willvasco 2018-12-04 01:25
Horrifying but mostly in that I'm horrified that it's so good
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD43 → Abortion Boy
By Maxime Catel, saering, Gaav, Joujou, Kent1_Sim and Thomas Lagana
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 564 | 3.37 | 108 | |
| Fun | 615 | 3.14 | 108 | |
| Innovation | 713 | 2.91 | 107 | |
| Theme | 754 | 3.10 | 107 | |
| Graphics | 355 | 3.83 | 108 | |
| Audio | 242 | 3.55 | 107 | |
| Humor | 245 | 3.41 | 107 | |
| Mood | 173 | 3.77 | 107 |
Horrifying but mostly in that I'm horrified that it's so good
Too easy to complete. Nothign to go back to once you're done wiht the game. Didn't enjoy the weird physics on the head, as it doesn't roll but it slides instead. Finally, I think you guys missed the theme, because it's not really about me making an informed decision to sacrifice anything. you decide that for me as I move from level to level. It's not a sacrifice, it's a different character I play as. With that said, i think the game looks very good in terms of setting. The sounds were also quite good for the theme you chose, in my opinion.
I love fortnite :sos: I had a lot of fun playing your game but i died a lot because i danced too much in front of the hand x) (Nice anus portal texture)
Came here because I saw your VFX breakdown of the blood waterfall. I think it is very nice of you to share your workflow with the community. Horrifying game btw - in a good way ;)
:100: 10/10, would dance again
Very impressive! Really good graphics and audio. Looks like Agony
Nice mood! the theme is really respected. Good job guys!
Hillariously morbid and disturbing
Thanks everyone for the feedbacks! We'll try out your games as soon as possible :)
Lmao loved this. Great premise and absolutely insane context. I fully expected the ending but it only made it funnier.
BEST GAME I HAVE EVER PLAYED! Especially because we planed to have a "take the L" animation as well ... but we do have a dab, so make sure to check out our game. The only thing that you might could have made better is that you maybe have a small pointer where the next "anus" is, sometimes it was impossible to find
I went through the walls after clicking retry after getting aborted :sob: Nice game! I like the graphics and audio!
Amazing atmosphere and sound design, but difficult to control. There's not enough time to orient yourself when a level starts, which means mostly blind running around trying to find the next room opening and hoping I don't run into walls and get caught by the hand. Which would be fine if the level design were clearer, but it's all just a red and bloody void, and it's difficult to tell the difference between shadows and paths for me. I'm not sure if there's a point to the "Take The L" mechanic or not besides being funny, I don't know enough about Fortnite memes to understand it other than that it's probably one of the dances you have available in that game. In the end I gave up after level one, as it was difficult enough to get to the exit with legs, let alone afterwards when the speed was much slower and the hand was constantly haunting me, making it really hard to move the camera and find a path instead of dead-end running into walls again.
Overall, though, good work!
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@morg Hi! Saw you playing our game on stream. I'm glad it made you laugh but you were actually not supposed to be this fast haha, we're probably going to fix this because it happens a lot! :p
Well... That was... Different.
Still a lot of fun! I really enjoyed it. Congrats!
Great concept!
I really like your tutorials.
@mike-mihe Glad you did! Thanks for reading them
Beautiful game! I'd love to play more but I have to go and play Fortnite.
That VFX breakdown is fantastic, we need more games with blood waterfalls!
Let me find my words... this is just a nightmare XD. Simple concept but the ambiance, just the right one ^^ . I didn't manage to finish the 3th level but I will retry. Very nice job ! (And the fact is I like Fornite too :p ).
PS : Thank for the procedural article.
I wish at the end, the baby was still aborted.
The fact that the abortion boy loves Fortnite made the whole game funnier and better!
Great graphics and animation, sounds are also good. I enjoyed playing this.
