Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD46 → Feed The King
By dannyk1994
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 1620 | 3.32 | 27 | |
| Fun | 1591 | 3.14 | 27 | |
| Innovation | 774 | 3.50 | 27 | |
| Theme | 667 | 3.92 | 27 | |
| Graphics | 1892 | 3.06 | 27 | |
| Humor | 565 | 3.43 | 26 | |
| Mood | 982 | 3.50 | 26 |
I liked that the music got faster paced when approaching the end of the "crown-bar".
I was able to feed the king with the goo and breed a lot of different colored egg people, but at the end the king still died. I think I missed a vital part of the controls?!
@pythooonuser Thanks for the feedback.The kings hunger rate increases as the game goes. So the longer you play the more difficult it get. I think may have set it to increase too quickly.
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The game is fun, I don't know how to make more gold or do we only start with 100 gold. The art and music is awesome!! Keep it up mate!!
Maybe it could be more accessible without the installation process. Thanks for the game, wish you the best of luck!
I couldn't really figure out how to do anything :(
GREAT GAME! AWESOME! RATED PRETTY HIGH
I liked the game and it was fun... A bit of polishing would be great..
@chief141 Thanks for the feedback. I'm working on a post jam version at the moment. @euforia-games Thanks, appreciate it :) @amdmaster Thanks for the feedback.
I played this through once without understanding what the poop was for, but then I went into the help file and figured it out. I think my main confusion was that the critters are called "eggs" but there are also eggs that they hatch from. Also, at one point like all of my green dudes died without warning... I know you get warned for hunger but it didn't seem like there were warnings for the other two things, so maybe they got bored and died.
Definitely a great effort for just a weekend, and it wouldn't be tough at all to really polish this up and make it something awesome!
@cataclysmicknight Appreciate the feedback. The game is definitely lacking a tutorial. The green eggs died because they have a life span and die out eventually ( This is not made clear anywhere in the help file). Working on creating a tutorial level as I feel a lot of people miss out on the full experience.
when I play fast I can't do anything but watch my little monster die, and what should I do with the poop?
@dannyk1994 I don't doubt the tutorial will help a lot, and I really think that out of most of the games I've played this LDJAM, this is one with the most potential. It'll be even more addictive to try to maximize happiness and juggle feeding the King while also using powerups and stuff once all of the rules are made clear :smile:
I appreciate the sense of discovery you get out of this game, when I managed to make my first blue and red egg monsters that was a real satisfying moment. The main thing I would suggest is there is a lot to teach in this game, I would perhaps break it up into levels and just let the player learn feeding level 1, breeding and entertaining level 2, and power ups level 3. (I didn't even get to using the power-ups because there was so much other stuff to take in)
The shift-click to add to bank vs ctrl-click to feed to king felt awkward here in that it's near impossible to intuit that those were the controls unless you thoroughly read the help section. I would implement dragging goop onto your bank adds to the bank and dragging goop onto the king feeds the king. (Or clicking the goop banks it and dragging it onto the king feeds him)
I enjoyed the art, it had its charm for sure. A minor nitpick is the numbers on the goop were difficult to see.
@cataclysmicknight Appreciate it, definitely needs some polishing thanks. @flyingbear I agree the mechanics are a awkward and need to change. Appreciate the feedback. The only people I had play test already new how the game work before they played it which meant I kinda designed the game with the idea that everyone already new how to play.
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