Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD47 → Temporarium
By eden-shazar, Omniopticon and syoels
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 1378 | 3.04 | 33 | |
| Fun | 1501 | 2.56 | 33 | |
| Innovation | 632 | 3.48 | 32 | |
| Theme | 935 | 3.50 | 33 | |
| Graphics | 419 | 3.96 | 33 | |
| Audio | 1068 | 2.19 | 25 | |
| Humor | 613 | 2.94 | 29 | |
| Mood | 1098 | 3.11 | 32 |
This was super weird, I love that you added a backstory and lore for it too, it really adds to the experience. The gameplay was very challenging for me, but I managed to get quite far I think. I really like the art style, especially the player's minions and the terrifying 'tallats' (those creepy spider legs omg)
@joedev Thank you! We're missing a lot of visual cues for the player that we just didn't get around to implementing, so it's nice to hear you managed to make some progress! And yes, the tallats are absolute nightmare fuel (thank you @omniopticon).
great character design!
Great work on the art style! I got pretty far I think, but I agree some more visual cues would've been helpful. I love the concept and find it very interesting. I gave you a follow on itch.io. I look forward to a potential update. Good luck!
@minibetrayal Agreed! The design is @omniopticon's, with a lot of animation work by @syoels.
@rschoellgen Thank you very much! We're planning on giving it another day of polish sometime soon, and hopefully it'll be able to provide a fuller experience.
The art, animation, and concept/theme were really good, unfortunately I found the gameplay pretty incomprehensible. Like you've mentioned above, I think it would be fine with some more visual indicators of whats happening.
@minibetrayal Thanks! We have some new animations coming up!
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@nanolotl Very fair opinion, given the lack of visual indicators or UI. Thank you for giving our game a try :)
haven't played yet, but our games have near identical names
@untitled-studios Title besties!
Awesome art and animations. I like the atmosphere you created with the background and story. It could use some instructions, specially at the beginning. I wish we can see a second version of this.
@gonzalol Thank you! Yes, we're missing a bunch of informative features. We'll do better next time :)
@eden-shazar it's a great job for a first-timers. I hope you enjoyed the JAM.
The game is really cool, it took me some time to get how it worked but once I got it, it was fun.
I would say I don't think the game needs a UI or visual indicator specifically to be more clear but a small tutorial or an intro explaining things would do the trick: you have the indicator of your lupul with the fact that it does not carry anything or is carrying the glowing one (maybe for your current egg). Some music and sound effects would have been a nice thing to add (but be careful with sound effect: with 3 lupuls on screen and given how often they die, it could become very annoying quickly).
It clearly needs some polish (and an end) but it is a really fun entry, I just want more levels now :p
@vivien-fargette What a great comment to receive! I wholeheartedly agree with your feedback, except that I do think the fact that your lupul doesn't carry a brick is such a weak visual indicator as to even look like a possible bug. Thank you so much for taking the time to learn the game and enjoy it despite its drawbacks!
Awesome design and animations, really crazy stuff to be made only in such a small amount of time. You guys are really talented, good work!
@aless Thank you! That's a really nice comment to wake up to :)
Really interesting characters and animation, and an innovative concept! Good job! The gameplay is a bit hard though, I couldn't get past the this one part with lots of tallats. Maybe reducing the difficulty will make the game more accessible.
@typeswitch Thank you for playing! I completely agree that it's difficult to get the hang of. We'll try to improve it soon and upload an alternative, non-LD version :)
Guys, congratulations on the art of the game. Exquisite!
Nice game! The graphics are right up my alley and the controls are a pleasure to use, could you check out my game when you can? :D
@ericbolseiro Thank you very much! Very nice to hear you enjoyed it.
@samdemaine Thanks! Could you elaborate what you think worked well with the controls? That might be the clunkiest part of our game in my opinion.
Pretty interesting game with great visuals! But it is a bit hard to control, often I wasn't really sure if I'm currently controlling something or not, some feedback for player inputs would go a long way towards making the gameplay experience more satisfying. Apart from that I really enjoyed it, good job overall!
@erkberg Yes, we're well aware and definitely agree on those issues. We're planning on patching it up a bit and uploading an alternative, post-LD version. Thanks for giving it a go!
liked the graphics, to bad there is no audio
This is certainly the most unique game I've played this Ludum Dare. It took me a while to figure out how to play it but once I understood that, I was interested to see where the game would take me. It's unfortunate that you ran out of time to implement an ending.
The art style was really interesting and impressive!
I'm not sure if the game was meant to have audio, but I didn't get any sound.
Good work!
@human-writes-code Thank you so much! It really is a shame we didn't get to reward players for having reached the end of that gauntlet, but it's nice to hear someone managed to do that in the first place!
Regarding the audio, that was also one of the features that had to be scrapped. Too bad because it would have been a lot of fun to voice these creatures.
What a unique game this is. It took some time to understand how to control the game and after I understood how, they still did not really follow my cursor. The art and their animations are amazing. The whole mood was very unique, I feel like there was more to be discovered in this wierd world. The gameplay feels very slow and sluggish. Either the life cycles could have been longer or the respawning could be faster. Escpecially when I got to a part where I couldn't get past one of those spiders time after time. Too bad the audio did not manage to get in, it could have really added a lot. Maybe for a future project scale the project so that some content might not be added, but at least every aspect of the game is present.
Overall very nice and unique entry! Keep it up!
Nice game!
The art character is very original. I like the style. The game seem interesting, but it's a bit confusing for me. And the camera is perhaps a little bit too close. I didn't understand how to play it. It feel like the game is playing alone. Not enough feedbacks. Tutorial would be welcome.
It's a really nice world you built - it could have been amazingly atmospheric with some sound. Great work on the art and the interesting gameplay idea!