Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD46 → Keep the flame alive
By dimling
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 818 | 3.08 | 27 | |
| Fun | 776 | 2.96 | 27 | |
| Innovation | 709 | 3.06 | 27 | |
| Theme | 464 | 3.74 | 27 | |
| Graphics | 821 | 2.94 | 27 | |
| Humor | 699 | 2.35 | 23 | |
| Mood | 449 | 3.29 | 26 |
Interesting concept, I really like the concept but I wasn't able to find the helicopter. Once there was some matches in a tree I couldn't get to. I got to the point where I could hear the helicopter but I couldn't find it. Good job!
Thanks for playing, its a bit tricky to find the helicopter. When the sound is high, it is nearby :) The easiest way is to follow the sound bar And yes, no collision detection on trees for spiders and matches ;)
I enjoyed the game, and like the concept. Didn't find the helicopter but was still fun.
Nice game, is it automatically generated or there is multiple helicopter? I play 2 times and win 2 times \o/. The mood is excelent, congrats.
This was fun! Thanks for making it. I couldn't see the spiders for some reason so would mysteriously die. I liked the simple structure and gameplay that had enough depth to be interesting. Had to balance searching for matches vs finding the chopper. Have a good one!
Great for people that don't like spiders :rofl:
Congratulations on the entry :thumbsup_tone1: :purple_heart: :dart: :frog:
I found the chopper! The issue I ran into is that the game window was larger than my browser and so I had to keep scrolling to see the top or the bottom of the screen. I'd died a few times before seeing that there was actually a meter at the top of the screen that I could use to locate the chopper My hearing is not the greatest) and that's an accessibility feature I really appreciate. Overall good job, fits the theme and the darkness + chopper noises + trees and stuff managed to evoke a bit of a "lost in the woods" vibe that was cool.
rated on itch.io ;)
I found the chopper! The issue I ran into is that the game window was larger than my browser and so I had to keep scrolling to see the top or the bottom of the screen. I'd died a few times before seeing that there was actually a meter at the top of the screen that I could use to locate the chopper My hearing is not the greatest) and that's an accessibility feature I really appreciate. Overall good job, fits the theme and the darkness + chopper noises + trees and stuff managed to evoke a bit of a "lost in the woods" vibe that was cool.
I found the chopper! The problem for me was that the game window was larger than my browser so I had to scroll up and down to see the top and bottom of the screen. I eventually saw the noise meter at the top and was able to locate the chopper (My hearing isn't the greatest), that was an accessibility feature I really appreciated :)
Over all good job. Fits the theme, and darkness + chopper noises + forest motif evoked a "Lost in the woods" vibe.
Nice game! Thrilling! Good job creating the suspense! I finished the game, Made it to the heli.. Yeaay...
This following the sound thing was very interesting! I feel like maybe the volume bar on the UI made it a bit to easy. Could have been cool if the spiders also made sounds, and you had to avoid them by listening.
Made it on the third try! Fun game, especially like the sound bar so you don't *have* to hear it to still enjoy.
One thing I noticed is that diagonal movement is faster than horizontal or vertical movement, not sure if that was intended but one way to avoid that is to use a vector, normalize it to get the overall direction and then multiply the length to the proper speed. Not sure if that's clear, but I think it's a pretty common problem that would be easy to look up. It's just a small suggestion though, and the faster diagonal actually helped me get away from the spiders so I enjoyed exploiting it :grin:
Played a couple of times and also couldn't find the helicopter. It's a good concept, could just perhaps do with tweaking to be a little easier initially - especially the torch seemed to burn through very fast.
Cool game :) It was fun, and I reached the helicopter. The controls felt great too. I would've liked some more audio to set the mood, but understand it could've been due to time constraints that these weren't added. :)
Very spooky! The sound bar was a good idea. Pretty short game as I found the helicopter almost immediately.
Hi guys!
Thanks for all the great feedback. I am glad you all enjoyed the game.
To answer a few of the questions you have:
Yes. It does. As well as all the spiders and matches.
I found it a bit hard to balance the number of spiders and matches. Too many matches and it was too easy. Too few, and it was way too hard. Same for spiders. The following amount of spiders/matches is based on quick testing. I can maybe increase the number of matches a bit (100 today)
The sound distance is not too great. I would recommend watching the soundbar, at the top right, instead of listening too the in game sound.
Sorry about this. I will see if I can try to fix this a bit later on. I discovered the problem at the time of submission and had some trouble fixing it.
Thanks! Feel free to ask any questions and all feedback is welcome :smile:
It's a good start and some nice graphics. I enjoy the idea of being lost in a forest full of spiders, very creepy.
As feedback, I'd give the player something... else to do while running from spiders. Maybe a short dash, maybe something to push spiders away. As it stands this game is a dodge and find, and I feel it could have more depth.
The tree colliders are a little bigger than what they should, I died a couple of times because of that, fun game!
I like the hot/ cold mechanic for finding the helicopter. I've found the helicopter, while being chased by 7 creepy spiders! :scream:
Could it be that there is still some compression/ filtering going on? The pixel art feels a bit blurry. You can change this by inspecting the Sprite in Unity. crips-pixel.PNG
Nice concept and game. Great job!
Good game. I like how the volume changes as you get closer to the chopper, and how you added a volume bar. I would have made the tree's collision box smaller and at the bottom that way you can walk behind it. You would also have to add a depth sorter, but I think it's worth it.
I love it, has a nice challenge making it really fun, thanks for your post!
Found the chopper, fun game :)
Cannot find the chopper. I hear it but I cannot find it! :)
Nice game! Well done in just 48 hours :smile: Some more sound would be nice and the graphics seem a bit compressed or scaled up. All in all a good entry :slight_smile: