FoonLudum Dare ExplorerLD44 → The Branch

The Branch

By rodobodolfo, poffle, octopoid and TigerMouse

View on ldjam.com

CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall1233.9156
Fun2003.6856
Innovation2303.5156
Theme3023.6656
Graphics3123.9457
Audio544.0556
Humor84.3256
Mood1353.8654

Comments

zandecki-alexandre 2019-05-01 12:29

The game was quite simple but it was a really cool experience with nice humor and a lot of things to do. Congrats !

seriouslycrunchy 2019-05-01 14:49

Top points for humor and mood! As a Brit I found it spot on. Simple gameplay indeed but enough laughs to keep me playing.

hugovaz 2019-05-01 15:22

THE FUNNIEST GAME. Its like The Office but its about money. I was really entertained by the dialogues, you should really develop that to be a full game.

sholyu 2019-05-01 15:56

Really nice, quite simple but really cool, i liked that the goal is to be awful with people, its pretty original! Nice job !

jofersgames 2019-05-01 16:14

Haha, fun :)

codingninjajoas 2019-05-01 16:15

Really good game, one of the funniest games i've seen so far. Good job!!

riftpoint-entertainment 2019-05-01 16:15

That was amazing! Very funny. I love this kind of game. I was one of the best of this ludum dare. Good job!

qwantumline 2019-05-01 16:16

Love it!!!

pedro137br 2019-05-01 16:30

The graphics were really good, i loved the audio and the voices were really funny, it was super fun to player, overall i really loved the game

spiffy 2019-05-01 16:38

Well made experience.

itsjustjord 2019-05-01 17:32

Easy and a great experience great job.

riddhee-dutta 2019-05-01 17:32

Clean Graphics and nice artsyle, good game man ;)

lakrits 2019-05-01 17:35

Pretty impressive dialogue-heavy experience.

brinkhousegames 2019-05-01 18:23

Wow, your game and mine have some similarity! Love it. Great work!

tinykidtoo 2019-05-01 18:27

I was really sad when this ended. It was a lot of fun, kept me giggling to myself like some crazy school child the whole way through. The music and art fit perfectly for this silly story line. Overall very good work, I would love to see more.

xmpt-luke 2019-05-01 19:52

Really loved the humour in this. It's rare to see a solid narrative-focused game like this in a jam. Nice job! :)

xmpted 2019-05-01 19:57

Enjoyed the style of this one - and the humour was right up my street :) Lack of much gameplay meant I lost attention though - I know that's what you're going for, just wasn't my cup of tea!

refraction 2019-05-01 19:59

That was a great little game! Took me a while to realise what I had to do, the objective at the start wasn't clear, I didn't realise I was the banker dude lol, probably not paying attention. Really pleasing art style, the humour was great and the sound track and voice acting was spot on. Good job all of you!

pixel-error 2019-05-01 20:07

What a story, Mark. Voices fit well to characters and jokes are great.

pixscope 2019-05-01 20:39

Very funny ! I loved it !

cocapasteque 2019-05-01 21:19

Ok, this game is pure gold. I found it very amusing and the sounds/voice acting is really good ! Couldn't understand what I had to do in the beginning but when i found out, it was so fun ! Great job guys !

cikyt 2019-05-01 21:33

❤⃛ヾ(๑❛ ▿ ◠๑ )

sahoskins1 2019-05-01 21:59

Loved playing this! Genuinely would have been happy to just sit there and keep playing if this had been a long running series or something. Well done! I played this on Windows but if you still need someone to test the Linux build then let me know and I'll boot up my Linux machine tomorrow for it.

techsec 2019-05-02 01:26

The style is something really unique I enjoyed it quite a bit.

afroant 2019-05-02 04:56

The eye and (especially) mouth animations blew me away. The visuals were so good. It's cool playing LD games with full voice-acting. I liked the effort you put in the documentary. The gameplay at the end was...interesting, after listening to all the preceding ramblings. Dialogue went on a bit long at times, but I guess that's just documentaries for ya :P Thanks for the experience!

mashupgames 2019-05-02 12:48

Very unique game you have made here. It has that sort of narrative similar to The Office, and the dialogue is very funny. I did find it a bit slow at times with the dialogue, but it was still very funny and it's clear you put a lot of effort into it. Well done!

poffle 2019-05-02 12:59

@afroant @mashupgames

Yep! Totally agree there with the dialogues. If we hadn't run out of time I would have liked to have taken a knife to the script to trim the fat. I'm glad you both still enjoyed it! Thank you very much for your reviews!

octopoid 2019-05-02 13:11

@refraction @cocapasteque yeah, you're quite right, it wasn't entirely clear who you were at any given moment. I think in retrospect there should have been some kind of onscreen name badge and objective to make that more obvious. Thanks for your kind words though, glad you enjoyed it! :grinning:

octopoid 2019-05-02 13:14

@afroant Thanks, that means a lot! I wrote the eye shader/controller and @rodobodolfo took care of all the lipsyncing for the mouth. I wish we'd had a bit more time for actual gameplay, or even to finish the throwing minigame properly, but that deadline is a harsh mistress! Thanks for your review! :smile:

poffle 2019-05-02 13:16

@xmpted Glad you liked the humour and yep, didn't think it would be everyone's cup of tea! Thanks for playing and giving feedback!

@tinykidtoo Thank you very much! Glad you liked it! We might flesh it out after with some more characters and games to make a full "episode". Thank you for playing and leaving a comment!

poffle 2019-05-02 13:21

@riftpoint-entertainment Aw. Thank you very much. That's kind of you to say. Glad you enjoyed it!

tiagorrech 2019-05-02 16:51

The kind of game I really don't expect to see in a game jam, and different from everything else I played so far.

The facial animation on the characters was great, as was the humor and the voice acting. It was like a cross of Monty Python with Stanley's Parable.

Also, REALLY good take on the theme, probably the best I've seen so far. Phenomenal work, guys!

solah 2019-05-02 19:29

Very funny, but it's sometime difficult to know what to do next and what choice will make the funniest situation.

Good job!

luis-j-benitez 2019-05-03 07:01

Well for me in the game there is too much blabling and little interactivity. Just my opinion. Good Job becquse narrativism/interaction its just a choice.

soggybreadhands 2019-05-04 01:55

nice, it was a pretty funny narrative to play through with good voice acting, good job, solid entry!

drauthius 2019-05-04 11:32

That was "bloody brilliant" :laughing: Great voice acting, great humour, great everything!

avon 2019-05-04 16:11

I always look forward to your entries, and this one did not disappoint. Very funny, great voice acting and music. The 3D graphics were great as well.

jorne 2019-05-05 17:33

It made me laugh so much! Especially Mildred, who reminded me of a real bank employee in my nearby branch. Excellent voice acting and facial expressions! I could clearly see on the faces of the other employees that they had a tough time working there. It would have been nice to interact with them too in some way. The game felt a bit short, and the dialogues a little too long, just a few more people to shortly interact with would have made this even more entertaining.

poffle 2019-05-06 08:24

@avon Thank you very much! We always look forward to your review!

@jorne Thank for the feedback, I'm glad you like it. Yep. We had more interactions planned for the roaming around, talking to the workers or hidden areas that would open new dialogue and whatnot.... and your poor bank if anyone is like Mildred haha

synedraacus 2019-05-09 05:33

Linux player reporting in, the build works just fine.

poffle 2019-05-09 08:24

@synedraacus Thanks for checking, linux player!!

ougrouk 2019-05-14 10:47

fun submission, lots of effort inputted there.