Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD45 → The Greatest Game in the World
By ahmenx, koukwst, envy_softworks, ThatMalzan and LadyVardoula
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 340 | 3.64 | 136 | |
| Fun | 471 | 3.38 | 136 | |
| Innovation | 323 | 3.51 | 135 | |
| Theme | 676 | 3.17 | 137 | |
| Graphics | 582 | 3.48 | 134 | |
| Audio | 1 | |||
| Humor | 60 | 3.97 | 136 |
This says it all. This is the greatest game of all time! The kind of game I always wanted to make. Doesn't really matter if you have a real cauldron as long as you can stick a post-it on your toaster to make one. btw I was a bit afraid to touch a toaster by the key stucked in it! Need to come back a play again and again. One of my favourites so far!
Dave says thank you. He is very loyal to his fans.
Love the confidence you have, great game you made
Took me a WHILE to figure out that F was the interact button, certainly was a moment. I toasted the key over the fire and went through a door that soon would mean my demise, i entered the 2 Rune stone room, all doors locked in on me and i was eternally damned within the greatest game in the world. 10/10 The Greatest Game in the World
I'm going to have to assume that last error message was intentional? :-D Very Stanley Parable all of this, fun stuff. The "color puzzle" was actually quite funny, well done! To others playing, y'all need sound on to appreciate this, fyi.
Well done ;)
Dave thanks you for appreciating his genius. There are no errors. Everything works as intended.
Best game ever, i will rate it 5/7. A couple of hints for players: play with sound on and press F to pay respect to the props.
One word - amazing! Something like Stanley Parable, but with nice graphic. SHARK, WTF!!) Was it intended that you running without run and jumping without jump?) Diffenetly Owerall - 5 stars! I'm yor fan)
@atraxgames and @shelvid Dave is very thankful for your advice to new players. He just wants to know why did you find it hard to figure out that F is the interact button. Does the UI not remind you of this fact ALL the time?
Title should be Greatest Game in the Universe. Other than that 5/5, awesome work!
@zanzavar Dave says this is a very valid point. Maybe he consider this for the sequel.
@envy-softworks There were supposed to be things written on UI? On my side there was nothing on UI except for when i touched runes, i got some Debug popups :)
@shelvid Dave asks for your screen resolution, if you'd be so kind.
@envy-softworks Tell dave that i'm a 4:3 1280x1024 peasant
@shelvid He said and I quote "Then it's his damn fault for not playing the game in a proper rig!". We do not condone this sentiment but were instructed to pass it on to you. Thank you for understanding.
@envy-softworks Alas, i do wish i had 16:9. You guys can also add indicator in center when looking at door :)
@shelvid After some convincing that did not include tears or any sort of violent confrontation we believe that Dave might have fixed this bug. Our QA department is underfunded so we cannot say with certainty.
I liked the graphics, the sound effects and the beginning, but then when I came to the runes I didn't understand what I was supposed to do
@tc5550 Dave says that the pink text will guide you to the hidden *menir*. He said we make sure you know it's a menir and not a rune! Not sure what that means. He might be drunk.
I did not always know what to do, but the game did make me laugh a few times and that counts for a lot. The game also looks good, certainly for the amount of time you had. Well done!
Blown away by this game, amazing stuff, made me laugh.
Amazing entry! I loved the metagame idea, and being able to change the code was my favourite aspect of it. Well done!
@tc5550 @hare-software Dave conceded that some puzzles may have been hard for "ignorant casuls" so he finetuned them a bit. We suggest you give them another try now. You might enjoy them more! That being said, Dave wanted us to make it clear to you that he "doesn't care".
It sure was unique x) I loved the meta-humor and how you made the interactions with the code, it was fun !
Loved the idea of this game, thats the bugs there was really intencional and works like features sometimes! Was really enjoyable to work out through the game and has a very good sense of humor behind it. Great job!
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Very funny game! Mouse movement was weird for me, but besides that it's perfect.
@kuviman Dave says thanks you for streaming the game "like a normal human being with some sense of dignity and not a caveman". We are not sure but he seemed like he enjoyed it.
Άριστη δουλειά! Μπράβο σας!
I completed the game this time and it was really fun, especially the coding part!
Really awesome mechanic of editing the "game code" while playing the game. Very funny concept. Enjoyed playing it. Thanks for bringing it by the stream!
Nice funny game :D Nailed the humour part ! ;) congrats
Really nice game! At first the game called my attention by the graphics, but I was surprised by the gameplay. Good job!
Interesting game with very good graphics. But it was so hard to play with high sensitivity, you have to make it more playable. Thx for your work! ^^
@w0lfenstein Dave finds this very interesting. He would like to know "How do you even use your computer without proper DPI settings?" On our end, we would really appreciate you informing us about the make and model of your mouse so that we may do something about the problem. Thank you in advance.
I am without words, except that it was certainly original and funny.
This was a great game tbh. As soon as I head the default Unity footsteps sounds I was like "Oh, well here they are" and the game going "And here as the same footstep as day 1", I laugthed. Good one really :')
Nice work. The only real "bug" I could find is that when you press shift, it only makes the footsteps go faster but hey, other than that, pretty solid work !
