andidebob 2020-04-20 17:32
A lovely concept with a really steep difficulty curve! I couldn't wrap my head around it, but it is a really solid entry to the jam!
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD46 → JarHeads
By aurel300
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 178 | 3.82 | 70 | |
| Fun | 114 | 3.87 | 70 | |
| Innovation | 120 | 3.91 | 70 | |
| Theme | 373 | 3.83 | 70 | |
| Graphics | 241 | 3.83 | 70 | |
| Audio | 143 | 3.72 | 69 | |
| Humor | 510 | 2.75 | 63 | |
| Mood | 379 | 3.38 | 67 |
A lovely concept with a really steep difficulty curve! I couldn't wrap my head around it, but it is a really solid entry to the jam!
Hey that was a really original idea, I liked it a lot, The graphics and audio were really good and I was really enjoying the gameplay. Thanks for this awesome submition!
Absolutely the best game i've seen in the jam so far. Too bad now I'll spend all my time playing it.
Probably the best game I've played so far. Great idea, tight gameplay and seemingly super polished. Love it.
Really great! It was very challenging! Really nice pixel art! Well done!
This is really good. Unique concept, very fun. The mechanics are simple and well explained, and the gameplay is snappy and easy to jump back into very quickly. Normally I write up a long paragraph in response to these games, but I don't have much to say here cause I think you pretty much completely nailed your concept.
This is really good. Unique concept, very fun. The mechanics are simple and well explained, and the gameplay is snappy and easy to jump back into very quickly. Normally I write up a long paragraph in response to these games, but I don't have much to say here cause I think you pretty much completely nailed your concept.
I had so much fun. The funny thing is that I forget all the time who is immune to colors and I lose stupidity. But I loved the concept, the art and the fact that it is a game that uses music as mechanics.
Congratulations!
Nice game and interesting mechanics! I wish to have some collectables lives to restore my hp during the game and play a bit more. Also I don't see much importance of stamina. Anyway, great concept and nice music!
Awesome and addictive game, I'm going to keep playing it. The graphics are great, gameplay is simple but takes a lot of skill to master, the puzzles are pretty fair even if some of them are pretty hard and the score mechanic makes it fun trying to take risks with movement.
took me a second to understand but i like it
Great game
This game is really nicely made and snappy! Very addictive and the scoreboard surely is a nice competitive touch ! I personally got 7th at some point but I'll bookmark this one for sure. One minor issue I had was with the audio, I had to toggle "music" on and off for the soundtrack to play. Glad I figured this out because it is amazing. Well done and thank you for developing this !
Wow this really polished. I liked the game paced. Simple and fun.
Really cool concept! I almost got a proper hang of splitting up AND I got on the leaderboard 💪 I love the balance of twitch gameplay and really nice telegraphing
Wow! Awesome. Very cool gameplay concept and executed almost flawlessly. I'm impressed. I'm a sucker for skill based rhythm games and this hits the spot all right. The art is great, good selection of colors and the music is pumpuing, especially when the bpm increases. I made it to place 5 after three attempts (as for now!). I was a bit overwhelmed at the beginning because I didn't fully understood the mechanics yet. Afterwards, I was hooked. But I still think that some of the obstsacles were almost impossible to overcome. Sometimes I had to carry IT a longer way to not have it take damage and I always dropped him because the stamina ran out. Maybe there is another strategy to this, but it seemed like I had no choice but to take damage.
Great game! Thanks for makeing this
:thumbsup: Awesome game. well polished and challenging. really enjoyed this. good work..
This is pretty fun! Didn't manage to get into the scoreboards, but held out for long enough for the waves to get interestingly difficult. Will be playing more of this!
(I had a peek at your source code! some very interesting tech there!)
Tight controls! Love it. The pixel art is cool, and the animations lend themselves to the mechanics very well. I had a bit of trouble remembering which color hit which character, so there might be something to improve in the coloring of the characters. But aside from that, what an excellent game. Feels very complete. Good job!
3rd on the leaderboard! Very addicting gameplay. The controls feel snappy. At first I thought picking up the purple friend felt awkward, but after a few plays I was into it. Really liked - the risk/reward of dropping purple friend in front of purple bullets - how the soundtrack that increased in intensity with the gameplay - the way the bullets moved across tiles to make their direction of motion extra obvious
This game feels remarkably complete and polished. Had a lot of fun playing!
665830 from second try :) Easy to start, hard to survive after 200k scores. I like this simple and fascinating game mechanic. Good work!
Woah the graphics are top notch! This is just a fun game too, seriously great work!
Solid, very very solid. Love the lore and the aesthetic. Very fun, well executed, looks great, sounds great. Can't think of anything wrong with it lol.
Love that there's two layers to the gameplay, just surviving and avoiding and then going for the score by leaving the head to face purple bullets. Controls work perfectly too. BPM gets pretty intense, would gladly have a heart attack again.
It's fun! I would like to see some crazier patterns (maybe even some that go off-grid??)
YES! This has got to be one of my favorite LD46 games that I've played so far. So polished it's practically sparkling. I worked my way up the scoreboard to 2nd place! (Technostalgic: 870480)
I didn't even know you made a game when I was watching you and Danae's stream, I'm so glad you left a comment so I could come check it out!!
The MUSIC is **SO GOOD**. Did you compose it? I love it! Especially the main menu music! I've tried to keep the game running in the background just so I could keep the beats playing, but it seems like the tab needs focus in order for it to play correctly :(
I don't think I really have anything bad to say about it.. Maybe it would be nice if it was a bit more obvious when the tiles that are about to have bullets run over them? It got kinda hectic and hard to tell when the screen was filled with them. The small arrows sometimes just weren't enough. But other than that, awesome job man!!
Really nice! The mechanic was fun and challenging - purple bullets being good for IT was an especially fun twist, though it took me a while to remember which color was which. I really appreciate the extra funny touch of JarHeads, the Story and also the vibrating "IT" - very ominous!
Very cool game, I like IT a lot.
Love the character design! Especially the jar ~~head~~ onion. :P Well done.
This is pretty much the perfect compo game - narrow scope, cool game loop that ties directly with the theme, music/art are solid. No real criticisms. I do suck at it though.
good game
Very cool concept. I had problems remember who could dodge the blue and purple, guess that could have been even clearer. For some reason i didn't get music when i started up the game, but turning it off and on again fixed it. Got into the leader board but I bet it wont be for long :)
My brain hurts a little :D Impressive character design and sounds especially for a compo!
Love the idea - quite unique. I didn't hear the music, although it was on in the settings.
The graphics are awesome. Maybe some better color coding for bullets and characters would be great? I kept forgetting which bullets hurt who :)
Genuinely very cool game, one of the best of the jam.
Really cool concept and really really hectic haha. I thought I was doing pretty well but my best score isn't even close to the top scores! Loved the trails on all the characters / bullets - that was a really nice touch! My one suggestion would be to make it a bit clearer that getting hit with the right bullet gives you points - maybe with a +100 (or whatever it is) at the top right when you get points?
I was confused on who got hurt from what color but it turned out fun when I was able to kinda remember. Simple idea but a very challenging and very well polished game. Well done
Very nice simple concept that works quite well and is addictive, even though it is a bit too "mindfucky" for my taste :D Great polish and Haxe is a great language!
Great concept! But phew, this is hard! I really think you need quite some practice to get into your head, that purple hurts you and blue hurts it. But it's really fun an quite a mind bender. Well done!
really, really hard , but good
Really cool and original puzzle elements - and as always the audio and visuals were fantastically coherent.
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/601603764?t=01h12m51s