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Milk for A Dead Man (Web and Downloads Available)
Milk for A Dead Man (Web and Downloads Available)
By billnotic
View on ldjam.com
| Category | Rank | Score | Count |
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| Overall | 384 | 3.87 | 33 | |
| Fun | 495 | 3.69 | 33 | |
| Innovation | 435 | 3.71 | 33 | |
| Theme | 814 | 3.83 | 33 | |
| Graphics | 1254 | 3.60 | 34 | |
| Humor | 183 | 3.92 | 34 | |
| Mood | 742 | 3.65 | 31 | |
Comments
Really cool game! I love the gameplay of interacting with AI, I think that's really cool. I had a tough time getting enough into the heads of the AI to get very far - maybe if you iterate further you could add a visual reminder for the player of what they're thinking (like an arrow or some way to show where they're going to go). The music clashed a little with the rest of the tone of the game, but I do like it in a vacuum. Great job! :) (Oh also really great jokes, I appreciated them)
Any feedback down here in the comments would be appreciated. This is my first game jam ever and I want to make the most out of it as possible.
Edit: I'm aware of the skip in Level 4 where you can just go through the bottom path and get hit once or twice by a zombie without dying. That wasn't intentional, there was an actual puzzle solution. A bit too late to change that now though. :sweat_smile:
Edit 2: Apparently if timed right, you can just walk through the bat at the top of Level 3 and only get hit once. That is not the intended solution, and should be pretty hard to achieve in a normal playthrough.
nanoarch
2020-04-21 04:49
Interesting game, I love the concept, the art is very well done, the audio is great, you need more people looking at this game, I enjoyed it, I love the difficulty and everything. Keep up the great work.
Loved the dialog. Looked really polishes (esp for your first jam game) Awesome job!
wischi
2020-04-21 05:16
Holy moly. Such a great game. I think you should really expand on that.
The story is really good and funny. On the second to last room (conditional walls) I managed to accidentially finish the level. I was trying to figure out what to do and repeatedly opened and closed the wall next to the first monster and somehow managed to slip by it (got hurt a little bit) and move to the end without dying.
Overall a great entry.
abyss
2020-04-21 06:13
I can't believe this is your first game jam! Congrats! This is really well made and I loved everything about the theme (skeletons liking milk). Some I found I could bypass the 4th level without killing the bat so I'm not sure if I did that right, but amazing overall! :skull: :milk:
Amazing entry. Levels are great and idea is very interesting. Good job.
epicload
2020-04-21 08:42
Very interesting game! The puzzles are really cool!
Great game! Interesting mechanics! Fun characters and lanterns.
Amazing job! I would love to see a full title. A soundtrack could be nice, but not at all needed. + Graphics + Ambiance + Puzzles + Humor
I love that choice you get in the end! :)
Cool concept! The bat kept freezing on the left side on level four for some reason, but I liked the gameplay mechanics.
disperse
2020-04-22 02:03
Super polished for your first game jam, congratulations!
bebadboi
2020-04-22 02:12
Love the trap drop in the music. the dialog was great and the visuals are very polished. great job!
barret
2020-04-22 04:05
this game was funny and I had to use my brain. the only struggle was the darkness made it somewhat difficult to see what I could interact with. The highlight helped out but sometimes I didn't realize a wall was there. I also have no idea how I finally passed the second to last level haha. But the game had a lot of charm and I am glad I actually got to the end. I wasn't going to give up haha.
What a great game! Always love to see such fully fleshed out and good looking games during the jam. This could easily be adapted to mobile and expanded to be a full game. Really nice job!
hkspadez
2020-04-22 04:43
really clever puzzles. loved art atmosphere and feel. would love some extra lights on the turrets but thats about it. great work!
good game! i like it :)
hkspadez
2020-04-22 19:32
also @billnotic please excuse how badly i was playing the game while tipsy XD
sn4pi
2020-04-22 22:38
Nice game! Of course I went for the bad ending and killed that milk man. I mean he just deserved it after all the bs he has done to me in the last 4 corridors! The music was nice but got a little annoying after some time so I wouldn't mind to have a mute button in this game :shrug: The gameplay idea itself was very creative and fun. The little storytelling plus the decision at the end of the game gave the wohle thing a nice touch!
Very good!
I really liked a lot about this game. The production values, respect for the player's attention when it comes to UX and tutorials, the humour. So much of it was really on point. Big props there. I struggled a little bit with the execution of the mechanics, because the time-based element and pathing being less than deterministic made it difficult to "solve" in my head before pressing play. I found myself guessing a bit, or succeeding by a fluke in other areas. Perhaps a tile-based time like that of Rogue / Crypt of the Necrodancer would have helped this a bit. Overall, a really great effort. Thanks for the game!
if you let the milkman rush to the exit in the bottom right corner, you can easily finish level 4 haha
I think your game is really great! Awesome job with implementing the milkman's confusement as a part of the game mechanic! The puzzles were really great, I enjoyed your game the most from this LD so far.
Only part I didn't like were the conditioned walls - how could I tell them apart from the others easily? Some sort of graphic link would be really helpful to solve those. Also, at one point, the enemies became rather stuck. A bat stopped moving at all, rendering the level impossible to finish. It could possibly be a bug in the way you handle pausing the game.
Also - skeletons liking the milk. Hehe, I see what you did there! :D Really great job with the humorous part of the game.
Interesting puzzle game! Thanks for bringing it by stream for me to check out! You can find the highlight at https://www.twitch.tv/videos/606399390
This game was great! I loved the high production values, and this was a really unique take on the theme. I don't know how you came up with this concept, but I just love the idea of a skeleton lord needing his calcium.