Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD43 → Lonely Wanderer
By andreadbx
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 282 | 3.68 | 42 | |
| Fun | 600 | 3.16 | 42 | |
| Innovation | 565 | 3.08 | 42 | |
| Theme | 357 | 3.68 | 42 | |
| Graphics | 84 | 4.36 | 43 | |
| Mood | 55 | 4.11 | 42 |
That's a godly result for just one effective day of work. Kudos for that. Sadly the game has a progressbreaking bug, where if you lose the skull sometimes you cant pick it up again, without a restart.
Really nice mood and quite detailed environments for a jam. Especially on THAT time budget. :)
The movement could be improved with some air control, so you can move in the air :-) In the second room I sacrificed the skull by going in the previous room because I thought I had to go back. So because of that I had to restart the game. Maybe you could have made it so it didn't matter where the sacrifice was made, or maybe lock the gates after entering the next room :-)
Anyways, the game are really smooth. Nice and short game :-)
The environment was so good! It was awesome to look up and see the ceiling far away. I felt super calm exploring around, it was a nice space to be in :) The platforming was a little frustrating with lack of air control but I like how you could bounce off walls.
loved the movement, in a game sense it felt weird but on a logical sense I understood the cant move while in air really. Puzzles felt smooth and not forced and well as creative. Felt like there could of been a more fleshed out story but it was good. :)
The visuals in this game are beautiful! Definitely one of my favorites that I have seen so far!
So the graphics and atmosphere are great. You know what you are doing. But the gameplay isnt fun at all. It is so annoying when you bump into a wall, drop the skull and it falls all the way down so you have to start over again.
@01fe7e yeh, i find it annoying too, sadly i had very few time to refine the game mechanics, and as a 3d artist i take looooooooooooooooong time writing code, thanks for the feedback tho :)
The skull dropping is annoying... But the game looks and sounds great!
Art looks sick! great job man. Ignore the feedback in terms of design. u cant be blamed... but next time find a team and work with a designer and a programmer :)
Really enjoyed the graphics and feeling of the game. It was so smooth and had such high production values. I loved the take on the theme at the end, so kudos to you guys!
The sound and the mood is great.Good job!
great game, it works, the platform puzzles has interest. ambience sound works well with the awesome graphics even with some poor sfx. controllers are ok. You got a great participation there! Good job!
Awesome, great work! :smile: :top:
The mood and graphics were amazing. As well as the execution of the theme- though I didn't really feel like "sacrificing" the skulls was much of a sacrifice. But still, great job :D
Great game made in such a short time. Excellent mood. Love it. Good job!
The graphic look superb! I really like the mood of this game and I think the game fit the theme very well. Great game!
The game looks really great, too bad I can't play it! (Only a Windows version? come on! :p)
The mood and the graphics is really good. The controls really needs some polish. Overall a fine LD game. Well done.
Honestly, it's a great concept, but the implementation was a bit of a miss for me. The skull drops the second that it touches anything, and if it starts rolling, it's impossible to pick up until the rolling stops. Would have been better if you just parented the skull to the Main Camera while it was held (sure it could protrude through walls that way, but honestly, that would have been less frustrating gameplay-wise). The double-jump didn't always go off, so sometimes I fell short of where I wanted to jump. There was almost no air-control, so once you jumped, you couldn't change direction in the air (which would be fine in any other game except one with jumping puzzles). I also didn't realize that the lava that you drop the skulls in mattered on my first run, and got myself stuck when I sacrificed the first two skulls in the same lava pit, although that's just me being dumb so it's not a huge issue.
The graphics and mood were spot on though, and the text really helped to sell the atmosphere. One stylistic suggestion I had: if you're going to use shadow mapping in a game like this, you should consider making your point lights move around a little bit (might as well make your shadows dynamic if you're using real-time shadows). Having all the torches flicker and sway would have made things real eerie.
Impressive job with the mood and atmosphere of the game! The only problem I had was the skull dropping constantly while being held. Otherwise, I really liked the text/poem you had going on.
The music also helped sell the atmosphere - really fun game! It nice to see a fellow 3D game here with some nice graphics and a first person controller!
UI doesn't scale properly with different screen sizes.
Nice artstyle and solid gameplay for the time you had
I love love love the atmosphere created with the music and the text
You definitely made something with visuals. I love this kind of games and though i hage fps this look for this kind of games suits very well.
Incredible atmosphere, really nice work.
Fantastic mood and graphics. Loved jumping out of the world and trying to bypass the whole shebang. XD
Main gripe was I should be stopped from taking the skull back to the previous lava, and better air control would make it more playable.
Here's my play: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/345392409?t=17m47s
Hey SirAeron! Thanks for submitting your game for me to play on my livestream!
If you'd like to rewatch the playthrough, you can find it here: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/346056526?t=01h29m22s
Good luck on your ratings, see you next LD! :D
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