bredian 2020-04-20 19:36
Very solid game which starts simple and gets harder and harder step by step, I like that kind of games. Good music and nice visual certanly set up the mood, and dialogues add some humor. Overall - great game!
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD46 → A tale of Rebirthism
By pomo
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 594 | 3.76 | 136 | |
| Fun | 678 | 3.59 | 136 | |
| Innovation | 547 | 3.64 | 136 | |
| Theme | 617 | 3.94 | 136 | |
| Graphics | 1832 | 3.12 | 135 | |
| Humor | 305 | 3.72 | 132 | |
| Mood | 887 | 3.57 | 129 |
Very solid game which starts simple and gets harder and harder step by step, I like that kind of games. Good music and nice visual certanly set up the mood, and dialogues add some humor. Overall - great game!
Loved the overall mood of it. Especially wierd characters in text
I love these little touches that give the game life - different voices / text colors / personalities for characters that would otherwise be so simple - it reminded me a bit of Thomas Was Alone even. The story and humor, mixed with the surreal setting, made the game give off such a weird mood. It also got me invested, so I'm sad that I wasn't able to get past the second encounter with Might Opponent :tm: and never got to see whether they ever got those sweet n̨͟u̢͜ǵ̷͟҉g̶͠e̷̶̢̧t͝s͏̶̕͢.
@joleon that is the final level!! And yes there may be a nice little surprise at the end hehe. That final level was meant to be hard, so don't be sad about it! If you fell like trying just the final level again it is Level 5 in the level select. Thanks for playing and the feedback!
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hey you guys want any . . n̢̛͎̠̲̬̫͐͆̍͊͟͠ȗ̷̗̺̻̫͚̔͊͌̇̋͘͘̚ͅg̷̫͍͙̼͙̪͇̦̼̙̽͌̈̇̈́͝ḡ̡͖̜͙̬͈͙͚̿̒̌́̈́ȩ̨̛̦̻̊̅̎̐̎̀̒̓̀͟t̴̡̛̹̫̝̟̩̪̫̋̍́̊̾̇̔̉́s̵̡̮̲͙̳̑͋̑͋̚̚͞ͅ . .
If anyone manages to beat the game please let me know! As i mentioned the final level is really hard, so I'm just curious if I maybe made it a liiittle too hard...
Really liked the game. Dialogue was great, and I loved the "voices"/sounds they made. I couldn't beat the last level so sadly I couldn't catch the whole story, definitely a little too hard, haha. Also, I think what made the game hard were the commands and aiming system. Maybe some sort of aim assist could be enough. Will try again to beat it. Good job overall!
@bredian @solidhinken @joleon @claybro2021 @shwany-b) @armandoagra Hello! Since some of you guys really enjoyed the game but could not beat it, I've made a video of me beating so you guys can see the finale! Is at the botton of the game page! Thanks again for playing and for the feedback!
Really like the dialogues and surreal aesthetics of the game, the lore and interactions between the characters are great! The game is hard, couldn't beat it, so thanks for the final level video!
Cool game, it's an old idea with a clever twist. Difficult but funny, I like the aesthetics. Good job!
Cool controls/mechanics. Only bug i found was that after i died, some of my projectiles remained on screen and blocked new shots. The dialogue was great, but did drag on a bit too long. Especially with jam games, i want to get into the action immediately. Good job.
really nice and challenging game. Fits very well with the theme. Good job!!
I liked that strange dialogue, those weird characters caught me off guard.
Even if there are a few things you can adjust it really plays an important role with this kind of aesthetic. The mechanics are pretty solid! I really enjoyed playing it!
I love the blinking eye when you click. the gameplay twists my brain, nice work. thanks for showing the ending!
I like the concept, presentation, and play on the theme. The gameplay felt good and the dialogue was interesting. I felt like I wanted to use specific keys to select a specific unit but the j/k keys worked well. Nice work!
Ok, this was so so so cool! First, love seeing a surrealist / weird game in Ludum Dare. I'm a sucker for weird games. Second, the atmosphere feels so good and I don't know whether that was your intention or not, but the music aligned with the space background made me feel cozy and relaxed for some reason.
