FoonLudum Dare ExplorerLD46 → Robot's Best Friend

Robot's Best Friend

By frogravity

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall2793.6935
Fun2813.6034
Innovation2363.6635
Theme1314.0935
Graphics3153.7235
Audio434.0035
Mood933.8934

Comments

patrickrmc 2020-04-20 10:42

Neat little game, very good interpretation of the theme!

willypa 2020-04-20 13:15

Assets could have been better... But Gameplay was good and a huge + for voice acting

good-enough 2020-04-20 13:25

STOP RIGHT THERE! -and read my comment! :P

It was just the right difficulty. I had to restart from the checkpoints several times, and without the minimap it would have been much harder. The sound track fit the vibes, and the robotic voices were great! For some reason the movement felt constrained, and I think that the walls had too much friction, but over all, it's a great game!

munkkeli 2020-04-20 18:47

Very nice 3D graphics, so few games actually manage to create this many assets. Story is also a nice addition. Gameplay seems a bit difficult though.

pincushion 2020-04-20 20:12

I loved all the voice acting. It really helped to set the urgent tone. I appreciated the story, and how well the gameplay fit with it.

The controls felt good, and normal was a good difficulty for me. I made it through after maybe 10 deaths.

This was a great entry.

immortalitybh 2020-04-20 21:43

very good. can definitely tell a lot of work has been put into this one

2020-04-21 13:58

That damn rat!!! I included it in my Ludum Dare 46 compilation video series, if you want to take a look. :) https://youtu.be/4GNiWeaqklM

voidsay 2020-04-21 15:26

Used your sources to compile on linux.

Great game!

zerohbeat 2020-04-21 15:44

Great intro and story, really complements the gameplay. The minimap really helped. Great idea to have different difficulties. The voice acting was amazing. I could fill the passion / work for the game when playing it.

rigdonware 2020-04-21 17:17

Audio of this game is incredible. This was an overall great game. Good job!

itskdog 2020-04-21 22:01

The audio and beginning cut scene are great. Nice challenging game play too.

kupnu4 2020-04-21 22:08

I don't understand why, but I really enjoyed the game so much. Except times being brutally murdered. The rat is adorable) Great work!

squeele 2020-04-22 21:02

Good game, the atmosphere is really unique! Eventhough there are some difficulty issues, good job on producing a high number of assets in a very short time! :)

matheusborba 2020-04-23 04:05

Good game

frogravity 2020-04-25 09:52

Thank you, everyone, for your kind words! I really appreciate it!

I added a Linux build (inspired by @voidsay). Unfortunately, I don't have any Linux computer, so I can't test it. Please let me know if it doesn't work properly.

voidsay 2020-04-26 23:15

Your Linux build works great! Unity dose a really good job at making builds for all major platforms.

Hope to see you in many more competitions!

I learned a few things from your entry (especially how to upload a usable source file for unity) will be making you competition soon :wink:

monish-vyas 2020-05-04 15:23

I liked the game though I died too many times. Voice over and music made it more fun to play.

honey-pony 2020-05-11 03:39

Neat game. Managing the rat is definitely an interesting mechanic. I think the game is mostly fine, although I think the player control and physics could use a little work.

In particular, running and walking feels a little.. janky? Like your character doesn't move very smoothly, there's a lot of stopping and starting. And there are parts of the game where you literally have to walk through enemies--there's no room to maneuver around them. I think the "you have to walk past enemies while getting shot at defenseless" part of the game makes sense, but it doesn't work very well when you can't actually walk past the enemies.

That said, I still enjoyed fighting my way through to the ship. It was an appropriately stressful experience.

I enjoyed the music and the voice acting.

One interesting thing: there was a bug where the rat was both in and not in the backpack.

chaseplays 2020-05-12 07:31

This was so cool! I didn't get it at first, but once I realized you could press e to give the rat oxygen, with the catch that it could escape, the whole game got super interesting. The story behind it was simple but gave the game a purpose which I liked a lot, and the voices made the game a lot of fun! It could use a bit more polish, but the concept is really interesting, and I enjoyed this a lot! Great work!