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Noobmancer

By ianlux, starlet, Topperson, furmeega and dPaullo

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall1753.8273
Fun953.8873
Innovation2363.5173
Theme3373.6273
Graphics1814.1473
Audio1553.7671
Humor1733.5470
Mood4053.4771

Comments

dxk2294 2019-04-30 02:39

Tons of fun! Really polished gameplay. Would highly recommend this to any passerby's, despite the large download size. One note: it turns on SteamVR but does not require it, and when I turned off SteamVR, the game closed.

dark1knight 2019-04-30 02:43

Due to the lack of music and sounds overral it took some hit to music, but the puzzles were pretty clever and you did a good job on the choices you could take in order to pass. Overral a fun game to play with your spare time.

vuvuzuellainc 2019-04-30 03:47

What can i say ? Just, wow. This game is f**** fun to play! Keep this work ! Can't wait to see another project!

2019-04-30 03:58

The game is well polished and very charming, and despite being short, the interesting gameplay mechanics provide a lot of replayability. Definitely recommend playing it.

tiagorrech 2019-04-30 14:48

I'm blown away by how good this game looks!

Loved the clone gameplay and the sound design. The music is upbeat and fun, and the character voice is very funny. The "RIP" effect when you defeat enemies was the kind of thing I love and very rarely see in games, hahaha!

The only thing that stuck out to me was the the level, being diagonally, made it a bit harder to play with a keyboard, but that's a minor issue when everything else is so polished. Great job!

sefrz 2019-04-30 14:55

This was so much fun to play! Amazing art, music, and sound effects. Absolutely fantastic job!

kilian-baptendier 2019-04-30 16:25

That's an amazing game. The concept is cool, the art fits well, I didn't see any bugs (That's the harder xD) and there is a excellent tutorial (In a jam I think it's mind-blowing). Unfortunately, I can't listen to the audio ('cause I don't have headphones on me...) so I won't rate it.

I know it could be a style, but if you want to smooth the edges of a mesh on Unity, you click on it in the project folder (not the scene), and there's something called "Normals" in the Inspector, swith it to "Calculate" and add some numbers in "Smoothing angle". Just a tip if you didn't know.

Great job you did ! Hope we'll see you in the next Ludum !

ianlux 2019-04-30 16:38

Thank you all for the kind comments! @kilian-baptendier it was actually made in Unreal xD, but thank you for the tip, as I also use Unity as well! :)

lshiro 2019-04-30 17:24

Awesome voice acting and voice lines!

slayzar 2019-04-30 17:26

Loved the take on the baddies and how you kept the player in each area. Great tutorial and wonderful feel. Very well done!

logflames 2019-04-30 17:35

This was a really good game. It took some time for Avast to let me open it but it was worth it! The game was fun and "juicy" and my only complaint is that sometimes I missed where I was supposed to go and could look with the camera, other wise great game! The sound also worked really great and no effect was overwheling or felt out of place, the music was good and I didn't notice any cuts. The controls felt responsive and intuitive (after I realised it was RMB not LMB...) I died in the tutorial and it didn't show the prompt again :( Only wish it had more levels, want more!

mehozavr 2019-04-30 17:46

Wow! That's nice and fun to play. Art, music, and voiceovers are amazing as well as cloning mechanic.

bakenshake 2019-04-30 18:49

This does look pretty polished. A little bit of a learning curve. It needs some UI love. Hope to see that in polish, if that happens. I enjoyed the audio lines and cool platforming.

jofersgames 2019-04-30 19:48

nice :)

loiclegrosfrere 2019-04-30 19:57

I have some problem with the bomb who don't have a radius (so it's more difficult to use) and the not rotating camera. Unless that it's cool, and you can speedrun it !

kai 2019-04-30 20:01

The art looks very mishmashed and the background is a little headache inducing. The camera also made it hard to judge where I was jumping to near the end.

Regardless, it played well and had a nice atmosphere to it, though I don't think the music matched the game.

hyperbian-games 2019-04-30 20:09

This game was super fun to pick up and play. It took me a few lives to figure out that I needed to kill the enemies to get past the gate on the first level and not do a double jump to bomb what looked like a button on the door.

