Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD45 → Bacterial
By megalink
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 267 | 3.75 | 22 | |
| Fun | 125 | 3.87 | 22 | |
| Innovation | 208 | 3.67 | 22 | |
| Theme | 374 | 3.57 | 22 | |
| Graphics | 484 | 3.65 | 22 | |
| Audio | 502 | 3.10 | 22 | |
| Mood | 555 | 3.34 | 21 |
Great game, I love the overall game idea, but sometimes i just wasted a long time running around triyng to find bacteria minions (but maybe I was just bad). I think you could have improved the atmosphere a lot by adding music, but the other soundeffects are quite nice. Nevertheless it's an awesome game and I really ejoyed playing it!
Nice! Gameplay, idea, realisation. Good work!
It's a well crafted game. Can't believe what people can achieve in just 3 days! Bravo!
Too evil for me! LOL! but nice game with simple graphics and nice concept. You should have added music to make the gaming experience better but still it is good with sound effects. Nice work.
Cool game! Well done :)
Pretty cool idea for an arena shooter, requires a bit more management and strategy
This was really well made, I enjoyed it a bunch! The tutorial was really well done too, making sure the player had understood before moving on. The sound effects were also great, and overall the game felt very polished.
One problem I had was working out if I was moving horizontally. When moving up and down I was okay, but because the background is kinda samey - I couldn't tell if I was actually moving side to side. Maybe some variation in the background could give reference to the player moving?
Really well put-together game. The tutorial was super clear, and in general everything worked smoothly and had good player feedback.
However, moving around was sometimes really disorienting. I agree with @JoeShanahan that the background doesn't help with that, but I also think that the camera controller contributes to the problem and could use some tweaking. In particular, the camera should probably stay centered on the character when you don't move your mouse (that is, your character should only move with respect to the camera frame when you move your mouse).
As I side note I never really sprinted when playing. Perhaps that's just me though.
"Impressive game, Very cool concepts. I left wishing that there is more. Had a lot of fun "
massiv Steam potential keep on
Very cool game! I like the concept and presentation, though I didn't quite figure out a good strategy to win, but probably I just missed something crucial. If you're curious about my attempt, I played it on my stream today. And apologies for having an overlay with an incorrect title in the video :( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSZQiTfcXF8
That's all good! Thank you very much for playing it! @philstrahl
Thanks for the feedback @honey-pony and @joeshanahan ! The camera and background issue in terms of identifying movement was something that I had a lot of trouble fixing during development. One solution I tried was having a grain effect rather than having scanlines, where the grain would consist of squares that were mapped onto the background instead of being locked alongside the camera. Unfortunately it didn't look all that good compared to the scanlines, so I reverted back. Having more objects in the foreground is another way that it could be solved, and I do really like your ideas of having a proper varied background and a more centered camera position so that movement is more obvious.
Very cool minimalistic art! Very polished, loved those subtle particle effects. I won on first try but I didn't get all the mechanics I think, or maybe I did and you are basically just growing over time? This is fine but I didn't feel enough like I was growing I suppose, or maybe I wasn't doing anything to deserve growing? Hard to say. I always wanted to make a similar game and this will be a good inspiration once I finally get to it ;-) Have my follow. Keep making games!
Glad you liked it and thanks for the feedback @spacemonkey ! The growing system functions in a way where collecting the pickups will multiply your current population by 2, but in doing so your bacteria will become smaller. It should have been better indicated to the player through visual feedback and the UI. More ways of expanding your population outside of the pickups would also have helped with this, in my opinion. :)