mattdotam 2019-10-08 10:43
Who hasn't had that nightmare of being chased? Thanks for bringing that sensation to life. I enjoyed the challenge of running, without typing to ditch the leeches. Solid effort. Good work!
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD45 → Ravenous
By tori, berumondo and brother-main
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 555 | 3.45 | 36 | |
| Fun | 639 | 3.16 | 36 | |
| Innovation | 469 | 3.29 | 36 | |
| Theme | 912 | 2.78 | 35 | |
| Graphics | 615 | 3.44 | 36 | |
| Audio | 522 | 3.03 | 33 | |
| Mood | 671 | 3.21 | 34 |
Who hasn't had that nightmare of being chased? Thanks for bringing that sensation to life. I enjoyed the challenge of running, without typing to ditch the leeches. Solid effort. Good work!
I like games where you need to follow two mechanics at the same time. It's fun to watch how my brain gradually adapts to this. Good job!
wow, quite hard for me :scream: I really like the graphics and the color scheme, very clean!
Also great to see a GM game, I love to develop in Game Maker.
Really cool concept. The game is a little bit hard, but it was very fun. Well done
Fun runner with a typing twist ! I quite liked it, despite the game being, as others commented, quite hard.
Pluses : - Simple gameplay loop, and the typing principle is easy to understand - Great animations and horror vibe
Possible improvements : - The leeches are hard to dodge with the current setup of the jump, and the obstacles are scrolling so fast that typing was nigh-impossible for me
All in all, great job !
Love the combo of jumping and typing, it's really fun
it took me four deaths to get that I needed to write stuff. Didn't help much to be honest. Apparently I'm really bad at writing and jumping over obstacles at the same time. A good idea nevertheless. Maybe the speedboost from writing could be higher so its a tiny little bit easier?
Awesome. Overall it was fun. I like the constant scrambling of my keyboard trying to get leeches off then I'd run into ~10 more and I just see OTHINGNOTH. A good twist on a runner, and it felt good to see my score improving very quickly the more I played.
It also too myself I bit of time to realize you had to type the letters on screen and that jumping is hold sensitive to achieve different heights. I dig the artwork and music, very eerie and spooky.
Cheers to a good infinite runner!
Awesome concept, i really liked this idea. I am bad in fast typing that made it difficult but nice innovation!
Quite a challange, I love it!
So challanging game, cant even believe that it written using GM. Good job
Nice game
Thanks for the constructive feedback folks, it really means a lot to us !
Sorry about the difficulty though, I had too much fun making small visual effects and didn't take the time required to polish the difficulty curve. I like to make challenging games, but I don't want to make people feel discouraged right from the beginning. ^^
Also it didn't even occur to me that there was no in-game indication that you had to type the text, which could have probably easily been fixed by making the text prompt look like keyboard keys.
Anyways, thanks for playing the game <3
This was a really cool idea :) I like how you always have an interesting choice to make: focus on avoiding obstacles or try to type "nothing" to clear the leaches off you. Maybe it's just me but for a while I thought I had to collect the leaches lol. I guess i'm just too used to collecting coins in games!
Nice game! A bit far from the theme maybe (you have to type "nothing", but the game would be the same if it was any other word, or random letters). Still a fun little experience, with really clean graphics.
It was really fast, but other than that it was awesome!
@xhant well the concept started off as "you have nothing, and you have to stay with nothing", so you start with a healthy leech-free body and you need to keep it that way ;) But yeah that's the most original thing I could come up with the theme, I wasn't really inspired by it.
@yyam haha yeah we tried to make the leeches very hard to dodge, so that you would have to use the typing mechanic eventually, and grabbing just a couple of them isn't very punishing anyway. If we had more time to make a real scoring system, it might have been fun to make it so that you get points when you get rid of the leeches, so that you'd have to take the risk if you want to go for a high score.
This is a really cool endless runner. Theme use was interesting, but I guess you aren't really *starting* with nothing, more so "getting" nothing as you hit parasites. The graphics were smooth (I love that level start animation!) and the gameplay felt fair. Good work!