Gameplay and camera control felt pretty polished though. Great jam!

fahim-faysal 2019-05-01 06:37

Very fun! I like how you can make the platforms you need to jump on. The bomber man take on the theme is also awesome. Both the graphics and sound are good. I think you should post some screenshots. the text description doesn't do justice to the game. i ran into some problems with the fixed camera as it the last platforming section bit too hard. Other than tha, great job!

dina 2019-05-01 10:39

My old vidocard got some problems with this graphics.

green-rail 2019-05-01 11:23

I like how you managed to cram traversal and battle mechanics in one button. Also very nice visuals and sound design.

hbocao 2019-05-01 14:53

Oooohhh it's so pretty! Really like the mechanics and different enemies. Did not like the camera, though. It felt weird sometimes. Fantastic entry!

jin47 2019-05-01 17:44

Really nice gameplay with a good level of polish. I found it a bit awkward to have to press 2 button on the keyboard to move diagonally all the time. Maybe leaving a camera a bit more free would enhance the experience.

Other than that, really impressive entry! great job!

pixscope 2019-05-01 20:28

Nice game ! I love the graphics !

deepterror 2019-05-01 21:15

The level of polish is amazing ! I already saw released game less finished than this one - really impressive. The gameplay is nice, well balanced. I also think that control should be aligned with the camera orientation (so going forward should be enough to pass the level instead of walking in diagonal). Just a little too much motion blur for me ;-)

bbaf 2019-05-01 21:33

Nice art and fun gameplay. Level design is great. If only it had more than 1 checkpoint on the level xD (considering, how much time I missed the platform or get killed due to the lags on my old CPU/GPU) . Still, overall the game is very cool. FBI dude is the best :sunglasses:

nandon 2019-05-01 22:17

Definitely one of the more fun submissions. Wish there were more levels!

taqoshaq 2019-05-02 00:23

Very fun! I would echo some of the comments about the camera, but keeping in mind that a good third-person camera is always a real tricky art! I'd love to know what techniques you use to get such a clean 3D look.

sanavesa 2019-05-02 03:42

Really awesome mechanic. Loved the animations, audio, and overall effects/graphics. Great work!! Only con is that the game ended so fast, needs more levels :D

ratz 2019-05-02 08:20

What a great idea! And the game feels very juicy. Great job!

tapehead 2019-05-02 13:16

This game is fun to play. But I think it could benefit from a dynamic camera. It was sometimes difficult to predict the jumps to distant platform. But! Overall it's a great entry! Very well done!

jk5000 2019-05-02 18:17

The idea is really good, and it is pretty fun to play. The music and graphics is overall pretty good. It is a bit difficult to hear the voice acting. Overall a pretty good LD game. Well done.

juhani-koskinen 2019-05-02 18:32

Looks gorgeous and plays smoothly! This is a great and innovative spin on the theme "Your life is a currency". Overall great job!

aart 2019-05-02 19:14

Nice work, really good game. However there is something wrong with character movement directions - it's unintuitive for me, when you have to push W and D buttons to go forward, and blur effect on camera is disturbing.

jozef 2019-05-02 19:15

Awesome game, I had an absolute blast playing it! My only problem with it that it was so short, because I wanted to play more! Well that and maybe camera could rotate a bit when moving towards it, since it's pretty hard to see what's in front of you then. Seriously though, great job!

silkworm-sweatshop 2019-05-02 19:42

Damn, impressive! Feels really amazing to play. Everything from the controls, graphics and sound design feels really polished.

sockyman 2019-05-02 23:57

This game is amazingly good! One of the best I've played so far no doubt. One suggestion, the FBI agents bullets could be made bigger. I did get a bug where the music stopped suddenly and would not start until restarting the game but other than that this game is amazing.

cornflowerblue 2019-05-03 02:07

I can see a lot of effort went into this one.

atillagallio 2019-05-03 02:14

I loved playing this one, really fun!

balance686 2019-05-03 04:45

This is an excellent game! Looks gorgeous and plays just as well. I enjoyed the level design and the clone mechanic. The audio was great too. Very polished! My only gripe, a small one, is that gates remain unlocked after you die. Makes it too easy the next time around. Great job on this!

boxedmeatrevolution 2019-05-03 14:18

Aw! It ended so soon :cry:

Very polished game, and lots of fun to play! Controlling the character felt good, the 3D world was vibrant, and the voice acting was a nice touch. Also, the "cloning" and "exploding" sound effect were particularly satisfying.

