kingofnova 2021-04-27 02:27
good work though wish there was a better ui indicated what to do like if the little guys got highlighted dislike having to read to figure out whats going on other than that great work.
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD48 → Dwammings
By eden-shazar, MichaelHaughian, defilerzero and Bonesteeler
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 166 | 4.05 | 72 | |
| Fun | 281 | 3.82 | 73 | |
| Innovation | 279 | 3.82 | 72 | |
| Theme | 62 | 4.38 | 73 | |
| Graphics | 162 | 4.37 | 73 | |
| Audio | 378 | 3.76 | 71 | |
| Humor | 310 | 3.54 | 72 | |
| Mood | 391 | 3.90 | 71 |
good work though wish there was a better ui indicated what to do like if the little guys got highlighted dislike having to read to figure out whats going on other than that great work.
Love Lemmings, and the animations really pop.
I absolutely love lemmings! Really good take on the theme, and a blast to play!
Impressive! There were a few bugs, and the gameplay was a little tough because the miners were difficult to control, but the graphics and the gameplay and the idea and really everything were way better than anything I'd ever expect to come out of a few days. This feels like something that's a couple versions away from being published to a platform that charges real money.
@zanderpm Thank you so much! I think I speak for the rest of the team as well when I say that is an incredibly heartwarming review. I've just added a small fix for a bug with rope climbing - is that what you've encountered?
@kingofnova @cryptomnesic @kleinzach Thank you all as well for the kind words! Animations are all by the legendary @defilerzero
Took me a while to really get the hang of how to play but it is fun how they go about their work(once given a command),
An ingame explanation or a pause button would make it a lot easier.
@west Thanks for the review! A pause button actually exists, but you're right we didn't mention it anywhere. Added all controls to the description here if you want to give it another go :)
Thanks to everyone leaving feedback! This our first time all working together as a team (we pretty much only spoke to each other for the first time last week!) and my first game jam, and I had a tonne of fun.
Lovely graphics and nice concept! I'd say the UI and player controls could be a bit better, right now it is too easy to misclick a dwarf or get all of them trapped deep, and while you're selecting a job for one dwarf they all have already fallen down. Anyways, great job!
I love this game. The art and sound and mechanics all compliment each other very well
The visuals and audio suit this game really well. Controls could use some work (maybe mousewheel to move the camera and hold mouse to select an area). Still quite fun to play.
wow, nice game!
Simply amazing, this game is so awesome, the design, the art, the gameplay, one of the best, congrats! <3
nice art, liked the concept, it remindes me a good game,gj!
i really like the lemmings key mechanics :D
This is like lemmings, but ... they drink, and are terrible at working, so it speak directly to me.
Great job on the concept, fits the theme perfectly. Has enough strategy in terms of how/where to dig and planning return and such, that it keeps it interesting.
Some bugs, but don't let that discourage you!
Amazing work!
I really like the idea and the presentation, but pretty quickly I got in a situation where all my dwarves were stuck in one long narrow hole lol
Loved it (having to control dwarves helped, probably). Well done guys !
@lisyarus Nice to see you here! Thanks for the feedback, we'll likely put in some extra work soon and implement some of that for a post-jam version.
@rawb @foopy @tentaclemax @vsi @neowhoru Thank you all for the kind words!
@predominant Nice to hear we managed to create the need, and opportunity, for strategy. It was a real effort to balance the game in such a short time, but @michaelhaughian did fantastic work on that!
@sam-machell Thanks for the review! I'd like to encourage you to give it another go, and frantically lay down some rope (job number 4!). Getting stuck in a shaft is pretty much obstacle number 0 in this game :)
Very nice! A bit hard at first, I had to go back to the game page to look at the different jobs. The game is very deep (duh) for a jam game, and definitely looks well rounded. Great job!
Great!
This is a really cool combination of quasi-basebuilder and lemmings. I feel like this has an insane amount of potential for growing into a full game! All kinds of options: for instance you could make it even more frantic by requiring timbers to shore up shafts or risk them collapsing. I also feel I have to mention the sprite work for being incredible.
Minor complaint: I wish you could click on the tools in the UI, I kept doing it (even though I knew the number keys were they correct way) and then causing hijinks by assigning the wrong tool to a dwarf.
Anyway, I hope you'll continue to work on it. Great stuff!
@threeli Thanks so much for the really kind review! We're having conversations about what could possibly be in a post-jam version and if we're going to persue it, so thanks for the vote of confidence!
I just want to thank everyone for the positive comments and the valid feedback. Just hoping that everyone is enjoying this treat of a game.
