erik-bermudez 2021-04-25 23:06
Wow dude! For a compo game this is so pretty and interesting! The take is also a little different then what I thought. I particularly enjoyed just flying around and the movement. Very nice entry.
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD48 → Spin On
By hruhf
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 404 | 3.51 | 30 | |
| Fun | 365 | 3.46 | 30 | |
| Innovation | 329 | 3.44 | 30 | |
| Theme | 699 | 3.10 | 30 | |
| Graphics | 252 | 3.75 | 30 | |
| Audio | 448 | 3.13 | 28 | |
| Humor | 437 | 2.50 | 25 | |
| Mood | 635 | 2.94 | 28 |
Wow dude! For a compo game this is so pretty and interesting! The take is also a little different then what I thought. I particularly enjoyed just flying around and the movement. Very nice entry.
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Nice entry for the compo ! the gameplay is cool and the movements fell great (even if my pc is potato :D). Good job :)
This game is bastard hard and I don't think I managed to kill a single anti, but the movement felt so good and the concept so cool that I just kept playing - great job!
Thanks all for your comments! I'm glad everyone likes the movement, I'm pretty happy with it. @erik-bermudez - Thank-you! I felt everyone would go the dig deeper route so I went the opposite. @lorwon - Hopefully it was still playable, I didn't have time to add a settings menu. It's possible to change the graphics settings in the ini files, but it's pretty hidden away. @nigeynige - Yeeeeah it's pretty hard, I'm sure you managed to kill a few, it's just not shown particularly well. I've updated the post with some tips for playing to try and make it easier for everyone.
Love the graphic
Good game ! The controls are on point and the flying system feels good. The fire system is a bit clunky, sometimes it touchs the ennemy and sometimes it follows him for a long time. Nice Work !
Good job, I like the robot design, like the sounds, gameplay it was okay, I would have liked if the enemies were easier to destroy its unsatisfying when you fire 10 missles at something and its still there, after a while there were too many ships for me to handle. Anyway good job, this was also my first compo after doing the jam for 12 entries straight, it really is a completely different game dev experience.
@verygenuinecraze @digitaldude555 Thank-you for the feedback, the missiles are indeed one aspect I wasn't happy with, the enemy missiles are re-coloured player missiles so it was difficult to balance. In hindsight I should have just sucked it up and made them two distinct objects, as well as making it more gratifying when you destroyed an enemy, instead of the slow delayed death animation.
I love gurren lagann, and this was a great adaptaion of that shows premise into the theme. Absolutely killed it!
Great idea and implementation of the theme. It was fun flying and shooting missiles faster and faster. When the suit upgraded it was satisfying to have a moment of "victory break". Though at depth 4 I think where the enemies became spawning like crazy it started lagging and I couldn't outkill them. Good job. Kamina would be proud.
@mehul @maximbegunov Hahaha, thank you, I was wondering how long it would take for someone to mention the show.
I agree that it's pretty easy to be overwhelmed and be stuck in a losing spiral, and there's no real way of getting out. It probably would have been better to unlock the drill earlier as it's a very effective way of clearing large groups, and at the moment, it's very hard to get to the depth where you unlock it.
I liked the mechanics of this game. It was a bit harsh at times, but the integration of the theme was well done. Nice
The game is beautiful, the control of the mecha is good, this is an like an arena shooter. There is a lot of effect, but we don't really understand when we hit the ennemy(maybe speed up the rockets and put bigger explosion), and the explosion when he die is not satisfacting (bigger its better its). For a good shoothem up you need to put weak ennemys which explose in one or two hit, and huge ennemys more resisting. That's more fun, this is a really impressive game for a compo game. You made a great work but you can render this more fun and addictive.
Hi, it's a great idea and I the graphics are good. I think the controls and physics variables need some tweaking to feel right. Also the difficulty is obviously in need of tuning, as you stated. For a compo game this is great. Congrats for submitting!
this is a cool and unique idea i like the way the different stages leave some enemies around in the sky when you level down. Like others i felt the mechanic of putting the player into an endless loosing spiral could use some work, i also felt the shooting could have been improved perhaps by something like the halflife rocket launcher where you can fire without locking on but the rockets will move towards whatever you're targeting after firing so the player would still get feedback when shooting but you'd maintain the difficulty.
@matterlinx @jose-bonilla Thank-you for your wonderful feedback. @robowarrior1982 Wow, I don't know how I didn't even consider adding weaker enemies ahaha, thank you! Yeah, the enemy death explosion is pretty pathetic and miss-able. @copito That's a great idea! This along with making the enemy deaths more obvious could be interesting. Thank-you!
Really impressive! Unique take on the theme, and for the most part everything works well. I did wish I had some kind of aim-able weapon—it felt like the missiles weren’t doing enough even though I was spamming the fire button constantly. Made it up to level 3 twice and got knocked down again twice, at which point I gave up. The scale changes were neat—it felt like nothing much was changing for the first level or two, but by the time my impending mech was standing astride a planet I had a much clearer idea. Curious what the subsequent levels were—one planet per foot? A star? :smile: Great work.
@mahalis Thank you! Yeah the first two scale changes hardly change much since it goes from lots of dirt to lots of dirt. It would have been nice to add rocks, mountains or trees to help but alas I did not. And yes, it does keep getting more absurd after planet.
Hey guys, I've uploaded a few fixes to a couple of the more major issues, this should make the game much easier. Also there's a Linux build available now.
Changes: - Player missile drills will never miss, and travel much faster. - Antis now explode immediately when killed, instead of after the death animation. - Made anti death explosions more noticeable. - Antis now decrement their counter immediately when killed, instead of after the death animation. - Added basic pause menu.
Couldn't figure out what the + and - numbers at the top meant, also not being able to fire unless I was looking at an anti directly was sort of annoying - at least I think that's what was happening... the fire rate wasn't very well-indicated so I'm not sure. I love the TTGL homage though, and the controls feel quite nice. Killing antis was a little hard for me, I ended up with like 50 of em on the second stage and couldn't cull their numbers at all.
@dragonzbw Thanks for giving it a shot! In order to fire, were you holding the button or repeatedly clicking it? I didn't put any indication for fire rate as you fire as quickly as you can click, with holding intended to be a backup. You do need to be looking roughly at an enemy to lock on though. Though for ergonomics sake, maybe I should up the depth 0 hold fire rate to be faster. The + and - indicators are for objects larger and smaller than you, but that system didn't get fleshed out.
Very impressive submission. Nice graphics and the controls are nice and responsive. The only gripe I have with it (same as others have mentioned) is the enemies not blowing up. This game would be amazing if enemies were just a tad more satisfying to blow up. Great game though, my type of game as I love the "relax and just shoot things".
Smooth controls and nice idea in general. I found this game pretty challenging. Great entry, nice job on sound design!