delightfullymad 2021-10-04 05:30
Fun and interesting puzzle game, some levels rely on luck a bit too much though. Good job!
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD49 → Project Stallion / Zherebets Proyekta
By dOb
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 316 | 3.39 | 48 | |
| Fun | 285 | 3.33 | 49 | |
| Innovation | 139 | 3.72 | 48 | |
| Theme | 170 | 3.87 | 49 | |
| Graphics | 355 | 3.23 | 49 | |
| Audio | 240 | 3.23 | 49 | |
| Humor | 26 | 4.05 | 49 | |
| Mood | 316 | 3.13 | 48 |
Fun and interesting puzzle game, some levels rely on luck a bit too much though. Good job!
Gameplay is a little RNG, but 10/10 for the shitposting.
Very interesting and fun game)
Very fun game vibe
Oddly addictive and I liked the audio comments. Well done!
That was a great game! Love the pun on the theme. Enjoyed the puzzles; could definitely see this as one of those mobile games people play for years. Great work!
Okay, I love this. I was absolutely losing it while playing this game. What's great is that it's both a joke and a really solid puzzle game. It's so funny. I love this so much. I can't stop laughing about "The Damn horses ate jimmy" and "The horses have seized the means of production"
I love this so much. Directly up my alley.
Interesting concept, I love chain reaction games. I enjoyed the humor and really good for a Compo entry. I see what you mean about getting lucky or unlucky sometimes with how the canisters will blow up. I liked that you let us just go to the next level anyways to see what else the game had. I had fun, and again GREAT job for a Compo!
This one definitely had some good laughs! And despite turning up the overall roughness for some extra silliness, a surprisingly compelling main mechanic to boot. Nice work!
Nice voice over! I struggled a little bit with some of the puzzles! Great entry, right on theme!
I like the unique take on the theme, puzzles were a little too RNG in some cases for me and the sound was overwhelming when chain reactions + failure happened. Nice little bit of humor and voice-overs. Solid effort but not for me personally.
Super funny voice overs, but the puzzles seem a bit too random at times.
Some of the levels required a fair bit of thinking, nice work! Loved the comments about the horses tho haha
Very unique puzzle game! Voice overs were a nice touch. Presentation was like some kind of strange 2000's doomsday website. Cool inspiration for an aesthetic if that's what you were going for.
This is a really nice game!
I had fun and completed all the levels. I really like the creative backstory and the humor.
The puzzles sometimes felt a bit too random and luck-based. I solved some of the puzzles in a way I don't think they were supposed to be solved in (like randomly clicking and mashing space until it worked).
Also I sometimes got into a situation where I ran out of fuel while inside the finishing tube, and the game had shown me the losing menu, but the horses were still un-stabled.
All in all, this is a solid entry, good job!
The controls are a bit unintuitive but it's a fun game and the overall feel is charming
I loved the voice lines after each level :) Short and fun game, with a couple levels quite tricky. Good entry, also fits the theme!
I struggled a bit with the *unstable* nature of a few puzzles, but it was nice that the game allowed me to skip levels so I could see the entire game anyway. A fresh idea and a solid execution, keep it up!
This game is crazy in the best possible way! As was said previously, it's sometimes a little bit too random, but in other senses it's very nicely put together.
No soviet DeathBot will stop me from prevailing and "un-stableing" those poor tormented horses! A lot of references i dont get in this game but the puzzles were neat looking away from the luck factor.
I would wish that your drone still gained energy while the control rods were down, at least from the cell you are currently in(could get smashed by the rods if you were in their path).
Graphics were a bit all over the place, it felt kind of messy if that makes sense. The stable, horses and the grass was nice though! And i really loved the audio ques you had put in haha.
All in all it was a nice game, I had fun with it!
lol woah trip out of a game. giddy up. unique take.. good job! challenging too.
Very solid base idea. And well implemented. It was fun. I forgot time while playing. A lot of references of the commentator I did not understand, but funny the ones I did understand. Good, really. First game I was in the flow and forgot everything around!!!
Very cool, made me giggle ^^#
The audio commentary are funny as f*** :stuck_out_tongue:
I'd say it gets a bit frustrating 'cause of the random nature of the game - good fun nonetheless
Incredible you did all this by yourself in 48h - kudos to you!
Do you ever partake in game jams as part of a team?
