hobzone 2021-10-05 16:42
I really enjoyed the visual of the game. I had some issues to understand what I needed to do especialy with the clock in the third level :D
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD49 → Duck Optimizer Pro 2021
By James9270, unplugred, Rjwest07, noogai223 and laulau
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 708 | 3.55 | 21 | |
| Fun | 575 | 3.57 | 21 | |
| Innovation | 156 | 3.92 | 21 | |
| Theme | 1326 | 2.78 | 21 | |
| Graphics | 238 | 4.22 | 22 | |
| Audio | 126 | 4.02 | 21 | |
| Humor | 26 | 4.39 | 21 | |
| Mood | 374 | 3.75 | 20 |
I really enjoyed the visual of the game. I had some issues to understand what I needed to do especialy with the clock in the third level :D
i love this.
This was really fun haha
Really fun game! Great humor and challenging enough! :D I also had some trouble understanding what do you have to do with each level. At first I tought I had a bug in the game until I understood what I had to do in the first level. Overall great job guys!
I'm pretty lost on what to do/what the controls are. I fired up level 1, and I can open and close the duck's mouth and rotate the camera, but aside from that there didn't seem to be anything else I could interact with. What am I missing?
I'm a fan of the duck theme! looks beautiful.
The game is a bit of confused, you cannot zoom the camera so I could't see the instruction words on the duck, while I love the duck design and the quack sound.
The puzzles here are... a little inscrutable. And the music game at the end took several tries because my ear for notes felt pretty questionable.
Game has a lot of charm and I think I enjoyed it overall but it's also very frustrating :sweat_smile:
Love it! <3
I would really like to play this more, but I just couldn't. Need more clear instructions :D
the game is really fun but i felt really lost at what i have to do, i'd gladly play more if i was a little bit more driven otherwise it wass really cool ! Good job
Awesome game, really enjoyed the artwork and humor. There are some problem, however: At first, it was not clear what I even have to do, but then I finally realized that it was a puzzle game. It does not really fit the theme. It is possible to click through the duck, activating something on its opposite side.
Also, I cannot get past the rhythm level, but that is probably just me being an idiot.
This was... interesting. Needs more cues. For, like, everything. First resistor puzzle I was confused by, both resistors were identical and I solved it by accident. Music puzzle was really hard; I memorized the first few so that I could get away with failing the last few. Don't understand the spelling puzzle, just seems like "find the arbitrary invisible path" more than a puzzle. First puzzle was funny and cute introduction.
LOVE the aesthetics and visuals. Really wish the quack text stayed on screen much longer, so I could actually ready your funny texts :(
Music fantastic, including the naughty difficult music puzzle that needs to go sit in a time-out corner. My super smart musical bf says W/E were only half steps away. I would recommend each note being full steps away. It's really tricky to tell the difference between W&E, even if the musical puzzle is a bop.
Pretty neat game! :)
@const-arch checked under the duck?
boy the puzzles are a steep learning curve for sure. Most of them I solved on accident and only figured out level 2 and 3's way of actually solving it on replays, I think... but level 4 seems random. Other than that though, love the graphics and sprites, v cute ducks always love them.
@shreemp ah thanks, got it!
Turns out you can zoom in, it's scroll wheel while holding right mouse button, oddly. However, the text isn't any clearer on zoom in. All the art and UI was impressive for a jam game, but as others have said, this game could do with some additional guidance for the player.
Actually extremely clever, very cool puzzles, great aesthetics, nice music, overall incredible, i loved it a lot, very well done. I do just wish the puzzles gave some feedback, sometimes they can feel way too much like trial and error not really because of a lack of logical reasoning but by lack of knowing what each button/lever does. Still, i loved this game, it's cute and challenging and i love puzzles, great entry!
Fun idea, but the rhythm puzzle was a bit obtuse, I knew what to do, but understanding which note corresponded to which key was difficult, especially as the songs ramped up in length. It would be cool if every song were 4 notes long, and you just had to listen to it to find the order to play the keys in. That way you always have a reference to q = lowest key and r = highest, rather than sometimes having to guess which key is the first one.
Overall I had a blast with this one! Well done!
I really liked this one. Reminds me of the "Dismantlement" series of Flash games.
oops i totally forgot to post a comment when i played this haha. this game is incredible, i love the art direction, both the 3d and 2d sides. they compliment each other very well, and the 2d art is gorgeous. The levels were unique and really fun to figure out. i think my only major gripe is that level 4 is more or less brute forcing, i was expecting a more clever solution. otherwise i love the idea and had a great time :D