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Wait For It !

By forgin-bits

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall164.1892
Fun14.4092
Innovation1913.5792
Theme1893.8691
Graphics934.0592
Audio493.9291
Humor174.3090
Mood523.9190

Comments

gord10ahmet 2022-04-03 22:36

Great game, especially considering this is for compo. Such an original approach to the theme.

yamzho 2022-04-04 09:03

Great game ! So much work done in 48 hours ! I am impressed ! Great take on the theme, nice and cute artwork. WELL DONE !

byazzle 2022-04-04 09:03

Lots of fun! All the mini games were great and added lots of variety, keeping me on my toes. Art, music and SFX all fit the vibe of the game perfectly, and the leaderboard makes the game extra addictive. (I might have to come back to make sure I'm still on it ;) ) Fantastic compo entry, you should be really pleased with this one!

wavertron 2022-04-04 09:06

Great art and soundfx, nice little bunch of minigames. Short and sharp.

zimennik 2022-04-04 09:19

Whoa! Very cool game! I actually really love the "WarioWare" type genre with mini-games. The graphics are nice, the music is not annoying. There is even a small plot. All in all, a pretty decent game!

danashrulez 2022-04-04 10:09

WHAT!!! NO WAAAAY WAS THIS MADE FOR COMPO! I AM LEGIT STUNNED! I have nothing but positives to say! What a spectacular entry! Incredible music, artstyle, leaderboards, mini-games! Sooo good! Also I have to say, what a wide variety of short super fast mini games! Each one of them could have been its own game!

gamedevalexandr 2022-04-04 13:19

So many games in one game! The hardest part is keeping the cake on the tray. In general, the game is very fun!

waysneighborgo2 2022-04-04 13:45

Very awesome game! Definitely a unique one. Good Job! Especially for Compo! Love the style and gameplay the game brings. The only complaint is that it doesn't warn you enough especially when it immediately starts with a problem. But it is still REALLY good!

foxwater 2022-04-04 13:47

Holy smokes, just when I thought to myself that I must've seen all of the mini-games a new one would appear. Absolutely love the art, especially the characters (reminded me of something Double Fine would make). Music was great and didn't get annoying or feel especially looped while I was playing (super hard to do). Each game was very quick to pick up and played for the correct amount of time (always left me wanting more). Really shocked at how polished this whole thing is...amazed you managed to do something like this in 48 hours.

vilmantas 2022-04-04 13:50

Really well made! Enjoyed the fact that there's 10ish different mini-games. Really fun. Managed to catch a candle not on the cake, but on the plate though :v:

kewdev 2022-04-04 13:51

I got nothing to say. Amazing game that's a lot of fun to play, with pleasing visuals and sound feedback. Great job!

jimmothysanchez 2022-04-04 13:55

Great game. Adding a leader board was a really nice touch. This is an amazing entry for a compo submission.

nethead 2022-04-04 14:23

omg this is so cute, really put me in a good mood :D you did a great job setting a really lighthearted atmosphere, awesome work. All the mechanics felt good too and the individual games were easy to learn.

thomas-higgins 2022-04-04 15:08

This is amazing, the combination of mini games, awesome art and fun vibes very cool

graphite 2022-04-04 15:50

I love this! Great work, especially in 48 hrs. Super impressive getting this much variety in. The banana dodge was the hardest one for me. Having a score board is great for replayability. I'm bookmarking this to play again.

m11 2022-04-04 17:28

Brilliant - lovely art, and hugely impressive for 48 hours!

fromage 2022-04-04 18:18

Very cool one! Art is great and the music fits really well. Amazing 48 hour fun ware game!

ghatazorg 2022-04-04 20:22

Very fun ! There are a lot of mini games !! so cool :)

danc2236 2022-04-04 20:26

Absolutely fantastic game. Really well done on the effort you've put into this. I didn't have any issues with the game...I just sucked at it xD but love the graphics, the theme was spot on and the sounds were great

spice-cabinet 2022-04-05 00:51

This is such a fun idea! The first time through everything got me because I didnt understand what I was doing but by the second time through I was a lot better. In the end I almost always got beat by save the candles. You never know which one of those suckers was gonna go next! I made it on the leaderboard even if only for a little bit.

