Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD44 → HackZ Memories
By black-potion
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 100 | 3.95 | 64 | |
| Fun | 186 | 3.70 | 64 | |
| Innovation | 31 | 4.03 | 64 | |
| Theme | 250 | 3.72 | 64 | |
| Mood | 113 | 3.92 | 65 |
I really like the mood you set for this game. The pixelated video telling you what needs to be done, coupled with the eerie soundtrack and space background was great. I never quite grasped how to make much more than what I was spending each round.
@tinykidtoo Thank you for your feedback. And yeah you have to find by yourself how to make more memories! :D
really cool effect with your face. Love it! <3
loved that effect with the face, even though I never quite got how to actually progress in the game
I never quite understood the mechanics beyond the basic memory units, and the conversion of childhood memories to dollars in the store was unclear and caused me to dead-end my first time, but overall this is fantastic! The video effect is super cool, and overall this is super polished. Nice work!
Dude, you should put yourself up for graphics voting, because that face effect is awesome! Was a little confused by the gameplay, but its got an impressive suite of mechanics. Really good stuff!
Nice graphics and audio, very addicting gameplay! Felt kinda hard to make progress, but wasn't too challenging.
Really like the atmosphere, the face video was a cool touch!
I'm addicted! Only issue - there seems to be a glitch that, each time you zoom in a lot, you care restricted from fully zooming out again. Other than that, I could play for hours! EDIT: People keep talking about the audio, but I don't hear anything?
I really like the game and played it quite a while. I can't see the big benefit of all the different memorie typs... and had some bugs in the upgrade menu
I'm not done yet, I'm still grinding for those sweet sweet childhood memories. I need to unlock the 10k one, but I am pretty thoroughly addicted. I love those videos that pop up. I don't really know what's going on, but I'm loving it. edit: ok I know how to play now, I'm so into it. I get stuck when I unlock 'travel memories', I keep dying there, but I want to try again when I get more time. The jump to 10k is... so high!! The zoom bug makes it harder to play too. I need to zoom out so I can lay down those memories!!!
This is my favorite puzzle game by far in this jam! The art style was what really caught my eye <3 Keep up the great work! Expand upon this idea!!
Really nice game ! At the beginning i was a bit lost and didn't understand the gameplay but that's was cool. Maybe if you continue to develop this game, you should put tutorial (with gif) or something like that. :) !
@arimie yes we wanted to do something like that to really show the cool mechanics, but we didn't had time. Thank you for your feedback :smile:
@carlsonandpeeters hahaha yeah but I read that if we are in a jam contest we should opt out from the Graphic category
@minemes What kind of bugs did you had in the upgrade menu ?
@taylomol000 yeah normally there is a cool music and some effect with our face talking. You are playing on which OS ?
@alchemic Thank you :smile: We didn't really had time to balance good the whole game
@no-grapes-games Thanks, we thought about it during the last few hours. The problem is that it doesn't work on webgl and we are really sad because of thant
@akshay-b normally you can hear our face talking about the mechanics of the game to understand it better. And you can put your mouse over memories and upgrade to see what they does
Just talked with people on the discord, they say it's ok to fix the bugs but not to do any minor update. So I will quickfix the camera
Calm mood. Very addictive. And I mean REALLY! Love it totaly and I will probably play it some more the next days. Only problem is the camera (which you are fixing at the moment).
@koemeterion yes I'm trying to figure out why the zoom out with the scroll of the mouse is broken at some points. Thank you for the feedback :)
@Black Potion the hover-text sometimes didn't show up
Really enjoyed this one. Wish there was a sandbox mode where I didn't have to worry about logging out. Played on a 4:3 monitor and couldn't see money? (Not sure if that's the reason why)
Un super jeu avec une interprétation du thème très intéressante.
This game is sooo immersive, I've been playing for an hour straight and I'm still not done yet!
I love the mood. Graphics is very simple, but that's enough to be enjoyable :smile: It is a bit upsetting that I have only 30 seconds (I know, there's some time when The Detective is walking around), I end up losing some of my memories instead of multiplying them.
Probably the best game I've played so far :smiley:
Edit: Found a little bug - You can click with a memory on empty tile and it will work, after putting a childhood memory there it will convert
Interesting concept, timer felt out of place mechanics-wise.. Otherwise very cool!
What's the deal? I keep having my memories erased before the investigator reaches me! At first I thought I was mistaken, but I've sunk two hours in this game, only to die unexpectedly..
But then again, the fact that I *have* played this game for two hours must mean that it is a great game, so I'll give it a good rating. I hope you fix the untimely death bug. I'd play this game way too much if that were the case.
Yes we will @good-enough , it will remove memories or something but not this hard reset, and the esc button that kills the game without warning is not good as well.
Completed your game fully :) It was a lot of fun! The different effects for each memory are brilliant. The audio soundtrack was great - it has that "hacker" touch which fits the game's name. There was a story of some sort which is always nice! The pixelated face (and the art style in general) fits neatly with the game.
And... I have a list of feedback to the gameplay. Although they don't affect the gameplay quality much (except the last one), I think the game could be improved if these are fixed!
