ianthebee 2021-04-26 14:10
I love this game! The action is intense, and quickly swishing through rocks feels great.
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD48 → The Reverse of the Summit
By squigglez
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 220 | 3.74 | 29 | |
| Fun | 147 | 3.83 | 29 | |
| Innovation | 697 | 2.75 | 29 | |
| Theme | 433 | 3.61 | 29 | |
| Graphics | 551 | 3.25 | 29 | |
| Audio | 249 | 3.50 | 29 | |
| Humor | 280 | 2.91 | 26 | |
| Mood | 541 | 3.09 | 28 |
I love this game! The action is intense, and quickly swishing through rocks feels great.
Nice. Easy to click out of the window though
Medical expenses got me :smile: 2021-04-26 15_10_48-The Reverse of the Summit.png
Well executed classic mechanic. Nice job!
Awesome! Reminds me of playing skifree as a kid - I sucked at that too haha. Couldn't crack 500 points, I'll give it another go later to see if I can make it farther. Fun graphics and sounds, nice idea adding the option to leave unscathed. Simple but fun gameplay. And being able to knock this out in 2 days while still in high school is impressive! (this is coming from someone who teaches game development to high schoolers) Congrats on your upcoming graduation.
I really enjoyed the idea of being able to jump in what usually a "move left and right" genre, it really is a refreshing take. Being able to leave is also quite clever, it could really work in more games of this genre.
Overall it is a cool, but really unforgiving, concept.
Congratulations on your entry !
Fun and straight forward gameplay. It's a good difficulty for a jam game. It's easy enough to get started, but still pretty challenging. The music went well with the game too.
I agree with the comment above: "Easy to click out of the window though". Aside from that, controls felt good.
Looking forward, consider adding ski jumps :)
Really cool idea letting the player decide if they want to end the run manually or risk losing a bunch of points to medical expenses if they die. Also I appreciate how the blocks stop moving once you approach them nice touch.
I love the retro pixel graphics! Nice booming sound track. Combined with the mouse controls makes for some great twitch game play.
I really want to be able to do something with my loot :cry: or am I missing something?
Really great job and keep up the good work!
Love the graphic and the art style of this game
Hey @squigglez thanks for submitting your game! :robot: I really liked it! As said a leader board would increase the "addiction factor" 10x and i think this game has a good chance to work on mobile :grin:
Really fun game, great sound effects and music, and quite addicting! One thing I would suggest is to make the collision boxes a bit more forgiving, many times I crashed by touching the side of a rock I thought I had already avoided :P
I also agree with @wujood, a leaderboard would be great. ([dreamlo](http://dreamlo.com/) is a good free one)
I liked the fact, that you did not stop and restart the music between the single game-plays-rounds. The music itself was not annoying - and that is goood!
The controls felt good, as soon as i found out, that you can use the spacebar to jump. The mouseclick to jump, did not feel very natural for me, which is why i really appreciate the spacebar jump, although it was not noticed in the "tutorial".
The gem-collecting feature adds another level of competitive factor, as you can show off more skill by collecting the stuff AND reaching a certain depth compared to only focus on not hitting the rocks.
The arcade game style enables the player to have some competition with their friends and/or people on the internet. If you ever create a post compo verison of the game, such a feature would add great value.
Fun game. I ended up playing for a lot longer than I had planned to.
As @madelfino said, it also reminded me of Skifree which I played endlessly when I was younger (I made it past the yeti once!).
Would have loved to have been able to buy upgrades with the loot I had collected.
A fun and addicting little game. I felt the loot distribution and difficulty were heavily influenced by RNG, but it's enjoyable nonetheless! I really like the concept of bailing in the middle of the run to save your loot. :smile:
Thanks for bringing your game by my stream to check out Monday night. If you'd like to watch again, the highlight can be found at https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1005053858
Feedback - Liked the jumping and the coins - The loot was a bit useless maybe add an upgrade shop
A simple idea executed well. Good job!
The art and the music are really well done, and give the game a nice feel. The controls are good although I think the jump is a little too short, making it easy to land on a rock you are trying to jump over. Great job overall.
I had a lot of fun with this! My only complaint is the music is very loud. Jumping worked really well, and I definitely replayed quite a number of times trying to get a high score. I was going to exit having gotten a bit of entertainment out of it after 9-10 runs, but then I realized I hadn't understood the "medical expenses" line. Once I grasped what was going on there I had to try a few more runs. I really love the touch of being able to decide when you've had enough, and preserve your points! It adds a really cool risk vs. reward decision to the whole thing, and I thought it was really clever!
Here's my best score. =)
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this is interesting, a good implementation has room for growth)