Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD49 → Alche-Tea
By loueee and obscenebard
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 1292 | 3.05 | 30 | |
| Fun | 1397 | 2.69 | 30 | |
| Innovation | 1136 | 2.92 | 30 | |
| Theme | 1289 | 2.85 | 30 | |
| Graphics | 611 | 3.75 | 30 | |
| Audio | 434 | 3.57 | 30 | |
| Humor | 1010 | 2.50 | 29 | |
| Mood | 742 | 3.42 | 28 |
Really good game. I did have some trouble knowing what to do. It took me a while to figure out to put stuff in the teapot. I got a high-score of 102 but I'm not really sure what I did to get there. It is a super chill game and it's pretty relaxing to just mix stuff and see what it makes, but I feel like a little more guidance for the player would be super helpful
I had a lot a fun creating potions. the music and the visual are great. I felt like in this song: https://youtu.be/PezO_Vmqhgg
Visuals are nice, few sound effects but they are good as well.
The mechanic of mixing elements to create new ones isn't new but still this is something very enjoyable to do. It is relaxing to play the game.
Some suggestions, improvements and stuff:
- I seem to only be able to create a few new elements (like 3/4) I don't know if this is voluntary or if I'm stupid ^^ - Storing elements in jars is quite useless since you have to remember what you put in there. What I mean is that you no longer see the shape of the element but just some similar uniform color in a jar. - When several elements are in the same place, grabbing them makes you grab all of them. It should juste pick the top one. - I'm not sure what the DEADLY thing on the teapot is. Nor the score you are suppose to make. I guess the two are related but not sure how. Are there 20 new deadly elements to create or something ?
Well done one again, a very pleasing on the eye :)
The art is great! My only thing is it was very confusing to start off. Adding a little tutorial would've been helpful. It also would've been nice to have a log of some sort, so I could remember which combinations made what easier. Good job on your entry!
Nice theme! Loved the art for the mysterious ingredients/concoctions. And great tunes. Lots of potential for weird sound effects. :)
Also ran into a few bugs with dragging items over each other. Not sure if it is possible to empty the tea pot?
Great jam. Well done!
Pretty neat game! The graphics are quite charming, and the music makes the gameplay a relaxing one. There aren't many GUI SFX, but they're well done. It took a while for me to understand what to do, though (which is probably a fault on my part for not reading the instructions properly...). It might be a good idea to provide a tutorial segment in the game if you decide to do a post-jam cleanup.
Some issues: 1. The drag-and-drop system is a bit awkward. It'd be nice if an ingredient only gets deposited into a container when you release the mouse button, not when it enters the container's collision box. I ended up not using any of the storage containers and just piled up the resulting concoctions on the Petri dish before dumping all of them back into the mix, since it's more efficient. 2. My highest score was 302, because when I concocted something more potent (or so I assumed) the numbers and toxicity title completely disappeared from the teapot, despite it still accepting the concoction. Further attempts to submit any other concoctions would not make the numbers and title reappear.
Overall, quite a nice experience. The toxicity titles were pretty funny ('Toxic' in a low level but 'Good' in a high one, for instance), so it was satisfying to get higher scores and see the changes!
I can understand about moving ingredients to this and to that but I'm really puzzled on what to aim.
Hard to understand what to do at first, but game looks good and sounds are nice
The deadly didn't seem to go up. Was fun seeing things get created though.
Nice work!
Took me a while to understand what to do. I had to look at previous comments to get a few hints. But once I got it, I started making some toxic tea :D The audio is really really nice, I love the background music, and the small noises when you pick up ingredients is relaxing.
The only think I recommend for this game is to perhaps add a bit more explanation on what we can do / what we should do.
Other than that, great work! :thumbsup:
I really liked the sound! As for art, I would add and improve several things to make it visually more attractive, more element and object, more polished animations and above all emergent explanations for each element, that way the mechanics of the game would be better understood. I hope you keep working and polishing it, good job!xD
Chill experience but I was confused by the objective. Nonetheless it's well enough polished for a game jam game. I really want to try out a more polished version now :smile:
Nice idea, chill sound ^^ But i have difficulties with mixing created elements. They went from my hands back to the shelf) Also I mixed different elements, but get only one color potion. But I really like the alchemy and this game)