Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD47 → Trouble in the Loop
By dmac
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 595 | 2.65 | 22 | |
| Fun | 572 | 2.45 | 22 | |
| Innovation | 550 | 2.65 | 22 | |
| Theme | 459 | 3.22 | 22 | |
| Graphics | 581 | 2.36 | 21 | |
| Humor | 243 | 2.77 | 22 | |
| Mood | 560 | 2.29 | 22 |
The marble bowling ball looks awesome. Took a while to find the controls, but it was normal wasd movement. But the 3d tunnel looks a little plain, and it's lacking some speed. I was just able to jump over the obstacles and stairs.
Not sure if you're supposed to be able to hold shift to go super sayian (Didn't see it in the controls description) but thats what I did haha. The actual act of driving your sphere around the loop does feel good.
That's the developer cheat key! :wink:
Funny short game!
But now I want Ice cream :(
At first, I thought I could never catch the other sphere, but then I SHIFTED my thinking. I now have my ice cream back. A very fun and simple game.
LOL,just like in real life a runner on the outside of the track gets passed by a runner on the inside of the track, even if they are both running the same speed ;)
The ball's movement in the circular track looks smooth. The texture of the balls are cool. Im not sure if it ended after some time, or if there is another ending condition, but the game is nice.
Yeah, I didn't quite have time to add a "win" condition. I wanted there to be a positive ending where you pushed the opponent into a red kill box, and then got to circle the loop for a while with your ice cream cone before another opponent showed up. The theme was "stuck in a loop" so I shrugged my shoulders and submitted it. Thanks for playing :v:
A good take on the theme. It's a little on the quiet side, though, and I think even simple sound effects and a basic music loop would make a lot of difference here. I highly recommend [sfxr](https://www.drpetter.se/project_sfxr.html) and [musagi](https://www.drpetter.se/project_musagi.html) -- it literally takes a few minutes to put together something passable.
That's great advice @pennycook, and I agree 100%. I had aspirations of doing some foley sounds of things rolling and clacking, it would have added a lot!
The bowling ball textures are really nice and look great. While maybe not what you intended, the great think about these quick time frames are seeing what comes out and how developers adapt to them! Nice job getting the game out.
Solid little game, but after a while not much happens. Eventually I realised that you could catch up to the red ball by hugging the inner wall (or, after reading the other comments, boosting with the shift key). I did once see the red ball get stuck at a wall.
Getting the red ball stuck on a red wall was going to be the "win" condition, but with the theme you were just going to travel the loop for a while before another ball came and took your :icecream:
The concept of bowling balls competing to steal eachother's ice cream is great and made me smile. I like the aesthetics of the ball, the movement is good but perhaps it would have been better if there was a bit more of a feeling of weight to the ball. I played for a while but there didn't seem to be any way to actually finish the game, which is fine since it fits the theme.
Lol, I like it! It feels like a good start to something that could be a lot of fun. The marble art is cool, and the controls are pretty good.
Thanks!,for the first day I thought these spheres would just be colliders that I would eventually replace with character animations so the physics was tuned more for a platformer / runner style. Once I realized I was low on time, I had to quickly add in some ball like physics / collisions. Very faked :)
Cara, a ideia é boa, mas acho que faltou um pouco mais de velocidade para bola. O material usado para a bola é bem discrepante com os demais usados (ou não usados). mas parabéns
This is a super simple little game. I had fun trying it, but I wish there was just a bit more to do. But okay it's funny little combo game.
Cute game. I chased the ball with the ice cream, but eventually fell in a hole, so I will never know if it's possible to get the ice cream back.
This is a fun little game. I got the ice cream back quickly enough, but I didn't know what to do next. I would have loved a win condition where I get to lick my ice cream slowly and the game ends when I get to eat the entire thing.
Cute game, would have loved some music to cheer me on while chasing for ice-cream. Really like simple 3D games :)
very fun game :D I got the ice cream back!!!
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I kinda liked it, honestly. Music / sound effects definitely would have helped. I also noticed that hitting shift made me go super fast... was that intentional? I didn't see that in your controls list.
Haha, yeah that was the developer cheat key for testing ;)
Agree with everyone about music and sound, I'll try to work faster next time!
@shashwat I agree, if I had one more hour, even 30 min.. I would have added it :)