Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD47 → Run, Forest! Run!
By mrbandler, Cloud925 and MWFIAE
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 3.50 | 5 | ||
| Fun | 2.50 | 5 | ||
| Innovation | 2.50 | 4 | ||
| Theme | 4.66 | 5 | ||
| Graphics | 4.00 | 5 | ||
| Audio | 4.16 | 5 | ||
| Humor | 2.00 | 3 | ||
| Mood | 4.00 | 3 |
This game is pretty neat. The design fits very well into the theme. I really enjoyed the pattern based gameplay and the atmosphere was amazing. Some background music for the important moments could have given a bit more polished touch. But overall I would see a whole game made out of this! Good job!
I couldn't quite figure out what to do, but the pixel art looks cool and I liked the transition beteween rooms a lot
The graphics and the audio are really good. I liked the ambiance. I player for a bit until I understood the way that the ghosts spawned and the "ending room" appeared, and it's not random, the player must follow certain directions on certain occasions for it to happen. That I believe that makes this game not hard, but frustrating to play. I believe that if you added more monsters, more clues, it would be better. Anyhow, that's a great game where I spent a fair amount of time playing.
I really like the idea! Looping around in rooms like that is a perfect fit for the theme, reminds me a bit of that forest area in the original zelda game. Athmosphere is also great, pretty spooky. I didn't figure out what to do, i stumbled around and tried to press e everywhere and got myself caught by the ghost, though the text was quite confusing (i did outrun it?). After reading the comments i managed to reach the first ending room. I'm not sure if there is any logic to where to go, or if it is trial and error - in any case i trialed and errord my way to the second ending room :D
I tried to find a pattern for example if certain sounds are played on the right or wrong path, or to see if the movement of the ghosts mean something, but i didn't find any. I really appreciated the torches helping me out there. From a technical point of view everything worked fine, my only issue was that the sound was pretty low volume even when turning it up fully, and the font was tiny (but readable) on my 3440x1440 screen.
Overall, a really nice game!
Very well executed idea, I felt really smart once I had figured out what to do. Only I feel that throwing me back an entire level for getting caught just once was a bit too harsh 😅 Again here's the link to my stream of the game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15n2Eq8yeVA (video will unlock in 18 hrs from now, sorry about that)
Thanks for submitting! 😊