Amazing graphics, mechanics, audio, and overall feel. It was relaxing with the audio and just challenging enough to keep me engaged. Amazing job
Fun little game with great art and the looping music fit really well! I also thought the match to the theme was brilliant.
Great art and quite whimsical music! It took a bit of time to get behind the mechanics and I was glad, that unlike lemmings the roles could be used infinitely :)
Great idea. You should make it more usability and need guide.
I absolutely love this game, it is really cool to play! The graphics and music are dope! It would have been cool to be able to click with the mouse to select a job, I kept trying to do this even though I knew it did not work this way ahah
@laurent @omnes-ludos @galina Thank you all! Very nice to hear you enjoyed it.
@threeli @habibirb @upcharlie @ancient-pixel Thank you so much for the kind words, it means so much to us!
@pikatchum That was a planned little feature that was left out to leave more time to squash bugs and polish features that needed that love a bit more. We'll likely have a post-jam version with fixes such as that. Thank you so much for playing and for the feedback :)
I love these kind of games. It has a lot of potential for a full game afterwards! The art style is very good too
Took a few tries to understand the mechanics but once I understood them the game was awesome! Stressful at times but not in a punishing way, well done!
This game is super charming, I love the entire vibe it has. The graphics and audio both contribute to that beautifully, and the gameplay tricks you into thinking that it does but in reality you really need to be mindful of what you're doing or suddenly you've got a hole full of dwarves and no kegs for them -- truly the greatest of tragedies.
I actually really like the gameplay, despite not being particularly great at managing it yet. I absolutely love the concept of what the gameplay could grow if careful enough, making a sprawling cave system of dutiful little dwarves digging for their booze.
I had a couple little glitches with dwarves sticking themselves into physical walls, but beyond those minor hiccups it was a joy to play throughout.
Very cool! Graphics and sound are great. And anyone who played a ton of lemmings in the nineties like me gets a nice nostalgia rush!
nice Lemmings style here :). Took awhile to understand the mechanics.. I ended up with all Dwarfes in a pit and couldn't click on any of them ;) also I guess I triggered some kind of bug where I only could scroll up and down. When I finally came back up all dwarfs was gone apart from one happy guy spending all his day drinking booze ;)
Would have probably enjoyed it if I wasn't constantly dealing with the softlocks caused by the ropes. Sound effects and graphics were great.
This is nice! It looks super nice and has fitting mood & music! Its a bit hard to control though, it is unclear why the dwarves stop acting, and if its due to lack of beer they sometime fail to go fetch some. It did seem easy to get stuck and doomed xD. I do think I also lost some dwarves due to getting stuck in walls. Nontheless I was fairly impressed with what I saw good job!
Great Idea! Lemmings nostalgia combined with cute graphics. Controls could be improved but you get used to it. All in all a good game with lots of potential.
The graphics and the feel is so nice, the music is perfect for the game. I needed some time to understand the mechanics, but after they started digging I understood what I need to do. Btw, I had constantly tried to click on the jobs, and not using numbers, so it could be good option to control it with the mouse. Overall, awesome game!
Pretty fun game, definitely a good lemmings vibe.
Very cute game! Love the graphics and the vibes (and those grumpy dwarves). It has lots of potential I'd say.
good game, but still confused, tried messing around with the game for 30m but all what i managed to do is to make them mine a hole & they all got stuck there lmao, it was quite fun though
This is a great game! It's a bit hard at first to understand everything that's going on but it's very satisfying once you get the grisp of it. I would have liked being able to select job with the mouse so the game could be playable with only the mouse. I feel like the rope mechanic is a bit tough too, maybe the dward needs to be able to jump one square up to protect the player from small mistakes?
Anyway this was really fun overall, really well done!
This was a lot of fun. Finding out all the little strategies, managing the dwarves, planning out the path to take. Very my style of things. The art is great, the animations look really good. The music never got annoying, and the sounds of mining were well balanced.
Could have kept going but I decided to try some things that didn't work out and my dwarves ended up in a hole in the ground.
Some things that I would like to see: - Mouse wheel for choosing job - Speed up during gameplay
Some things I enjoyed: - Everything else. Dwammings.png
Thank you for submitting! I hope my in-stream feedback was helpful!
Hi :)
Here is the youtube Playthrough
https://youtu.be/TJ00kOWcPGU
Enjoy :)
Nice game but very confusing. It's very easy to dig down to deep and have all your dwarves fall down here
@xeke-death Gald you enjoy the style of the game, and agree on the feedback. There was a handful of polish we wanted to get to, but time was short.
@shaunjs Big fan of your YT tutorials. Glad you got to play our game, and had some fun with it. Feedback was great as well, and will keep in mind for the future.
