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Rock Bottom

By offz, Cosmo48, neoverture and gunther joshua

View on ldjam.com

CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall5513.7825
Fun5033.6826
Innovation7293.5426
Theme22183.0026
Graphics6334.0127
Audio7863.4324
Humor9063.1222
Mood9313.5424

Comments

blake-freer 2020-04-21 02:33

This is a brilliant game. It is very original; I have never played something like this before, but I was able to easily grasp the mechanics and make my was through the levels. I like the graphics and the musics fits the game. Well done!

itzdaneko 2020-04-21 02:44

Hello! I just played this an I found it fairly fun! very cute art style too, it was simple for me to understand and play, great work! :)

p-dude 2020-04-21 03:01

Simple but effective! Love the clean artstyle, too. Great job with this.

santriptasharma 2020-04-21 04:02

the art is v v nice

dane-tesla 2020-04-21 19:44

it was easy to understand and very cute! also thank you for the skip button xD if i was told to improve something it'd probs make the platform and background ratio different (so we can see the whole room) and maybe intro kinda like your intro in the game descritpion ^^

kayacarlton 2020-04-22 19:50

Love the art style and really good gameplay :D

fpgames 2020-04-24 00:21

Really clever Puzzle game..Loved it!

wallyfoo 2020-04-24 19:00

I'm a sucker for a good physics puzzler. I think you have a good concept going here. I would love to see it developed.

jk5000 2020-04-25 20:12

The idea is good, and the game is overall pretty fun to play. The physics system make it a bit too random, and it not super fun to have start the levels from start every time you make a mistake. Overall a is this a pretty good jam game.

sheldonzs 2020-05-02 03:12

Very impressive work. Pretty straightforward to pick up the game concept, and a good variety of items to play with. Maybe I missed it, but it would be cool if there was a way to rotate items before releasing the rocks.

thecritterscove 2020-05-02 14:07

The game mechanics are really fun, but restarting from round 1 every time....not so much. It makes sense to be able to restart all the rounds, so the placed items can be reset. But one playthrough isn't enough to figure out if those items are working or not. Especially since half the platforms involve the player moving them. I had quite a few setups that likely would work fine if I didn't overshoot with the movable platforms. So would definitely suggest adding a reset for the current round only.

I would also suggest reducing the number of player controllable platforms. It's hard to adequately control more than one at a time while watching where the other rocks are flying. Though maybe this points to the rocks being a little to happy to fly like a balloon.

Otherwise though, it's a really neat game. It also has a fun art style and nice casual music. This game has the elements to be a legit game, just needs a bit more refining.

teo-miklethun 2020-05-02 19:24

Excelent entry. Great mechanics, and wonderful presentation. My only recommendation would be to remove the rounds system. I'd try to make harder puzzles with as few elements as possible, but make it so that if you complete a round, you're done with the level. It was pretty tiresome to restart whenever I failed, or worse, to realize that because of my previous setup, the next round would be much harder.

notke 2020-05-05 03:02

Nice and simple game. I couldn't pass the 3rd level tho. The controllable springs basically have infinite power, and in the end it kinda depends on the luck and how well you target. As a Rube Goldberg machine it would be much better to have as few controllable things as possible. It reminds me of The Incredible Machine.

offz 2020-05-12 17:21

Thanks for the comments everyone. For sure the way stages are set up is really annoying. I wanted to get a button to only restart the portion you're on, but that was like 2 hours of code to get it to work and we were basically left with 2 hours to get any sort of stages done, so had to scrap that. That's also the reason the difficulty rampup is really wack. Anyways, thanks for playing and best of luck on your games!

bohrmaschine2000 2020-05-12 19:07

Nice Art i like the gameplay.