@harksa It's funny how you think this is a real bug. Dave always had trouble understanding why running is needed in games so he decided it would be better to just give the illusion of running through faster footsteps. It was surprisingly harder than just allowing the player to run as Unity intended.
Really cool entry the concept is nice and pretty innovative. Liked the parts where you had to fix the code. The f input kind of not always work which is a bit frustrating though :/
Funny. Second degree humour. Controls are a little bit awkward, but good enough ++
I really enjoyed that experience!
I loved everything about this game. The idea, humor, graphics, execution, details... especially the references! Even the interactivity is done in a very smart way, making it a great example of "breaking the fourth wall". Amazing job Dave! Keep it up! I'd love to play a full version or a sequel of this! Hope Dave names it "The Greatest Game in the World Guide" :')
Development of my LD45 entry in a nutshell.
@artyom-volkov @virimine @keithswanger Thank you kindly! Dave asked us to inform you that he is "being inspired by the great majesty of life." In his one year of game development, he has seen it all.
Love the game description. I hope that Dave has a strong support system in place, and that he's able to work through some of his anger. Wish ya the best, Dave!
@dreamlogician We are doing our best to help him! He appreciates the support!
A really fun game, I laughed out loud playing it !
Good job :slight_smile:
It an interesing concept while at the same time it have some clever puzzles. Good job!
@w0lfenstein @djindegames @geckoo1337 We believe your issues should be fixed with the latest patch. We would appreciate you try the game again and tell us if it's better for you. Thank you kindly.
This was hilarious! Funniest game I've played all jam. My biggest gripe was the character- the wobbling when you walk gave me a bit of motion sickness, and his running was a bit slow for the long corridors sometimes (such as the peanut butter puzzle, I ran back and forth to the camel room a few times before I solved it and the trek was gruelling).
I also would have really liked some subtitles for the narrator- a lot of the times he could be hard to hear or overshadowed by sound effects, and I didn't want to miss a thing he was saying, cos it was all gold.
I especially enjoyed the programming portions, that was really neat, and I would love to see that expanded upon further!
Also, thank you so much for the WebGL version for poor Mac peons like myself!
Great work!
How very odd.
That's a LOT of good material for a jam! Amazing work all of you! I had a lot of fun, brilliant game.
"What is this? The Matrix yard sale?" - quote of the day
This game was absolutely hilarious! I was laughing out loud constantly. So much fun! The game itself worked pretty well and any bugs were covered up by the fact that the game within the game was supposed to be sort of buggy.
And that ending - wow! Absolutely brilliant! Your writer(s) were fantastic.
Thank you so much for sharing this with us on stream!
Really funny.
This is literally greatest game. I'm sure. Greatest. Game. GAME.
I really liked the humour! Great little game and lovely puzzles.Good Job!
Really great game - i was amazed :D it has a minimalistic but beatiful design. love it.
¡Jajaja! ¡Qué chistoso! ¡Me estaba riendo en cualquier dimension no me importa! Me gustó ese enigma de colores, y los mensajes de debug.
¡Very wonderfull game and like more coding!
Funny metagame :) filled with great ideas! I really liked the way you come back to previously visited rooms, the way you can change the wall's colors via code, and the narrator. Good job :D
That was pretty funny. I didn't end up fixing the game myself but it's a really clever idea. More than once I was thoroughly convinced the game was broken and then it turned out to be part of the plot which was funny. Nicely done!
The peanut + butter cracked me up!
@danie Dave does not understand why you find that funny. Is that not how everyone makes peanut butter? It has been brilliantly illustrated in at least one old school adventure game!
That is a good game! I love it!
I was stuck at the temple. I couldn't figure out what to do and the way back was blocked. Sad, it was promising :<
I was left speechless, this game reminds me A LOT of Stanley Parabe, but with a lot more humour in the narration. Only critique is that may tell the player they can use the mouse in the code on the computer as I couldn't quite figure out how to change the code around and possibly run a smidge faster. Other than that, I had a great time! Well done!
Nice MMORPG or whatever :D
This game reminded me a lot of A Stanley Parable, I could totally see this being expanded upon into some sort of meta-narrative like that. As it is I found it really fun I would love to see more! I love the "camera on legs" bit, especially since in a lot of games, under the hood, that's all you actually are.
This is hysterical. I thought my game was meta but this just blows it out of the water. The commentary throughout was so entertaining, as were the bits where you have to "fix" the game. Brilliant job!
Perfection. This tacos for you.
fantastic humor, i had a lot of fun playing it. didn't like the walking at first but got used to it :) congratulations!
really brillant i loved the coding part ;)
This was amazing. The bits where you fix the game really made it, IMO (well that and the narration, of course). I honestly would have loved to have seen a few more of them (or just more joke 'fixes' you could make in the existing ones, like the camel). In any case the comparisons to The Stanley Parable made by other commenters are on point.
Kudos!
The coding part was really funny, especially the small easter eggs with the camel, or changing the wall color. Making a game like this is pretty clever, if you have any bugs, you can just say it was intended, because the game is supposed to be a parody of buggy games ;)
Well done!