Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD44 → Minus
By drskort
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 603 | 3.38 | 51 | |
| Fun | 661 | 3.16 | 51 | |
| Innovation | 1086 | 2.32 | 51 | |
| Theme | 938 | 2.84 | 51 | |
| Graphics | 664 | 3.35 | 51 | |
| Audio | 222 | 3.64 | 48 | |
| Humor | 756 | 2.45 | 46 | |
| Mood | 177 | 3.79 | 51 |
I really liked the sort of ominous vibe. That being said, it was kind of hard to tell the difference between pit and solid ground, so I ended up falling in a lot of pits. There didn't really feel like a huge consequence for doing so, however. It controlled very well though, and felt very responsive
I enjoyed the art and music, both are well done. I think improvement could be made on the platforming, as it's very quick and easy to make mistakes.
Well done!
Thank you for your feedback @tg1397 and @raphiell I'm glad you liked the controls and I think they might be indeed a bit fast. Especially in the darker areas it is kind of hard to see pits. Thanks for playing :)
The music and art really set the mood, and the story elements were interesting. The implementation of the theme was interesting, but seems like it didn't have a huge impact on gameplay. The gameplay itself however was pretty smooth, other than the bugs you are already aware of. Overall, great job!
@spaceface14dev Thanks for the feedback. I'm glad that you liked the game and I really have to deal with this bugs. The theme was a bit poorly implemented and I also was planning to do a little more than presented in my endresult but at least it became kind of a score-system :D Thank your for playing ^^
No problem.
Really liked the game, love the theme especially. Its hard to tell the difference between pit and ground, and a couple times my character spawned into the ground so I had to reboot the game. Fun game though!
Nice mood! I had some trouble pressing C to jump, maybe spacebar would be a better choice. Great level design! The art is fine but there is a problem of being able to distinguish the solid areas since they are both nearly the same color brick, it would help to make the solid areas stand out more. The platforming physics could use a bit of tweaking, it is hard to land on those platforms!
the music is stunning and I really loved the visuals, however jumping with c felt a little bit stilted to me
I liked the very atmospheric music and the little pieces of world buildings set around the level :)
Thank you for your great feedback @maggie199x When your character spawns (for whatever reason this bug occurs^^) you have to jump out of the ground. And it is indeed pretty hard to tell the difference between pit and ground in some places ^^ Glad you had fun :) Thanks for playing
The music is perfect for the theme! It was very challenging which I like in a platformer. The art was acceptable. It _was_ weird for "C" to be the jump button, I would've expected a space, but that's minor. Overall a fun experience!
Thank you @killedbyapixel and @bramreth for your Feedback :) The background bricks could use some darker color maybe. I'm not quite sure what you mean with platforming physics. I know that there are bugs because of the colliders of the tilemap which results in the bugs and I know that you can stick to the moving platforms. Maybe you mean that the player is too fast or the camera to slow? The 'c' Button is the Key for jumping in Celeste, a game which I was playing lately, and it provides a lot of advantages because it isn't as big as the space bar but I can also add the space bar as an alternative. I'm glad you liked the graphics and the sound :) Thank you for playing
@inferture I'm glad you liked the music and the background art :D Thank you for your feedback and thanks for playing ^^
Thanks for your feedback :) @isayneigh As I mentioned above I borrowed the 'c'-key from another game and could maybe add 'space' as an alternative. I'm glad you had fun playing it ^^ It would be pretty nice if you could say what could improve my pixel art ^^ And also it's great to hear that you liked my music :) Thanks for playing
Try making the foreground objects brighter instead of making the background objects darker! What I mean about platforming physics is not the values you've set, those are fine. What I'm taking about is there are many small things you an add that would help the feel and make it easier to control. Try searching on youtube for something like "platforming physics" to learn more about it. There are few great talks I've seen that will make a huge difference for you.
@killedbyapixel Also good approach, maybe even better. Sounds interesting. I'm sorry that I misunderstood you. Thank you very much for such great advise ^^ I'll take a look at it :)
@drskort yeah sorry for the lack of detail on the art. I left it vague because honestly I believe it comes down to personal preference. I'm partial to a little more detail (specifically the player and the background). What I did like though is that it was cohesive! Everything fit together nicely. Don't get me wrong, i'd play this any day (i'm not a stickler for graphics). I just feel if _anything_ could be improved, it'd be that.
@isayneigh Thanks for the explanation ^^ I'm really thankful for your detailed feedback :) Details are really sometimes really nice. I think I didn't had that much time for them ^^ because I was trying to build to much stuff into the game. After all attention to detail is, what makes great pixel art because every pixel can be set perfectly if you know what I mean ^^ Again thank you for your feedback :)
Ambiance is good but it was a bit hard to play because of the speed of the character.
Pretty fun game but sadly there are many bugs :/ (For example i glitched through the floor twice). overall. Great entry!
Such good sound and well done with the writing! I had a lot of fun! Great ambience!
I really like the mood with this - the dark graphics and audio make it really atmospheric. It was pretty challenging! Sometimes the movement stopped working and the character would run on the spot, and some of the collisions were a bit odd, but apart from that it's great! Good job :smiley:
Thank your very much for your feedback @julienlussiez @sadsmile @enjoy-the-tale and @inkyglow I think I'm going to fix the movement soon if I find time for it ^^ Thanks you all for playing :)
It look like a great game, liked the pixel art, the mood, the music but it was too buggy. I often wanted to run before the jump but the character would get stuck on some collider or something and it would stop moving, I had to run left, then right again but it would get stuck just few blocks after the first one. I often couldn't even run right after starting the level and I had to turn it off when the character "started" buried in the ground. :/ What a shame, it looked and sounded really good!
