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Soulectron
By bredian and Shiroy
View on ldjam.com
| Category | Rank | Score | Count |
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| Overall | 1293 | 3.47 | 81 | |
| Fun | 1298 | 3.27 | 83 | |
| Innovation | 2053 | 2.82 | 84 | |
| Theme | 1906 | 3.29 | 83 | |
| Graphics | 516 | 4.10 | 83 | |
| Audio | 994 | 3.25 | 83 | |
| Humor | 751 | 3.26 | 77 | |
| Mood | 1527 | 3.21 | 78 | |
Comments
nikkrope
2020-04-20 17:17
Incredible art and very engaging gameplay and story. I found some bugs and tweeks that could be fixed to make the game better. One Game-Braking bug absolutely destroyed my experience with this game, and that is that sometimes it would randomly push my down into the circles below for no reason what so ever. Another problem I encountered is that the audio is a bit off. Whenever I would die the music would just change very aggressively and the overall main music of the game didn't loop correctly and that made caused me some mildly infuriating moments. Overall, incredible art, nice gameplay but a few audio problems.
The art is _very_ clean and looks professional. The music fit well with the theme and made me laugh for some reason. The gameplay is addicting and challenging... the UP/DOWN pushes are pretty brutal to be honest. I think this game could be polished up to be an awesome full-length game.
Great work!
zoglu
2020-04-20 18:03
Nice graphics and the dialog at the start quickly sets up the mood. The level design was interesting and I had fun avoiding these red thingies. Good job !
bredian
2020-04-20 18:35
@zoglu Thank you for your comment. It is inspiring for me to read this
shiroy
2020-04-20 18:38
@david-bohan It is very nice to see that you liked my drawings in the game :) Thank you for leaving a review!
bredian
2020-04-20 18:39
@david-bohan Thank @shiroy for a good art. I am glad you liked my game. Though I don't think pushes are brutal. They do bring some challange to the game in my opinion
murpyh
2020-04-20 20:38
Gets very challenging, especially with the fan E/B things that push you around. I do like the art a lot, though.
thompson
2020-04-20 20:56
Great graphics! And it gets quite challenging. Although, in my opinion, the control were too sensitive. I could probably also guess that the scene transitions were from brackeys hahaha!
bollwerk
2020-04-20 21:14
Really nice graphics! Gameplay is not too deep but challenging, controls could be a bit more forgiving sometimes. Good job! :)
bredian
2020-04-20 21:45
Hey, @thompson, that was my first game with transitions, so I think that it is okay to use brackeys solution. I think they look really cool in this game!
pomo
2020-04-20 22:21
Felt like it needed a nice ending to wrap everything but otherwise it is fun and plays well.
Nice game, I realy like the graphics it is very well polished. It is just to repetitive for me, and when you die you need to restart the game.
I realy like the art, but the gameplay was to hard for me.
cjgammon
2020-04-21 00:32
nice art. fun little concept. it was a little challenging, maybe if there were less things filling the screen at once. it was real easy to get stuck and then you're basically done. also the controls could use some tuning. great idea and execution though, well done.
myalias
2020-04-21 04:14
Interesting gameplay, music and art style!
tad
2020-04-21 05:08
A really polished game! Unfortunately I ran into a couple of UI bugs, but the effort put in here is great for LD! :)
grunlack
2020-04-21 10:23
I love graphism :thumbsup: and the story is fun I find the gameplay innovant and cool by physical référence. Well done for a good game
shiroy
2020-04-21 10:41
@grunlack it's very nice to see that someone noticed the physical meaning of the game :))
takase
2020-04-21 13:46
very good game, I like the concept and the grphics ! Good Job ! It's a bit complicated, but you get used to it!
Very nice monologue at the beginning, it made me laugh in a good way :) Sets up the mood from the beginning. Music and graphics are awesome, especially the electron's emotions, it gives even more fun to see them. But it would be nice to have a small tutorial, bcs its quite hard from the beginning already and I didn't really get what exactly and why I have to collect.
bredian
2020-04-21 15:00
@valisse21 Thank you for your review! You don't have to collect anything, you just need to get through four levels to win this game, as it is said in the monologue at the start.
nakami
2020-04-22 20:45
I like the art very much the gameplay is classic but good :3
Just one little stuff for improvement you should make the player pass trough an obstacles when he hits it and so prevent the player to take damage multiple time when he is a bit stuck on an obstacle.
Great job!
Art is really well, feels a bit blocky in some places, but overall it's very aesthetic :)
However I had a hard time controlling the electron - it wasn't always as responsive as I'd want and sometimes there was almost no way not to collide with wall or an obstacle..
khud0
2020-04-23 11:45
Graphics are definitely a plus in this game, but I found certain mechanics (like push downwards) quite counter-intuitive.
onnofal
2020-04-23 18:26
Oh my ears! But don't understand me completely wrong I am very happy for the music being there at all and appreciate the try: it still adds some wicked spirit. Very difficult, I have a feeling I am sometimes pushed down (after moving up) by something invisible, or I am not understanding something well, so I gave up pretty quickly not passing the second level. But looks nice, works (more than I can tell about my entry). We all know here what kind of challenge is to deliver a game. Good job
jk5000
2020-04-25 12:24
The story and visual style is really good. The gameplay felt a bit weird and confusing, and this make the game difficult to play. Overall is this a okay little jam game.
luggi
2020-04-25 13:54
I like the game's looks and that you packed it in a weird but interesting story. The gameplay feels a bit stiff at the moment but overall its a good game!
cadstor
2020-04-25 20:55
I love the graphics! But yeah the gameplay is a little confusing, but the way I enjoy to play your game :3
kyakune
2020-04-25 21:12
I like the color palet of the game ! I have some bugs, on a stage, some barriers didn't give damages, and I think UP/DOWN pushes are pretty brutal. But congrats it's a nice jam game !
