game is really fun when you learn to play it, but it takes some time to know what you are doing even reading the tutorial. Graphics are nice and the idea is innovative and original.
OH CRAPS! What a challenge! Your game is polished and extremely extensive. I am seriously impressed. Brilliant job on this!
@2lol555 thank you for your comment
@superpokeunicorn Thank you for your critic, We tried to balance it as much as we could. Not too much waste, not too much bacteria etc. But if we had more time we surely would have push the idea further. Of course lots of things still missed for it to be really balanced, but we are glad you liked it :)
@jdhollen You are too kind :)
@arqcenick thank you for your comment, there is some little bugs and we will try to locate them. We tried as much as we can to make it bug free before finishing the challenge.
@batlordz thank you very much :)
@thsnr Yes it is not very well demonstrated. We wrote it in the description to say that you can eat them, and once you eated them you can shoot the antibodies.
@zykroma Thank you very much :)
@heidelbert Thank you that is nice :)
@shafournee Thank you for your comment :)
@max6333 We thought a lot about the toxic waste to see if we could do something better with it, but at the end it suited the gameplay nicely with this mechanic for this little challenge. And thank you :)
@galan Thank you for your critic, hopefully you will pass the stage 4 (it can be done yes) and we know that informations and indication are a little bit hard to follow, I guess we couldn't balanced everything on time but it will be lesson learned :)
@kierkle Thank you for your kind words. The build was designed for windows and the html5 version. I'm sorry if you encountered any issue during your play.
@realmar thanks !
@holy Thank you for your comment :) and Yes it is a bit difficult to read everything and understand the mechanics, we know that is the main issue there, hopefully we will learn from that.
@ratherjolly Haha thanks ! hopefully you will get to finish it ! Thanks again :)
Honestly, this is one of the best games I have played in this jam so far. Beside the unique gameplay mechanic, the graphic is cute and the music is very nice. Moreover, this is the only game that I actually learn some useful information about the biology and improve my understanding about my body ^^! Congrats!
Funny game:)
So far my best rating. The game is really nice, I love the idea and the physics but at some point, I got so many yellowish stuff there that were pushing me to one side and then was hard to keep shooting and move cause the movement seemed to be stuck into left or right, not sure if its a bug or something I was doing wrong.
Really nice game!
Really smart idea with different viruses/bacteria and different ways white cell can deal with them. I could see this game on mobile or expanded further for PC! The only issues I had with it was music and, secondly, how first level was preeeetty difficult for a "tutorial" - I had less problems with second one. Good job overall!
I like that you built on top of a common shooter idea and made something unique. The music and sound matched well. I did have some slow down if I let the enemies get out of control. Can probably make some optimizations with pooling and turning off enemies in areas off screen(at least disabling some of their systems)
This game is really nice. Love the idea
Hey, good game. Although I think there is a bug with the controls when you are touching a wall.
One of the best games so far! Awesome idea! I liked it!
I really like your game! The music and the colors are just awesome! I just think that 100 wastes is to much, you should do 50 and later change level but i really enjoyed :) Well done :)
I like the mechanic, and I think it has a lot of the potential but you havent been able to exploit all of that, a very promising entry for post-jam. I totally enjoyed the game, good job!
@tungunity96 Thank you for your critic and compliment. You are too kind :) We wanted to implement more accurate information and cool mechanics but we didn't have time to stick up everything together. We managed to deliver a playable game but there was so much we would have loved to put in. Thanks again :)
@anna-petrova thank you :)
@rido Thank you, you are too nice :) The sticky movement are part of the gameplay, when you collide with a wall, enemy, waste etc... we tried the game on several platforms and we didn't see any issue. I'm sorry if you encounctered some but you did nothing wrong, there are still some issue here and there.
@outstar Thank you very much for your critic :) Sorry about the music, we didn't implement all the things we wanted on time but we get it and will surely take notes in the future. The idea of expanding it to mobile or PC is an appealing idea for sure :) Thanks again.
@rupert-nerddaygames Thank you :) yeah we could put the game on DL to have better performance, thinking about it that might not be a bad idea. Sorry for the inconvenience though and thank you for your recommendation :)
@timbelion Thank you very much :)
@antonionp Thank you :) what kind of bug do you have when you touch a wall? I ran several test after seeing your comment on different browsers and I couldn't see what was it. Please let me know.
@crazyguy You are too kind and I'm sure there is better idea out there, I saw plenty! :)
@p1nkmaria Thank you you are very kind :) It was difficult to balance everything on time with the spawning, waste etc.... it surely can be checked to have some challenge. Although at some level you can have only 20 waste. So there is some bits where you can not always eat. Thank you again.
@nam-nguyen Thank you very much :) there is a lot of potential in any idea I guess and you are right we didn't expand it for the JAM, but we are thinking about it. Thank you :)
The controls got stuck and I had to go in the opposite direction(towars the wall) before move in the right direction
@antonionp Thanks. Can you specify me which browser, machine, OS you were using ?
Interesting concept! And the music is really nicely picked, sets you up for some bacteria slaying! It gets a little bit repetitive after a while though, but maybe that's just me not getting the whole eating up bacterias mechanics.