I'm bad at hard games, but I like how the game doesn't punish you and instead it just continues.
@splitpainter It certainly was my intention! Glad you liked it, thanks for playing and the feedback! Great to see someone from my country liking the game this much!
@arthurds Since I'm between two countries, which country do you refer to: Denmark or Brazil? :D
@splitpainter Brazil!
@arthurds legal! Isso que é o legal do Ludum Dare - mundo todo nesse ambiente de criatividade positiva!
I like the concept. It's strange, but plays pretty well.
A couple criticisms:
1) There wasn't any feedback for when I changed eyeball shooty-bang-bang-thingies, besides the highlighted menu icon at the bottom. There should be some visual representation on the eyes themselves (like a little jiggle when I switch or something) to tell me which one I'm using so that I don't have to glance at the menu and lose focus on the incoming meteors
2) The eyeballs spinning around while talking is a nice touch, but it interferes with my aim. The only time it was a problem was when miss red decided *SHE WANTED SOME NUGGETS*. I think the eyes should have reverted to their positions when the character scripts started.
3) My shots were getting misdirected by the other eyes' shots. I don't know if they were colliding or if there is some sort of magnetism, but it was certainly a slight annoyance.
Other than that, there were a few grammar issues, but nothing terrible. Overall, well done!
@gmaanicus Thanks for the feedback! The part you refered in your second point was actually intentional to annoy the player a bit and disrupt his aim! So I'm glad to hear it worked hahaha.
@arthurds LOL! Nicely done then!
this game is Awesome! great difficullty curve! really liked it! only thing that you could add is to add abbility to change beetween eye's and shield's with numbers. This game has a lot of potential
I like the concept. Dialogs are very funny and the gameplay is good !
Dude I love the game, but it's really time consuming and I don't have the greatest attention span :sweat_smile: maybe if you made the dialog easier to skip and slightly shortened the levels it would help, but that's just my opinion
This was absolutely hilarious. I kinda want some nuggets now!
Really nice idea! I felt easy at the beginning but then...Lol. Good dissociation exercise!!
very nice game.... i like the graphics and the shooting is precise enough to enjoy the game. like the special effects in there.
Thanks for the game :) Found your game on Twitch @instafluff. Space theme is always cool for me :) Wish you the best of luck!
I came from twitch ! I zoned out to be honest, it's a game that really puts you in a state of flow. Thank you for your entry !
Nice game! I enjoyed the dialogue and the sound effects.
The game got pretty difficult with the 3 colors, but the game was pretty fun and worked well. the story element was really fun too!
Very nice game, i enjoyed it! I'm going to leave a review without reading what other people have said so you can see if something is echoing.
What i would've liked is to bind each eyeball color to a different button instead of scrolling through them. For example J is red K is green and so on. Another thing that would be cool is powerups that drop that maybe increase fire rate or rotating rate or something.
That being said, it's still a great game, good work!
Great concept! A bit too hard for me to go through, however, the art WAS ON POINT!
Really nice! I was kinda bad at it but the interactions are so funny and that's a nice mechanic! Just missed some sound feedback while switching between the eyes when things got more intense hahah
The texts, including the sounds are really funny, and I enjoyed the challenging part of the game. A bit easier indication, like outlining or some effects on the controlled :͜͜.̷͠͠_̷͝҉'҉́͟-̢҉ - instead of showing it on the bottom could have helped a bit. I fancy the mechanics and the idea, and had fun with the game!
dang when this game started it was feeling very simple. but then you added multipel people and a story and expectations subverted lol. Very good submission! I did not quite beat lel XP
this has to be the winner. at least it has to be in the top. dude/s this game is great! it's a difficult game, but i think it is great as it is rn
i had a rough time reading the red text but i thin'k im getting kind of blind from playing games xD
awesome narrative, great universe and characters. I love the mood of the game and it's humor too. Unique and challenging
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bizsFmy__lY
Hello! Your game was played during my stream!
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They need those chicken nuggets. The caliber of gameplay needed to beat that final level is WAY beyond my skill, but I liked the core gameplay. I wish I could fight the end boss without having to beat the level beforehand.
