Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD46 → Marx's Graffiti Squad
By rongefilet
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 849 | 3.64 | 54 | |
| Fun | 653 | 3.60 | 54 | |
| Innovation | 823 | 3.48 | 53 | |
| Theme | 1925 | 3.27 | 54 | |
| Graphics | 1005 | 3.77 | 53 | |
| Humor | 501 | 3.51 | 50 | |
| Mood | 947 | 3.53 | 51 |
Further proof that we need communism.
On a more serious note, that is a neat little game. It was pretty challenging though, having a checkpoint between each level would have been great. Not sure what the connection to theme is, but other than that it was really enjoyable.
Thank you! Yeah the game balance has also suffered from the time spent on bugs (or poor time management and scope, no one knows). Thank for pointing out that the link to the theme was not obvious, I added an explanation in the description.
Definitely challenging and an in game tutorial would definitely help but I eventually figured out how the game works. I think the sprint meter should be bigger/refill faster but overall this game made spreading communism a little bit more fun.
Pretty fun area takeover game, but I feel the sprinting is a bit too short, and the lack of checkpoints between levels makes it turbo hard to finish. I couldn't make it past level 2, but had a fun challenge on the first one.
This game is just the right kind of stressful. It would be nice to retry a level after being arrested instead of being reset to the beginning. Other than that, nice challenge!
And man, those policemen have *stamina*.
@d5r @jefvel Yeah I entirely, agree but even though it's just a variable to change I want to keep the game as it were on the deadline, I intend to make a post-jam version with at least audio, some more levels and those tweaks. Thanks for the feedback!
One of my favorite games in the jam so far. Excellent work comrade!
solid all round game, gameplay quite fun and challenging, nice graphics, i think the stamina bar does not refresh after you die though
cool and fun idea! movement feels smooth, didnt make it trough the whole game but definitely enjoey playing it!
Wonderful idea! it has a super cosy feeling to it. Nice job with the player controller
Fun game, but really hard for me! I wish I could run just a bit more. Anyway it was cool :D
Fun and a nice challenge -- I'll report a super minor bug -- sprint stamina on one level persists through to the next. Not a big deal but something I noticed. Great work!
cool idea! with more time it would have been GREAT
I love you. This game is the best I've played so far. It is as hard as Dark Souls, and really fun. Problably I would implement a saving system, it is impossible to finish.
definitively 5 stars out of 5
Cute, fun and let's you play as the best possible character, an old lady.
I like the constant pressure and those kinda hit-and-run actions, but it was too hard for me to pass through even 2nd level, but this is still a pretty good game!
For some reason, spraying on things didn't have any effect. I pressed X on many walls and I see the spray but it doesn't draw anything :(
I really like how the game looks and avoiding the guards feels stressful in a good way
@peco totally understandable, I should have added feedback for this, you have to hold the spray button until the graph is done (it takes one full second).
cool sneaking gameplay! we always need more communism so good job
This was fun! Great game entry! And very creative too!!
Really fun game, quite satisfying painting hammers and sickels all over people's houses of course! Certainly a challenge also.
very cute characters. Graffiti is praxis
It's awesome! Fun, mood! One of best game I played in this jam! Thank you!
Cute game and fun idea for keeping it alive!
I played the jam version, since we're still voting, so you might already have attended to it in your balancing version. But I found that the game was rather unfair when you start a level the first time as the police come up on you rather abruptly. I should say I didn't see that there was a sprint key so that meant I needed to be 100% undetected. Anyways, this doesn't matter too much on the first level, but it feels rather unfair once progressed to the second level and beyond, as it drops you right back to the first level. I would consider either letting the player restart on the current level or at least give the player three lives before dropping them back at the first level.
Otherwise a really neat experience.
it looks like something i would play a lot if it was on mobile! the controls are kinda broken: character is only able to walk fast while pressing space key, but while it is pressed the cops run like hell. pretty game! :)
@local-minimum Yep those are addressed in the balanced version, and I'm glad you suggested a lives system, for now I've just made a checkpoint at each level but I intend to work a little more on the game (put audio in, some more levels and polish) and I thought about having this. Thanks for the feedbacks!
Lovely pixel graphics and fun mechanics. A good submission all around. Just wished for a continue mechanic (lives, checkpoints, anything). Congratulations!
Nice game, really puts a smile on my face ! Communism shall never die ;). I love the pixel art, congratulations !
Love the graphics and the influence control aspect. As mentioned by others, checkpoints would definitely help. Good job!
I LOVE the interpretation of the theme, unfortunately I think the Balanced Win build has some sort of bug, the games runs at like 3fps, unless I hold space to bring up the map, then it runs at normal speed, but it's really hard to tell where I'm going since I'm suddenly speeding around and the map covers most of my view. Anyways I'll still rate it as if that wasn't an issue, I still thought the main loop was fun and the graphics are quite nice, it's a shame you didn't have time for sound as I think that would have really sold the mood! good job guys!!
I'm so glad that you did a version with level restarts. Playing the whole game from the beginning wasn't great. Otherwise I really liked your game a lot and your spin on the stealth genre.
Also your vision coins are amazing. How did you do them? I have a stealth game side project (and I did one for this LD) and I never could do them properly.
Great game! Cool graphics, good game play and challenging levels which kept me on my toes for the guards. Nicely done!
@le-don Oh, that's so nice thank you!
So for the vision cones, I'm sure there are better way to do it (lots of resources on that online) but here is what I did: - For the graphic display I generate points at the enemy position, translate them along it's velocity/direction vector and rotate them gradually using the enemy as pivot point. Then check collisions between the created segments and the level geometry, moving the end point accordingly, and finally draw a polygon clockwise including one more point at the enemy's feet. - Regarding player detection it's only a matter of checking if the distance to the enemy is lower than the cone radius, that the angle is in it's arc bounds and that the line enemy->player does not intersect with level geometry.
I had never done neither cone vision nor A* pathfinding before, those were quite the time-sinks but quite a joy to see it working in the end, glad it payed off ^^.
@simex @dabbu The bug have been patched out, thanks a lot for pointing out the issue! (Oh and while I would have loved to work with friends none of them was available, I actually made the game on my own ^^")
Cool little game. Liked the clean pixel art. Nice color schemes. The missing sound and/or music is a bummer, but time is money. Making a game alone is though, I'm sure. The first level was pretty easy, but from the second one on, the difficulty really takes off. It was very easy to lose, beacause the police was very fast and hard to shake off. If the sprint timing was off by a little, you basically are game over. This could be re balanced a little to allow more ways to get away from the police. Maybe even have an item per level that allows to stop them in their tracks for a short amount of time. It was a bit frustrating, because it could be over so quickly after working hard to spray a lot of walls.
Aside from that, the mechnanics worked pretty well. But I didn't like the button placements. W and X as action button were awkward to press together with the cursor keys.
All in all, good entry. Keep it up!
@duke Regarding difficulty those issues are fixed in the balanced version (post-jam). For the keyboard layout I've realized that too late but it has been made with the AZERTY layout in mind, in which W and Z are swapped ^^".
☭ ! It is a nice and well done game. I've sent this page to some comrades from the french party :p I think they're gonna laugh.
Mechanics are simple to understand but tuned to be pretty smooth and nice. The game seems quite fair to me at least in the balanced version.
You need a chiptune version of the Internationale. x)
@damdoshi Haha, I'm working on a polished version and I've actually already planed to include nods to the Internationale in the title screen theme.
I loved this! It was simple and quick. Can't wait to see if you add more to it!