I was using it on Chrome and Windows
@antonionp Okay I tried on chrome with windows and I couldn't get your bug ^^' I guess this will be hard to debug, but I thank you for letting me know and I will continue looking up at this issue and try. Thank you for your feedback.
@annie-owl Thank you for your feedback, the music isn't ours, didn't had time to make one and yes it is a bit repetitive I agree. It's not from you :P wish we could put more mechanics :)
It's a fun little a game, plays well and very addictive. Reminded me of Osmos. The only thing I personally find irritating is the fact that you can be killed by your own bullets - they're small erractic and you don't really pay attention to them cause you have a bunch of other things to take care of. Overall I really enjoyed this one, well done!
Fun game. I liked your idea. I took me a while to understand that the anticorps kills bacterias with one shot. i noticed that they were getting dark, and i continued to shoot them :P Good job!
the game was a bit repetitive, mainly at the end of a level when you know you will win but still have to shoot every remaining enemies. other than that, it is a great game. The theme is well done and interesting, art and music very cool too. I really liked it!
Well done for getting this together with the different levels. It's similar to my compo entry, but we've both got different mechanics and art. The music in Globulator isn't to my taste, so it would have nice to turn it off. Had fun though!
I like this game. There were very few virus to deal with though-if you have time for a post-jam, I'm sure you'd be able to add a lot more different type of bacteria and diseases for this game. There was a problem at one point where some of the bacteria managed to phase through the walls though, but apart from that, great game!
Everything is perfect! (except for stomach level, I couldn't beat it :( ) This game reminds me of my childhood. My mother is a doctor and we had all of these weird DOS games about bacteria and diseases. And this one is the best educational game I've ever played! Well done!
Very good entry! It was really interesting to play this game. I like mechanics of bacteria and viruses and balance made great as well. GOOD JOB:)
@lootgrounds thank you for your feedback :) Didn't knew Osmos, I checked it up and looks beautiful. The bullets you shoot doesn't seem to kill me in all of my tests, do you have any situation where you can recall that it happens ?
@welliton Thank you very much :) When you start the game you will shoot neutral antibodies (white) but when you eat a bacteria, your antibodies will get the color of that bacteria and you can kill this type of bacteria with the antibodies. But if you want to kill another bacteria, you need to eat it prior to shoot it. I'm sorry it wasn't very clear in the informations :)
@dray Thank you for your feedback, I agree with you we didn't had time to balance everything to make it less repetitive and of course we would love to expand that gameplay into something less repetitive :)
@mrbehemoth Thank you very much :) The music was picked up on opengameart.org, didn't have time to make one and sorry for the inconvenience. Loved your game by the way, it is polished and well programmed !
@veilastrum Thank you ! :) Well if the idea looks pleasant to the people we could make something out of it. With better mechanics and more variety. As long as the LD JAM made us show the idea we are happy, and we had time to make that happen, the idea is present, but the balance and the polishing requires extra time of course. There is some collision bug when bacteria can get through the wall, we are still looking into this bug as it happens not very often and as this bug is harsh. But it is still playable and finishable :) Thank you again !
@n-feofentov You are too kind thank you! :) Actually the stomach level was one of the most difficult for me, but once you understand how to beatit, it becomes the easier and the faster of all levels to beat ! And the most fun one. You can actually beat it under 50 seconds :P come on give it a try! I will give you a hint if you can't as i do not want to spoil you :)
@ljay Thank you very much, as long as you enjoyed the idea we are happy :) The mechanics needs some polishing, but overall we are happy with this entry. Thank you !
Awesome game! Very fun and well done, its challenging but not impossible, the controls function well, the graphics and audio are very satisfying. The only thing that bothered me a bit was that there were too much text. I was not able to read most of the things that appeared mid-level because I was too occupied shooting those damn bacterias! haha
I've read the instructions a few times, played the game, and still wasn't sure if I could win or not! lol Still, it was fun and pretty to look at. I like the simplistic controls just wish I understood better/quicker how to play it. I find the game to be well thought out, I like the backstory and how each level is a separate part of the body. I definitely feel like I am running out of space so the theme was implemented well.
and to answer the question at the titled screen..."I would die within minutes" - lol
Awesome game. I was pleasantly suprised with the overall mood of the game. Hope you develop a post jam version for this!
@eduardo-yukio Thank you for your feedback :) ! Yes ther eis a lot of text and we wanted to make something educational, but we coudln't balance the reading and the gameplay, so it was 50/50 choice. But thank you for having tried the game ! :)
@prodigalson Thank you for your feedback :) It was a bit messy in the instructions on how to do this or that, I'm sorry your experience got a bit hindered by that. We will make sure to learn from the feedback if we ever pursue the game further :) Keep trying you can finish it! :D
@zicboy Thank you very much ! We will see if we get to pursue the game a bit further. We are thinking about it if people get to like it :)
Really liked this. The game seems polished and well done. An excellent approach on the theme. Very well done!
You could easily turn this into a game you have to play in med-school. This is a very interresting edutainment game! Well done!
cool!
@rodrigo-denubila Thank you very much for your comment :) you are being too nice :)
@wildcard Thank you, that's food for thought! :)
@hellsquirrel thanks!