liammasters 2021-04-26 00:54
The sound design was crazy and really cool! Such an unique concept and really fun to play.
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD48 → Lord Of The Flies
By pixelportalz
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 218 | 3.74 | 75 | |
| Fun | 199 | 3.73 | 74 | |
| Innovation | 93 | 3.97 | 74 | |
| Theme | 597 | 3.34 | 75 | |
| Graphics | 482 | 3.39 | 74 | |
| Audio | 119 | 3.81 | 73 | |
| Humor | 27 | 4.07 | 71 | |
| Mood | 246 | 3.60 | 71 |
The sound design was crazy and really cool! Such an unique concept and really fun to play.
thank you!
lol Interesting concept. I like the idea and plays pretty well. Great music
I really love this game, it is honestly amazing, however I felt like it was 'meta' to take more fruitful eggs over everything else. And the flys do feel a bit funky to control
@sweer more fruitful eggs make eggs spawn more flies. Is that confusing? I didn't know the right word in English I suppose... Thanks for the feedback, the flies are a little funky hahaha
The gameplay is super unique. It's a little frustrating to try to get the flies to get where you need them to go, but I think that's part of the challenge. The graphics are simple, but effective... I don't think I would want them more high def even if it was possible.
All in all pretty great!
@greg-the-egg thank you! And yes, you can attract the flies but at the end of the day they love being silly flies :)
Took me a minute to get the hang of it but I like it!
The windows exe says its missing a .pck file. Did you forget to zip up the rest of the build?
Review based on HTML version -
Interesting concept, the weakness of the pheromones makes me feel like I dont have too much control and I kind of have to rush to get to the next eggs before the flie convoy falls apart which makes success dependent on RNG. I think if you rebalanced it to have more control it might give a better gameplay experience. Overall still very good.
The most fun I've had leading any army of flies to eat poop.
Loved the rogue-like progression system in a herding system. Super unique idea. I liked most of the upgrades, but adding in extra text that describes specifically what they do could help the player inform their decisions. Also more unique and interesting upgrades could serve to make each run more different than the last. It did feel hard to control a large swarm of the flies, maybe too hard as I would often lose as many as I gained, but it did serve to keep the game moving and not benefit the player for just waiting around, hoarding flies.
Haha I actually really like this, the theming is spot on. The name of your upgrades gave me a couple laughs, nice work!
Omg this is amazing, feels like a flash game I woulda played back in the day. Music is such a jam and it didn't take me too long to beat :3
I won! Barely. I got one single fly out. very fun!
Very interesting idea, I liked the simplistic graphics and mood.
I really enjoyed this! I did run into a bug however, where at some point it just kept giving me infinite upgrades while not letting me really play the game easily because it kept stopping time to give me upgrades. Even so, the parts I did play were quite nice!
This game has great audio. The opening dialogue was weird (in a good way). Leading the flies was a bit awkward, but I guess they are flies. The art is simple but I still think it looks great.
Originality Squared.Will Definately wait for the full game
the music is great!!
@nethead Really appreciate the music comment coming from you. I suck at coding so I rushed the music at the end, and the mix def needs some work. I'm a fan of the music on your games.
Certainty an original take on the them. Had to restart once because I lost all of my flies but after that I quickly found myself enjoying the game.
@dr-v Thank you for pointing it out. Alas, I did not include the .pck (forgot!) but now it's available at itch.io Thank you for taking the time to try it anyways! Also, I like the idea of making you rush to the next egg, but I agree, giving more control could open up the game to a more relaxed and "deeper" gameplay perhaps. Did you manage to beat the game?
@pixelportalz why is poo something you related with deep? lol
@hestrateja maybe because I'm deep into it? Jokes aside, I thought instead of digging down, I wanted to make a game in which you could escape upwards from a deep pile of menure. (Although to win you might need to go a little deeper to find those eggs!!).
@pixelportalz I did manage to beat it, but took a bit of RNG to get there. I always just dug up and hoped that I would find the next set of eggs before it was too late.
@dr-v Thanks. I think you are right. Putting more control on the flies would maybe minimize RNG. Or maybe I can minimize RNG in other ways...
Surprisngly I had a fantastic time! I really thought that the upgrade and control system for making your way out of this maze worked really well! having the flies grow and die off was the perfect way to give the player motivation to explore. All in all a really fun and well made entry
> (it’s pronounced gro-oh-ca-le-ca-lo-ca-rtk-wbnxzktr-ou-ou-ua-ua-ua-uuuuu-t-arrrrrr-l)
Ok, that one got me xD
Neat little game! Felt a bit awkward trying to control the flies, but it also moving the camera. Made it a bit difficult to really control the flies. Overall though neat concept and cool upgrades!
I played this in browser. I loved the use of some pseudo-flocking behavior. I enjoyed the realisation I could drag and attract the flies! I would love to see a version more zoomed out and with more stable / predictable camera behavior.
@tim77 Zooming out can be increased by "purchasing" clairvoyance. Also, dragging instead of clicking helps the control. Will think of other options for controls. Thank you for the feedback!
I struggled to make it out, but I did have laser powered flies at one point, which has always been a dream of mine :).
TODO: review game
@andrewkennedy haha yeah plot twist: flies are actually alien microdrones
I never thought I would have that much fun playing with shit. Awesome game. And a lot of replayability ! The graphics and audio are great too. I can't think of a signle bad thing about this game lol
@adamsmccall I think your judgement is strongly biased by your fondness of Poop. I understand that and enjoy the positive feedback.
