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In the name of Spaghetti

By link, Ax3l, Haythan and Zarqus99

View on ldjam.com

CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall9162.8940
Fun9282.6239
Innovation8712.6940
Theme9222.6840
Graphics8692.6540
Audio6392.1938
Humor3763.1140
Mood9042.6338

Comments

artur-hawkwing 2018-12-05 08:30

Nice game! You did a great job of balancing difficulty, and I liked the funny take on the theme! Some music and more sounds would have been great, but I liked the graphics and the level design a lot!

Keep up the good work!

link 2018-12-05 13:34

Thank you for your feedback! :v: Yeah, i should add more sounds and music but I had no time. :/

2018-12-05 17:03

For only 72h work it's fine. You should add music and sound and fix some bugs. I like graphics. Good work

julian-creutz 2018-12-05 17:31

Not bad considering you had 72h. I like the "stealth" aspect of the game.

zsolt 2018-12-05 17:41

A little bit hard or just I`m noob but nice job overall (:

link 2018-12-05 18:01

Thank you all!

captaindreamcast 2018-12-05 18:27

I made it through all the five levels! The final one had me running, the last guard spotted me after I messed up the timing, but I made it to the chest and fulfilled my al dente destiny.

I thought the levels were well designed, they had a nice symmetry going on. Levels provided a good amount of challenge, levels 3-5 required multiple tries on my part, and always felt fair. I was on edge the whole time, good job!

zarqus99 2018-12-05 19:06

@captaindreamcast Thank you a lot. We are very happy that you enjoyed our game! -Zarqus99 (art designer)

icehottet 2018-12-05 19:41

Fun game!

haythan 2018-12-05 19:44

@icehottet Thank you very much!-Haythan(art designer)

ponchoguy 2018-12-05 21:17

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Hey, great game! Had a great time trying to win my soul back from the Spaghetti Monster! :smiley:

I loved the stealth mechanics with the red death tiles, and great work on getting them to chase you at the end - it was really funny and scary at the same time as they came in on you. :laughing:

One thing that could be improved for flavour would be some more dialogue from the Spaghetti Monster, it could be a few bits of random dialogue from him between picking levels, this would be great for world-feel.

For future development, maybe adding a few variation to the security types, different uniforms/faces graphically or maybe even walking patrols mechanically would go a long way to adding more variety to the game.

On [behalf of our team](https://discord.whalesandgames.com/) thank you for making this game it was a pleasure to play! :yum:

link 2018-12-05 21:37

@ponchoguy Thank you for playing!

zarqus99 2018-12-05 21:43

@ponchoguy Thank on behalf of us all! I'm very happy you enjoyed our game :id:

.Zarqus99(Art designer)

nnnikki 2018-12-05 22:01

I think that the theme could have been used more creatively, more in the game design than the story and theme. But good job nevertheless.

(oh no my english teacher will kill me for starting a sentence with "but")

teo989 2018-12-05 22:08

Fun game, nice implementation of sneaking and visualizing enemy detection zone! Also the graphics were pleasing to the eye. Good job :)

zarqus99 2018-12-05 22:38

@teo989 @nnnikki Thanks to both! I know, we could use that idea better but time kill all our imagination. Anyway that's the first time we partecipe to LudumDare, next year we will do it better! -Zarqus99 (Art designer)

sockyman 2018-12-05 22:52

Fun but I think that the character should move faster. The reason for this is because it takes forever to get anywhere.

pelicanodepico 2018-12-06 00:02

Nice concept! Very original!

rhou 2018-12-06 05:23

This is spot on with the theme interms of the storyline and the game has cool mechanics thats one of the first stealth one's I've seen in the jam so thats pretty dope i really enjoyed playing this game but like @sockyman said a bit too slow ,still really dope and authentic though

rhou 2018-12-06 05:24

This is spot on with the theme interms of the storyline and the game has cool mechanics thats one of the first stealth one's I've seen in the jam so thats pretty dope i really enjoyed playing this game but like @sockyman said a bit too slow ,still really dope and authentic though

hav24 2018-12-06 09:38

Basically this is a game about Pastafarianism and the famous Flying Spaghetti Monster! Woooh! D: I'm italian and I always loved everything spaghetti related, so you got me! XD It's a good game with a strange incipit, the gameplay is ok trying to avoiding the the police view cone, but the lack of sounds (except for the keys and chest) let the game feel a bit unfinished. Btw good work! :)

link 2018-12-06 10:27

@hav24 We are italians too! Saluti dalla Sicilia! In realtà ero troppo stanco per aggiungere i suoni, c'era poco tempo :/

twinghosts 2018-12-06 12:42

Cool game, I just like how you went with it. Spaghetti, why not. Stealth, sure! Haha well I like it.

zarqus99 2018-12-06 13:00

@twinghosts Thank you a lot. We're very proud

vlad-ilisan 2018-12-06 17:50

Mom’s spaghetti

zarqus99 2018-12-06 17:57

@vlad-ilisan EMINEM<3

toonteamj 2018-12-06 19:41

I liked it.

I think one of my main criticisms is that your red(?) brick walls look like your floors, so navigation takes a little concentration.

Sorry, but I'm colourblind. It happens.

Other then that, the game was pretty good. Your stealth mechanic was well done!

ty-victorson 2018-12-06 21:20

I liked it alot! great job

prodigalson 2018-12-07 13:34

It's always a nice touch to give enemies in a stealth game an indicator of their line of sight as I feel that it gives me the player that strategic advantage to plan our my next move especially when I don't have other means to know what they see. Took me a bit to get our of the first level's starting room as in the collision made kept me in but once I was out, it was on! :P

slimothyj 2018-12-11 07:05

I like this one. I love that you mixed it up with sacrifices to the flying spaghetti monster instead of satan or some mayan sun god like a lot of the submissions (Not that they are bad). It was a nice comedic touch.

As for gameplay, the graphics are nice and the art style is simple. One issue I have is that the play character seems to move a little bit slow. But i suppose this makes sense since they are sneaking. The game could have also used a little music. Still, great game :)

shujal 2018-12-20 14:45

I liked the stealth mechanics. Some audio (footsteps, etc) would be nice, and you could mix up the graphics a bit (create some variations of the floor to make it look less grid-like, change the tiles for different levels).

smbe19 2018-12-26 20:40

Nice idea. It was a bit annoying to have to choose the level again after you got caught. Also the level design was not that great as you often had to walk back where you already went through. Furthermore, you had to search for the key, which was not that fun. This might have been intended but I think the strength of the game lies in its stealth part and not in the "looking for the key"-part.