Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD46 → Flamebound
By unfinished, incomplete and workinprogress
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 2307 | 2.89 | 21 | |
| Fun | 2318 | 2.63 | 21 | |
| Innovation | 1330 | 3.23 | 21 | |
| Theme | 1286 | 3.63 | 21 | |
| Graphics | 2086 | 2.78 | 21 | |
| Audio | 1400 | 2.75 | 20 | |
| Humor | 2008 | 1.72 | 20 | |
| Mood | 2050 | 2.84 | 21 |
Interesting game mechanic, but lacks a lot of figuring out what to do which increases the frustration levels. To be honest, the dramatic intro didn't go with the game mechanic and art direction. I think it can be interesting puzzle game, given more time. Nice job anyways.
Overall, not bad :)
Good: The puzzles (the first couple of levels) and the mechanics are nice and a game could be built around them.
Could be improved: Overall, the game has a heavy, slow, feeling around it, a bit like a graveyard walk. It is slow, and all the clicking doesn't help. It would play a lot nicer, if you streamlined the controls a bit, and allowed the player to move anywhere with just one click, and all actions were not done by double clicking on areas. Adding icons for all the possible actions could help too.
The concept sound good with a little more polish. I liked it anyway,
Nice, original game! It took me some time to figure out what to do, and I got stuck at level 4 (I think) and stopped ther. The concept is nice, never seen that before :)
The idea is interesting and the core mechanics are something you could build on. I got to level 5 (or was it 4?), it took me quite a while to figure out all of the mechanics, a real challenge! Also nice with the background story, always nice when people put some effort into a story, gives the game a greater meaning. :slight_smile:
I like the idea and it's like a great puzzle.
I did got stuck at level 4 or 5 with those circular yellow cheese things.
In fact, I did it correctly and I lit my torch at the tree even with turns left, but the game just tells me it's over. I think that's a bug you should (and are allowed to) fix.
@g12345 Thanks for the tip! I did not know, that it is allowed to make minor bugfixes. Actually the bug is, that your torch seems to work after you went through water. Going through water means your torch is wet and gone. There is another way to solve the level. I fixed it so your torch stays off, if its wet. :)
There are some interesting systems here like how the fire spreads between the trees. It could be an interesting puzzle game.
Unfortunately, despite using just the mouse, I found the controls very unintuitive and confusing, which made it hard for me to get very far in the game. The having to click a second time for every action didn't make it harder to do the wrong thing, but just made doing the right thing take longer for me.
With some polish, this could be a really solid movement based puzzle game like DROD.
Neat game, good job!
i liked the mechanics the game only lacks instruction i dont know what is the goal yet im stuck on the level where ther is 4 trees i dont know what to do there ! but the music is cool too !
Really cool puzzler. I was trying to do something like that last Ludum Dare. But I don't get how to past the level 3?
@rhiz You are absolutely right. The controls are certainly something we will improve in our post-jam edition of the game :).. @aspect11 @dick-claus The trick often includes putting out the player's torch by clicking on his field to spare some rounds for later ^^