rikun 2018-12-04 05:47
Original and very funny game, it will little better if it has bgm, very well :D
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD43 → Pigheaded Pirate
By shawn-moore
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 356 | 3.11 | 29 | |
| Fun | 283 | 3.14 | 29 | |
| Innovation | 340 | 2.96 | 29 | |
| Theme | 354 | 3.13 | 29 | |
| Graphics | 394 | 2.74 | 29 | |
| Audio | 359 | 2.38 | 29 | |
| Humor | 127 | 3.25 | 26 | |
| Mood | 399 | 2.64 | 27 |
Original and very funny game, it will little better if it has bgm, very well :D
An interesting concept! I, alas, don't have time to play through the whole thing at this very moment. But I like what I played. I find it really interesting that you can use both your partner's and your own life to damage enemies. Kinda makes you think about what kind of person you are. Bit of an odd choice to make the end of level chests damage you, but I assume that's kinda just a side effect of making them an enemy so you can use your partner to open them.
@Yirggzmb the end cutscene may explain the treasure chest a little more :) you're on the right track though!
thanks @Rikun! I have never written music before so I ended up not finishing any songs, but it's at the top of my list to practice for next LD! :)
Mechanically, I found more often than not enemies get stuck together, or the pig head gets stuck on enemies, or some combination of these. The pig head dying also seems to complicate things. In general, I suspect you're fighting the physics engine more than it's helping you.
For future games, you might look into using just a gravity constant with more traditional collision detection. I suspect it'll solve a lot of your problems here.
As for the gameplay, it's weirdly enjoyable to shoot pig heads at things.
Absolutely right @fireslash. For example I had pixel-perfect collision detection, but that significantly reduced the mass of each object, which in turn affected collisions, which ended up making the game a lot less fun. After sinking an hour or two into it, I realized I could just revert back to rectangular bodies. Definitely a double-edged sword, physics engines are! In the end, at least the pig head rotates fairly accurately. :D
I'm so happy to hear you enjoyed the main mechanic :)
Really cool! I loved the goofy aesthetic and theme, it's a really cool exploration of sacrifice as a mutually beneficial relationship. There were several times when we got stuck though, and I died multiple times. With more time than 48 hours to work on this I could see it being really fun!
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Interesting take on the theme, using your own partner as a weapon. I think the game is a bit too reliant on the physics, it's very difficult to get through with few deaths or sacrifices and sometimes enemies just gang up where you spawn killing you instantly again. I think you should make the levels a lot shorter, because they feel like they go on and on and throwing around the partner over and over again gets a little tedious after a while. I am glad death doesn't punish you for dying and doesn't send you back to the start of the level, though.
Thanks @benburgh and @adventureislands! Nice score!
I think I just fixed a lot of the physics problems by deleting two lines of debug code. :head_bandage:
Shorter levels is a good idea, especially the third one. But hopefully now with that physics fix it's a little less tedious.
Oh man there's a third level? The second one went on so long, haha!
BTW, I played your game on stream! The vod is available https://www.twitch.tv/videos/344544405##, this game starts about one hour ten minutes in.
Thank you so much @benburgh!! I'm glad you liked the humor :)
I agree that levels two and three are too long, but I'm not comfortable making changes to them after the deadline :)
Hah. That ending. My sides! Worth it just for that. I won't spoil it for others :slight_smile: Thank you for giving us infinite lives! At first I got mad that the pig would sometimes get stuck where I couldn't get it without dying but once I realized I could die as many times as I wanted I'd just jump right in! 493.4s, 34 deaths, 24 sacrifices.
Thanks for submitting this game to be on my Play & Improve dev stream. Unfortunately, I'm only doing it for games written in Unity. It would be too hard to learn both a codebase and an engine in one sitting!
This game cheered me up. Nothing more to add in regards to feedback. Good stuff.
Nice game :-) The only default is having to fight pingouins. Why? I like Tux! lol
@frenchie Glad you liked Pigheaded Pirate! :D I think when I saved your submission form you hadn't yet clarified that it was limited to Unity. No worries though.
@bit Hope you feel better buddy <3
@jihem Unfortunately those penguins stand in the way between you and treasure, so they gots to go! :)
It was a cute game, I started feeling bad for the pig I was throwing around it was tragic. The only thing that bugged me was getting spawn camped by the seahorses every once in a while, but the infinite lives made it not really a problem.
Thanks @cannedtuna! Yeah if I'd had time for more playtesting I probably would've ended up pushing all the enemies away from the left side of the screen when you respawn. Oh well :)
This was interesting! I think I had a bug where the pig never spawned in happy after a few times. I also found that sometimes you could shove the pig into an enemy instead of throwing and that seemed to do little damage to the pig. I was a bit frustrated at needing to destroy enemies to progress each time, as it felt like I should have been able to just run ahead, but that is probably my perception of the level design (the platforms in the levels looked like ways to avoid enemies).
@incobalt: The pig's maximum possible happiness goes down by a grade each level, so by the last level you've upset your partner a lot and they're never happy again. The damage also depends on how hard the impact was, so I'm not surprised that shoving did only little damage :) The platforms were intended to make slightly more dynamic combat situations rather than just a single ground area. Finally, I modeled my game off of old school beat em ups which typically require you to defeat all enemies to proceed between each area, but I appreciate a lot of modern games give the player more choice. Glad to hear you thought it was interesting, thanks for playing! :D
I appreciate the inspiration from old school beat em ups and I think it worked well with the theme overall. I'm not a huge fan of the delay on the health bars when taking damage and occasionally the pig would fly off to the other side of the map leaving me to try and force my way back over to him which was a little frustrating but overall it was a nice entry, good job!
Thank you @kantieno! It was intentional to allow your partner get as far as a screen's width ahead of you, but whether that was a good idea is definitely unclear :)
Your game was played on my stream ( twitch.tv/ursagames ) for the second day of Ludum Dare streams - you can find the timestamp of your game here: https://goo.gl/N2rkr8
@ursagames thanks so much for playing Pigheaded Pirate! I'm glad you enjoyed it! Your review had me giggling throughout since your laugh is contagious. _gotta pig em all_
The level transition effect didn't take too much time, it was only about 15 lines of code. I did spend a _lot_ of time on the physics though, but there's only so much a QA Pig can do in 48 hours, so there are definitely still a lot of quirks I didn't have time to iron out.
The game was made in JavaScript using the Phaser engine.
Silly game! I included it in my compilation video series of games from the Ludum Dare, if you’d like to take a look :) https://youtu.be/cFpZDUQu-Js
@jupiter-hadley: Thanks for playing Pigheaded Pirate, Jupi! Glad you thought it was silly 😄
Hey, pretty art and funny concept. Unfortunately I had a very low FPS in the browser, but still, this game has a great potential.
Fun mechanics!
level transitions are very nice compared to overall graphics :D
Wasn't quite sure I followed the story throughout, but enjoyed the classic feel and sound effects a lot. You're welcome to watch my playthrough at the end of my latest VOD "Dare To Play" Episode 7 https://twitch.tv/cyberlightgames
@mgsx haha yep, I am rubbish at graphic design, but I can animate box positions pretty okay :laughing: