pawel-w 2018-12-03 21:49
Hahaha, great job! I had so much fun playing your game 5/5!
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD43 → Serial Dater
By coleslaughter, ruddiculous and ruddgasm
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 127 | 3.92 | 61 | |
| Fun | 243 | 3.61 | 62 | |
| Innovation | 76 | 3.88 | 62 | |
| Theme | 774 | 3.07 | 62 | |
| Graphics | 57 | 4.44 | 62 | |
| Humor | 43 | 4.09 | 62 | |
| Mood | 66 | 4.05 | 59 |
Hahaha, great job! I had so much fun playing your game 5/5!
I had a lot of fun... and apparently I'm not good at dating people unless they are serial killers O.O But Really nice game and the character design are so fun (and freaky at some point). Nice job !
Had quite fun! Graphics are cool! Good game!
Wow. Hillarious game xD this is one of those games I wish I had made. Loved it!
This is a very well made piece! Loved it and it is really fun :) Graphics are nice, gameplay is simple but effective. It is funny to see what some of them can say or think. A cute entry. Well done guys :)
Woah, I really loved this! It's very well made and funny, amazing job!
Very great job! Love the artwork, the game play was pretty fun once I got the hang of it, I'm typically more of an action/movement game kind of guy too, but it's nice to relax to more casual games as well! Graphics kind of remind me of Lucasarts adventure games for some reason, just higher res!
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From the moment I came across this game I knew I had to give it a play and see what it was all about. For starters, I don't think I will ever be able to see devil as anything other than 'Momma' after that. I was able to survive in both of my playthroughs and thoroughly enjoyed it!
The presentation was superb and the randomly generated dates really made the game look varied, and proved just how much appearances could be deceiving. The sound design was also on point and I really liked the effect the jazzy music got with the clock ticking down sound effect.
I really like how the different methods you could use to detect if someone was a serial killer or not got harder and more convoluted as you played, from the dots when using the eye power-up starting to move and increasing in dot counts, to the mouth one making you have to type more and more words that appeared on screen. A really nice difficulty curve overall!
On [behalf of our team](https://twitter.com/WhalesAndGames) I have to say that this was a really great entry and I really enjoyed every minute I was hoping not to pick a wrong date and be back-stabbed by surprise. Now... if only I could appeal to momma devil... :smiling_imp::whale:
good variety of dates, i like how you handle it without getting boring or being repetitive. cool game
Great game! It is really polished. The idea is really origional, and the graphics and music really fit the mood. My only criticism would be that it possible doesn't fit the theme that well, unless you count sacrificing your soul if you get it wrong... :) Awesome job!
Good - One of the most innovative games i've come across - Highly polished, the graphics, music, and gameplay fits well together - great balance of intrigue and difficulty, and the sacrifices really are sacrifices forcing me to think twice before using powers
Could be improved - Hard to tell how many people I had to date to "win"? - All of these people look equally sketchy, you should add some angelic looking fellas to throw people off - Would be amazing if there's a text to speech function
@jorgegamedev Thank you for the kind words! If you're interested, we actually programmed a 5% chance of spawning Momma as a potential suitor. :smiling_imp: He (she?) will always be a killer though, naturally...
@kambing Thanks for the feedback! I agree that nice-looking folks would definitely add to the challenge. Unfortunately our random character generator as-is probably wouldn't be keen on intentionally making normal people even if we fed it the assets. :P Also, since we were hurting for time, we made the game a simple "high score" game, where you either get killed or last 3 minutes. Would have liked to show your final score at the end, but it fell through the cracks. I 100% support the addition of the text to speech function though, that is a fabulous idea.
I liked the art
Really nice drawings and mood. The smooth jazz piano fits perfectly :) I agree with the comment above that the theme doesn't feel central to the gameplay, but overall a reeeeaally solid entry! Congrats!
superb. great graphic. wish the secret picture/thought more sublime so we have to guess again is this murderer or not.
A little confused about one of the mini games but the art and music are really quite good and the concept is somewhat amusing.
nice music theme, awesome ilustrations, funny game, great text and personality. One of the bests
Really great job!! the mood and the art are spot on!
Haaa this was a very funny game. I really dig the graphics. This was definitely one of the best concepts I've seen so far. The only thing I couldn't understand was what the threshold was for your powers to be taken away. But the music was calming and weirdly enough, I felt relaxed after playing your game. Well done!!
Very nice and funny game! Really enjoyed all the dates. The mood and art are amazing too. Good job!