smash-city 2022-04-05 04:41

So good! Everything is amazing—graphic, music, gameplay, even the the sound effects! You even have a high score list! I'm very impressed

mlho7 2022-04-05 12:40

Very funny to play, all the minigames have something pleasant, it's a great job.

sciman101 2022-04-05 14:26

This is really fun! I'm kind of astonished how many microgames you made considering this is a compo entry, they're all decently fun and you don't need a ton of prep time to figure out how to play them. My only complaint would be that for some of the games, there's a pass/fail condition you can meet before the timer runs out, and it'd be nice if the microgame ended right when that happened instead of waiting for time. Otherwise though, great job!

dan-smith 2022-04-05 16:44

For 48 hours of work, this really is impressive. Way more variety than I anything else I've played. Nice work :)

homineludens 2022-04-05 17:34

Very good one! You really made an awesome job in 48 hours. The inevitability of gravity has been also my inspiration :D

bucketh3ad 2022-04-05 18:56

Absolute blast, and an absurd amount of gameplay. Seriously, almost all of those mini games could have been refined into a full game and you've got like a dozen? Ridiculous. The bounce game has a brutal start, but other than that I thought everything was pretty fair, with a couple easy cake walks to take the pressure off, so pretty well balanced. I'm 4th on the leaderboard now, but I'll come back later and try for that top spot.

nebiros 2022-04-05 19:33

Had a lot of fun ! I learnt the hard way that I was not good at that kind of games XD

evilsock 2022-04-05 19:38

Excellent job! I can't win on some mini-games. But idea and realization are perfect! Congratulation with game!

kristinamay 2022-04-05 19:42

Woah, this is a compo game! Amazing work - I was really bad at the games but at least I enjoyed the art and music. Thanks for making this, I had fun :)

jackaljk 2022-04-05 20:23

Every minigame is fun, the concept is cool and the its art style gives the game a lot of character, well done!

rex64 2022-04-06 12:26

Brilliant! Reminds me of the golden era of WarioWare!

mopifish 2022-04-06 18:06

I love wario ware type games during jams!! Super solid entry! Loved the art style and overall humor

davision 2022-04-06 18:30

Cool, interesting style and some fun mini games! I think it can be a bit harder, most of the difficutly for me came from not quite knowing how the current mini game works.

okamit 2022-04-06 18:33

Very solid entry, especially since it was for the Compo! Great humor, very solid art and fun gameplay, really enjoyed it! Would be fun if you expanded upon it, but it's fun as is as well.

Nice to see that you also made a WarioWare inspired game! We are at least 3 now in this LD!

Great work!

furano 2022-04-06 18:34

Wow, I'm really impressed ! I loved every second i spent on your game. The mini games are fun ,the art is quite good, the music is not bad at all and the FX are well made and fun (I loved the little falling candle voices :candle: ).

A really solid entry !

jean-francois 2022-04-06 18:37

Cool, iI love Wario War so it is really a funny game for me ^^

ditam 2022-04-06 18:37

Well, everyone knew making a game about removing banana peels from a poorly balanced cake while assassins are shooting at you was the obvious choice when the theme was announced, but you guys somehow pulled it off, and managed to make it feel fresh. Congrats.

