litmuszest 2021-04-26 02:41
Nice @jitspoe! Took a hot minute to get the hang of keeping my momentum and steering but it's a fun game. Love the crash sounds. I wanted the cave to keep going deeper, so you must have done something right.
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD48 → Soaring Under
By jitspoe
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 45 | 4.10 | 90 | |
| Fun | 64 | 4.01 | 89 | |
| Innovation | 122 | 3.88 | 89 | |
| Theme | 392 | 3.68 | 90 | |
| Graphics | 54 | 4.25 | 90 | |
| Audio | 8 | 4.34 | 90 | |
| Humor | 123 | 3.48 | 84 | |
| Mood | 34 | 4.19 | 88 |
Nice @jitspoe! Took a hot minute to get the hang of keeping my momentum and steering but it's a fun game. Love the crash sounds. I wanted the cave to keep going deeper, so you must have done something right.
It's certainly very very pretty. I'm a sucker for low poly stuff, I love these roaming style games, and the audio is also very well done. I did find it very hard to collect the pickups however. That's my only gripe personally.
Nice, played for a while. Music fits really well, I like the funny crash noise. I didn't really care too much about the pickups, I just liked gliding through the cave.
Followed your progress on Twitch this weekend while making my own game. Nice to try the game afterwards. This is very well done although difficult to get a hang of. The piano sound when crashing is a nice touch and of course the music is beautiful. You also took the time to make a proper options menu. I appreciate that :)
Its super pretty. I enjoy how taking flight kicks off a nice calming piano piece, and then dying makes dissonant notes appear...lol! I will say, pickups are basically impossible to get. I almost feel like a third person mode would be better, as i find myself colliding into things when i think im safe.
Overall a really good entry though!
I really liked the look of the game, and the piano notes being played randomly when the player crashes. It was fun when you got the hang of the controls too.
A nice, if a little short, experience. Flight mechanics are quite well done, takes a while to understand but that's not a problem. Pickups are basically impossible to get and not worth taking the risk. It kind of conflicts with the laid-back/calming flying gameplay to make the pickups so small. I think if they were bigger and easier to grab it would be really satisfying to grab them while soaring. It's hard in 48 hours but the map could have been bigger, it kinds of ends as soon as you get into the rhythm. Procedural would be great but obviously much harder. Audio work is fantastic, especially the rustling of the wingsuit at high speeds. Really nice!
I love basically everything about this. Probably my favourite so far. Echoing what others have said, I just wish the map was a bit bigger and the pickups were less impossible to grab.
Awesome game ! Simplistic but nice graphics. I loved the little details, like the piano notes when colliding with somethinG
I had a hard time getting far in the game but it didn't prevent me from enjoying the game. I found out that by going in the opposite direction at the start, I can go outside the map, an potentially go further by going back in near the cave entrance.
The pickups are, indeed, very difficult to get. I put them in as sort of a challenge thing to encourage people to take daring paths so there was more of a game scoring mechanic, and you could try to beat your friends in collectables gathered if you're a more competitive type. I did mean to bump the collision up a bit, but, well, when there's 50 things you want to do in the last hour of the jam, some get missed. :)
@gamedev-and-architecture I wanted to put a secret there :) Ran out of time, though. :\
Had a hard time grasping the controlls at first, but pretty nice anyway! Nice atmosphere and art. There are a lot of interesting sceneries that could be added in the future.
I really love the music in the game, and the flight controls is pretty easy to get the hang of. I really wish the game was longer, but that will hopefully come in later updates. Fingers crossed!
I love it but I absolutely suck at it LOL. Great work!
You'll never have so much fun hitting rock bottom as this.
Man, you nailed it in every regard. From the really clean graphics to the beautiful and then hilarious piano crashes. I definitely have to revisit Godot engine. 5/5
@pookipoot Godot 3.3 was JUST released and has a new lightmap baker, which I used for this project.
Fantastic! I loved how the music synced up with the gameplay and also the dying lol. I was terrible I mean TERRIBLE at the game, but cool game!
Enjoyably tricky to get the hang of, just like a classic arcade game. Might have benefited from an arrow showing your velocity? The way the glider swooped upwards without the correct finessing was hard to get the hang of, but so satisfying once it clicked. Loved the comedic piano impact noises. I wonder if there are any hidden easter eggs?
Cool graphics, liked the gameplay as well, and the sound design was really clever. A bit hard for me to control myself, but had a good time trying to get the hang of it. Congrats! :D
@vimlark Since I didn't have voice lines to taunt you in the game this time, let me just point out how easy it looks to grab the pickups in the video. ;)
This has to be in my top 3 this jam easily.
Amazing graphics, beautiful soundtrack (and death sound lol), nice controls that take a bit of time to get the hang of, nice scenery... just awesome. Good work!
Nice, clean graphics, interesting idea. To the extent of difficult control. A little lacking in feedback during the flight. But in general, everything is fine!
