Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD45 → Light Bots
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 34 | 4.00 | 49 | |
| Fun | 59 | 3.80 | 49 | |
| Innovation | 164 | 3.53 | 49 | |
| Theme | 259 | 3.37 | 49 | |
| Graphics | 45 | 4.06 | 49 | |
| Audio | 190 | 3.25 | 46 | |
| Humor | 98 | 3.23 | 43 | |
| Mood | 73 | 3.78 | 47 |
This was a pretty nice game. I didn't complete it though. Got stuck at the part with the tower and the 2 robots. Platforming with the robots is kinda frustrating at times because of the small window to get the most out of your double jump. Other than that this game was pretty good.
The art is fantastic! super eerie! There are a ton of levels too, very outstanding work.
@gerugames it was pretty difficult to balance the difficulty
@blobo Thank you so much, I myself am impressed with the art as I'm a programmer not an artist
Very solid! Good level design that gradually gets more complicated without getting unreasonable. I would say that the platformer controls feel a little over-responsive, and slowing the robots down would help, but otherwise a great entry!
Really liked this game, unique puzzler :) Well designed!
man .... that platforming .... is hard................. i spent 15 minutes on it and I still can't get through ... I thought about not rating you until end of day so that more people can suffer.
I guess playing it so much for testing, the difficulty curve became skewed.
Great game,cool art style, and solid mechanics that are easy to figure out. Only issue is that the gravity is very strong, making the timing required very exact, causing some jumps to be very difficult. Would love to hear back when its fixed because I got stuck on the level where I can see a new bot at the end and I really wanna try that one out.
Honestly pretty much perfect marks from me. Really well done! I could see myself playing this for much longer.
Keep up the good work!
The audio and the graphics compliment each other so well :D Nice job, I enjoyed playing the game :D
This is very impressive, the movement is fun and the puzzles add to it. The black and white aesthetic is pretty, though some parts were hard to discern and some text blended into the background. I do like the sense of humor present. I did get stuck on an early platforming section, and nearly stopped without realizing there was a double jump. The robot moves incredibly fast and drops even faster, making a later jump over a lake nearly impossible. Great all around, with some tweaking its a solid platformer.
@gerugames @zwodahs @jwiggs @toppervideogames Post Submission V1.1 is available for download if you'd like another go
will try it later :D !
The visual aesthetic is pretty and minimal, which is a great choice. However discerning elements on the screen is problematic at times, most notably text - it doesn't stand out enough, and gets blurry (at least on a higher resolution). The main menu is very well done, though it too suffers somewhat from a lack of contrast between visual flavor elements and important/interactive elements. Information blends in with the foreground elements too strongly.
Gameplay wise, the introduction of various mechanics is superb! Really well done. Flying around is fun, but the jumping platforming not so much. The jump feels too weighted to be enjoyable to me. This coupled with a cute, but sadly too short of a music loop, which gets grating after a while, had me quit before reaching the end.
Thanks for the feedback, out of everything the music is my biggest regret but I'm no composer, also there's a checkmark in the menus to turn off the music which I personally think makes the game better, its more fitting of the atmosphere.
I love the idea of combining top down puzzle and platformer. Besides the graphic and audio are cool. I am still trying to understand character switching mechanism now but this is really an impressive game for me.
Cool game, I liked the black and white style but it did make it hard to figure out where you could go (Since there were some objects in the foreground). Could maybe add some color to the game elements, like pipes, robots, boxes, etc. I also think the platforming was a little too quick, made it hard to time the jumps correctly. I also didn't realize I could double jump for a while.
Mechanic were smoothly introduced. I had a bit of a eureka moment when I discovered that the human could swing the weight attached to a rope. I also liked the level of visual polish in the jump animations, movement trail and art style.
That being said the art style was a tad too homogeneous. Distinguishing between pipes, walls and toggle-able walls was sometimes tough, but moreover the repetition of the same black/white forms just became bland after a while. And I did spend a little while, wrestling with the platforming before giving up on the lake level (cliff into a section where you had to jump across open air between sides).
The jump key isn't mentioned in the game description.
As a side note, in an early level one of the humans was dangling on a rope as if it was being hung. I was surprised by that dark theme and think that it would've been cool if you expanded on that idea narrative-wise.
That dialogue was funny, TEAMWORK FTW Double-jump is a bit janky though. Very nice 1bit graphics :)
Great little game, wonderfully well guided with the appearing text. I kinda got lost at some points where as it took me a while to figure out what to do, but that's the challenge in these games!
The music was alright, but got a bit repetitive after a few minutes in the game indeed. Not bad, and a great game overall!
I like this game vibe, nice art even if it's sometimes hard to understand what's decor and what's not. I'm not a fan of the platforming as it's a bit stiff. overall you did a great job, nice :)
Thanks everyone for the feed back, for anyone getting stuck on the tall level with two bots I not sure if everyone realized but the first switch has to be flipped multiple times as you cant make the jump otherwise, also I see a lot of people found the graphics to be confusing at times I tried to make the level composition consistent, also by forcing the player to fly through the pipes in the first mission I hoped that it would help.
@corrade Thanks for the feedback I had wanted to have a lot more of a narrative throughout the game but I ended up having to drop a lot of it due to time constraints. I do however plan to continue this game after the ludum dare so keep an eye out if you're interested.
Such a neat little game! Loved the dialog popups as you play, really clever and rather intuitive. Fun! :thumbsup:
Love the monochrome look. Don't love the super twitchy gameplay. Stopped at the level with a bunch of water at the bottom where I think you're supposed to jump the robot through the middle. The jumping is way too fast for me. But it looks great and if it were a little bit slower the controls would feel good too. Nice job all around.
Love the simplicity of the graphics but also the detail. The interaction between the light and the robot is really cool :)
Love the style of the game. The controls feel very fluent. The difficulty progresses in a nice gradual pace. Really great work!
Fun game, I love both the art and the gameplay. My only issue with it is that a couple of times earlier in the game I was confused, for example I didn't realize the robots could double jump at first, and it took me a while to figure out what things were walls and what weren't.
This was a great game. I love the art and game design. The puzzle weren't too hard but with the speed the robots moved it took a little bit to get the jumps completed successfully. I did it though, got all the way to end and thoroughly enjoyed every bit of it!
Thank you all for the feedback, and a special thanks to @kunonooni and any one else that finished the game its nice to know that someone made it to the end and enjoyed it
I like it very much! Bravo !
Great art style. The controls/visual feedback is really pleasing.
i really liked the art style but it was at times, a little distracting -- overall a lot of fun -- thanks for making it
Thanks for all the feedback, if any of you would like to see more of this game you can follow it's development on my youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdUEiTLbC868WDNkaUlbMXg