anfaas1618 2018-12-03 05:57
nice game loved the concept just cant get through the wall try making a gameplay vidio
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD43 → Goo Glow
By birdwards
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 47 | 3.94 | 20 | |
| Fun | 44 | 3.91 | 20 | |
| Innovation | 22 | 4.02 | 20 | |
| Theme | 5 | 4.41 | 20 | |
| Graphics | 119 | 3.75 | 20 | |
| Audio | 183 | 3.22 | 20 |
nice game loved the concept just cant get through the wall try making a gameplay vidio
Super unique and super well-executed! Really nice work!
Its a nice game its satisfying when the slime explode! really Fun.
@anfaas1618 Good idea! Here's a gameplay video for you. [click to play](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zh4hDuEt3kU).
@birdwards nice game loved it just see my game too this is my first tyme
Killed it with this one. It's quite a lot of fun. Aesthetically pleasing (for a game largely based upon being in the dark), mechanically appealing and well built around the theme.
Would love to see this one continue with more stages and mechanics. Job well done on this one!
Motherfuckers need to play this. 5/5 for fun, theme and Innovation. The only thing that I disliked it was the start, levels were a bit too long and a lot of trial error, the lowest point was the wall jumping level. But after the levels got shorter, I really enjoyed myself. Good job!
I really enjoyed this, it's funny how both of our games are about exploding slimes haha The tutorial was really good, I wonder how you had the time to make all of this. The innovation aspect is the peak of the game, the theme relation is also really good. Having a version for linux also saved a lot of time for me, points for that!
Excellent compo entry. Charming character, nice touch with the face slowly sliding from one side to the other, rather than flipping the sprite. This made the slime feel rounded in the third dimension as well. The novel mechanic was really compelling, and the way that dying accidentally did NOT yield a splatter was an important strong design choice imo. It created a wonderful risk/reward tradeoff.
So I was on board right away. But my regard for the game went up again once I got to a couple of the later levels where you subverted my expectations by having... well, I don't want to give spoilers but let me just say the non-static elements involved. I didn't anticipate that was coming, but once I saw it I felt like it was an essential evolution of the core.
There was only one thing I really struggled with, and that was the controls for the wall jump. The way I have I to hold rightthenimmediatelysiwithfsioto shit I fucked up and I'm dead again. And again. And again.
I immediately noticed I was struggling with walljump-then-away, but I figured it wasn't important. Then I came to that climb up the shaft in the center of the level in the middle of the game, and I just kept falling and falling and then overcompensating and dying, and back all over again.
I'm not quite sure what the fix is, as walljumps always seem a bit awkward to me. Must I hold the direction into the wall?
That was my one and only stumbling block in this game. The only other tiny thing I could even suggest was the the sound effect for me exploding was like a failure sound. Couple of times my brain said "dammit we made a mistake" and then a moment later "oh wait I meant to do that."
Anyway, this was a really strong entry, I liked it a lot.
Bane to all slimekind, indeed.
I love your simple, yet effective visuals. I always found it hard to work with a green palette and you pulled if off really well. The blob is quite expressive, and I love the eye transition when turning from left to right. A few more animation phases, especially when jumping would have been a nice touch.
I've seen the premise in games like The Unfinished Swan, but you tied it very well into the Sacrifice theme. What I particularly enjoyed is how you folded a quasi-tutorial into the game without explaining too much. Just let the player die once and unintrusively explain why. This was really great! I found the length of the game to be perfect for the material you had. Any more levels would have required new mechanics and I enjoyed that you didn't outstay your welcome.
The controls are pretty tight, which is very important for a game like this. I would have enjoyed it even more if the wall-jump would have been polished a bit more, like for instance allowing the player to push away from the wall and then jumping so they wouldn't have to switch direction after the jump which I feel is always a bit clunky.
The sound effects, although sparse, were well picked, but unfortunately music was missing which might have added to the atmosphere more.
Super cute slime! I like the sound effects and color choice too! This is a really interesting take on a platform game :) Super fun to play, really creative!
Nice game. It reminded me of meat boy, except with the explosion mechanic to reveal the pieces of the level. I managed to complete all of the levels, and each of the levels seemed to be unique and nothing seemed repetitive. My only suggestion would be to make the blob explode when hitting a spike, that way you can see what killed you. Having an in-game tutorial was a nice touch and something you don't see too often in LD games.
Really fun game, really good mechanic. I would have preferred the explode key to be elsewhere on the keyboard. As it is now, I pressed it quite a few times by accident.
I really really dig the mechanic though, it's awesome. I also disagree with showing the level when you die, I think you're right in not doing that. Otherwise, the punishment for dieing isn't big enough. Now it's risk vs reward: if you run far, but die before you see anything, you don't get anything for it. However, since you get information only when you explode yourself, it's a risk vs reward thing. If I know I can go straight somewhere, I won't really care about the part above me.
My only problem with the game is that I find the double-jump to be annoying to execute.
This game is incredible!! I loved the game mechanic and I found it super addictive. You should definitely make more levels!
really love the idea, the wall jump is also really smooth to control. It's simple but it really follows the theme quite well.
This game has a very fun concept. The levels were balanced well and it was fun to try go as far as possible in the dark.
Some music would have been nice but it's not a requirement. It was also interesting to see that the velocity of the player had an effect on how much the slime spread.
Good gameplay with polished levels. Great job!
Cute and interesting game, perfect fitting the theme. (Thought me until I got to the wall jump level, first and only level, when I lost because of strange mistiming of those jumps :D)
One of the best games I've played so far. Theme is executed very well. I had alot of fun going through the levels and figuring out where I should go. Good job!