At first, the game seem relaxing, but after it turns out to be Flappy Bird. I like the idea, but in my opinion the game is too hard to play at the beginning. And big respect for Godot.
Super cool game, and a compo over that ^^
@tricky-fat-cat Try aiming down SLIGHTLY for a gradual, consistent descent. You don't want to flappy-bird it and go up and down a lot. Takes a bit of time to adapt to the controls and physics. I probably should have made the beginning a bit less challenging, but it's difficult to get the level design, assets, physics, controls, etc. all working together in just 2 days. :D
@jitspoe completely understand you. That's why I adopt the approach to make a jam game slightly easier despite strong notion that players must suffer!
The music! The failed sfx! The gliding! So polished, I'm jealous. Racking my brain for suggestions, uhhh... don't listen to people who say it's too hard? ;)
Very infuriating, pls dont do this to humankind XDDD the controls were as was to be expected very hard, short but fun game
The controls take time to get used to, but after getting them down it makes for a really nice experience and even just trying to learn how to control yourself is fun! Quite relaxing as well, especially with that music.
The clay look of the world is really nice, and the piano music when you kill a run is great. The beginning is definitely challenging, but getting everything balanced in 2 days is quite difficult. Great work making a well-polished, hard, but enjoyable game. I think given some more play-testing, balance time, and additional stages, this could be a neat "pay for" game.
Very difficult, the way I like
A great interpretation of the theme! I really like the idea of having a gliding mechanic, which literally doesn't allow you to go above your starting height, to force the player to go deeper and deeper. The audio is amazing, particularly how the music stops and plays piano notes as if somethings slamming into the music itself. Overall neat game!
Nice game ! I love the music and the impact on the piano, it gives a really clear feedback that youy failed :smile: It can be difficult really quick but it's easy to retry.
Ahh, I'm so bad at this! I love the little duck quack as it hits the wall. It's soothing while you fly but I can't fly too long. I'm clearly doing something wrong though based on other people's feedback. Good job on the environment and music, they're super lovely and work really well together.
Like others have mentioned, the flight mechanics are quite hard to get a hang of; I noticed myself holding forward most of the time and not really using the left, right and down keys since I felt I was more in control that way. With enough time, I'm sure you could master it and it would be a really interesting challenge to go for the collectibles.
My suggestion would be adding an easier difficulty mode where you don't instantly lose when you strafe a wall, could make it easier to gain practice when you can more freely and for a longer time just fly around and learn from your mistakes.
The atmosphere was of course very beautiful, there's something quite soothing about slowly drifting down into each new area.
The music was great, I especially like how it played the wrong keys in accordance with your sad, sad slamming into the ground noises. I had a little fun with turning around and going backwards at the starting area, thus getting outside of the map and uhh.. Totally legit-ly making my way to the end. The low poly models were absolutely gorgeous and the whole game was such a nice little calming sorta zen game. Love it! Also I wishlisted Fist of the Forgotten. Looks really cool!
This game has the ability to be such a wonderful peaceful experinces, if I wasn't so trash at games.
Really cool entry! Frustrated me a lot but i kept wanting to play! Would be an amazing experience if wasnt so difficult :D
@steve-johnstone Try aiming down just slightly and holding forward, or just tapping the forward key while aiming down to get a gradual descent instead of diving down rapidly.
@zathnic The strafing left and right isn't necessary, but can be useful if you need to quickly dodge something. Easiest to just glide, then press forward when you need to turn or move down. Best to keep moving down slightly so you don't stall out and lose momentum.
@sharks Thanks a bunch! I did mean to put a secret at that opening behind the start, but didn't have time. :D
@jitspoe Ah, it got a lot easier once I had a little bit of momentum. Once I made it through the first cliff it wasn't so bad. It was worth persevering.
Definitely one of those "hard at first, but even harder to master games", I'm eternally impressed when someone makes a 3D game for LD and when it's so visually appealing like this one it's even more spectacular.
Super pretty game! I can't understand how you managed to build such a big, pretty world, and implement all of the feautres in such a short time. I really, really enjoyed the visuals! I enjoyed the audio as well, everything from the calm music to the funny piano crashes.
The controls were really hard to get used to, but once you got the hang of it - it was really fun! Can't say I was particularly good at it, but at least I managed to finish the game as well as grab a couple of the pickups on the way!
I feel like the start is a bit hard, maybe give the player the first couple of 100 meters a bit more of a "playground" to get used to the controls. I personally felt like the game was easier from the forest bit before the big drop down than the part leading up to it. Maybe somehow changing out the two areas might've made it easier for players to get used to the controls?
All in all, I really enjoyed the game and it was a great take on the theme!
Nice! Very difficult for me hahaha. Challenge accepted!
