FoonLudum Dare ExplorerLD49 → the end

the end

By dennis-magnusson

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall3683.2740
Fun3693.0941
Innovation4182.9440
Theme1543.9141
Graphics3403.2641
Audio903.7140
Mood743.7840

Comments

ludokultur 2021-10-04 11:36

I have a soft spot for "single-player cooperative games". This one is very difficult (it is indeed very unstable, heh), but shows the potential of such a simple core idea!

biped-potato 2021-10-04 11:37

Audio and mood were pretty good. The dialogue was pretty entertaining!

thesedatedprince 2021-10-04 16:18

Really like the music for this - nice and dramatic and fit the mood perfectly. Simple and effective core mechanic. Overall, I had fun with this :)

furfel 2021-10-04 16:26

I loved those cutscenes. I had to look into the source if that was library of some kind or if you implemented it yourself and you indeed did, well done!

dennis-magnusson 2021-10-04 17:39

@Furfel Haha, sorry for making you look at my awful jam-code :P I have considered making a set of utils to make this kinda thing easier, but I have just been too lazy. I probably spent like half of the time this jam to make the cutscene things work properly.

dennis-magnusson 2021-10-04 17:40

@ludokultur @biped-potato @thesedatedprince Thanks for playing my game :) Glad y'all enjoyed it.

jka 2021-10-04 17:51

Great mood! Never before has balancing two circles felt so epic! :smiley:

dennis-magnusson 2021-10-04 17:56

@jka Thanks a bunch! Glad you liked it.

astrobit 2021-10-04 22:12

Awesome cutscenes! I love the storytelling. Awesome work buddy! BTW, you mentioned that our RadioFrog game would be cool if it had sound. We JUST uploaded the version with sound, we were running a bit late on schedule :D

pdotjpg 2021-10-04 22:20

Wow, I love the presentation and writing here. Anime-level drama combined with 4th wall breaks to explain controls and arcadey gameplay is really funny. Great job on that. Gameplay is simple, but it's pretty fun. This is exactly the kind of complexity that I'm able to effectively multitask at, haha, so it was satisfying. Nice entry!

shellofagirl 2021-10-04 22:49

The art and the music combo made me feel like those balls had souls.

doc-kaos 2021-10-04 23:00

`And just like that, the world ended` Sigh. Sorry everyone! But at least it ended with a very cool game, love the art and style. Thanks for letting me play!

varundevs 2021-10-05 01:45

Cool art and music really enjoyed it!

foursay 2021-10-05 02:19

Great work! I have fun finding the balance. I got the trick to hold the ball in the middle and held it for 39 seconds. And the narratives are excellent. Nice work!

diego-escalante 2021-10-05 03:15

The concept is simple but you added a lot of variety to the game. The cutscenes were a nice touch. I was able to balance for 59 seconds!

justolinas 2021-10-05 07:49

Was unable to proceed past the storm, it instantly yanked me to the other side. Still liked playing it! Also the little story +1

jk5000 2021-10-05 09:14

I overall liked the gameplay and the story. Some of the artwork seemed a bit unfinished, but else is it pretty good. And I love the music.

jayjack 2021-10-05 11:02

Very nice! I love how the hail keeps throwing a wrench in the system I have going on for balancing everything 🤣

masaru 2021-10-05 13:41

The game is a bit simple but the graphics are very good !

kukurammus 2021-10-05 14:26

Was hard at the begging, but after getting used to the controls, it was pretty good, good job :thumbsup:

georgy 2021-10-05 18:01

Fine. no other words to find. the music is beautiful

jake-summer 2021-10-06 01:07

the art and music are beautiful!

cogcomp 2021-10-06 18:17

Wow quite the story for a ball balancing game. The in game text really kept it going as well. Well done!

betamorfosis 2021-10-06 19:17

That was a great mood. Great music as well, and the gameplay/controls was simple but worked well. I survived 36 seconds. Oh and the choice of the keyboard keys was strange but probably was meant to increase difficulty ? Anyway great entry. The music + dialogue combo gave an incredible mood.

dennis-magnusson 2021-10-06 20:07

@betamorfosis Thanks for playing! I originally planned to add jumping to the game, so WASD and IJKL could be used, however I felt that it didn't really fit so only the left and right keys for each hand remained.

figueroass27 2021-10-07 16:55

The dialogue was fun and the music is grand

iradchenua 2021-10-07 18:25

Fun very hard game:)

cookie-chr 2021-10-08 15:36

Graphics and sound are really good, they fit you in the right atmosphere! I keep dying every 5 seconds, so I guess the theme is on point as well

lesinvisible 2021-10-10 21:23

Very nice little game, I liked how you managedto bring the most experience using this simple premise. The music is fantastic and adds a lot to the overall mood.

defectivemelon 2021-10-12 00:34

Difficult, but pretty fun to try for a couple rounds! Would be interesting to see how it changes if you mix up the events and things thrown at the player. For instance, suddenly decreasing gravity again might throw your balance off, melting the hail, etc.

brusi 2021-10-19 18:31

Not bad! I liked the story and the drama around the world ending. Gameplay was interesting, the control-two-balls scheme was original and interesting. I liked it how Box2D round shapes are falling from above XD ! They do look a little like drops of water ;)

deniskazantsev 2021-10-19 19:22

I really enjoyed your game! Beautiful aesthetics of meta-world stability with simple mechanic of balancing board. Nice music as well!

rengo 2021-10-21 17:50

interesting? i cant say i fully understand this game