Played on stream: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/600003845
That was a very challenging but fun game! I really wanted to keep going for the rest of the dialogue, but got stuck on a level. I'd like to come back and try it again some time! At first I wasn't sure about the graphics but they turned out to be perfect for this and couldn't imagine the game with another style. The dialogue was wonderful and I let out more than one laugh reading through it, you have a really good sense of humour. While the gameplay was challenging, it also felt intuitive so it didn't feel particularly unfair. I also really liked the music and sound effects, very fitting. Great job!
It was a very challenging game about multitasking, you really need to be doing 3 things at the same time in order to beat that asdasdas whatever it's called.
I also enjoyed the funny text conversations, but the voice of blue and red were really annoying (specially red).
It's a great idea and the game was fun to play, while I also appreciate the fact that difficulty went up smoothly. Definitely going to get some nuggets now, though.
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Hello there! I played your game on-stream last night. Thank you for sharing it!
My favorite part of this game is that - on the surface - the main mechanic appears simple and understandable... One might take a look at it and think that they may be about to play something familiar and approach it casually.
But the game is full of surprises - thinking about the rotations of each weapons, the direction of the rotation, the color of each weapon... and also remembering which weapon I have *equipped*; it forced my brain to think in ways that not many video games have. There is no muscle memory here - a brand new skill to learn. Fun!
And on top of that, there's a whole delightful narrative to follow throughout!
I think some "quality of life" improvements could push this game even further: Add a highlight to indicate which weapon the player has equipped so they do not have to take their eyes off the play area. Maybe add some logic to the random color changes so the asteroids will not change "red" or "blue" after it has passed the distance that it can be hit by those weapons.
Thank you so much for sharing this wacky game :smile:
@jake-marks You CAN fight the final boss without beating the level before!!!! Just select level 5 in the level select screen!!!!! Thank you for playing it!
@carlix DID YOU REALLY BEAT IT!!!????? If you confirm it with me right now I will add you to the list of people that beated it!!!! Edit: Got excited, added you anyway, good job!!!!
@arthurds Yes, I did! Does this prove it?
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@carlix It sure does!!! Congratulations and thank you for playing!!!!!! I added you to the MLG PRO GAMER list
It was very fun and challenging! But I did it and it felt great. Thank you for making such a fun gam! Great job! aTaleOfRebirth.png
@shadow30 Congrats!!! Will add you to the list!!
Hehe things are getting out of hand later into the game :) Reminds me of our previous LD entry. Well done!
Wow, awesome concept. Cool blending of the mechanics and narrative. One of the top 3 games for me.
I'm not good at this kind of games so I ofc died a lot of times. It was actually harder than driving a car. But I know that was the concept :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:
I liked the audio and humor. Besides that, I think I would add the possibility to speed up dialogues lines. Nice to see something with dialogs in a game jam!
Great game! Really challenging and the interactions are a nice and funny addition.
I think is overall a good game. Good idea and good implementation, but I had a really hard time for reading the red text. The red eye was also really shiny... maybe is my screen? I'm not sure, this only happened with this game :thinking:
OH MY DEAR PRECIOUS, I so love this game right now! I'm totally sucking at it but I love it either way - that doesn't happen often. My mind is hurting from combining both of my hands.
It would love to play it on a gamepad with colors of the eyes assigning to the colors of A-X-B-Y on xBox controller. But then, it might game been to easy that way. And I had some problems spotting blue meteorites - no problems with green and red, thou. Maybe some glow about it would help?
Anyway, this is the most fun game I have tried so far on LD!
Best, Anna from 4boa team
Hey! Very nice game! :smile: Nice gameplay and nice humour :smile: Loved your weird character typing hahah It was a just the amount of difficult :wink: Keep on making awesome games! :smile:
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@sir-syko Thank you for playing!! I added you to the MLG PRO GAMER list!!!
Tbh I expected like 2 even harder levels after everyone said how dificult it was, i found it not too hard (I died once) :/ Beat it.png The text was very slow, which I did not enjoy. Other than that good job I liked playing it :)
@ausstein try out endless mode! It gets really intense really fast. Will add you to the MLG PRO GAMER list
Quite a nice game! It definitely gets too hard for me though :laughing: But I was enjoying it all the way to the moment when I died horribly ;)! Music feels well-chosen as well. Impressive solo job!
