2021-04-27 08:52
I'm totally in love with this game, and it's mechanics!
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD48 → Gecko Dive
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 10 | 4.43 | 59 | |
| Fun | 36 | 4.27 | 59 | |
| Innovation | 231 | 3.89 | 58 | |
| Theme | 1171 | 3.44 | 58 | |
| Graphics | 43 | 4.61 | 59 | |
| Audio | 187 | 3.99 | 57 | |
| Humor | 783 | 2.83 | 46 | |
| Mood | 166 | 4.17 | 57 |
I'm totally in love with this game, and it's mechanics!
Stunning graphics. Nice gameplay. Felt like an actual game instead of a jam entry. It lags quite a bit on the web, but that's just unavoidable. I feel like there should be an undo button, but I think I'm just too impatient to restart. Overall it's really enjoyable! Though I guess you guys can make the Deeper and Deeper theme more palpable.
@sendnoose did you try the quality settings in the pause menu (esc)? Would be interesting to know if it's laggy even with low settings!
wow, really cool visual style and animations!:) nice game, good job!:)
Amazing game! The puzzles are clever and difficulty builds up very slowly, so you have time to figure out how to interact with each level before getting lost. The graphics look stunning and the mood is perfect. Great job :)
Soo cool graphic! Good atmosphere! I have really fun to play this game) Thank you!)
Beautiful game, the 3D is gorgeous ! The level design is great too, really hard at the end but still very fun. Great work :)
Omg I love this so much. The gecko animations are so spot on and adorable. The music and sounds effects are perfect. The graphics and art style are beautiful. The controls feel great and the puzzles are challenging in a really good way. 10/10 Gecko Dive is definitely a favorite.
Honestly, I love your game! You even have a .com to host the game for web. The graphics is fantastic and even the transition between level is customized. Very good visual and level design. I enjoyed this game truly. You guys are amazing. Fantasic job. 5 stars from me.
Love Gecko! We also made a puzzle, but here I like tail's mechanics :))
The controls took a bit of getting used to at first but it is quite fun and has a super cute gecko.
Thank you so much for all the positive feedback! Makes all that crunch in the past few days worth it :')
So cute, so hard sometimes :3
Awesome idea, nice gameplay and cool graphics. Great job!
Very nice puzzle game. Love the aesthetic and the low poly models.
This is crazy good, doesn't feel like a game jam game at all. The puzzle design was really good! Movement is super interesting (inspired by Snakebird?), and you really squeezed everything you could out of the mechanics you have.
Love the music and the art. The gecko character is super cute. Overall, probably the best entry I've played so far.
Thanks all for the amazing feedback!
@pdotjpg fun thing, the movement mechanics were just from the shape of the gecko, but the first time I got the movement working and tested it it was like "oh damn, this is so Snakebird!" :D
Environments are very pretty and the gecko is so cute ! The mechanic is original and very well executed, this was really fun to play :)
The way controls/animations are played is great, the transitions between levels are such a nice touch
Incredible! What a great entry this is. You made some really tricky puzzles and the whole game feels very polished. Good job! I only wish the game had an "Undo" button. That's really my only complaint. :)
Such a lovely game! So relaxing to play! I love how the gecko moves and the transition effect is so cute between levels. It’s also very cool how the environments evolve as you go deeper and deeper!
That was a lovely experience! We played the game together and had great time trying to figure out all the puzzles. Finally we got the raspberry. Amazing job!
PS. The level change animation is on the level of Persona 5!
Very well done puzzle game. The puzzle design is really on point, the graphics and sound are also great, but honestly, with this quality of puzzle design and balanced progression, you wouldn't even need graphics. Tip of the hat for you guys. Well done
Very nice graphics. I love puzzle games, and I def liked this one, congrats =)
A lot of others have said it but I'll repeat, the art and music are fantastic, as well as the transitions and the gecko's animation. The puzzles are extremely well crafted not just individually, but progression of the challenges of each level makes for really good pacing. This feels like a prototype for a commercial game, and I honestly believe that with more levels and additional objects/mechanics it would sell. Great, great job :lizard:
Oh man that was awesome.. Gecko's are literally the best creature to ever exist on this planet, and fun fact instead of swearing I have said "Oh gecko" (translated to english) for the past what like 7 years? So it was super fun to see a gecko in a super polished game like this. Oh yeah I should talk about the game! :lizard:
Sick graphics, powerful and perfectly working animations and the music goes really well with the game, making me really feel like im in a jungle lmao. Just feels super polished to be a LD game which is super impressive lol. I get where the theme kicks in, and idk nothing wrong about that you are literally just dropping deeper to the black square of terror. Puzzles were also designed super well, challenging and epic! One of the sickest entries I have seen in my LD history :heart_eyes:
this is a very polished game, nice job. not much i can say to fix anything, didnt have any bad things happen to my game experience.
