Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD46 → Protect Egg.
By devook
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 1171 | 3.52 | 26 | |
| Fun | 449 | 3.72 | 24 | |
| Innovation | 755 | 3.52 | 26 | |
| Theme | 743 | 3.87 | 26 | |
| Graphics | 3.00 | 3 | ||
| Audio | 621 | 3.56 | 25 | |
| Humor | 461 | 3.54 | 23 | |
| Mood | 1530 | 3.21 | 23 |
Nice entry! I made 75 seconds.
I accidentally tabbed out of the window at the beginning on my first run, and failed to catch that the egg was mouse controlled. Quickly figured it out for my second though.
I like that the enemy appearance is telegraphed really well. You get a sense of the location and the distance before it comes up.
This is incredible! Love it. Sounds good, and feels good. I only wish I knew more about egg. How was egg's childhood, and what is egg aspiring to become?
lovely little game -- the pull of the mouse felt really good! Not too responsive, but not frustrating!
I thought this was fun! The one part that didn't feel good was how I lost control of the egg when a shockwave knocked it back. I didn't feel like I had much control because of that mechanic, but I understand why you did it. You nailed the theme and I almost lasted 60 seconds!
Loved the game. Tried to hide in the corner only to be blasted off the platform. Lasted 50 seconds!
Woo! Thanks for playing my game folks! I don't want to clog up the comments too much with responses but wanted to acknowledge all this good feedback: @jeremy-ryan Thanks! I spent way more time than I should have tweaking the meteor telegraphing, so I'm glad that it felt right to you. @crispypear The origins and aspirations of Egg are mostly a mystery. I refer to the great philosopher Socrates wisdom on the subject, Plato's records indicate that he often said, "Hey, what's up with that egg?" (Editor's note: He definitely said that. Don't look it up.) I will let you in on one bit of Protect Egg deep lore. The egg is that of the last remaining Dodo bird. This is Protect Egg canon. @pomeroyb So glad that came through! I turned those knobs many times to get a level of egg control that felt right to me, glad I was mostly in the ballpark. @shadoninja You made it halfway through my originally expected max playtime! (the difficulty currently plateaus at 2 minutes). Bummer that you got blasted into the no-control zone so early :( You actually *do* get to control the egg in the air *sometimes*, but if you get lobbed too high, I steal it from you (I thought it was funny to watch the egg slowly drift off the platform). It definitely still needs some tweaking. @snip-man Thanks! The corner-hiding strategy can pay off when executed carefully, but the meteors are also programmed to expect it. There's a bit of timing to get it right, but when you do it becomes somewhat exploitable (and a thing I need to patch, I think...)
I enjoyed your game! At first I tried to be gentle with Egg, but that quickly changed after I grossly underestimated what I was up against. I whipped that egg back and forth after my first attempt! The concept was simple and easy to understand, and the physics kept the survival interesting. There were a few times that I was saved by the shock wave from another meteor. Nice work :)
Respect for a fellow Egg based game my dude. Real fun but also challenging, I only got 20 seconds so I think I may be bad at protecting the Egg. Music is cool and the visuals are nice and simple. I think one improvement could be giving the player a restart button or something. Once you fall off it kinda takes a while to get back into another attempt, partly due to the small cutscene at the start of each try. Other than that, super cool game, nice job!
The meteor telegraphing felt so right. I loved the moments of "Hey is the ground more red than normal? Oh no."
I think this game did not have winning condition, I was able to survive for pretty long times :D Interesting take on life, this game. Good music!
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Great job getting all the pieces in there. The effects, audio, physics are felt smooth. It's a fun little game.
This was a fun little game. I made it to 70.13 seconds! Nicely done!
The music is great! And the game feels really relaxing in a way. I got 82 seconds as my best.
Cool game! It really felt good to play with all the effects and sounds and such. It was a bit hard to see exactly were the the egg was when it was flying due to the locked camera angle, but all in all, I though it was fun!