@pixelportalz :flushed: :flushed: :flushed:
Laught. A Bit. :D The music is indeed great ;)
This game is so interesting that I have been playing with shit for so long, lol. Very nice game!
Quirky and fun with nice funky music. I didn't understand how the eggs work at first, but the game is quick and intuitive so after a couple of tries I soon worked it out.
This was a great game :) is it possible to eat all the poo on the map?
I loved it. Simple, plays well, gameplay is rewarding and it has this distinct feel of "herding" or quiding the flies, rather than directly controlling them. Took me around 6 (ish) tries to get my first win. Feels complete, ie. the level of polish is just right :)
Did not get the game tried 3 times but when the flies start dieing they just lose it. :(
Really great game ! It takes a bit of time to get used to, but at least it is quite fun to learn how to do so. I really enjoyed the sound design, the graphic style was pretty neat and overall I had a great time playing through the game. Awesome job !
Very great game. Cool mechanic. The only downside is that I tend to go DEEPER with my navigation and that wasn't always the good thing. Felt a nice vibe between games like lemmings with some beautiful little shader code. Great entry!
Anything involving poop and flies is typically a winner in my book. Good job!
screen was a little small on WEB and i don't know it just didnt feel so great with me, but i think something was off. it looked cool and cool mechanic though
$1.000.000!!! I'm sooo happy! Wow! This was a great game, I love the progression and trying to figure out the best strategy to be able to reach the surface! A truly magnificent experience and journey. Great job! Cheerz
It took me a second to figure out what I needed to do but once I did it was on. And I think that's a good thing btw, you state it in the intro that you can't tell the player, the flies have to, that was a great touch. The upgrades as you go made progression really fun and made me want to keep player. Great entry, congrats! :poop:
Things I liked: - great art - good game concept (I love swarm mechanics) - great sound and music - great humor in the intro
Improvements: - combat with rival flies? they could be gatekeepers of sorts; and as reward to the risk; they drop eggs - a scoreboard to compete with your previous playthoughs - maybe an MVP screen for end-game to highly the fly with the the biggest acheivement in a given game (mainly just some fun flavor to the game)
Bugs: - hehe, bugs... seriously though, where's my $1,000,000?!
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There's a bug with the win button, I keep checking my bank account but still have not received $1,000,000. Pls fix.
Anyway, this was a great and fun little game! I initially tried to go down, I guess I should have read the description.
I like these types of jam games that know exactly what they agree attempting to do and just go that thing well. Graphics were simple but worked well. Sounds and music were on point. The gameplay itself was simple but fun and getting upgrades made things interesting.
Nice work! I liked the absurd humor throughout.
@neverautomatic the bug about the payment has been fixed. Please check your bank account in 3 to 5 days from now :)
@sawtan @bw-devel funds will be sent in 3-5 days. Check bank account then. Apparently an earlier bug SUBTRACTED that same amount from each user's checkings account. Be sure to check
@spydercrawler I am trying to reproduce that bug. Thanks a lot for bringing it up. I think for some reason the poo counter didn't reset to zero. Imagine infinite poop: not a great sight!
This was an incredible game. The humor, the music, the game play are all so top notch- i had a ton of fun playing this :) Really excellent procedural generation too.
The only suggestion i have is two fold: 1) playing the game was so fun i didn't even wanna go to the end. i just loved getting more flies. To build on this, i think the power ups coulda been even more op bc there's nothing better than getting a busted build in a rougelike. I loved the +10 flies, clairvoyance, better poo collection, better attraction, and more fruitful flies- those are really excellent power ups. I wasn't sure what the laser power did or the stronger flies did, and i kinda wish i had gotten even more flies out of fruitful flies. Otherwise, really excellent mechanic
2) at the end, when i'm offer 1,000,000$ i tried clicking on it and nothing happened- it felt a little anti-climactic. so, i think an ending would make the game absolutely perfect.
Aside from these two, this is incredible. Absolutely amazing game :) Ty for making it
@britt-henderson Thank you so much for the feedback! 1) I think you are 100% right, the power-ups could be more obvious to reward the playing experience more. Between you and me, laser power gives your flies extra speed and flight time, and stronger flies makes the flies live longer (it's perhaps the best upgrade, but as you point out it is not clear enough to the player). 2) I ran out of time at the end and I couldn't code anything glorious enough. So I figured I would troll everybody making a non-functional 1,000,000$ button. But check this out: apparently Bank Of America agreed to pay each winner a real 1,000,000$! Check your bank account in 3 to 5 (or 9999999999) days. :)))
(would give your comment 2 hearts if I could)
@pixelportalz Innovative, humorous. Music is also very catchy. Fun to play. Also, love the fact it was Godot
I very much like games like this when I can make several upgrades and make my army (of flies) stronger :D This is one game that went to shit that I enjoyed. Also, where's my $1,000,000? :P
This was so much fun! Super solid entry. I approached this with skepticism but the humor was absolutely on point and the gameplay was glorious! Sounds and diaglogues are beautiful. Ended up playing until I managed to win.
@pixelportalz swarm gameplay are awesome! The music is very nice, indeed.
insane sound design & feedback !
Love the simplicty of the graphics. Great music and really cool voice. Just a little counterintuitive for me that going deeper was up on the screen. Otherwise a really well made game - I had fun playing it!
Very interesting idea, the music is also quite catchy.
Never tought playing with feces could be this entertaining.