I loved the style. Getting it to work well with random generation must have taken ages, but you really pulled it off.
I really liked how your senses got worse as you used your power too, it was a neat way of making the game subtly harder as it continued without breaking the overall mood/theme of the game.
It would be cool if there was more deductive work that just waiting to get a bad indicator, but creating a system that intricate probably would have taken more time than you had. That guy who said he was going to make me pay though, and then had a 20 dollar note rolled up in his pocket, that guy was definitely a serial killer, but for some reason I lost points when I passed him :)
Great job!
Ha ha ha ha, you comments is so interesting that writing code is really interesting
That was a very different and interesting entry. The number of possibilities and key-mechanics in the game make the game have a high replay value.
Nice work on this kind of effort in order to provide not only different experiences for different playthroughs, but also the graphics variety. I am sure that was a lot work that _sacrificed_ many hours of work.
Outstanding job guys!
Great entry! Like others have side great effort with creating variations into the game. Graphics are nice and I really think you found the right mood for the game.
As a side note it is kind of funny that you get a score from just not picking a serial killer :laughing:
This is really fun to play! and I like the art style. I managed to get the devil as a candidate, am I luck? lol
I didn't find any bugs, so good job on that. I found "eye" to be the least useful, I'm not sure how I can know if someone is a killer based on the daily use items it shows me..
I like how you made it so overusing power makes them harder, as opposed to just using a cooldown. it's really smart, overall very well done!
Funny game! The dialogue was very interesting, and I enjoyed listening to people's hidden thoughts ;)
This was awesome. I felt like I was there and it was creppy in a different/interesting way. Cool characters even scary to look at some but then they go like my mother must approve my dates :D A small problem sometimes words get blocked by gui when seducting.
Your game was played on my stream ( https://www.twitch.tv/ursagames/videos ) on the fifth day of Ludum Dare streams (Part 2). Thank you for sharing your game with us! You can find the timestamp of when your game was played here: https://goo.gl/N2rkr8
@ursagames Thanks so much for the footage! Sorry we weren't able to join you on the stream.
Looks like there was some confusion as to what does and doesn't qualify a date as a "serial killer." In case you're curious, the way players are supposed to discover it is through using their supernatural powers. Hearing their thoughts, seducing a confession, or finding something in their pockets will all lead you to a clue that points to their innocence/guiltiness.
We tried to make the "serial killer" hints as obvious as possible (liking the smell of blood, keeping a list of victims in their pockets, etc.). The other innocent dates are intentionally weird, but sometimes you gotta sacrifice your standards when you're desperate for love! ;)
Again, thanks for playing! And congrats, you were on the lucky side of the 5% roll that spawns the devil as a potential suitor. Hope you enjoy your date with Momma! :smiling_imp:
What a wonderful looking game! The charadesign is amazing, discovering each new date was great, and I surprised myself being sadly disappointed when discovering a knife in the pocket of someone I was interested in :/
Would love a bit more polish in the main menu, intro and transitions, but that's not a big deal!
Very well done little game i had a lot of fun playing it !
This is a great concept! I love the visuals and the gameplay. My only complaint is that the font and color used for the typing segments made it kinda hard to read the words, while every other font is pretty easy to read, so maybe change that. Everything else is top notch. Congrats!
This is delightful. Great concept, great artwork, and the gameplay itself is fun too - all-in-all just a really well executed game. Nice work!
This might me the most memorable game of this LD I've played so far. The concept is so bizarre and the gameplay unique, it definitely stand out. I love thoses kind of original concept for games that doesn't follow any established genres. The graphics are pretty great too ! I love the artstyle and the randomly generated dudes are a lot of fun. Congratulation, definitely one of my favorites !
Very original idea! Artwork is excellent and funny. If I had 1 critique it would be that I ended up just smashing each of the buttons right away to get the information. Maybe I am missing something as a penalty for doing that?
verry funny idea. It has a sherlock vibe to it, if sherlock would date a lot of people xD
Good idea :D ! I loved how each use of the powers made the next dates more complicated to deal with ! I had fun ! The first time I used the "telepathy" power, I heard "I have an ice pick in my pocket", best way ever to get in the game xD. The music and graphics are great too :D ! (the characters are soooo creep :') !) I guess I would just have liked to have another victory panel !
Funny game with good graphics
Nice concept and art! Perhaps you can add an idle animation by putting the parts on splines and animating them to make it a bit more lively.