Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD44 → World War III: Ghost War
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 1043 | 2.83 | 30 | |
| Fun | 944 | 2.79 | 31 | |
| Innovation | 1077 | 2.36 | 31 | |
| Theme | 944 | 2.83 | 30 | |
| Graphics | 958 | 2.67 | 31 | |
| Humor | 777 | 2.41 | 30 | |
| Mood | 936 | 2.75 | 31 |
You first entry, just like me :D
I found the first jump to be kinda hard, you have no space to move and you can't jump while the ghost is pushing you, but after some tries, I managed to get through and the rest of the level is very easy, even the boss. Fun little game, not bad for the first entry!
Overall: 3.0 Fun: 3.0 Innovation: 2.0 Theme: 3.0 Graphics: 3.0 Humor: 1.5 Mood: 2.5
Congrats on completing your first LD! Your game felt good in terms of controls, and I enjoyed playing.
After I figured out that G replenishes soul, I managed to progress more quickly. I'm impressed that you managed to incorporate a boss battle at the end of the level, given the short time limit!
Overall, cute idea and fun gameplay. Congrats!
Congrats on your first LD. Your game has a some great ideas and I think there's a lot of potential in it. Losing health on shooting was clever and well done. It created some careful decisions on when to shoot and when not to. I also liked the fact that shooting enemies is how you get your powerup since that meant there was a reason to shoot stuff rather than just run by it. I had a few problems with the game. The jump felt a little too floaty, the enemies bugged out a few times and ran over the void, and the final boss was super easy once you popped your powerup and made sure never to shoot on low health.
Nice first game!
I found this game incredibly frustrating until I re-read the instructions and realized you can recharge your health. :joy: (At first, I thought you had to conserve your health and you had to strategize which enemies you had to shoot and which ones you'd skip.) Knowing the special ability compensated for some of the more frustrating behaviours in this game, particularly regarding the enemy collision. It seems like I only sometimes lose a sliver of health when I run into a green ghost face-to-face, while other times, I almost drain what seems like half of my health. Just being near an enemy often inhibits my ability to jump, and my collision with an enemy on a ledge would cause it to walk off said ledge in a straight horizontal line and sometimes twitch a bunch of times before walking back and resuming its normal pattern. It was quite funny to watch. :joy:
Another issue I had with the game is that the controls are kind of unintuitive. I found myself messing up a lot when I first played because I kept positioning my finger over the W key to jump when you really had to use the space bar, which I believe works better for games with mouse controls. That being said, I think it also would have been ideal for the shoot key to be mapped to a keyboard key rather than using the mouse, since the game doesn't have positional shooting. All keyboard controls would work better for this sort of game and feel more comfortable all around.
But despite my quips, I think holding out to the end of this game was worth it. That final boss was terrifying! :rofl:
Congratulations with your first LD, hope that it was fun. Good realisation of platformer mechanic and boss fight
Great Game Man hope you had fun making it. And Best of luck ;) Nice Effort!
Great first LD game! Keep up the good work! :)
It was a very nice game, at first i was confused as to why i couldn't regenerate any health. I just had to read the instructions.....
Thank you all of you for the nice comments and for telling where I could made my game better....this makes me happy and encourages me to make more games...I will try my best the next ludum dare to make my next game more polished and well crafted....again thank you all of you :)
This was a really nice effort for a first jam and a solo attempt. Congrats for taking on your first LD, here's hoping it's the first of many!
Great job on your first game! I had a lot of fun playing it :smile:
Great job on your first submission! I really liked the special abilities and the overall style. My biggest problem was just that when you jump you can no longer see the ground, which makes it really hard/impossible to judge where you are and if you'll land on ground or in a gap and die! :) Loved the boss and lighting you added. Again solid entry, hopefully you'll keep entering LD in the future, I'd love to see your progress.
It's a good starting point, the only thing that bothered me was the lack of sound and those collisions where the ghosts just drag you around and i can't scape. Other than that, is a solid entry, Congrats!