Thanks for your feedback @Tamail These bugs are really a mess -_- I plan to release a fix soon
huge music! I was in immediately! storyline and fleeing at night made me try to go farther, and even the fact that you never die and start straight from checkpoint help continuing. The "steps" are quickly difficult thought, the platforms are soon short, and the character moves fast, maybe a smoother levelling up? I wasn't annoyed by move bugs, but I noticed sometimes I could stand on pikes without 'dying'
great entry, :clap:
I suck at platformers but I gave it my best shot. There are a few bugs, mostly seem like collison issues. Are you doing pixel perfect collision? that could be why. I had fun, I'll play the co op game later with my boyfriend :D
@chrisdugne Thank you for your feedback ^^ Yes the controls are a bit awkward :D But good job on avoiding bugs ^^ And the standing on spikes is a bug too. It happens if you actually stand on the bricks left or right from the spikes because the collision detection does not work as planned ._. Thanks for playing :D
The level design is good, but this game made me remember why i don't do platformers in Unity during gamejams anymore. Last year i've run into all of the problems i found here in my own game - animations too fast, hazards too hard to see or avoid, glitchy physics and a generally not 'flow-y' feeling of the game. You did do better than i did last year tho, i'd say :p
This was really cool! I loved the ambiance you created with the music and background, they really set the mood! A few bugs I encountered:
- jumping with space will only lift you up a few pixels - the death sound volume wasn't consistent (sometimes suuuuper loud and sometimes pretty soft) - the character won't move with the final moving platform if he's standing on the back end of it
Overall, I enjoyed the platforming challenges you created, well done!
**Side note:** @drskort I saw your blog post, thanks for offering to check out your reviewers' games!
Hm jumping is buggy at the moment, can only jump a few pixels high. But after a fix i will check the game out again^^
Thank you for your feedback @adam-elaoud and @nico-fallosch Thank you very much for your bug report :) I was too dumb to test jumping with 'space' and because of that missed an important bug occuring. I fixed all the bugs and gave both of you feedback :) on your games. I'm glad you liked the game @adam-elaoud ^^ @nico-fallosch You can now check out the game because all major bugs should be fixed and if not it would be really nice to report them ^^ Thanks for playing :)
Jumping is buggy but the movement felt very nice and satisfying! I liked the music and the story behind it. The part where you have to go from platform to platform to not get impaled got me quite a few times :D. Overall, good entry!
Really great work, this'll be the highest ratings I've given out so far. The mood was incredible with both an extremely appropriate music track, great text, and artwork all matching up well. Level design was also good, especially the part where you have to go from the high platform to the low one and back all in the air.
To improve:
- The back side of the sideways spikes kills when it should just be a wall since it's not the sharp end
- Movement could be smoother
- On reset, retains your end-game score from the last run so you have to refresh
Also here's my current PB, might improve later:
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Thank you for playing @coatline ^^ I'm glad you the music and movement ^^ It would be pretty helpful if you could explain what you exactly mean by buggy jumping but thank you for your feedback :)
Thank you very much @GenTel :) It's really cool to hear, that you enjoyed my game that much :o The improvements are all good ideas and I am gonna try to implement them soon, even though it's pretty hard for me to create smoother movement ^^ I am still very inexperienced in creating platformers and am unsure what to implement. -1980 is pretty solid ^^ Good job :D and I'm also very glad you enjoyed the more challenging part of the game :) Thanks a lot for your feedback and for playing the game ^^
Nice moody little platformer. The graphics and music were good. I mostly liked the level design, except one part where I had to wait a really long time for a platform to come back so I could jump on it.
Thank you very much @sylvie I'm glad you liked the level design ^^ The platforms need sometimes a bit time but I almost couldn't think of a better solution. The one I have in mind would be another type of platform. Maybe in a post-jam version? Thanks for playing and for your feedback :D
Nice little game. Would play more levels =)
Awesome game, the soundtrack was just so perfectly dark and heavy, I loved it! The controls were a little bit too sensitive for my taste, but I didn't encounter any problems. Great Job :)
Thank you very much @zimennik and @drunk-wizard I'm glad you liked my game ^^ There will be more levels if I have time to add them. For now I just focused on fixing bugs if there were any (there were a lot of them D:) I am relieved that you didn't encounter any problems ^^ Thanks for the great feedback :)
I loved the mood of the game and the hints of a backstory that the player is given. It gave me dystopian scifi-Vibes instantly^^ Also enjoyed the level design with its increasing difficulty. At some points, the light setting was a little too dark for me (i rushed into a pit several times because I didn't recognise it) and the controls felt quite rough. Nice game !
Thank you very much @ingo-holle yeah, the lighting is quite dark ^^ I'm glad you liked the mood and the story :) I'm still not sure what I could exactly do with my controls :o Thanks for playing and for your feedback ^^
Excellent!! I would have easily dropped quarter after quarter in this game back in the day! Still love that nostalgic feel! Good job!! :)
Thank you very much @zoneoutapps ^^ I'm really glad you liked it :D
A 2D PLATFORMER WITH BUG-FREE MOVING PLATFORMS!
Congrats, this is the first one I've encountered all jam. ;) There's a LOT going on in this game, it's super impressive that you put it all together yourself. At it's core, it's just a simple difficult platformer, but those things are my jam, so I had a lot of fun with this one.
There are a lot of nice touches and polish in this entry, it certainly feels like one of the more "complete" games I've played in a while. Awesome job!
Thank you for your feedback @coleslaughter I'm really glad you liked it and that you think it's polished ^^ Thanks for playing :)
A fun game, although too difficult for me to make much progress (I couldn't get past the moving platform). You did a very good job with sound, graphics, and mood.
Thank you for your feedback @gamebuilder Yeah, it's pretty difficult D: But thanks for playing ^^