symnel 2020-04-20 01:49
Nice story, very nice melody and animations. A bit short, but funny and good. A little less bounce would make it easier. Great job.
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD46 → Egg Rocket Unicorn
By ubershmekel
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 490 | 3.47 | 41 | |
| Fun | 556 | 3.24 | 41 | |
| Innovation | 835 | 2.88 | 41 | |
| Theme | 753 | 3.39 | 40 | |
| Graphics | 771 | 3.03 | 41 | |
| Audio | 179 | 3.63 | 40 | |
| Humor | 108 | 3.70 | 38 | |
| Mood | 94 | 3.88 | 40 |
Nice story, very nice melody and animations. A bit short, but funny and good. A little less bounce would make it easier. Great job.
I loved the story about your kids, hope they enjoy your game like I did.
It definitely tells an imaginative story. I wasn't expecting the ending though. I liked the physics, gives it challenge. 2nd stage would have been nice if more roomy, but if you flip too much the egg falls.
All in all nice one! Good luck!
I ... was not expecting this. It took me a bit to figure out what the rocket was, but... it was the one with FIRE coming out of it. xD HA! no way! xD
I liked the controls of the character. The games feels a little short and the landscapes feel somewhat empty. I spent like 5 minutes trying to get control of the rocket, was really fun.
Noooo I had to free the unicorn lol
Short, fun, and interesting
I liked the music and the story ending, they make good each other. ( edit: I got ending 2, yeah! )
nice game mN
Noooooooo, my unicorn left me :( But seriously, great poke at unicorn eating its own tail :laughing: There seems to be a lot of sideway movement when you press and hold W/^ which does annoy me abit
Fun little game! :D If you want to make this for kids though, I would consider making the movement somewhat easier. Right now it is very slippy, which is a bit hard to controll. Other than that, great game!
Thank you for your entry.
It had a nice soft touch thanks to the music and the story. I even felt a bit sad and thanks to being though grown-up man I ddd not cried at the end when my unicorn left me. If such a short game left this feeling at the end it means it was done right.
Edit: Maybe I would slown down the acceleration.
Good job, thanks.
A super weird game, but it is also super funny. Well done.
Absolutely lovely, I took ages over the tree maze level because I was convinced touching the trees with the egg would break it! The music works really well with the pacing of the game to achieve a nice mood.
What a weird story, but still very touching :D
I definitely didn't expect a full fledged storyline with a branching narrative from a compo-submission. Heckin' well done =D
Sad and beautiful game! Very responsive control, feeding the unicorn was fun. Nice job )
Weird and funny :)
These eating sounds made me laugh :) Nice little game with homemade aesthetic. I like how the story of it is sweet and kind.
Cute little game, geat job!
I love that your kids helped you come up with ideas. This was nicely scoped, and the ending made me sadder than I thought it would. Overall this is a really solid entry, nice work!
Very very simple entry, but I think you did a good job of working within a scope that you were comfortable with. You presented a full narrative, with music, and a mechanic that didn't break, and multiple endings. I appreciate that aspect. Of course, the presentation values were simplistic, so my rating mightn't be off the charts, but what you presented was very sweet, and I had a good time with it. Thank you.
oh, that was cute game. I liked it. Great atmosphere and nice story telling, I really wanted to know what will be next :)
For the bad thing only level where you need to eat rainbows was little anoying. I think there was to many of them:)
That was cool. Simple but nice music and weird story, I got the sad ending which I liked.
*sigh* they grow up so fast. Haha! I love the art work, great game! It's also super fun to move around, the controls are wacky and fun. Marvelous work.
Really nice one. I like the mood, and the movements. Also the eating sound is excellent :) Cheers
Really cute :) I liked that there is an actual story. Would be great to include more gameplay moments!
@symnel @electric-blue - thank you! My kids did enjoy it. The boy even gave it multiple play-throughs.
@ironygames - I was definitely going for something that would be challenging for kids, but perhaps easy for grown ups. The idea of the egg cracking based on velocity, or falling off based on angle - would be really fun to explore. I think it would be even better if I could make the difficulty dynamic. Eg if you broke the egg or it fell off - you don't lose, you just go to an easier timeline.
@commanderstitch - lol
@rjerez192 - thanks for the feedback. I'm pretty weak as far as art goes, and I didn't know the engine before starting the project. I was a bit let down by Phaser being geared towards pixel art and not handling SVGs well. I hope to get better as an artist/designer!
@darriasart - there is an alternate ending you might want to check out :) I added clues to the description.
@lalada - nice! Thank you :)
@mehrdadsh - thanks :)
@sneakycocoon - check out the clues for the alternate ending. I do wonder what you mean by sideways movement. With Lunar Lander controls, you need to precisely control the angle of your ship to really go "up". It is a control scheme that not everyone likes. I'm going to assume that's what you meant. Please let me know if I misunderstood.
@plopmenz - this game was too easy for my 6 year, and too hard for my 7 year old. So I tried to balance it around them. What age of kids did you see struggle?
@snory - that's excellent feedback ❤️ thank you. On the acceleration, seems to be you're not the only one who felt that way.
@jk5000 @goffmog @malai @gaminghamster @yolziii @clement-k @senokos @jessefreeman - thank you!
@kevinworkman - a cool thing is now they want more games with other characters. This Ludum Dare got me real inspired.
@adamcyounis - thank you for the feedback! I'm pretty bad with drawing, but comfortable with code. The game indeed has a small amount of content. I suspect you didn't evaluate the game as one designed for kids. In general the different perspectives and criteria you could use for judging make LD metrics hard to be precise with. I hope to level up the visual fidelity for the next one.
@sheetcode - I was thinking hard about the amount of rainbows to eat. The game has very little content because I didn't employ any map editor, just code. So the amount of rainbows was a way to buy more time for users to experience the control mechanic. In hindsight, I think maybe less one row would have been a better call.
@martiansteve - thank you. I'm glad you liked the sad ending.
@blobo @hakro - awfully positive and nice of you to say, thank you :)
@alex457 - Thank you. I planned a laser dodging level, but ran out of time. Seems this game was not viral or more widely interesting, so I hope I can get more content in the next compo.
Fun and small game,but I'm afraid that the unicorn got a serious brain injury from me bumping into everything.