tommyflower 2019-10-08 10:19
That porcupine! I love the effort you put in the story and the graphics style very simple but made effective by the use of the right colours. Choosing where too swipe looked a bit arbitrary though.
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD45 → Meowlediction
By inferture
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 1021 | 2.82 | 40 | |
| Fun | 1044 | 2.51 | 41 | |
| Innovation | 873 | 2.76 | 41 | |
| Theme | 977 | 2.66 | 39 | |
| Graphics | 928 | 2.75 | 41 | |
| Audio | 663 | 2.44 | 39 | |
| Humor | 562 | 2.71 | 39 | |
| Mood | 945 | 2.77 | 40 |
That porcupine! I love the effort you put in the story and the graphics style very simple but made effective by the use of the right colours. Choosing where too swipe looked a bit arbitrary though.
@tommyflower Thanks for playing !
By arbitrary do you mean that there was no logic to why a certain choice was at the right and another at the left or do you mean that the player did not have enough information to make a decision (or something else ?)? And thanks for the feedback, that really helps (it's my first time making a visual novel so I still have a lot to learn) !
@inferture Yes I couldn't understand which choice belonged to each direction.
@tommyflower I think it might be a resolution problem, but when there were choices to be made, they should be written at the bottom of the screen when you tilt a card in one direction or another. When nothing is written, it means that there is no choice to be made (it's just swipe to continue). I couldn't test my game on devices with different resolutions other than my desktop and phone. If I understood well, you didn't see these choices ? (bottom right corner on the screenshot): choices.png
And I think the text should also be bigger though, that should definitlely change in a post-jam version ^^
@inferture yes! I totally missed them. Retried now and finally understood. They appear (in a very small font) only when the swipe action has begun and I swiped too fast to see them. You could just add them at the bottom of the text, before touching anything.
@tommyflower That is definitely something to consider for the post-jam version ! I think putting the choices onto the card like Reigns does could be another solution. Either way, that's definitely an issue to fix, thanks for bringing my attention to it :)
First time I see a videogame using tinder-like interactions. This is quite contemporary, well done!
Interesting take on the theme, I also loved your artstyle. Good job!
@ioleoso Thank you ! I took inspiration from games such as Reigns and Lapse (Android) which uses these kind of mechanics and I thought it could also be used for visual novels. @paulo-brunassi Thanks a lot :)
this reminded me to drink water, thanks
Idk what just happened but there was a few laughs (:
I like that you built this with mobile devices in mind, but still made a build for WebGL. I enjoyed the swipe mechanic... haven't played Reigns, but if I ever do I guess I can say it reminds me of Meowlediction! To be honest, I didn't really pay attention to the life meter, not sure if that mattered at all. Maybe there are more choices that affect it? Not sure... I played through twice and seemed to do just fine. I do like the "choose your own adventure" aspect of the narrative though. Congrats on the submission!
@porocyonak My pleasure ^^ @itsnotagoodtime Haha I'm glad it made you laugh :) @tohubohu The life bar was supposed to matter but in the end, I didn't have time to make use of it :/ Thanks for taking the time to play twice ! ^^
First one I've played with a swiping mechanic so far! And choices! Yay! Nice work. :)
Got some laughs out of me. Interesting story. I like the Rigel interaction a lot and the porcupine.
There seems to be an issue where the life bar does not reset when you restart the game. I haven't been able to reach zero since it seems to increase at some points, so it might just be a visual thing.
@u-tsang-clan Yup, I did forget to reset it and when I realised it was too late x) (though, it is not used in current state of the game, so it shouldn't bother for one's playthrough ^^)
@sirred I'm glad it did make you laugh, that's really nice to hear ^^ @ben-ash Thanks a lot ! :D
NOOOOOOoooooooooooo I wanted to know more. Just when I was engaged! Don't you want to make a post-LD with the rest? You should! My hype counts as a review right?
@xarras Thanks a lot for your reaction !
I will at least proof-read what is already existing and improve the UI for a post-jam version (bigger texts for the choices in particular). As for the rest of the story I can't really guarantee anything :/ (although I really hope I do find the time to continue ^^)
Right the small text at the choices was something to improve, good to see you'll keep it going :)
Nice art. I feel like they've been made with the use of a lot of filters but they look good! Too bad the story's very short D:
Thanks for the game!
@hellper Indeed I used photofiltre to make this :) Thanks a lot !
Nice art, fun story. I didn't like the control scheme. I had no idea what each direction would do what so ended up playing randomly. I found out there is sometimes text that appears after reading some comments here. I never saw that at all. Perhaps it should be always there rather than only appearing when half-swiped.
@someone I definitely understood that the UI for the options should be modified to be more obvious and visible and I'll correct this in a post-jam version ! Thanks for your feedback !
The endings are a bit frustrating and made me wish there was just a little more… but good story anyway, it’s really worth playing multiple times to understand a bit more of what happened. I did see the texts at the bottom but that was because my browser window was just tall enough, I agree they could be larger and maybe centred. The sound effects were perfect, though my cats did not react to them… they must have been spoken in another language!
@samh Haha thank you, I wish I had had the time to make more content ^^' I'm glad you liked the sound effects though ! :)
Fun game cool concept well done
@xotsu Thanks a lot ^^
Took me back to growing up reading the Warriors novels, keep it up! Also that porcupine is terrifying :)
@smitto I just looked them up and it looks like they could make for an interesting read one day, thanks for mentioning it ^^ As for the porcupine, let's just pretend that was on purpose 😇