\- ditam (cake salvation score 8)

n1k-o 2022-04-06 18:42

Beware, it's addictive :) Enjoyed playing the game several times, each time improving the score. All components of the game are made at a good level 👍

tim-sims 2022-04-06 18:43

Brilliant game! Loved the theme! My only complaint was you had to wait the whole duration of the microgame if you had already won or lost it, but that's not a big deal.

allax 2022-04-06 18:45

The game feels very polished, the art style is great, the sounds and music are good. The overall theme of the game is really fun. Great job!

the3rdhunter 2022-04-06 18:49

Awesome compo entry! There's so much great stuff here! The graphical style is awesome and goes really well with the humor. The music and sfx are well done. They fit the tone nicely and are well mixed together. I also am a fan of the structure of the game, with all the mini-games within. There's a little bit of balancing issues, with some games feeling a little too easy (dodge the bottles) and some games feeling a little too hard (avoid bananas), but the overall balance is pretty good which is impressive with so much going on in this game. Super ambitious for a compo game and you executed it super well. Kudos!

tannimun 2022-04-06 20:32

Cute party game :) Played vs my ludum mates to get the highest score, next step is to make it split screen multiplayer :D The art and style of everything fit well together and the intro was super cute! Good entry

mechanicallife 2022-04-06 20:39

Kvasir Top three heck yea! Well done, love warioware games! nice entry overall!

landberglife 2022-04-06 20:40

Really fun to play, having a few friends to compete with made it even more fun!

emmatw 2022-04-06 20:45

I had a lot of fun with this game and played it several times! I loved the intro story, it fits so well with the theme.

rickylee 2022-04-06 20:56

Awesome! I love the art style and the game is so silly and fun I love it :) all round just a great game don't have anything bad to say. well done great submission!

simba 2022-04-07 02:00

That was a surprising amount of game variety for a game jam game! Really well done.

solah 2022-04-07 10:47

Fantastic entry! My only concern is balance, some mini games are way harder than others. Apart from that, they all are fun and the art and music are great, well done!

otterfaelure 2022-04-07 11:52

The mood of this game was amazing. I love the humour and the randomness of it all. Also so many non-glitchy mini games made in such a short time - Well done!

kazuren 2022-04-07 13:00

Very fun game!

Some minor feedback that could make the game even better: - Small pause countdown before the minigame starting to give the player time to get accustomed with the controls and the environment he's gonna be in. In the dodge in the bananas mini game I felt like I didn't have time to look where the bananas were before they started chasing me so I ended up losing most of my lifes there. - Making the minigames end faster if you succeed/fail, for example in the light the candles minigame you have to wait for the timer to end even if you've lit all the candles. Similarly for the dodge the bananas minigame you have to wait for the timer to end even if you've lost.

These are just minor things that didn't take away much if at all from the main experience and I am sure that they would've been added if not for the time constraint. Overall great work on the game!

phillip-scott 2022-04-07 19:46

Large amount of mini games and different things with smart use of your assets great job!

shawn-moore 2022-04-09 03:06

@forgin-bits, thanks for inviting feedback on your game! Firstly welcome to Ludum Dare and congrats on shipping your first compo game!!

I honestly am having trouble coming up with any actual constructive feedback. You absolutely nailed what you set out to do, your art style is adorable, the game is proudly French, the music is pleasant and doesn't ever get monotonous, each of the minigames is interesting, and I always appreciate when a game that takes a silly concept seriously. The goal of each minigame, and the controls, were always very clear. Honestly the only suggestion I have is to make the "dodge the bananas" minigame just a little easier because I failed that one every time, and the "light the candles" one a little harder because I always had lots of time left. That said, having different difficulty levels is absolutely fair for a wario-ware style game, so even that is not really an objectively good improvement.

I just really loved your game.

BRAVO!

sagiii 2022-04-09 10:19

Hello! I had so much fun. The full arms rotating got me in tears. GG wp

kylazaur 2022-04-09 11:16

This was great but I felt like a couple of the games were a little... unfair? all the others were a ton of fun though, really good entry!

ruthiepee 2022-04-09 14:08

Superb game! There's so much replayability which you don't normally find in jam games. Even though the gameplay is very similar to WarioWare there's a lot of uniqueness in the graphics style, the story, and the music. I thought the difficulty ramped up at a nice pace too.

jzucc12 2022-04-09 14:45

I am very impressed by how many cake related mini-games you made. They were different and neat. Great job! Only recommendation is to not make the game keep going when you hit the fail state part of the way through the timer.