I think the most enjoyable part of the gameplay was creating clones to jump on, and then needing to jump again quickly to another clone before the current one exploded. It made the platforming at the end especially tense!

One issue is that the camera seems to be at a fixed angle, making some sections frustrating to play through. If there is a way to control the camera I was unable to find it. Also, the only unpolished part of the game were those little red health boxes... I assume time just ran out and you weren't able to make a "heart" asset, but it sticks out in an otherwise beautiful game! (you still get full marks for graphics of course)

Overall this is a very impressive entry. Well done :smile:

pusheeneiro 2019-05-03 15:16

Really nice graphics.

mika-la-grand 2019-05-03 16:44

In the level after the tutorial it is very hard to get up the giant wall, just after the pink door. I understand that you have to place a clone, jump up and then place a second clone. However when I jump up from the first clone this giant tube comes up pushing me away from the wall, making it quite difficult.

ianlux 2019-05-03 16:47

@mika-la-grand Actually it wasn't supposed to be jumpable, this is a bug xD. You are supposed to kill every highlighted enemy (with the pulsing orb around it) in the area for it to be destroyed. (if you are talking about the pink door) If you are talking about the platforms, you should be able to do it with some vertical timing practice. Thank you for the feedback!

mika-la-grand 2019-05-03 17:01

@ianlux Thanks for the explanation. I mean the wall just after the pink door (the enemies are yellow that's why I called it the yellow door). So don't worry, no bug.

good-enough 2019-05-03 19:03

Great art, and great timing on the bomb-duplicate thing. Not too long, but long enough that you can get out of the way. I can see this being the first part of a really great game!

alexrose 2019-05-04 15:04

Nice one guys, really enjoyed the bomberman style attacks. The game design upon losing and not having to destroy the doors again was really fair. Cool mechanics. I think it'd be fun to see a build where you have camera control too. Nice one.

christina-antoinette-neofotistou 2019-05-04 18:05

Everyone, congratulations! this is super-playable, gorgeous-looking, elegant game mechanic, level designs that perfectly complement the mechanic, the music is great, the theme is spot-on. I can't praise it enough. A tiny problem with the camera here and there (trees obscuring Noob), but other than that, wow.

Really really well-done!

fusionnist 2019-05-04 20:29

Pure fun in this entry! The camera was a little restrictive at times, but besides that nitpick I simply loved it. Cheers!

dbr 2019-05-06 03:15

It was fun to play, i what i liked most was the mechanics, Nice work :D!

caeonosphere 2019-05-13 06:05

Cool! Haven't seen a 3D platformer this fully realized in an LD before. Other people have mentioned the camera, so I don't have to... I would have played more levels!

coleslaughter 2019-05-14 05:10

Hey, this is a neat little game! Super polished, I like how seamless it is to create a clone of yourself while maintaining momentum in midair. I imagine that took some effort to get right.

I do wish the clone mechanic played a bit more of a role in the mechanics though. Spawning a platform out of midair is neat, but the combat just seemed to be a simple "walk next to enemy and make a clone" without much variation, regardless of what type of enemy it was.

I'd love to see this idea taken further. :) It seems like it has some potential, and already a significant amount of polish, well done!

pequenodev 2019-05-17 14:25

Awesome mood and funny mechanic. Camera would be polished, maybe moving automatically in order to support core skill and character movements (in some parts of levels you has low vision field for next platform jump). Finished but still hungry, will you keep working on it? Great job!