2018-12-04 14:11
It takes me a few minutes to understand how to play, but I manage to win after several tries. Good job! It was cool.
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD43 → Yahtzle!
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 327 | 3.64 | 34 | |
| Fun | 324 | 3.50 | 32 | |
| Innovation | 231 | 3.56 | 33 | |
| Theme | 379 | 3.66 | 33 | |
| Graphics | 487 | 3.56 | 33 | |
| Humor | 549 | 2.76 | 32 | |
| Mood | 499 | 3.33 | 32 |
It takes me a few minutes to understand how to play, but I manage to win after several tries. Good job! It was cool.
I will not rest in peace unless I find out how to pronounce this title...
Looks good, and I actually played it to completion. My luck is absolute rubbish but all in all I had some fun.
@XCVZXC Lol, and how do you pronounce your name ? ;)
@liseroth well done, it is not easy to win the first games !
I am a little lost on how to get started, the game looks impressive. Can you make a tutorial, I'd love to play to completion :smiley: Edit: I figured it out. After I learned a little more about the game I was able to complete it. It's unfortunate that there is no sound or animation in the game, that would've been cool, but nonetheless it was a cool game idea.
I skipped most of the text and I failed to understand how to play in a few minutes (sorry, I'm impatient!). The music gets repetitive fast. I didn't see anything broken. Congratulations on finishing a working game!
It took me a while to figure out how it worked, but once I got the hang of it I did enjoy it!
I agree wish there was a little more explanation to the game mechanics, played twice without realizing I had to build a workshop to get extra dice, was struggling to figure out what was going on. Once I got past that I was able to beat the game.
Very entertaining game, although maybe too random, but that makes it even more addictive :D I would add some kind of explanation for the buttons Transform and New year because it's a bit confusing at first, but very good work! keep developing :)
I really liked your game. It took me a little while to figure out what was going on (especially that the A meant "any number, but both dice need to be the same value") and how exactly I should spend my dice, but after that it was super fun and actually required some strategy to get the last one before the time expired. It was a lot of fun. Congratulations!
@aortega @frank-gevaerts @doug-graham @blackwen @krylos Thanks for your perseverance and your feedbacks! I agree the interface is not obvious, and we clearly lacked time to work on this (messages, hints, better icons, ...), as well as a little tutorial I'm glad you could find some fun with game nevertheless!
I added some explanations at the end of the game description. I hope people can start playing with that..
Pretty neat!
I replayed this game 4 times just to have the satisfaction of winning. I really loved it, the various choices you can make were well thought and well balanced. Good job!
Love the concept, sad to hear thoses web sounds but a gma eis a game, well done ! :)
@lizouille thank you for you're appreciation :) @blast unfortunatly we couldn't find a musician for the event. But we're glad you enjoyed it anyway :)
I really like the idea, I have not managed to win yet but I'm on it. Good job! As others said, it's difficult to understand some important concepts at the beginning : 1) transform button 2) Building a workshop is key 3) 'A' means any value but same for all dices with 'A'.
Could be good to hide powers that we cannot use yet, no matter the effort. For instance Pray Xamen can be hidden as at the beginning we have no green dices. It could help to make choices.
Also took me a while to figure out, but very cool and different! :)
Pretty damn cool! A whole lot better for sure than that normal boring stupid yahtzee.
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At first I thought it was super hard and luck based but in the end I figured that the skills don't change sixes to ones so I was golden on my second try. I still taught it would be too RNG based on the start but I guess you can just bank some corn and make that six yourself if you keep missing it all the time like I did. I was also dumb enough on my first run to get too many yellow/brown dice so I couldn't even fit a red one in.
The look (even though the graphics were a bit blurry) and sound were good. Sure, it could have used some spiffy effects and animations. And of course it would have been nice to have all that how to play/win stuff in the actual game and probably not in a format of a huge wall of text. The problem with that is that even though I skimmed through the help, when I actually got to the game I still didn't know what to do because I had zero context about anything when reading the rules.
But my biggest issue with the game was the dice/button placement. I mean the player constantly has to constantly move the curosr between the left and right edges of the screen to perform anything. Especially so on a touchpad. I know it's kinda nitpicky and minor but adding hotkeys and/or reorganizing UI elements is also super easy.
Anyways, good job! Could quite easily add some more scenarios to lengthen and vary the gameplay a bit.
@antti-haavikko Thanks for these review and feedbacks! I agree we propose a quite complex game, with little help... It certainly will be the priority if we go for a V2
The concept is kinda interesting. Adding the randomness makes it different every time you play the game. In terms of concept, i'd give it a pretty high score. My current strategy is to get as much resources as you can in the first 15 years. After that, hope you have enough resources to sacrifice and get that win. This means, get workshop as early as possible (use the sacrifice). Then hope for good roll until you can add it up and get the other upgrades. Something like that.
As far as game play goes, others have mentioned but the UI could be better. I didn't know what i was doing until i force myself to read the text(a bit mouthful imo). The most apparent thing is 1. The upgrade(?) button 2. What [A][A] means. I got lucky with that one and figured it out after 1 playthrough.
Otherwise, good job :)
It took me quite some time to get how this game works and Iam not even sure if I understand it completely yet :) Even if Iam not a dice-type gamer, i love the art style and the theme itself. You did a good job here.