Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD49 → It Was Desert
By senar93, marco-marchitelli and Andrea Ancona
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 239 | 3.92 | 48 | |
| Fun | 487 | 3.64 | 47 | |
| Innovation | 70 | 4.09 | 47 | |
| Theme | 876 | 3.40 | 47 | |
| Graphics | 26 | 4.64 | 48 | |
| Humor | 838 | 2.76 | 41 | |
| Mood | 533 | 3.60 | 47 |
Wow! The art style is really beautiful, one of the best I've seen during this game jam. Game has a really interesting and fun concept, makes your brain stretch and forces you to focus. It's surprisingly fun to play, and with the fitting, minimalistic graphics it makes playing the game a really unique experience. Seriously, one of the best out there!
Oh, and by the way, 3 stars are **really hard** to get :laughing:
Visually extremely polished, love the UI design and I'm a sucker for clean transitions! I've seen plenty of games that shuffle the controls but not with this unique take on it.
Lovely graphics and interesting idea:D
Hey, that was a nice little game. Interesting idea to mess with the controls. Graphics are very cute. The only thing is that I am not sure how the theme fits. I have an idea but oh well. It was fun in any case, so thanks for the experience.
Very cool graphics! Simple and intresting Good job!
Really nice and well polished. After some time, my sleep-deprived mind went auto-pilot and I found myself cruising in the levels without really thinking about it. With some sound design, would make a really smooth and relaxing experience.
Great work! I really like the simple yet appropriate implementation of the theme. Also artwork/design looks great. Implementation super smooth. What do i have to say. 5/5 :)
Hi ! Really great stuff ! Best game I tested so far. Feels a bit disorienting but once you get it it's actually quite fun ! Some questions, is there any music / sound to the game ? I find it a bit tricky that you can't see one of the faces and sometimes have to guess which direction is hidden. GG !
Really polished nice looking game. Add more levels and it could be a lot of fun on mobile!
Super pretty graphics. The gameplay is fun, however I found the arrows at the sides confusing, I wasn't sure which way they are pointing due to the angle.
Nice entry, it take me a bit to understand how it works and how to move the Dice but it was fun, the jump spring took me by surprise :smile:
That was really fun to play around with. The feeling of the dice not moving as you want it to and constantly having to adjust the direction your thinking felt both frustrating and satisfying once you figure it out. The controls could use some in-game explaination (I skimmed over your page and initially thought the WASD keys corresponded to different faces of the dice, even made it through the first two levels believing that). I also really liked your art.
However, once you get the mechanic into your brain the puzzles become kind of too easy, even if you throw stuff like the face hiding rocks at me, and it doesn't quite feel related to the theme to me. Still, I had fun and this is a solid puzzle game overall.
Nice game! I enjoyed playing it. When the cube goes into a "?" square the arrows can be seen for a little bit, I'm not sure if that's a bug or it's working as designed.
Very good game! It's fun when you finally get the controls working, and the graphics are cute! Would love to see some cute music and sound from the dice in the future :D Good luck!
It is so cuuute ! I am very impressed by the overall polish of the game, the animations, the visuals, the ui ... everything is spot on ! It is so polished I wish there was audio. Also the gameplay is original, it took me a moment for my brain to adapt ahah
What a nice game! Fantastic graphics and a super nice gameplay! So far the best!
Interesting but my head had problems getting the dice directions at first as I have not really understood the explanation here. A "How to play" in the game itself would be a nice extra that shows visually how to control that darn cube :smile: After I got the controls it was quite fun.
Great game in my opinion! The design is excellent. It was hard to get at the begginning but once you get to it is really fun to play. The only two things I found that can be improved: The buttons Exit and Retry on the game are so cute on the rock but the colour of them is not very visible. If you look at them they are but they are not noticeable at first sight. The second thing is I found harder the "circle laberynth" level than the last one with a lot of question mark boxes haha.
A really fun game, good level design with a challenging difficulty curve! The level menu is really good, I like that even after refreshing the page, the game still retains my score. The animations are snappy and he graphics are really cute. Overall great game! (Going into full screen and then exiting out did seem to crash my laptop though.)
Good job guys, it feels this is not far from the mobile store. Graphics 5/5 (UI included)!
Quite the brain buster! very cool twist on movement.
The artstyle and palette is amazing, well done. The gameplay itself is a bit repetitive as there isn't too much variety to the problems you need to solve (mostly just knowing how to go in a direction given the current dice position) but that could be fixed with more level elements that are dependent on the current dice direction for example. But a good entry none the less!
I love the art. All of it. Lighting, Textures, Shading, Animations, Effects. Everything is top notch!
Pretty innovative and well-polished puzzle game. I found the mechanic a little hard to get the hang of, because there didn't seem to be any clear pattern as to which way the dice would move after turning over. I'm sure it has something to do with the arrows on each side, but I couldn't grasp the exact pattern so it was a bit frustrating after a while.
The visual polish is amazing, and I really loved the level select, super creative with so much attention to detail! The artwork and overall aesthetic is very pleasing, and suitable for a puzzle game.
Great work overall, I might come back to it when I have some more time to wrap my head around the puzzle mechanic.
Great concept, I'm awful at figuring our the direction on a map... I feel like this game could help ^^.
Awesome game with nice graphics.
Gameplay is a bit frustrating, but graphics is just amazing!
Visuals are great. The art and animations are very polished. The concept of the game is interesting. I didn't get the pattern of the arrows on the die until the last level but then it clicked on how easy it is to move in a straight line when you know the pattern. It would be interesting to see this concept expanded with more mechanics.
I hated the controls when I first started playing and then all of sudden something clicked and I was cruising through without even thinking. I love games like that! I could really see this game being further developed so great job!
My fuckin favorite entry of this Ludum. The concept is smart, the game is polish, the dynamics are well add regarding the gameplay. Just a Master Class
Very well done, a simple concept executed with beautiful polish, I had a lot of fun completing it. The determinism of the cube is a great idea conceptually, and the puzzle levels have good progression (though for me the hardest one was the spiral one due to the many moves required), with some interesting mechanics.
I think if you added a couple more mechanics, and some sound effects, this could feel like a very complete puzzler, not just a jam entry. Some mechanics ideas off the top of my head: - tiles that permanently modify the cube (these could add a strategy element so you can craft ideal dice for timed runs) - tiles that temporarily reveal the transformation of "?" tiles (these could add a memorization aspect) - puzzles with 2 (or multiple) dice, where the same keys control both - step-based timers
But already as it is, this is one of my top picks this jam in multiple categories, bravo!
Sooo clean ! I love the concept, and the realisation is perfect ! The game looks good and the gameplay is simple but tricky ! Great Job !