Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD49 → Shards of Me
By Danae and craftgineer
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 1303 | 3.04 | 26 | |
| Fun | 1385 | 2.70 | 26 | |
| Innovation | 1355 | 2.62 | 26 | |
| Theme | 1323 | 2.79 | 26 | |
| Graphics | 1220 | 2.90 | 27 | |
| Audio | 355 | 3.68 | 27 | |
| Humor | 1105 | 2.31 | 23 | |
| Mood | 604 | 3.54 | 27 |
Cute game! I just wanted to make Mr Door smile :/
I couldn't get rid of the first crystal with my positive word powers, but it worked on the second one. And I thought the little ghosties were my friends because they were the same color as me, so I took a lot of damage for that mistake haha.
Thanks for making this!
I liked the music and the effects a lot, as well as the main character, it's very cute!! I still dont understand how to kill the crystals or what to do with the spikes on the platforms. Maybe it would be a good idea to explain a bit more or give more information (maybe I'm missing something here jaja). Would love to continue playing after getting a bit of help :)
Really sweet game! I had a lot of fun with it. There are some audio bugs when you double jump, such as the music volume spiking or cutting out for a second. It was also quite easy to get lost. But overall, a fun game with a nice premise and cute art. Good job!
I love the music. Main character looks like a rice cake to me, cute! Maybe we are all small fragile rice cakes inside that want to remove the sadness under our skin...
Thanks for all your feedback and compliments so far!
@yotamco When you complete the good word for the first NPC (the one near the first plastforms with spikes), you'll get the ability to shout pretty words (using Z key) to break the crystals and defeat the spike enemies. Those don't work however on the ghosts, you need another skill for that.
@catalow I'm aware of those audio bugs, especially the clipping of some of the sfx. I'll solve those asap as it's very annying for me as well. Thank you for pointing that out again!
I really like the narrative of this game. The music is amazingly beautiful and fits the game. At some Point the fall was quite deep and unforgiving, for a character moving that fast. Overall good Job!
I really like the art, it was simple yet effective, character was fast moving but you got used to it pretty quick.
I felt bad carrying my "Hate" around with me.
I learned to say something nice!
After picking up the first messagecloud I could not resist to laugh after flipping it "etah!" :two_hearts: Sadly directly after figuring out how to good-talk the obstacles away I died and lost the skill as nothing happened after pressing Z then. The level did not reset, so I had to reset the game.
The music is amazing.
@fis thanks for playing, I actually have an idea of what might of caused the bug you experienced. I'll work on getting that patched. Thanks for letting me know!
Really cute game and lovely message. I adore the music, very well-made! In the end I never unlocked the hug or dash attacks -- I ran around and tried to attach the positive messages to every other unhappy blob after the first, but none of the messages seemed to stick on any of them :( Maybe I just couldn't find the right message for each of them haha.
I think the platforming could do with some minor ergonomic tweaks. For instance, in many jumps, the platform you're trying to land on ends up off the bottom of the screen at the peak of your jump, which makes it difficult at times to correctly judge where you're going to land. Maybe I'm just bad at platformers, but I ended up missing jumps and falling down a bit too frequently.
Overall though, I really liked this game. Excellent effort!
@dingledorf Thanks for the review. The controls were a bit tighter but near submitting time I finally fixed a bug that made movement stop being FPS bound. It's doable for sure but definitely not simple for some of the jumps. However, the ability unlocks are not necessary past the first one. Just meant to emphasize how friends make things easier. Also, each positive word has an opposite negative word and they have to match. (also negative word has to be removed)
I like the concept of visualize the emotion and personality in the game. The character is cute. Maybe you can make the collider of the main character smaller and also reduce the moving momentum of the left right move. Overall, a really nice game !
Really wholesome game! I got a bit lost around the red "hate" blob but had a good time up to that point :D The soundtrack is amazing as well!
Fricking sweet music! I love the story and mood of this, but unfortunately I had a couple issues that bothered me when playing:
* The nice thoughts you can pick up and carry only worked for the blue slime, the other ones didn't get happy when I brought anything to them. The end screen made a mistake and inverted this, it showed me that I'd made all the slimes happy except for the blue:
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* Camera could be a bit zoomed out, maybe the window could be made 16:9 as well. Since the player runs so fast, it'd be better to see more of what's ahead.
* Physics felt too slippery. This is something people also reported in my game, it makes any mistake really punishing.
* I don't like how you have to wait a little bit next to the spiky enemies for the attack to register, especially since they mostly appear in the middle of small platforms. Either you slip out of the platform and fall, or you get closer and get hit, which might make you have to restart.
Ultimately I enjoyed playing, and, if these were fixed, it would be a straight 5 star all around!
@fupi Thanks for the breakdown. I found what caused the cutscene to have the wrong data. I fixed it.
Really cute and awesome game! I enjoyed the concept and music, but the game was somewhat confusing. Also, I would suggest having the camera be more dynamic and move to follow the player with some lookahead when the player is moving. But all in all, great work!