Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD49 → Tick Away
By liuzhr23, jackiex9527 and Cheng92524
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 494 | 3.70 | 36 | |
| Fun | 1312 | 2.82 | 37 | |
| Innovation | 564 | 3.48 | 36 | |
| Theme | 352 | 3.94 | 37 | |
| Graphics | 310 | 4.09 | 37 | |
| Humor | 1108 | 2.30 | 28 | |
| Mood | 51 | 4.28 | 37 |
Tick Away is narrative driven game about delivering a time bomb that make you think of the past.
You will need to help the main character stabilize and defuse a dangerous tilt fuse bomb delivered to his locker. Reveal the story behind the time bomb as you resolve the crisis.
The game consist of two part, part 1 is delivering the bomb to the defusing location, part 2 is defusing the bomb.
Wow, what a great mood you achieved with your entry ! The visuals, colors, music, sounds, story ; everything goes so well together ! Good job!
You WebGL version were uploaded to the itch.io page here : https://xieyubing123.itch.io/tick-away No Download needed, just click and play
Very atmospheric entry, well done!
Love the color pallet and the art style, combined with the music it really gives me a relaxing mood.
I accidentally clicked on the credits first and was like, wow, this is a short game, lol. In the itch.io browser, the game didn't quite fit into the window for me, even at full screen. Otherwise, though, an interesting idea. I like the bomb carrying part in particular and could definitely see that being slotted in as a little mini-game in a larger narrative-driven game. Nice atmosphere!
I loved the art style of this one – the colors were wonderful! Perhaps the diffusing mechanic could have been a little clearer - it took me a couple minutes to realize what I was supposed to be doing, but having it be in the path of a heart was a lovely touch stylistically. Great jam, congrats on getting it done!
AHHHHH! ALL the feels. Wow. <3
I really appreciated the way in which you managed to deliver the narrative of the story *during* gameplay. And such an emotionally charged story! You knocked it out of the park with this theme.
The art was wonderfully original, and the music was very fitting for the story as well. The music that played during the story dialogue/flashbacks was a bit jarring, though. I really loved the "heartbeat" kick drum during the defuse section. It really added to the tension of trying to defuse the bomb.
Great work!
I exploded a couple of times before I figured out that the goal of the first portion was to keep the time bomb level - but that explosion was very chill. Good call! If it had been anything else it would've really interrupted the feel. Overall I think `a time bomb that make you think of the past` is a really cool idea. Good job! Y'all really nailed the vibe.
The visuals in this were awesome, and props for telling a full story start to finish! I think the walking portion could've been a taaad shorter (or just had more obstacles, the tilting is pretty easy once you figure it out), and I actually found hoping for a lengthier bomb diffusing portion! These are mostly nitpicks though you delivered something with a surprising amount of polish 👍
Really nice and surprisingly deep entry. The controls were kind of wonky as I was struggling to figure out if I was supposed to hold or spam keys to control the balance. Thanks for the game. The mood in particular was excellent.
Wow. A very heartfelt and emotional story. Great graphics as well! An amazing game. Perhaps the bar above could use other art instead of the standard slider. Honestly really well made.
Took me a second to realise what was going on but this was a fantastic game! The visuals and story were amazing.
Really well made.
Great game, great art style, great sound Settings, great narrative, and controlling the balance bar at the top while going up and down the hill is an important part of the "unstable" gameplay. Cool!
But using Unity's Slider as a balance bar is a bit of a violation hahaha, and there's no way I can cancel the return menu when it pops up and continue the game.While playing defusing the bomb I found that part of the pipeline was off-screen and I couldn't zoom in to decrypt it, which forced me to close the game.
All in all, it's a great game!
我在制作团队中看到了类似中文名的拼写，所以直接写中文了<3
很棒的游戏！美术风格(色调是真的喜欢)、音乐音效和叙事方式都很棒，上下坡的时候控制顶端的平衡条是体现“不稳定”的重要玩法，很酷！
但是平衡条直接用Unity自带的Slider有点违和哈哈哈，另外弹出返回菜单的时候我没有办法取消返回继续游戏。在玩拆除炸弹的时候我发现管线有一部分在屏幕外，而我无法缩放游戏界面来完成解密，于是卡关了（或许改一下itch的设置让玩家来决定是否全屏会比较好）
总之，这是个很棒的游戏！
Not bad mechanics. It's great that in such a small game in such a small amount of time to put a good narrative.
**I loved the art and the mood.** The art style was simple, but beautiful, and it really fit well with the theme of the game. Combined with the music, **this was a really emotion evoking entry** into the jam.
One critique I could give is that **I would have like a clearer explanation of the mechanics**. I died a few times before realizing how the controls worked and how to move. Stabilizing the bomb could also be fine tuned a little. Other than that, I don't really have many things I didn't like.
Once I got into the flow of things, I really enjoyed the entry. There are very few games I've played till now that were narrative in nature, but **I think you executed it well!** It wasn't overly long, and the story was short and conclusion satisfying. All in all, **well done on this entry.**
Well executed, somber atmosphere. The gameplay is simple, but actually compliments the narrative well in my opinion. The cutscenes are beautiful!
Oh, this is a very sad little story. I didn't expect to see such a strong narrative approach in the competition.
Thanks for rating the game. It is my first Ludum Jam and I don't know the rule well, maybe I should opt out the humor rating. You don't need to rate the humor category. Thanks for playing!
Mood, music and graphics all work together very well. The short story was intriguing at the beginning, but because I had to focus on the bomb I missed what the text was saying during walking stage. Mini game and the end was adequate, although I was rather disappointed by its simplicity. All in all I like it.
So much text and deep story, i were not ready enough to this i guess. There was so few action. Defusing the bomb was really cool. I like the graphic style a lot in here as well, but the story was not for me i guess and in any case the story with deep level like this is not something to tell the player in 5 min of total game play. Finding the bombs would be really nice feature on this; something like in limited time & with shovel and hints.
Easy to describe:
Right in the feels :frowning:
Great game.
Dang, great story!
Amazing graphics, awesome atmosphere and really good story too :) I really liked playing it on stream, here's the VOD: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1172843371