Jesus christ
I don't know how to feel
That was great I think
lol, wth did I just play :grinning: Quite fun and well made!
oh, it's so creepy! reminds me Jericho Clive Barker's
personaly the over all red color seamed a bit too much, could tune the post processing a bit down. liked how the contorls became looser and the character faster as you went through the levels. nice work on the jokes and making the game look quite creepy! Thanks a lot for submitting the games to our stream here is a link to the gameplay :) https://www.twitch.tv/videos/345040549?t=01h27m18s
Man this is dark, I love it. The art and audio really nail the dark aesthetic your going for. I also like the whole dark humor you have going here. I just wish I could get past the second level. I can never seem to get the boy to the end without legs.
Damn this is some messed up game.... The graphics and sounds are amazing also an A+ for creativity but the game was extremely hard (at least for me). The gameplay itself was also not really my thing.
Wow, what an experience. I really liked the look of your post processing, and the overall aesthetic was very consistant.
Thank you guys! I'm glad the game made you laugh, that was the point :) @twisted-hive Thanks for playing it live, we always appreciate watching people play our game :D
Well.. okaay. I laughed, I was disgusted, I was amazed at the blood waterfall thing and had to put this down because this is just not right.
An entry well done! :D (Little too easy.)
Very great work and thanks for sharing workflows.
Wow! :D Awesome game!
Waw so dark :)
You did so well at the mood of the game ...
Very well done
I was blown away by the music to this game!
This is a very interesting game! The graphics were really good and the music was amazing! A bit too gore for me with what happens to the fetus and with all these sounds, I was kinda hoping to finish it as quick as I could :D But overall this is something very original and absolutely worth playing!
Amazing graphics indeed, love the theme and mood. I really could feel the disgust in me and even was kinda afraid of downlaoding it, because of the titlescreen.
The hand would always outrun me in level 2, and I only saw the exit to that level once in all the times I played (and they where A LOT). I just couldn't do anything, the exit wouldn't appear ever and the hand would get me. And not because I did something wrong, I didn't have any means to out run it or anything. In level 1 the exit would appear two rooms in and in level 2 I could be running through eight rooms and never find it.
I don't know if it's a bug with the random generation of the levels or what, but it doesn't feel as "easy" as several comments are saying. Also, someone said you move quickier from level to level, but it certainly didn't feel that way. Quite the opposite.
A bit dissapointed, because the art reminded me of Agony and the intro made me laugh a lot. I want to see what you guys do in the future!
@pablodap Hi! Thanks a lot for playing the game and trying multiple times despite the fact you had what seems to be a bug. Many people played the game and the controller's movement speed seems to change from one computer to another, which is a curious issue and I have no clue why it does that... but it does, sadly!
I really appreciate that you took the time to give me your opinion though!
Fantastic presentation and the dark humour was done well. Reminded me a bit of The Binding Of Isaac - except on crack.
Controls felt ok to me, perhaps a little more friction on stage 3 would be good though. If people are having different behaviours on different rigs your code might be frame dependant - make sure you're considering delta time!
The music was on point as were the SFX.
And well done for nailing your concept so well with such a large team, it can be hard to stay aligned in such a short period of time.
My only real critique given the jam scope would be the lack of land marks in the rooms, they tend to blur into each other making getting lost and/or looping on your self too easy.
But overall a fantastic entry with a high level of polish and fun gameplay. Congrats :smile:
@almax Thanks a lot !
Well I did consider the delta time, but I'm trying to think I did it wrong somewhere in one of my scripts, so you must be right about that haha
Otherwise I'm glad you liked the game and the involvement we put in it ! And yes, we should have thought of some land marks instead of making bones, rocks and dead bodies I guess :laughing:
Awesome style. Your aesthetics were amazing. The game cover was insane and the look of the game as well. The movement of the character felt a bit lacking and I couldn't get the baby to Fortnite dance, however, I really enjoyed the feel of this game.
