blotosaur 2020-10-06 02:50
Really liked the progression system and it really feels like the skills you get through practice match the rate of ability purchase. A little frustrating when the counter continues after the boss' arrival. Awesome game!
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD47 → The Mortal Coil
By markopolodev
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 447 | 3.75 | 24 | |
| Fun | 290 | 3.79 | 24 | |
| Innovation | 262 | 3.84 | 24 | |
| Theme | 494 | 3.88 | 24 | |
| Graphics | 615 | 3.77 | 24 | |
| Audio | 594 | 3.40 | 24 | |
| Humor | 1 | |||
| Mood | 766 | 3.42 | 22 |
Really liked the progression system and it really feels like the skills you get through practice match the rate of ability purchase. A little frustrating when the counter continues after the boss' arrival. Awesome game!
Really cool game, I like the idea of looking for pickups and them placing them as traps to defeat enemies.
Great game.
The progrssion system seems way to slow though (or maybe I did something wrong) The graphics look cool, the character is very cute and I like the looping animation :D The musik is nice but sound effects are missing.
well done ^^
The lasso is not very usefull :/ I liked the graphics, especially the colored line style :)
Nice game. I got up to the final boss but did not beat it. Overall the progression of upgrades carried the game, and I felt a real urge to keep collecting loopholes by hunting down enemies because I knew I would be using them to buy upgrades.
What would have made the game even more engaging to me is if the enemies posed more of a challenge. The most difficult enemies seemed to only lock up my movement for a second, which asks the question of why I am working so hard to grab all the upgrades if the enemies don't really threaten me (besides giving me more time to hunt them).
The music really added a lot to the game, but more sound effects would have made the experience more rich. The artstyle was charming as well. Overall great job :)
Really fun game. The boss is kinda hard to find when it spawns. I really enjoyed this one.
Nice game, with pretty interesting progression system and fine art.
Man, this game is great, couldnt keep myself from finishing it, anyway 10/10 really cool
I enjoyed this overall! I wouldn't say it's a roguelike exactly, the map stays the same between runs so there's no exploration, and you pretty much need most of the upgrades to win. The idea of focussing the gameplay around crowd control and traps is really interesting! I thought it was a bit of a shame when the Lasso damage upgrade sort of removed that. It felt like that was really the core of the game, but after that point you can just spam lasso and traps until everyone is dead. I didn't beat the boss, mostly because it felt unclear how I was meant to. It would be nice to see the core combat concept expanded, but I feel like adding the time loop and upgrade system didn't really add anything to that. A longer linear level, and possibly additional traps instead of upgrades, would've been a better fit in my opinion. The loop theme was already well represented in an interesting way in the core gameplay *ahem* loop.
Fun game, i like how you kept the player and enemies them selves simple. And i like lasso as a (loop) weapon. Im am glad you added an ingame tutorial you dont see that in much jam games
I enjoyed this game, the music and graphics were both very good, but I think the music could have been a little more ambient. The time limit and ability unlocks kept me playing for quite a while, a very good game overall.
a bit too fast pace.
Very enjoyable game, I had a lot of fun, and found myself playing even after I already had all bonuses. However I think there's many tiny problems which pollute the overall experience: The very laggy camera made it uncomfortable to move around the stage, but the fights were still ok thanks to the rather good responsivness of the commands.
When I bought the bonus that gives one more loop to your shoe laces, it made the move very laggy and it became impossible to use them in a fight.
I saw in the comments that some people reached the boss. I couldn't, even after I bought all the power-ups. I would always run out of enemies to fight.
It's very frustating that we have to spend the begining of each game waiting for bonuses to spawn, it would have been nice to start each game with a few shoe laces.
In the few minutes of gameplay, I didn't know how to kill enemies, mainly because the games are too short and I didn't have time to grab any bonus.
Thanks for this great entry and I hope to see more of your games in the future!
Like I said during the stream this was a fantastic entry my friend. The graphics were simple but uniform and well done, and the progression system worked well. The spawning rate for the aux-abilities was off but once you get the increased spawn rate and the killing lasso the game flowed a lot better. Well done! p.s. TOO MANY PUNS! Stop it... get some help...
This was addicting :D Very fluent gameplay. I think some sfx would fit that game perfectly. The enemies were nicely done. Congrats on your finished game!
Gradual ramp up and progression is really good, although was a little frustrating to begin with when you could finish a round without progressing at all because shoelaces just didn't turn up.
Once you get going it really does get good!
Really liked the subtle touches like the player character blinking.
All in all, nicely done, really enjoyable!
Hey Marko - I gave you feedback on stream, but yeah - the main let down for me was the gameplay getting a bit less interesting / rewarding the more you played. Some original nice ideas though, classic markopolo atmosphere and mood too. Glad to have played it <3
HI MARKO! Thanks for submitting your game for me to play on my livestream even though I was sad there was no disco ball :c
If you’d like to rewatch the playthrough, you can find it here:
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/767497194?t=2h00m29s
Good luck on your ratings, see you next LD! :D
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[Thanks for bein' such a good sport on stream last night!!](https://www.twitch.tv/videos/773934372?t=00h42m56s) Sorry we hijacked the gameplay with a bunch of nonsensical stories. :sweat_smile:
I liked this game quite a bit, and I think I said everything I wanted to say about it on the VOD. Overall, this is a solid entry that I find absolutely incredible that you completed solo. Solid kudos to you!!