Super solid game! I thought it was too easy at first, but I quickly ate my words. The dialog was my favorite part, and the music choice fit the game really well. Sadly the final level was too tricky for me, but nice job on the game!
I like how you designed the combat system. It's challenging and pretty enjoyable. I wish you could have added some screen shake and juice to it!
This gets hectic very fast! Awesome game though, it's tons of fun and the atmosphere is very strange. It feels very abstract and eerie, but fun at the same time. Great work!
Very challenging, but loved the mood!
Cool but very challenging game xD My brain hurt, otherwise I would have played it for longer, feels like there's some interesting stuff that I missed. Great entry! Here's my playthrough of it: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/600651093
Really interesting concept! Thanks for bringing it by the stream!
Hey there! I thought this was really fun to play. I feel like it was harder than it should have because of the controls but I still has fun. The explosions looked really really awesome, and the sounds were great too. I think that you could make the controls easier to use, and possibly put them on the mouse. I think you could send the meteors to the player in a different kind of pattern. Like when you get the second eye you could basically send the one hit rocks for each colored eye, then make a bigger rock that changes colors when hit. This rock could move slower than the rest, all while the one hit rocks are coming as well.You could also show the player what color the rock will turn into giving the player more better opportunities to defeat all the oncoming rocks. You could have a full circle of one hit rocks come down on the player all at once in unison. You could have each eyeball shoot a different kind of weapon. Maybe one eyeball shoots a lazer, and one shoots something with a splash attack, like sort of a makeshift rocket launcher. Maybe you could even give the player some type of super move, where after you have defeated say 20 rocks, you could press a button and freeze all the rocks on the screen. By the way I think you did an awesome job! Good Work!
-Cranch
The gameplay of A Tale of Rebirthism is fun and engaging, but obviously what makes it stand out is the dialogue, which was consistently funny throughout. I wasn't sure if the typos and misspellings were intentional or not but they only added to the charm. Good stuff!
from what I read here, everyone has already exhausted the topic and I would not have anything new to say. A really innovative game, congratulations! The graphics could be a bit more refined, but it is known that in Ludum Dare there is never time to polish everything! :D Good luck in next LD Jam!
We met on MateusBoga's strim and I gave you my unoriginal thoughts back then. I don't think I have anything constructive to say on top of the existing comments. Just coming by to say I liked the game.
I like the idea, man I like this game. The dialogue gives the game a lot of life!! Great game. Simple idea but super fun! Good luck on your LD journey!!
Very creative and fun game! The mechanics keeps the player focused and the dialogues between the eyes are hilarious. Loved the alien language touch. Excellent work
Very nice game! I managed to beat the final boss in the second try :)
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Very unique and challenging experience. I couldnt make it to the end, but i can see the game goes crazy after a while from the screenshots people are posting. Its a very good game, so good job!
@stefan-laimer Thanks for playing it I added you to THE MLG PRO GAMER LIST!!!!!!
So nice man, i cant beat the game. But i'm still having fun
It's nice to see a relatively simple mechanic explored to a high degree. My finger movement rate wasn't quite enough to pass level 4, but that mostly felt like personal struggle, as the difficulty curve was quite nice. Some more consistency in art style would make the game more pleasing, but it still works nicely for a game jam. As for the audio, simple and effective.
Dialog was great! Enjoyed juggling the different colors. Took a moment to figure out that the meteors would change color, so maybe some audio or fx to give feedback would be helpful. Easy to pick up and play otherwise. Nice jam!
Love space games, and this is a good one. I found it pretty difficult. If you keep working on it, add game pad support - can control green guy with left stick, blue guy with right stick, red guy with bumpers, etc... make people tangle their fingers all up on a gamepad lol
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Great game. I loved it. Just needs better graphics. Also its a great idea to have a winner list. That incentivises people to play the game.