This was super hard for me haha! I couldn't get past level 2. But it was fun!
Music was very loud for me but other than that, great job!
mahalis
2020-04-28 01:56
Delightful concept. I couldn’t be sure because I’m not any kind of physicist, but I got the impression the physics are pretty accurate? Minus the… soul… bit? I did hit some of the UI issues other folks brought up—the main one being the left edge of the screen being covered by part of the circle—but it didn’t make it unplayable or anything. Didn’t understand why I got pushed down at apparently random intervals, but I assume I missed something. Overall: nice work!
barret
2020-04-28 17:58
prett fun little game. It kinda reminded me of flappy bird, but wayyyyy less frustrating haha. I like the cute art of the game. It looked really nice and the controls were fluid
convg
2020-04-28 18:59
This was a really cool game. The graphics were really nice, the dialogue was funny, and the controls and challenges in the levels were very smooth and fun. Nice job. Have fun, I hope you die!!!
bredian
2020-04-29 07:32
@convg Thanks for review and an inspiration for a level song title! I published the soundtrack of Soulectron on the game's Gamejolt page, and the music that plays on levels is titled as cited dialogue line.
convg
2020-04-29 07:46
@bredian haha, awesome :smile: I'm gonna listen to the soundtrack now
The art was really cute and the music fit the mood. I found it a bit confusing that the red things that block/damage you were the same color as the syringes that heal you.
The art is very nice. I really liked your story and the gameplay. Sometimes the electron controls were a bit clunky and the background music's loop point was a little bit off, so the whenever the music looped I could kinda notice that.
Nevertheless the game was very professionally looking and I really enjoyed playing it.
Nice setup and story. Cracked me up. very polished. Just not my kind of game but like your take on this game style. More fun than I expected.
Gameplay is smooth, and the graphics are really well done and make everything feel cohesive
Great artwork and music! I enjoyed playing it as well :) The dialogues in the WebGL version are kinda slow though, and there's no way to skip the "typing effect" - it just skips to the next message. But other than that - pretty fun, well done!
talops
2020-04-30 16:42
Simple but efficient gameplay and really polished visuals with a silly story that sets the mood just right! The only criticisms I have would be the music being too simple and short, quickly becoming repetitive and annoying, the colliders being too big (it's better to have punishing colliders be smaller than the visuals and goal/reward-purposed colliders be bigger), and the invulnerability period's ending point not being telegraphed/clear enough. Other than that I found a bug where I was invulnerable for a whole level :laughing: Don't know how I triggered it though...
A really cool submission, well done!
The artwork was just phenomenal and the gameplay was very smooth. Great job! ^^
I like the balancing mechanics. would have played a lot more if things were more in balance.
- I didn't feel like there is a need for a story. maybe you could've used that time to create some cool trailing effect or solved some bugs.
- one time I got the speed and was able to go through the entire level like it has no colliers.
- the controls were a bit off for me especially when you encounter stuff like wind.
bredian
2020-04-30 21:02
@talops Thanks for your technical advice about colliders. Never thought about these nuances before. Hope that will help me with my future games.
quadape
2020-05-01 21:26
I liked the artstyle and colors! Electrons look very cute, I think with a little animation it would look even better, but you probably were out of time. I really don't want to upset anyone, but I think it's important to be objective here. Music is very dissonant and obnoxious (probably because the loop is too short). Though, I appreciate the attempt to make soundtrack for the game, it would be boring without any music at all. In terms of gameplay everything works nice, and I like that you gradually introduce new obstacles to mix it up. Good job!
minnka
2020-05-02 21:33
I really liked the presentation and art style it was really slick. main character could do with animation and feels like flappy bird without the tapping.
anagf
2020-05-03 00:57
I like how polished it is. The art was super cute! Also, the way you used the wind blows for the level design was interesting.
macdoom
2020-05-04 20:03
Nice game! Loved the palette and the graphics. Didn't noticed the magnetic poles for the first runs. Good job!
zenris
2020-05-05 10:11
Good job, nice art. Solid game play, was a little hard to notice the down push effect symbol on the top, could maybe have had some particle or something coming down.
yy404
2020-05-09 15:47
Nice game! A bit hard but finally passed all levels.
mikydev
2020-05-11 11:11
Pretty cool game!xD
narudgi
2020-05-11 14:53
Cute game, it was challenging, and I had a fun time
Well done!
Cute graphics and a nice color scheme. Really nice job on that! I also like the bouncy atmosphere the music created.
Very challenging gameplay, harrrrrd. It felt to me that the controls are somewhat too sensitive. But that may be just because I am not very good at this :wink:
It is a very nice jam game. Works well and I didn't notice any bugs or strange behavior. Great work!
Nice graphics and music, and its hard but i like this games, good challening, good job!!! gotita.jpg
imod
2020-05-12 09:42
Nice game! I like challenging gameplay.
i adore the theme you chose. also everything is super cute. god i liked the game.
turritom
2020-05-12 17:25
ok very hard game haha. reminds me a bit of flappy bird? definitely very well done. graphics are great and the laughter at the beginning very evil. muhahaha