While I know this is supposed to be "funny", I couldn't help but quit after the first level. All the sounds and graphics were horrifying.
Cant say enough about how much I liked the graphics. And thank you for the tutorial links.
The game itself was pretty easy. Navigation was a bit of a pain since there are so few landmarks to help navigate but Overall this was fun.
Had to play this after reading the description! A bit too dark mood for me but fun idea and fun to play. I think the movement is too fast though. Bonus point for the game over win screen, haha
What an horrifying game, even the weird jokes made me anxious haha!
Had some difficulty finishing it, but that was worth it!
Amazing work on mood, audio and graphics, and everything actually! I can't help but give a full score! :)
Very nice game! The mood and art style are amazing and creepy. Congratulations to the team!
Interesting game :) Dark setting, decent difficulty, generation and good graphics. I mean it has a lot of good qualities! I did find the physics a bit wonky and navigation was hard at times, yet I did have fun and played through the game :)
This is the most dark of dark-humor game I played ever.. Graphic/mood is well done. Looking on other comments - I had no issues with controls. This the the entry that will be hard to forget.
Potential employer: So what are some games you've worked on in the past?
Very nice graphics! The gameplay itself was a bit too basic for my tastes, but the theme and mood made up for that :D
Wow... unique game! xD
Nice graphics and audio. Nice atmosphere too, I was scared of the "abortion hand" all the time!
Well, that was something.
The game has some odd balance issues that I think if worked out would make the experience a lot more enjoyable. For starters, at the beginning of the game when a player is still trying to figure out the controls, the surgeon hand spawns right at the starting position, so if the player didn't already know what to do they would instantly get a loss, which could be confusing. The "take the L" animation was funny but ultimately really confusing as I tried repeatedly to figure out if it had any gameplay purpose (as far as I can tell, it didn't). I would have been more inclined to use it if it actually did something, or if the gameplay actually had any break points (which it didn't).
As already mentioned, the movement speed in level 2 seems to be slower than the surgeon hand. I was only able to complete the level by speed-strafing (https://speedrunwiki.com/Speed_strafing), since moving diagonally moves you at a faster rate than moving in one direction. This was the only way I could outrun the hand, so I had to play the entire level with an offset camera view.
I think I got rather screwed over by the level generation in level 3 so I couldn't complete it. I couldn't discern the purpose of the ramps with arrows in them, besides slowing me down. The physics in that level were rather confusing as normally the head rolls around very quickly but when it hits certain obstacles it grinds to a halt and takes a bit to get started again.
Anyways, gameplay gripes aside, the music certainly does a good job of bringing an "intense chase scene" feel and the disembodied hand is aptly frightening; makes me quite thankful that the Wallmasters in Zelda didn't run around chasing me. The shaders and textures used here obviously had a bunch of thought put into them, though I feel like that effort is a bit wasted since there is really no time during the game to appreciate any of those visuals aside from a passing glance. The uniform red lighting really works to cement the mood of the game but at the same time makes the level layout a bit less readable. Some sort of more clear lighting or shading difference to indicate entrances into other rooms might work well for better readability.
I honestly wonder if this would have worked better as a stealth/horror-type game instead of a constant chase sequence, as that would allow the frightening nature of the hand to add suspense and allow some more of the visual details to really shine through. Ah, but it's not really my place to tell you guys what your game could or should be!
Great job on your jam game and thanks for the devblog writeups as well!
Well now, that's... interesting.
A bit short, but not bad.
Hahaha this is not OK :p I had a good laugh at this especially with the Fortnite syndrome. The decor was very nicely done and the dance was a nice touch. The lose screen is also very dark and fits the mood. The gameplay however is not that strong, but I guess it was not about that. Although I would like to see this aesthetic and dark humor combined with some stronger gameplay. The movement is ok and I liked the squishy sound effects. Level design was also very unclear, It was dark both literally and figuratively ;) It was fun but wore off pretty quickly.