SUPER funny! I found the controls pretty difficult for me but the dialogue kept me going :)
Hey Pomo. Really liked your game. Fun mechanics and well executed. Regards from SuphaMahn :)
As I said on stream, if you had mapped the functions to 1234 instead of jk it would've made it much less micromanagement of 1000 things at once, and acceleration on the outer shield (or having the shield closest to the centre, or having it defend "below" it too would help a lot. Was gratifying beating that last boss, that guy deserved death for sure.
Had such a great time playing this one! Reminded me of some old classic arcae games in the 90s! Well polished and the concept is nice! Good luck!
weird looking, but really fun game :smile:
It has that arcade feel, but switching can be a hassle. There could be ways to make it more intuitive. Or even turn it into a local multiplayer, when several people can play at the same time.
Wow that was fun! Enjoyed the humor too! The game itself was a little tough and I would have loved to see some camera shake in there, but for the time allotted you did great!
Love the music! it's so chill - doesn't exactly match how hard this gets haha. It's pretty stressful! I like the humor and the overall aesthetic :)
Fantastic game, audio is great, graphics work really well, dialog and humor are perfect and the instant restarts are welcome. Got too hard for me, wish I had a way to instantly switch to each with feedback (maybe jkl;). Very well done!
Nice game. It ramps up nicely, by starting with only one and going up.
The text boxes felt a bit slow, but besides that a really fun game.
Loved the plot, sounds were fully matching with characters, lovely. Only reason I didn't finish the game is because I didn't want to waste to much time trying/getting angry today XD Really nice entry! congratulations! You can have some n̢̛͎̠̲̬̫͐͆̍͊͟͠ȗ̷̗̺̻̫͚̔͊͌̇̋͘͘̚ͅg̷̫͍͙̼͙̪͇̦̼̙̽͌̈̇̈́͝ḡ̡͖̜͙̬͈͙͚̿̒̌́̈́ȩ̨̛̦̻̊̅̎̐̎̀̒̓̀͟t̴̡̛̹̫̝̟̩̪̫̋̍́̊̾̇̔̉́s̵̡̮̲͙̳̑͋̑͋̚̚͞ͅ now hahaha
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It was a weird game, and it was also a great game. Couldn't go past level 4, but I had a lot of fun. Amazing work. Good keybinding choices, nicely increasing difficulty, fun story. I crave me some n̢̛͎̠̲̬̫͐͆̍͊͟͠ȗ̷̗̺̻̫͚̔͊͌̇̋͘͘̚ͅg̷̫͍͙̼͙̪͇̦̼̙̽͌̈̇̈́͝ḡ̡͖̜͙̬͈͙͚̿̒̌́̈́ȩ̨̛̦̻̊̅̎̐̎̀̒̓̀͟t̴̡̛̹̫̝̟̩̪̫̋̍́̊̾̇̔̉́s̵̡̮̲͙̳̑͋̑͋̚̚͞ͅ now...
Thanks for submitting your game for me to play on my livestream!
If you’d like to rewatch the playthrough, you can find it here:
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/615937007?t=4h02m47s
Good luck on your ratings, see you next LD! :D
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Ah Pomo, what an experience. I did find your dialogue took a bit too long to get through (considering I don't find nuggets funny..!) However, I enjoyed the game and I appreciate the effort you put into the presentation and scripting. For a jam - checkpoints would have been good. But at least you shared a video to the ending so people could see it if they wanted.
Great game. I really like the individual characters. I didn't expect them to be characters at first glance, but I'm glad that they're not just some kind of weapon without personality. The gameplay was fun. I had to adjust with the character switching each time I got a new character. Maybe the ability to select the character with numbers would help with that (like changing weapons in an fps with the numbers keys instead of scrolling).
Also thanks for playing our game in your stream. :smile:
@honest-dan Daaaaaan!!! Wait, there are checkpoints, there is even a level select, when you die you restart the level, not everything. You're saying you want even more checkpoints ? Split the levels even more ? Hmmmmm
I fell like you may be refering about the interruption dialog in level 3, I made that one to be annoying and interrupt the player, so it repeats every time you play level 3, but that is the only one with that intention.
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@arthurds you are correct, my mistake - I misremembered, it was the repeating dialogue!