ladymistleaf 2022-04-09 15:00

I actually hate the chaos of Wario Ware, but since these minigames revolved around the same theme, it was a lot of fun! I will be on that leaderboard, however briefly, I promise I will!

forgin-bits 2022-04-09 18:26

@gamedevalexandr @waysneighborgo2 @graphite @sciman101 @tim-sims @the3rdhunter @solah @kazuren @shawn-moore thanks a bunch for giving my game a try and for the constructive feedback ! I did fix the issue of the minigame not stopping after you've already won or lost it, and tweaked a few parameters for overall balance amongst minigames. Cheers !

forgin-bits 2022-04-09 18:34

@gord10ahmet @yamzho @byazzle @wavertron @zimennik @danashrulez @foxwater @kewdev @jimmothysanchez @thomas-higgins @m11 @fromage @ghatazorg @spice-cabinet @smash-city @mlho7 @dan-smith @homineludens @bucketh3ad @nebiros @kristinamay @evilsock @jackaljk @rex64 @mopifish @davision @okamit @furano @jean-francois @ditam @n1k-o @allax @tannimun @mechanicallife @landberglife @emmatw @mook @simba @otterfaelure @phillip-scott @sagiii @kylazaur @ruthiepee @jzucc12 @ladymistleaf thank you so much to each and every one of you for giving my game a try and taking time to leave feedback. Greatly, greatly appreciated :thumbsup:

simplepotential 2022-04-09 21:24

Hey that was really clever! I really enjoyed it, very easy to understand and the intro was really nice.

f1krazy 2022-04-10 13:03

This is a very clever and imaginative game! I was impressed at how many minigames you managed to cram into this, and how well they all handle, especially for a Compo entry. They're all, for the most part, easy to understand, with nice, simple controls.

Some of the microgames are made harder than they should be by the fact that they begin immediately, rather than giving you a second or two to get ready and/or read the instructions if you haven't played it before. On more than one occasion I immediately failed a microgame before I even understood what I was meant to be doing. I failed the "Dodge the bottles" minigame every single time because I was never able to get the hang of the controls, and because I was failing it so quickly, I never had the chance to practice and get better at it.

I still greatly enjoyed this, though, it's a very fun take on the theme. Good job!

nyxkn 2022-04-10 14:47

Brilliant entry! Super fun to play and a really charming setting. Not much bad to say about this :D Making all those different mechanics in a short amount of time seems like a very impressive feat!

luis-felipe-patrocinio 2022-04-10 16:54

The only problem I found was the long cutscene. You knew how to take advantage of the resources and create multiple minigames, creating a very interesting identity for the game. Congratulations on the result. I believe it could be a great game to be released as an inspiration of WarioWare.

trexxak 2022-04-10 19:24

Fun! I especially liked the games getting progressively slightly harder and introducing new elements!

skvader-418 2022-04-10 22:33

The game is a blast and is alot like wario ware. The art is fine and the sound effects are great. Some mini games are really easy and some are really hard Also the highscore was a nice touch

finn-pickart 2022-04-11 08:00

Great game, considering it was done for compo. Very fun to play, I really enjoyed it. I didn't get far (9 Points Highscore), but it was fun anyways. You even managed to put in a leaderboard while, I'll repeat it, making this for compo

angiemon 2022-04-11 10:44

That was really cute! I loved all the WarioWare-esque games :)) The graphics were really charming and sweet, I loved the introduction with the comic panel style! Sometimes games were hard because it was lagging a bit, but that was probably because I was on my laptop, I will try it on my decent machine later :)

I feel like upon successfully managing a step a littl player feedback would have been nice, you know how deprived of reassurement we all are :P

But other than that - a very polished feeling entry for a gamejam! Especially for a 1 man job! Congrats!

