Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD47 → for egg in basket
By indivicivet
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 206 | 3.59 | 40 | |
| Fun | 106 | 3.79 | 39 | |
| Innovation | 148 | 3.66 | 39 | |
| Theme | 302 | 3.60 | 40 | |
| Graphics | 253 | 3.55 | 40 | |
| Audio | 249 | 3.25 | 38 | |
| Humor | 124 | 3.25 | 36 | |
| Mood | 394 | 2.97 | 38 |
Don't think I can beat it. But it is so much fun. It gets frantic fast. lol. Got lucky and got two button mash quests in a row. Swear I almost broke my keyboard. This is probably the most solid entry I have played to this point.
Pretty cool idea. By the way, if you mash the arrow keys and spam click eggs it suddenly becomes very easy :) Maybe needs some kind of punishment for failing a task too often in a row. But overall a quite enjoyable game.
Agree with the comment that punishing for failure would make be good, to discourage spamming the keys. But it's a challenging game regardless. Enjoyed playing it for a few loops. Sound effects were well done as well.
It was very fun, I played several times before I gave up. The UI is very good and it was clear very quickly without any explanation what should you do which is a very hard task to complete. Great job had a lot of fun playing, thank you!
Fun, I love this kind of frantic multitasking stuff! Love the art and music as well.
thanks for the comments :)
@fateaglegames have you beaten it?! even with a lot of arrow mashing, spam clicking, and being quite lucky with the tasks, the best I've done is a couple of eggs into the last basket (basket 12) ^^
It's a very silly game, but it really strikes a mood and uses the theme well. I eventually resorted to random clicking and arrow mashing, but I was ultimately too slow and lost, lol.
Really nice idea. My fingers couldn't keep up with the mashing xD
Perfect scope for the jam, nice job! I like how you handled not having to click on a specific egg color when there are none left.
:) Very fun! The art is simple, but good. So's the music. I like the idea a lot, and it's pretty fun to play! My brain is struggling to keep track of what to do, and the "egg timer" is ticking! Oh no!
Loved the game! Simple and fun. Apart from me sucking at it, I did find that as the tasks got more complicated I had to recheck the screen more often; the screen of which is in a hard place to see from the conveyor belt. Maybe if the screen was more centred and a tad lower it would help? Unless, of course, you like your game being hard ;)
Looking again, I think it's the text alignment. That's the normal alignment for code, assuming that screen is trying to emulate some sort of basic computer, but it means your eyes have to travel a further distance from the tasks to the eggs and back, losing valuable time when you could be clicking MORE EGGS!
@indivicivet i stopped button mashing after ~25 eggs because I didn't want to cheat^^ don't know if it's actually possible to beat the game with this method
So fun ! So innovative ! I love this concept, even if this is very hard...
I really enjoyed that the game was fun and simple, but yet offered a challenge. As the game progressed it became more frantic to collect an egg keeping me engaged and happy. Nice job!
Definitely humorous game! Had to sweat a bit during late levels. Would improve graphics just a tiny bit but it's not a big deal at all anyway. Great job!
Perfect scope for a 48hr jam, manages to pack a lot of fun into a small space. One of the very rare jam type games that doesn't have the feeling, "ooh, with a little more time could have been so much better!" Very elegant solution for running out of certain egg colors. Excellent work!
thanks for all the comments :)
@neonalig I don't think it was much of a conscious design decision, but I quite like the fact you can't easily look at both at once, because it gives more incentive to try to memorize the sequence :) I like the game being hard, although I think it should've been a little easier. I think it's also based on a lot on how unlucky you get with certain tasks. some are very hard to memorize, very hard to play when you've memorized them, and also very hard to get just by random mashing. I think some of the directional sequences that don't have a clear pattern are particularly bad for this (although I really like ones like <<< and ^>v< / ^
@fateaglegames (and @tpsy) I think instinctively slipping into button mash mode is part of the fun :) if I had more time maybe a "sudden death" mode where you lose a life for a wrong input would appeal to some players, although I never really considered it because I think I prefer the lack of punishment.
some tasks are really good at punishing button mashing, like the <<< or specific egg clicking ones, so if I could go back and make small gameplay tweaks I'd probably remove all of the weird direction sequences (like <^< I think really 12 tasks is too many per run and I should've thought about that sooner, but oh well. if anyone ever beats this please make a bragging post! (and screenshot your tasks in the score screen if you can, I think the best chance is just getting really lucky with them :P)
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score to beat :)
I was helped a lot by lucky tasks + the bug ^^
One of my favorite games of the Jam so far! I will be returning to this one. :)
i like this game
Had a really fun time with this. Very polished given it was made in such a short timeframe, and I think you've got the scope and scale of it down perfectly. Well done.
It was some button mashing, but it was really fun. Like, some sort of routine start beginning but the pressure of time and this automatic press is so freacking intense, it pace the game perfectly !
It's an awesome mini game who also is good visually and musically (and thanks to let the option to cut the music ! I didn"t do it, but i'm glad you add that option )
frantic egg clicking ftw! Graphics are just enough, same with sounds, and a nice task progression (which gates rage-inducing after a while). I vote yes)
Wow. This gets very frantic very fast. It took me a little while to figure out that v and ^ are the up and down arrow keys. Maybe try using Unicode characters like ↑ and ↓?
Simple game but funny to play. Graphics and sound effects are nice. Great job!
@nailuj29-gaming yeah, I have heard this complaint from others too. fun fact: they are those unicode characters! but in the font I used, they're not very clear. I think by the time I added those tasks, I was already too attached to that font >< looking back, it's defo one of the things I should've fixed. I guess one easy fix would've been to just use words ("up down left right") instead
I could've also made specific graphics for them, but I didn't want to worry about complicating the task drawing code and worrying about alignment, etc... this might've actually been something that was worth doing though ^^
Cool concept and take on the theme. I enjoyed the different types of "tasks" you came up with. I will say though that the game does get exponentially harder to impossible (as you have stated). Could possibly add some mechanics to delay the conveyor belt for a bit or slow down time, just to at least extend the games life. Nice job!
Nice simple game. Cute graphics too.
Wow, this was hard!
I, too, resorted to spamming clicks and buttons, although I didn't get far that way anyway :sweat_smile:. It would make sense to punish the player for performing the wrong action, but then I fear the only person who could play this game would be Chuck Norris. At least you would avoid spamming the buttons. Maybe you could then balance it out by making it slower or something?
Solid entry, anyway - nice idea, graphics and sounds. Fun to play as well :slight_smile:
Honestly I can't believe how good this was for how simple it was. It definitely starts easy but then gets super frantic! It is a lot of fun and honestly kind of addicting. It forces the player to think a little bit and not just go crazy mashing buttons (it doesn't work, I found out the hard way). Good job on this one!
Fun game. The mashing only takes you so far too. So the balance seems fine. Really no complaints. Maybe not the most exciting game for many but very polished and easy to understand. Would be fun on mobile with tweaks also.
Good idea, love the style
Simple idea but gets fun & frantic very fast! I enjoyed it a lot :)