Fun dig game with Lemmings mechanics. Took me a few tries to find things out. The pixel art with subtle lightning looks great. Audio does the job and never gets annoying. Nice mood also. Good job.
Hey team, thanks for submitting your game to the stream, I had a lot of fun playing it! I hope the feedback was helpful. Here's the vod if ya wanna rewatch;
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1004858368
This was fun.
I liked the rope mechanic but failing to execute it properly meant all my dwarves would get stuck. It might be nice to have someway to get them out of a hole (like a ladder) so your run doesn't end too early.
So when I say your game, i got somewhat jelous that a game thats somewhat similar to mine in a few ways was getting more views then mine (even if that has more to do with not having time to rate games a lot this week). But seeing that you had 4 team members doesn't make me as jealous anymore.
I can tell I've played my own game too much since mine doesn't use the number keys to do things. So I'll ask the same thing that I'll be doing in my own game eventually: combine hotkeys with the mouse.
This game is quite good. I think that most of games problems could probably be fixed if you started with less dwarfs. They all start on top of each other so it really difficult to get use out of any more then 2 of them at. I'll also say you should lower the price of the beer cask, I find it a bit too expensive.
I'm gonna be trying a new strategy of saying "screw you" to all the grouped up dwarfs and kill them all off
*Update it didn't work
New problem: they only go right if there are two ropes.
Unrelated Suggestion: make rope laying slower then digging
@wolfier Thanks for giving are game a go. We did have the theme but approach player agency differently. And don't worry, I get jealous seeing what solo-devs can come up with in a weekend.
Solid game. It reminded my of lemmings back in the day. Not my favorite style of game but I'm sure lots of people will love this game. Good stuff.
I streamed my playthrough on Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1004793106?t=02h10m47s
Cute graphics, beer, dwarves, and lemmings!? What's not to love. Great entry, super cute!
Great graphics and well polished. I imagine having four people probably helps a lot with that. I found it a bit hard to manage so many dwarves at the start but eventually got the hang of it when I realised you can cancel tasks by clicking on a dwarf even with another task selected. It is far too easy for everyone to just get stuck down a single hole though.
It seems odd you can't click on the task buttons. Also escape exits full screen mode in the html5 version causing problems. I managed to somehow get a dwarf stuck in a solid tile at one point.
Had an error happen when I was getting my dwarf drunk. Replicable when just spamming beer on the dwarfs at the start of the game.
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I've not read any of the comments so I write my review as a pure first experience.
The game is an awesome take on the good ol' Lemmings game. Super cute overall aesthetics. The pixel art brings a nice retro feeling and the music is playful.
It's easy to see when the dwarfs are getting too "hot" and need a drink. Nice touch that the dwarfs can get back up via rope.
If there is something to improve with the game IMHO, it would be adding an extra layer to the economy so that the dwarfs would mine gold and other valuables and then convert those into beer. Mining these kinds of things would make more sense thematically and the conversion to beer could be automated not to burden the play away from the core game loop. Having more variety to things to mine would allow the player to prioritize a bit and that could lead to interesting tactical scenarios.
The jobs could also be selected by clicking in addition to number keys. I intuitively tried to click them multiple times.
Really good entry. My favorite so far!
Hello! Your game was played on stream ( https://www.twitch.tv/ursagames/videos ) on 5/03 (Day 2 of LDJAM streams).
You can find the timestamp of when your game was played here: https://tinyurl.com/LDJAM48-ursa
!Caution. The person writing this message is obsessed with dwarves and digging. His review may be biased.! ;)
What a lovely game idea for a game! I ran into a few bugs (like in some confusion my dwarves stopped digging no matter what I told them to do) but other than that, it was a lot fun to play! All: the idea, the graphic style and the music are really well made and well connect with each other. Great job!
Really got into the game, only sad at some of the dwarfs who got trapped in a circle after calling the end bell! Really enjoy the puzzle elements about how to safely dig down more
Lemmings dwarfs! At the beginning it was quite challenging to grasp all the running dwarfs, but I've managed somehow. Nice art style and music. I had a lot of fun playing it!:) Great work!
:wave: Hi there! This game has been featured on the GitHub Blog: [Ludum Dare 48 staff picks](https://github.blog/2021-05-19-ludum-dare-48-staff-picks/#dwammings) :slight_smile:
[Ludum-Dare-48_GH-staff-picks_Banner.gif](https://github.blog/2021-05-19-ludum-dare-48-staff-picks/#dwammings)
@lee-reilly Oh wow, what an honor! On behalf of the whole team, thank you so much for playing our game, and of course for the feature as well. We're elated to have people enjoy our little creation so much!