@korfi Yeah, I was struggling a bit getting the flight physics dialed in AND build all the assets and level and such. The difficulty kind of swung around a bit from just "aim and you go there" to more extreme gotta-control-your-flight-perfectly-to-make-it and ended up here when the time ran out. :D
If you want to see the process, I have vods from my Twitch stream here (for about a week): https://www.twitch.tv/videos/998622057 https://www.twitch.tv/videos/999956036
I'm working on a stripped down highlights version as well.
I could not figure out the controls at all. But the presentation made me not care I was failing so miserably. The music and fail state are both so wonderful that I'm not even made I didn't make it past the 2nd arch or collect a single pickup.
@harrison-dunn Try aiming just slightly down and holding forward for a more consistent descent. Or just aim down and tap forward occasionally to stop floating up and stalling. Avoid diving down too much (except when you get to the cave that goes straight down, then go all in!) Takes a while to click for a lot of people, but can be really fun when it finally does!
Don't worry about the collectables -- those are just there for the hardcore / competitive types.
Love the music when you crash! That was unexpected! I find it a bit hard though... it's really difficult at times to aim the right way and even a minimum error ends up in having to restart from scratch.
[Thanks for submitting your game to our stream!](https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1006873415?t=03h31m03s)
Once again, you have made something that revels in crushing my soul and making me look like a fool. And yet for some reason, I still come to enjoy it. :sweat_smile:
It's super impressive how you were able to make such a nice-sounding, nice-looking, nice-playing game solo in a single weekend. Mad props to you, sir!
@coleslaughter No, no. I didn't crush your soul this time. This time, I'm fairly certain your face was the subject of crushing! 😂
Very pretty looking and sounding. I really like the random piano notes when hitting the ground. Wind sounds amazing too. Very peaceful atmosphere. Well done!
Between the beautiful lowpoly artwork and the great music score (not to mention the bad piano stings that ruin said score as a little salt in the wound for failure), I'm amazed by what you pulled off in a compo entry and dare I say it, it blows my game out of the water. The map feels vast, the flight physics take skill to master, and the presentation is stellar.
Exceptional work.
Really nice looking game with smooth controls and I really wish I was better at flying. Don't know how many times I tried, but couldn't make it past the forrest part before the cave. I lost too much lift the few times I made it that far. I found it a bit hard to know how large I was/my colliison box was. The same for the pickup of the checkpoints. Some sort of viusal feedback and/or music effect would have been really nice. I also would have loved if there was an easier mode for those of us that really aren't that skilled that allowed a few collisions (though that would really not have helped with the lack of lift in the forrest). It felt like crossing that part sort or required having had a perfect flight prior to that, or I missed some aspect of how to regain lift.
After watching the clip, I realized I never got one before and well that sort of speaks to my confusion about my own size. I guess I felt a lot larger than I was. I tried gain, now in the web player to also keep W pressed in most of the time, but it felt like I had to look above were I was going to maintain altitude then and the A/D movement felt off so I couldn't really make it past the first gate.
I didn't know piano keys could become so offensive... Your decision to pivot in the jam to this soaring mechanic really paid off. I'm jealous of ideas executed this precisely! Very frustrating to get a hang of the controls but they beg to be mastered which is the most important part. Inspiring work yet again sir!
I particularly like how, even while developing this overall relaxing experience, you still managed to sneak in your trademark slapstick humor. Amazing work. Congrats!
@gryffo Perhaps it was more slapface humor in this case. :D
That's a really nice game. Looks great, good mood, funny when you die, unique take on the theme. It's got everything.
That tutorial video was much needed lol, just for showing its possible to fly. It was still really difficult. I think there should have been an option for a reticule. It was fun trying to fly through the obstacle course but it was more fun flying out of the map :) and then going to the last area that way. Overall a relaxing interesting experience that could be really fun if not so hard. Maybe that would just get better with practice, however doing it is a contrary feeling to the relaxation. I liked the crash noises.
Wow what a great compo entry! Almost can't believe you made it on your own in 48 h. :open_mouth: :raised_hands:
I love the low poly graphics, the mechanics and the soft piano music.
It's very cool to fly around, but like others, I am not good at it. Maybe because I can't see the player "character", the hitbox or really the direction in which I am going or how I am effecting it. It would be nice to have a noob-mode in which you would see a part of a predicted trajectory. I tried quite a few times and landed in the forest a few times. Once I escaped the terrain in the beginning and had a nice calm flight outside the island, and reentered in some other cave. :smile:
I must admit that I struggled a bit (=a lot) with the controls. Doesn't really matter though because the presentation, and above all the music sound design, is fantastic.
A part of me wants the controls so be visible on screen, but I also get that it might clash horribly with the minimalistic aesthetic.
A really beautiful game - but the difficulty is incredible. In 50 attempts I only got through the second gate about 3 times. Some really really easy tutorial level would have been great to become familiar with the controls. The music and sound effects make a great atmosphere.
Great core mechanic! Controls are frustrating and the connection to "deeper and deeper" could be stronger imo, but it didn't ruin the overall experience. Nice audio and the music! Needs a bit of polishing but overall a great accomplishment especially for a compo game!