Keep it up, thanks for the giggles fam :grinning:
If anybody's interested (and doesn't want to lose 11 times to hear them all), here are direct links to the news broadcasts/commentary bits:
[Ate Jimmy](http://planktongames.com/ld49/Loss0.mp3)
[White House](http://planktongames.com/ld49/Loss1.mp3)
[Capitalism](http://planktongames.com/ld49/Loss2.mp3)
[Means of Production](http://planktongames.com/ld49/Loss3.mp3)
[John Cena](http://planktongames.com/ld49/Loss4.mp3)
[Missile Crisis](http://planktongames.com/ld49/Loss5.mp3)
[McBorscht](http://planktongames.com/ld49/Loss6.mp3)
[Our Guuuns](http://planktongames.com/ld49/Loss7.mp3)
[Wall Street](http://planktongames.com/ld49/Loss8.mp3)
[Essential Oils](http://planktongames.com/ld49/Loss9.mp3)
[Tucker Carlson](http://planktongames.com/ld49/Loss10.mp3)
Really enjoyed this, although I did end up skipping a few levels. Got lucky with that robot at the end though! Mechanic is nice and novel and it's impressive how much you managed to explore of it in a compo. The audio and humor are the standout aspects for me.
Nice and funny, even though I keep losing!
The Skip Level is a great add. I may or may not have lost on a purpose a few times just to listen to broadcasts. One tiny tweak: there's a few text boxes that have a button shadow that aren't buttons. It's a little confusing at first.
Amusing game. Feels a bit weird that the control rods halt the current movement of the drone as well as keeping it from gaining energy. Also, since the power fills up so quickly it can be hard to judge when to use the control rods and feels like it adds even more the RNG feeling of the game. Funny to see the theme tackled in both the instability of the actions and the unstabling of possibly mutated horses.
The game won't work for me. I can click the cannisters, but pressing Space to extend arms doesn't work. I can't do it before moving or during movement. Can it only occur in certain places? At the mouse location? I couldn't get it to work.
I somehow got to level 3 and thoroughly enjoyed all the news anchor lines after my fail attempts though!
Congrats on finishing this!
@harrison-dunn Sorry about the trouble. If a level has control rods, they should extend with space and retract when released - mouse location doesn't matter. I wonder if a different browser would work better, or if you have a non-traditional or non-western keyboard? Anyway, thanks for playing, and sorry for the brokenness.
@dob are the control rods fixed objects in the environment? Should I be able to see them? i'm using a traditional keyboard. using chrome, too.
@harrison-dunn They're little gray boxes, and they're pretty obvious when they extend. They don't show up until level 4, so it's likely you didn't get to them now that I re-read your original post. Sorry about that. Here's a pic of them partially extended.
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Lol, level 7 is so infuriating, just turn around little dude the barn's right behind you... chrome_MSw8viAcs1.png
Interesting little game, I liked the little news report clips, although I died enough that they started looping. Mutant horse noise became very grating during level 7's restart hell. Thought it was interesting that you could go to next level without beating the previous level, which came in handy when I accidentally level skipped by clicking next level instead of restart and had to refresh the page to get back to that level. Level 7 feels way too random compared to the other slightly random levels. Boss level was way too easy in comparison.
I wish there were some kind of tense actiony music or tense spy music; I'm glad for the sound effects, but the overall game could really use a good ambience. Good work overall though, a lot of takes on being unstable!
@papabirb Thanks for the extensive commentary! Yeah, Level 7 is pretty flaky, but I got good enough while playing that I win it every 3-5 tries. Background music would have been nice, but 48 hours is only so long :smile: Thanks for playing.
@strangeryann Thanks for playing and for the kind words. I’ve never done anything like this is part of a team. I’m certainly weaker at visuals/graphics than other parts, but I kind of enjoy dabbling with all the different pieces.
@dob ooooh, ok. Yeah, the tutorials talked about how to use the rods in levels before they appeared. Okay. I was overthinking it. I'll check it out again!
Crazy game, funny as hell. Gameplay is fun eventough you need some luck to pass some levels. Game looks nice and the sound effects are good.
Great! Love the humor. The random levels were a little frustrating, but I made it through them all. On the final level I clicked "end game" since it was right of a canister I needed to click on, and that was rather frustrating, to have to click back through to get to the appropriate level. Also, great to see a fast loading web game (not using Unity ^_^).
Humor is amazing: 5 stars :laughing:
My only complaint in that regard is the conservative jab: we aren't stupid, we just have different views from leftists. (although I will admit that some conservatives are that stupid, so are some leftists :wink:).
Amazing game, loved the graphics and the gameplay! I couldn't get past level 5, but I think that's just me being bad. 'Twould have been better with some background music though, or some ambient sfx. Overall, nice entry!
I wish thing were a bit more deterministic. It felt like the chain reactions were a bit random. Maybe this is just me not fully understanding the mechanics, but especially on the third level, I'd find the reactions different each time I played.
The voice work was a lovely touch.
Nice work!
Tis a silly game, but definitely interesting and different than a lot of the other entries. Great work!
"What am I doing?" T.T Hahahahahahah.
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o.o Hard. Hahahahah.
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:o The horses is going after celebrities... o.o
I managed to pass this one, but I couldn't pass the previous one. :t Hahahahah.
I liked the humor of your game. And it have an interesting game mechanic.
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