1. Hover text not showing up after the player unlocked more kinds of memories
2. Game was very laggy once the board becomes large and memories are being produced very quickly - maybe an option to turn off the animation / reduce particles?
3. It was possible to buy memories and sell them at a higher price, although the money earned this way had a large percentile and gradually drops for better memories. Now that might be the only starting point to the game, but I think it would make sense to sell memories for a lower price than the purchase price (so the player won't spam buy and sell to earn money)
4. Selling ~1000 rebellion memories was no fun at all. I think there should be buttons that allow the player to sell maybe 10, 100 memories at once.
Really fun, and I played for ages! Loved the pixelated video heads, really great effect. There's loads of content here for the time, it's awesome, congratulations :D
Played this game for an hour. Well, I have to say it's very good for a little game like that. Liked a lot the way you upgrade your hacker to get more memories, and I had a lot of fun ! The game is very easy to understand, the pixelated face and voice talking to you during the game was a very good idea too. Only problem was the fact that for selling multiple memories, you have to click a lot, this feature may be mandatory if you try to continue the game, but for a game developed in 72 hours, it's okay :) Gonna try to finish the game, it's not that easy to do it in one or two game because you see how the difficulty increase. Was killed by the cop because I wasn't managing well my time, was too greedy haha.
Correct the camera zoom and the disappearing text happening sometimes on the shop, add a feature to sell multiple memories, and I think the game will be awesome! Congrats!
damn, got my memories erased after 45 minutes of playing, I was completely into the story, the atmosphere, the management of my hacker farm and had to make meaningful decisions on my strategy (with positionning/upgrades...) In my top 3 without a doubt, GG
@doramemo Wow thank you so much for this feedback. You are the only that said he totally finished the game. Congratulations :champagne: 1. We didn't saw this bug before we submit, that shit to understand the power and upgrade. We will fix it as soon as we can. 2. I think you are right the animation and particules effect are laggy. We need to find a solution or to let the player to disabled it. replace the little memories that pop by a text for example. 3. Inflations :joy: hahaha. This bug is really a breaker for the gameplay. Thank you to notice us we didn't saw it 4. Ho yeah thats the worst part when we tried to finish our game after submitting it... I was thinking a system that sell the best memories you got when you try to buy, or a sell all button maybe.
Thank you @duzzondrums , it was our first ludum dare and it was a bit trickyto add all the contents we wanted. Glad you noticed it :smile:
@lucas-kauff Thats the worst thing that can happened. For me we need to fix the time of the detective during the redalert. He needs at least to scan your Hacker
This is so contagious. Can't stop playing.
I'd leave a bigger comment, but I have to play Hackz Memories.
Just a quick update, i'v been working for hours trying to fix the WebGL video bug we had, and i finally did! so i'm currently uploading the windows, mac and linux version with the new version of the game.
For now the webGL version is working and updated to the new version. This new version is just a bug fix so i couldn't change the 1000 clicks at the end, it's not allowed, sorry for this.
Fixed bugs : - currency spawn in shop duplicating currency - detective use the wrong timer for speed acceleration - Zoom is not working - Hover Text showing when nothing to display.
Thx for all your comments and feedback. :v:
Kept me playing for a while! It has more depth than what it seems at the beginning. I liked the pixelated faces with messages :)
This is a really great and complete game. I just wanted to try it out but ended up playing it 1h at work xD....
Amazing Game! It's a bit hard to understand in the beginning but once you get the hang of it, it's awesome! The simple artstyle in combination with the music is just perfect!
Very well made game! Nice take on idle games, its pretty interesting the concept of "life" as "memories" I like it a lot. Great job!
@black-potion I was playing on Windows. But I just tried in browser and that worked just fine!
@taylomol000 cooool, it's bad that it didn't work day one. But we are glad that it worked at last
Very interesting and extensive game.
I spent 1 hour on it, I was immerged for sure
What you can improve: * sells items by pack, click 1000 times on rebellion memories was not fun * make a tutorial for each effect, in my first run I didn't understand the work memories mechanics * balancing grinding, for 30 minutes I just grind with a snake pattern around my start for having some memories to sell * victory condition is not clear, I had all upgrades and research, and I don't know what to do now * fix int32 bug when you sell knowledge memories, I had 1B then after sell -2B
(I didn't find the secret ending)
It was really fun. Can;t wait to see your other creations.
Really interesting idea. Extra points for the awesome voice over and green pixelated old-school sci-fi face.
Wow, so far this is the jam game, I spend most time with. I liked discovering different strategies. The only thing I didn't like was the amount of clicking, specially while selling the memories.
I really like the direction you took the theme here. The graphics were simple, but well suited and I really liked the video overlay effects. Mechanics were simple, but deep enough to add significant strategy to the game. Very well done!
Really cool game! I enjoyed it and it felt very relaxing and rewarding at the same time
My only issue is, what others pointed out as well - it wasn't very clear how to achieve the special effects of memories, until I accidentally clicked on non-childhood memory with other memory of higher rarity.
Still, great game overall :)