msalison 2019-05-01 21:51
Interesting idea ! It's fit well with the theme :) ! I'm not really fan of UI, maybe something more discret could be better. Don't hesitate to vote to have others feedback.
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD44 → TheGuard
By 4knights
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 770 | 3.21 | 21 | |
| Fun | 1029 | 2.61 | 20 | |
| Innovation | 628 | 3.02 | 21 | |
| Theme | 624 | 3.26 | 21 | |
| Graphics | 647 | 3.38 | 20 | |
| Audio | 431 | 3.21 | 21 | |
| Humor | 823 | 2.29 | 17 | |
| Mood | 401 | 3.47 | 21 |
Interesting idea ! It's fit well with the theme :) ! I'm not really fan of UI, maybe something more discret could be better. Don't hesitate to vote to have others feedback.
Id really love to see more on the page but great effort!
Very nice, you quickly built some tight moral choices when you play, also the mood is realy good ! But at a point I pass under 0$ and the game just stops, no new text, no game over,a bug ?
@argon glad you liked the experience, we will be taking it to a full game later this year so stay toned ^^. about the bug yeah seem so that some time that happens, would you care to give us more details about when it happens so we can fix it. @popdaddygames yeah you are right will add some pic to the page. @msalison thank for the feedback will look into the UI design.
@4knights I think I was on day 3, I just made a choice that costed me 60$ and I was at 58$, so I get down to -2$ and then the game stops sending me new dialogs, hope that can help !
@argon yeah thanks will look into it ^_^
Had a similar thing happen, on Day 4 made a decision that dropped me to -7$ and stopped receiving messages.
Fun drawings and interesting concept. The music was good but it made me feel like it was all building up to something big instead of feeling the monotony of day to day prison life. Might help to enhance the mood if you had eery prison sounds in the background.
@seizethedia yeah we figured it out seem that its caused by the ignore button code will upload a new version asap.
fixed the bug now the game should work fine. thanks for your feedback.
Thank you for developing the game.
This is a cool concept and great play! Not a huge criticism...because we all had like 48hrs!...but I would have loved even a couple of different backgrounds to "rotate" through with the different choices. Even just a Warden background and a Prisoner background maybe. Again, didn't take away from the fitting music and ambiance of the game...and I'm sure you already have a ton of ideas for a non-deadlined build...so great job! :)
Cool Idea, i really like the sketch layout. The soundtrack is really awesome, did you make it all by yourself?
Really nice game, I loved the mood you manage to create with not so many assets. The few decisions already present are quite well made, leaving hoping for more ! Also, kudos for the music and the handmade art. Regarding the possible improvements, the available choices get old quite fast, but I guess it's linked to that damn time constraint... Great job !
@zoneoutapps changing the bg with choices seem to be a good idea, however due to time and that this game art was done by our main programmer we kept it simple. and yeah hopefully we will take this to the finished game later this year.
@philipprapp95 our programmer will be proud (art is done by programmer and programming done by the artist, we love to have fun with game jams trying new staff :) ) and yeah we have an awesome composer you check his work here https://soundcloud.com/4knights-game-studio
@jlv glad you like it, the time constraint maybe had something to do with it but we also wanted to learn Godot (first time using the engine) so that also took some time to get used to. we had almost double these choices planed but didn't have the time to implement them. we will try to add them later once we are back to take this project to a full game.
@gamefive thank you for giving it a try ^^
The idea is really interesting, and I liked both the music and the graphics. The only bad thing is that I have to answer the same question too many times. Overall a petty good LD game. Well done.
Straddling the line between good and evil is an interesting concept. It reminded me of the Stanford Prison Experiment and the Milgram Experiment. I don't feel like some of these decisions made sense though — like I can understand being bribed or using personal money to do certain things, but some of the decisions didn't feel like they should have had expenses attached to them.
It could be interesting if there were prisoners with stats and outcomes that were affected by your day-to-day decisions. You might be able to pull off this theme without that mechanic though; it's just a suggestion.
@jk5000 yeah sorry about that we didn't have time to add more, and glad you like it overall.
@ransom you are right more work is a need to polish the game sadly we didn't have enough time to work on that but we are planning to take it to a full game hopefully later this year ^^ so we will fix all the issue mention here. thanks for your suggestion we appreciate it.
It's an interesting concept and I like the visual style, but I don't really understand why a lot of these actions cost money. I think it might be better if the stat was something more abstract like how much the warden or prisoners like you? You could also work that into more of a story, like having a riot or escape attempt happen after a few days where the outcome is based on which group likes you more.
Also, one of the prisoners says that they'll give you cash if you let them nap, but letting them nap costs money. Is that just a lie?