Awesome game and gets challenging! The gecko is really fun to control and there's a pretty good amount of content in here too. I think this is the most balanced entry I've seen in terms of quality of gameplay, audio, art, and overall polish. Well done to your team!
Lovely game - the puzzles are solid, and the animations and attention to visual detail for a game jam are incredible. :lizard: :lizard: :lizard: :lizard: :lizard:
Wow! Really beautiful graphics, i love the vibe of it! The music and the sound effects are very relaxing and they are fitting perfectly! The puzzles are clever and challenging but not unsolvable. Im not sure if it fits the theme though, but it's alright! Overall, a great game, well done!!
Very nice game. I love this style of low poly models, where you can see the polygons. Nice colors, nice models, nice animations. The gecko going down the little hole is very satisfying. I like the simple patterns. The only real issue with the game is that the audio gets very repetitive very quickly. A really impressive entry, high marks from me.
I had a lovely time! The limited movement made for some great puzzling, and the looks and audio of the game are both extremely polished. I was reminded a bit of one of my favorite childhood games, Frogger 2! Well done ^^
Amazing, absolutely amazing jam. The graphics are beautiful, the sounds are great. 4.5/5. My only issue was the control was a bit weird.
This would be a great mobile game!
Great looking game. Everything was well composed.
This is so good!
The art is gorgeous, the puzzles are well designed, the music is very cute, the feedback is perfect all around. I love it, I hope someday I am good enough to make such quality content.
You can be very proud this is so good!
Thanks I loved it 🐊
Hey guys, 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
I'm always amazed at people capable of designing enjoyable puzzles. That's a really solid jam entry. Graphics are especially impressive for the timeframe imho. Kudos.
High quality loading screen animations. Great graphics work! I liked the levels where you have to go backwards. The tasks and levels are interesting, it can make a big project.
I really liked the low poly look, very stylish! Music really reinforced a cute chill atmosphere! Good puzzles, provided a bunch of aha moments! Would love to see more levels with increasing difficulty in the future! Good luck with the switch and ios released!
Great looking, really fun transitions, and an interesting core mechanic. When the rocks got introduced my head hurt a little bit :sweat_smile: Such a cute vibe, and the splash art/logo at the top deserves an extra art point alone! <3
Absolutely in love with your game, everything looks so great in it. One of the most accomplished game I've seen on the jam for now, I hope that you will keep working on this game, I hope to see more of it in the future, definitely have potential to be an excellent indie game :D I would love to give you advice to improve on it, but I can't say much except that I want to play more levels of it, and maybe changes in the music as you go deeper to give it more presence and variety :)
Great job to the three of you, you did an incredible and admirable job!
Once more I have to say thank you for all the kind and encouraging words! All the feedback has given us some new ideas and we are planning to continue this project throughout the summer and hope to release a more polished version with more mechanics, levels and improved movement :)
All this positive feedback has been super motivating! It has been incredible to read all your amazing comments so far, thank you all so much for playing :')
Oh man, this is a really well put together entry! Excellent polish for a jam game, and an interesting and engaging mechanic to play around with!
The only thing that felt a bit wonky was the backwards movement controls (is it led from the head or the tail? when does the tail decide to turn?), but other than that, I have almost no criticism! Difficulty progression felt very comfortable and I couldn't stop playing until I got the fruit at the end :)
What a sleek and polished puzzle pusher!
Really solid art work and direction, the choice of a Gecko is top notch and cute and the low poly artstyle is pulled off so well.
Movement feels great, like others said moving backwards feels a little wonky at first but once you learn how it moves it's very smooth! I love the introduction of more mechanics the further you go to, and the level design/ramping difficulty is really well balanced
The real main thing that was so polished and memorable is that gecko screen wipe/transition. Brilliant idea, very cute and charming and memorable. Bravo!
The only crit I would maybe have is an undo button to go back a step/steps the more you hold. It's not integral as the levels are quite short and there's not much to redo, but it would minimise the amount of times a player would have to redo a certain set of actions and perhaps by extension less frustration.
Overall really great entry and with not much more polishing it would easily be ready for steam/consoles.
Great job!
A very nice puzzle game! I loved the gecko, and especially the transitions and the animation for entering a hole was great.
I struggled a little bit with walking backwards and hated accidentally going forwards and bumping a mushroom in the wrong direction! I think a undo key would be nice here instead of just a full reset.
I would have also loved to see the gecko do some more gecko-y skills like go up walls etc!
This was great - very clever twist to the Sokoban formula! And the graphics, music and overall mood were amazing. It got a bit too frustrating for me on later levels but that's more down to my taste - the levels themselves were very well designed.
The level transition effect is _incredible_
Love it, a simple mechanic you used well to create a variety of interesting situations forcing your players to think about the way they move.
I absolutely fell in love with this game