geckoo1337 2022-04-11 15:31

Beautiful game(s) with a clean aesthetic and some funny gameplay(s). There are many minigames which are correctly balanced. Addictive and fanzy. The leaderboard online is always a good idea in order to gather a little community around a project. You made a solid entry. Well done. One of my favorite games for the 50th LudumDare ++

apples-mmmmmmmm 2022-04-12 01:30

Well done, so much content packed into one entry. The WarioWare-esque gameplay was fun and fit the story well. My only real complaint is that it's difficult to read the goal, and controls before the minigame starts and sometimes it feels like only a fraction of a second before you can get by a bullet, etc. as the game is starting which makes it hard to just jump into if you haven't seen the game before. That does add to how hectic the games are though, and I don't recall if WarioWare feels any more fair in that regard, so maybe it's exactly what you're aiming for.

blooalain 2022-04-12 05:36

Great game, complete package with the combination of art and gameplay. Really impressive compo submission with the variety of games and inclusion of leaderboard.

The timing on being between start of mini-game and first obstacles could be a bit short for some causing some quick fails but overall the game feels well balanced in difficulty as well.

The cohesion of warioware gameplay and aesthetic of the game brings the game together well and wraps it up into a fun game for this jam!

mrpouletbzh 2022-04-12 20:19

I'm so bad at that kind of games but this one is so damn addictive! You did an incredible work, and in only 48 hours it commands respect. Congrats!

proxy-games 2022-04-13 04:13

Nice entry! The WarioWare like mini games are surprisingly addictive in this one, and they are well-designed enough to where I was able to get the jist of them the first time around. I like this is the first entry of the jam where I legitimately got agitated about losing some mini-games (the falling candles having collision that blocks other ones screwed me over *so many times*). Despite this, however, they felt (95% percent of the time) fair. The artstyle and audio is charming and well done, and the overall concept fits the theme well. The addition of online leaderboards is very impressive, especially for a compo.

Overall, you did great work for this entry. It took a few tries, but I was able to get my name on the board tying for 3rd place. Yay, me.

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dreamerflow 2022-04-14 06:16

Funny game! i find a little hard some mini games but have a good time, nice entry overall!

hmightypirate 2022-04-17 10:09

Loved all the minigames!

The only one I sometimes fail and feel is not my fault is the one with the falling candles (specially when those in the opposite ends fall in sequence.

kosmosael 2022-04-17 11:47

Really enjoyed these minigames! Reminded me of Wario Ware :) Great job on the music, the graphics simple yet efficient and the gameplay! Loved it

elede 2022-04-17 13:22

Really good minigames. Love art. Good job!

skruffye 2022-04-17 13:57

There were a couple of times where the minigames started too quickly for me to get my bearings (namely working out where I was in the "dodge the bananas" game) or for the text to get out of the way of the game (candles falling obscured in the "save the candles" game), but overall, they were fun little games and it's really impressive how many you managed to get done given the time limit. :smile:

It's been a while since I played a WarioWare-type game (I think my last one was WarioWare: Touched!...?) and I forgot how much fun they could be. The real limiter with a game like this made for a jam is just how many minigames they need to be interesting. I'd say this one definitely could have done with more, but that--again--I'm impressed that you even got as many done as you did!

The graphics and music obviously weren't the main focus, but even so, they were consistent and didn't distract at all from the gameplay, so I'd say they did their job well!

Really well done! :grin:

kiseki 2022-04-19 07:32

I can't believe that you made this game within 48Hours! The audio, the art, the completeness... You have beaten my expectation in all the criteria. There's no doubt that you are the best among all the games I rated in LD50. Good luck with your studio! I wish one day I can make something like you've done!

doot 2022-04-19 19:54

Insane compo game! How could you do all that in two days?

Great job on everything, the game is fun, beautiful, easy to play, it seems like you balanced your work very well even if you put so much in every aspect of the game!

Awesome job ✨

molpe 2022-04-21 13:10

Awesome game! Simple, fun, and omg, I have banana peels from now on! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgSxoGgauAQ

sporersd 2022-10-11 05:24

Glad you like it. We have been using this for several weeks now and it seems to be going nicely.

https://www.mykplan.me/