Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD46 → My Pet Rock
By gamegenesis
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 719 | 3.23 | 30 | |
| Fun | 896 | 2.75 | 30 | |
| Innovation | 786 | 2.96 | 30 | |
| Theme | 891 | 3.13 | 31 | |
| Graphics | 478 | 3.51 | 32 | |
| Audio | 49 | 3.98 | 31 | |
| Humor | 176 | 3.51 | 31 | |
| Mood | 51 | 4.06 | 31 |
Fantastic vibe from this one! The juxtaposition of creepy aesthetics with the silly pet rock story is entertaining, but with this level of polish this game could get away with taking itself a lot more seriously.
Unfortunately I think postprocessing doesn't quite work for me (OSX, neither Chrome nor Firefox) as my screen is very dark with a very small flashlight range. I couldn't get too far before (I think) a rock hit me from above.
Looks good, sounds good. The falling objects move a bit to fast for me to dodge so I tried to rely on audio cues and that worked a bit better.
Obviously it goes without saying that I'm in love with Tim when he's wearing his sunglasses and I now plan on getting my own pet rock.
My primary piece of feedback would be to have some sort of feedback to the player when you interact with something or when something can be interacted with. I ended up just mashing F as I walked along.
Love the atmosphere you've achieved with this! Definitely both creepy and funny!
It is a really nice game, you combine the music and graphics in a way that really makes it funny and creepy.
@cannedveg Thank you for the feedback! That was the vibe I was going for :)
@jabdownsmash Thank you so much for the extraordinarily wonderful feedback! I'm sorry about the post processing problems. I jest couldn't figure out why it wasn't working on webGL.
@codingninjajoas Thank you so much for your feedback. I'm so happy that you enjoyed the game :)
@magnusfurcifer I can't thank you enough for your feedback. I didn't really have much time to fix the difficulty curve, so I wasn't sure if it was too difficult. Tim thanks you greatly as well, and is having a great time right now ;) I'm sorry about the interaction difficulty. It might be a visual problem, maybe post processing, because I have a popup show up when you reach the shelves with the glasses, but the glasses might not be that clear from afar.
I loved how creepy this game was! Really good mood to it and as said above having a touch of comedy in it also was great.
@rob-parker Thank you so much for the feedback. I really appreciate it! You rock ;)
Creepy game! Really loved the atmosphere. Tim sure is evil! I also liked the player animations, I aspire to have a walk like him some day.
@ch4oticau Tim and I really appreciate the feedback! And thank you for your compliment on my walk animation.
I wish the flash light illuminated more
Lovely atmosphere, the soundtrack is great. The game is hard, so easy to die and to start all over again ! I agree with @amatsugu that it would be nice if the flash light had a longer range ! Congrats
Very creepy game. Good atmosphere, and tense. The traps where good jump scares. I was able to complete the game after the 6 try. :) Yay. I was not able to concentrate good enough to listen for the traps. But very fun. Ejoyed it a lot. Good work.
Very nice atmosphere with the sound and the dark. The writing is great and the result is great. My only criticism is that you are not able to dodge the falling objects because the player is to slow which takes some of the player feeling of agency because there is a time from when you spot the object until it hits you that you are unable to do anything and just wait there for that to happen. The audio cues do make this problem manageable but in general I think you should make the player a bit faster or the objects falling slower. Great game, loved it, thank you!
So funny, i love the animation :D
The art, music, and vibe all created a great and consistent atmosphere!
Nice atmosphere and aesthetic! Some tweaks to the gameplay would be welcome, but overallm nice job!
The atmosphere is very creepy, well done. Art and sound are nicely polished. I like it :)
The story for this game is worthy of a film.
@amatsugu Sorry about that; didn't have much time to tweak or test the difficulty, but thanks for the feedback!
@munmungames Thank you so much for your incredible feedback! Sorry the difficulty was a tad too steep; I didn't have that much time to tweak it.
@dimling Thank you so much for your wonderful feedback! I'm so glad you enjoyed the game and managed to complete it :)
@barelos Thank you so much for your incredibly wonderful feedback! I apologize for the lack of balancing, as I didn't have that much time to do any testing. The player is pretty slow, but that was mostly to give off a vibe of humor and portray Bill in a sort of lazy light, and also to aid the horror vibes. Again, thank you so much for your feedback :) !!
@inka-mcatee Thank you so much for your feedback! I really appreciate it :)
@ioan-pop Thank you so much for your incredible feedback!
Thank you so much @gamedoodles! Your feedback is greatly appreciated!
@fateaglegames Thank you so much for your wonderful feedback :) !!
Thank you so much @sarrixx :) !!
i died so often i think im to bad for such a game, but i liked it, never saw something like that b4, great concept.
Great game! I think you achieved a really good mood with both sounds and graphics. As others pointed out, the falling objects are a bit frustrating because there's no way to dodge them. I tried moving backwards whenever I heard a sound, but that didn't help much. But considering that's the only thing I didn't like about this game, I say that you did an amazing job! Congrats!
The sounds design is amazing and immediately put me on edge. Great job on the mood in general!
Thank you so much @woob. I'm sorry that it might've been a bit too difficult.
@hhsaez Thank you so much for your great feedback. I apologize for the lack of balancing, as I didn't have that much time to test. I really appreciate the feedback though :) !!
Thank you so much @jorim for your wonderful feedback! I really appreciate it :)
Cool heavy atmoshphere to the game achieved by creepy lighting, music and spooky falling objects! I only wish there was more time to jump out of the way of them as I kept dying :')
The story was fantastic! Haha, great work.
Thank you so much @ponypen for your awesome feedback! I apologize about the difficulty, as I didn't have much time to test!
Thank you so much @blobo. I'm so happy you enjoyed it :) !!
Really cool game, I like the mood and ambient sound. Also the heads up sound before something drops feels good, given the slowness of the character. Good one. Cheers.
Yay made it to the end. Great use of sound for conveying the tense atmosphere and feeling something could drop and kill you at any moment, nice scene setting for the story, graphics while probably not winning prizes for beautiful pixel art worked well for the mood, gameplay could have used some more interactiveness perhaps but hey. A short fun experience
@hakro Thank you so much for your wonderful feedback! I really appreciate it!
Thank you so much @automatonvx for your awesome feedback! :)
Whow, that was scary ! I had to retry 3 times, but I succeed! The sound was very good, the ambiance was so dark... I liked it very much even if it was short!
This game really had me on edge haha! Loved the vibe you created with the audio and the art. I was very happy to get out of that basement!