Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD46 → PollUFO
By oddsocks
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 1661 | 3.30 | 22 | |
| Fun | 1399 | 3.23 | 23 | |
| Innovation | 1691 | 3.04 | 23 | |
| Theme | 1617 | 3.47 | 23 | |
| Graphics | 1175 | 3.66 | 23 | |
| Audio | 1149 | 3.11 | 23 | |
| Humor | 664 | 3.34 | 21 | |
| Mood | 2033 | 2.85 | 23 |
First of all congrats to your new game! :) The timeframe is hard but I think you did really great job. The animations are awesome and the sound effect of shooting ?! Awesome ! :D Really made me laugh. Overall really nice entry with a theme I can relate to! Thank you for your game!
... now, get me out of here! (Wanted to share the screenshot, but did not want to spoil the ending for others, but I get all the polluters!)
Nice work dude! keep on goin!
consider playing my game? https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/ballad-of-the-bard/comments
Nice little game and great components given the short amount of time! Would have liked to see more variation (like the right end) but I'm guessing there just wasn't enough time. Loved the sound though! Music got a little repetitive but really suited the game and added to the vibe. That laser noise is adorable!
Was fun albeit short :)
Do missile tanks do any actual damage to you though?
Could also be interesting to potentially fight soldiers, tanks, missiles, helicopters, airplanes, etc.
@firellon Thanks for playing :D I had got as far as creating little soldiers, and helicopters were on my to-do-list! Originally you did take damage, but I ran out of time, and couldn't add any sort of lives or health bar, so you just loose points if you are hit.
HAHA the piou piou sounds are really something else! For some reason I enjoyed shooting down all trees and seeing fire. A great execution and I am sure you can and will a lot of new stuff on this game! Keep it up and good luck!
Really nice game! Made it to the end. The sound effects are just great and blowing up pollutors is always nice :)
The pixel art animation was astonishing. I wish there were more objects in the scene. Although nice game!
The aiming seems a bit off, I do not hit the things the mouse points at, it's slightly down, but I still managed to destroy all those pesky polluters!
Nice game. Found it a shame that you couldn't take any damage (I see you answer this question above already). Would have been much harder. (Maybe have a little shop where you can upgrade your guns), I loved the idea with the trees and the points deduction (even though I had burnt a few hehe). I found the game a little too easy and managed to do it with just the Lazer (completely forgot there were missiles even). But well done considering your timing ;)
So damn, I had this whole thing pretty much written already and went for a quick more check to the game to verify something I wrote. Then forgot that I was in a browser game and force quit the whole browser losing everything I wrote. :disappointed:
Oh well, here we go again...
Very nice pixel art and funny sound effects! It was still way too silent overall, there just could have been more of the sounds. The cars could make some wroom wroom noises and maybe even some periodical honkings. And other stuff like that to more liven up the place. The missile sounds (especially when it missed) could have used a bit more oomph, felt kinda lackluster. The music got repetitive and kinda annoying pretty quick.
There was so much empty space. Probably would have been better to not cap the camera movement so high up so that there was more ground visible. Would be easier to make the ground look interesting than the sky. Currently like 95% of the screen estate was just that grayish blue sky. Of course adding more clouds would help too.
Managed to start at a bit of a disadvantage because you could already shoot while still on the how to play menu. And since it made a funny sound, guess who mashed the button on blank space a bit. And it seems like I have a miraculously amazing hit percentage on trees while firing blindly. So I was already pretty deep on the negatives when the game began. Even after that, I realized quite quickly that the stakes were like nonexistent. It was easy enough to just aim between the trees and wait for the cars to position themselves on my crosshairs. Even the tanks that seemed scary at first quite quickly lost their intimidation when their shots did nothing but push you back a bit.
The missile was too overpowered in my opinion and had like no downside to using it. Makes the normal laser almost pointless. Maybe it could have even longer cooldown to discourage the spam, bigger blast radius so it would be more dangerous to use around trees and even a slight homing on the closest target to differentiate it a bit from the normal shots.
You said it yourself oo, the game is kinda barebones. Even without adding any additional real content, spicing up the scoring system could make the game more interesting. Adding a multiplier is always a quick and easy way to make scoring systems deeper. You could add up a multiplier on each "kill" and then reset it back on tree hit, getting hit yourself or maybe even after a certain amount of time without a kill. And then the different polluters could have a varying base score amounts to add a bit of strategy in your target prioritizing.
And of course by adding more actual content would be sweet way to enliven the gameplay too. Additional "enemy" types such as already pointed out by other commenters would really make it better. Especially the helicopter since it would add more stuff to the sky and balance out some of the action off the ground. And speaking of ground, having it less flat would also help. Actual terrain shapes would make the aiming less linear and boring. And of course, some additional non-polluters too! Like maybe birds that you would need to dodge too.
Anyways, I don't remember if I had anything more on my previous writeup so I guess this'll have to do, good job! :thumbsup:
I like your take on the theme. We've followed pretty much the same idea in our game. Fighting back humans that destroy and pollute the planet is a great goal :) Also kudos for the handmade sound effects. Again, we also like to create our own sound effects with our voice, it's very fun to record and tweak them for the game.
I love the concept, graphics and sound effects are beautiful. It was really easy to understand how to play and I learned pretty quit that hitting trees is big no-no. I really enjoyed playing it!